Ahh, Daschunds, the lovable, goofy, just plain bizarre-looking wiener dog. My wife and I adopted a wiener-pup over five years ago. We were told he was a tweenie, not quite a mini, up to 7 pounds, but not a massive standard dog, either. But the breeder was wrong. Our dog Friday is a beast. To read the whole post and see some adorable pictures of Friday through th years, click over to the Lighter Side. [...]

A recent article was released saying that children under 2 should not watch any TV because it can retard a child’s ability to learn new vocabulary.  And that may be true… if parents use it as a crutch instead of interacting with the child.  My child has been watching Dora and Diego and other Noggin shows since he was one and a half, and I can honestly say he has had no trouble learning new [...]

And not for the obvious reasons.  You see my child has a peculiar collection going.  He loves toothbrushes.  He has about ten of them at any given time.  They come and they go.  Sometimes he’ll leave one on the floor, where the dog will find it and proceed to destroy it.  Sometimes one will simply disappear, presumably into the same blackhole that eats my socks.  And when he loses one, he wants another. Months ago, [...]

Hilarious potty training stories. Nathan is just 2 years old, and 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.  [...]

So we went to my wife’s sister’s house on Sunday for a little birthday gathering, and she has all of this leftover food prepared for my two year old: Beef and noodles, potatoes, string beans, sweet potato and a variety of other things.  Does he want any of this?  Of course not! What does he want?  Yummy beets, the onions that are stewing in the beet juice, and plain avocado chunks in lemon sauce.  It’s just [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]