Last weekend we took a trip to the Cleveland Metroparks Rainforest with our friends Beth and Dwayne and their two little ones, Riley and Lilah (or as Dom calls them, “Wiley and Ya-ya”). As an aside, the Rainforest is fantastic for older toddlers. Everything is easily accessible and open, and it only takes about an [...]

“Oh, he’s calm. . .calm like a bomb” 
While my marriage may be a democracy, my relationship with my son is much closer to what I like to refer to as a “benign dictatorship.” As any good dictator knows, it’s important to suppress the will of the proletariat to prevent an uprising. In this, the first [...]

So for everybody I work with who reads this blog (read: the people who have the power to fire me), I’d like to apologize up front for the rather vulgar punch-line of this, my first post of 2010. I ask for mercy only on the basis that this is a true story and simply [...]

Dom didn’t get to go trick-or-treating yesterday. He had a pretty high fever and the buzzkill doctor said to keep him inside. We did as we were told. Does that make us good parents or bad parents?
Either way, Kerry and I were really sad for our little guy. We had spent the majority of the [...]

“You” 
Dom has a fun new game where he randomly shouts out animal names and then humiliates me by making me act them out for his own twisted amusement. (Just for the record, what the hell sound does a giraffe make? It’s keeping me up at night.) Anyway, I try to entice Dominic into acting out [...]

Both hands where I can see them, mister
Well, I guess someone has to post after Steve, and it’s my turn. Since there is no appropriate way to follow up Jack’s first birthday, I have decided to write about the absolute least appropriate thing I can muster. If you haven’t watched Jack’s video, please do, and [...]

 
I thought Friday was the night. Conditions were perfect. Dom picked his Elmo Potty Time Video to watch before bed, Kerry watched him chug two cups of water before I got home from work, and I was feeling lucky. Conditions were perfect.
Right as Elmo’s dad was having a little pee-pee party for Elmo, Kerry [...]

My son is an aspiring little economist. At the age of two, he already understands the Law of Supply and Demand. Let me give you an example.
Dom recognizes that he provides a very specialized service to his Mommy and Daddy: eating his broccoli. In fact, there are no other competitors in the market. [...]

Sam and Jack

Over the course of time that I write here, you’ll get to know a lot about me and a lot about my boys. Those are my boys, Sam, 3, and Jack (in the stripes) is 6 months old in this picture. It’s my favorite picture of the two of them together, playing in [...]

A six month old has a pretty good life, much better than mine, that’s for sure. See why here.