Daddy Sabbatical

Well, its been a while since the last posting, but that is about to change. I'm currently on a daddy sabbatical which was initiated nicely by the acquisition of Stata Labs by Yahoo!. My goal is to set aside 3 months to be a stay-at-home daddy. We had a full-time nanny, and I was considering dropping her completely and going 100% daddy day care, but at the advise of a few other parents, I've kept her on for 2 days a week to allow work on other projects, errands, and sanity.... :-)
However, there are many other factors that may come into play to determine the actual length of this sabbatical, such as other projects I'm working on and other exciting business and technology opportunities.

I was going to start this last week, but our first week of daddy sabbatical was interrupted with a stomach flu that made its way through baby, mom, dad, and nanny. So, here we go again, for real this time! I hope to post 3 times a week as to the adventures of dad and baby, which might even be enough to keep the grandparents sufficiently informed :-)

My goal is to capture the more subtle changes Zack will go through as he progresses from 11 months to 14 months. So to best do that here is the baseline, 1 week away from his first birthday:

Zack Stats:
-Tooth count: 4 (we had been at 3 for almost 3 months!)
-Weight: 25 pounds
-Height: ?
-Words: general cute babble, with some hints of being able to say "da da" when pointing at me, and "ma ma" when pointing to mom. also he can click his tongue in imitation and can usually imitate the correct number of syllables with babble
-Special Skills: he has been walking since 10 months, but cannot easily navigate down steps. enjoys hide and seek and peekaboo immensely.
-Food: eating half baby and people food. uses a sippy cup. early attemps at feeding himself with a spoon have resulted in quite a mess.
-Naps: 2 a day. up at 7:30 am, nap from 9:30-10:30, and again from 1:30-3:30 (usually) and bedtime at 7:30 pm. (recently he is no longer lasting 12 hours asleep, and wakes up briefly around 4:30am for a bottle)