From the outside, life with a baby doesn’t seem that exciting. Each Monday the water cooler conversation inevitably turns to what we all did this past weekend. Dinner parties. Movies. Bar hopping. But when it’s my turn, people just look and laugh because, for the most part, my life repeats itself: Kristen and I take [...]
Like my son, I’m a bit of an attention whore, and I enjoy it when people stop us and tell us how cute our baby is. (He is, you know.) Right after they say “Oh, what an adorable child”, they tell us “I have a 4-year-old at home” or “my daughter’s 6.” Yeah, whatever, lady. [...]
A couple of odds and ends today. Our diaper of choice is Pampers. Actually, we haven’t tried any other brand, but we’re happy with them. In fact, I’m sure that all diapers are equally good, equally absorbent (amazingly absorbent, actually). Have you ever felt a diaper completely saturated with urine? As heavy as they get [...]
A few exciting things happened this weekend. First off, we had our first overnight guest since Henry was born. Kristen’s father graced us with his presence and was immediately smitten with our son (who my sister is now referring to as Prince Henry, a name that certainly fits). The thing is, Henry knows how to [...]
Nothing has changed much in how I feel when I leave the house every morning. I hate it. I hate walking away from Kristen and the baby, not able to see them for hours and hours and hours. It doesn’t help that as soon as I get home from work, we begin the 2-hour-long process [...]
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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