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Padawan Learners
As soon as the boys found out that I had a green light-saber, all they want to do at my house now is play with it. It’s best to start them in light-saber training early, right?
And some videos:
Mushrooms!
The past month or so we’ve been getting a lot of rain, so I’ve constantly had mushrooms sprouting around the back yard. One morning after breakfast the boys wanted to go outside and it was relatively dry so we went out in the back yard, and there were mushrooms everywhere! The boys were [...]
Glen Rose Dinosaur Park
A while ago a new Dinosaur Park opened near Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose, a town that I drive through when taking the boys to or from seeing their Grandparents Trammell. They are probably old enough to enjoy camping at the State Park where there are some neat life-sized dinosaur models and I’m [...]
DJ Logan
While Forest is usually the one that is more interested in buttons, switches, and knobs, Logan always seems more interested in music. A couple of months ago while the boys were playing in the back yard I was spinning some records and Logan was really interested in how what I was doing behind the turntables [...]
Sentences!
While having the boys at my house this last weekend, I heard Logan use what I could consider to be a full sentence. When I first got home with the boys I had the baby gate up at the bottom of the stairs to keep them downstairs for a bit while I unloaded the car [...]
Choice
Both of the boys can nowadays be quite contrary. They say “no” for the sake of saying “no” even if they really want to say “yes”. While up in DFW for Thanksgiving my Mother told me about a trick that she learned a while back that works really well in that when a toddler is [...]
Forest the Negotiator
Last week I took the boys up to DFW to see my family for Thanksgiving. I noticed over this trip that Forest has begun trying to negotiate for the things he wants. There were two really good examples of this during the trip:
First, ever since the Childrens’ Retreat out at Earthsprings Forest has been obsessed [...]
Ball Pit!
One of my favorite things as a kid was playing in the ball pit at places like Chuck-E-Cheese and Showbiz Pizza, so when I saw a bag of 100 colored balls at Wal-Mart, I had to buy it to turn one of the portable cribs into a ball pit. The boys loved it too!
I think [...]
Geen!!!
Yesterday afternoon Dawn brought the boys over to my house so that I could spend some time with them after them having been gone with her on the Family Vacation all week and so she could have some time to run errands. The boys almost always want to immediately start playing video games when they [...]
Father’s Day 2008
I was fortunate enough this year to have the boys all weekend for Father’s Day weekend. We spent the entire time having fun together, which included playing with lots of toys, wrestling, going outside, watching Saturday-morning cartoons, playing in the water sprinkler, playing Mario Kart Wii (the boys LOVE the WiiWheel), learning and practicing new [...]
