Yes­ter­day Bram and I spent most of the after­noon at Whiskey Island, fly­ing an owl kite, and get­ting the lit­tle bear com­fort­able play­ing in the waters of Lake Erie. He enjoyed his “swim­ming” les­son. The dude is also a chick mag­net, as evi­denced by the fol­low­ing photo. I took Bram to Train Day today. I intended to take him to […]

Instead of writ­ing a post about all of the great things that hap­pened in the last decade, I fig­ured the fol­low­ing video is just as eloquent.

This has been one crazy week. Abraham’s reg­u­lar babysit­ter has been in the hos­pi­tal for over a week now, and he’s been shut­tled all over the place (includ­ing a new tem­po­rary babysit­ter) until DeeDee is back home. I’ve been bak­ing in every spare moment, and work has been hec­tic with last-​minute high-​priority site build­ing. So. I’m gonna […]

Now that the infant sub­ject is mobile, I’ve been able to engage it in the sec­ond round of my Infant Exper­i­men­ta­tion Project. I was assisted in these exper­i­ments by the infant’s mater­nal unit. WARNING You are likely to find the fol­low­ing record­ings quite bor­ing. Time Trial Mark 1 Sum­mary In which I attempt to gain empir­i­cal data regard­ing the […]

Abra­ham had to be restrained by the police today for the first [and hope­fully last] time in his life. A cop helped me buckle him into the shop­ping cart at the gro­cery. Eat­ing is some­times a fraught affair.

Abra­ham and Deb­bie were impromptu shang­haied into appear­ing in the Novem­ber 2004 Pres­i­den­tial Elec­tion Cuya­hoga County Board of Elec­tions Vote by Mail video a cou­ple of weeks back. Now that it has made its way onto the air­waves and YouTube, he’s offi­cially famous. Deb­bie looks pretty good too. ROWR.

With all of the stuff I’ve been up to lately, doing a bit of writ­ing has fallen by the way­side. Work on the house is still incom­plete, but has slowed down because what remains isn’t crit­i­cal quite yet. Once all of the paint­ing is com­plete, and I’ve man­aged to get all of the doors rehung, there […]

Watch­ing Abra­ham is a never-​ending source of fun. At first he had no voli­tion, at all, but here we are three weeks later and he’s already fig­ured out that he has the abil­ity to con­trol his own body. He’s not very good at it, but I can already see some def­i­nite human behav­ior emerg­ing. He’s a good boy. […]

Rou­tine Abra­ham is one week old and I’ve still not man­aged to get rid of him. I took him to Petco the other day to see if any­one wanted to adopt him. That didn’t work, so I went to Home Depot to try and return him there. Home Depot will take just about any­thing back but they […]

Chronol­ogy Deb­bie started hav­ing fre­quent con­trac­tions on Sat­ur­day morn­ing at 5am. We went to the hos­pi­tal later that after­noon to see what was up, the con­trac­tions were about 5 min­utes apart. We get to the hos­pi­tal and, of course, they slow down. After exam­i­na­tion, Deb­bie was still only about 2cm, so they sent us home. She […]

I’ve lived in this house for almost a year and I’m still not moved in. The work on fix­ing the place up con­tin­ues, and tomor­row the embiggen­ing of the bath­room and closet [to the dearth of the tini­est bed­room] begins. Since we’re in the process of paint­ing the entry room, this means that 4 of the rooms […]

Yes­ter­day was a bit of a wash in terms of accom­plish­ment. I had some appli­ances deliv­ered ass-​early in the morn­ing, which turned out to be excel­lent, because by 9am I was at the hos­pi­tal with Deb­bie. She’d been hav­ing erratic con­trac­tions all night and since she’s 32 weeks along Colleen our mid­wife had us come in for a checkup. Turns […]

Appar­ently, if I behave myself, I’ll be allowed to catch the kid as Deb­bie pushes him out. I’ve been prac­tic­ing. A few weeks ago I bought a catcher’s mitt; I’m soft­en­ing it up with mink oil and keep­ing it wrapped around a soft­ball to get a nice pocket cre­ated for the kid’s head. Catch­ing my son will be the best thing to […]

$110 will get you approx­i­mately 250 items of sec­ond­hand baby clothes. No one needs to buy us any­thing resem­bling a baby cloth for at least the next 9 months. The Bobby web­site acces­si­bil­ity val­ida­tor is no longer avail­able online. It is now bun­dled into a piece of IBM soft­ware for pur­chase only. This makes it harder, not easier, […]

Onesy Ideas: An arrow on the front point­ing to the mouth with Food writ­ten under it; on the back­side, an arrow point­ing to the butt with Poop writ­ten over it. A snake mouth on the bot­tom half of the onesy; so it looks as if the baby is being eaten. Basic ani­mal one­sies, all fero­cious and ravenous […]

13 weeks after tears and trep­i­da­tion, it hap­pens quickly. You wrought to sound; she the seashell woman you hide inside. The day you first spoke to me; I put my ear to our blood ontol­ogy. like first steps, like the sea.