http://thepatiodaddyo.com Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:39:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_1170" align="alignnone" width="328" caption="This female outline is composed entirely of the word NOW repeated hundreds of times"][/caption]   Dear Readers I have not posted in well over a month and many are asking what’s up? Fear not, The Patio Daddyo is alive and well. The reason for the lag has been a ... http://thepatiodaddyo.com/baby-book/nowwhere-were-we   [caption id="attachment_1016" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="A brisk winter day from our bedroom window"][/caption]     12-29-07   There’s an episode of Gilligan’s Island where a crate of irradiated vegetables washes ashore and the castaways each eat something different. Thurston Howell III’s eccentric wife, Lovey, eats the sugar beets and begins hyperactively running around at warp speed and cleaning. ... http://thepatiodaddyo.com/baby-book/clear-the-books   12-21-07 I’m going to start calling you Kai, for I’m all but certain that is your name. The other candidates, Slater, Elijah, and True, just don't work. Slater's a bit too wannabe surf grommit. Elijah is too bible shepherd, and True, well, that's just pure shaggy California hippie. We both like the ... http://thepatiodaddyo.com/baby-book/more-snap     12-09-07 I slept terribly last night. Dreamt that my friend’s little girl fell in the water and we rushed to frantically yank her out from the muddy bottom. It was too unbearable to see if she was alive and I woke up agitated right as we reached her. I hope that Jodi and ... http://thepatiodaddyo.com/baby-book/everybodys-gotta-learn-sometime     12-4-07 Liberty Dock is the closest thing to a village I've ever lived in. My Grandpa Max grew up in a village outside Cracow Poland in a one room shack with dirt floors and mattresses stuffed with straw. His mother bought water from a water seller and a chicken every Friday ... http://thepatiodaddyo.com/baby-book/the-village-people   [caption id="attachment_732" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="The Magic Garden"][/caption] 12-1-07 I've never been superstitious. I'll walk under every ladder you put in front of me. But after three miscarriages in twelve months I'll do just about anything to get a baby. “Don’t mess with the Voodoo,” they say in New Orleans, my favorite vampiric party town. In other ... http://thepatiodaddyo.com/baby-book/dont-mess-with-the-voodoo 12-01-07 I wrote a poem while living in Brussels a few years ago. I guess I wrote it for you, baby boy:    the king is in         the palace as I type these words                     I know this because the flag                             flies above it           unfurling and flapping in arhythmic snaps         as if to say                           play ... http://thepatiodaddyo.com/baby-book/the-music-in-your-head       11-30-07   This bun in the oven remains very abstract to me, an idea trapped in a bag in my wife’s midsection. I’m forty four years old. Starting late. Two generations wrapped in the cloth of my lifetime. Kinda numb. Curious. Liquid. Ready.   He has a face but I cannot see it, cannot even ... http://thepatiodaddyo.com/baby-book/can-you-hear-me-now   [caption id="attachment_585" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Bedrest - Fun for the Whole Family!"][/caption] 11-29-07 Jodi must stay off her feet while the baby cooks in her pot belly stove. 30 weeks and counting. Fully baked is 40 weeks. 37 is golden brown. 36 would be awesome. We’ll take 34.  I found a special ergonomic angled computer ... http://thepatiodaddyo.com/baby-book/another-day-at-the-horizontal-office [caption id="attachment_541" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Little Red Submarine"][/caption] I felt my first paternal pang at twenty nine. Just woke up one day thinking it'd be cool to have a child. My life has been rich in adventure and creativity and I've delighted in a posse of family and friends I love more than a ... http://thepatiodaddyo.com/baby-book/obstacle-course