Ponies or dinosaurs? Tea parties or Tonka trucks? Dodger blue or...well, Dodger pink?  I was asking myself these questions as I sat in the waiting room at the doctor's office.  My wife Jessica was sitting next to me, patiently waiting for her name to be called.  It was [...]

This week brings an important milestone for Ninja Baby.  We are through the first trimester!  Thankfully, our recent doctor's visit was good; everything looks normal and we even got to see Ninja Baby again.  This time around the baby looked less like a turtle and has promoted to looking like [...]

Since starting this blog, I've had several people ask me why I refer to my baby as "Ninja Baby."  It all started during my brother and his wife's pregnancy.  After one of their ultrasounds, I began joking with my brother, telling him that he would have twins, but the other [...]

In the weeks since my wife and I found out we were going to have a baby, I've been going through a state of mind that I will call "floaty."  Symptoms of this condition may vary from case to case.  For me, they included confusion from pregnancy books, [...]