Category: Kids

Today, Lucy is “two weeks years old” (that is how Jon likes to say it :). I think all three of us have learned a lot about each other over these past two weeks. Even with all the reading I’ve done, caring for a baby is definitely different from how I thought it would be. Continue reading “Two weeks”

We had a rough couple of days this weekend, as you probably read from Jon’s “post”:/news/2006/road-warrior/. Lucy is generally not a difficult baby, but this nighttime fussiness thing was starting to put us over the edge. I knew I was feeling pretty anxious about her crying when I realized I wasn’t interested in eating chocolate (a sure sign of distress for me). Continue reading “We love our friends”

It was just me, the long-haul truckers, the drunks — and the other dads with sleepless babies — out on the highway last night at 2:30 am. Continue reading “Road warrior”

This passage of Scripture is freshly relevant to us, and we thank our friend and colleague Ann Beyerlein for including it in a baby card we received today. It’s from Isaiah 40: Continue reading ““Those who have young””

My latest theory is that Lucy is an easily over-stimulated baby. (Not surprising, considering how her parents react to over-stimulation?) I think every baby book I read discusses over-stimulation (which is helpful) and they recommend a pacifiers for an over-stimulated baby (also helpful) but “not until breast-feeding is well-established” (less helpful for the present moment). Continue reading “To pacify or not to pacify”

We have a winner in the fabulous “Lucy’s Umbilical Cord Stump Drop Off Contest”:/news/2006/umbilical-cord/! During a diaper change just now, the little nubbins of dried cartilage fell away — so with an astounding guess that was off by _only 1 hour and 45 minutes…_ Continue reading “We have a winner”

Lucy has succeeded in convincing us that she is the cutest baby ever. I always thought that people with newborns couldn’t get anything done because of time-consuming diaper changes and baby care and sleep deprivation. But the truth is, we just want to spend all of our time looking at her. Here are some of my favorite antics of hers: Continue reading “Irresistability”

It was much easier to make decisions about how to care for an infant when I was reading books with the baby still in my belly. Now I see that the decisions we make actually have *consequences*, and it is pretty easy to worry if we are doing the right thing. Continue reading “Second-guessing”

I wasn’t expecting to feel as good as I do just one week after giving birth. Of course, I’m still moving pretty slowly and feeling sore at times, but it is much better than I expected. Here are some things I’m already enjoying about my newly non-pregnant body: Continue reading “One week after delivery”

Since some readers may want not only the illustrative photos which accompany many of our posts but also a high-resolution picture or two suitable for printing, we now offer the “Choice Photos”:/news/choice-photos/ page. It currently has eight shots of Lucy, but will slowly change over time. You can always get to it from the “Info” box in the right column.