The one thing you can never say to my kindergartener in the morning is “Hurry up.” Well, that and “We’re late.” Saying either of those things will immediately result in a complete meltdown of a crying fit and then you will never get anywhere. What is required is a delicate dance of getting the child […]
Category Archives: Edward
Playing Spiders
Edward has a new favorite game. I don’t know that it has a name, but it always starts out with him making his hands into little spiders and calling out “Oh SPI-ders!” That would be my cue to make my hands into spiders as well and have them crawl over to his spiders. He calls […]
Health Problems That Ought To Go Away If You Ignore Them Long Enough
The human body is a wonderful and resilient thing. No, we can’t grow back a lost limb or anything (sorry Dr. Connors!), but we can build up immunities to diseases we’ve had, and even some that we haven’t! We can adapt to live in warmer or cooler climates, we can turn annoying noises into white […]
A Toddler’s New Year in the Garden of Earthly Delights
New Year’s Eve is kind of a grown up holiday. You stay up really late, generally people are drinking and/or kissing, and the whole thing deals with the marking of time, which kids have very little concept of anyway. This is why having kids totally messes up New Year’s. Kids make Christmas better, and even […]
Bathed By a Baby
It is no secret to parents everywhere that one of the most difficult tasks to accomplish when you are home alone with a two year old is the daily shower taking. Young children either do not want to allow you out of their sight, or else can’t wait for you to occupy yourself so that […]
Gingerbread House Making Party
Some time ago, a year? two years? my wife discovered a blog wherein an annual tradition was described. This family held a gingerbread house making party every year, and we have been talking about doing one ever since. This year we finally got our act together and put one on. Six houses, six families, two […]
Three 8 Second Videos That Prove I Live With a Crazy Person
People. You do not understand what it is like. It is crazy over here. I spend all day, every day, with a crazy person. You can not explain anything to this person, nor can you ever get this person to do what you want, because this person is two years old. And crazy. I know, […]
Sleep Deprivation
I am posting this kind of late today. This because me am so tired. Stupid baby not sleep at night. Make Tenor Dad cry and gnash teeth. And this is the third night in a row. Saturday night, Edward decided to get up around 3 am, and then basically just stay up for the rest […]
How I Killed Magic: The Polar Express
Every year in Vermont (and possibly other places too), The Vermont Children’s Trust Foundation puts together a ridiculously awesome holiday experience known as “The Polar Express.” The event is based on the now-classic children’s book by Chris Van Allsburg, and not really based on the creepy and weird, but for some reason now also classic, […]
Two Year Old Changing a Tire
It’s wintery time again, which means that, for those of us living in the frozen north, it’s time to switch to the winter tires again. Switching the tires on your car is not an easy or fun chore, but isn’t that why we have children? Traditionally children were produced to work in your field and/or […]