The week of L’s first birthday is upon us, and here at the Villano ranch we’ve been spending inordinate amounts of energy thinking about water.
The good news: Today Powergirl took the baby for her first-ever swim lesson at our gym (she loved it and didn’t want to get out of the pool). The bad news: [...]

It was a busy weekend in these parts for little L (and her mom and dad).
On Saturday, the baby hosted about 30 guests at her very own baptism. Yesterday, she was at it again, playing belle of the ball as more family members chilled out to eat leftovers and sloth on the couch during the [...]

As if this new dad weren’t neurotic enough, a friend told me today about her daughter’s recent experience with a toddler’s fracture. Essentially, this condition amounts to bone fractures in the lower shin. It usually occurs after low-energy trauma, like, say, a fall or a hard kick.
Great!
So now, in addition to worrying that I’m going [...]

Big news from the ranch this afternoon was that L has taken her vice-grip grabbing technique to new heights.
She grabbed my shirt. She grabbed her seahorse rattle. She grabbed her stuffed humpback whale. She grabbed her bottle. Hell, she grabbed my hair a bunch of times as well (if it weren’t so damn cute, it [...]