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Another reading post
By Andrew on Feb 7, 2010 | In Books, Family | Send feedback »
Just a quick one. Last night, Aidan read to us again. this time, Grandma Judy was visiting, so he got to show off his reading chops. He read from Detective Dinosaur, which has three short stories, all of which feature Detective Dinosaur in need of sol… more »
Storytime with the kids
By Andrew on Feb 5, 2010 | In Books, Family | Send feedback »
One of my favorite parts of the day is reading a story to the kids before bed. Last summer we read James and the Giant Peach. We check out loads of books from the library (usually dino-related) for story time. For Christmas, we got the kids a boxed se… more »
Take me out to the ballgame...
By Andrew on May 29, 2008 | In Family | Send feedback »
Sunday evening, Aidan and I took in a baseball game, just father and son. I had been looking forward to it, thinking about what a special thing it is to bond with my son. I worried for a while that day, because a few hours before the game a storm rolle… more »
A Prayer from My Son
By Andrew on May 28, 2008 | In Family, Religion | Send feedback »
At the dinner table last night, Aidan asked, "Daddy, is your finger ok that you drilled the way other day?"
I should explain that a few days ago I was installing new cabinet locks on every cabinet in the house so that Catie does not accidentally inges… more »
A Mother's Day Playlist
By Andrew on May 11, 2008 | In Music, Family | Send feedback »
Mother | Tori Amos
A Mother Has A Hard Road | Killdozer
Mommy, Can I Go Out And Kill Tonight | The Misfits
Mama Don't Get Off | Jack Oblivian
Mommy's Little Anarchist | Crash Dog
Just Like Your Mom | Electric Frankenstein
Your Mama On the Rocks | H… more »
A message from my 3 year old: "Hug your chuthers"
By Andrew on Feb 15, 2008 | In Family | 1 feedback »
Yes, he wants everyone to take the time to hug your chothers. I wasn't sure what this meant at first either. But then he showed my wife and me a couple of his toys, whose arms were wrapped around each other. "They're hugging their chuthers," he inform… more »
Three year olds are funny
By Andrew on Jan 12, 2008 | In Family | 1 feedback »
This weekend I am experiencing life as a single dad, as my wife is in Arizona until Monday. I've been looking forward to a couple days of bonding with my kids. Today we were getting ready to leave the house (simply because I was going to go nuts if we… more »
Punk rock on kids' show
By Andrew on Sep 20, 2007 | In Music, Family | 1 feedback »
I had posted before about seeing They Might Be Giants performing on Blues Clues. Well, now I was just watching "Yo Gabba Gabba" with my son, and I saw a live performance from Supernova. I saw Supernova some 8-10 years ago at Fireside Bowl. If I rememb… more »
Childish Humor
By Andrew on Aug 9, 2007 | In Family, Comedy | Send feedback »
A while back, we saw a Brian Regan special on Comedy Central. In one of his bits, he told about his son offering the comedian a new joke "for your career."
He eagerly asked his son for the joke.
"Why don't dinosaurs talk?"
Amused, he asked for… more »
They Might Be Giants and Blue's Clues
By Andrew on Aug 9, 2007 | In Music, Family, Television | Send feedback »
I just saw They Might Be Giants doing their song "Clap Your Hands" from their album "No!" on Blue's Clues.
Weird. But so awesome. more »
My son, the music critic
By Andrew on Jul 12, 2007 | In Music, Family | 2 feedbacks »
I was just outside eating lunch with my son and daughter while listening to my iPod. Mae's "The Afterglow" came on, and my 2 1/2 year old son looked at me with an extremely serious look on his face and said, "This is a really good song, yeah," and nodde… more »
Early Morning Movies
By Andrew on Jul 10, 2007 | In Film, Family | Send feedback »
This morning I took my son to see Ice Age: The Meltdown at one of those early morning, cheap kids movies. Only $1 per person, and it was a nice theater, not one of those second run theaters.
This was his first time at a real movie theater, and he lov… more »
Blog? What blog?
By Andrew on Jul 8, 2007 | In Family, General | Send feedback »
Oh my, I still have a blog?
I was pretty much forced to end my blogging when my employer decided to block this website. I tried to transfer my blog to blogspot, and they blocked that too. And the last thing I ever wanted to do when I got home was lo… more »
Father's Day
By Andrew on Jun 18, 2006 | In Family | Send feedback »
Happy Fathers Day to all the dads out there!
I had a fantastic father's day. My son (at the age of 20 months) picked out for me a pretty sweet Johnny Cash "Man in Black" t-shirt. To make the gift more awesome, he also got a Cash shirt of his own. W… more »
He's a genius
By Andrew on Apr 2, 2006 | In Family | 2 feedbacks »
On Wednesday, I witnessed a display of enormous importance and impressiveness. Melanie asked Aidan where his eyes were. He pointed to his right eye and said "eye," only with a vowel sounding close to the "aah" that you would give a doctor. She then asked… more »
Rockin' out with my 17 month old
By Andrew on Mar 23, 2006 | In Music, Family | 2 feedbacks »
For Christmas, I bought Aidan They Might Be Giants' "No!" I had recently discovered that they, and a number of other indie rock artists, began working in what might be called "kid's music." Listening to the CD this morning with Aidan on our way to his gr… more »
My new Cocoon
By Andrew on Mar 23, 2006 | In Music, Family | Send feedback »
No, not the Wilford Brimley movies. I've been looking for a case for my iPod Nano for a while now, and none of them seemed to be what I needed. All I ever found were sport sleeves or arm bands, or the occasional "leather folio." I really wanted a case th… more »
A fun belated birthday
By Andrew on Mar 23, 2006 | In Family, Food | Send feedback »
My mother-in-law wanted to make a birthday dinner for me, and asked me what I wanted. I have a particular affinity for this taco salad that she makes. She usually makes some killer enchiladas with it, so that's what I requested. I was told that that was… more »
The Absorbancy of my Brain
By Andrew on Mar 23, 2006 | In Family, General | 1 feedback »
The other day I told Melanie that her brain is like a Brawny paper towel, and mine is more like the other leading brand. She remembers so many things, like important dates, my pants' size, pizza toppings I like, who starred in what movie. I, on the other… more »
The Third Decade
By Andrew on Mar 12, 2006 | In Film, Family, Food | Send feedback »
Yesterday saw my 30th birthday come and go. I didn't really care too much about the milstone, until about a week ago. I started thinking more about how I will never again be able to say that I am in my 20s. How the hair I am losing will never come bac… more »
Linus has a new home
By Andrew on Jan 27, 2006 | In Family | 1 feedback »
So Linus's new "mom" picked him up today. She was a little earlier than we thought, so Mel didn't get to spend as much time with him during their last day together as she thought she would. Our last morning walk was sad for me.
I wasn't feeling too… more »
The Sorrow of Loss
By Andrew on Jan 26, 2006 | In Family | Send feedback »
After a lot of thought, we recently decided that we would have to find another home for our dachsund chihauhau, Linus. As Aidan grows older, and more destructive, and Linus gets older, and crankier, the two personalities are not meshing very well. Linu… more »
Living Out of a Suitcase
By Andrew on Dec 20, 2005 | In Family | Send feedback »
It's been over a week since I last slept in my own bed. We've been staying with my mother-in-law because we are having our basement finished. I can't until we can move back in so I can upload some of the photos showing the progress.
Work started the… more »
Early Christmas
By Andrew on Dec 17, 2005 | In Family | 4 feedbacks »
We're in Indiana celebrating Christmas with Mel's Dad and stepmom. It's aways fun to visit them. It's really fun this Christmas because Aidan has re-introduced toys to Christmas gift giving. It's been a long time since there have been toys under a tree… more »
1 Year Old
By Andrew on Oct 11, 2005 | In Family | Send feedback »
Melanie and I are getting ready to celebrate our son's 1st birthday! I wanted to post a pic of him, and this is a good excuse. He was 10 months old in this photo, though. more »
