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It's going to be hard for me to continue keeping this blog up-to-date, not just because I'm obviously going to be more busy - what with the raising of my son and all - but also because I realize it's going to be difficult for anybody with children of their own to see images and read stories about a baby who is obviously better looking, smarter, funnier, and just more gooder than any other baby in the history of baby making. Such is my burden.

But first a disclaimer: It is not recommended you watch this video if you get upset by things that are so cute you become sick inside. This video contains images that are so adorable your face could literally melt off into a puddle of sweet milk chocolate.

I give you Alexander Daniel Kourianos:

*The video stops after 35 seconds, but the sound goes on for another 2 minutes. I don't know why. I'm already an out of touch dad that doesn't understand technology.

Goodbye Nap Time - A Love Poem

I realize that with Super Thursday upon us, that my 33 year love affair with the nap has come to an end. I shall mourn my loss with a poem of sorts. Please enjoy:

[Sung to the tune of the Carpenter's Goodbye To Love]

I'll say goodbye to naps
No one ever cared if I should nap or die
Time and time again the chance for naps
has passed me by
And all I know of naps
is how to live without them
I just can't seem to find it.
So I've made my mind up I must live
my life awake
And though it's not the easy way
I guess I've always known
I'd say goodbye to naps.
There are no tomorrows for
this pillow of mine
Surely time will lose
these bitter memories

And I'll find that there is
sleeping to believe in
And to live for something
I could nap for.
All the years of useless search
Have finally reached an end
Loneliness and empty days will be my
only friend
From this day nap is forgotten
I'll go on as best I can.
What lies in the future
is a mystery to us all
No one can predict the wheel of fortune
as it falls (Sheesh Karen, cheer up already.)
There may come a time
when I will see that
I've been wrong
But for now this is my song.
And it's goodbye to naps
I'll say goodbye to naps.

*Note: I am not sucking my thumb in that photo.

Dirty Work

[17:13] stephanie: will you be okay washing your son's little wee wee?

[17:13] danny: can't you do it?

[17:13] stephanie: not if you're the one on bath duty that night

[17:13] danny: we have that sprayer in the upstairs bathroom

[17:13] danny: I'll just spray it off

[17:14] stephanie: no. that won't work

[17:14] stephanie: you can't use a rough sprayer on the baby

[17:14] danny: what if I get ferris really wet and soapy and sponge his wee wee with ferris?

[17:14] danny: I'll just make him sit naked on a wet soapy dog like a pony?

[17:15] danny: And then I'll clean ferri's back.

[17:15] stephanie: This is not going on daddyblogs

[17:15] danny: It's like that old Bear poop in the woods joke with the rabbit

[17:15] danny: but with my baby and my dog

[17:15] stephanie: Danny! You will have to bathe our baby which means you will have to wash his baby wee wee

[17:16] stephanie: And make sure it's free of poopies when you change his diaper. I hear that the poop can migrate to the front

[17:16] stephanie: Between cleaning your wee wee and your son's wee wee -- you'll be on wee wee double duty.

[17:17] stephanie: That sounds like fun huh!

A New Era

My baby is going to be born in a world where having a black president is nothing new. Nice work America. Now I just have to break the news to him about Dukakis. . .