Archive for February, 2006

in which I suddenly have some understanding of why our baby has had five colds in five months, plus that bonus vomit round which was awesome by the way

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

What I need is two extra lights on the back of my car. The first one would be a super super bright strobe that I would turn on whenever people tailgate me. I never got the whole road rage thing until I had kids in the back of my car. Now when people follow too [...]

Baby update, however many weeks he is old now

Sunday, February 26th, 2006

I’m a terrible parent. Almost exactly a year ago I bought a baby book for Graham. He’s five months old now, and I haven’t touched it since he was born. I’m sorry, Graham. I suck at things. I started to put your exact age in the title of this entry but then I was like [...]

so if you wake up with the sunrise…

Saturday, February 25th, 2006

The whole house is napping except for me. I’m too stupid to sleep.
My day started with the cheerful words, “The sun’s up!”- and I almost fell for it because it’s been raining and dark out all week. Then I was like, wait a fucking minute – why am I so tired that I want to [...]

Amazon product review, by Graham

Friday, February 24th, 2006

I was really excited to get the Playskool Lullaby GloWorm. But I have to say after playing with it I was disappointed. At first glance, operation of the product seemed intuitive enough – however I quickly became frustrated. I tried again and again, but could not get any milk to come out. I [...]

No photos with this post. You’re welcome.

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

Graham is sick. He has rotovirus, which contains “rot” from the latin, rotary which means “to twist”. The name describes the sudden twisting motion that parents make when they are holding a baby who makes a small coughing sound, in a ridiculous attempt to avoid the horrific stream of baby vomit that’s about to engulf [...]