Assisting dad with his Saturday morning coffee addiction by causing him to tip his long-anticipated morning brew all over the living room floor as he lunges to prevent you from grabbing it just moments before realizing that he could really use three hands in this parenting gig.
Baffling dad with your never ending chatter and babbling, [...]

So…. quick poll. What’s worse: your dad not only ignoring you, but pausing to take pictures of you as you are miserable and crying — or that he posts them on the Internet for all to see?

Some day I’m sure I’ll have some explaining to do. Until then, well, lets just say the [...]

The sevens are colliding. Seven years blogging, and now Claire celebrates her seven-month birthday — today. And I, work canceled due to the blizzard, get to spend the non-occasion with her.
We just finished the breakfast routine, a detail I usually miss save for the weekends. Over this past weekend I spent an [...]

For those sipping on the few and far between bits of information that leak from random sources regarding the post-sixth month development of our daughter, there is likely to be some disappointment. Admittedly, I’ve been somewhat weak in blogging the mundane, and my presence on the usual social networks over the past month has [...]

If the only way you keep track of us is through this blog, you would have had no way to know we were going on vacation. I try to keep my travel plans fairly hush-hush when it comes to the blog as far as pre-trip hype at least. Upon our return, then I [...]

You know you’ve been writing a blog for a long time when you can go back and reference the post you wrote last February twenty-ninth. Speaking of free days, last February twenty-ninth (one thousand, four hundred and sixty one days ago) I was in Banff, in the mountains, at a neuromuscular science conference representing my [...]

My shutter finger was getting a little itchy. As I sit here on a Friday night looking for an excuse to blog, looking for an excuse to take and post more pictures, looking for justification to bid higher on some ebay photo gear, and looking for an excuse not to be sad about spending [...]

Tomorrow is the bear’s five month ‘birthday’ and my, how things change. For those who have not been picking up bits and pieces from other sources or random visits here is the official rundown. She:
- sits for extended moments, not so much holding herself upright with any real core strength, but rather through [...]

It was all over the news yesterday that WE’RE KILLING OUR BABIES WITH SHAMPOO! Chemical leach through their precious skin and melt their reproductive organs. It’s the end of the world. It will be just like that movie Children of Men and it’s all due to us and our fascination with… AHHHHH!
Take a [...]

Besides working from home yesterday (because the office shut down due to the snow) being shut in with the family enabled a few extra-curricular activities in and around the house. Yes, I put in my time for the man, but being locked away left plenty of moments here and there for other stuff, such [...]

December 22
The girl is officially three months old today. I guess we’re keeping her. For the recap, she can do the following quirky things:

Day 22: So this is what a troublemaker looks like!

-> balance her watermelon of a head with excellent precision on her shoulders for up to five minutes.
-> track the monotonous pacing [...]

December 20
The folks at Karin’s work must like her. They keep inviting her to staff functions — parties, meetings, and other gatherings with food and such — despite the fact that she’s still on maternity leave for another nine months.

Day 20: Little Miss Grumpy, fighting The Sleep Monster once again.

Today, yet again, they asked [...]