Category Archives: Fatherhood

My reflections on fatherhood

That’s my girl!


Things I must teach my daughter

Everytime the doorbell rings or someone knocks on a door, it is NOT ALWAYS a man delivering pizza. Just sometimes.
But we do know her favorite food, I guess.

Top ten reasons geeks make good fathers

Parent Hacks pointed me towards a blog entry that makes a top ten reasons why geeks make good fathers.  It seems dead on to me.
Okay, maybe not, the you can’t go wrong with list that includes legos, video games, and gadgets.

COME, SON OF NICOLAS CAGE, KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!

Its been in the news that Nicolas Cage has named his new baby boy Kal-El. Us comic geeks know that Kal-El happens to be Superman’s birth name. Not sure if this is better or worse than Harley Quinn Smith, Kevin Smith’s little girl. I’m thinking Kevin wins here.
In any case, this makes [...]

I don’t need no one to tell me about heaven, I look at my daughter, and I believe.

Today is Dinah’s first birthday. As cliched as it sounds, it doesn’t seem like that long. I have no idea where the time went. In the past year she’s gained over ten pounds and gotten quite a few inches longer.
Its a milestone in her life, and in mine and Sarah’s as well. [...]

Something that only excites a parent

One of the things that only excites a parent is the quality of a baby’s bowel movement. Especially when the bowel movement quality has returned to normal after a week.
This shouldn’t really be news to anyone, but its something that has been stuck in my head for about 13 hours. I think its [...]

Dinah development update

Thu Nov. 18: first tooth
Sun Nov. 20th: started crawling
Fri Nov. 26th: starting pulling herself up on stuff
Mon Nov. 29th: started sitting
Fri Dec. 3rd: 2nd tooth starting to push through
Sat Dec. 4th: Parents totally exhausted
Tues Dec 7th: 7 months old

It seems like she was really trying to cram a bunch of development right into [...]

pre-Halloween photos

Sarah and I finally got around to taking some Halloween pictures of Dinah.
Yes, its not actually Halloween yet, but we wanted to have the pictures on Halloween (or just before) to show off and so the grandparents can do the same. We took these pictures out in our backyard. Ideally, I should have [...]

Brodie (from Mallrats) was right!

From the Kevin Smith movie Mallrats:
Brodie: Listen, not a year goes by, not a year, that I don’t hear about some escalator accident involving some bastard kid which could have easily been avoided had some parent - I don’t care which one - but some parent conditioned him to fear and respect that escalator.
The [...]

Sorry again, Dinah

For as long as I can remember, when I’ve walked outside and its sunny out, I’ve sneezed. I can usually count on a good two or three sneezes. In the past few years, I finally was curious enough to do some research and found out that I have the condition called photic sneeze [...]