Archive for November, 2007
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
A tddler wakes screaming & crying in the middle of the night. I think Toddler Daddy can identify with this topic.
For 3-4 nights since Caitlin's birthday party, we've been woken by her crying in the middle of the night. She's not fully awake, she doesn't suddenly scream prompting Daddee to ...
Posted in A father's POV | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Despite not having enough kids to invite & Daddee's fumbling in organising it, Caitlin's birthday party didn't turn out too bad after all...
Admittedly Mummee, Daddee & Caitlin were out during the most of the day, only coming back to start the preparations a tad too late!
We were going to host ...
Posted in A father's POV, Parenting musing | 9 Comments »
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
1. Name one person who made you laugh last night.
While waiting for my hair to dry last night before bed, I was reading other people's blogs.
This post made me laugh.
2. What were you doing at 0800?
Picking out the lint from my belly button. Honest. Hey, I just had a shower ...
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
At the current rate, given all constants remain, err, constant, the Dr said the baby is likely to be around or just over 8 pounds!
That's what our obst Dr said last night in our followup visit. He was responding to us sharing that our friends & family have been commenting ...
Posted in A father's POV, Parenting musing | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
This weekend Caitlin will be turning 3 years old.
How time flies... I was just reflecting on this recently when we were planning the guest list. I can still remember the day she was born, but I cannot so easily remember some other details.
It took some effort to recall ...
Posted in A father's POV | 6 Comments »
Sunday, November 18th, 2007
The pacifier. Merriam Webster says it's "a usually nipple-shaped device for babies to suck or bite on".
The Pacifier. A human invention that mimicks the nipple. It's a strange contraption, really, if you think about it. Here's a rubber / silicon / man-made material of 3 or so centimetres of protrusion ...
Posted in A toddler's POV, Parenting musing | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Mummee once sang the line, "Raindrops keep falling on my head...." & then forgot the rest of the lines. I laughed, & then thought Oops, I can't recall them either...
But that was enough for Caitlin. Maybe it was the simple concept of allowing raindrops falling on (one's) head that captivated ...
Posted in A toddler's POV, Parenting musing | 3 Comments »
Monday, November 12th, 2007
Over at navel gazing at its finest, Sue related how the whole blogging about parenting & their kids could be becoming too public, that most blogs have resorted to giving their subjects (ie, the kids) nicknames to "protect the innocent"; & how she herself is thinking about the same as ...
Posted in A father's POV | 8 Comments »
Sunday, November 11th, 2007
Grannee is feeding: Why do you eat so slowly?
Caitlin: Why do you eat so fast?
Grannee: .....
Mummee is driving Mummee's car: ..I have to think about getting new tyres soon...
Caitlin: What are... what?
Daddee: Tyres?
Caitlin: Yah.. tyres
Daddee, leaning Caitlin closer to the window: See those black round things on the car next ...
Posted in A toddler's POV, Parenting musing | 3 Comments »
Friday, November 9th, 2007
For a few good months now, she's been able to construct fairly cohesive sentences already.
As parents would know, this development kinda creeps up on you. One day they'd be making simple sentences of no more than 3-4 words, usually in simple structure of [ first-person | expression of desire ...
Posted in A father's POV, A toddler's POV, Parenting musing | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
In terms of character I'd have to say Caitlin is generally a pleasant kid. You'd see her smiling more than not, greets strangers in the lift & surprises them further by wishing them goodnight unprompted when it's our floor to get off, waves to the guards on the way in/out ...
Posted in A father's POV, A toddler's POV, Parenting musing | 5 Comments »
Sunday, November 4th, 2007
Caitlin turns 3 this Nov-end.
Is the "terrible two's" over? Or does it actually mean that kids simply upgrade in their level of terrible-ness? Terrible-Two's -> Terrorism-Three's?
I distinctly recall Dr Pixie mentioning just over a year ago; few months before Caitlin turned 2 in fact, that once kids turned ...
Posted in A father's POV, Dr Pixie says, Parenting musing | 7 Comments »
Friday, November 2nd, 2007
If you are a regular reader, you'd have picked up that Caitlin is in my mum-in-law's care during our working / office hours. This was the arrangement pretty much right from her birth.
Mum's key to toilet training Caitlin was regularity. At almost-specific times of the day (maybe 4-5 times a ...
Posted in A father's POV, Prequels | 5 Comments »
Friday, November 2nd, 2007
Since I started blogging I have also started subscribing to & reading other parenting-related blogs, from both mother & father bloggers.
One of the posting-threads I picked up whilst reading was this story at Inside Fatherhood --“Graco thinks dads are stupid”
In short, Inside Fatherhood relayed on how Graco's packaging ...
Posted in A father's POV, Ergonomics | 4 Comments »
Thursday, November 1st, 2007
It has begun.
Everything is responded to with a "Why?"
"Why are we stopping..?"
"Because the light is still red"
"Why?"
"Because it isn't green yet...."
A bus passes us. "Why are there monkey bars in the bus?"
"So that the passengers can hang on to them (true, like monkeys would)"
"Why?"
"So that they won't fall over ...
Posted in A toddler's POV, Parenting musing | 4 Comments »
