The first of many questions
Posted on May 26, 2008 - Filed Under The Daily Doodle, Parenting | Leave a Comment
Maggie has entered another phase, that of relentlessly presenting the same question despite being given the answer early on in the series. The most frequent questions are, “Where going?” (translation–”Where are we going?”) and “Doing?” (translation–”What are you doing?”). Seriously, she will ask ten times in one minute and there’s no getting her to stop. […]
Read More..>>“Ok, we’ll see you later…have a good day at work”
Posted on April 12, 2008 - Filed Under The Daily Doodle, Parenting | Leave a Comment
Something kind of bizarre happened today. Maggie has grown to the point, in both her height and finger dexterity, that she can open our front and back doors. Her speaking ability has also grown by leaps and bounds of late. Lastly, her characteristic independence has done nothing but become more pronounced. All three of these […]
Read More..>>Upcoming milestone
Posted on February 21, 2008 - Filed Under The Daily Doodle, This site, Parenting | Leave a Comment
We will soon enter into a new era, that of the two year old. Other things about this are a whole lot more important but the thought occurred to me that some out there might want to know what Maggie wants for her birthday. To make it easy, I have put a link over to […]
Read More..>>Sometimes, growing up is hard
Posted on January 7, 2008 - Filed Under Outdoors, The Daily Doodle, Parenting | 2 Comments
Maggie got her first fat lip this weekend. She fell down on the playground equipment and bounced her face off of it. Her Mama laughed at her when we returned home; supposedly, it’s a defense mechanism but I don’t believe it.
Please ignore the snot–it’s not the point of the picture.
Dancin’ fool
Posted on December 4, 2007 - Filed Under Videos, The Daily Doodle | Leave a Comment
Remember when Erin mentioned Maggie dancing? Well, we thought you might appreciate seeing the future international dance star in action. The tune is “Itsy-Bitsy Spider” from that same CD. The really cool thing is that, to our knowledge, no one has shown here how to ‘dance’–she just sort came up with it on her own…yes, […]
Read More..>>Parenting–the best job you’ll ever have(?)
Posted on December 3, 2007 - Filed Under Whine with my cheese, Adult swim, The Daily Doodle, Parenting | 1 Comment
Well, I guess we have arrived. That’s right–we are now residents of ‘terrible twos’ land and boy, is the weather bad. Obviously, Maggie won’t actually be two years old for another few months but if there is any truth to the idea of the terrible twos, she sure is evidence of it.
Everything–and I mean EVERYTHING–is […]
Tingalayo
Posted on November 22, 2007 - Filed Under The Daily Doodle | 2 Comments
Last night after Maggie’s bath, she was full of energy. We usually let her run around the house naked after her bath becuase she truly enjoys it. She will run through the house giggling trying to get away with not having to put on any clothes. Last night while Jason was watching Criminal Minds I […]
Read More..>>An early superstar?
Posted on October 3, 2007 - Filed Under Videos, The Daily Doodle | 5 Comments
Cherish this video…Maggie may someday be a great performer of some kind and this is one of her first videotaped performances. (She’s not great at it but she just recently learned the song and the movements.)
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Our electronically savvy 18.5 month old
Posted on October 1, 2007 - Filed Under The Daily Doodle, Parenting | 4 Comments
For some time now, we have noticed an interesting phenomenon displayed in the behavior of our little Nugget. When we are carrying her and heading toward the living room, especially the couch, she begins to cry. It’s all over if we try to sit down. This happens unless we emphatically tell her we are going […]
Read More..>>Back to work, well sort of…
Posted on September 8, 2007 - Filed Under The Daily Doodle | 1 Comment
Last week I started substitute teaching in the local primary school (K-4). My first class I worked for was 3rd grade on the second day of school. Fortunately the automated computer program used to find substitutes had a glitch and hired 2 subs for that day. No training was offered for beginner substitute teachers (crazy!) […]
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