At bedtime today, Myron demonstrated a couple of new developments. First: play cooking / feeding! He started by picking up a lotion sample and feeding it to his dog lamp. Later, I tried to read a book to him (Corduroy) while he was repeatedly climbing up and down a stool in his room. He half […]

Okay, he has been 2 for a while, but here’s a look back at Myron’s second birthday and Easter festivities. We got to spend some time with Nene and Dziadziu for this one, which was a welcome break from only being able to see them over video chat, and they made a lot of the […]

We spent Thanksgiving and the month of December in New Jersey and coastal North Carolina. Now that Em’s work is remote as well, it became easy to take a long trip to spend some time with family and also work from their towns. Em’s brother’s baby was born while we were in the same state, […]

Myron’s friend, Emmy came to visit again while their parents did some moving preparations. My friend, Mary came to visit as well for a walk in the park as a wise effort to spend time outdoors together before it gets too cold to do that. Myron was napping upstairs when Emmy got dropped off, so […]

Like true New Englanders, we went apple picking a few weekends ago. Myron has been enjoying apple sauce for some time now. It’s usually the first thing he chooses to eat, and sometimes it’s the only thing he eats. Whether he has made the connection between apples and apple sauce is unclear, but he did […]

Myron has been walking unassisted for a few weeks now. He has had the skills to do it for longer, but he either didn’t realize it or didn’t fully trust it. He still wanted one of us to hold his hands while he walked, but over time, he put less and less weight on them […]

Lately, Myron has been really excited about this walker from his friend, Emmy. He will walk / run in circles around the chimney, and Em and I will hide in different places and then jump out and say “boogie boogie!”, to which he laughs and then starts running faster. Sometimes he falls down when he […]

It has been a while. Everyone is healthy aside from what seems to be a common cold Myron picked up. Myron has been back in daycare for ten or so weeks now, and this is the first time anyone here has gotten sick since then, which is impressive, come to think of it. I have […]

I have really missed writing and reflecting here. Quarantine and the resulting lack of childcare has made it tough to get anything done these days. As a family, we have processed this phenomenon in waves. Being solid introverts, we somewhat enjoyed the quiet and not having to rush to get Myron to daycare and ourselves […]

It has been a long lead-up, but Myron has started to army crawl. He has improved his technique a little bit since this video, but it’s similar. The propulsion is all in the arms, but he wiggles his legs as well. He really seems to tire himself out doing this after about five minutes. He […]