Our daughter can already identify multiple superheroes on sight. (The Easter Bunny reputedly jumps up high high high in the sky, high as Superman). This is both inevitable (with her comic-fixated father and his room of comics, there's no way she would escape a comic education) and desirable ( Read more... )

All parents want their children to grow up to have more and do more than they. I would suggest that it goes further than this: that parents also want their children to be better than them. A sort of constructed evolution towards an ideological social goal. To be moral and polite and kind and hard-working and generous and thoughtful and fun-loving ( Read more... )

I witnessed two events recently, both of which left me moved, though I was but a voyeur ( Read more... )

Riley dinged 2 months old. Chloe dinged 2 years and 2 months. Let the reminiscing begin!

Uh, this is a bit tricky since the last month has been a bit of a blur, so here's a chaotic collection of thoughts:

Riley:

• Assuming the definition of 'colic' is 'my child screams a lot, most days of the week, and I'm going a bit batty over it', then Riley had it ( Read more... )

Recent phrases causing initial consternation ( Read more... )

Hello World, my name is Riley and I'm a month old ( Read more... )

The munchkin has given us some beautimous reinterpretation of some standard nursery rhyme classics. Reproduced here for you in 3D stereo for your viewing pleasure (stereo - with both eyes ( Read more... )

Two weeks ago I traded in my crutches, an enormous belly and a mountain of pillows for a little baby boy named Riley.

Frankly, I got the best side of the deal.

He seems easier to manage than Chloe was, though I'm not sure it's because we've done this newborn thing before, or because we don't have time to obsess about parenting a newborn with a ( Read more... )

5, 4, 3, 2, 1 *wiggle* *asplode in a shower of pixels*

Friday is baby day. Excited!

Ha! Take that, monthly update. I'm early for a change.

( This is very long. I may have waffled. )