The ride to school was fun this morning. Caleb was in a grand mood. We were playing a game where he was pretending to not know Grammy and Pappi were picking him up from school today, and he was trying to guess who WAS picking him up. At one point he said, "Well, today is FRIday, so I MUST be being picked up by a French Fry ( Read more... )

My lovely wife spent the day helping her best friend with the FORMS OF DOOM doom doom. To facilitate this battle with red tape, I took our son Hootiebird out for some time at the park and some grocery shopping. The park trip was entertaining, as he soon made friends and played madly.

The Park

At one point a six year old boy, two years older than my ( Read more... )

My son wants to be a big brother, and his endless campaigning for a younger sibling is getting increasingly shameless ( Read more... )

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whuffle and I recently set things up so our rabbits can have nearly free range in the house. Last night my son was giddy with excitement over the arrival of some "Sid the Science Kid" DVDs we got from woot.com. He sat on a foot rest watching with rapt attention eating strawberries. Every few minutes he would reach down and give a strawberry top to one of ( Read more... )

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Caleb is home sick again, this time being cared for by Whuffle ( Read more... )

Last Friday, Caleb left his hat in the car. I had to dart back out to the car after dropping him off to retrieve it. He took advantage of this to give me one last hug and a kiss before I left for the day. "Bye-bye Daddy! I'll really miss you today ( Read more... )

Whuffle, Hootiebird and I like to occasionally call morrigans_eve when we're having breakfast. This morning I called, got voice mail and left a message. As soon as I hung up Hootiebird said, "Daddy! DADDY! Call morrigans_eve back so I can read her my story. I want to read her "Sheep in a Jeep."

"The phone went straight to voicemail Hootiebird. She's ( Read more... )

This morning, Caleb was drawing on his easel while I was loading the dishwasher. The following exchange occurred.

"Look Daddy! I drew England!"

I looked at the easel and saw a series of dots and marks that, if you squinted your eyes and used your imagination looked vaguely like the UK.

"That's very nice Caleb. Why did you draw England?"

"Because morrigans_eve lives ( Read more... )