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Tag: Firsts

  • out: halloween @ edelman

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    mommy’s office threw a little party for the kids today, which led to sparklet’s first official trick or treating.

    unfortunately, sparklet kept getting confused — she thought it was a candy exchange, giving back candy at the next cube that she got at the previous, which was made even more thoughtful because she took the time to pre-moisten it before passing it along.

    for posterity, her first trick or treat trophy was a box of milk duds — though they dropped to a distant second once she got her first lick on a lollypop.

    See Slideshow of the Photos on Flickr:
    out: halloween @ edelman

  • birthday cake

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    well, that didn’t go particularly well — the very first time she tried a cupcake, you would have thought that she was being force-fed peas.

    fortunately, we tried it again the next day and it did go a little better — even though *i* was actually the one to smear frosting all over her face.

    See Slideshow of the Photos on Flickr:
    cake

  • firsts: piggy-back ride

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  • first birthday

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    thank you all so very much for coming — sparklet had a blast, and we couldn’t have picked a more perfect day for it. if you took any photos while you were there, please email/comment them along — while we got *some* good ones, i know we didn’t catch everything that was going on.

    it was great seeing you all 🙂

    See Slideshow of the Photos on Flickr:
    sparklet’s first birthday party, lion hill @ the national zoo, washington, dc

    more photos from:
    hparker23185 · cmfol

  • birthday presents

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    see slideshow of the best photos on flickr:
    first birthday presents

    see slideshow of all the photos on flickr:
    first birthday presents (unabridged)

  • firsts: overalls

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    i promised myself i’d never do a blog post that says “look how cute my baby is” — but, damn she’s cute in big people clothes. just sayin’.

  • marketing 101

    dude.

    late last month the formula we’ve used since month one to supplement mommy milk — similac sensitive r.s. — all of a sudden disappeared from the shelves, without a trace.

    we tried all the usual stores — empty shelves. the lady sparkler and i both went online to the manufacturer’s site, and it was gone like it never existed in the first place.

    after about two weeks, the empty spaces on the shelves suddenly filled up with a new flavor of formula in a baby puke green color.

    after two more hours of digging — er, googling — it appears that the new flavor (similac sensitive for spit up) is actually just a re-branded old flavor.

    only a different product name. and a completely different color. and a different safety seal. and no reference to the previous brand.

    how did we know? i had to compare the UPC codes off a bottle of the old formula.

    now, i’m not much of a marketer, but if they had kept any one thing from the previous design — keep the red bottle, keep the product name, keep a reference to old product — we wouldn’t have missed a beat and would have kept buying the “new” stuff like lemmings off a cliff.

    seriously, people. marketing 101.

    P.S. sparklet is just about off formula entirely (and mommy phased out of pumping late last month). starting this week we’ve got her on a mix of milk and lactaid — the latter being a holdover over from similac sensitive r.s. being lactose free.

    once she gets used to the whole milk thing, we’ll start phasing out the lactaid, and viola — high cholesterol, full lactose baby.

  • firsts: crayons

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    one could argue that this is sparklet’s second use of crayons, but if she drew my father’s day present without mommy’s help then we seriously need to pass on pre-school and send her straight to the School of the Art Institute in Chicago.

    first crayons: plaza azteca, williamsburg, virginia.

  • firsts: shoes and socks

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    See Slideshow of the Photos on Flickr:
    shoes and socks

  • firsts: walking with a walker

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6_lhPSOQ0E

    while this is technically her second time walking with some kind of mechanical assistance, it’s the first time we’ve gotten video.

    (video from Rose Park, in Georgetown.)