Took a day off from work, and I’m hanging out around the house with JP today. Not much planned–playground, PB&J lunch (I’m a rebel), soccer in the park in the afternoon. As I write this JP is in the other room watching Alvin and the Chipmunks, Part 2: the Squeakquel, which is every bit as …
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Purty Drawings
So I came across these lovely little baby sketches at the Awl this morning by Amy Jean Porter, whom I’ve never heard of, but who has apparently just had a second child and has access to some art materials. Please go take a look and then click back and read the rest of the post …
Dad + Gadget = Fail, Crib Edition
Preparing for the Upcoming (which is what I’ve decided to call my daughter until she is born) is, as most parents know, a bummer. Shopping, planning, nesting, preparing said nest for nesting, is no fun. Perhaps my girlfriend (and definitely my mother) would disagree, but that’s where I am on the issue. It’s time-consuming, murderously …
Term of the day: “Fashionable Shitpad”
If the steaming-hot issue (yipes!) of designer diapers is now discussed in the pages of Gawker, does that mean fancy-poop has reached a cultural critical mass (bam!)–or is it totally done? You decide: Incredibly vain parents are actually buying Huggies horrible denim diapers, so much so the brand regained the market share they recently lost …