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The Story About the Baby, Volume 41.

ByspidwebSep 28, 20206 min read
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Our baby daughter Cordelia is still alive. At the age of nine months, she is advancing in all the expected ways. She is crawling better – she is now using her arms and legs to hoist her pudgy torso off of the floor. She is clapping better – she will…

The Story About the Baby, Volume 40.

ByspidwebSep 28, 20206 min read
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So what has our nine month old daughter Cordelia been up to? Well, her crawling speed has doubled in the last week. She can really scuttle now. And she has thus learned that those big, looming, white objects (which are technically referred to as “walls”) are not, in fact, theoretical…

The Story About the Baby, Volume 39.

ByspidwebSep 28, 20206 min read
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Our darling daughter Cordelia is now a full nine months old. She scares me. When I first thought about having a baby (well, having my wife have a baby), I didn’t picture infants as being as constantly curious and inquisitive as Cordelia is. She is a constant, vibrating bundle of…

The Story About the Baby, Volume 38.

ByspidwebSep 28, 20207 min read
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Soon, our baby daughter Cordelia will be nine months old. Other people think that the first birthday is really important. I’m much more interested in the beginning of her ninth month, because that’s when she’ll have spent more time outside the uterus than inside it. As usual, Cordelia learned a…

The Story About the Baby, Volume 37.

ByspidwebSep 28, 20207 min read
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Our baby daughter Cordelia is over 8 months now and … blah, blah, blah. Who cares? We have a Nintendo now! Surprisingly, it is my wife that is addicted to the Nintendo, not me. This is a huge relief, because I am no longer the only source of distracted, diffident…

The Story About the Baby, Volume 36.

ByspidwebSep 28, 20207 min read
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As of this writing, my wife and I are still raising Cordelia, our eight month old daughter. It’s sort of grueling, thankless work at this point. My wife and I have pretty much exhausted the entertainment possibilities of a child that can’t actually do anything, and Cordelia stubbornly refuses to…