Monthly Archives: December 2010

Katherine’s favorite thing in the world seems to be birds.  First it was “quack quack” and “duck duck,” but she’s since expanded (or confused) her world to include all manner of birds.  When she and I sat down to play … Continue reading →

When I was in the stationery store the other day the young man at the counter suddenly asked, “Do you get a lot of mood swings?”  Answering “no, not really” before I remembered that I’m pregnant (and not just female!), … Continue reading →

Sydney looked around our house and complained about the lack of good reading material for sick days.  When I started to protest, he made it quite clear that I would be a fool to suggest my Woolf and Faulkner novels … Continue reading →

Sydney had been planning to fly out to Boston tomorrow to give a paper at the philosophy association’s annual meeting.  But he’s now fighting his own round of the flu, and it looks like condition at the airports in both … Continue reading →

Ha.  Ha ha.  Not what we needed.  K managed to fend off the worst with a high fever and some sniffles (as well as waking nearly every hour for the past several nights).  I got nailed and am only just … Continue reading →

Last Sunday we had dinner with Sydney’s colleague, Chris, a man who bravely made the invitation for the whole family and who has two (grown) kids of his own.  Katherine did a great job of keeping her dress clean and … Continue reading →

Erin

Dissertation deadlines and the like have, to put it mildly, affected the Christmas spirit around here, but we’ve gotten a few nice surprises from Oxford to help us along.  On Friday Sydney and I enjoyed our first night out together, … Continue reading →

Conversing with Katherine is quite entertaining.  She spends much of her day looking and pointing at objects (which you are supposed to then name), but sometimes she goes on lectures, sitting perfectly upright, pointing at various things around the room, … Continue reading →

Erin