Posts Tagged ‘baby’
Names are interesting. And confusing.
I met a woman in Iowa who has five brothers and one sister. Her five brothers are named after Biblical characters whose names begin with J. James, John, Jesse, Jude, and Joshua. Her sister’s name is Anne. It was their grandmother’s name. The woman who I met is named Amanda. When she was born, her…
Read MoreThe Name Game
My daughter, Clara, turned seven on Monday. Tomorrow we host a birthday party for friends and family. I was telling Clara stories about the day she was born, and this story came to mind, which I wrote about at the time (to Clara) and thought I would share here. It’s a testament to my wife’s ability…
Read MoreCruelest joke of 2015 involved a beautiful new baby and Bill Cosby
One of the best ideas that I heard in all of 2015 was this: When a friend of mine gave birth to her first child, one of her friends sent her a gift. It was a book. This book: Possibly one of the cruelest jokes ever. I plan to spend 2016 desperately seeking opportunities to…
Read MoreWigs for bald, baby girls are a thing now. Stupid parents have been around forever.
There are wigs for babies now. Designed for parents (mothers) who are tired of listening to strangers refer to their bald, baby girls with masculine pronouns, Baby Bangs seeks to make baby girls look more like baby girls. … the website reads, undoubtedly capturing the frustration and outrage of bald baby girls everywhere. Even as…
Read MoreThe post partum tummy is not a taboo in Actual Town, USA.
Tom Sykes of The Daily Beast reports on Kate Middleton’s busting of what he refers to as one of the last taboos of pregnancy: Kate Middleton stood up for new mums everywhere when she walked out of hospital yesterday, completely unembarrassed by her post-partum tummy. This thoroughly modern royal was apparently determined to lend a…
Read MoreAnother fan of Charlie’s feet
My wife thinks our son’s tiny feet are cute as hell. She is not alone. Most women, and especially mothers, are surprisingly obsessed with baby feet. Charlie’s feet are often the first things that women ask to see when they meet my son for the first time. Women, including some I did not know, have…
Read MoreThe Baby Whisperer
My father-in-law is a baby whisperer, at least when it comes to my son. This is not the first time he has garnered this level of focused joy from Charlie.
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