We've gone through some major changes at home in the last couple of months. First we took back some of our house by removing the gate between the living room and kitchen as well as the gate at the bottom of the stairs in the living room. We decided that the boys were good enough …
2013 Clean Out: Memories
This is part of my end-of-the-year cleaning of draft posts. This was written over a year ago when I was in a reflective mood. As soon as the boys were born it was as if a clock started ticking on my life. Every moment and every milestone of theirs represented a passage of a certain …
2013 Clean Out: Being a Parent
This is part of my end-of-the-year cleaning of draft posts. I wrote this at the beginning of the year with the intention of adding to it and posting it later on. I never really finished it but it's all still true. Being a parent means: rolling on the floor in your work clothes looking for …
2013 Clean Out: My Next Camera
My current camera is a Canon EOS 7D. I upgraded a couple of years ago from a 50D because the 7D had more professional features that I could use. It is a fantastic camera. The build quality is great. The image quality is great. It's pretty much everything that I'd want in a camera except …
2013 Clean Out: HP TouchPad: Dead Product Review
This is part of my end-of-the-year cleaning of draft posts. I wrote this two years ago about HP's severely-discounted self-imposed failure that was the TouchPad tablet. I intended to review it thoroughly but never finished the review and never will. I'm posting it here in its draft state for anyone interested. I still have my …
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2013 Clean Out: Surviving the Ups and Downs of Toddlers
This is part of my end-of-the-year cleaning of draft posts. I wrote it when the boys were about two and a half to document some of the chaos. The dinner/bath/tantrum thing still happens but the biggest issue we deal with now is them bugging the sh*t out of each other. Enjoy our pain from …
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Potty Training Days 2 – 4
Our potty training experience has continued over the past few days with the typical ups and downs that we expected. Day two was mostly a blur for me as I spent the majority of the day sick in bed but it appeared to go OK. There were more successes on the toilet and few accidents. …
Potty Training: Day One
We have been casually potty training the boys for about six months now, encouraging it now and then on the weekends and putting together a sticker chart / reward system but not being consistent about it in any way. Adam has been more ready than Zach in the past but neither really showed signs that …
Fwashing Your Hands After Fwatching Fwaffi
The boys are speaking more and more all the time. They frequently use full sentences to express complete thoughts and engage in back-and-forth conversation with us and each other. One of my favorite things is listening to them tell a story about something because you can see them pause and think about what words to …
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On Videos of Wobots Frowing Fings
Last weekend I was surfing the internet as I usually do, reading the news that flows through my RSS feed. I happened onto a story about Google's purchase of Boston Dynamics, the Massachusetts-based robotics company responsible for Big Dog. The article had a bunch of YouTube videos embedded in it of the various new members …
Relatively Ambitious 