Today's the first day we felt Oscar kick! Well, Shea's been feeling it internally for a few weeks. But today's the first time we could feel the thump on the outside. According to Shea, the kid likes to kick like nobody's business. (Hopefully a $250 million soccer contract is in his (or her – must […]
Oscar turned 20 weeks today. Happy birthday uteroversary, baby! Jill recently pointed out my love of lists (if you ask me, lists are the letters of the 21st century) and so here's another one for the collection…FIVE THINGS I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT PREGNANCY1. Nobody ever tells you how scary the first trimester is. You hear […]
I heard this story on the radio driving Shea to work this morning… “Twins born in Massachusetts hold special distinctions – the last baby born in 2006 and the first baby born in 2007. Not a lot of time separated the birth of Jennifer and Scott Hoenig's babies, but two minutes was enough to give […]
This is a bit of an old story by now but Time magazine recently named “You” as their “Person of the Year”. Many people reacted to the decision negatively saying it was a cop-out and the ultimate gimmick to sell magazines from a magazine that arguably hadn't chosen the proper newsmaker of the year since […]
As you can see, Oscar had a pretty exciting New Year's Eve. Grandpa and Grandma Hammond were in town for a wedding so Shea and I went down to the Delta Regina to have a visit with them. They went to the banquet and we stuck around and had supper at the hotel then went […]
One of Shea's mom's co-workers made us a “Baby Guess Book” which is basically a scrapbook filled with baby-related clip art, poems, and a bunch of spots for family and friends to record their guesses about various aspects of our baby. I thought I'd do a virtual edition and allow anyone reading the opportunity to […]
Shea and I went for an ultrasound today and got to see our first glimpse of the baby. No glimpse of twins (unfortunately) or whether it had dangly bits. But it was still pretty cool to see the little guy/gal swimming around. The technician had to wake the baby up by giving Shea's belly a […]
Even though the site's owner tends to frown on non-factual Q&A's, in my opinion Ask Metafilter is at its best when it has more chatty/big-picture/experiential questions such as the recent one asking for stories about things that fathers did to build strong relationships with their daughters. Some good tips there for any parent with children […]
Shea and I whipped into Toronto today to attend the Baby and Toddler Show this afternoon. A bit disappointing in terms of the number of exhibitors but this is probably a case of us being really early in the pregnancy mixed with the fact that they weren't giving out free books like the last time […]
I posted this link in response to Jill's comment in my last entry on “The Poo Bomb” but it's such an interesting idea, I thought I'd give it front-page status so more people see it. She did a post on her blog after reading a book about the idea that infants can be toilet-trained (ie. […]
