Category

Uncategorized

• Uncategorized

  Fun with Grandma and Grandpa

  09.05.11 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  One of the great things about visiting the grandparents is that, as a kid, you get all sorts of attention from them. (And the parents think this is great, too!) Here’s Grandma and Sean going for a spin (while Sean’s parents recline luxuriously nearby): And here’s Grandpa bouncing Sean to “Hoppe hoppe Reiter” (while Sean’s […]

• Uncategorized

  HiDan

  08.31.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  Kids love my brother Dan. So I was excited when he came over to my parents’ place while we were visiting. “Hi Dan!” I said in greeting. And Sean repeated me: “HiDan! HiDan! HiDan!” And later, when I mentioned that Uncle Dan was coming over again, Sean said, “HiDan!” And since then, it’s stuck. Dan […]

• Uncategorized

  Maine: 18 months!

  08.30.11 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Sean turned 18 months at the end of July. In keeping with tradition, we ate cupcakes. In fact, we MADE cupcakes. (Some people are oven-gifted and have baked celebratory confections from the very early days of mom-hood, but this was a first for us.) Sean wasn’t exactly sure what we were doing, but he seemed […]

• Uncategorized

  Maine: Grandma’s Gardens

  08.28.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  Ah, Maine. We spent a lovely two weeks Down East, the first with my parents and the second with Ben’s family. Here we are the first week, when Sean enjoyed helping Grandma in the garden and exploring the paths of these gardens (often at high speed). Running through the vegetable garden “What’s Grandma doing?” (Answer: […]

• Uncategorized

  What does a rooster say?

  08.15.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  Sean can do the sound for just about any animal you ask him about. Our favorite, though, is the rooster.

• Uncategorized

  Dance!

  08.10.11 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Sean loves music. And he loves to dance. He has learned to recognize sound systems and always goes over to them to press the biggest button he can find (which is frequently “on” or “play”) to get the music going. A couple months ago, while Sean was busy opening every door he could find, he […]

• Uncategorized

  Fashion

  07.17.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  Here’s Sean sporting his birthday suit! It’s so hot here we frequently go out after dinner to “water the garden.” Really it means to splash around in some water.  We strip Sean of his clothes and let him run around our fenced backyard bare-bottomed. (But not shoe-less, as the ground is rocky and sharp, covered […]

• Uncategorized

  Playgrounds

  07.16.11 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Since Sean learned to walk, we have become playground connoisseurs. Sean, in particular, is always eager to explore a new playground. Here we are at Austin’s Zilker Park, one of its best-known. There’s a big fire engine to climb on, which delighted Sean, as well as the standard playground equipment. Slides are always a hit, […]

• Uncategorized

  Fathers Day

  07.10.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  On Fathers Day we all drove down to the southern Austin to bike on the Veloway; it’s a three-mile paved loop for bicycles only. We’d heard about it and Ben wanted to try it out. We took our Sean bike trailer and biked for a little while before Sean became antsy and wanted to get […]

• Uncategorized

  Comprehension

  07.07.11 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I knew a long time ago that Sean was listening to everything we said. He’d hear a key word that he knew and repeat it or ask for it. I imagined it sounded to him something like “blah blah blah banana blah blah blah.” And he’d say “ba! ba!” and make the sign for banana. […]