Welcome to Daddy Says…

Hello! Welcome to my blog.  Join me on a new adventure as I share my adventures and experiences of being a Dad.  And so, as the month’s and year’s move along I hope to be able to build up enough content to be able share with anyone who needs to ask ‘How to be a Dad’.

Book Review: Night Night Peter Rabbit

Yay! My first book review!

Night Night Peter Rabbit is a beautifully crafted cloth book with cuddly-soft Peter Rabbit characters, there are a whopping total of 6 pages in all!. Each page is decorated with a sewn-on Peter Rabbit character doing some form of action, with a simple phrase to accompany that action (e.g. ‘Nibble Nibble’ or ‘Quack Quack’). This is a great introduction to Peter Rabbit and all his friends, and definitely fits our particular nursery theme (Beatrix Potter)

I’ve read it to my son a couple of times, and he enjoys snuggling up to the fleecy-pages (He’s 2 1/2 months old). He also likes watching me repeat the phrases a dozen times… I hope this doesn’t mean that his first words will be “nibble nibble”. This book is aimed at the newborn-18 months age range.

Good Points:
+ The book can double up as a burp cloth if none are available
+ It could also double up as a warm blanket
+ It is probably machine washable, though I haven’t tested this
+ Cute and simple

Not so Good Points:
- Maybe a little on the pricey side (but quality is excellent)

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When I was a baby, I went to sleep listening to the Stones….

… whilst our baby is listening to classical music and lullabies. I can’t help but feel sorry for our little one, so I just made his first mix-tape. Only it’s on a CD, but I can’t bring myself to say mix-CD (I am an 80′s child after all).

I don’t have anything against classical music, I agree with the experts that it probably develops brain cells and such, but I don’t personally go out of my way to listen to it – to make up for any loss of IQ I’ll make sure to include plenty of (non-Chinese) fish into his diet when he’s a little older.

I’ll unveil my track list below the fold.

When will I next get a full night’s sleep!?

So, our little one has just passed the two month mark.  And with it, the added relieve that he is sleeping for longer hours at nighttime – Hurrah!  Fortunately, our guy hasn’t been too much of a nuisance at night, and he has maintained a fairly regular cycle of sleep – eat – sleep – eat.  For the first month or so he would sleep for about three hours before needing food, but more recently he has stretched that out to, on most occasions, four hours (and sometimes up to six!)  What joy!  I won’t go into the troubles we have encountered with what constitutes as ‘food’ – that will be for another post, and is much too much Mommy talk for this blog.

Daddy hasn’t had a full night’s sleep since July 19 – that’s 61 days and counting - but he expected that!  I’ve said this before elsewhere, expecting interrupted nights and experiencing interrupted nights are two completelydifferent items, and it does take some getting used to.  Hey – guess what!? I don’t mind waking up at 4 A.M. armed with a bottle to feed Mr. Hungry Mungry!  If I am still awake at 5:30 A.M. I may be revising that train of thought, but that has rarely happened.  My record of the time spent from the second I jump out of bed to the second I jump back into bed, which I am quite proud of is under 30 minutes!  I don’t have an official time-keeper on hand so I can’t offer you the exact split.

Hopefully, sometime soon (like this decade),  I may be able sleep from 10:30 – 6:30 without an interruption, but if I do, will my body be able to cope with the extra rest??