This past Tuesday evening, The Wife and I partook in one of the most heavily anticipated yet utterly useless rites of pregnancy – the tour of the hospital. Most hospitals are exactly the same on the inside, but neither one of us had actually been in this particular hospital before. We figured it was worth [...]
Sometimes there are things that a parent just can’t fix. I guess someday it’ll be friends moving away, pets dying and broken hearts. Tonight it’s something a little less devastating in the long run, but it’s still a crisis of epic proportions for a five-year-old: The Boy left his beloved stuffed animal at school today.
So, while I was catching up on sleep and not blogging, The Boy celebrated his fifth birthday. That’s right – not only am I a parent, apparently I’ve been one for half a decade now. Time flies when you’re changing diapers and watching hour after hour of Thomas and Friends.
Today was far more productive than yesterday, but that’s not saying a whole lot. After yesterday, merely rolling out of bed and taking a shower seemed like a major achievement. My parents came into town today to help my brother stock his new apartment, so we made the trip to Sam’s and Target and bought [...]
Well, now that there actually is a baby and we’ve determined the gender (allegedly), The Wife and I have dusted off the ol’ baby name books and come to one simple conclusion. You really only need three things to publish a baby name book: The ability to copy the work of others A publisher who thinks [...]
As I mentioned last time, The Boy started at his new preschool last week. His previous school was close to our old apartment and my old job, but it was just too far once we bought our house and I changed jobs. Getting out there and back to work/home was a thirty-minute process and ate [...]
Yesterday was the big day. Well, not THE big day. I suppose that’s still about four months away. But it was the other big day – the 20th week ultrasound. It took a while for the ultrasound technician to zero in on the necessary hardware but we found out the information that we were looking [...]
Growing up, there were some children’s books that I found to be just flat-out creepy. I guess it was probably the illustrations that got to me moreso than the actual story content, but even today, there are certain books that evoke a knee-jerk rejection when I see them or hear their titles. Pretty much any [...]
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