Spain Dad, a baby blog

This is the second post in a two part series about Alleke’s friend Erica from the bread shop down the street. Read the first part here. Erica wasn’t a babysitter. She wasn’t a close friend either. She was the woman who worked at the bread shop and played with Alleke when we came in to [...]

This story is part of a series about Alleke’s friends at the bread shop down the street. This morning I ran into Erica on the street. She was dressed in her normal clothes, not her uniform from the bread shop. “I just got off work,” she said, anticipating my first question. “I’m just running home [...]

We have been looking for someone to take care of Alleke on Monday nights, so we can have a regular date night. We were hoping to find someone who speaks Spanish as their first language to begin speaking regularly to Alleke in Spanish. Meet Adriana, our new babysitter. She’s in her 30′s. She’s from Colombia [...]

This is the second post in a series of two. To start from the beginning, read the first one. “I’m running out to get some bread,” I yelled down the hallway towards the kitchen where April was making lunch. I picked Alleke up off the floor where she had been busy kissing a Care Bear, [...]

Baguettes Taste-Off Photo by ComeUndone. “I found a babysitter,” April said as she walked into the dining room where I was clipping Alleke into her high chair. “Really?” I said, looking up from what I was doing. April set a tray of food down at the other end of the table. “You’ll never guess who,” [...]

Alleke and Grandparents Photo by kellyandapril. “I can babysit,” my dad said. April stopped reading the paper and looked up at me. I glanced from her to my mom who was standing in front of the open refrigerator, milk in hand, staring at the two of us. We all looked back at dad. “You’d have [...]

Thalian Hall (seats) Photo by pochacco20. The usher showed us to our seats. We took off our coats and put them on the backs of our chairs. “Good seats,” I said, looking around. Our seats were in the second row. What I meant, though, was they were at the end of the row and near [...]

Alleke and Heidi Photo by kellyandapril. I walked into the garage, opened the door of the mini van, and lifted the car seat out of its base. Back in the house, I threw Alleke’s snow suit, a winter blanket, and the diaper bag into the car seat like it was a grocery cart. I walked [...]