Today Camilo is 6 Months Old

• Regular contractions starting at 5:56 am… a good time to get started, we got a full nights sleep. Well here we go. 06:33 AM March 31, 2007
• Contractions still at 5 minutes. All going well. Gaba’s having us find stories to read her from various random websites. To keep her distrac 11:18 AM March 31, 2007
• Camilo was born at 4:50 pm. He’s 8lbs 7oz, 21 inches tall 06:33 PM March 31, 2007
• Mom and baby are happy and healthy! Wow that was intense. 06:33 PM March 31, 2007
• Trying to figure out how to tell Yahoo HR that i’ve had a “live changing event.” 09:14 PM April 01, 2007
• Camilo is one day old, and i’m already so tired. Somehow we were focused on the birth and ignored the sleepless nights and crying baby after 09:29 PM April 01, 2007
• Calm between the storms. Baby and mother are sleeping. We’ve got to go out to see the doctor, the’ll be camilo’s first time outside 11:52 AM April 02, 2007
• My mom’s taking a turn at carrying her grandson. She’s not having a ton of luck, he really wants to breast-feed. 12:46 PM April 02, 2007
• My little brother came over and held camilo for 2 hours while the rest of us got a very needed nap. 05:24 PM April 02, 2007
• twittering with one hand, holding camilo with the other 08:09 AM April 03, 2007
• Got Camilo added on to my insurance and other HR benefits. Now to get some food before i have to go back to parental duties. 08:49 AM April 03, 2007
• Uploading some baby pictures to flickr. Talking to kellan about casual privacy and group / set / user permission needs changing with life. 04:56 PM April 03, 2007
• Trying to get some sleep while gaba nurses Camilo. We’ve got to go in shifts to survive. 06:59 PM April 03, 2007
• reading about baby sign language, babies can learn to talk with sign language as early as 6 weeks! 09:07 PM April 03, 2007
• camilo is really calm this morning. finally a baby who is not crying every moment he’s awake. 07:43 AM April 04, 2007
• photos of camilo’s water birth. http://flickr.com/photos/ladouseur… 12:06 PM April 04, 2007
• Just woke up, convinced that it was morning, it’s actually 7:30 PM. And i was thinking i was getting a handle on this whole process. :) 07:32 PM April 04, 2007
• Oh, 12:40, i hope we can get camilo to sleep, then we could sleep some too… oh sleep, how i miss you 12:39 AM April 05, 2007
• Going to get a rocking chair, hopefully this will make the baby happier. 02:48 PM April 05, 2007
• Starting to come out of the new baby daze. Checking my rss aggregator for the first time since friday 07:30 PM April 05, 2007
• Unhappy crying baby, with clogged tear ducts no less. At least now we have some nice rocking chairs to use to calm him down in. 10:38 PM April 05, 2007
• Woke up, turns out i slept most of the afternoon, a GOOD THING (tm). Making my self some tea…. 07:22 PM April 06, 2007
• Making myself some indian food. It’s been really hard to remember to eat these days. 08:32 PM April 06, 2007
• Packing up the birth tub, gotta return it today. Gaba’s nursing camilo as usual. We’re still super tired, but that’s not new. :) 03:06 PM April 07, 2007
• Putting the wet clothing back up on the line, i’m tired, gaba’s tired, our patience is running thin 05:40 PM April 07, 2007
• Up late, trying to get camilo to sleep in the living room so gaba can get some sleep in our bedroom 10:47 PM April 07, 2007
• Another difficult night with the cry baby. Sleeping in the living room didn’t work out. 09:28 AM April 08, 2007
• As soon as the midwife shows up camilo quites up and acts the part of an adorable baby. The trickster, crying all night, happy for others. 11:28 AM April 08, 2007
• Discovered that camilo really really really likes to suck my pinky finger. Finally a way to get him to calm down and sleep. THANK GOD! 12:43 PM April 08, 2007
• Going out with the babe to return the birth tub. Let’s see if he likes riding in cars as much this week as he did last 05:45 PM April 08, 2007
• Sang a song of prime numbers to camilo to get him to fall asleep. it worked even though i got lost in the 30’s :) 10:06 PM April 08, 2007
• La lucha sigue! El Bebe llore! La lucha sigue, sigue, sigue! El bebe llore, llore, llore… 11:25 PM April 08, 2007
• Watched the BBC Documentary “God Hates Fags” while holding camilo in sleeping in my arms 11:12 PM April 09, 2007
• Uploading more baby pictures to flickr. I caught him crying this time. 03:09 PM April 10, 2007
• Watching how to videos about infant bathing on youtube, who knew there were TONS of baby bathing videos 06:11 PM April 10, 2007
• Taking a quick break to check my email and drink fluids before i go back to intense newborn care. 10:47 PM April 10, 2007
• 2:40 am, and do you know where your child is? Crying in your arms, refusing to go to sleep! 02:39 AM April 11, 2007
• Slept on the couch from 3am until 9… what a long night’s sleep. 09:28 AM April 11, 2007
• Took camilo out for a walk up to college ave, he slept the whole time in the baby carrier. 03:42 PM April 11, 2007
• reading scary articles about vaccinations and how they can have fucked up effects on babies 11:24 PM April 11, 2007
• Trying to get some sleep, we’ll see how well this ‘night’ goes. Baby is nursing right now. 11:56 PM April 11, 2007
• Wrapped camilo up in the mobi wrap, a big 4 meter long cotton carrier, he’s happy and asleep, and i can type! :) 04:17 PM April 12, 2007
• Gaba’s probably got mastitis, meaning we have to go to the alta bates emergency room. This is not going to be fun at all. 09:04 PM April 12, 2007
• In the emergency room, waiting for the doctor to see gaba 10:39 PM April 12, 2007
• Back from the emergency room, everybody’s fine, but we have no idea what is causing gaba’s fever. 11:56 PM April 12, 2007
• Realizing that i have become a kind of twitter whiner. I twitter my fustrations, and 54 people have chosen to listen. I’ll try and be better 01:33 AM April 13, 2007
• Midwife came and checked in on gaba as an extra visit, everybody is doing better. Camilo is sleeping in his baby carrier on my belly. 11:15 AM April 13, 2007
• Up again up again clickity clack. 06:46 PM April 13, 2007
• Shit, i just forgot what i was going to twitter about. 09:13 PM April 13, 2007
• Finally working on my presentation about Active Record for SVRC & Mysql Conf, baby’s sleeping in my lap 10:35 PM April 13, 2007
• up at 4:30am changing diapers and trying to get camilo back to sleep 04:33 AM April 14, 2007
• Success! Baby’s asleep, only 45 minutes after i started trying to calm him down. I can hear the birds chirping outside 05:13 AM April 14, 2007
• Oh wow, slept from 6am until 11am! Damn that’s a long sleep. I had to wake up a few times to change diapers, but mostly i slept! 11:13 AM April 14, 2007
• gaba thinks our bedroom is a disaster, she’s right, she kicked me and baby out and has gone on a cleaning blitz 12:11 PM April 14, 2007
• Camilo wakes up at 1am, eats, and then lets dada calm him down until 2… ugh. At least he was mostly just being fussy not actually crying 02:09 AM April 15, 2007
• Heading in to the city to go to a workshop on vaccinations in children. Then maybe to drop by web 2.0 expo. 12:19 PM April 15, 2007
• Back from the vaccination workshop, wearing the baby again, making some pasta, i’m super hungry. 05:03 PM April 15, 2007
• Going to try heading over to cuppatea to work from there with the baby. 02:14 PM April 16, 2007
• Working on my Active Record talk, baby’s sleeping in the sling… we’re hanging out at cuppa tea, so nice to be able to go out a little again 02:50 PM April 16, 2007
• Got plenty of sleep but i still felt like i woke up after a truck drove over me… Gonna see if i can rip a copy protected sony dvd. 10:10 AM April 17, 2007
• Crying infants are god’s punishment for the sin of not practicing safe sex. 01:44 AM April 18, 2007
• Back from the breast feeding meeting, lunch at the south indian place on university, and getting some more veggies at berkeley bowl. 03:08 PM April 18, 2007
• Working on my active record presentation, with the baby in the sling, taking breaks to change diapers and entertain him. 11:16 AM April 19, 2007
• Camilo is 10 pounds now, he’s %28 heavier than he was two weeks ago. that’s an amazing %14 per week weight gain. 01:48 PM April 19, 2007
• Made it up to arcata to visit my mom. The normal 5 hour drive took 7 and a half due to diapers and nursing breaks. 12:44 AM April 23, 2007
• drinking tea, holding the baby, checking email, getting ready to head from arcata out to the cabin 09:10 AM April 24, 2007
• Up at pantilokpom enjoying the cabin, wood stove, pond, spring weather in the mountains. 07:51 PM April 24, 2007
• Tired and warm from the wood stove. Gonna head up to the loft and sleep. Tomorrow we’re getting up early to drive back to oakland to register camilo’s birth. 10:02 PM April 24, 2007
• we’re all tired and camilo has decided to have a huge crying fit… can’t figure out what’s bothering him 10:35 PM April 24, 2007
• Getting up early and loading the fam in to the car to go back down to the city. way to short a time in the mountains. 05:32 AM April 25, 2007
• Made it home after a long drive with the baby…. newborns don’t like sweaty car seats on long drives. 01:25 PM April 25, 2007
• eating spaghetti for lunch, last day of abuela staying with us to help take care of camilo 12:47 PM April 28, 2007
• Running off down to sunnyvale for a meeting… so much for paternity leave 12:57 PM April 30, 2007
• Back from Sunnyvale…. tired… thinking of going to ikea so we can get a bed big enough for gaba, camilo, and me to share 04:58 PM April 30, 2007
• Taking Camilo Durruti to his first protest at one month old. Gotta get the kid started early if he’s going to live up to his namesakes. ;-) 10:15 AM May 01, 2007
• Heading back to the pediatrician to make sure Camilo is a healthy one month old. 08:36 AM May 02, 2007
• Back from the pediatrician, getting some food… camilo is apparently just fine….. 10:34 AM May 02, 2007
• Closing the twitter IM window and trying to deal with this headache i’ve got from the crying baby. 01:50 PM May 02, 2007
• Woke up after a longish afternoon nap (4 hours), now to to the store to get milk and bread. 07:40 PM May 02, 2007
• Eating some breakfast, drinking tea, trying to get some writing done while camilo is sleeping.. 08:32 AM May 03, 2007
• Sitting through a rather longish brickhouse conference call, trying to keep the baby’s crys from distracting people on the call. :) 11:04 AM May 03, 2007
• Deciding that gaba and camilo are going to come up to portland and we’re going to make rails conf a family trip. 01:26 PM May 03, 2007
• Setup the new queen size bed, hopefully we’ll stop having problems with the too small bed. 05:42 PM May 03, 2007
• Constantly amazed by a baby’s need for constant movement, keep him bouncing, and he’s happy, stop for a moment, and he cries 12:41 PM May 04, 2007
• Reclaiming the front room from a mother-in-law guest room to being my home office again… so nice to get out of the dinning room. 01:52 PM May 04, 2007
• heading out to college ave for coffee and pastries with teh baby, giving mom some nap time 11:42 AM May 05, 2007
• Back from a very pleasant walk up to college ave, had time to sit, drink a latte, talk to Leda who was also in the cafe. Baby slept. 01:00 PM May 05, 2007
• Trying to get a copy of camilo’s birth certificate. Waiting for v257 to be called. 03:26 PM May 07, 2007
• Back home after running errands… it’s soooo hot out… at least now we have a fan to keep the baby cool 05:40 PM May 07, 2007
• I’m so tired, the baby really doesn’t like the heat 07:01 PM May 07, 2007
• birth and caring for a newborn it’s first few months of live is such a hellish experience that there are special hormones to make you forget 09:58 PM May 07, 2007
• Back from taking camilo to his second protest in two weeks. 02:56 PM May 11, 2007
• Going with gaba to therapy for new parents, so we can have a healthy relationship as we go from couple to family. 03:13 PM May 11, 2007
• Enjoying dolores park with gaba and the baby. 05:05 PM May 13, 2007
• Up kinda early, 5am, trying to get my rails conf presentation in order… heading back to work today 05:47 AM May 15, 2007
• Heading out of the office and up to noe valley to see the midwife 12:05 PM May 15, 2007
• going to sleep, first night without changing diapers in almost two months… :) hope gaba and camilo are surviving the red eye to boston 11:58 PM May 25, 2007
• Wow, gaba and the baby are at the gandparents, i got a full night’s sleep, what a wonderful thing. 09:58 AM May 26, 2007
• packing for the trip, trying to decide to take my work or personal laptop along. the house is so quiet without the baby around. 11:29 AM May 26, 2007
• Camilo now has his own twitter account, maybe the youngest twitter, he’s 8 weeks old. http://twitter.com/durruti 11:31 PM May 30, 2007
• All done for the day with the mobile meeting in nairobi… very tired.. it’s fun to see camilo’s twitters… 07:47 AM May 31, 2007
• At the nairobi airport waiting to get on a long flight home via paris. Tired from a long but exciting week. missing gaba and camilo 10:23 AM June 02, 2007
• cleaning up the house before i go to the airport to pickup gaba and camilo 10:41 PM June 04, 2007
• Woke up at 5:30am because camilo decided it was time to wake up… an hour later, he fell back to sleep, i didn’t. 07:41 AM June 06, 2007
• cooking some spaghetti and watching the celluloid closet, gaba’s nursing camilo 08:35 PM June 08, 2007
• Trying to explain how baseball works to gaba, and hold camilo, and drink a latte 10:41 AM June 09, 2007
• camilo’s crying, he was happy during story time, now he’s hungry and my nipple provides no milk 11:19 AM June 09, 2007
• Waiting while gaba nurses camilo and gonna try and make it over to caterina’s bbq before it ends 04:30 PM June 09, 2007
• camilo cried all the way home from the flickr / brickhouse bbq… now he’s nursing at home… we’re all whipped out by the busy day 06:46 PM June 09, 2007
• Going to the temescal farmers market with camilo in the sling 12:10 PM June 10, 2007
• Just spent close to an hour getting camilo to fall asleep in my arms, at least he didn’t go in to that super cranky beyond sleepy stage 03:01 PM June 10, 2007
• heading up to cuppa tea to see if i can’t get anything done while gaba and camilo take a nap 03:52 PM June 10, 2007
• Heading back home, gotta see how gaba and the babe are doing… enough escaping in to cafe land… 05:52 PM June 10, 2007
• Dropped gaba, mic, and camilo off at the airport, they’re going down to LA for a visit to the uruguayan and argentine embassies… 07:35 AM June 11, 2007
• back home after the ruby meetup, it was the usual fare…. i’m supertired…. Oh, i get to sleep all night, gaba and camilo are in LA 10:15 PM June 11, 2007
• At home, eating split pea soup… the house is so quite without gaba or camilo around…. 10:51 PM June 12, 2007
• gaba and camilo are back, bathed, and fed…. too bad i had to cancel the hacknight :( 09:29 PM June 13, 2007
• Well i know camilo is back, because we’re back to waking up at 7am, so much for three days of sleeping in til 9 07:49 AM June 14, 2007
• ah, ok, i’m skipping the icanhasruby meeting…. to many evenings away from camilo this week… he’ll only be 2 months 3 weeks old once. 06:29 PM June 14, 2007
• 5am and i’m awake hacking on some idea, no jet lag either, just woke up…. that’s how it goes i guess 05:07 AM June 15, 2007
• having miserably bad allergies. every time i sneeze i wake camilo up too :( 06:27 AM June 18, 2007
• Going home early today. I feel like shit 04:05 PM June 18, 2007
• i’m definitely sick, this sucks…. camilo’s being cranky and gaba’s tired and warn out too :( 07:26 PM June 18, 2007
• gaba and camilo are back from a walk… i’m in bed hoping my headache will go away… and our diaper service left us sans diapers for a week 04:56 PM June 19, 2007
• Gave camilo a bath, now gaba’s trying to get him to fall asleep… who knew we weren’t born knowing howing to fall asleep, it’s learned 06:56 PM June 19, 2007
• leaving for foocamp…. ran in to jack in south park, he’s not going to foo :( 11:56 AM June 22, 2007
• Back home with gaba and camilo 05:31 PM June 24, 2007
• going out for a walk with gaba and camilo 07:09 PM June 28, 2007
• back from a long walk, to bad i no could have ruby. 08:19 PM June 28, 2007
• camilo is being difficult, we can’t get him to fall asleep… 09:58 PM June 28, 2007
• Packing up and heading up to panilokpom for the holidays… we’ll see how camilo handles the drive… 07:31 AM July 04, 2007
• Rocking camilo to sleep for an afternoon nap in the hammock, listening to the creek, checking my email… life is good 06:28 PM July 04, 2007
• camilo woke up, only slept for 30 minutes, so much for the wonder hammock of easy sleep 06:47 PM July 04, 2007
• heading out with camilo, gaba, and asaf who showed up here, heading back to the bay area via grass valley. 09:21 AM July 08, 2007
• drinking tea, gaba’s reading books to camilo, gotta spend a half hour writing every morning, starting today 07:31 AM July 09, 2007
• Ok, morning writing done for the day, committed. Now to go to the pediatrician and get camilo another shot. 09:13 AM July 10, 2007
• ack, camilo won’t fall asleep…. now gaba has finally got him down after several hours of trying 09:52 PM July 21, 2007
• took camilo to my sister’s so we could get a bit of time for ourselves…. it’s so quite 08:16 PM July 22, 2007
• camilo just fell asleep in gaba’s arms after nursing, no rocking chair, no singing… amazing 08:41 PM July 23, 2007
• alternating between trying to get camilo to fall asleep and watching heroes 08:06 PM July 24, 2007
• watching a dvd about infant potty training and how to use sign language to communicate with a baby about peeing 09:34 PM July 31, 2007
• back at home, preparing mate, playing with camilo, cleaning up some work projects and trying to think about fire eagle apis 01:55 PM August 01, 2007
• camilo is on my lap, he only thinks the computer is interesting when it’s got electric sheep running, or we’re watching a video 05:11 PM August 01, 2007
• what i really want to do is take a nap, but i’ve got more work to do before i rest 06:27 PM August 02, 2007
• i’m starting to feel like there is a real person inside camilo, he is interacting more, looking at my face directly, being more present 06:33 PM August 06, 2007
• more baby photos, camilo “swimming” in a hot tub… http://flickr.com/groups/ca… 07:00 PM August 12, 2007
• In uruguay bicho means bug, and is a cute way of saying baby… in mexico it means pussy… got to remember not say bicho around mexicans… 02:33 PM August 13, 2007
• Going on a walk with camilo and gaba to whole foods to get some food for dinner. 06:07 PM August 13, 2007
• managed to slip in an hour of writing after gaba and camilo went to bed. why is writing for books so much harder than blogging? 10:48 PM August 14, 2007
• Back from walking camilo up to cole cafe on college ave… camilo didn’t fall asleep. :( 08:52 AM August 15, 2007
• Gaba took camilo to a new mom’s brunch, so i get some free time, i’m back at cuppa tea hacking, it’s full of proto lawyer law students 12:26 PM August 19, 2007
• Got camilo to fall asleep on the walk home from the cafe 08:50 AM August 23, 2007
• Gaba edited some videos of camilo’s first 4 months and posted them to you tube today http://www.youtube.com/user… 09:22 PM August 23, 2007
• Taking an evening to write, finding time to work on the book is hard with a baby, i recommend against combing newborns and writing a book 07:15 PM August 26, 2007
• waking up in minneapolis in a punk house, playing with camilo.. getting ready to go to my cousin’s wedding 08:18 AM August 31, 2007
• At some hotel in rural minnesota, two big queen beds, camilo’s taking up one all to himself 08:02 PM September 03, 2007
• Arrived in sf after a very difficult flight with camilo. 11:08 AM September 04, 2007
• back at brickhouse, i need caffeine, camilo cried and was fussy most of the flight back. 12:25 PM September 04, 2007
• camilo decided to wake up at 5:30am instead of his normal 7am… i hope he doesn’t make this a habit 06:58 AM September 08, 2007
• Took a nap with camilo at 5pm last night, and didn’t really wake up until 5am… ooops. I guess i needed the sleep. 06:41 AM September 10, 2007
• i never knew how valuable and precious my time was until i had a baby. Now every moment of hacking / writing / working is weight against baby time. 06:31 PM September 15, 2007
• Started putting to camilo to sleep at 7:30pm, he’s fallen asleep several times, but it hasn’t taken so far… :( 10:17 PM September 15, 2007
• Took camilo for a walk to the cafe like normal, he’s got a bit of a cold lately, lots of snot everywhere… :( 09:51 AM September 17, 2007
• Taking Camilo to the doctor about his being sick lately…. hopefully they can do something to help him 03:37 PM September 17, 2007
• sometimes camilo keeps his eyes slightly open when he sleeps… i’m always not sure if he’s really asleep or not 06:09 PM September 23, 2007
• camilo’s got a cough and it keeps waking him up every few minutes 33 minutes ago
• Writing blog post about camilo being 6 months old, taking breaks to comfort him when he wakes up coughing. less than 5 seconds ago