Yesterday, while Kate was sleeping after an all-night shift, Piper and I took the car out of the way of the street cleaners and went up at Fort Tryon Park for a bit. It was just about 70 degrees, partly cloudy, and the park smelled absolutely and stereotypically Autumnal – dry leaves, fallen acorns, hobo [...]
An awesome weeklong vacation last week up at our family cabin in Maine went off spectacularly well, save for Piper’s catching conjunctivitis partway through. If you’re wondering, I believe the word is derived from the Latinate roots “conjunctiva” (which is the pink membrane underneath your lower eyelid) and “itis” (which is the state of being [...]
Here’s what I’ve learned in the last 11 months: Having a kid did not magically change me in one instant. This notion that parenthood flips a switch inside one’s head is bunk, as near as I can tell. We came home from the hospital and I was surprised by how little had changed. Dirty dishes: [...]
After a lot of agita over Piper’s seeming indifference to ever moving from the spots where we place her, she’s finally decided that there are a few things worth scooting for. Namely, a closed bottle of leftover seltzer. Who are we to judge? Admittedly, her movement technique has a bit of the “harbor-seal-galumphing-on-dry-land” about it, [...]
… before I left for work this morning, Piper rolled from her belly to her back six, count’em, six times, easily surpassing her previous lifetime limit (four) in one day. This bodes very well for her sense of humor, I suspect.