Lately little man has been acquiring quite the vocabulary, so much so that I have to think twice about what comes out of my mouth for fear that he will repeat it. For the longest time the only things he really said were were ‘kitty’, ‘mum’ and ‘spoon’ and I began to get a little [...]
A year in the life
December 31, 2009 By 32 Comments
As 2009 winds down I took a quick look back at how little man changed over the past twelve months. It has been a great year getting to know all of you and I appreciate you taking time out of your lives to learn a little more about mine. After a rough start to the [...]
The Scoop on ‘Two Sons for Two Brothers’
July 30, 2009 By 10 Comments
A week ago today my brother and his girlfriend welcomed their little man into the world. It was an exciting and exhausting day for them as they marked the start of their family. My family and I had the opportunity to visit them at the hospital and we came bearing the gift of dinner. When [...]
Random Feeding Thoughts
July 28, 2009 By 22 Comments
A week ago Sunday my wife and I were able to escape the bonds of parenthood and catch a movie for the first time since before our son was born. While we were enjoying the new Harry Potter movie, our son was busy showing Grammie where she could find his dinner. I got a big [...]
Any Major Dad Will Tell You: The Devoted Dad
July 21, 2009 By 1 Comment
In today’s final installment of the ‘Any Major Dad’ series we have Jason a/k/a The Devoted Dad. Jason is a fellow minivan driver, the father of two and is married to wowife. If you haven’t check out his blog, you should, but after you read a little more from him here RMDM: How has being [...]
The Scoop on ‘Trampoline Fun’
July 9, 2009 By 5 Comments
While we were on vacation last month we had the opportunity to visit with one of my wife’s friends that she has known since elementary school. After we had dinner and took some time to catch up, we all went outside to let the kids run around in their expansive back yard. Next to their [...]
Any Major Dad Will Tell You: The Mister
June 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
For Father’s Day I put together the ‘Any Major Dad Will Tell You’ series of interviews with some friends of mine who are fathers to provide a different perspective on things. About a month ago I had a post offering up an open casting call to all of my friends at Dad-Blogs to get profiled [...]
Any Major Dad Will Tell You: Jason
June 19, 2009 By 14 Comments
Image by Qai & Riley’s Dad, Arnel via Flickr On Today’s final installment of the ‘Any Major Dad Will Tell You’ series I’m pleased to be joined by one of my best friends – Jason. We became fraternity brothers back in 1995 and our friendship has grown over the years. We have celebrated each other [...]
Any Major Dad Will Tell You: Jim
June 18, 2009 By 3 Comments
Image via Wikipedia The next contestant on ‘Any Major Dad Will Tell You’ is one of the smartest guys I know, and one of the few guys I went to college with that are actually using his education in his career. I met Jim through my friend Greg who also happened to be college roommates [...]
Any Major Dad Will Tell You: CC Chapman
June 17, 2009 By 6 Comments
Image by lunaweb via Flickr For those of you who read my ‘Five Questions: Podcasts‘ over at ‘The Crossroads’ on Dad-blogs, you will be familiar with our next contestant: C.C. Chapman. C.C. and I went to Bentley together and had friends in the same circles, but didn’t really know each other until after school when [...]
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