After Ruby’s crash and subsequent new bicycle, we didn’t know what to do with her old bike. Since it was just sitting there not helping anyone, and it had no brakes, I decided to convert it into a balance bike. For those of you who don’t know, a balance bike is basically a regular bike, […]
Category Archives: Ruby
A Never Ending Game of Charades
We have a new game at our house. It is not a fun game, and we don’t play it because we want to, but we play it all the time. Actually, I should amend that statement. The parents don’t play it because they want to. Ruby loves to play this new game, and this is […]
Tenor Dad Goes Bowling
Kids love bowling. This is a true fact, and even though my kids had never been bowling before, I knew that they would love it. Because they are kids. And kids love bowling. They have played Wii bowling before, and they loved that. They also have played home bowling using a rubber ball and some […]
How Ruby Got a New Bike
Yesterday I decided to do something ambitious. I had taken the kids biking several times before, down to the lake, around the block, down the street to get slurpees, and to a couple of different playgrounds, but all of those trips were relatively short. For some reason I got it into my head yesterday that […]
Children and the Death of Ego
If there’s one thing that your children will quickly take from you, it is your ego. They are straight shooters who tell it like it is, and even if they don’t always understand what they are saying, you can be sure that when you have a conversation with a child, it will be stripped of […]
First Night in a Big Boy Bed
It had to happen eventually. As much as we wanted to contain our two-year-old in a crib forever, we knew the time would come when we would have to unleash him on the world, sleeping unrestrained in a big boy bed. Since I have been having back problems, and lifting him in and out of […]
Eat Your Damn Cheese
If you don’t have kids, you may not realize exactly how annoying and frustrating they can be. Or maybe you do, and that’s why you don’t have kids. But if you don’t know, allow me to enlighten you. Almost every day for the past few years Ruby has had either a peanut butter and jelly […]
Uncle Bear
I don’t know exactly at what point Ruby’s favorite toy became her teddy bear, but once it happened there was no looking back. A gift from her aunt and uncle at her baptism, the bear slowly but surely moved up the ranks to emerge as the number one toy in Ruby’s life. When she got […]
They Grow Up Too Fast
Every parent knows that their child is growing up too fast; this is just a fact of life. I am never surprised to encounter my own feelings of loss when one of my children moves on to a new phase in life or outgrows something that I still enjoy. What did surprise me was that […]
Passport Pictures of Children
It is not easy to get a good passport picture of a small child. I knew this in advance because my sister-in-law recently had passport photos taken of her 2 year and 2 month old children, and she told me tales of trying to hold the baby’s head up and needing many tries to get […]