Will and Terri Attempt Parenthood (And Other Adventures)
Wyatt is teething. Here is a video.
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 we chilled in the living room as a family, I kept looking up from my laptop to find Wyatt staring at me, like I was the only thing in the entire world. In that moment, in that moment of bittersweet epiphany, I figured it was time to make a new video.
After all, there aren’t that many firsts in life, and they’re mostly crammed into a short amount of time at the beginning. And while this movie isn’t full of firsts, it’s full of almost firsts, which are pretty awesome on their own.
So here’s a new video, cinematic proof that Wyatt is somehow almost sitting, almost talking, almost standing, almost crawling. Not bad for a one-minute video.
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…
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 something).
The solution? Fill out the baby book! Someday, Wyatt will marvel at how much a gallon of milk used to cost as he reads his baby book from his crudely constructed post-apocalyptic bunker in the radioactive wastes. “What is milk,” he’ll ask. “And is this amount fair? I literally have no concept of money. My currency is based on bottlecaps.” And he’ll thank us for thinking of him!
We threw the resulting video on Facebook, but it turns out that when you have a baby four days later, you forget all kinds of things (the joy of sleep, posting videos to your blog, et al). So for the first time ever on our own blog, behold “The One Where We Fill Out A Baby Book.”
P.S. Like the new look?
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 humanly possible.
Music is “Ancient Chinese Secret Blues” by Clem Snide, which was actually playing in the background the entire time. (Toward the end of the video, I actually cut back on the soundtrack so you could hear it playing tinnily from my iPod.)
Share your pick for “sleepy baby soundtrack” in the comments below. And stay tuned for an official welcome video for young Wyatt, complete with cuts and a snappy soundtrack and even a roughly-sketched plot, coming soon to a blog near you!
It starts innocuously enough. You drive to Babies ‘R’ Us. Yes, the last time ended in tears, but this time is different. This time, you know what you’re getting into.
Last time you ended up with three strollers on your baby registry and everyone complained and so you implemented a scorched earth policy and removed them all.
Today, you try again.
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