He’s here! After almost two years of science and nature working together and three days of really hard work, our new cousin Simon made his earthside debut just in time to be a cheeky April Fool’s prankster and be accounted for in the 2010 census. He’s finally here and he’s a lucky little guy. He arrives a healthy boy in a world full of modern conveniences, a country founded on the idea of opportunity, a family peopled with characters, and a home with educated, progressive, loving parents. What more could seven pounds and nine ounces of adorable ask for? The world is his oyster. Each time one of my children was born, I felt a bit awestruck by the responsibility of the sheer number of possibilities these little ones have. I hesitated to do or say anything at times for fear that I would start limiting their potential. As soon as I coo at them in English, it becomes their primary language to the exclusion of others. The first toys and clothes I give them encourage some aspects of their personalities and not others. It sounds overly neurotic, I agree, but reason takes a bit of a holiday when you have a pure, fresh little human placed in your arms. In Gene Yates’ What Can Simon Be?, a scrappy young snake imagines all the things he can be and, in the end, discovers that he can be anything he wants. That’s good news for Simon the Snake…and Baby Simon, too!Congratulations, Liz and Markus!
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/What-Can-Simon-Be/Gene-Yates/e/9781588653666
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/gene-yates/18/618/487
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