[caption id="attachment_453" align="alignleft" width="226" caption="our little monster"][/caption]Well, it's happened, although in a different way than last year. Last year we had a mouthy JK-er. This year our little adorable nearly 4 yo has turned into a stubborn, opinionated, defiant child. Sometimes.
We're not sure what it is. DW and I theorize ...
I've noticed in the mornings a correlation between how the kids behave and whether or not I do the dishes before leaving for school & work.
If I do the dishes, the kids seem to take that as a cue to behave, play nicely, and get ready when I'm finished without ...
So, here we are with another first: the first report card. The Linguist almost forgot to give it to us, it was only after dinner as she was washing her hands that she suddenly remembered, "Oh! I got my report card today! It's in my bag! Oh! And there's some ...
If you've ever gazed down to the bottom of my sidebar, you'll notice that I have some buttons down there. Among them are a couple of popularity meters, like technorati and feedburner subscribers. I don't put them there to show off, because to be frank the numbers are low. I'm ...
Well, you're not so little anymore, and you're the big sister whose job it is to break ground ahead of your little sister, and you're doing a great job of it! And even though you drive me crazy sometimes, "I love you anyway"! I always love you, no matter what.
I'm ...
For Christmas we got a Nintendo Wii game system "for our kids". Since living with the system for a few weeks, I have a few thoughts on gaming with little kids, and playability of games for a 3 and a 5 year old. Please note that these observations are strictly ...
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 ...
I'm a dad, Mac user, and sometime geek. I hold two jobs as a music pastor and recording engineer, and do photography on the side. This is my place to brain dump.
