Silicon Valley Baby

Another long time, no post

Since SiliBaby was born, I've been guilty, regarding this blog, of allowing the perfect to be the enemy of the good. I have to get over that tendency, or I'll never get any blogging done.

A lot's gone on in the last month, as you can expect. Here is a list of some of the firsts we've experienced:

• stroller ride (absent SiliDaddy, but with SiliMommy and SiliDoula): January 31, 2007


• restaurant (Sonoma Chicken Kitchen, in Campbell): Feburary 18, 2007


• attempt to nurse from SiliPug (not sure that there needs to be more than a first here)


• first smile


• first music: "Marche Slave," by Tchaikovsky, and two movements--"Promenade" and "The Great Gate of Kiev"--from Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition." She reacted by screaming and crying, which is not necessarily the wrong reaction to Russian composers. Certainly, the fare wasn't the usual light-hearted Mozart that everyone says you're supposed to play for your baby.


• first real engagement with the world around her: showing some focus on--if not yet reaction to--things like her mobile


• first bottle feeding from SiliDaddy (didn't go real well): February 19, 2007
  
• first-month birthday!

And, of course, there's been a lot going on. SiliMommy is often a human trainwreck, worn down by having been on call for breastfeeding every 2-3 hours, for all of 5 weeks now(!) My own sleep has been very irregular. Work's been very busy and stressful, and I don't sleep well, even when I have the opportunity.

Having said that, in recent days, we've started clawing our way back to a normalish life. We've resumed a semblance of social life (see "first restaurant," above). I'm returning to my normal, high level of productivity at work. So, we're slowly getting there, I guess.

Anyway, I've obviously missed out on a lot of real-time memorializing. Well, it sucks to have lost about five weeks, but at least I'll try to be proactive about not losing much more than that.

posted by SiliDaddy @ 1:19 AM