Category: Babies

Babies are great, loving, sleepy, messy little people. These posts are all about them.

A Dad muses on the joy of a Onesy

Every experienced dad I’ve spoken with has said that after every ‘phase’ of parenting has been their favorite.  As a dad I can attest to that because Baby Mojo is leaving the onesy phase and I have loved this phase. 

As previously mentioned, aspects of his infant phase, especially at night were great because it had an accompanying Elvis soundtrack in my mind.  Part of that vision quest was the timely nature of his diaper calls, combined with the onesys that he was wearing.  Continue reading A Dad muses on the joy of a Onesy

A Dad’s guide to the pacifier

Prior to being a dad I didn’t know beans about the pacifier.  Now that I’m a dad I still don’t know beans about the pacifier because my wife told us that we wouldn’t be using one with our child. 

Husbands will attest to this that sometimes their better half will simply state that (insert activity or thing that you may, or may not want to do) will not be happening.    Most of the time your spouse will be correct and that thing either wasn’t needed, would’ve added needless danger, calories or really would’ve made your butt look big.  I’m not talking about those black pants, I swear sweetie.  Continue reading A Dad’s guide to the pacifier

Dad day in the doctor’s waiting room

Today I had to take Baby Mojo to the doctor.    After check in we went into the “well patient” waiting area where they have a couple toys and a movie playing.    It was unique today because every parent with their child was a dad.   Baby Mojo settled on the floor and started playing with another boy while his father and I chatted about our kids. 

When the nurse came for the next patient she said, “Wow, it looks like Dad Day in the waiting room”.  With one less dad in the waiting room I could focus my attention to Toy Story 2, which was playing on television.    I defy anybody to not get sucked into watching that movie.  It’s like a giant sink hole in Florida, except in a good way, unless it was sucking up one of those neon t-shirt shops, then it’s still in a good way.  Continue reading Dad day in the doctor’s waiting room

Tips from a dad on helping your baby sleep

Ask most doctors how much sleep a baby needs and it’ll vary between 15-12 hours total, depending on how old your child is.  We’ve been very fortunate in that Baby Mojo has been a great sleeper ever since the second day out of the hospital.

The first night home for him was a disaster, but not because of anything he did.  Continue reading Tips from a dad on helping your baby sleep

Lessons learned on baby proofing the outlets

I’m cheap by nature and when we were shopping for outlet covers there didn’t seem to be any difference.  As with all things baby and parenting we’ve discovered better options than what we first tried.

As this is our first child we didn’t know how naturally attracted children are to electrical outlets.  Granted ours have the classic 90s gold covering, so maybe our child is just going up closer to get a look at his baby mug.  Never use gold appliances in plumbing or with your outlet covers.  We ran into this problem when we had to switch out a shower head as there, thankfully aren’t many options for people with gold plumbing.  Sometimes I feel like we live in the home of a pseudo successful suburban rapper, Continue reading Lessons learned on baby proofing the outlets

5 tips to make parenting easier and more fun

I love the start of a new week.  It gives you the opportunity to move past the mistakes and goofs of last week.  On that note Daddy Mojo made a couple basic parenting mistakes last week.  We know not to do them, but my lack of schedule or planning made them happen.   They may have wasted time, resources or caused Baby Mojo to melt down unnecessarily.   Continue reading 5 tips to make parenting easier and more fun

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