Category Archives: Sebastian

Ten thoughts during a tantrum and one after

1.  Why is he screaming this time? 2.  I am never offering to go downstairs to get his water bottle again.  Even though I have no idea why that caused a meltdown today and not any of the hundred previous times I did it. 3.  This is ridiculous. 4.  Don’t laugh, even if he does…

Has spring finally arrived?

After a snowy morning yesterday, today it was a sunny spring afternoon. It’s like the universe knew that my soul was withering away from all the rain and cold and constant illness we’ve had, and it sent me sunshine. And my soul smiled.

Happy birthday

We have five birthdays to celebrate today and tomorrow.  We were hoping to give wishes in person for two of them, but yet another cold may have made that impossible.  Nevertheless we practiced the proper song for everyone, and I caught this version here to send to Grandpa Marv in Toronto. In my opinion, the…

Bedtime

It started out as a bath, book, bottle-of-milk-before-bouncing-him-to-sleep routine.  That was when he was so small that his entire little body still fit on my lap. The bouncing turned into swaying. The swaying turned into holding him for one song on his lullaby cd: “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” then kissing him goodnight and putting him…

little hippos

Because comparison pictures are such fun… Sebastian in the bath – March 2009 Theo in the bath – March 2011 They’re starting to look a lot more distinctive to me, especially since Theo isn’t nearly as chubby as our sumo baby was, but there are still plenty of moments of déja vu. Sebastian in the…