So I've been really bad at keeping a baby book. The first couple months when I was home with Sarah (and going to the doctor every other day for some malady or another) I was very good at putting in her weight and height and head percentile, but I don't think I've written a single thing in her baby book since I've gone back to work. And that was the end of January. Recently I feel she's hitting milestones left and right, and if I don't record them somewhere they're going to be lost in time and when Sarah is 18 and asks me when she got her first tooth my answer will be "before you were 1". My grandmother knows that my dad got his first tooth at 4 months old and I do not have the memory my grandmother does, so I'm hoping this helps me keep track of time.
I have to give Meredith credit for the title of this blog. This really was a spur of the moment thing, and she happened to call when I was on the page that had me pick a title. Apparently "The Flynn Effect" refers to the rising of IQs over the past 100 years. I had to wiki that to find out, and though I don't think reading this will make you any smarter, hopefully it will give you a bit of insight into life with our firstborn, especially if you're family far away. Plus the name was just plain catchy.
I make no promises as to how often or not often this will be updated. I hope this won't be the only post, but with clothes to watch, games to play, houses to clean, papers to grade, shopping to do, who knows. But it does take less time to do this than to find the baby book, so here's hoping.
P.S. Sarah got her first tooth this past Sunday, May 15th, and started rolling over (like again and again and again) this morning. I just had to pause writing to keep her from rolling off the couch next to me. What will this amazing girl do next?
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