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We took Elsie to the Zoo the other day and it was very fun to watch her watch the animals move about.  Here she is watching some fish.  It seems to me that this is why we enjoy being parents, because we get to take pleasure in the silly things, like fish swimming by.       

  All of us here at Diaper Bandit would like to apologize for the long lapse in entries to this blog.  See, I was away for a month and have been pretty busy so the blog sort of fell by the wayside.    Elsie is doing very well though, for anyone interested.  She's walking about like a little trooper and sleeps ...

I've been away, so it wasn't until I saw this picture that I realized we might need to take action.  Or maybe we're nearing the tipping point, when Elsie's bangs have grown long enough to be put back into some kind of ponytail.  Right now we usually put it into a little topknot, which is pretty cute, but it often comes ...

Though we'd noticed most babies Elsie's age were now holding their own bottles, Elsie had been very content to let us do it for her.  It was fairly enjoyable for us to do this so we didn't mind.  We also figured that since we'd chosen to use glass bottles it might be just as well if she didn't toss them on the ...

 I've learned a few things about sleep since becoming a father, and I knew quite a bit about it before.  I've learned how to watch for those heavy eyelids and the joy that comes with seeing them finally shut peacefully.  Because then I can sleep as well.  But sometimes it's just nice to hold a sleeping baby. This ...

Well, just as I was preparing to leave for my trip, Elsie began to take her first unassisted steps.  She's been doing it all week, a step here and a step there.  A friend noted that she only walks until she realizes that what she's doing, at which point she gets down and crawls.  Right before I left for my red-eye flight ...

Sources tell us that since Elsie is a year old she can now drink regular cow's milk.  Does this mean The Great Formula Debate is over?  Maybe so, though it was fun while it lasted.  I ran into a woman at a party this evening who told me she actually reads "Diaper Bandit" and she was worried that after the heated debate ...

Elsie was born on New Year's Eve, so depending on how you look at it, she's either getting a great deal on her birthday parties, on she's getting the shaft.  This year she fell asleep before the cake came out, but we gave her a little bit in the morning, and she didn't seem to mind.   From this:   To ...

Little does a typical father know about the raging debate amongst our motherly counterparts.  Not until recently when our favorite baby formula got pulled from the shelves did I understand how serious the breast vs. formula discussion has become.  When I mentioned in the last entry that we used formula some responded that they were ...

  I may be late on a discussion which has already taken place somewhere on Babble, but only recently did we learn that our mainstay milk formula, good old "Earth's Best" dairy based organic has been pulled from the shelves.  Little Elsie loves this stuff and about a month ago I went and bought six big cans of it.  ...