My interview with the director of The Kids Grow Up

This was interesting since Doug Block had made a film about his daughter graduating from high school which looked back at his home videos of her. I wanted to know what to expect as a father with a videocamera.

Likes Real Fuzzy

So the baby is now watching Sesame Street although the show isn't as random as it used to be. There's no manic little bits. Instead we get these prolonged segments dealing with one topic. Are they trying to give this generation a real attention span? The one thing I've noticed is that the baby doesn't care for the segment in which they use CGI muppet. She'll get glued when real muppets and people interact. But when it's computerized Abby, she's got better things to do with her life.

Daddy's Girl

So yesterday I was merely taking out the trash and Josie stood up against the screen door and screamed at me as I was pushing the trash away. The wife was in the room with her so it wasn't like she was being completely abandoned. I've created a clingy baby....but at least she's clingy to me.

TIP

if you're an expecting father, make sure you buy a digital camera. Every time you dress the baby in a new outfit, make sure you take a picture of them so that you can post them on your favorite photo site. This way friends and relatives will know you used their baby shower gift on the kid.

As if it is always a choice

I'm rather angry at this latest study that goes on about the nature of breastfeeding.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/04/05/breastfeeding.costs/index.html?hpt=T2

It's not that I don't agree with the findings so much as there are a lot of parents who don't have a choice if the lactation process doesn't go completely right. And now here's this Harvard smartass trying to guilt us all as if somehow lactation is as easy as a car seat. So my child is going to die or cost the nation billions because she went on formula. Must be so nice to make such judgments about what costs the nation billions from a university which costs a quarter of a million dollars for a BA degree.

the baby has a crush on Stephen Colbert

another wall has fallen

Josie started crawling onto the coffeetable. I've lost another one of my defensive tricks to keep her out of places. The overturned stool is no longer protection for my computer cords. I should be overjoyed at a child that can't be stop except I have a home that is one big disaster in the making.

I keep thinking how I need to keep the kid on a bungie cord. Let her barely touch the ground and incapable of yanking stuff. But social services have their rules.