Generally speaking, I’m pretty easy to please. I like being outside. I appreciate conversation. I don’t need diversions to have fun.
Naturally, then, I have been looking forward to the day when L is old enough to walk and talk and talk with me, enjoying my company while the two of us enjoy everything that comes [...]

In the olden days, back when L was nothing more than a cute little sedentary lump of carbon, days on the town were pretty easy. Because she didn’t actually do much, Powergirl and I didn’t have to deviate from our usual strategy of schlepping all over the place (hey, I’m a travel writer, what do [...]

Long before Powergirl and I even talked about making babies, I wondered what it would be like to hold my child’s hand on a stroll around the neighborhood.
I figured we’d go slow, taking everything in. I figured the kid would grab on to nothing more than a finger or two of mine. And I figured [...]

So, maybe the whole ambulation honeymoon is over.
Sure, I’m delighted that L is walking on two feet like the rest of us. But Powergirl and I have learned the hard way this week that with ambulation comes a new set of responsibilities for Mom and Dad—namely, to watch said infant every second of every minute [...]

Look out world, after about a month of fits and starts, L now ambulates just like the rest of us.
She took the, er, leap tonight, staggering/shuffling from her toy chest in the living room, past the coffee table, to her high chair in the kitchen. Thirteen steps in all, confident as ever she’d reach her [...]

L reached another major milestone today: She started saying her own name.
In the scheme of things, this wasn’t much of a surprise; the kid is adding three to four new words to her vocabulary every day. But, as her father, the fact that she now knows what I and her mother chose to name her [...]

As if it weren’t a big enough deal that today is L’s one-year birthday, she commemorated the milestone today by accomplishing something even bigger: She walked.
Granted, it was only three steps. And granted, yours truly didn’t actually witness it first-hand (sadly, I was out running when the incident occurred). Nevertheless, look out world—our baby girl [...]