I dream of a day when my best stories don’t involve my child’s pooping activities… …but alas, today is not that day. Although it’s mostly true that his craziest of poops...
I have this conversation with my 1 1/2 year-old son on pretty much an hourly basis: Kid: Hey Dad, check out this new thing that I found to chew on! (mind you, he doesn’t really talk yet, bu...
We were bound to pass this threshold eventually. Give a kid a bathtub full of water, with his only rules being don’t stand up in the bathtub and keep the water in the bathtub, and it was re...
There are a lot of first moments worth celebrating when you’re a new parent – first full night of sleep, first sounds that you think are words but any reasonable person will insist that th...
Achievement Unlocked – Kept newborn baby alive for six months! See – that wasn’t so bad, although it probably hasn’t hurt to have a dedicated spouse like mine handy who knows to keep an eye ou...
All I want is one day where this baby sleeps consistently like he did the night before. Also, a day without mega poops … the kind that peel the paint from the walls and make you want to claw you...
Whew! You know what they say – time flies when you’re raising a newborn correctly and without any general cause for alarm whatsoever… My life is currently a mystifying blur of di...
I’d forgotten just how bad sunburns hurt the next day. Sunburn is basically our Sun’s way of saying, “Witness what my mere presence some 92 million miles away can inflict upon your fleshy mortal...
What can I say? It’s been a pretty busy month… If you happened to miss my column back in March, well the joke is certainly on you because I had a baby – at least in the capacity t...
So perhaps I spoke a little too soon… It was only a wee seven days ago when I wrote about The Worst Poop Imaginable™, and yet here we are again because if my fellow Internet mommies and da...