Spain Dad, a baby blog

This has been the soundtrack of my life for the last two weeks… Watch Mama Mia on Vimeo. Compare Alleke’s tribute to the original…

Teo eats solid food for the first time… In case you’re asking the question: “Why are you letting Teo play with an avocado instead of feeding him baby food with a spoon?”

Watch Alleke terrorize her little brother on Vimeo.

“What’s this?” I asked, taking a letter out of Alleke’s backpack. I opened it and read the first few lines. “Alleke,” I said, looking up from the letter, “your class is taking a field trip to the farm.” Alleke clapped her hands and started her victory lap around the living room until Grandma caught her [...]

“Your daughter has an interesting theory about breastmilk,” Warren said as we sat in a friend’s living room and ate Chinese food out of plastic containers. A few days earlier Warren had volunteered to watch Alleke and a few of her friends, which had entertainment value in itself because Warren doesn’t have kids, and if [...]

Watch Alleke go for the record for fastest reciting of the Lord’s prayer—junior division, of course. I clocked her at 15 seconds flat on my phone.

“Who said you could play with that?” April asked, walking over to the table where Alleke sat with an open bottle of fingernail polish. Alleke smiled innocently. “God did,” she said. April put her hands on her hips and frowned. “What do you mean?” she asked. “God told me in my heart that I could [...]

Alleke bowed her head reverently and folded her hands above her plate. “Dear God, thank you for my cousin Josie and my cousin Emma and my cousin DJ and my cousin Charlie.” She lifted her head and peeked at the people sitting around the table. “Thank you for mama and for Teo and for daddy [...]

Rick is my brother-in-law. He’s home from college for Christmas break, and he’s been a permanent fixture in the basement playing Modern Warfare 2 on his Xbox 360. I had to laugh this morning when Heidi, my sister-in-law, and her boyfriend Josh were sitting at the kitchen table and my dad-in-law popped his head around [...]