Oh Great… Another Dad Blog About Another Baby
Dads have come a long way in the last few years as many of us continue to work hard to erase the stigma of being the lesser parent slash biggest kid. Through all of this, there’s one aspect that is taking longer to change: While mothers often get pampered on…
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It’s for realsies now… After weeks and weeks of false alarms, the little man is finally teething. His ridiculously adorable toothless grins are coming to an end and before we know it, he’ll have a brand new set of mini-chompers and we’ll be eating beef jerky together. Now when he…
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When we were in the pregnant stage of babydom and were making some of the big decisions on how we were going to proceed, mama said she wanted to use cloth diapers. Now in my mind, cloth diapers were literally pieces of white cloth that you folded origami-style into a…
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Well, blow me down, Popeye is two months old! When you have a baby, you enter this strange vortex where time flies except when he’s crying. At that point, it’s like the climatic ending of The Hudsucker Proxy – time literally freezes (umm, spoiler alert?). There are other things that…
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Rarely is the sequel better than the original. For every great one like Empire Strikes Back, there are 47 bad ones like Dumb and Dumberer or Babe 2: Pig in the City. Sometimes, the sequels are done to cash in on the popularity of the original. Other times, I think…
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My last two and a half weeks have been awash in baby poop. People assure me that babies actually have organs and regular human interiors, but I am beginning to believe that everyone is wrong. Due to my studies thus far, I have estimated that babies are 8% pee, 11%…
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If I thought there was a lot to learn when we were expecting then imagine my surprise now that I have a newborn to contend with. Simple pleasures like reading time (also known as toiley time), taking a shower and fixing something to eat now involve a complex spreadsheet and…
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There are lots of firsts for a newborn, in fact, everything is a first. First breath, first sound, first outfit, first poop in first outfit. The list goes on. So the first bath is a momentous occasion and a perfect opportunity to embarrass future-Popeye. I’m picturing him mouthing off around…
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It may be the year of the horse in China but in this particular house in Austin, it will most definitely be the year of the poo. Seeing that we’re taking the natural approach to childbirth by using a birthing center and midwife, it stands to reason that we are…
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