In retrospect...(you know, hindsight and all that)

You may be wondering why you haven't heard from us for a while. The answer is simple -- during the last two weeks, we have made a series of rookie, new parent mistakes that should suffice to fulfill our new parent bad karma for at least a year or so.

Let's set the stage: three months of FMLA is up, and it's time for Mom to go back to work (on her birthday and a national holiday, no less). What is a new parent to do? We thought, and actually still think, that we were pretty clever. We developed this elaborate scheme in which Mom would take the first three month shift, and then Dad would follow for the next three months.

It turns out, that when you take away Mom, who has only been away from baby for no more than six hours since birth, and combine it with an underdeveloped ability to drink from a bottle, you create a confluence of circumstances not conducive to parental mental health.

The good news is that everyone quickly learned what to do. Penny now drinks from a bottle like a champ, and she and Dad have developed a good rapport (not that one didn't exist before, but now that he's home all day it's a little different).

The lesson for future new parents (and the humor for the old-hat parent) is that you should probably plan ahead for abrupt changes in personnel and routine. Just because we had it all figured out, didn't mean that Penny was in the loop. In the future, we'll be sure to "cc" her on all important logistical arrangements.

All this is in actuality a long apology -- we promise to return to our regular weekly posting schedule, particularly now that Dad has figured out how to type one-handed while propping a bottle up with his chin.

What does Penny think "cc" means?
	Crying and Cranky
	Cute and Cuddly
	Corporate Cruelty
	Copious Colostrum
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What does Newman think "cc" means?
	Crunchy Crickets
	Chewy Critters
	Crazy Cats
	Copious Chicken
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