My daughter has officially had her first experience getting stuck in a tree.

Last night, I was sorting laundry as my daughter watched.

"I'm a PC, and I do laundry."

Let me preface. Our Daughter has just turned five years old as of the moment I bean typing this entry, more or less. She has also developed a relatively independent streak the has only gotten stronger since her adjustment to her brother in the house. This includes bath time. So we basically help her fill the tub, lay out the supplies and ( Read more... )

Leaving out a longer and more detailed conversation, my wife was saying something about our daughter's sanity to which I replied:
"Her what?"
My Wife: "Sanity"
Me: "Her what?"
My wife: "Sanity"
Our Daughter: "What's sanity?"
Me: "Exactly"

We realized recently that our daughter still lacks the cultural context of the "Holy Trilogy." So with the conclusion of another Wiscon, we decided to rent the old Starwars movies and watch them over the next few nights. We are still watching the first one now ( Read more... )

Recently I was talking to my daughter about what she wants to be when she grows up. She replied that she wanted to be a queen. I explained to her that in order to become a queen she would have to move to another country and marry a prince or a king somewhere since neither her mother or I were any kind of royalty. This did nothing to ( Read more... )

This one is actually several days old, but its a goody. I was not witness. Instead I have it as related to me by my wife ( Read more... )

My wife was looking online at kid beds and bed frames, checking prices and seeing if there were any that my daughter would like ( Read more... )

Hello Dave. My wife and I have been watching a BBC program on DVD known as "The League of Gentlemen". This is not directly relevant to my daughter's quote, but helps set it up nicely. We had just finished the disk for series 3. I turned to my family, my wife and I rousing from our televioson slumber and my daughter having risen from actual ( Read more... )

Tonight I gave her a bath. After getting her fully washed, it has become custom for me to let her be so she can play and I can rest my back before getting her out. Shallow tub, three year old girl, I figure she' safe enough as long as I keep my ears open ( Read more... )