The New Father: A Dad’s Guide to the First Year

The New Father: A Dad's Guide to the First Year The New Father: A Dad’s Guide to the First Year by Armin A. Brott

My review

 


rating: 3 of 5 stars
Not as good as the Expectant Father, but still a good book. I rented it from the library, but I think this would be good to have as a reference, because in the beginning of every chapter (month 1, month 2, etc.) is a short list of what to expect from your child. Since I’m returning this to the library this week I won’t know what to expect for say my daughter’s 3rd month, unless I re-borrow the book.

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Thanksgiving 2008

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with lots of great food and great company.  We went down to my parents house in Carlsbad braving the rain on the drive down.  It was the longest drive that Samantha has ever been on and the first time she has seen my parents house.

Here she is hanging out in a swing at Grandma’s house.

Here is Ryan and Missy.  “Say Cheese!”


Here is Michelle, Samantha and Missy on the couch.


Duane carving up Tom.


Grandma Lyn holding Samantha.  She looks tired.

Michelle, Cousin Ryan, Grandma Lyn and Aunt Melissa.

Here is a cute shot of Samantha getting a kiss from Ryan.


Aunt Melissa holding Samantha.

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Samantha’s 8th Week

Can’t believe Samantha is already 2 months old.  We had a great Thanksgiving (pictures of that coming soon)!  I also took the week off to so I could spend it with Samantha and Michelle.

Here is a picture of David holding Samantha.


Here is one of Samantha hanging out in her crib, which she can play in all by herself for 10 minutes at a time with no help.


This is a photo of me holding Samantha at the Sepctrum outside Santa’s house near Target.


Here is another one at the same place, but with the whole family.


Here is a shot of Samantha being held by her Great Grandma Georgie.

And finally a picture of Uncle Philip holding Samantha.

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

My review

rating: 5 of 5 stars
Another great book. Very sad towards the end. Almost don’t want to start book 7 since it is the last one.

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Samantha with her pet Monkey

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“Samantha says happy Friday dad.”  I love my little girl!

Hackintosh

I got this old Dell Inspiron B130 from my sister-in-law and I wanted to see if I could install Mac OS X on it.  Well, I could, but I also have to keep this paperclip in the VGA port all the time.  Not a great solution.  So tomorrow its Ubuntu.  I just wanted to see if this could be done.  It was fun, for a geek like me.

Samantha’s Baptism

Here is Michelle with Samantha waiting outside the church.

Here is a shot of Ryan (my nephew) and Melissa (my sister).

Here is a shot of the Father blessing Samantha.

The family watching an waiting in the pews.


A picture of the baptism cake.  We had over 50 people there and still had some cake left, it was huge!


We had a great time and was very glad that some many people could make it!

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Samantha is One Month Old!

We have had a lot of visitors again in the past few weeks.  Mommy and Daddy took a lot of pictures.  Here is one of Samantha in her swing toy!


And this one is zoomed out so we can see her enjoying the movement of the swing.

Most of the Balderrama girls came to visit us as well.  Here is a bunch of shots with them holding Samantha.


Ann always wanted to hold Samantha more!


Eventually everyone got a chance to hold Samantha.

Today we took Samantha out for a little stroll in the neighborhood.  She wasn’t awake for most of it, but we did get some good photos.



Dad got his chance to hold Samantha too.


This next one is a good picture of me, but Samantha was starting to get fussy.


This one seems like a good shot to leave off with.


There are more pictures at our Picasa page.

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling


My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars
I really enjoyed this book. It seems that everyone gets better than the last. Can’t believe how good a writer Rowling is. What an imagination. I’m looking forward to reading the next book as soon as I am able.

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