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Monthly Archives: July 2004

My Little Boy Is Growing Up

We had our first “big boy” accident. Doodles fell and cut his gum. Copious amounts of blood oozing from my poor boy’s mouth. I suddenly had visions of bruises, scrapes, broken bones, and all the other mishaps that we have ahead of us. Life with an active boy. We were both panicked and screaming and [...]

The Very Model of a Modern Major-Dad

According to everything I read, Doodles is entering that critical point where language development is beginning. “Keep talking to your child, naming and labeling objects and people–the more you do, the faster your child’s vocabulary will grow,” Baby Center tells me. Listening to music, reading books, and talking in great detail to him (“Mommy’s cutting [...]

Veggies Are for Wimps

Ghost Town

The DNC hasn’t effected me much. My plan was to simply avoid the city, but apparently, everyone has that plan, and all reports say that Boston is deserted. All of eastern Massachusetts, it seems, is either on vacation or working from home. I wish I could give you my opinion on what’s going on at [...]

Make Way for the Doodle Duckling

Doodles is into ducks. Whenever he can, he has a rubber duck in his mouth. So, naturally, I’m looking for ducks for him for his birthday (yes, I’m thinking about his birthday. It’s not completely unreasonable. He’s been eleven months old for almost a week now). I was actually thinking of making a rubber ducky [...]

“I Said Cabbage!”

I was going to write a nice long blog tonight, but I discovered that there’s a whole series two of “Angry Kid”.  Blog or Angry Kid? If you even need to ask, then you don’t know me.

Veggie Fruit Fruit Veggie Veggie Fruit Fruit

Well, except without the fruit fruit. We joined a veggie co-op. I thought you might like to see what we got this week. Okay, so maybe you don’t care, but it’s the picture I’ve decided to share with you this week, so here it is:

It’s All a Matter of Time

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” –Annie Dillard Grant, who is a new father himself, wonders about the percentage of my time working versus the percentage of my time spent mothering (or “mommying” as he wrote). While I’m not going to give him the requested chi square (which [...]

Every Picture Tells a Story

I really don’t have much to say today, so I’ll let Doodles tell his own story:

Baseball Been a Berry Berry Good to Me

Normally I average around 70 hits a day (hello, my loyal 70 hits!). So far today I’ve had 397 hits. Why? Because one clever little monkey on Adam’s Sons of Sam Horn board found my posting about Adam posting in their message board (hmm, that was a little convoluted) and had a field day with [...]