The Story About the Baby, Volume 30.
Our one and only daughter, Cordelia, cherubic bearer of all my hopes and dreams here on this Earth, just turned seven months old. Her eyes are turning brown. She can…
The Story About the Baby, Volume 29.
Our six month old daughter, Cordelia, is cruising happily through her infancy. She continues to be a smiling, fuzzy, little ball of pudge and, far and away, the cutest baby…
The Story About the Baby, Volume 28.
My darling little daughter, Cordelia, has been back from vacation for one week. it’s been a really good parenting week for me. For starters, I have done nothing in the…
The Story About the Baby, Volume 27.
Halfway through my daughter Cordelia’s first year, I find I have very little to write about her. Because she is away. Thousands of miles away. Her mother has taken her…
The Story About the Baby, Volume 26.
My baby Cordelia just turned six months old. Six months is a half a year. That’s a lot of time in baby-days. She is a completely different creature than she…
The Story About the Baby, Volume 25.
My baby daughter, Cordelia, is rounding out her sixth month of life with a series of small accomplishments. She can now sit up unassisted for several seconds at a time,…
The Story About the Baby, Volume 24.
Our mighty nation has just celebrated Independence Day, which, for this new parent, means one thing. I got to take my five month old daughter Cordelia and let her listen…
The Story About the Baby, Volume 23.
My daughter Cordelia, the cutest little pudge biscuit in the whole wide world, my little cutey wootie pootie bootie happy slappy hugger booger boo, is about five and a half…
The Story About the Baby, Volume 22.
Being the parent of the world’s cutest child is a difficult and sobering experience. (Yes, I’m afraid my child is cuter than your child. If you don’t believe me, check…
The Story About the Baby, Volume 21.
It has now been five months since my daughter Cordelia came out of my wife and into our hearts. She’s come a long way since her first fragile moments. She’s…
The Story About the Baby, Volume 20.
Our four-month-plus-a-little old girl, Cordelia, is a creature of wild mood swings. One week, she is a sleepless, finger gnawing little terror. The next, she is a little angel. Not…
The Story About the Baby, Volume 19.
As I help raise my little four month old, Cordelia, I sometimes think wistfully back to the time when she wasn’t awful. Once, she was a quiet, happy, burbling baby,…
The Story About the Baby, Volume 18.
Our little girl, Cordelia, is well into her fourth month, and I can fully see the reason to become a parent. If I hadn’t gotten a kid, the last four…
The Story About the Baby, Volume 17.
So what is that word for when everything is going great, and everyone is calm and happy and complacent, and suddenly, almost overnight, everything goes straight to hell and you…
The Story About the Baby, Volume 16.
My daughter, Cordelia Krizsan Vogel, is approaching the end of her fourth month in Her position as First Child in her family. Recently, I had to call her into the…
The Story About the Baby, Volume 15.
It has been an eventful week in the life of my 3.5 month old daughter, Cordelia Krizsan Vogel, a week of exploration, learning, and growth. Or so I was told….
The Story About the Baby, Volume 14.
It’s been a relaxing week here at parenting central. Thanks to the presence of my parents, the raising of my three month old daughter Cordelia has gone smoothly and easily….
The Story About the Baby, Volume 13.
Our darling little hand-suckin’ spud girl just ticked over into her fourth month. As I understand it, she is about to gain the ability to roll over. This means that,…
The Story About the Baby, Volume 12.
My darling little spud, Cordelia Vogel, rapidly approaches the end of her third month of life. As she is carried, inert and drooling, into her fifth trimester, I watch eagerly…
The Story About the Baby, Volume 11.
Our lovely daughter, Cordelia Krizsan Vogel, continues to grow and evolve. She seems to be in a growth spurt now. This means that, instead of sleeping 6 hours at night…
The Story About the Baby, Volume 10.
Our lovely little daughter Cordelia is sailing smoothly through her third month of life. Every day, it seems, her mother or I develop a new way to distract, pacify, or…
The Story About the Baby, Volume 9.
Spring is beginning to blossom, pollen is thick in the air, and the bright stillness of the morning is broken by the happy chirps of my daughter Cordelia. Now over…
The Story About the Baby, Volume 8.
It took extra time to write this week’s journal. It was composed while holding my 2 month old daughter Cordelia in my lap, and I had to write the whole…
The Story About the Baby, Volume 7.
Soon, our daughter Cordelia will be two months old. Another month. Another set of milestones. Soon, more weight to be brought to bear on daddy’s delicate back. Larger deposits of…
The Story About the Baby, Volume 6.
As of this writing, our darling daughter is 43 days old. We have come up with a number of nicknames for her. The most commonly used are Miss Prissypants, Daddy’s…
The Story About the Baby, Volume 5.
Now that my daughter Cordelia is a month old, it has become that much easier to delude myself into thinking that she is showing signs of alertness and humanity. Sometimes…
The Story About the Baby, Volume 4
As of this writing, our daughter Cordelia is 3.5 weeks old. On one hand, she is growing nicely, and she sleeps 5-6 uninterrupted hours every night. All to the good….
The Story About the Baby, Volume 3.
The second week of our daughter’s life was a time of great learning and transition. In that time, my wife and I went from being tired and confused but loving…
The Story About the Baby, Volume 2.
It has now been a week since my child, Cordelia Krizsan Vogel, was born. She is now the personification of infant charm and beauty. And her head doesn’t have that…
The Story About the Baby, Volume 1.
And So It Came To Pass On the evening of January 18th, at around 8 PM, my first child, Cordelia Krizsan Vogel, entered the world. She came out of Mariann,…
