Today was L’s nine-month birthday—a major milestone considering her short time here on Earth. I was lucky enough to get to spend the better part of the day solo with my baby girl while my wife tended to some schoolwork.
The two of us started the day over breakfast at our favorite local Greasy Spoon. L [...]

If this morning’s showing is any indication of how I’ll be as a disciplinarian, it’s clear that L is going to walk all over me—especially during her teenage years.
Let me explain. Every morning after L wakes up, I stagger into her room, take her out of her sleep sack and change her diaper (we call [...]

I always crack up at those Cars.com commercials that tell the story of the David Abernathy, the kid who had so much “extraordinary confidence” that, as a newborn, he congratulated the doctor on a perfect delivery. For some reason, I always imagine little L doing the same sort of thing.
Well L had a David Abernathy [...]

Out of nowhere today, L unveiled her latest skill: waving hello and goodbye.
It happened this morning. Our nanny had arrived for a few hours (I needed to report an upcoming story for The New York Times) and I turned to head from the kitchen (downstairs) to my office (upstairs). As I pivoted, the baby squealed [...]

We came home from our trip to Las Vegas to find a baby who only slightly resembled the one we left.
First and foremost, this new baby—still named L, of course—has ditched the cold (and congestion) that was bugging her before we took off, and is now talking and cooing and yapping like always. She’s also [...]

It’s been more than a year since Powergirl and I vacationed just the two of us—a huge deal, considering I’m a travel writer and she loves to travel. Our last trip came when she was five months pregnant with L; naturally, we have not gone anywhere together without the baby in the eight months since [...]

Undoubtedly I will give L hundreds—if not thousands—of gifts over the course of our time on earth together. This week, however, apparently I gave her a present I wish I could take back: her first cold.
My symptoms arrived Wednesday evening, following a long run at the gym. Her symptoms came on in full effect this [...]

A friend and fellow writer recently described her daughter’s introduction to crawling like this: “It’s like having a pet raccoon. Foraging through everything and putting whatever (and I mean WHATEVER) she finds in her mouth.”
As L begins to crawl all over the place, too, I couldn’t agree with this assessment more.
L’s method of transportation is [...]

An unexpected visitor swung by the house last night: L’s third tooth.
My wife (who, again, is an osteology geek) says the new chomper technically is an incisor. To me, it doesn’t matter what the heck it’s called; the little thing is causing our little girl a ton of pain.
She’s cranky. She’s drooly. She’s also mouthing [...]

This week Powergirl and I made a difficult decision regarding L’s crib: We finally decided to put the bumpers on.
On paper, opting for these cute little cushions (they have storks on them) doesn’t seem like a tough choice; most of the books tell you to consider it any time after the baby is big enough [...]