Boy’s week
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 Posted in kids | No Comments »A couple weeks ago, my wife went on a cruise with her mom and her sister. This is like the 4th year in a row they've done it. It also worked out that my sister invited my daughter to spend ...
The Leprechauns!
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in kids | 1 Comment »The daycare my kids go to did a bunch of St. Patrick's Day related things. One of them was that the leprechaun's came out and played all kinds of tricks in their rooms. The teachers got the kids out of the ...
Exercising to play
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in kids | No Comments »We have a Wii that my son and daughter (and of course - me) like to play. Recently it's been quite cold out, and in the last couple weeks of winter, we've found ourselves playing video games more often than ...
The amazing underpants alarm
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 Posted in kids | 1 Comment »My son is a very deep sleeper. He always has been. He sleeps long, hard and deep. He's hard to wake up in the middle of the night. My wife and I think it is for those reasons that he's never ...
Valley Model Trains
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 Posted in kids | No Comments »My son's always been nuts about trains. Recently, we went to an open house at a local model train club. We learned that we could go back twice a month and actually drive a train.  We finally did that tonight.  He and ...
Reading Incentives - Paying Off
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 Posted in kids | 1 Comment »Â Apparently the reading incentives we (mostly my wife) have implemented are really paying off. Today my son, who's in kindergarten, started going to the 1st grade class for reading. Only 2 other kids went up to the first grade level ...
Incentivizing Reading
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 Posted in kids | No Comments »My son is a fairly new reader, but he's doing pretty well so far. He just doesn't have much interest in reading to us. My wife recently initiated a scheme of giving my son rewards for reading books. She created a ...
Webkinz
Sunday, September 16th, 2007 Posted in kids | 1 Comment »Â Webkinz (www.webkinz.com) is as hot as the old Cabbage Patch Kids, or the Tickle Me Elmo was back in their day. The difference is, it's actually cool. Webkinz are cheap little stuffed animals that come with a unique ID that allows you access ...
My son’s first vacation
Monday, August 6th, 2007 Posted in kids | 1 Comment »We dropped off my son at my sister's place yesterday for his first vacation. My sister lives about 4 hours away and has 2 kids about the same age as ours and a third that's about two. This will be ...
Now THAT is a Good Tickl’n
Monday, July 16th, 2007 Posted in kids | 1 Comment »My 5yr old son was in a fun mood this evening. I was playing with him on the floor and started tickling him. It was one of those "no please don't" moods that really means YES YES, PLEASE DO! Sometimes he ...