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Mr Mom part two

I admit it: I was pretty worried about taking a month off to take care of little ZZN. It wasn't for professional reasons but simply because I didn't think I would be able to keep up with her (particularly if she rejected the bottle!). Now, almost two weeks in, I frequently find myself looking towards March 1 with sadness -- I won't have all day to go on walks and talk to the baby anymore!

Yesterday we went to the SFMOMA with the parents for her first visit to the museum.

We visited the permanent collection and a photo installation, but the highlight for her seemed to be the Olafur Eliasson exhibit. It wasn't terribly compelling to me, but she loved the colors of the One Way Colour Tunnel and the 360° room for all colours. As usual, what she liked most of all was the trail of "Oh my god did you see that cute baby!" that she leaves in her wake and random passerbys making googley eyes, jumping up and down and smiling at her.

Earlier, I ran into an old friend of mine randomly in the cafe. He was in town to cover the Game Developers Conference

I also developed a high tech remote baby feeding system: A thermos full of hot water and one of those ubiquitous brushed stainless steel mugs. I put the chilled baby bottle from the cooler into the mug and filled it with hot water, thus warming the contents to non baby tantrum inducing temperatures. I tipped the deck by bringing real milk instead of formula of course. Here she is enjoying a field heated bottle: