This is a re-post from an older post, so though my daughter has been born and is named, all of the verbs are past tense.  i apologize.  Please don’t hate me. Before my first son was born, I thought that the actual physical preparation would be the toughest part, you know, buying stuff, setting stuff up, getting ready.  But I was wrong.  the hardest part was deciding on a name, and I think that eventually coming [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]