Three Months of Milly: A Father’s Reflections

Milly turned, as Amanda called it, a quarter-year today.  My daughter and I spent most of it with just the two of us hanging out.  Of course, hanging out actually meant I was trying to work while she wanted to be held, although she was sweet enough to spend a good portion of the day […]

Amanda’s First Half Day

Milly was fussy this morning before I was quite ready to get up, so I put her in bed with me until a little before 8:00 then went about the regular morning schedule.  She mostly did pretty good today, though she was a little fussy during some long calls. Amanda got off work then we […]

Maternity Leave is Over

I told Milly at 4:30 this morning that the upcoming day might be an adventure. Amanda headed off to work this morning and dropped Milly off in bed with me on her way out.  My daughter did well.  She didn’t fuss much and napped a good bit.  Went did go through some diapers though.  I […]

Milly Holding the Bottle

Milly was fussy from 4:00 on.  This being Amanda’s last day before heading back to work, I went ahead and got up with Milly to feed her.  She’s actually holding the bottle a bit now.  She’s mostly just propping it up with her hands and tends to hold it too far up to be able […]

Rainy Labor Day

We thought we had to be out of the beach houses at 10:00 this morning, but it turned out that we didn’t have to check out until 1:00.  That was a good thing, because it rained extremely hard and made loading up difficult, particularly in getting the surfboards on the car.  I was able to […]