Category Archives: Family
Cradle’s cap
I’m so bad. I admit it. I chip away (gently) at Jackson’s cradle cap while he’s feeding. It’s therapeutic, it makes his head look better after all the dead skin is brushed away and it doesn’t hurt him. Is that so wrong? I know, it’s yucky.
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Phew! Close call…
The medicine ball: the single most important tool we have for caring for Jackson. Even if Jackson is screaming his lungs off, bouncing on the ball while holding him will soothe him back to peace. It’s magic! The other night the pump nozzle got stuck while Joe was trying to fill the ball with more […]
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Check me out
“I’m 7 weeks old and I can lift my head and kick my legs like I’m gonna crawl away! And I can take a bath and laugh about it afterwards. How far I’ve come in less than 2 months!!” Jackson D. Adu, M.M. (Milk Monster)
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What waist?
We tried Jackson in his new Bumbo seat and his waist disappeared!! Haha. This seat is great bc it supports Jackson sitting up, except that Jackson hardly fits with his bulky cloth diaper. We put him in a disposable diaper to see if he fit better… he did. Bumbo elves, if you’re listening, can you […]
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Peck peck peck
As soon as Jackson came into this world he had an innate sense of how to get his food. He throws his head left or right on your chest and when he is nipple height he peck peck pecks away. He does not have an instinctual sense of who to peck on, however, as evidenced […]
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What’s in a name?
Our Jackson Davis Adu was born on a Sunday, so he inherits the Akan Day Name, Kwasi (some spell it Kwesi). It just so happens that my great-grandfather, a former local chief in my father’s hometown in Ghana, was also a Kwasi! Jackson is fortunate to inherit his great-great-grandfather’s distinction, “Papa” (or “Paa,” for short), referring […]
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