First, the comic book has been pushed back to April 22nd. Not my fault, I swear! I’ve seen it now, though, and I think it’ll be worth the wait.
Second, there has been some clamoring for birthday cake photos of young Baz, and I have to say they’d disappoint you - the young man somehow didn’t produce any real messy-faced moments. He’ll have one more shot at the cliche this weekend. Meanwhile, please enjoy this moment, from his actual birthday.
He’d been crawling for days, but it was on his birthday that he realized that he was crawling. As you can see, that made all the difference.
Fanny Roborat
37 comments
Peter
April 4, 2009 at 3:09 pm
1I went down to my local comic book store today, and the Comic Book Guy gave me only a puzzled look. True story.
I thought he was a Krull.
dee
April 4, 2009 at 3:42 pm
2Ah, the joy of mobility! Just think — he’ll have that same look on his face the first time you give him the car keys.
SallyMutant
April 4, 2009 at 7:23 pm
3Awwwwwwwww. Nice teef!
becca (and brian)
April 4, 2009 at 9:33 pm
4What a great smile! I can see a bit of Dad in there. Say…think he’ll be looking for a date in 15 years? (Brian says “15?? how about more like 21!!). I know a nice young black haired lady….
And slight hijack:
FanAppers-
Thanks so much one and all for all the lovely well wishes. Reading them was a great pick me up during some otherwise trying times in the hospital. Home now and realizing — all you parents can laugh now — what the reality of feeding every 2-3 hours really means. Day-um!
As we stagger around in our new-parent haze though we’ll try and update the blog semi-regularly for those interested in a baby fix. (It’s somehow much easier to come up with topics when you have something so easy to take pictures of smiling at you from your lap.)
In the next couple of days I hope to put something up explaining her name, as we’ve been asked by so many folks… And she’ll hopefully get the first stamps in her passport before the end of the year. So look for the baby rocking the WWDTM onesie on your next international flight.
b (&b)
Jack - stay safe. and stay out of the showers!
SeattleTammy
April 4, 2009 at 10:08 pm
5Great to see Baz on his birthday! I love the smell of new babies in the morning!
b(&b) Kai sweater is almost done!
Boomer
April 5, 2009 at 7:25 am
6Okay, Adam, you got me good with that one. April Fool! Good! I get it! Very funny! (Comedians!!!!!!!!!) But not to worry, I’ll try again on the 22nd, probably at a different comic book store though, since there’s something about a restraining order……. (I should send them a card of some sort, I guess.)
Hey!!!!!! Cute kid! And would you look at those choppers!!! No more breast feeding for Baz, huh?
Chris Harlan
April 5, 2009 at 8:25 am
7I’d have to say that that young lion owns that path.
David
April 5, 2009 at 9:29 am
8He’ll take your ass down with a smile if you get in his way, but he will take you down…
Concetta
April 5, 2009 at 3:52 pm
9There is something vaguely Felberesque about the young Baz. I think it’s the head shape. There are few things more engaging than a joyous little boy laugh. I miss those. Well, there’s always grandchildren - one of these days. (Sigh.)
J. Bo
April 6, 2009 at 1:49 am
10All that child needs is a little dab of mayo on his head; he is COMPLETELY edible!
Please give him a hearty nosh for me at your earliest convenience… like, RIGHT NOW!
Aunt Sam
April 6, 2009 at 1:26 pm
11Why do I think “pirate” looking at that young’un?
And b (& b)- laugh heartily at anyone who tries to get you to put your newborn on a “feeding schedule”. My oldest was eating every 2-3 hours from 5:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m., but– and this is key– she SLEPT from 11:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m., which means *I* slept from 11-5. One doc thought she needed to eat only every 4 hours and encouraged me to delay feeding her. HA- we were all up all night.
Listen to what the docs have to say, but nobody knows that baby like you/s do.
Vinnie
April 7, 2009 at 3:09 pm
12Yo. Michigan State looked terrific in da’ Championship game - fo’ ’bout t’irty seconds. Guido lost his shirt, his cuff links an’ his Zoot suit on dat one. I tol’ him ta bet his head, not his heart. No more joy in Motown, dats fo’ sure. We’re needin’ money, so it looks like we’ll be back in Rome, breakin’ legs fo’ da Archbishops an’ Cardinals again. I jus’ hope dere ain’t no more eart’quakes.
Vinnie
April 7, 2009 at 4:51 pm
13Oh yeah. Yo, Adam. Cute kid! It looks like dere’s some of Jeanne in da boy, too - da cute part.
gillian
April 7, 2009 at 6:33 pm
14Life’s like that, you know? A girl gives up teh gay, moves back home to SC, and the Vermont state legislature overrides the Governor’s veto and votes in same sex marriage. Wait! Was that a pig that just flew over our house?
David
April 8, 2009 at 7:13 am
15A joyously gay aero-porcine bearer of great tidings, gillian. Starting to be quite reminiscent of the dynamics of the previous civil rights movement - horribly slow in arriving, but beautiful as it took flight. This is a realization of an essential civil right that will not be stopped by the forces of sectarian or other tribal reactionism. Humanist embrace will prevail. American justice will add another jewel in its crown.
David
April 8, 2009 at 7:13 am
16…to its crown.
Mary
April 8, 2009 at 7:53 am
17I *love* baby pictures and Baz is most photogenic. What a sweetie!!! Let Jeanne know she did a great job! Even with a little help from Adam ;-D!!!
Yo, Vinnie. Yep, the finals were a let down but the ride up till then was fabulous. The way the Spartans beat up UConn was priceless.
Ann
April 8, 2009 at 2:39 pm
18Darlings babies, both.
But Adam, why no mention of the outstanding decision by the Iowa State Supreme Court? My home state, y’know, and I actually used to date one of the judges (when he was a lowly district court judge). I like to think I was an influence.
Maybe it’s time to re-run your great article about how your marriage will be affected.
David
April 8, 2009 at 4:37 pm
19You just never know, Ann. Major kudos to the sense of justice at the top of your home state’s judiciary.
Jerry, The King of Comedy!!!
April 8, 2009 at 6:14 pm
20I was over at my sister’s house today and I noticed that Dolly Parton is on the cover of the current AARP Magazine. I swear that girl has had so many face lifts that she looked more like Mary Tyler Moore, if it weren’t for the big blond hair and her 2 grotesquely out sized & shamelessly enhanced …………… lips. What??…You thought I was going to say breasts, didn’t you? Creep! Sicko!
That reminds me of a “joke” my cousin told me about 20 years ago, but you have to imagine the conversation taking place in Southernese. OK, you ready?
“Hey Herb, I need an ice chest. Have you seen an ice chest anywhere?”
“Yes Clem, I have. Dolly Parton has a nice chest.” (tish! ba-dum!)
My cousin kept his day job.
SallyMutant
April 8, 2009 at 8:40 pm
21Yes, Ann, the times are right to repost, rebroadcast, relink The Defense of Marriage Act essay Adam read on ThisAmLife, and or any one or both of the two FanAp essays (see, I’ve done my research) on which it is based. To add, much less eloquently, to David’s Civil Rights Movement context: it’s way funnier than Dr. King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” but way more relevant than Lenny Bruce’s “You Can’t Get Snot Off Suede.”
Becca, if Kai has a penchant for sophisticated older babies, Susie’s Hugo is about a year older than Baz. That’s like a decade in baby years.
Murray
April 10, 2009 at 5:02 pm
22Pretty swanky neighborhood to have a granite sidewalk. Well at least it won’t stain when you spill your G&T with a lemon.
Cheers.
Just leaned today that # 7 grandchild is on the way! I’ve made it clear that this one has to be a boy, 4 granddaughters is sufficient.
Good day!
D. Quayle
April 10, 2009 at 7:07 pm
23“Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.” — Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/18/90
I hope all the teachers aren’t bagging groceries or greeting shoppers at WalMart when the young Baz finally starts to school. Of course if the Democrat Congress would just passed a law allowing vouchers for charter and religious schools, the teachers could keep practicing their love for boys and girls all across this nation.
Jake
April 10, 2009 at 7:23 pm
24If you have an inquiring mind, like perhaps Mr. Quayle or me, you will enjoy the much anticipated explanation of the name Kai Nida Davis. (Sorry Brian, but Kai Rysdal is just too cute for my sensibilities.) Also, I think we should have an annual “Cute-Off Competition” between the new generation of kids sprouting among us.
http://www.beccabrian.com/2009/04/whats-in-name.html
Jerry, The King of Comedy!!!
April 11, 2009 at 7:01 am
25So anyway, this guy was driving in down the road with his blond girlfriend. He’d been having some electrical problems with his car recently, so he asked her to please stick her head out the window and see if the blinker was working.
Well she did and reported back, “Yes, No, Yes, No, Yes, No, Yes, No, Yes……” (tish! ba-dum)
Okay, so make up your own damn jokes!
Concetta
April 11, 2009 at 8:47 am
26OK. Adam goes on the WWDTM show and he doesn’t even tell us? Jeez, was it something I said?
Great cast of panelists - Adam, Mo, and Paula. Carl summoning up his inner Tom Carvel and Paula taking the victory! What more could you want? (Well, a heads-up would have been nice. I mean what are we here - week old Zeppoli?)
S. Silverman
April 11, 2009 at 10:58 am
27“My sister was with two men in one night. She could hardly walk after that. Can you imagine? Two dinners!”
Vinnie
April 11, 2009 at 7:47 pm
28Week old Zeppoli - dat’s a good one, Concetta!
Da Pope sure has been busy dese last few days. He’s givin’ Mass at St. Peter’s in da morning. I’m part uh da security fo’ da service, so I’d bettuh get my zip gun an’ get inta position behind da curtain. Ciao.
David
April 11, 2009 at 10:17 pm
29What Concetta said. Luckily, although I caught only the last 10 minutes, WMFE in Orlando rebroadcasts WWDTM on Sunday afternoon at 3 pm. Adam and Paula are my two faves (not to dis anyone else - they are all pretty damned good - but Paula and Adam are special).
P. J. O'R.
April 12, 2009 at 4:57 am
30Since we seem to have several new parents here, I thought I would impart a bit of wisdom to the adults in that bittersweet condition.
“You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going.”
Your welcome.
And to their kids - I’ve got nothing for you. Sorry……
M. Moskowitz
April 12, 2009 at 2:00 pm
31Happy Easter everyone! Hey, Murray, I thought of a possible slogan for your buddies who run the Roadkill Cafe. How about this: “Roadkill Cafe, the Original Wheels on Meals!!!!” Heh, heh. Good, huh? You can tell them you made it up if you want to, but I require a piece of the action. Agreed?
Dale
April 13, 2009 at 4:10 pm
32RIP, Bird. (Don’t worry Siobhan, it’s not that kind of bird). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm_jU0b5Hgw
Vinnie
April 13, 2009 at 7:12 pm
33Oh no, Doc. Not “da Boid”!!
Jake
April 14, 2009 at 3:44 am
34With Mark Fydrich gone, I guess it’s up to me to wear the mantle of “The Poster Boy for Eccentrics Everywhere”. Mr. Bird, I do so with great honor. I just hope I’m equal to the task. Rest easy, buddy.
Jake
April 14, 2009 at 3:49 am
35Speaking of males than are larger than life, who would have thought there was a superhero among us?
http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/2009-04-13/#
dee
April 14, 2009 at 6:34 am
36The news about Mark Fidrych has made me so very sad. In May of 1976, my sister-in-law died, leaving my brother and their 5 year old daughter. Baseball and The Bird got us through that summer. When the Bird pitched we forgot about everything else and we were young and fearless too.
Murray
April 20, 2009 at 3:06 pm
37Mo M. That’s a good one, I’ve passed it on. Check’s in the mail.
Too bad we don’t have a hurricane on the horizon for you to camp out in. We’ll let you know as soon as one shows up.
(this isn’t supposed to make sense to anyone else)