The kids really love helping their mom cook – particularly pancakes. They stand on chairs so they’re up high enough to reach and help her add ingredients and mix everything together. The best part, however, comes as she is putting the pancakes on griddle. That’s when they get to pick what they want to add to […]

If you have been reading these tales for a while, you may have noticed that when my wife is busy on a Saturday or Sunday I almost always take the boys out for an adventure. These adventures can be anything from a Disney park to a trip to the local park. The reason for this is […]

If you were to search the archives for “Church Voice”, you’d find quite a number of tales. There’s something about the particular combination of various social, parental, and priestly pressures on little kids that causes all sorts of bizarre things to happen. Not long ago, I was in church with my five year old. He […]

The kids are very much into pretending to feed me. Every time I turn around, one or the other has some special pretend drink, snack, or cookie for me to eat. At first, I thought this was a lot of fun, and I hammed up eating the pretend offering pretty much every time it was […]

As Chronicle readers may remember, we have an ongoing issue with my wife trying to convince the kids to share their pizzas. For those that don’t remember, here’s the story. The other day we had a leftovers meal (cleaning out the fridge of the week’s leftovers). Leftover meals are actually kind of fun. There’s never enough […]

Today’s tale is in the Seminole Chronicle. You can read it here. Keywords for searchers: party, couch, train, photo

As I think I mentioned before, C’s pre-K classroom uses what is called the traffic light system. The idea behind this system is to have a giant picture of a traffic light on the wall of the classroom. Kids have their names or pictures clipped to the picture. If you are bad, your picture moves […]

About a year ago, maybe more, the kids hit on the idea of putting on a show for us. Whenever they could, they’d drag us to a couch, have us sit down, and then pretend they were the center of a show. They’d either grab something and pretend it was a microphone, or they’d just […]

If you’ve been reading along, you’ve no doubt realized that our two boys sometimes seem as different as two people can get.  This was really driven home to me the other day as we were cleaning up. They had been playing some sort of game with their mom that involved extremely large plastic bowls. I’m […]

Both the boys are really into pretend play. They are always turning blocks into people, pillows into trains, or otherwise converting the toys they have into pretend versions of real things. One toy that they don’t convert is their plastic toy cash register. It’s a cool little thing with a real scanner on it. You […]