I have invented a new baby device. You have a buy a couch with cushions. The heavier the cushions the better. Also a big lounge chair would work as well.

All you do, is stuff your baby down behind the cushion, so they are wedged between the couch back-frame and the cushion. The reason a heavier cushion works better is so the baby cannot move. You can also shore up the cushion with 1 or 2 of the 30 excessive throw pillows your wife has piled the couch under. The beauty of this setup is that you can stuff your baby in, and walk away without fear of baby doom. Of course out of sight is a bad idea, unless its only for a few hours… just kidding. But anyway, you can then play your video games, or just wander aimlessly around the house, and baby is safe.

The side effects are, puke on the couch, drool on the couch, snot on the couch, and wife being mad at you when you get caught.

The benefits are, being able to change a light fixture, play video games, cook some food, baby loves it since she can watch you do stuff, wife thinks its cute even though you are being a bad daddy.

Yesterday Ashley had her first fever. No idea what it was from since she wasn’t really coughing or sneezing or anything else for that matter. Just a little down is all. Fever hit 101.7, at least that we measured. The doctor said to sell at 103, but we never got there. Gave her some tylenol “as the doctor directed” and she started cooling off about 2 hours later. All is good now, a little warm, but still under the normal 100.5 fluctuation that infants swing up to.

One of the first things we asked for (and got) was the Fisher Price Rainforest Bouncer. Not really sure why it was important to us, but for some reason we were actually able to make a good decision for once. The bouncy is awesome. Though I will say it does tend to grate on your nerves a bit with the noises it makes as Ashley beats the hell of of the monkey and the parrot.

Ashley is gaining weight just fine it seems. Mom of course spends a lot of time worrying about it, and it would seem for naught. Reflux seems to be under control with Zantac. We also got the green light to start baby food, although we started already anyway. So all is good.

We think we feel and see Ashley’s first tooth! It’s a sharp little bastard, so it’s probably a good thing mom is weaning the breastfeeding. Otherwise I think mom might lose her marbles with another infection and tooth hitting away.

Baby feet are not supposed to stink right? Well Ashley feels it is neccessary to break with tradition and have stinky feet. I was kissing them and noticed the stench. Eh, it’s not that bad but still, there’s not supposed to be any smell. The only thing I thought is that she is lately eating her feet, so maybe it’s milky buildup over the course of the day.

We are getting to the time to start feeding solid food i think. Ashley is very interested in food when we eat, and she has a hard time keeping milk down anyway. So we are thinking that we are probably gonna start solid very soon. As a result, the high chair now comes into view of money drain. So, hell, why not just go for broke. We are looking at getting the Svan Wooden High Chair. It’s Scandinavian so that will not only make my mom happy, but also means it will probably work great, and not have any extra crap on it that will collect food grime.

In case you have bookmarked this site with an iPhone and want to add a an icon to your homescreen, there is now a custom icon that I created. Its fantabulous… i would post the icon, but i cant figure out how to show it with the glassy overlay the phone adds.

She’s crazy. Babies aren’t supposed to like it. I didn’t like it when I tasted it. It has the taste of bitter mint, which though being tolerable, is not something I would look forward to taking. Ashley however now loves it… She thinks it’s a treat or something. When I bring the syringe close to her, she starts trying to grab it frantically, and pull it towards her wide open mouth. We can’t even get her excited about the bottle like that. She is acting like a drug addict scrambling for the next fix. Kinda funny, and very lucky on our part, but annoying because of the lack of bottle interest, and actually even bottle avoidance. I doubt she has made the connection that the zantac makes her feel better, since after all, she is still trying to figure out why she can’t remove her feet.

Ok, so I review stuff, or at least am trying to. So diapers have come up as an item to review. I gotta say, it is turning out to be kind of tough to review. I mean after all, they are diapers. Not exactly stimulating subject matter as compared to toys and gadgets. Funny, I didn’t really think anything of it until I started to do it. Either it does its job or doesn’t. So trying to find positive comments about a diaper is turning out to be an exercise in marketing goldmining.