01
Nov
Blogger Idol 2012 – Week 6: Pay It Forward
This week on Blogger Idol, everyone gets a car!
Not really, but it’s almost as generous.
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Tag: toddlers
19
Oct
Teach Impediment
The reality of being a dad has a way of completely upending your pre-parent expectations.
A few months ago, I wrote about looking forward to the “Rose Is Rose” portion of toddlerhood, in which my son would babble adorably and I’d be forced to puzzle out what he was saying. Like a sophisticated, more intelligent version of The Da Vinci Code (with much less Jesus but a much better vocabulary).
Unfortunately, it’s not difficult to decipher my sons favorite words, most of which revolve around refusing to eat things, refusing to do things and refusing to stop doing things. It’s not really that adorable.
The funny pages lied to me.
18
Oct
Zombie Post: And I Thought Babies Were Crazy!
About two years ago, barely more than a month into the whole “Wow, I own a baby!” thing, I wrote a post comparing babies to lunatics. I’ve resurrected it below. Little did I know that toddlers were about 8000 times more insane. Sure, they’re more fun than babies but they are a lot more unpredictable.Read more about Zombie Post: And I Thought Babies Were Crazy![…]
17
Oct
Blogger Idol 2012: Week 4 – It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Me Begging For Votes!
It’s that time again!
Time for me to grovel for votes.
I’ve survived another week, but there’s no guarantee I’ll survive this one, and I DEFINITELY won’t without your help.
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17
Oct
Everything in its Right Place?
The kid loves puzzles.
Alphabet puzzles, number puzzles, animal puzzles, etc. If he’s not begging to watch Winnie the Pooh or read his Thomas the Tank Engine book, he’s carrying a puzzle over and sitting on my lap to do it.
Unfortunately for me, watching him do puzzles is excruciating.