Unfinished Dad

Swine Flu Update

Matilda's 15 month checkup was this morning.  Good news!—she’s average.  She landed firmly in the 50th percentile for everything.  Height, weight, head, and all those fun developmental indices are what you would expect out a second child, a child whose parents forget that they used to monitor those things like the weather.  She did come up in the 90th percentile on the Alfred Hitchcock jowl density and buttony chin index.  So there's that.

On a related note, we have decided to get her and her sister the seasonal and swine flu vaccines.  They were, obviously, out of the swine, but good ol' seasonal was freshly stocked.  Now that the decision is made I feel kind of funny about it.  As I type this, Matilda is upstairs napping with influenza, no matter the amount, swimming around in her system.

Tilda Walks

Tilda Walks, originally uploaded by unfinished dad.

A little wobbly at seven in the morning, but without further ado I give you...Joe's newly complicated life.

BPA Free Plastic or Stainless Steel

I've never been an overly concerned parent when it comes to in-the-home hazards.  I didn't push for the $220 organic mattress we bought Annie (and subsequently didn't buy for Tilda, though we did switch them for her first four months) and I wasn't gung ho about changing from the original Avent bottles to the BPA free knockoff that Gerber makes.  It's my wife that leads the charge in the worry/information department.  I didn't even know that there was an Avent alternative and I certainly didn't know about Amish crib mattresses; I thought they just made those miracle fireplaces that don't get hot.

I tell you this because we are about to take the next step in developmental safety when Annie becomes the proud owner of a Klean Kanteen.  Her lunchbox will be equipped with the latest in non-illness-causing, eco-friendly bottling solutions.  She will be all the rage at CCPC.

In contrast there are some companies out there that run the Unfinished Dad safety platform.  SIGG, a swiss rival of Annie's preferred bottle manufacturer, seems to have been less than honest about it's BPA free claims during the Bisphenol-A disarmament of 2007.  I admire the way in which the SIGG representative answered the customer's questions without answering them at all.  They are only children anyway.