This week’s Baby Blogging breaks new ground: Outdoor Baby Blogging! SteelyKid says “Stop mugging for the camera, Daddy! This is about me!”
Category: Personal
March of the (Wooden) Penguins
One of SteelyKid’s birthday gifts from my parents was a wheeled wooden penguin on a stick. If you roll it along the ground, the wings flap, with a very satisfying clacking noise. It took SteelyKid a little while to get the hang of it, but she’s got the idea now: Really, I don’t have anything… Continue reading March of the (Wooden) Penguins
Why Our Living Room Looks Like a Tornado Came Through
Caught on video: It’s very difficult to decide which of the many, many toys in the toybox is the right toy…
Can’t-Miss Toy Idea: Roomba Baby
As a parent of a newly mobile one-year-old, I have a can’t-fail suggestion for a toy product that would fuse two popular technologies: realistic infant simulators (baby dolls that cry, wet themselve, etc.) and vacuum-cleaning robots. All you need to do is mount a baby doll on a Roomba chassis, and use the same random-walk… Continue reading Can’t-Miss Toy Idea: Roomba Baby
Thursday Baby Blogging 081309
It’s getting harder and harder to get good SteelyKid pictures, because she’s always in motion (see digital camera complaints in the previous post). So, we have to resort to tricks like putting her in her babypod and holding Appa up next to her: Fortunately, she doesn’t mind too much… Actually, she sits in the babypod… Continue reading Thursday Baby Blogging 081309
Worldcon Wrap-Up
We are back in Niskayuna now, where SteelyKid is using her new powers of bipedal locomotion to help me burn off some of the excess calories from the weekend in Montreal. She’s only been walking for a couple of weeks, but she can really move. I’m pretty fried, even after napping for two hours earlier… Continue reading Worldcon Wrap-Up
Thursday Baby Blogging 080609
Even though Kate and I are en route to Montreal, dodging Assassins des Fauteuils Rollents, through the miracle of post scheduling, you get your Thursday Baby Blogging. To get around the problems posed by her new mobility, we’ll fall back on a classic: the sleeping-baby picture: If you look at the file name, you’ll see… Continue reading Thursday Baby Blogging 080609
Colbert Nation Baby
We don’t have SteelyKid watching any kind of baby-oriented tv, because I’d rather be stabbed with a fork than have to listen to the Tellytubbies. We do frequently have the tv on while she’s playing in the living room, though, as we try to catch up on DVR’ed programs. This has led directly to SteelyKid… Continue reading Colbert Nation Baby
Beware the Wild SteelyKid
It’s critically important to be on your guard when exploring our living room at the moment. The wily SteelyKid can strike without warning: Of course, not all of her attacks are quite so violent:
The First Steps Are a Doozy
These aren’t really SteelyKid’s first steps, just the first ones I got on video: She routinely goes farther than that, more confidently than that, but the big lunge at the end is awfully cute. It’s hard to get her really good walks on video, because she always seems to be on the verge of disaster,… Continue reading The First Steps Are a Doozy