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Old man Penelope

Posted by Jason on July 24, 2010 - 12:46am in Jason's Blog.

You know what they say about old age being a lot like infancy? Well, no one warned me that the reverse is true. Penelope has recently entered the grunting phase. Sometimes, you would think we were running a nursing home. The sounds are hard to describe, but I never knew a baby could make them. Sometimes they sound like animal noises, but a lot of the time they sound like cranky old men who are upset at the world. They seem to be a new part of her sleeping routine, and frequently they are accompanied by intense stretching sessions.

Stumpy

Posted by Jason on July 21, 2010 - 8:32pm in Jason's Blog.

It's OFF! Yesterday, Penelope's umbilical cord stump fell off. It was, of course, anti-climactic. Katie found it floating in her onesie. There are still a few bits of it stuck in her belly button, but the big chunk is gone. It kind of looks like jerky. Surprisingly, there was no odor, despite the doctor's warning that it would stink before it fell off. Now comes the debate about saving it or not. I'm for saving, mostly to see what happens to it, but Katie is not a huge fan of keeping a rotten piece of flesh around.

Baby room

Posted by Jason on May 2, 2010 - 6:43pm in Jason's Blog.

It was a big weekend for us for getting ready for the baby.  Up until now, we hadn't really done much.  We had a car seat, but that's about it.  And the big items, a crib and changing table, we are getting from friends in June.  So the baby room had been looking very empty and sad since we moved in here.  But not any more!  Yesterday we went to IKEA (complete with Swedish meatball dinner, of course).  As usual, we spent about 3 hours there, but it was very successful.  We bought a small bookcase, a funky set of drawer

First outdoor climbing of the summer

Posted by Jason on April 25, 2010 - 11:16pm in Jason's Blog.

First post

Posted by Jason on April 18, 2010 - 11:39pm in Jason's Blog.

After years of having an outdated website that I threw together myself with PHP, I decided to join the modern era and transfer my website over to Drupal, an open-source content management system.  I've also decided to take a crack at blogging.  Mainly, I think this will be a way to keep track of interesting things that my soon-to-be-born daughter does.  Kind of like an online journal of interesting baby things.  Or, who knows, maybe I'll write about other stuff.  Or, most likely, I'll write about nothing.  Only time will tel

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