Today is the first day of the rest of the week...

Today is my first day home all day as a stay-at-home dad with Emily. How am I supposed to get anything done? When Emily's awake, she's crawling all over the place gnawing on anything and everything she can reach. Best of all she will crawl through all of her toys to get to something she shouldn't have, i.e. shoes, electrical cords, the cat, microscopic bits of whatever the vacuum doesn't pick up. And when she finally falls asleep you can't do anything because she'll wake up and continue her quest for the best tasting furniture.... Love you honey.

Dad

Midnight? My bedtime is ASAP

Emily's getting ready for her first New Year's Eve party. It should be interesting with three of mom's college friends/roommates and their families coming over; Emily will be passed from mom to mom to mom. Which will help me keep track of her; she's a sneaky little thing. Emily's working on her crawling, but not when you're watching. We were on the floor for a long time and while Emily was up on all four (knees & hands) she wasn't moving very far. When I left the room to answer the phone I could hear her ripping up the magazine I had left on the floor. When I got back I moved her back to her original position and waited and watched, nothing. When I went to answer the phone again more crumpled paper. Thank God mom came home and saved me.

Dad

Growing up way too fast

I don't know if the problem is that I work in early childhood education and have been sensitised to the developmental milestones but Emily Grace is starting to attempt things that she shouldn't be doing. Just this morning we caught her crawling out of the house with the car keys in her hand and a lit cigarette in her mouth. Emily claimed that the cigarette was mom's but I know that mom doesn't smoke unfiltered Pall-Malls.

Dad

Strap on the ol' feed bag

It's always dinner time at our house now that Emily's discovered food. She didn't seem too impressed with the rice cereal; not enough garlic I suppose....
Dad

Where are the Reindeer?

This is Emily's first sighting of Santa as he arrives by shrimp boat in Apalachicola, FL.
She's still laughing.
It's a very nice tradition. Santa arrives the day after Thanksgiving and the whole town turns out to celebrate. We kept an eye out for Forrest Gump but we never found him.
Dad

Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas. We celebrated Christmas in July. Hope all of your presents are as grand!

Dad

4 months old today

What a busy month for someone so little. Emily got to dip her toes into the ocean, OK gulf, for the very first time. Grandma and Grandpa were there to share in that little adventure.
Halloween is probably more confusing than anything else when you're only 3 months old and haven't discovered the joy of candy. But, how often do you get to wear a cat suit or dress like a pumpkin?
Emily has started to recognize that mom and dad have different voices and that sounds can come different sources. When having a conversation and mom is talking, Emily will watch her very closely. When I speak Emily will look around to find the source of my voice; when she sees me she lights up with a look that says, "WHOA, where did you come from?" When mom speaks Emily's little head turns to find mom's voice and mom gets that same great look and so it goes, on and on and on.........

Dad