Some great photos of my play-time (er, mommy and daddy’s conference) in Edinburgh have been added that photoset we started on our last trip. I liked the Camera Obscura and Optical Illusion Exhibit best. Daddy liked the Fruitmarket Gallery… Check out old and new photos here and see how much I gruesome!
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I gots the Roseola Virus. It’s mostly gone (no fever in days) but I now have a crazy rash!
Still, I feel fine. Watch me playing with daddy in this video!
The details are slowly trickling in via (brief) transnational phone calls and texts from daddy’s not so tech savvy family, but it sounds like Leonardo Mazzola was born around 5:15 5:00 AM EST, 5 and a half 5.7 pounds (he’s little, but strong! 3.5 weeks early, is all). We’ll get a pic up when we have it - he’s in for quite a ride. Congratulations Aunt Sam and Uncle Emy! I can’t wait to meet Leo!
Yay, sun!
For. A. Day. (sigh)
In celebration of the first no-rain-day of 2008 (in February!), I thought I would give the avid followers of all things Sidonie a sense of a few of my favorite things. Or at least, as they stand today in the ever-changing Sidonie-ness that is me:
My bike: for me and sometimes others
Calling myself “Nonie” and naming “Nonie’s” things
All fish - actual, virtual, animated and drawn (”Meemo” - er, Nemo - rules!)
Speaking of fish, I love the part in “Nemo” when they say they are looking for Sydney - I always shout “Me!” and point at myself delightedly
Making Mummy be a train and using her legs as a bridge. Daddy screams “toot toot!”
“Dih,” also known as Stitch from Lilo and Stitch - I like to watch him dancing to Elvis on YouTube
Jumping (I can’t get off the ground yet but I fling my head back and yell as if I can)
The concepts (and saying the words, of course) of “mine,” “more,” and “me”
Laughing, making people laugh, smiling at people on the bus, charming cashiers, and making friends on the “deedaw” in the park (seesaw for those who don’t speak sid)
Tea parties with my plushies and water play in the sink (”bah” still equals water)
Glancing from under my lashes to see if my pouting is working
Standing in the buggy and letting my hair blow in the wind (a romantic like both of my rents)
Wearing Daddy’s shoes
Flinging my hands to my mouth and melodramatically declaiming, “Oh No!”
Eating leek and potato soup, star spinach and ricotta ravioli, peas, vanilla yogurt and, horror of horrors (says Mummy), I climbed on the chair and crawled halfway across the dining room table to nab some chocolate (which I am developing a taste for when no one is watching)
Putting lip ice on my chin
Finding the stars in the sky
Playing with balls (I am good at kicking and throwing, but not so much with the catching, yet — watch this space)
Walking funny, practicing the splits, standing on tippy toes, spinning around, doing rolypoly on the floor, and DANCING!
Playing run, hide and boo!
Flinging my changing mat over my shoulders like it is a cape (I saw that in a movie Mummy was watching last night)
Learning new stuff like “two” and “up/down” and “red, blue and green”
Practicing words first thing before I have even woken up properly, especially fun ones like “elbow” and “light”
Making a huge mess but insisting that certain things be in their place, like my buggy (I am my parents’ child)
NOT brushing my teeth (especially, to my mother’s dismay, after eating chocolate)
(link: more new photos here)
so, so tired. it’s exhausting being this cute, dude. more pix @ flickr, ok?
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“you carry around that kind of cash?” at the imaginosity play center
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Been a rough few weeks, but I’m generally happy, and right now, I’m most happy about the great news from America: I will, in about 19 weeks, have a little cousin to push around. I’ll teach that boy how to treat a lady right from a very young age! More photos now online…
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Who needs other kids when I gots all these toys (will try to blog photos with my new friends soon!).
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Heaps of photos from our fab trip to South Africa! I had finally stopped screaming out for Aldo and Zhhh and Bree (my best friends!), but when I saw this picture, I started right back up again. See the photoset here
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Daddy thinks this a lovely piccy of me and mommy. There’s about 5 more on flickr — sorry to be lame about uploads lately, a lot going on. We leave for South Africa to see family and friends tomorrow, YAY! Pics soon (maybe?)….
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A few more pix of the Sid up on flickr, that I had forgotten were on my phone…. Here, she fell asleep on the back of a bike while riding around Munster looking at art (the sculpture project rocked). So cute!
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Some new photos up from our trips to Belgium and Germany, and I still have a couple more coming, plus a great video. Soon, I promise, my great fans. In the interim, check em out on my flickr.
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OK, so this is a bit late, but that’s what academics do. Like Ross Geller once said, “Yeh, like, when was the last time HE got a conference abstract in on time!? HA!” (See my friends video.)
Hit up my first conference on Consciousness in Wales, something I’m slowly coming into… Below are some pics of the surrounds, along with titles of my fave papers.
“Who needs a womb with a view: Postmodernist Postfeminist Postnatalist mediations on the (un)importance of looking at things before you put them in your mouth.”
“Consumption and Subversion: thinking the between of candy and coffee.”
And finally, “On the Boardwalk: Judaic traditions and their (non-)existent Welsh interrelations, or, Flock of Seagulls: re-birthing Benjamin in Aberystwythian penny arcades.”
image: 'sidonie' by nathaniel stern
