Lizrael Update

Category: koala update

  • Bebe update: Six months.

    Can’t stop thiiiis… moving, crawling, slimy-slugging-across-the-floor creature. Wriggle wiggle jiggle-out-of-my-hands-when-I’m-changing-your-diaper creature. Places to go, toys to goo. No teeth yet though. Keep that goofy grin going, little lady.

  • The potty process (or, toilet-training literature).

    Toilet-training has officially begun. It unofficially began way before Koala was even two years old and took a serious interest in all the peeing Mama was doing (pregnant, perhaps). But in the laid-back fashion that my life is stitched in, we didn’t really try too hard. We let Koala explore the facts of toilet-training. He’d…

  • Koala’s big boy party time!

    On the last day of the year, here we are this morning, celebrating… Koala’s first full night with no motzetz! We had a minute or two of pitiful withdrawal face, and another 3 seconds of desperate thumb-sucking, but then he turned over and went to sleep. For the night! Toilet training has hit a new…

  • Time flies when you’re pulling yourself across tiles.

    One day, you’re nursing your brand-newborn in your bed at home. The next, (or 5.5 months later) you turn around for under a minute only to turn back and realize your baby is not where you left her, but rather pulling herself at a steady pace across the floor, reaching into the bottom shelf, pulling…

  • Cookie racism.

    This keeps happening: “I brought you a snack!” “Snack!” “Cookies!” “Cookies!” “Here ya go. Animal cookies.” “No. Brown.” “Huh?” “Brooown ones. Brown, no white. Brown cookie.” Smart cookie.

  • Bebe update: Five months.

    My favorite thing of all time right now: No one makes Bebe laugh like Koala does. He doesn’t even have to do anything major. Maybe he’s wiggling his bum. Maybe he’s opening and closing his mouth while staring into space. But if Bebe is there and watching, all of a sudden she’s cracking up in…

  • First day(s).

    Two kids, double the first day blues. Well, I’ll admit: there’s nothing blue about Koala going to gan.  Sorry, but I’m not sorry. That kid has too much energy to be cooped up in a house while mama works. It’s for your own good, goddamit! Bebe, however. That’s the sadness. It was rough sending Koala…

  • Working mama.

    It’s not a joke when they say working moms work two jobs. And it’s not funny that there is no solution to Israel’s absurd month of August problem. So it’s been rough being a work-from-home-mom for the last few weeks. It’s been stressing me out, and I’ve absolutely been taking it out on the kiddies.…

  • Bebe update: Four months.

    Bebe! It’s been an incredibly rough month. And none of that is your fault. But the fact that you are so… calm. And sweet. And delicious. It just melts away the challenges I’ve been dealing with… when I’m lucky enough to see clearly through it and find your smile behind the haze. Your laughing is…

  • What’s funny to a two-year-old.

    Didn’t think he’d even get this joke, nevermind find it funny. But there we were. Me, pouring coffee for the huz and I, and what we call coffee, but is actually chocolate milk, for Koala. “Look, Koala – (I point to each cup) – for Abba, for Mama, for Koala… (I point to my boob) for…

  • Bebe update: Three months.

    Let’s share a warm welcome with Bebe, fresh out of the fourth trimester. How do I appreciate you, little one? Let me count the ways. You are delicious. Your face is actually edible; not in a creepy Twilight way, but in a way that I could take bites of you and it would never be…

  • Bed times.

    Isn’t it amazing learning about yourself through your kids’ personalities? Realizing which of your traits they’ve received? Every time I discover a new way we’re alike, I learn so much more about myself… Koala is that kid in nursery. That kid. The one who, at nap time, stays awake. Shuffles around. Looks at the ceiling…