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Baby Redux

• The (wrong) name game 12.02.10

  We still haven’t picked a name but we’ve narrowed it down a bit (no, we’re not telling you our current choices). but I came across an interesting article on Slate.com – A Roshanda by Any Other Name How do babies with super-black names fare? which starts off with this story..
  In 1958, a New York [...]

• Full Circle 09.02.10

  With our second child only weeks away and our first born just over two years old, there wasn’t a lot of things we needed to prepare prior to bringing Jr. home. In fact, we really only needed two things… A name and a double stroller. Unfortunately, we haven’t picked either yet.
  We’ve managed to [...]

• Name the baby 05.01.10

  One question that comes up often for expectant parents is “Do you know what you’re having?” and the other is “Have you picked a name yet?”
  Let me tell you this now so you don’t become one of those people…you can’t learn the baby’s gender until around 20 weeks, aka – the half way point. [...]

• Oh, Brother 02.11.09

  You may recall a few months back that I mentioned how Corbin is going to be a big brother. And as with any pregnancy, people speculate both on what gender the child will be and what gender you want the child to be. For most, it’s hard to fathom that you will be [...]

• Our Wish Lists 15.10.09

  With the annual gift getting giving season in the archshrk household coming up, I wanted to let anyone and everyone who wanted to know, exactly what we wanted for our Birthdays or Christmas. So go on over to the Happy Birthday Page and bookmark it for future reference. That page should be good [...]

• Naturally Playful Woodland Climber 06.10.09

  That’s what it’s called. Took me several tries to find it but find it I did. You’d be surprised at how hard it is to search for a product that doesn’t have any real unique characteristics, especially when it’s been described to you using certain words which are all too common. Look [...]

• Ergo out, Hello BOB? 09.09.09

  So we got a chance to look at the Joovy Ergo Caboose this weekend and it’s a little bigger than I imagined. OK, it’s a lot bigger. At 41″ long, that’s 6″ longer than the Graco DuoGlider meaning it’s like driving an even bigger semi truck (in reverse). So it’s back to [...]

• March 29th? 02.09.09

  That’s our current due date.
  Though he’s barely the size of a kumquat — a little over an inch or so long, crown to bottom — and weighs less than a quarter of an ounce, your baby has now completed the most critical portion of his development. This is the beginning of the so-called fetal period, [...]

• ergo 01.09.09

  So maybe $400 on a stroller isn’t too much.
  If you recall from an earlier post, I talked about how we were thinking about getting a Joovy Caboose tandem stroller for when baby number two arrives. At the time, I couldn’t see why the Ergo version of the Caboose was so much more than the [...]

• Maybe we need a Caboose 18.08.09

  With the upcoming addition to our family, we realized we will need a new stroller. The BOB Revolution has served us well but Corbin isn’t quite big enough to walk all the time. So I began looking at our options.
  I first looked at the BOB Revolution Duallie Stroller but Julia was [...]

• You can tell from six 03.08.09

  Some movies just have great lines of dialog that stick with you. It’s not just the lines themselves but the way they are delivered. Here’s one such scene from Sliding Doors
  that sticks with me.
  [Helen walks into the room holding a pregnancy test]
  Anna: James?
  [Helen nods]
  Anna: Since last night?
  [Helen stares]
  Anna: Sorry.
  [pause]
  Anna: You can’t tell [...]