Parenthood and other adventures.

A Year in Photo Failures

Taking pictures of a baby is hard. Ahead of Wyatt’s first birthday, let’s take a moment to relive the best moments we didn’t capture over the last year.

(Click on a picture to open the slideshow.)

Boo crappy phone camera. Hooray Wyatt!

Your Q1 2013 Wyatt Update

Your quarterly baby update

The date stares me in the face every time I look at this blog: October 4th.  It's been over three months since I updated. Quarterly updates on a baby blog are not going to cut it, man. Here's the truth: I'm bad at updating blogs.  Any of them. … [Continue reading]

Raspberries

Wyatt is teething. Here is a video. Metadata of Doom … [Continue reading]

The Art of Almost

How quickly it all speeds by. Somewhere in the rush, the noise, the hubub, Wyatt started to make this transition from helpless blob to small person. None of it happened instantaneously, of course.  I doubt any part of it will. Last night, as … [Continue reading]

Electric Boogaloo – Will & Terri: The Musical Introduces Wyatt Again

Wyatt is almost five months old and has starred in only a single bizarre video.  It's time to remedy this. So let's Electric Boogaloo this introduction thing. Here's the Wyatt video you never knew you wanted to watch repeatedly... Metadata … [Continue reading]

Fun With YouTube Closed Captioning

It's a lot of Hitler's we have learned to that's twenty twelve

I'm not sure if it's my mumbling or if YouTube just hears the world like @horse_ebooks writes, but the closed captioning on "The One Where We Fill Out A Baby Book" is a thing of sublime beauty. (The fact that it absolutely nails Prime Minister … [Continue reading]

The One Where We Fill Out A Baby Book And Forget To Post It To Our Blog

So...I totally never posted this to the blog. In the final days before young Wyatt arrived, we realized in a panic that we had completely avoided doing anything cloying or ridiculously sentimental like good expectant parents are supposed to (or … [Continue reading]

An Unofficial Hello

I never fully intended to make this the official "Introduction to Wyatt," but, y'know, get over it. Here's the first-ever video of young Wyatt Chase Johnson, in which he was kind enough to look as out of it as humanly possible for as long as … [Continue reading]

About That Unexplained Absence…

surprised-baby

Surprise! We had a baby four months ago. Crazily enough, babies are tiring and time consuming and tiny. Who knew? Now that we've started to adjust to the idea that we actually made a child, let this be your notice that regular updates -- and, yes, … [Continue reading]

Scope Creep (Or, This Seems Like A Good Place for a Post About Pork Belly)

Seared Pork Belly -- For Cider-Braised Pressure Cooker Pork Belly

What they don't tell you -- what nobody tells you -- is just how much waiting goes on. Having a baby (from my perspective, anyway) is a monumentally slow process. There are fantastic moments of excitement and anticipation and nostalgic reflection … [Continue reading]

One of those William Chase Johnson blogs.