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Monthly Archives: May 2017
More on Movies
Back in February I wrote about how much Jack is enraptured by the Despicable Me franchise. I don’t entirely get why. Don’t get me wrong… I love the movies as well. Always have. The boy’s fascination is probably my fault–DNA, … Continue reading
Posted in Parenting
Tagged Boss Baby, Despicable Me, La Vie de Boheme, movies, Secret Life of Pets, Storks
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Dear Jackrabbit #35 — On Growing Up Too Quickly
[My apologies for missing a couple of regular blog posts last week. The boy has been going through another one of those periods where he wakes up yelling in the middle of the night and it’s played havoc with my … Continue reading
Posted in Dear Jackrabbit, Humor
Tagged Growing up too fast, suspicious, what are you up to?
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Dear Jackrabbit #34 — On Speech
Dear Jackrabbit, Let’s see, boy. A little over eight months on this planet and you’re becoming quite a chatterbox. You’re making sounds that could reasonably be recognized as “mama” and “dada” and we’re both quite delighted. Granted, whether or not … Continue reading
Posted in Dear Jackrabbit, Fatherly Advice
Tagged free speech, hate speech, punch all Nazis
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Calculating Baby
There is a pretty classic brain teaser about a farmer, a fox, a chicken, a sack of corn, and a river. It goes kind of like… A man has to get a fox, a chicken, and a sack of corn … Continue reading
Dear Jackrabbit #33 — Some words on Mother’s Day
Dear Jackrabbit, Be good to your mother. It’s Mother’s Day. Actually, you should be good to your mother everyday. Good advice. Best advice. We won’t talk about the 36 hours of labor today. We won’t discuss the months of swollen … Continue reading
Welcome to mornings (or, hehehe…air-butt!)
A short entry today as I have a lot of work to do. Confession… one of my most favorite times of day is when it’s time to wake the boy up. Half the time he’s wide awake and pushing himself up … Continue reading
Pie Thievery
It makes me sad that my boy will never know the unbridled joy of stealing a pie that has been set on the windowsill to cool. It seems people don’t do this sort of thing anymore. Now, granted…stealing is wrong… … Continue reading
Dear Jackrabbit #32 — Generational Differences Revisited
Dear Jackrabbit, Here we are again looking at some of the differences between then and now. Yesterday I did a couple of mundane things like call a store and take a picture and thought about how much a difference fifty … Continue reading
Never eat anything bigger than your head.
The mouth still seems to be a favored tool for exploration… or it’s part of the teething thing. In any case, watch your fingers when you handle the boy. A list of more things the boy has tried putting in … Continue reading
Almost eight months… jeez…
In just over a week Jack will be eight months old. What the heck? It’s been a quick almost-eight months, and the kid has really developed. He’s gone from a fleshy, squalling, hungry, sometimes wet lump to… well that much … Continue reading