Fortunately or unfortunately, my daughter is following in her father’s footsteps and is becoming an avid jumper. On some jumps, she sticks the landing – like in the image above from the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. On some other jumps…not so much. The other night, My daughter was demanding I take pictures with “Daddy’s Camera” [...]
In Scientology, it is common for pregnant women to get what is usually called a Pregnancy Assist. As defined in the Scientology Handbook: “An assist, then, can be described as a Scientology process which is done to alleviate a present time discomfort. A process is an exact series of directions or sequence of actions taken [...]
I had to share some of the fun I’m currently having, doing the Having a Happy Baby course at the Founding Church of Scientology in Washington, DC. My wife an I did a fairly good job across our first year with Mackenzie, and now with a baby boy on the way, we wanted to both [...]
Day 220 | Yeah! Check out that Tooth!, originally uploaded by tadnkat. If you view the larger size, you can see two little bottom teeth coming in to that jaw. Bam! The upside is that she’s getting her teeth in a relatively painless way – the gums split and then the teeth came in, instead [...]
Laughing Locational, originally uploaded by tadnkat. Any Scientology parent will tell you that one of most useful pieces of Scientology technology to have around a baby is the locational assist. This is an incredibly simple procedure in which one can take a person (or little person) who has their attention too fixated on something and [...]
Day 131 | Last Morning of the Decade, originally uploaded by tadnkat. On the day of this photo, Mackenzie celebrated the turn of the decade, and her very first 1 January. Many more to come, I’m sure. But one thing I wanted to bring to light with this post is that, at over 4 months [...]
Day 92 | Peeking out at Passers-by at the Scientology VM Tent, originally uploaded by tadnkat. Dressed up in her fuzziest outfit & hat, Mackenzie accompanied me on the Metro down to the Scientology Volunteer Ministers tent at the National Mall. She was nice & warm, but also developed some of the cutest rosy [...]
Day 85 | Mackenzie at the Scientology VM Tent, originally uploaded by Tad Reeves. Today I went down to the Scientology Volunteer Ministers Tent to volunteer for a while helping people with their day-to-day problems. Mackenzie was on full-time duty cheering everybody up, and was all smiles & chuckles to anyone who came near us. [...]