Well, last weekend wasn’t your typical weekend in the W. household. Our ordinary D&D game had been cancelled, so my wife seized the opportunity to transport some furniture that she’d been meaning to move. This, quite naturally, left me home with our son for a sizable portion of the day. Now, like most working fathers, [...]
Before I was a parent, I never agreed with the idea of spanking children. I wasn’t standing on soap boxes preaching about it or anything, but, when the subject arose, I was fond of arguing that there are better ways of disciplining children. “Punish them when necessary,” I would say, “but never physically.” That was, [...]
Okay, so it turns out that my recent blog renovations aren’t complete after all. I started by changing the photo album from a static page into a new blog category for my wife. The immediate afterthought, of course, was, “Why not do it for the whole section?” After all, the subject matter is already here; [...]
Just in the past year or so have my nephew William (almost 4) and my son Izzy (almost 2) been able to play together. They LOVE to go to Grammy’s house and play in her new puppy’s cage. In and out, in and out. It’s like a fort for little boys. How fun! Izzy even [...]
Ronny, my brother, has hit some rough roads in his life and we offered to take him in. He’s happy having somewhere to stay, but oh my goodness Izzy absolutely LOVES him! The first night he came to stay, Izzy wouldn’t go to bed. It got to about 11pm and he still wanted to stay [...]
If you ever come to visit. Keep your shoes on!!! My son LOVES SHOES. He wakes up in the morining, he may not even be wearing pants and he wants me to put his shoes on him! He wants to wear my shoes and Daddy’s shoes. His own shoes with Uncle Ronny’s shoes over top. [...]
Oh my goodness. What has Daddy done to you?! Only kidding, honey. I actually thought it would be cute to dress Izzy up like his daddy. Unfortunately, Izzy doesn’t have anything but screen prints on his shirts so I thought no shirt would be the next most appropriate thing. Oh, and my son has inherited [...]
This is a collection of pictures that I thought would be a nice group photo. The blanket is the best one. When he wears that, he runs around the room with his arms flailing around until he runs into a chair or a wall. He falls down, laughs about it, then gets back up and [...]
Ugh! Izzy has taken it upon himself to get Mommy and Daddy up in the morining by jumping out of his crib. So, I decided it was time to make it a “big boy” bed. That wasn’t the solution. Now he gets out of bed a dozen times before he finally falls asleep. And on [...]
For some reason, Izzy loves to clap on his head. He thinks it’s the greatest thing next to tea. Tea is still #1 after a year. Anyway, I think this picture more or less speaks for itself. They really are a lot alike. For one, my mother-in-law used to tell me a story of my [...]