Two blogs on fatherhood in one night.  I must be drunk.  Or extremely tired.  Anyway, as you all know, its a scary world out there.  And as parents, all you can do is… well, the best you can do.  And at some point, you have to accept that what your children do is out of your hands. I spent some time with my brother tonight.  He’s 19 years old, just finished his Freshman year at [...]

Two-year-olds are funny creatures.  The are almost like butterflies as compared to caterpillars, a beast of a completely different nature.  They develop personality.  They develop actual memory.  They sort of become real people.  And it is a scary thing.  And its a giant pain in the ass. I have to say, the absolute funniest thing about Nathan, my two-year-old son, is his constant narrative.  He reminds me of Peter Griffin from an episode of Family [...]

Time to switch my focus away from politics and Spongebob and TV and comic books for a couple of minutes and return to the fatherhood mindset, because quite a few things have happened in the past couple of weeks.  My wife gave birth to my second child, a little girl, and life has definitely changed.  I remember when my son Nathan was born.  My wife and I spent so much time with him as an [...]

Hilarious potty training stories. Nathan is not two yet, but my wife has decided to start potty training him.  She must have taught him the word penis, because I sure as heck didn’t. My wife told me to show him how to pee while sitting down.  I prefer not to.  I think he’s smart enough to watch me pee standing up.  Anyway, before bath time, he’ll sit on his potty and watch me pee.  And [...]

My son has been walking for a while now, ever since he was 1 year old.  And he’s been running ever since he’s been walking.  Hey, the kid has places to go.  But never very far, and never on anything other than carpet or hardwood.  And his legs and knees have withstood the damage. But now we have the perfect storm: Nathan loves to run.  LOVES it, like Forrest Gump  loved it.  The weather is warm, [...]

About a month ago, when my wife started getting bigger and the imminent birth of my second child slowly became reality, my thoughts travelled back to 2 years ago, when Nathan was born. I’m not saying that those days when my wife was in the hospital were the best days of my life, but man, were they relaxing.  Just me and the dog at home (a daschund names Friday who weighs 27 pounds).  I could [...]

Life was just getting settled into a nice, predictable routine.  My one and a half year sleeps through the night, I can watch most of my television shows within a day of their airing, I am mostly caught up on my comic book reading, and I can play my Wii a couple hours a week.  But BAM!  The reality of my second child coming, and coming swiftly, has sucker punched me.  The baby isn’t even [...]