For a third morning in a row Avery decided that it was worth getting up at around 5:45am. She was then happy to see me when I went and got her at around 6am, but I wasn’t happy to see her awake that early. She was exhausted and we just sat together on [...]

Drowning can happen to anyone, at any time, at any place regardless of social status. Drowning remains the second- leading cause of injury-related death for children ages 1 to 14 years according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
It really is important as a parent to understand the facts about drowning. Here are [...]

Thanks to Steven I. Weiss of the Canonist …

Yesterday the FDA brought me some good news regarding the future health of Avery. The FDA Panel endorsed a vaccine for HPV (human papillomavirus) the virus that causes the number 2 cancer killer in women – cervical cancer – which doctors say is responsible for about 70 percent of cervical cancer cases.

Colleen left town yesterday morning, meaning I was beginning my weekend of being Mr. Mom. That sure is excitement for me. Being able to spend some quality time, just me and the girl. Yesterday though Avery took three naps and by the time she got home for the evening with me, she [...]

I took Avery for a haircut this morning. Her first. It was SO MUCH FUN. My little girl is so grown up!
I chose to take her to Shear Madness because I knew that she would squirm through the whole thing – which she did by the way. I wanted [...]

What does it take? Can one person be this stupid? It seems so, as after riding with her son in her lap, now Spears has become a poster woman for child car seat safety.
What’s next… will her son be strapped to the roof rack with a set of skis? Or, even better, [...]

A week or so ago, Colleen and I decided to splurge and look into getting Avery her first pair of sneakers. So, armed with a baby, our wallet, and a $5 off coupon, we made our way to Stride Rite. Turns out that we needed to take out a second, third, and fourth [...]

It was a good Mother’s Day and Avery had only one wish, to take mommy to brunch. Although she made it difficult by taking a long nap at the wrong time, we still made it to brunch at a reasonable hour. When Avery did wake up, she and mommy met me at a [...]

I knew it was bound to happen, but it still gave me a little bit of sorrow when Colleen IM’d me and told me that “baby just took three steps!!!!!!” She has wobbled and shuffled with me around before, but missing “real steps” stinks. I am sure that I will see it soon [...]