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Eating Crayons, Pooping Rainbows

Aug 2, 2009 9:01pm

This is my last post for Looky, Daddy! I've written this post many times over the past few months. I've written it like a guy composing a breakup speech to his girlfriend for no real defensible reason except that when......

There's Nothing Smart About Taking a Kid with Epilepsy to See Fireworks

Jul 4, 2009 11:28pm

There's nothing smart about taking a kid with epilepsy to see fireworks. So we do it. We stay up hours past her bedtime and explode lights in her face, like participants in a demented researcher's clinical study. We load her......

Wedding Lemonade

Jun 28, 2009 10:21pm

Summer posts will be scarce. There's not much to be said about that. Last year I bravely promised a drink recipe a week just to keep you coming back, and I managed a whole five of those before summer drowned......

Good Influence

Jun 22, 2009 4:49pm

I wasn’t yet asleep when my dad came into my room and asked for my help. If he did this now, it wouldn’t be that surprising—a man in his sixties has a multitude of uses for a man in his......

You Wish You Knew How to Quit Me

Jun 19, 2009 4:36am

I shared how the twins got their names over on nameberry today. Don't click if you named your kids Hester....

Side Effects

Jun 17, 2009 6:55am

So apparently, when your child's behavior is controlled by anti-seizure meds, you're not supposed to yell at her for it. Which sucks. As a general rule, my parenting style is pretty straight forward: Misbehavior met with swift retribution. I learned......

More on Rocks and Words

Jun 4, 2009 12:21pm

Something that I left out of my post two days ago, the one about rocks, Kathryn, and the words she contains, is that all that talking I did to her made her a genius. Once, as a three-year-old, she came......

Rocks

Jun 1, 2009 9:01pm

A few months ago, Kathryn spent a day collecting rocks. She collected maybe three dozen of them from around our neighborhood and placed them all on our porch. Most were small, only a few were bigger than my fist, but......