Archive for May, 2009
Passport to Canada
We have previously written about the trials and tribulations of obtaining a certificate of Canadian Citizenship for SFBaby. The good news is that once we had the certificate, obtaining SFBaby’s passport was a piece of cake! We were in Canada earlier this month, so after completing the passport application, we were able to drop it [...]
Read More..>>Doing the Rainbow, Part II
While flying home from our recent Canada trip, we had the fortune to connect through the Detroit airport. We’ve heard that Detroit itself is not all that exciting of a city, but as far as airports go, we really liked DTW. Aside from some decent food options, this airport is also the location of the [...]
Read More..>>Ten Tulips on Parliament Hill
Loves me, loves me not…As some of our readers may have heard, the entire SFBaby family went to Canada at the end of April to visit SFDad’s homeland. This was, at least in theory, our “Christmas” trip: Last year, based on past experience with traveling during blizzards and other forms of crazy December weather, we [...]
Read More..>>Worst. Dad. Ever.
A month or so ago, SFBaby and SFDad were doing their usual grocery shopping run at Rainbow Grocery. Everything seemed to be fine at first: SFBaby was calm and happy, we found all of the foodstuffs that we needed to buy, and since it was “Coupon Day”, we even got 20% off our total purchase. [...]
Read More..>>Excuse Me, I Am in a Bit of a Harry
One of SFBaby’s favorite activities is climbing stairs and other objects. Often, if we set SFBaby down when we walk into the ground floor of our apartment building, she will try to climb all the way to the roof—even bypassing our open door (where SFMom or SFDad is usually beckoning). We came back home from [...]
Read More..>>Basket Case
As part of our new involve-the-baby-in-everything plan, we’ve been trying to get SFBaby to help with household chores. When doing a batch of laundry a few weeks ago, we were able to convince SFBaby to toss some clothing from the basket into the washing machine. As you might imagine, having the baby “help” didn’t exactly [...]
Read More..>>Bye Bye
After a few months of parental supervision, SFBaby has picked up the correct way to use the expression “bye bye.” For a while, we’ve been using that phrase in the conventional way when we are taking leave from friends—but we’ve already found additional scenarios in which to employ it: SFBaby recently picked up the annoying [...]
Read More..>>Stroller on the Beach (And Other Amateur Dad Mistakes)
The SFBaby family is currently in Canada after having taken an “energetic” red-eye plane trip. Both of the SFParents are here, so this trip is not quite as tiring as the first time when SFDad did the trip solo solo, SFBaby is now more active so it was still a bit of an ordeal—but we’ll [...]
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