My daughter entered a drawing in the Natrel Milk Box Art contest. If you all would be so kind as to vote for her submission please? Search for 470 at http://snipurl.com/2e65b Thanks! That’s right, I’m shamelessly harnessing the power of the internet to get votes for my 5 year old’s contest entry. Hey, it seemed [...]
Archive for the ‘kids’ Category
20 May
a trip to emergency
Our darling 3 yo walked into the kitchen before dinner and announced that she “had put something in her nose at Poh-poh’s house today.” My wife was prepping dinner, and I was sleeping lying down on the couch. DW: “You did? Oh-oh. You shouldn’t do that.” the Comic: “I know.” DW: “What did you put [...]
14 Mar
growing tall enough
Today the Comic passed a momentous milestone: she’s tall enough to go into the IKEA Smaland playroom. W00t! Update: If you see her, don’t hype it up too much, because she hasn’t actually gone in yet, they just went and checked her against the height measurement line. Somehow, I’m sure I’ll be writing about her [...]
18 Feb
Tofutti soy-cheese slices
Our youngest has food allergies. A lot of them. Part of the struggle with food allergic children is finding ‘normal’ foods that allow them to feel like regular kids. One of the hardest things to find is a good non-dairy cheese, but we finally found one that comes in slices. Now normally cheese slices aren’t [...]
12 Feb
Our new aquarium
For the Linguist’s birthday this year we got an aquarium, and we finally stocked it with some fish last week. Why the delay? Well, when you’re starting out in the fishkeeping hobby, you don’t usually realize that you can’t just buy a tank and add the fish right away, you have to make sure the [...]
15 Jan
an incident, a laugh, a reaction, and a knot
Today I worked all day at the studio and then went straight to a committee meeting at church, so I didn’t get home till 9:45PM. DW was holding down the fort tonight, and as I was driving home from the meeting she called me to tell me that something happened at home. While she was [...]
4 Jan
tech support
The other day the Linguist asked me to change the settings in her user account so that Firefox would launch in the default search page, and not automatically go to uptoten. That way she could go to tvokids or pbskids if she wants. My five year old. My five year old is more computer literate [...]
18 Dec
how did I do this?
How did I manage to raise a mouthy stubborn almost-5 year old? I should explain. The Linguist is my oldest. She’ll be 5 in January. She’s intelligent, capable, reads incredibly well, is learning piano, loves to draw, know her way around OSX and Windows… all the things a geek dad could hope for. But when [...]
13 Dec
speaking of winter
One of my favourite things to do when I was a kid was sliding on ice. I know, it doesn’t sound that exciting, but bear with me. At school, in the parking lot, there were often these long stretches of uninterrupted, smooth as glass, ice slicks. We would take a good run at these ice [...]
12 Dec
oh yes, welcome to winter
I’ve been kind of busy the last week or so at the studio, so I’ve not had a lot of time to blog. Sorry! I did, however, change the header image to better reflect the season (ie. snowy winter). It’s been a while since we had such an early white, and hopefully we’ll even have [...]
