Spain Dad, a baby blog

Alleke likes getting up in the morning about as much as her mom!

Alleke wearing barrette Photo by kellyandapril. My mom had called everyone to the table for Sunday dinner. I was the last one to set down my magazine in the living room and make my way to the table. Apparently some things hadn’t changed since I was in high school. My niece Josie, age 3, stopped [...]

Meaghan and Nic meeting Alleke Photo by kellyandapril. We celebrated American Thanksgiving here in the U.S. last Thursday, so we were busy eating turkey with our families, seeing old friends, and socializing after church with people we have known since we were in diapers ourselves. I did make one observation. Everyone has something to say [...]

This is the last post in a series of three about our trip back to the U.S. with our six-week-old daughter Alleke. Feel free to jump into the story here or at any other point, but if you would like to start from the beginning, you can do so here. Pilot Photo by faz the [...]

This is the second post in a series of three about our trip back to the U.S. with our six-week-old daughter Alleke. Feel free to jump into the story here or at any other point, but if you would like to start from the beginning, you can do so here. madrid, m-30 Photo by mallol. [...]

This is the first post in a series of three about our trip back to the U.S. I suppose it didn’t help things when I told the taxi driver it was his fault we were going to miss our train. Yes, that comment may have been unnecessary. Although I wasn’t exaggerating. I knew the taxi [...]

Turtle crossing Photo by redjar. Wednesday morning I stopped by the antique shop to drop off the keys with our landlady Encarna. As I walked back to the apartment, I caught myself digging in my pocket for those keys. When I got back, April and I pulled the shutters in every room until the place [...]

He clicked his pen and drew a straight line at a forty-five degree angle on a piece of hospital stationary. “Babies grow more like this.” He drew another line. This one looked squiggly like a radio wave. He smiled. “Alleke’s going to be just fine,” he said. “Just give her time.” I believed him right [...]

Ripollés Photo by Recuerdos Desconcertantes. It was our moving day. Apparently many of our neighbors also had this day marked on their calendars, but for other reasons. While I was carrying boxes out to the truck, they were busy as bees blowing up bouncy castles in our square, blocking off the streets with metal gates [...]

April even let me sit in her special breastfeeding chair, the green one. I cradled Alleke in my arms, and she licked breast milk out of a little plastic cup that I took from the top of a cough medicine bottle. April and I decided I should feed her from the little cup because Alleke’s [...]