Hey all you logical people who put the day before the month: it’s still 11/11/13! Now that’s out of the way, let’s talk about taking two small children to the park for a “hike”. Is it possible? Define “hike”. If…
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Let’s Talk Compromise
I’ve learned many things in becoming a parent and one of the biggest is that I’m stubborn and argumentative. How do you argue with a one-year old? How do you argue with a five-year old? Is it worth it? Answers: …
Posted in Parenting, Uncategorized Tagged with: democrats, government, parenting, politics, republicans, shutdown, temper tantrums, toddlers
FIRETRUCK!!
Ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod! It’s huge! Much bigger than I thought. Bigger than the one at preschool. I think it’s bigger than a table, even. Can I open this panel? I really really really want to open it. With that handle…
Posted in Parenting, Products Tagged with: fire truck, firefighters, moustache, number two, parenting, trucks
On Writing a Blog
One of the benefits of steady writing is the chance to inadvertently spit out a gem among all the chaff. A gem would not be the previous sentence where I mixed metaphors and generally muddled the point. Here’s what I…
Music That Makes My Son Cry
Surely there’s some music in your life that you hold in reserve, something that drills through the layers of carapace and emotional ossification and gets to your heart. When you allow yourself to hear this music it unlocks a pure…
Tooth, Lost
What’s so great about losing a tooth? Is it the distinctive feel of a gap in your smile, a place through which your tongue can wriggle like a worm through pebbles? Maybe it’s the clear transition from little-kid status to…
Too Big to Understand
I’ve been thinking about issues of scale recently. I am working on a 10-story office building at work and when you’ve looked at lines on paper for a long time you forget about the massive scale of the real building. …
Posted in Parenting, San Diego Tagged with: locomotive, museum, number two, parenting, scale, titan, train, trucks
Ground Bound
When you’re half the height of an adult human you live in a completely different stratum. Instead of teetering around on stilt legs you scuttle around near the ground like a millipede. Falling down is no problem—you can practically bounce…
Posted in Parenting Tagged with: activity table, cars, floor, number two, parenting, toddlers, train table, trains, trucks
The Day a Firetruck Came to Our House and Other Fine Adventures
You have no idea what an exciting world we live in. Really, you don’t. Maybe your synapses are scorched, your eyes filmed over, your heart ossified, but there are everyday things around us that are REALLY AMAZING. I took Number…
Flying With Toddlers, Part Two
The long return from our vacation required us to cross the continent, and like the return leg of a boomerang’s flight, we were losing energy and altitude fast. Since Child Harbat is staying an extra two weeks with grandparents on…
Posted in Events, Parenting Tagged with: airplane, airport, flying with toddlers, number two, parenting, richard scarry, travel
