Brief History of Bun

The care and feeding of the impossibly small

Random Crap Generator

The odds and sods of this and that

The Cancer Chronicles

An accounting of my father and his resident alien

The Chicken Saga

An accounting of my folly with fowl

The Ascent of Boy

Person rearing for amateurs

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Good News, Bad News
May 23, 2004 – 7:13 am | No Comment

The good news is that when he peed this morning, he missed his socks.
The bad news is that he peed on everything else, including a straight shot down the cleavage.
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The Bear, Revisited
May 20, 2004 – 8:52 pm | No Comment

We shot this after I made my husband so damned sad with “The Bear” that he dressed him in the coat just so we could take pictures. Yes, it’s May. Yes, it was 70 degrees …

Genetic Inheritance
May 15, 2004 – 8:38 am | No Comment

We’ve been looking at the boy trying to figure out which pieces belong to whom. Of course, he’s one big amalgamated genetic soup, so it’s a bit difficult.
The only two things we can definitely attribute …

Not fly weight
May 13, 2004 – 2:46 pm | No Comment

The bun got his shots today, his second parental betrayal. He’s sleeping it off in the other room right now.
But he weighs in at a whopping 17 lbs. 2 oz., his head circumference is 17 …

The bun’s first date
May 11, 2004 – 6:13 pm | No Comment

Tiny and I went to meet another mother/daughter pair, the girl about the age of the bun. We socialized over brunch, and then we all “went back to her place.” (This brings up a couple …

Taking inventory (or, It’s a bad week for hair)
May 10, 2004 – 10:20 am | No Comment

The tufts on his ears are definitely gone. This is very sad, as we now have to admit that he is not a lynx.
His hair is all kinds of crazy. I wanted to believe that …

My first Mother’s Day
May 9, 2004 – 7:08 am | No Comment

I’m not big on observing holidays. One of them I haven’t observed has certainly been this lame-ass Hallmark holiday called Mother’s Day. It is true, I do have a mother, and have taken her to …

It Would Be Funny If I Were Watching It In a Movie
May 8, 2004 – 7:15 am | No Comment

When you look at a mother cat, and her kittens are jumping all over her, nuzzling to be fed, batting her ears, attacking her tail, have you ever taken a good look at her face? …

Another Strange Bi-Product of Being a Mammal
May 7, 2004 – 12:07 pm | No Comment
Another Strange Bi-Product of Being a Mammal

When you’re pregnant, for whatever reason, your body holds onto all of the hair that you would normally shed. For many women this is one of the better side effects of pregnancy; people who have …

The Way-Back Machine
May 5, 2004 – 8:09 pm | No Comment

Today was pee-stick day. One year ago, we found out that the little boy who quietly snores in the other room was lodged in my body. One short year, one short human!
If the bun hadn’t …

David Copperfield, I presume
May 3, 2004 – 3:01 pm | No Comment

Sleight of hand? You be the judge.
The bun has recently mastered control of those unwieldy hands and is grabbing anything and everything. As I was changing his diapers just now, I leaned over him to …

Happy Conception Day!
April 22, 2004 – 11:00 pm | No Comment

Yes, folks, our bun is a year old today. Or tomorrow. Or yesterday.
Well, which ever day it was, a very nice sperm met a very nice egg. Zygote to bun in one short year! Think …

Are you trying to kill me?
April 21, 2004 – 4:49 pm | No Comment

I think his little ear tufts are going the way of the dodo bird. My heart is breaking.
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Ill-conceived pitchmen redux
April 20, 2004 – 7:43 am | No Comment

Blearily changing the bun’s diapers, I noticed Baby Big Bird on the front of his Pampers. Utilized for the cause of the “Back to Sleep” campaign (educating parents to put their kids to sleep on …