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Adventures in Eating and Swinging
Your humble host is aware that he has been slacking lately on the Carolyne posts. This is not for lack of activity on her part, I assure you. At 8.5 months, Carolyne has been — to put it in software terms - adding features in a hurry: the sitting up feature, the lunging for things [...]
Welcome to the Club
Leslye’s friends have in the past few years produced a bunch of baby boys. This month, some of mine went the other way and had girls. Congrats to a trio of December babies: Casey Mae Elizabeth (daughter of Andrew and Gen), Andrea Soren (daughter of Genehack and his better half) and, most recently, Ella Mae [...]
Two Days In
Carolyne has been at daycare for two days now, and I’m happy to report that all seems pretty well. She’s still not sleeping there quite as much as she did at home during the day, but she seems pretty happy and, except for a few minutes on the first morning, hasn’t erupted into wails when [...]
Six Months and One Day
For a time this morning, it was as if my leave at home with Carolyne was just beginning - a trip to the doctor’s office on a brilliant cloudless day, a long walk in the warm sunshine, visiting with kids at the playground. It was the kind of day we had in early September, before [...]
The Reader
Here’s something I didn’t expect from Carolyne: she really seems to enjoy grabbing and holding the newspaper. Friends who know my views on the future of my industry will no doubt see the irony in this behavior, since she hasn’t expressed the same interest in, say, my laptop (not yet, at least). Check out the [...]
