We had a blast in DC for the inauguration–despite the cold and the long lines (more details to come)–and although Mose slept through most of it, he got a little shot of fame and a memento for his personal archives in a Times-Picayune story on our trip to DC. The article by Jonathan Tilove captures [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Mose has an early start on his 15 minutes
Posted in DC, Mose, Washington, milestones, politics, travels on January 21, 2009 | 6 Comments »
H is for History
Posted in DC, Mose, Washington, milestones, politics, travels on January 19, 2009 | 5 Comments »
We’re on our way out the door in 10 minutes to take the train to Washington, DC, to share in the celebrations of MLK and the inauguration of Barack Obama. I’ve been hoping to write a more considered piece on this day and moment in history, but that will have to wait for our return.
Suffice [...]
Party!
Posted in Mose, New Orleans, holidays, milestones on January 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Mose was pretty overwhelmed by all the birthday hoopla, but he regained his composure as the cake began to work its magic. For the next few days, whenever people said “Happy Birthday!” to Mose he looked around for cake.
The Big Two
Posted in Mose, New York, holidays, parenting, travels on January 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We’ve been traveling like crazy, and so we passed a milestone without much global notice in the Mose-iverse: Mose turned two. We were in New York and our friends Chuck and Elyssa insisted on a little birthday party. Their three kids (ages of college, high school, middle school) were great with Mose, playing with him [...]
More holiday joy
Posted in Mose, New Orleans, parenting on January 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
As we continued to bathe in the holiday spirit, Mose began to loosen his iron grip on “mine!” only to replace it with a new word: “no.” We knew it was coming, it was just a question of when. Of course, he had his own version of “no” long before, but it consisted [...]




