March 2011
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824. Inflated pride
Daddy, you're awesome.
What about you?
I'm great.
What is Mom?
She's beautiful.
September 2010
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825. New conversations
Need your help with this one. So, let’s say that your child wasn’t being bullied. They were the bully. Whether it is a cry for help or a failure to communicate, how do you stop the behavior (so other kids don’t fear the park, school, et cetera)? And I am not talking about your 18 year old, Cobra Kai, body-bag-putting-into Johnny Lawrence, semi sociopath type … I am talking...
826. Where the Wild Things Are.
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved...”
– Maurice Sendak (via bobulate)
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“People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random...”
– 827. Throwing rocks.
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828. Exercise comes more naturally
We just did more than 40 laps around the slide at the nearby play area. 40 laps in little circles, just running, chasing, and throwing rocks. I measured it. 10 laps = 1/4 of a mile. That doesn’t count the run there, back, and all other activities.
June 2010
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830. Playing is one of my requirements of being a...
May 2010
15 posts
“Now that I’ll have a baby I got the perfect excuse to go to Disneyland every...”
– Life’s a Cupcake
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“My 2 1/2 year-old kid is obsessed with Superman. He’s walking around...”
– (via) The Importance of Superman’s Cape
832. Superman’s Cape.
My mother made me a cape when I was little. I loved it. She now makes capes for her grandchildren. Still love it.
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"I adore this picture because Ryan was staring... →
Compliments of my someone else who gets it reblog series. Thanks to nibblesandbits.
Who doesn’t want to be adored like that? (That was rhetorical.)
Reason 833
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“tokyo baby Cafe” by nendo. Taken from gojira (via) original.
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834. A disproportionate amount of space in our house is dedicated to the playroom.
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835. Kids are a really hip accessory right now. →
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“Their success shows the increasing power and earning potential of internet...”
– Maurice Chittenden, The Times
Money money money.
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837. As a toddler, he is pretty much at the end of...
Tonight, my wife and I had a diaper changing race, me like a pit crew with our number 1 and she losing at the wire with our number 2.
What, what.
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“A sure sign of parenthood is swapping the “C” batteries out for use in the...”
– -dad to mom (via atlas42)
Our remote control batteries often end up in our GeoTrax.
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838. My priorities are set and excuses are easily...
Number 2 is getting sick. My wife, Number 1, and I have all been sick, Number 1 most spectacularly by throwing up through the night a few days earlier. This morning I needed to be at work a 6am.
There is something terribly unholy about a marketer getting up before 6. It’s a different crowd that works that early—traders and investment analysts (at least on this side of the country) who bleed...
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839. He honks at the slow people at the grocery...
You know those car-ish grocery carts that are impossible to steer? He loves them. They have two steering wheels, which is perfect for him not sharing. When he gets bored with one, there’s another. He crashes a lot when driving that thing, but has only had one head injury, so we deem that pretty successful. Expert tip: using both belts keeps him steady enough, but watch the U-turns. A small...
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“I like to say that we knew what he’d be like, but he’s even more awesome than we...”
– 840. He teaches me to be less selfish.
The Boom-Boom in My Heart: Lessons from fatherhood: a guest post by Marcel’s dad
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841. You can name him after your boss.
April 2010
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842. He helps me to be adventurous.
Like the other night when I had to climb (again) over the high fence一complete with spikes on top一to retrieve the ball he had launched from our balcony.
Luckily the girls' apartment complex we hung out most at when I was a freshman in college had a high, spiked fence blocking the most direct route.
This recent adventure was a nice refresher.
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843. PB&J is the norm.
Childhood comfort food every day. J = jam. As in someone in the family-made, “Ball” jar, strawberry jam. Not jelly. His J = honey.
I look forward to his teenage years for a similar reason. Pasta-Roni was my college comfort food. Of course, my wife has a huge craving for Shells and White Cheddar when she is expecting, so that has helped me in the interim.
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“I’ve been waiting years for this.”
– 844. He is now old enough to play with GeoTrax.
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846. You can name them after your rich relatives.
Be first: No one likes to share.
Match genders: You may cause offense.
Oh yeah: You'll notice that HE is now THEM.
(that's because I now have two little boys—see two posts back)
It's going to be fun.
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847. I have finally learned all the words to "On...
officiallymymother: “…Last night O requested “On Top of Spaghetti” for the bedtime song….” (image via mordant orange)
The stork circled and landed today at 16:14.
A little boy was delivered weighing in at just over 7 lbs.
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848. He makes our second all the more exciting.
We are now within days or even hours from welcoming child number two. The home is being organized, the baby sitters called, the family on their way.
Last time, it was overwhelming. Questions plagued me, the change to our life consumed me. I asked: What would it be like? Could we handle it? Will we ever get a full night’s sleep again? Will our home ever be clean again? Is he breakable?
And...
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A call for observations →
Most of the people that follow me seem to have a few things in common, one being that many are parents (or have been parents) of young children. Here, today, is my clarion call for your observations. What selfish reasons do you find for having young kids?
Submit your thoughts here.
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849. Messes. They are always his fault.
Always.
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851. The anxiety that comes with providing for him means I have bouts of lower appetite and higher stress. Which means weight loss and salt and pepper hair.
Which my wife totally loves.
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“When life rains on your parade, bring out the slip n’ slide!”
– :)DanceInTheRain(:: Slip N’ Slide
See 853.
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852. He thinks I'm awesome.
Not many other people freak out and break into smiles when they see me.
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853. A "Slip-n-Slide" is totally in the summer... →
Wham-O is the seriously the greatest company in the world. Frisbee. Hula hoop. Slip-n-slide. Wow.
March 2010
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854. He gets me out of shopping.
Like, right now. As I write this.
855. March madness is better with another bracket.
Seriously though, how is he winning? He’s not even 2. He just picks schools with mascots of dogs, cats, and bears.
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858. Swimming is way more fun.
I have never seen him laugh so fully as often and regularly as last night.