The three hour stand-off
Posted on August 18, 2009 - Filed Under Parenting | Leave a Comment
Our three year old had a three hour stand-off with us on Saturday. Recently, Maggie has been refusing to eat anything healthy so I decided on Saturday morning I would make her yummy oatmeal with fruit and pink sprinkles. Of course, Maggie refused to eat it so we told her she couldn’t leave her chair […]
Read More..>>Stupid town, stupid laws
Posted on July 4, 2009 - Filed Under Whine with my cheese, And your point is?, Adult swim, Parenting, Uncategorized | 2 Comments
As you may have noticed from some of the pictures posted in the last couple of days, Maggie and I went to the Daniel Dopps 4th Annual Memorial Rodeo here in Mountain Home last Saturday night. It was a good time overall, though there was something that got to me.
It happened almost as soon as […]
Call a thing by its name
Posted on July 2, 2009 - Filed Under The Daily Doodle, Parenting | Leave a Comment
The context:
We were getting ready to head into town to visit the local municipal swimming pool. Maggie was in the process of changing into her bathing suit. As she is prone to do, she was running around naked and dancing. I had her bathing suit, which she needed a little help getting into.
The dialogue:
Daddy: Maggie, […]
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet”—Rousseau
Posted on June 28, 2009 - Filed Under Whine with my cheese, And your point is?, Adult swim, Parenting | 1 Comment
You would think that if you’ve been through something once, you would have learned from it. Well, as it turns out, that’s not always true, at least when it comes to Erin and I. In the lead up to Wyatt’s delivery, we were incredibly anxious—impatient, even—for him to finally get here. In fact, one day […]
Read More..>>Update
Posted on June 21, 2009 - Filed Under Adult swim, The Daily Doodle, Parenting | 2 Comments
Well, the most frequently asked question at this point is, “How is everyone doing?” So here’s an update:
Wyatt is doing well. He needed to be tested for something called bilirubin. Apparently, it is a precursor to juandice and is not a big deal provided the child is watched well in the days immediately following the […]
Welcome to the world, Little Man
Posted on June 19, 2009 - Filed Under Parenting | 5 Comments
Wyatt Hayes was born at 11:01pm Thursday 18 June. He weighed 8lbs 12oz and measured 19.5 inches. He appears to be completely healthy.
Compared to Maggie’s birth, Wyatt’s was much closer to the movie stereotype. Erin woke me up at 10:45pm in a little bit of a panic because her water had just broke. We had […]
OMG somebody save me!
Posted on June 3, 2009 - Filed Under The Daily Doodle, Parenting | Leave a Comment
Mornings with Maggie usually brings a bit of frustration - she’s three, I except that fact. It’s normal. Basically she is slow - slow to eat, slow to get dressed, slow to put on her shoes and slow to get into her car seat. She is slow whether she wants to go to school that […]
Read More..>>Still here!
Posted on May 27, 2009 - Filed Under Adult swim, Parenting | Leave a Comment
I am tired tonight but am making a veggie pizza for my work picnic tomorrow. It is my last full week of work so we all decided to do a cookout for my going-away party!
The University I work for decided to close up the site here in Idaho. I proposed a deal that I would […]
Who’s in his 30’s? Surely not me
Posted on February 19, 2009 - Filed Under And your point is?, Adult swim, Parenting | 5 Comments
It is undoubtedly a duty of parenthood to teach children some of the things they can do to be mischievous. Such was my goal when we went to TGI Friday’s this past weekend. (We normally don’t eat there but I got an email from a co-worker entitling the holder to a buy-one get-one-free entree deal. […]
Read More..>>A Prince for my Princess
Posted on February 17, 2009 - Filed Under The Daily Doodle, Parenting | Leave a Comment
For those of you who haven’t heard (which is pretty much everyone) – we are having a boy! Although Maggie really wanted a sister, I think she is adjusting well to the idea of having a brother– she has a plan to use her magic wand to turn her brother into a sister once he […]
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