Spain Dad, a baby blog

clementines by GLOBEGIRDLER. I watched Alleke take two clementines from the bowl and set them down on the table in front of her. She looked at them for a while, as if these two ordinary clementines might unlock some key to the universe, then pointed at the bigger one and said “Daddy” and at the [...]

Cemetery where my grandpa was buried on Wednesday I walked down the steps of the church and across the lawn, passing through the scattered headstones to the plot of black dirt. My grandpa was buried here on Wednesday. The wind beat against me as I shivered and crossed my arms, marveling at how everything, including [...]

Alleke lay sobbing on the floor in the living room. She had been looking for the moon from the window, and when she couldn’t find it, she asked me to get it for her. I leaned on the couch and looked out the window. I told her I couldn’t get the moon for her because [...]

Alleke sings the alphabet song, or at least most of it anyway… Watch The Alphabet Song on Vimeo.

Alleke picked up a bread crumb off the table, dropped it on the floor, and leaned over to see where it had fallen. “Here doggie,” she said, “food,” and pointed at the crumb. April and I looked at each other. We didn’t own a dog. I peered under the table and looked for something that [...]

Watch Alleke meets her goldfish. on Vimeo.

Today is Alleke’s birthday, and we got her a goldfish. When April first mentioned the idea of getting Alleke a goldfish a couple weeks ago, I said, “Don’t you think we’ll kill it?” April shrugged. “I guess Alleke will have her first lesson about life and death,” she said. So, there you have it, we [...]

Alleke screams now. It all began over a piece of birthday cake. I got the last one, topped with vanilla ice cream, and sat down on the couch to eat it when Alleke noticed me take my first bite. Immediately she was at my side, standing on her tippy toes, and peering into my dish. [...]