Author: Dan Alatorre AUTHOR

  You know those pesky plastic door knob covers that parents of little kids use to make it so the kids can’t open the door? Somebody just figured out how to take off the cover and let herself outside. I wanted to see where Kitty went! Another milestone I thought was farther away…

The World’s Slowest Eater hopped off her chair in the middle of dinner – pasta and carrots. There was some cheese but it disappeared long ago, and since she was demanding pasta all day, literally asking for spaghetti since breakfast, I would have thought she would actually eat it instead of running off. “Hey, where […]

On a recent trip to Disney’s EPCOT, my daughter found a stuffed owl toy in the Canada exhibit. Not sure what an owl has to do with Canada, per se, but it was cute and fuzzy and she liked it enough – and I liked it more than the ketchup flavored potato chips the clerk […]

The honesty of a two year old sure disappears at age three. Strolling back into the living room after using the potty, my daughter begins to play with the Barbies that the call of nature interrupted. I follow up with her as to proper post potty procedure. “Did you wash your hands?” I ask. “Yes,” […]

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They aren’t babies for long. It’s about a year, more or less; then they’re walking – and once they start to walk, they aren’t really little kids yet but they’re not really babies anymore, either. Once they put on a pair of long pants, and it will happen sooner than you realize, they suddenly look about three […]

  Yeah, I’d change Savvy’s diaper in the dark without much effort; that part came pretty easily to me once I had to start changing diapers, but once we got downstairs, she was usually awake. I’d only turn on the pantry light so we didn’t go blind as we made up some formula, and I’d […]

  I couldn’t fall back to sleep after waking up for a middle of the night feeding. Not at first. But you develop some pretty good systems after a while. Defense systems. Self preservation. Because it turns out that you can die from lack of sleep faster than a lack of water. It’s true. Many […]

  Some of the telltale signs of reflux are that the baby spits up a lot and arches her back really severely before doing so. And here I was all impressed with the way she could arch her back so much. Future gymnast, I was thinking. Oops. The remedy was simple; feed her slowly, and […]

  Sleep? With a new baby I the house? Oh, you’ll sleep, but you won’t get 8 straight hours anymore for a while; and it turns out that 4 hours sleep plus 4 more hours sleep doesn’t equal 8, it equals two bad partials. Some of them aren’t even 4 hours, and depending on when […]