Danny Novo
From the monthly archives: December 2007
We’re off to Florida for a week. I’ll be back in time for the KU bowl game, but I won’t be able to blog about the KU-Yale basketball game (something I’d dearly like to do, as my brother-in-law roots for Yale). Ah well. We have had a nice Christmas, with plenty of snow, sledding, presents, cookies, […]
I love just about everything that Matthew Baldwin writes, but this is funny stuff. Like, so funny I had to read it out loud to my wife, driving her off to bed. Laugh out loud funny. Here you go: Matt Baldwin’s Slacker’s Guide to Christmas Presents (not the real title, because I’m lazy).
This was a while ago… about a month now (the end of November) but still fun. Every year (we’re only getting to know the holiday events) The Shelter (a local kids and family charity) hosts the Lawrence Festival of Trees. People decorate trees and donate them, then other people (mostly businesses) bid on them at […]
Our babies always had trouble sleeping. The first one didn’t sleep through the night until he was six months old (though now he could sleep through an earthquake). The second one slept like a dream for three or four months and has woken up at least once every night since then. We swaddled and breast fed […]
We’re on our third baby monitor. The first was some Graco/FirstBaby something-or-other brand whose salient feature was that it had two receivers. We thought (mistakenly) that we’d need two receivers, one we could leave in the kitchen, and one in our bedroom. We were wrong. This is what we needed: rock solid reception, lots of channels, […]
Once you’re done with the baby bathtub, you’ll need a bath mat for your regular tub. We moved our boys to the regular bath when they were between six months and a year old (when they could reliably sit up and we’re reliably splashing gallons of water out of their baby bathtub). The bath mats […]
