My wife and I have started taking our 3 year old to a new activity called “Tiny monkeys” that lets kids learn to tumble and jump and do all kinds of neat, fun things.  I have to say, being a dad is definitely the funnest thing I’ve ever done.  Watching our tiny monkey running about the house (yesterday, she was saying she was a cat, the day before she said she was a sheep saying “Baaah” all the time). 

There's something to be said about walking into a room and seeing that the 18 month old has thrown all the books on the floor making a big mess with the top most book being the book on discipline.  I think she's sending a message.

They say youth is wasted on the young. As I get older, I start to agree with the wisdom of that saying. My baby daughter is barely 2 weeks old, but I have some advice that hopefully I can keep in my mind to give her that hopefully she will be able to find useful. #1 We don't know what we don't know. The problem for kids, starting in teens and going on through their 20s is that they don't know what they don't know. That's obvious. What's not obvious is that htey often don't realize tha...

Here's a picture of Ashley, less than a day old and she's already got me wrapped around her finger. Our boys are also caught in her spell.  Most of yesterday they took turns holding her as grandparents and neighbors came and visited the newest entry into the family. She's so cuddly and sweet.  We're so very thankful for her.

At 12:09am Ashley Grace Wardell was born.  Mom and daughter are both well. 

Debbie's at the hospital now.  Only a few hours to go.  I've managed to get a very low powered connection to the net via my Verizon wireless connection. Not fast enough to do very much but fast enough to hang out on #stardock and #joeuser and #galciv on irc.stardock.com if anyone's interested. (on as Frogboy)

My second-grader son is having bully problems. He came to me tonight crying that this kid in school keeps punching him, sometimes in the head. I asked him if he had gone to the teacher about this yet? He said he had and that the teacher made the kid apologize for hitting him. But the next recess, the bully was back at it, hitting my son.  He just didn't know what to do. So I told him: If he hits you again, you need to be prepared to beat the tar out of him. Don't start the fight. But...