When I was in the 4th grade, my music teacher pulled me aside one afternoon and pushed a pamphlet into my hand. It was for the Pocono Boy Singers (soon to be renamed the Singing Boys of Pennsylvania), a group of young, often-beat-up, boys from northeast Pennsylvania that went to local nursing homes and community [...]
We are — well, Kristen and I — running on about 5 hours of sleep today. That routine I wrote about yesterday? Yeah, well, so much for that. At around 2:30 last night (or this morning, to be exact) Henry woke up for his normal middle-of-the-night feeding and made the executive decision that he wasn’t [...]
There is a routine in the house. It’s a chaotic routine, one that changes as much as it stays the same, but for the most part things are going well. Henry still decides that being fussy from 6:30 to 10:00 every evening is part of that routine, and we’re trying to break him of that [...]
Like most first-time parents, Kristen and I have bought and read countless books, magazines, web sites, and pamphlets (yes, pamphlets!) about having a baby. Some are really good and informative and help out a lot, but others are either a big waste of time or full of information that I, as a worrier, really shouldn’t [...]
Every time I look at Henry, something is new. His eyes look a little different. His chin. His legs are a little chubbier, his toes are a little longer. Instead of staring into what seems like nothingness, he stares back at me. He makes funny faces and even funnier noises. If my face gets too [...]
Another week with Henry, and it’s gone really, really fast. Tomorrow morning I head off to work for the first time since he was born, and I don’t know how well that’s going to go. There may be tears. (I’ve actually considered starting to buy lottery tickets just so I can have that infinitesimal chance [...]
Remember The Shining? How Jack Nicholson’s character goes completely nuts after being cooped up in a large hotel for the winter? Remember what happened to Scatman Crothers? Well, while Kristen is not going to be going after Henry and I with an axe any time soon, she is pretty stir crazy. And I can’t blame [...]
Yesterday was a tough day. Henry was fussy for about 12 straight hours, never really wanting to sleep, not having a good feed (just small snacks every hour or so), and crying for no reason. I don’t want to complain (so I won’t), because it was our first time that both Kristen and I seemed [...]
While I was a big fan of Thundarr the Barbarian, my sister much preferred Land of the Lost, a Sid and Marty Kroft-produced, live-action Saturday morning show. In it, a family (father Rick, son Will, and daughter Holly Marshall) are transported to a new world (they went down the wrong waterfall) where they befriend an [...]
Henry is happiest when he's looking at or playing with or reading about cars and trucks and fire engines and bulldozers -- pretty much anything with wheels or that makes a loud, growly noise. This book has all that (and if you're a little nutty like me, you can add the sound effects).
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