Ruby celebrated her six-month birthday yesterday. With all those months behind us, it’s time to look back and see what products Kate and I found most useful. Bob Revolution 2006 baby jogger (read my original review): The jogger gave Ruby and I something to do together and got us out of the house every day. [...]
Product Reviews: The Best of the First Six Months
September 4, 2006
Diaper Service, 1 week later
June 13, 2006
The first two days of diaper service were horrible. We suddenly had to pay attention to this whole other thing that could make Ruby upset. Instead of food & boredeom, we now had food & boredom & wet diaper, and it took us a while to remember to check that last item. The new diapers [...]
Review: Sony babyCall Rechargeable
June 6, 2006
The Sony babyCall Rechargeable is a baby monitor. We bought it because it has a rechargeable battery-operated mode, meaning I can wander out in the garden while Ruby sleeps inside. It has a voice-activation mode, several channels to choose from, and an alarm if the receiver gets out of range of the transmitter. It also [...]
Review: Bob Revolution 2006
June 5, 2006
As a “Welcome-to-the-world” gift, my parents bought Ruby (and Kate and I) a Bob Revolution 2006 jogging stroller. In “Mesa Orange”, thank you very much. I use this stroller almost exclusively for jogging. I run about 5 miles with it, several times per week. I run on city sidewalks, a paved jogging path, and gravel [...]
Landfill vs Clean Water
June 5, 2006
Today our first deployment of cotton diapers arrived. We’ve signed up with a diaper service that will drop off fresh diapers twice each week and take away the soiled ones, never to be seen again. Or so I like to think. I’ve actually been fairly happy with disposal diapers, but being the conscientious earth lovers that [...]
Photogenic
June 5, 2006
Last week I received my new camera. I sold off a ton of my old camera equipment (it was gathering dust in the storage room) and used the proceeds to by a Pentax *ist DL to go with the 4 lens I had set aside. (I also had enough left over to buy a new [...]