At our recent baby shower, dear friends, Steve and Sophia, were clever enough to ask our guests to share their own parental advice with us, the expecting parents. During the shower I had no idea this was happening, but that night I found a bounded book with the word baby on it. Inside contained the [...]
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Please. Allow me to blow the dust off this blog and share some of My Life As A Dad’s “must-haves” for fatherhood. For those who might not know, Diana and I are expecting our second child in April. I am by no means a veteran parent, but I’d like to believe I have a good [...]
It’s hard to believe Little Bird is 7 months old. He’s progressing like a textbook baby. His first two teeth have cut through his gums. He takes great interest in trying to grab his ‘lil pup, Spike. He’ll even crawl like G.I. Joe if he sees something worth lunging towards. Lately, he loves to sit [...]
Although most men might not fully understand a woman’s obsession with the high end designer handbag, I on the other hand, share in this obsession. I owe it to Jack Spade, a brand created by Andy Spade (husband of Kate Spade), as a men’s compliment to the Kate Spade Brand. Carrying this obsession into fatherhood, [...]
New Mommy recently returned to work after spending Little Bird’s first four months together. With this new transistion in parenthood, I thought back to when I returned to work and felt a sense of withdrawal from baby and mommy 3 weeks after Bird’s birth. Not being home to witness some early milestone moments with Bird [...]
Cloth diapering seemed more like wishful thinking than reality when we were preparing for Little Bird’s birth. Like the vegetable garden in my backyard that I’ll eventually get to, so was the thought of wrapping our little one in washable diapers. Then Bird was born and off to the store we went, to buy disposable [...]
Leave it up to me to get this crazy idea to maintain a blog about my life as a dad. As if I would ever have the time to update it. Yeah yeah, excuses, excuses you say. Well let me, at the least, take you through that first morning, the day our Little Bird was [...]
These have been my last days as just any ol’ someone. In a few hours life will cease to exist as I have known it to for 30 plus some odd years. The past 9 months have been a crash course in all things baby 101. Don’t even ask me about proper foods for mom-to-be’s [...]
I used to get asked the tired question all newlywed’s get thrown in their face, the proverbial “So when are you having babies?” question. I always answered, in my smartassery tone of speak, “Oh, soon. I ordered one online. Free shipping!” I usually received the fake smile/fake laugh deal, followed by the “what a smartass” [...]
It has been brought to my attention that we are in the nesting phase of the pregnancy. Apparently nesting is an instinct that even females in the animal kingdom perform, a primal instinct to prepare a nest for the new baby. I’ve heard funny stories about pregnant women doing drastic things just weeks before their [...]