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I’ll take it…
Posted by: | CommentsEvan (while giving a big hug to me): I love you so much, but I’m not your boy. I’m Mom’s boy, forever. Sorry Dad.
Ehhh… he could have said worse.
Some stuff needs to be shared…
Posted by: | CommentsSometimes you just have to share the crazy crap you find on You Tube.
And to top it off…
Posted by: | CommentsEvan was going on and on about how fast he is. So I asked if he could clean really fast too. He said he was the fastest cleaner in the whole world.
So now Evan is showing me how fast he can clean the toy room. Sweet!
Taking charge of a situation…
Posted by: | CommentsSometimes when you wake up in the morning you find little surprises of what happened while the rest of the house was asleep. Holly continues to get up extra early for work so she’s usually the one to find these surprises first. Lately it’s been a dog had an accident, so she hasn’t had any ‘good’ surprises until this morning. Holly normally checks on the boys before starting work and this morning she found a pile of clothes in the middle of Evan’s floor. She felt the clothes and they were wet – it appeared Evan had an accident over night.
Really? I didn’t go in to help him. Holly didn’t know about it until she literally stumbled on the clothes in the middle of the floor. She found Evan sound asleep in his bed as if nothing was wrong. Huh? So what happened? We’re guessing that Evan had an accident, woke up from the accident, changed his pajamas, climbed back into bed and went back to sleep. And he did all of this without saying a word or making enough noise to wake anyone else up!
Now that’s the kind of surprise every parent needs now and then.
The ultimate bribe…
Posted by: | CommentsI believe the key to being a good parent is know what carrot to dangle. For Sam and Evan it’s two words… video game. Tonight Sam and Evan weren’t thrilled with the dinner choice, so I decided to up the ante for our after dinner activities.
Me: Sam, if you eat all of your dinner we can play some video games tonight.
Evan: Me too?
Me: Yep.
[A few minutes go by and the kids are eating furiously]
Sam: I’m really trying to eat all my dinner because I want to play the video game tonight.
Evan: Me too.
[A few more minutes go by]
Sam: I’m really trying to eat all my dinner so I can play the Stars Wars video game.
[Quite a few more minutes go by… ok, it was another 40 minutes later]
Sam: I’m still trying to finish my dinner so I can play the video game.
Me: Ok, but you need to hurry up because it’s also a bath night.
Nearly an hour later I pull the plug because Sam hadn’t finished. Now why do I consider this a win? Because I had an hour of Sam trying to eat instead of whining about the dinner and finishing after 3 bites. Can you guess what I’m going to say again tomorrow night?
And Evan? Well he gave up after about 20 minutes and went to go play. He’s going to be a tougher nut to crack as he gets older.
Turning the lights back on…
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In case you missed it, but I turned off the lights for the past 24 hours on all my sites. The reason? There is legislation currently going through the House of Representatives (SOPA) and Senate (PIPA). While each bill has subtle differences, the goal for both pieces of legislation is to give additional means for authorities to protect an owner’s intellectual property – music, movies, songs, photographs, etc. While on the surface this seems to make sense, and it does, but the legislation also broadens the terms in which someone can make a claim for copyright infringement. Simply claiming copyright infringement can get a website access restricted. It’s a case of shoot first and maybe we’ll ask questions later.
Please take a few minutes to contact your representative to show your opposition to these bills: Contact Your Representative.
A big thank you to Shirley & John…
Posted by: | CommentsWe rented ‘Mr. Popper’s Penguins’ this weekend for the boys. It was actually a pretty good movie and Jim Carrey did a good job in it. Well part of watching movies with the boys is they like to watch the previews. Well Mr. Popper was kind enough to give us an extended preview of ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks – Chipwrecked’. Now the boys had already seen the movie over the holidays with Grandma & Grandpa Tegtmeyer. But after seeing the extended preview, I never realized how thankful I should have been.
Thank you Shirley and John, for taking the boys to ‘Chipwrecked’, so I didn’t have too!
Movie night… Daddy style
Posted by: | CommentsThursday nights Holly has a split shift, so she works in the morning and again from 6pm to 9pm. Tonight I came home from work and Holly and the boys suggested ‘Movie Night’. She said all three of her boys could find something on Netflix and curl up in bed. Sounded wonderful.
So we finished up dinner and discussed what we wanted to watch. Evan had a left over choice of one ‘Star Wars – The Clone Wars’ that he didn’t get to use, so he choose first. After that Sam wanted to watch Alvin and the Chipmunks. Netflix didn’t have it, so we picked out a Toy Story 3 – something for everyone. Seemed like the perfect evening.
This is how it really went. Five minutes into the Star Wars show, I fell asleep. Sam and Evan asked to watch another one and I rolled over and hit play on the next episode. That one lasted twenty more minutes, so that’s when Sam said it was his turned. We searched Netflix, only to find that none of the Alvin and the Chipmunk movies were available. So Sam and I have a brief discussion on why we weren’t going to rent the movie from iTunes and that no, we weren’t going to Cub to see if Red Box had it either. That’s when we decided on Toy Story 3. Ten minutes into the move I’m asleep again. Fifiteen minutes into the movie Sam and Evan are arguing over who has more room on the bed. Twenty minutes into the movie Sam runs to his room to get his Woody doll and proceeds to play it in my ear at full volume. Twenty one minutes into the movie and Woody is no longer allowed to watch the movie with us.
Around 7:30pm, I realize I had fallen back asleep and the boys are no longer with me. It’s at this appropriate point that Holly decides to come down stairs and check on things. Ooops.
Needless to say, movie nights are no longer an option on Thursdays. My bad.
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And this is what I found…
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Found this while cleaning…
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Amazing what a person can find when doing a little cleaning. I found an old camera while cleaning my office and took a quick peak at the CF card inside. I’ll post a couple more later this week.