Archives for “Babies”
I’m working on Zoe’s second birthday post, but in the meantime, let me share this classic Zoe video with you. I recently uploaded a slew of videos to Flickr as part of my new year’s resolution, and I think this one is my new favorite. She’s three months old, and I’m trying to get a [...]
It wasn’t too long ago that Zoe used to be completely uninterested in food. While her cousins and friends would gleefully eat anything and everything on their parents’ plates, Zoe would pick uninterestedly at her food and then tell us that she was “all done.” We weren’t really worried about it, because we knew that [...]
Milo and his parents are visiting us this week, so I thought I’d post this video of a game Milo was playing with Dave at the park a few weeks ago. Milo would pick up a handful of bark chips, and then chase Dave around trying to throw them on his shoes. When he threw [...]
Zoe started walking a few weeks ago. She’d been building up to it for quite awhile, and it’s suprising how quickly it’s become her primary method of getting around. For the first week or so, walking was a novelty — a game she would play with us, or something to make people clap — but [...]
Zoe has been sick off and on for about two weeks now. It started with an ear infection, which got bad enough that her doctor put her on antibiotics. Then she got a bit of a cold, threw up a couple of times, and then diarrhea for about a week. Plus she’s been teething. Yesterday, [...]
I like to imagine a cocktail party where everyone would act like a baby. They’d be in their fancy strapless dresses and suits, making grand conversation about politics and the arts, but then the tray of little quiches would come around, and they’d go completely bug-eyed and flap their arms up and down and whimper. [...]
Sometimes Zoe wakes up at 4 or 5am, and Annie is nice enough to take her downstairs so she doesn’t wake me up. Usually when my alarm goes off, I will find them both asleep on the couch. This morning, though, Zoe had sprawled out backwards across Annie’s leg, with one foot up on her [...]
In the aftermath of Zoe’s cold, I sent a tip into Parent Hacks, and it got posted today! My ten-month-old daughter has a terrible cold right now, and she has developed a fear of the nose wipe. Anytime she sees me coming towards her with a rag or a kleenex, she turns her head away [...]
Annie: “I just wanted to let you know that I was right, she was pooping.” Scott: “This is the weirdest phone call I’ve ever received.” – Annie called me about ten minutes after I left the house to tell me this.
We took Zoe in for her six-month checkup today. She weighs just shy of 16 pounds, and is 27½ inches long — which means she grew four inches in the last month! She also got her first vaccination, which she didn’t enjoy. Oddly, I think she hated having her temperature taken more, because the nurse [...]
“I used to think that it wouldn’t be fun to dress a boy, but I’ve realized that it is actually MORE fun than dressing a girl because I can dress him in the clothes I would want Michael to wear. He is like my own little boyfriend, in a totally non-creepy way.” – Marci, discussing [...]
(Sorry for the delay in posting this – I’ve been sitting on the draft for nearly four months now, planning to expand it, but it’s time to cut my losses and just post it as is.) Annie had been going to bed with her cell phone on the nightstand for the last two weeks, just [...]
Can I just take a second to brag about my nephew? Seriously, how freaking adorable is this kid? Look at that smile, and then the followup scowl. I love how expressive he is – and when he laughs, you can’t help but laugh with him. (Photos from Dave and Rose’s flickr photostream.)
Sorry for all the reviews lately. I’ve been meaning to get them posted for awhile now, and this week I’m pushing a big deadline at work, so I don’t have much motivation to write anything more substantial. On the plus side, when I came home from work tonight, Zoe did something she’s never done for [...]
