Jun 30 2008
My three year old son started playing soccer last week. My daughter’s in gymnastics and piano lessons. My wife goes to the YMCA for exercise regularly, and I play World Of Warcraft.
I watch less than a couple of hours of television a week, but the kids watch it a lot; it’s their baby-sitter. [...]
May 20 2008
My son just climbed out of his car seat and was playing outside. I was picking up old french fries or something from the car floor around his seat. I straighted up and started to close the car door when I felt a slight resistant; that’s when he yelled: my son’s fingers were [...]
Apr 08 2008
Many of you may not realize that Jody and I are twins and that we both turned 78 a couple weeks ago, give or take a decade or two. Jody’s son, Iain, left a birthday message for me on my answering machine.
I also got a bottle of single-malt scotch for my birthday, an MP3 player [...]
Oct 22 2007
I haven’t recycled a post for awhile. How about this one?
So I go up to the kitchen with my four-year-old niece to make lunch. Normally, I don’t take care of small children on my own. In fact, I don’t know if I’ve ever done it. But here I am.
I look in the cupboards for something [...]
Nov 02 2006
I’m not a fan of voyeur-type films and TV shows like America’s Funniest Home Videos, but Sour Death Balls is different. First, the music is edited well with the scenes, and second, it’s amusing. You can feel their conflict about enjoying the yummy candy, yet the discomfort of its flavor. Oh the [...]
Oct 08 2006
My daughter eats avocado like it’s ice cream, scooping it out of its skin, digging around the giant seed, sometimes mushing the green guts of it like Play-doh; it’s fun to watch. Its taste doesn’t appeal to me: I find it bland.
Other exotic things she eats like candy: black olives, pomegranates, dill pickles; raw vegetables [...]
Aug 07 2006
Kiddie Records Weekly:
…celebrating the golden age of children’s records…. Many of these recordings were extravagant Hollywood productions on major record labels and featured big time celebrities and composers… Each recording has been carefully transferred from the original 78s and encoded to MP3 format for you to download and enjoy.
My five year old daughter listens to [...]
Jun 14 2006
I walked into the bathroom today and found nine bars of soap stacked around the sink. Nine. I then see the wrapping on the floor from the Costco-size package of soaps we had.
Me yelling out: Caitlyn, what’s with all soap here?!
Caitlyn: What, Dad?
Me: Soap! Is someone REALLY dirty? Did you unwrap [...]
May 29 2006
Our 18 month old son sleeps in our bed. It’s easier to put him back to sleep when he’s with us, after he wakes up from his crib during the night. We have the bed against a wall so he won’t fall off; that’s the side he usually sleeps; however, he’s an active sleeper, [...]
Jan 18 2006
Jody and Caitlyn decided to make cauliflower popcorn (6mins, 9mb) by roughly following this recipe. The result in the best episode of Sunday Morning Scoff ever.
Jody had this to say about it: “It was a fun experiment. We’ll make another video someday, although I don’t know of what.” (Music by Greg Brown.)
Update: I’ve been J-Walked [...]
Dec 27 2005
This is an old article, but I just stumbled on it: Why aren’t there more ‘G’ movies?
John Colvin, a father of two, believes Hollywood needs to be more aware of an underserved audience. “They don’t make enough movies for me to take my wife and kids to,” he says.
I don’t go to movies often, but [...]
Nov 17 2005
I got a 5am call this morning (I’m in Flint, Michigan again) from my wife: our 12 month old son may have swallowed an AAA battery. He was playing with a remote that took 3 AAA batteries, when she noticed the battery cover was off. She took the remote from him but she [...]
Apr 15 2005
Here’s a short video of me and my niece feeding some birds in the woods a few days ago. We went there to feed squirrels, but these small birds kept swooping down around our heads until I realized they wanted the peanuts we were feeding the squirrels.
As I was crunching up some peanuts in my [...]
