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Kids & Family

• Existential Insights, Kids & Family

  Birthdays Birthdays Birthdays

  10.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  From coops 4th bd

  My wife had a Birthday.  I had a Birthday.  Cooper turned 4 and we had a pony and petting zoo.  Enough with the birthdays!  This is costing us a fortune!  Give us a break!  I get it–I am old.  Everyone I know is getting older.  The little ones get cute, and my wife [...]

• Kids & Family

  Rockin’ 10th Birthday

  08.21.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  From Maddy 10th Bi…

  Our daughter has turned 10.  She got a pink guitar, and has already learned two chords, and written about a dozen songs based on these two chords.  How did this all happen, and how did it hapen so fast?

• Kids & Family

  Addison Oaks 2008

  08.18.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  We had our annual family trip to the Addison Oaks County Park, and it was fun, if by “fun” you mean “eventful” and if by “eventful” you mean that my poor 8-year old niece fell off a bike and scraped her face and broke her arm, and her Dad got posion ivy, and her girlfriend [...]

• Kids & Family

  Synchro 2008

  08.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  2008 Pleasant Ridge Synchronized Swimming show was last night.  Take that, Olympics!

• Kids & Family, Vacation Excitement

  Ocean

  08.13.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  When we were at Old Orchard Beach in Maine, my daughter wanted to borrow our digital camera and take a video of the ocean, I said sure, knock yourself out.  But as she took the video, I started to worry about the amount of memory left on the camera, and kept going “OK, that’s enough!”  Of course, [...]

• Kids & Family

  10 Things I Tell My Children Every Day

  08.11.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Daddy loves you.
  Could you please lower your voice?  You’re being kind of loud.
  You are so smart, you can be anything you want to be.
  I asked you before–lower your voice!
  Great job!
  I don’t care if your brother hit you, that is no excuse to hit him back.
  Zip your lips.  Zip it.  Zip!  It!
  That’s it.  No TV.  No [...]

• Kids & Family

  It’s Summer!

  07.30.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Some people asked me why I haven’t been posting to the blog lately.  Did I mention…it’s Summer!

• Kids & Family

  East Coast Vacation 2008

  07.07.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Taking our annual trip to the East Coast to see my folks.  This iteration incudes two days in Maine.  As of Day 5 of this 10 -day extravaganza, we have petted goats, sat for an hour in a Customs line lsitening to songs from the 60’s, ate way too much ice cream, played glow-in-the-dark put-put [...]

• Kids & Family, Poor Character Traits, Things That Worry Dads

  Why Being A Clever Dad Is Not A Good Idea (part IVX)

  05.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  So I’m getting the car ready this morning, and my Son is watching TV and eating mini-donuts.  Lately his allegiance has changed from cinnamon donuts to powdered donuts.  So Coop looks at me and goes:  “Dad!  I’ve got donuts!” 
  Me:  “Great!”
  Coop:  “White donuts!”
  Me (without thinking): “White power!”
  Coop (standing up, thrusting fist in air): “White Power!”
  I was [...]

• Kids & Family, School Days

  Science Fair!

  05.16.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Maddy won 2nd place at the Science Fair yesterday.  Her topic was “The boiling and freezing points of salt vs. sugar”.  First prize went to something like “Sucking venom from poisonous snake bites virtual reality seminar”.  There were a lot of very interesting presentations, and some stuff I would never have thought of.  Who knew it [...]

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