Thinking out loud

from heidi
Gus has been talking in long paragraphs lately– with lots of tangents. He often starts a sentence and it’s clear he doesn’t know yet how it’s going to end– he just wants to talk to prolong the moment. I love these dialogues because it’s really a peek into his brain about how he thinks [...]

Thankful for… Gus!

On this Thanksgiving, Heidi and I are of course most thankful for our little guy. He brings such joy into our lives. His smile and his imagination are pure cuteness. He has also been saying the funniest things:
* He has really been into letters and while I am reading to him, he will sometimes ask [...]

Rainy Days

from heidi
Gus has been sick since Halloween. One illness merging into a new illness before we can really recover.  The downside is that we haven’t been able to go to school or see any of our friends.  The upside is that we are getting very creative about our play!
Today’s rainy day activity was to make [...]

Halloween as Percy

from heidi
Gus wanted to be a “steam engine” for Halloween so Joe and I got crafty and turned a box into a train. Not surprisingly, we started this at 9:30 on a Thursday night. We didn’t have blue paint, so we made a green Percy. Surprisingly, Gus wanted to wear it!
Here are a few photos [...]

it’s time

Gus has recently become really interested in (digital) clocks. He is constantly asking, “What time is it Papa?”. He is quickly learning to read the numbers left to right (which is not actually intuitive for all those Hebrew, Arabic, and Chinese readers out there). He is also quickly learning numbers greater than 10. Sometimes 36 [...]

phone call

Gus took Heidi’s cell phone this morning and said into it, “I’m just calling to see if you want to go out to dinner tonight. OK. Bye.”

robots are scary

Papa: “Let’s put on our new robot jammies buddy!”
Gus: “OK!”
Pause.
Gus: “I’m afraid of robots”
Papa: “Well, they will probably take over the world one day”
Gus: “Yeah”

first day of [play]school

from Heidi
All summer we have been working on getting a co-op of seven parents and children for a playgroup/pre-school for Gus.  Stewart’s family generously donated their basement space and with one last push this weekend, we finally finished all the logistics of schedules, decorating and furniture, etc. Today was the first official day of “school” [...]

s’mores and spelling

We went camping with the Guster for the first time (ex-utero, that is) and he LOVED it. His favorite activity, he informed us after returning, was throwing rocks in the river. As the person who accompanied him on frequent trips to the river, kneeling in mud for 30 minutes at a stretch, I can vouch [...]

bad bloggers

It turns out that Heidi and I are terrible bloggers. Or at least infrequent bloggers.
We started this whole bloggin’ business while Gus was in the NICU to give updates to our friends and family in an efficient manner. As the story of Gus’s entrance to the world played out, we realized that Gus may want [...]