Having just moved, we decided to try out all of the local restaurants, and in a town with only one traffic light, that’s not such a monumental task. On Friday we headed out to one of the last places we hadn’t been, a rather upscale (for Richmond) Italian restaurant. By upscale I mean that there […]
Category Archives: Edward
Babies Do Not Observe Daylight Savings Time
Babies do not observe daylight savings time. This is because babies are smart. But what this means for the adults, is that the whole losing/gaining sleep thing is reversed. Many people across the USA sadly lost an hour of sleep yesterday, but not people with babies! We got to sleep later than ever! You see, […]
Baby Traps
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog about setting traps for your baby, so as to prevent escape and destruction. I then received several comments demanding pictures or videos of said traps. The problem, of course, is that these traps are set up for times when I am trying to do something else, and […]
A Day in the Life of a Baby
Babies are just like anyone else. They like to sleep in, lounge around, and start the day off with a delicious Coke. But don’t worry about their teeth! Babies are very concerned with oral hygiene. In fact, just the other day I found my baby brushing his teeth! Now that his mouth is feeling fresh, […]
Laundry Day, or Why People With Small Children Should Avoid the Laundromat
Our new house has no laundry facilities, so last week, for the first time in about a decade, I went to the laundromat. I previously did not enjoy the whole “laundromat experience,” but that was before I had two kids. Now the whole thing is just disastrous. First of all, there is no laundromat in […]
The Desire to Keep Our Children Cute and Stupid
When Ruby was smaller, her favorite food was pizza. But for some reason she could not/would not say “pizza.” She called it “pizzi” and, after a while, so did we. “Ruby, do you want pizzi for dinner?” we would say. But eventually it became clear that if we all kept calling it that, someday Ruby […]
Setting Up a Series of Traps for Your Baby
You know the feeling. You are sitting at home trying to get something done, but for some unfathomable reason buried deep in the past, you decided to have a baby. Now the days of getting things done are a distant memory, or were they just a hazy half-remembered dream? Either way, you are now faced […]
The Baby Dude Abides
When we had Ruby, she was such a good baby that everyone told us not to have a second one. “When you have a good first baby, the next one will be a hellion,” they warned us. We heard countless stories of nice, happy first babies, followed up by siblings closer in temperament to Rosemary’s […]
Snowgnarok
Snowmageddon and Snowpocalypse have come and gone, and yet here we are, being covered by yet another blizzard, and we are running out of overly dramatic storm nicknames. I have named this one Snowgnarok: Twilight of the Snow Gods. We are currently being buried under what they tell us could be 18″ of snow. Now […]
What to Do When Your Baby Eats Kitty Litter
I had a rough first day back. For one thing, Edward was not even crawling when I left for Florida, and now, a month later, he is crawling, pulling up on things, and generally making mischief. Ruby has nicknamed him “Danger E” because, as she explained, he is always getting into trouble. We dropped Ruby […]