Barnabas Monkeypants

From the cutest itsy-bitsy spider anyone ever saw to all our family and friends: Happy Halloween!

There are very few things that I don’t absolutely adore about Henry. One of those is that he just doesn’t want to sleep in later than 6 in the morning. Each day, without fail, he starts to yammer away at around 5:50 and by 6:05 he’s standing up at the edge of the crib announcing [...]

On Saturday, we met up with one of Henry’s girlfriends (Vivi) and her parents (not as important in Henry’s eyes — sorry, guys) at the Lincoln Park Zoo. It was a chilly, early fall afternoon, but we all bundled up. Fall is my favorite season, and walking around the city zoo is one of my [...]

Only writing these “What We’ve Learned” posts once a month has gotten me out of my rhythm a bit, so this may take a bit to get into. This has been a month of illness, of trips, of walking, of talking. It’s been a month of bad nights (those 4 wake-up nights still happen on [...]

Today Henry turns 14 months. I’ll have a “What We’ve Learned” post tomorrow to celebrate this very exciting month, but to give you a taste of what’s to come in the next 24 hours, I want to talk about the most exciting thing that Henry has started to do these past four weeks. Is it [...]

We last left Henry on Thursday with a fever and grumpiness that only Ebenezer Scrooge could match. Friday morning, he seemed much better, so we left him with Super-Nanny Silvia and headed off to work. That is until early Friday afternoon when Silvia called to say that Henry’s fever had returned, this time to 103. [...]

For the past week, Henry has had a sniffle. Nothing bad, really. Just your standard baby snot. And then this morning he woke up with a temperature of more than 101, so gone went the mild cold and instead we got a little worried. Worried about swine flu, of course. We gave him some acetaminophen, [...]

Henry and I returned Sunday night from a quick trip east to see my brother and his lovely girlfriend, Andrea. That’s right, without Raphe. It was an adventure! I’d been talking to Henry all week about how we were going to get on a plane Friday morning to fly to New York to get him [...]

Kristen and Henry have abandoned me… For the weekend. Off they flew this morning, headed to visit her brother in New York. And I’ll sit at home, alone, suffering (I’m getting the cold that both Henry and Kristen recently had), wallowing in my own self pity. This is a good look for me. I recommend [...]