I have no doubt whatsoever that the cuteness of infants is an evolutionary adaptation to prevent them from being left out for the wolves by sleep deprived parents.
When he’s cranky, I howl at Augie and tell him it’s the wolves.
So far he’s unimpressed.
Another batch of Augie pics are up… including this one by Suz, which IMHO is the best picture taken of him yet.
If you have a boy, make sure his penis points DOWN when you put that diaper on.
You have to aim for the largest area of absorbent material, else he will soak himself and leave the diaper dry.
Also, there is no other piece of clothing necessary for an infant than the sleeper. If it’s too […]
Yesterday in the late afternoon, I looked down at my jeans.
There were two brown splotches on my left thigh.
Yes, I had been at work all day unaware that I had baby shit stains all over myself.
I have become somewhat inured to the new flavors, and volumes, of bodily fluids in my life.
And baby shit is […]
All of my life it has been a crazy impossibility to think that a black man would ever become President of the United States of America. I never thought I would see it.
Despite his numbers, I didn’t think Obama would win. I figured this country was still far too racist. I’m ecstatic I was wrong.
My […]
Last week, we were sitting in the living room. We were tired. It was dark.
The phone rang.
I exclaimed with no small amount of annoyance "Who in the hell would be calling at THIS hour?"
I looked down at my watch.
It was 7:20pm.
Zero Hour
On Thursday, October 9, at around 8:30pm, after getting back from my little niece Lila’s dinner/birthday party, Suz started to feel something that resembled gas pains, only it was clear after twenty minutes or so that the pains came and went at regular intervals: she was in labor.
I was on task, digging out my […]
Our boy decided to come a few days early!
Susanna went into labor around 8:30pm Thursday night. We did our darndest to get the little bugger into the world with minimal medical intervention. However, after 33 hours of labor and two solid hours of Susanna pushing, it was clear that the baby had other ideas (and […]
Apparently that is a penis.
I see the foot of a frog, but the ultrasound tech and doctor’s Rorschach Tests say that there is, in fact, a penis amongst the blurry blobs.
At any rate, they’ve convinced us that we’re having a boy!
More pics of our blob