August 2009
11 posts
Lucky Month 13
Leaving aside the whole subject of international fame and television interviews for the moment, here is a synopsis of Lex’s milestones during his thirteenth month.
We finally had his one-year doctor’s visit and he is 97th percentile for height, 90th for head circumference, 70th for weight. He is 32-1/4 inches tall, long and lean, with a big brain. He is performing at a 15th month...
Plateau
Ah, the early heady days when 15,000 views seemed like a big deal. The sudden surge from being featured on the AOL/AIM homepage spoiled us. Now the velocity has tapered off. It took days to go from 420k to half a million views.
At least Lex is big on the international scene. Like David Hasselhoff:
Excelente Time Lapse de los primeros 365 dias de vida de un bebé. Alexander Josef Smirnow (Lex)...
"A Year of Lex" FAQ
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The diapers are rad.
The white cloth diapers in the beginning are from a local diaper service in Charlottesville called The Stork. When he started daycare he had to wear disposables (for licensing reasons they can’t use cloth.) We stopped the service and bought all-in-one colorful cloth diapers from BumGenius. We launder them twice in our high-efficiency washer, first cold, then...
Velocity
This morning A Year of Lex had 99,993 views on YouTube. At daycare, we gave Ms. Brenda a printout of the article from parentdish.com for her scrapbook. At the office, my coworkers sent screenshots of the video on the AOL/AIM home page under “What’s Hot.”
During the day we were contacted by the local NBC12 Richmond station and a local radio show. By the time I left to pick up...
A Year of Lex
We always thought he was very advanced. At everything except growing hair. And now it looks like he is Internet-famous at an early age too.
We have been posting his every moment to Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, our Tumblr blogs. So our distant relatives and far-flung friends can enjoy every minute of this happy boy as he grows.
The best video so far is the composite of his daily pictures. Just a...
