Happy Birthday, Baby Z! No, Boy Z.
Happy Birthday, my pea. My chicken. My monkey.
Happy Birthday, Z-Man. My Super Z.
Happy Birthday, Zachary P. Quack.
It’s been a year, a year beyond my wildest dreams. I remember clearly, and hope I always do, the days leading up to your arrival in the world. I remember the seemingly endless [...]
Regular readers of A Free Man may know that one of my life long quests, much like Superman, is fighting for justice and pointing out inequity when it crosses my path. For example, the fact that Dr. O’C has celebrated two Mother’s Days in her first year as a Mother and I have had no [...]
“I said, ‘I like Fidel Castro,
I think you heard me right,’
And ducked as he swung
At me with all his might.”
Z, at just shy of a year old, got in his first fight at day care yesterday. Unfortunately, it wasn’t because he was espousing his Dad’s (and Bob Dylan’s) socialist notions. Nor was it because he’s [...]
There are still no sign of teeth, but just shy of a year old the boy’s taking to his feet. The days of lackadaisical parenting are near an end.
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Miles Davis - "Walkin'" [13:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download“Lighted in a room, lanky room
Lighted, lighted, laughing in tune
Lighted, lighted, laughing…”
What better way to start of a Friday than this. Nothing warms my heart more than hearing and seeing Z laugh. Here’s hoping it’s always this easy…
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Podcast Video: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download R.E.M. - "Laughing": Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadAs a first-time parent there is a whole series of “firsts” – first time the babe rolls over, his first bottle, first time he crawls, first haircut, first steps, first words, an on and on. And then there’s the first visit to the emergency room, maybe not one of the best ones, maybe not one [...]
Father’s little helper and I are grateful that the weekend’s upon us. It means a brief reprieve from ten plus hour days. Here’s hoping that this weekend’s also free from flat pack furniture. Damn Swedes.
Wanted to take the chance to point you all at a band that’s been burning up my iPod this week. The [...]
You’ve got to love happy endings. In what could be Dr. O’C’s final post here on A Free Man, we get just that…
At some point my attitude to motherhood started to improve. I don’t know when that happened, but it did. I am a better mum than I thought I would be. For the [...]
We’ve been slowly introducing Z to day care over the last couple of months in anticipation of Dr. O’C returning to work. It’s been a pretty traumatic experience for both of them from what I hear, an experience probably best left to the protagonists to tell. Suffice it to say that Z is not yet [...]
Things didn’t get any immediately easier for Dr. O’C after Baby Z was born. On this weeks episode, bringing home baby…
So, I am a parent – a mum. I spend the first couple days at home wondering when I will be relieved of my babysitting duties. But apart from that it is happy family. Timmins, [...]
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