C loves boats almost as much as he loves trains. He loves waving and shouting "Hi" when they arrive, and he loves waving and shouting "bye" when they leave. Last week, I took the boys to Epcot while J was working. We had a great time, and towards the end of the trip we took […]

A few weeks back, our whole family went to the art museum to see an exhibition of Curious George paintings. The paintings were neat, but didn’t hold C’s interest as long as they held J’s – so I took him wandering through the rest of the museum. It wasn’t long before we stumbled upon a […]

A few nights back, C caught himself a nasty cough. During the night this cough combined with some nightmares. He was crying and couldn’t sleep, so I went to his room and stretched out beside him. While he was calming down and telling me about his nightmares, he spotted the little green light of the […]

A couple weekends ago, we had a lot of house guests – more than we had beds. This meant that C was moved into our room to spend the night so that someone could sleep in his bed. He settled down in a make shift bed (actually a small couch) next to our bed, and […]

Okay, this is another tip for all those dads out there. If you’re a mom, stop reading now. One of the biggest challenges that you’ll face as a new dad is competing with mom for the new child’s attention. I know, I know. It’s not a competition. We’re all in it together. Blah, blah, blah. […]

The ongoing battle between the siblings finally started to even out yesterday. As you may remember, N has been winning these little slugfests – although I’ve had some people argue that Round 1 was actually a tie. The other morning, N was throwing his first genuine tantrum. He doesn’t usually do this, preferring instead to […]

One of the disagreements that J and I have had is about how to refer to private parts. I prefer using polite euphemisms like "privates" or "tinkler". She prefers using the more medical term "penis". Since she’s the one who gets to spend the most time with C, she won this argument by default. For […]

As some of you know, a couple weekends ago we had to move some heavy furniture. One of these pieces of furniture was a sleeper couch that is extremely heavy. I can only lift about half of it. Fortunately, the truck we rented came with a dolly – which was basically a short shelf with two […]

Lately C has been forced to cope with the hard fact that his little brother is an infant, and is therefore the focus of attention among strangers. Where they used to spend all their time interacting with him, now they try to get N to smile or wave at them. This past weekend he finally […]

On Sunday, we went shopping.  C wasn’t terribly happy about this.  He typically likes shopping, but for some reason he was feeling quite cranky and was opposing pretty much everything that was done or said. This is the end of a conversation that C & I had in the car as we were looking for a parking […]