I recently remembered how much I love poetry. Months ago, a coworker shared a recorded performance of ”Wonderful”, by Harry Baker (also readable in text form), saying that she had just been to her best friend’s wedding where someone performed the poem. She said, “I wanted to share it with y’all. It’s goofy, wise, and […]

Between a record-setting snowstorm that caused school to be closed or conducted virtually for an entire week and a couple of illnesses, Myron has gotten to see me work from home a lot lately. It looks pretty boring to him, aside from exceptions like one afternoon when he sat beside me while my coworkers and […]

A friend observed recently that Myron thinks about big questions. Sometimes this involves actually asking the questions, and sometimes it’s making exploratory statements on the path toward figuring things out. Here are a few Myron quotes that capture the magic. Rhode Island is the smallest state, but it can stretch to bring all the buildings […]

I wrote earlier about Myron’s propensity for costume, which is still with us today. Also lately, he has been interested in listening to audio stories and retelling them, especially the silly parts. Most of the time he does this in the bathroom while we are wrapping up dinner, so we hear a dinner theater performance. […]

Okay, he turned 5 a while ago, but here’s some evidence. Myron and Em picked up balloons, including a gold “5”-shaped one. He waited in his lookout tree for friends to come. Friends came from near and far. When they arrived, we made robot costumes and chalk art on the driveway. I made Myron’s costume […]

The other day, Em, Myron, and I were driving to look for a new bike frame for me and have dinner at a restaurant afterwards. Earlier that day, I visited a friend and learned that her cat had cancer and wasn’t eating – probably a response to the chemotherapy. I mentioned this to Em, and […]

Myron has always been an observant kid, and he is good at following and sticking with his interests. When he was fascinated with wheels, he would find wheels in places I didn’t know wheels existed. He would see a pattern on a park bench that looked somewhat round and call it a wheel. In the […]

Many times it seems that Myron isn’t paying attention and then he surprises us.  We went to visit Great Grandma Teresa last weekend. It was the first time in a while that I took him with me. He was very much not looking forward to this trip. In fact, he hid on the floor, partly […]

Teaching Myron this important life skill had fallen off my radar, but Em kept it on hers, and we (mostly Em) tackled it a few months ago (consider this a retro post). Our daycare is very into child-directed learning and exploration, so no one there had emphasized the need for potty training. They are very […]

Okay, Myron turned 3 a couple of months ago, but most of this still applies.   Myron is obsessed with dinosaurs now. For his birthday, he got a dinosaur helmet cover, many dinosaur books, and multiple sets of dinosaur figurines and dinosaurs with wheels, which were a sort of “missing link” between a previous favorite […]