“She has you wrapped around her finger.” As the new dad of a daughter, I’ve heard that phrase nearly as many times as I’ve heard “hello” in the past 11 months. And it’s a fact – Emmy already has me moving on every one of her whims. I want her to be as happy as [...]
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Keep bath time special with safety
Bath time is a cherished and sacred ritual in our home. It’s the only consistent time Emmy and I get to spend together by ourselves. She splashes around with her water-squirting farm animals. I listen to the Texas Rangers game on the radio or Mississippi State broadcasts on my phone. And we do our best [...]
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Watch out for white eyes in photos
As the only grandchild on her mother’s or father’s side, Emmy has been the focus of at least a thousand photos in her six months. So, if it’s true that each picture says a thousand words, her pictures have said around a million. Adorable. Cute. Blue-eyed. Big smile. Playful. Those words are certainly expressed in [...]
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Daddy Blog, Gastroenterology, Nutrition, Wellness
Poop: why parents should pay attention to it
An honest mother once told me before I became a parent, “When you have a child, you talk about poop at least once a day.” It seemed kind of ridiculous to me then. It sounds totally absurd now. My wife and I discuss poop no less than three times a day since our daughter was [...]
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A new perspective and a new season of Children’s Med Dallas
I began working on Season 2 of Children’s Med Dallas about a month after the birth of my first child, a daughter named Emerson who’s usually called Emmy. Emmy had already changed a lot in my life, namely my sleeping, eating, thinking, TV watching. Etcetera. (See the change represented in my face in this photo [...]
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Daddy Blog, Infectious Disease, Wellness
The flu frenzy
My first child, the darling Emerson Lee Foster, was born at the end of November. The first six weeks of her life have been full of love, joy, celebration and… a lot, lot of paranoia. Seems like all I can think about sometimes are bad drivers, BPA, blocked airways, falling picture frames and contagious diseases. [...]
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How not to install your car seat
My wife and I are expecting our first child, a daughter, any day now. What I’ve learned about being an expectant father in my wife’s last trimester is to contribute where I can and try not to interfere the rest of the time. However, I have inherited a few responsibilities. Probably the most important is [...]
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