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I love this question.  People often ask how old my little boy is, and I am learning that you can’t answer the same as when he’s 15.  You have to count by weeks, or hours, or something.  I am having trouble figuring out what these people want out of me.

He’s 225 days old today.  Thanks for asking.

I’ve decided that once he hits 9 months, I am going to start answering “Almost a year” and after that you’ll be lucky if I even break it into half-years.  I may say “A year and a half,” but I can assure you my child will never be “18 months” old.

If you want how many months, weeks, or dirty diapers he is old, you’ll have to ask my wife.  He’s a half a year, according to me, for the next couple of months.

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October 17, 2008
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Day with Daddy, or "How I got rice cereal out of an infant’s nose"

October 14, 2008

There are just some things that didn’t show up in the new daddy brochure.  They warned you about diapers, about not sleeping, and about spit-up; but nobody ever mentioned the wonder of modern science known as the baby spoon. I have watched Jacqueline feed little Benjamin rice cereal (which, by the way, seems to be [...]

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Learning to sleep.

October 7, 2008

We had no idea how good we had it. Before his surgery, Benjamin was sleeping 8 to 10 hours per night, generally with one wake up break (just to keep us honest). These days, little man just can’t quite get comfortable unless someone is holding him. It’s a great arrangement for him, and he is [...]

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(Worth the) Waiting rooms.

September 30, 2008

We just got done at Benjamin’s followup appointment, and are excited by a good report! We thought things were going well, but as always it is good when the professionals agree with my amateur diagnosis. The best point in the appointment (well second best to the moment the doc showed up after making us wait [...]

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September 27, 2008

The first laugh out loud!

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Rough days.

September 23, 2008

Little Ben was doing so good there for a while that all we had was good news.  But if you’ve been keeping up with the Twitter updates to the right, you know that the last two nights have not been as easy. It all boils down to the swaddle, if you ask me (which you [...]

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GOING HOME!!!

September 19, 2008

By home, we mean just here in Winston, but it’s a cheaper room to stay in!  We figured that we are the primary caregivers here at the hospital anyway, and so why not take this show on the road. Thanks for all the prayers.  They worked.  Now pray for Benjamin Sr. for when the bill [...]

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More Good News

September 19, 2008

The doctor came in just a little bit ago.  The nurse just took out the last tube!!!!  Now if we want to we can walk around with him!!  Benjamin is steadily improving and we can go home today if we want. Currently Ben is sleeping (yes, Jacq is posting this one:).  So, we have not [...]

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Milestones

September 18, 2008

We haven’t traveled anywhere, but we sure have passed some significant milestones in the past 24 hours. Jacqueline and her Mom stayed here all night at the hospital while the rest of us got some sleep. This morning around 8:00 I got here and later my mom got here and Jacq and Brenda went to [...]

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