Colin Dullaghan

Just a few numbers I ran to find out what Veda does with all this milk we pour down her.

[Sing to yourself, as softly as possible]
Hush little baby, don’t say a word.Papa’s gonna buy you a mockingbird.
And if that mockingbird don’t sing,we’ll check the store’s return pol-i-cy.
And if that manager won’t help,we’ll get a new bird off his shelf.
So now we’re a pair of aviary thieves,with telltale feathers poking out our sleeves.
But on the [...]

She’s still cuter than ever. And with no hair on the top of her head, she’s like an adorable little Benedictine monk!

Yesterday morning, about 3:30 or so, the breast pump broke. I was bottle-feeding Veda while Penny was just starting to pump — yes, it seemed convoluted to us as well, but that’s our system for you — and the reassuring chug-chug-chugging of the pump motor suddenly fell silent. Penny looked up, her bosom heaving and [...]

Several dozen more photos of the little lady, now that she’s all of three weeks old. At this rate, which is around ten photos per day — and these are just the selected “keepers,” you understand — we should be approaching 20,000 Veda images by the time she starts kindergarten.

Tiger got to hunt, Bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, “Why, why, why?”
- K. Vonnegut
Parenthood so far has got me feeling philosophical. For one thing, there is the unmistakable in-the-middleness it illuminates for you — the realization that you might not [...]