Oh Great… Another Dad Blog About Another Baby
The main entries from That Poore Baby that chronicle having a baby, being a new dad and learning how to parent on the fly.
The act of having a baby is, quite possibly, the most scrutinized thing most people will ever do. Every decision you make, and I mean EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. has a well-documented list of pros and cons. There are people who will literally stop being friends with someone if they happen…
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In case you are not aware, Popeye is a quarter Jamaican. Mama’s mama is from the island and lots of her side of the family, including Popeye’s great grandmother, reside in Kingston. With our five year anniversary approaching (we were married in Jamaica), Mama thinks that it would be a…
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If you do decide that cloth diapers are what you want to do, or if you are already using cloth diapers, then I definitely recommend that you use the bumGenius 4.0. They are well made, easy to use, look great and most importantly, they work.
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Popeye is 6 months old. That’s 1/20th of a decade, half a year, 26 weeks, 182 and a half days. He arrived in the second month of the 2,014th year, in the third month of winter, on a cold and rainy night. Now it is hot and arid, it’s been…
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I believe in new beginnings. I’ve been fortunate enough to be in a position to start over a few times, and each time, I feel like I’m inching closer to where I want to be. The first time I started over was in 1999, when I realized that the restaurant…
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I was hesitant to write anything about the recent loss of a certain celebrity because I try to keep things a little more upbeat around here. It’s a terribly sad situation, but since the little man’s nickname is Popeye, and since it was one of the actor’s iconic roles, I…
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Dads have gotten a bad rap for years, especially in movies and on television. The bumbling dad is a pop culture mainstay and was perfected by Al Bundy, Homer Simpson, Clark Griswold and countless others. The push back has been an extremely slow process but finally, advertisers are leading the…
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I feed the boy around midnight and am impressed with how quickly he drains the bottle. Mama is at work and I really need the little man to give me the gift of an easy night. I get a quick burp out of him and bounce him on the yoga…
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When the little man was just a few weeks old, he started grabbing my hands so that I could help pull him up to his feet. He’d then proceed to take the aptly named drunken sailor steps and, most of the time, he’d start from my belly and end up…
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I don’t know if you know this about me, but I like lists. They are a very efficient way to digest lots of information quickly, and it’s also very easy to gauge your progress. For instance, if you’re in the middle of reading the 4th item of a 7 item…
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Popeye turned 5 months old yesterday and he was so excited that he woke up to remind me at 12, 2:30 and 5. Let me point out that those are the ante meridiem versions of those times, which is the fancy pants way of saying the middle of the night….
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Wednesday marked the 20th week of Popeye’s life sentence here on Earth. He celebrated by doing what babies do best: sleep, pee, eat, pee, poop, pee, fart, and repeat until it’s time to go to college (where he’ll presumably add parties to the list). He’s gotten really good at it….
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