N tends to be grumpy when he wakes up. He often doesn’t want to be lifted out of his crib, and then once I do manage to wrestle him out all he wants to do is cuddle. In the past, I’ve had reasonably good luck with getting down to the crib level and laughing – […]

Over the past few months, I’ve become a bit concerned over the lack of strong male role models in C’s TV viewing. There is a distinct lack of men on the shows that he watches, and all those good traditional masculine values (honor, courage, strength, competitiveness, etc.) are sorely under-represented. As much as I enjoy […]

Psst!  Hey you!  Yes, you! This tale is over at the Seminole Chronicle.  Click here to go there. In the meantime, the keywords for this tale are Psst, Psssst, Mimi’s, and pudding. Enjoy!

One of our prize possessions is a train table. It’s an octagonal thing that stands about 18 inches tall and about four feet across, with bins underneath it for storing stuff. The flat top is covered by a design so it looks like you’re looking down at the countryside. We set up train tracks on […]

I hope you’re not reading this while eating. If you are, you might want to wait a bit. It gets rather rude. A few weeks ago, we were sitting at the dinner table when I burped. It was a little thing that just kind of urped out of me. The kids, however, thought it was […]

Ever since our night of singing, C has been having a great time creating his own songs. Most of the time, he’s still in stream of consciousness mode, but everyone once in a while he comes out with a coherent gem. The other night I was flying solo leading up to the bedtime routine. He […]

One of the common topics of debate among 3 and 4 years olds is what they want to be when they grow up. Some want to be firemen, others astronauts, and so forth. I have stayed out of this particular discussion because I’m not sure I’m ready to hear the answer yet. After all, it […]

During a slow moment during this past vacation, J decided to teach the boys a game. She put both hands behind her back and secretly hid a crumpled up napkin in one of them. Then she held both hands out in front of her, fists closed. “Pick!” C picked a hand, but it was the […]

As a celebration of C’s 4th birthday, we spent this past weekend camping down at Disney. It was a whirlwind of rides and showe and new experiences. During meals, or any other slow downs, we’d typically about talk the things we’d seen and done. It was at one such meal that C announced “I liked […]

Every other week, DaddyTales is carried in the Seminole Chronicle. Rather than duplicate what appears there, I just link to it. Here it is. Keywords for searchers: Alligator smile, moo, R.J. Gator’s. Enjoy!