Spain Dad, a baby blog

We had our second doctor’s visit today and are happy to say we have a healthy, growing baby.

Okay. So here’s the story. I put my foot in my mouth earlier this fall when I told one of April’s classmates in the Masters program, Laurie, that I like friends who give me presents. Apparently I have no shame about asking for hand-outs. Incidentally, Laurie has become a good friend of mine, and because [...]

I checked online today to see when babies develop their sense of hearing before we’re headed to Valencia for Las Fallas, one of Spain’s most well-known festivals. Thankfully I discovered babies develop their sense of hearing at around 18 weeks. We still have a month and a half to go. This particular festival has a [...]

Today we got our first baby present. Thanks, Laurie! It’s not a stuffed animal–it’s a stuffed bug. Even better, right? On the package it says, “Soft squeaker toy for baby’s amusement & delight.” The fun is just beginining. Squeak. Squeak.

We finally got to tell Troy and Heather today that we’re pregnant. April went upstairs to their bookshelf, grabbed a few books about pregnancy and parenting, came back upstairs and plopped them on the kitchen table. “Can we borrow a few books?” April said with a smile. Heather made the connection. “Are you pregnant?” she [...]

Tell me if you see anything strange in this sentence I wrote to Kelly Wills in an online chat conversation last week. We were talking about biblical literary criticism. “I think I’ve mentioned this to you before, but one of the newer and most popular ways of reading the baby in theological circles is literary [...]

This morning we visited a mediation school and an intercultural mediation group in Madrid. Afterwards, we had a few hours to kill, so we decided to look at a few neighborhoods we might like to live in next year. We walked to Plaza Mayor, got a map from the tourist office, and sat by one [...]

You can listen to a Real Audio clip here of what our baby sounds like at 10 weeks: http://pregnancy.about.com/library/media/audio/fetalheart.ram

I’m a visual person. Every week I wonder what our baby looks like now. Week 10. The baby is just over an inch long. Weighs only as much as four paper clips. Finger and toes are formed. The tail is disappearing. I’ve been looking for this book called El Misterio de la Vida that our [...]