Conversations with Emet

Our little Emmetty is speaking up and getting his own interests...

Loves: empty jars of bubbles, bottles (NOT sippy cups), pacifiers, throwing things on the floor, daddy, Eden, Aunt Becky& Uncle Matt, both cats but especially Goldbug who will tolerate a bit more, playing the piano (uses one finger at a time!), shakers, singing, saying "Nah!!!" (for "no"), and weirdly, peas

Favorite books: pat the bunny, pat the zoo, Baby loves to rock, the book with the baby bird egg, Where is Baby's dreidel

Dislikes: many foods - I feel like we got a larger window with Eden where she was actually interested in eating things!  He has gone straight to "carbs please" land except for peas.

Conversations with Emet -

Emet: Babu.
Us: Here's some milk!  This is your Nuby babu.  [sippy cup]
Emet: NAH!!! (pushes sippy away)
(eventually we relent and give him the bottle)
Emet: Babu! (every few seconds, stops sucking the bottle and looks empathically at us, as if to say "I don't know what that other crap was you tried to give me, but when I say 'babu,', this is what I am asking for, got it guys?")


Emet: Mahm.
me: Are you trying to get my attention?
Emet: Naaaah!!
Me (laughs, thus encouraging his emphatic "Naaah!"

Photo shoot fall 2016

Some selections from our recent photo shoot

Eden's first crush?

Well, that was a whirlwind of a year. We moved, I had a very overwhelming work secondment with lots of travel for several months, we almost switched preschools but didn't, our country elected a maniac (or something worse) and I dyed my hair blue and started marching the streets and blogging about feminism and tweeting with racial separatists and spiraling on facebook until I had to get a friend to lock me out of it and writing provocative op eds in the Atlanta Jewish Times.

Sorry kids, for not blogging more about you.  I will try to pick it up.

I think Eden has a little crush on our rabbi's 11 year old son AE.  Note: rabbi also has a son in her preschool class Naftali, who is 4.5.

(on arriving to rabbi's house)

Eden: Whose house is this?
Me: Guess!
Eden: Is it Naftali's house?
Me: Yes, that's right!
Eden: But I'm shy of AE.
Me: That's ok.  (note - she has said this a couple of times before, and has made clear that it's not that he upsets her or scares her or anything)

(when leaving)

Me: You weren't too shy of AE, you were brave!
Eden: But I was a little shy.
(pause)
Eden (whining noises)
Me: Why are you whining?  Are you whining because you were shy of AE?
Eden: yeah.
Me: But why?
Eden: Sometimes we cry when we're mad or sad or... happy!
Me: So you are shy of AE in a happy way?
Eden: Yeah.

Well, Michael and I are exactly that many years apart in age...


Also, at the end of that car ride:

Eden: I just want to go upstairs and plop me into bed.

Me too, I think that's what I'll do now!  Night!