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It's been awhile, but it's also been really busy. There's so much to report on, but the most exciting thing happened today.

For the first time to my knowledge, Babygirl said "I love daddy" while hugging the toilet. She wasn't sick, but nonetheless while we were in the bathroom, she said "I love daddy, I love mommy.

Pretty cool moment.

here's a cool pic of Babygirl

Loud and Proud

Babymama is a great mom, and wife. I don't often verbalize these sentiments enough.

It's been a long and crazy week for our family. While it is true Babydaddy has been reunited with his family with a car that runs, Babygirl and Babymama have probably not really enjoyed my company this week.

While still nursing my mystery viral illness, that is more bothersome that debilitating, my arrival at home Tues night, started my life back at home right in the middle of the week, or right at the start of my crazy schedule. Ya see the beginning of the week is very chill for me, with a couple of appts on Sun, followed by some good family time in the evening. Mon, no work at all, and spending most of the day with Babygirl. Tues I return back to the clinic, but Tues night I'm at home with the family.

Coming home at the start of Wed, 12AM, I was already officially "on call"status for the hospital. Wed morning I was due back at the clinic, now being away for 2 days, I was not looking fwd to the madness. To complicate things, Wed AM's I go straight to a school to see kids at school, let alone I need to be there by 8:30AM. Wed night had me at my private practice. Thurs back at the clinic, but before I get to my office, I go straight to an alternative high school to meet with teen for the first 3hrs of the day. Then Thurs night is another night at my private practice. This particular Thurs, due to lack of coverage, I had volunteered 2 weeks ago to help cover the ER to start my on call shift earlier and was officially "on call" from 8pm to 8:30AM Fri. Of course I got paged right at 8pm. So right after all my clients at my private practice, I was rushing to ER to eval a confused man. Only then to be paged again half way home that I had another eval. Needless to say, I finally got home after midnight.

Fri, fairly straight fwd day, 8hrs at the clinic, and then home to my family for the longest stretch of time I'll spend with them all week. Pretty crazy week, pretty crazy schedule, but typically manageable when I'm not stranded in NY for a couple of days.

Throughout all this, Babymama has been holding down the fort, keeping Babygirl happy, healthy and clean. Babymama has also not been feeling under the weather, as well maintaining her own work schedule, teaching schedule, lesson prep, lunch prep, feeding herself, buying groceries, washing diapers, folding laundry, etc. etc. I can't even imagine the amount of energy and patience that was required to get through this week with Babygirl, as well as coping with my absence. Throughout it all Babymama has not been vindictive, or outright frustrated with me, and truly shows what a godly woman she is, who exudes with much motherly strength. I am most thankful and appreciative of all these wonderful qualities that Babymama, and also very lucky that she is my partner and spouse in this crazy life we have together.

Away From the Fam

Usually it's the other way around, I'm left at home with Babygirl and Babymama is enjoying much needed time away. This time around, by chance, the girls managed to get whisked away and I got left in the dust. They're at home and I'm away.

Well it didn't really happen like that, but here's the story. The Family and I decided to attend a wedding in western NY. Great wknd, caught up with old friends, stayed with an old friend, and when the wknd was over we were headed home.

Not an hour into our drive, the car just died, couldn't accelerate anymore, so I tried to start the car again, and nothing. Called 911 for the first time for a disabled car that was not a true emergency, and also txt-ed the girl who got married for the cell number of someone who was also lives in the same direction as us.

Lucky enough, the folks that live near us, probably left Western NY about half hour after we did, and was able to scoop up the girls and deliver them home by night, while I stayed back for the tow truck and wait up the inevitable repair that hopefully wouldn't take more than a couple hours the next morning.

Well next morning has turned into 2 mornings, and I hoping that it doesn't turn into a 3rd.

Obviously this has been upsetting for my girls, as well as everything else that was suppose to happen this week. Luckily work is fairly flexible so I can just cancel appts, and reschedule them, but I'm ready to blow this pop stand and get on home.

I don't know what my life has become here stuck in my friend's apartment, that I'm totally thankful and comfortable in, but I miss the chaos of Babygirl, pagers going off at night, riding my bike to work rain or shine, eating PB+J, falling asleep next to Babymama, Reading Babygirl books, etc.

It's probably a blessing in disguise that I'm apart from my family while I have mystery cold/flu like symptoms. That and my car is going to be like totally refurbished and ready to roll into it's 200,000th mile of life and more.

Wishful thinking is simply nothing more than that

There are mornings when Babygirl decides to wake up at some despicable hour, well not really, but earlier and hour or half hour earlier than normal. Then again on Sun AM's anything before 9am is despicable. Lately Babygirl is good to wake up 7-7:30AM window, everyday. There are always those AM's when she decides 5AM seems like a great time to start asking for a bottle, or 6AM when she just start crying because she wants out of her crib.

Well this AM it was 6AM, when she was crying, and was not going to soothe her own self back to bed. It turns out these chilly overnights make it chilly for Babygirl who doesn't believe in blankets yet, despite dressing her in warm clothes (if only she believed in wearing hats to bed like she did a year ago, sigh). Well after rocking her back to sleep, I laid her down back in bed, and not even 20mins later, she was back up stating she had a "poopy" diaper, and also needed a bottle, since she was so thirsty.

After all that, she had no interest to go back to sleep, and Babydaddy had no interest in staying up. So in my mind, despite knowing the likely outcome, decided to bring Babygirl to bed with Babymamma and I. Lets just say Babymama and I have tried this numerous time in the last 6 months and she's never once gone back to sleep with us. Of course I think, she's a bit older than the last time, and I'm just as tired, so in my wishful thoughts I think, ya she'll fall asleep, especially when she get's under that down comforter.

WHAT WAS I THINKING? Wishful thinking is like a form of delusion, just flat out crazy. Babygirl did start off pretty calm laying there, getting all cozy, before she poked me in my eye, sat up, bothered Babymama, and declared that the sun was up, roosters had already crowed and surely we had to get up too.

After 20mins, Babygirl and I started our Sunday at 7AM. Good thing I don't think Babygirl is despicable, nor am I delusional for loving this girl, but boy do I miss sleeping in on Sun's.

Yoga Baby

One of the interesting things about blogging as well as reading blogs is the fact that you're not sure how many people are actually reading the actual blog, or people who stumble across my blog by googling search words such as: "caffeine" or "frantic nurse," etc.

Very few people tend to leave comments here at cornucopiandad, but when people do, Babydaddy is definitely one to respond. So this post goes out to my friend way out there in China who asked for pics of Babygirl doing downward facing dog, so here we go.

Also feel free to post comments, and let it be known that you're a lover or a hater.


*sorry for the droopy cloth diapers








Rockin' the new Cons for 1st day of Daycare! Can ya tell Babygirl loves stickers?

things that elicit "More"

As Babygirl continues to develop and grow into being a little person, she's acquiring things she likes and things she doesn't like, as well as the verbal capacity to let Babymamma and babydaddy know what's up. The good thing is that not every question or thing is answered with the word, "No." It's interesting how babies gravitate to a two letter word that's so powerful, but the issues of asserting power is a topic for another day.

So here's the unofficial list of things Babygirl likes:
-baths in a tub with a bathmat, with never ending supply of water from the tap
-"nonnies" also known to you and me as raisins
-whole milk with strawberry Pediasure mixed in
-tuna, the girl loves it
-"Geoge" aka Curious George her daily companion and sleeping pal
-"Elco" aka Elmo another member of her entourage
-"I push the butt" aka I want to push the button on the cd player so I can rock out
-"wahhhk" aka walk, way too cool to ride in the stroller these days
-sitting in the potty for 5 seconds
-climbing into my own high chair when it's time to eat
-"bye bye poopies" said when we flush her poopies away
-balls- loves to throw them
-collecting and gathering objects
-wearing Babymamma's jewlery, watch, shoes, etc.
-looking at "baby" pics, when really they're pics of her from a year ago
-"rock" loves throwing rocks into the ocean
-loves any kind of body of water- salt, fresh, dirty, clean, cold, etc.
-swings- wants to test ride every swing, until she finds the right one @playgrounds
-downward facing dog- loves that yoga stretch
-going through Babydaddy's wallet
-"i see ball" she also shares other things she sees like bikes, etc.
-"i have foot" doesn't realize yet that she has feet
-"haaht" said when her food is hot or her car seat, or whenever

her ongoing obsession these day is the following clip:

Babygirl will ask to watch "Elco" several times a day, and is mesmerized by the singing of India and Elmo. You can even watch her trying to mouth the letters of the alphabet, and soon enough Babydaddy thinks she'll just sing the whole song in one shot.





Babygirl continues to bring much joy and love into our home, and Babymamma and I love it!

Is IUD the bomb?

IUD or IED, what's the difference? Intra-Uterine Device or Improvised Explosive Device, often times both are difficult to find, and both are used as a prevention method.

In the case of IED, they're often buried in the road so unwanted vehicles or people(aka, US soldiers occupying foreign land) going by would detonate the explosive devise. In the case of an IUD, it's typically carefully implanted by the Gynecologist which prevents from sperm from fertilizing an egg, as well as if an egg was fertilized it would have difficulty attaching to the uterus.

Why is this an important note to dads? Well sometimes Moms like to get Dads involved in the birth control process, whether is equal sharing of who buys the condoms, to the the dad who reminds the mom to take the birth control pills, etc. As this article states, IUD are not too popular in the US, while in other parts of the world, it's widely used amongst women. I am sure there are many woman who dread the idea of going back on the pill, the possible weight gain, the hormonal changes/imbalances, etc.

Perhaps the Dads out there can suggest the IUD, no hormones, low cost, no mess. While the NuvaRing is similar, other than you have to keep putting it in and taking it out, I've heard it was never designed for women who are sexually active with well endowed man(true story, personal friend had to call NuvaRing customer service on why the ring wasn't working for her and her man).

What would be best form of birth control for your family? IUD, BCP, Tubectomy, Vasectomy?