When you’re an adult don’t ever think that your idea of fun correlates with your child’s. For the past few years my wife and daughter have gone to Comic-Con and I’ve made periodic forays. This year Number Two was old…
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The Best Part of Comic-Con
Posted in Events, Parenting Tagged with: children, comic-con, convention, monster high, my little pony, parenting, stroller, toddler, trolley
Oh Yeah, Pizza!
It seems like a silly thing to forget, pizza. People are constantly talking about it, folks on TV are eating it, people who work at pizza shops are asked to make complex drawings on pizza boxes. It’s everywhere! So how…
Foraging and Bad Haircuts
My boy learns quickly. On his regular wagon rides around the yard and garden, in which he thrusts his arm forward like a Roman charioteer, we often stop to pick fresh strawberries. Now when I put him down to roam…
Posted in Gardening, Parenting Tagged with: bangs, children, clippers, garden, haircuts, learn from my mistakes, number two, parenting, strawberries
Supposed to be Sleeping
There’s an hour of night when everything is asleep, even the trees and waves and soil. Even the mockingbirds, and they’re the frat boys of the avian world, getting territorial and screaming at all hours of day, then ratcheting it…
Into the Maw
Just so we’re clear, for my New Yawk readers, “Into the Maw” means into the mouth, not into the “mawl”, the place where you go shopping at stow-uhs. So, what goes into the maw of a fifteen-month old? Just about…
Winter of Discontent
I consider myself a healthy person. Throughout much of my twenties and early thirties I almost never got sick. Then Baby Harbat was born and began trawling the seas of preschool bacteria to bring home every sickness possible in rapid…
Number Two on the Move
Seen here on his first birthday, Number Two is exploring mobility. The speed of these things is phenomenal. The day of his first birthday he switched from commando-style-live-fire-under-barbed-wire crawling to the more traditional on-all-fours. The next day he pulled himself…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: children, crawling, food disasters, glass, harry truman, number two, oven, thanksgiving
Architecture for Children
I haven’t talked about my work here before because…well, I’m not sure why except it as nice to have that clean break. Life is not full of clean breaks, however, and things that are important in my work life are…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: architecture, buildings, child development, children, design, infants, kids, toddlers
Swimming With Kids
I’ve grown up in the water. Not like a paramecium or an eel but I have been swimming as long as I can remember. Sometimes it was in a public pool, crammed in among a hundred other kids all trying…
Living Near the Wild
Never forget that we are evolved animals living in a world of wonderful and dangerous creatures. On a family hike I was told by a couple coming in the opposite direction on the trail that there was a rattlesnake up…
