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Paddington Adventures

Drew — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:00:52 +0000

I picked up a Paddington Bear for Eva while I was in London. A friend of mine has a 1 1/2 foot tall garden gnome named Norm that he brings with him on every trip. He takes photos of Norm in various places. I thought I’d do the same with Paddington, at least on this trip. So I’ve got a tag on Flickr called Paddington Adventures. I will post all Paddington photos with that Tag. Here is a sampling of those images.

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Taking your kids on adventures…

Drew — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:24:43 +0000

I’m a new dad so maybe I’m no expert but one thing that we continue to do with Eva is take her places. I’m into photography, you might have noticed my link to The BenSpark on the right, that is my main blog for my Photo-A-Day Project. Well, Allison and I just joined a photography meetup.com group and we both enjoy going to events. Well, if we both go then what do we do with Eva. We take her along for sure.

I know many families that keep the kids in the house and become hermits once the baby comes along. We can’t and won’t do that. There are just so many things that we want to do and we can take Eva with us on each adventure. Sure there might be some tough spots….

… and you really have to plan differently when you have a kid in tow. For instance I am hyper punctual and having a baby has ‘mellowed’ that a bit for me. However, sometimes Allison and I are still assuming that we are the same people we were before Eva. So we have to communicate with each other so we work as a team to get all of Eva’s needs met so we can go on our adventures and have everything we need so Eva can enjoy the day too.

So, plan ahead, pack ahead and look ahead when you are taking kids with you on adventures. That will help cause less stress in your life.

The other great thing about these adventures is that we have such great memories of our times together and whenever we get a chance we take tons of photos of the family. I never get tired of taking photos of this kid, I mean, look at this expression.

She’s ready to take on the world.

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Traveling now that Eva’s here…

Drew — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:45:21 +0000

This past weekend I was in Las Vegas. I was actually in Vegas from Wednesday the 7th to Monday the 12th. With a baby one month old it was tough for this new Dad to be away. I even missed changing diapers. I really don’t want to miss a minute of Eva’s life. Going to work is tough and what is even tougher is that I travel as part of my job.

So what to do now that I’m going to be away from home for days at a stretch. I can only say that I am so glad that we live in the times that we do. Being able to communicate with my wife through a web cam or with a cell phone makes things much easier. And they can keep track of my comings and goings when I post to my blog as well as when I use services like Utterz. And Utterz is great for mobile blogging, which came in handy this week because I had no Internet in the hotel room.

I was able to spend some time talking with A & E over the webcam on Sunday. By Sunday I was dying to get home and still had to wait till my flight took off at 11:15pm. But again, lucky to live in the times that we do I was able to use my iPod and my Zune to keep all of my pictures of Eva so that I could look at them as a slide show. Yeah, I love being a technogeek father.

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