Spain Dad, a baby blog

Most of the chairs still sat up-side-down on the tables in the hotel lounge except for the table in the corner where we sat and ate our breakfast. Alleke sat in front of a half-eaten bowl of oatmeal and sang at the top of her lungs, “Let every heart prepare him room, and heav’n and [...]

I met April at the front door of our apartment buildling. She was standing in the snow with Teo asleep in a sling inside her coat and pushing Alleke in the stroller, who was busy admiring her mittens. As we walked down the slushy street together towards a friend’s house, April handed me a white [...]

Tomato & Bagel Knife by The Marmot. I turned the key in the lock and opened the door into our apartment. Alleke scampered by and climbed onto the couch. Before I had time to take off my coat and hang it up, Alleke was already jumping up and down like a cheerleader and chanting, “Daddy’s [...]

“Look, Amy,” Alleke said, lifting up the long cardboard box. “This is where Christmas trees come from.” So much for trudging through the snow and cutting down an evergreen tree with a hacksaw, which is what I remember from my childhood. For our little city girl, Christmas trees were made of plastic and wire and [...]

To start at the beginning of this story, click here. Totem Pole Vancouver by Kevin Grahame. “I think we need to hire someone to clean the house,” April said as she stood in the middle of the living room bouncing Teo and surveying the aftermath of three weeks at home with a newborn. The breakfast [...]

This post is part of a series telling Teo’s birth story. Click here to start at the beginning. I don’t think I knew what a “natural birth” was until it was almost over with. In terms I suppose only a man would use, a natural birth meant that the doctors and midwives left us alone [...]

In case you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to try to work from home while your toddler is supposed to be taking a nap. Press the arrow below to listen in… Alleke kept this up for a good 45 min. until I gave in and let her watch TV. This is not an ideal world, [...]

This post is part of a series telling Teo’s birth story. Click here to start at the beginning. I went downstairs to check April into the hospital, and when I got back to the delivery room, I found the doctor and the midwives chatting on the couches in the small waiting room outside. I felt [...]