The Police and My 3 Year Old
I turned on the news this morning to see the update on the police ambush in downtown Dallas last night. As my 3 year old rides into the living room on his Mickey Mouse scooter, hair disheveled as usual, he...
A Naked Baby is Not to be Trusted
Babies aren’t to be trusted at all. But a naked baby is like a monkey carrying a lit match and a stick of dynamite. There is no happy ending to that scenario. Over the past three and a half years...
You Might be a Father of Two if…
Despite all efforts to coordinate and sync feeding, bathroom and play schedules, the minute you settle down for a glorious weekend afternoon nap after having just put down one child, the other one wakes up with the energy of a...
Potty Training (The Devil’s Recess)
Two extremely poorly timed snow days, a wife that works in a world where there isn’t enough snow on the planet to keep her from going to work, and a son that needs to learn how to save his parents...
Ready or Not…
I finally sat down to write this on the eve of my son’s birth after trying to keep up with my wife. She’s as pregnant as she’ll ever be, but still feels the need to clean the entire house in...
You Might be a New Dad if… Part 2
Your idea of baby proofing includes the purchase of large quantities of bubble wrap and duct tape. Your eyes hurt from reading way too many instruction manuals. You’ve almost had your hand trapped in a Diaper Genie…almost.
You might be a New Dad if…
With just under 2 weeks before the baby arrives, I’ve often had thoughts run through my head that, I’m sure, only cross the mind of first-time fathers. I felt obligated to create a list and include some of them here....
Titles and Preparation
Blogger. Dog Lover. Amateur Painter. Slightly-Above-Average-When-The-Course-Matches-My-Crooked-Ball-Flight Golfer. But I’m just under one month away from the expected arrival of an additional title that will forever change everything about me except my past: “Father.”
Baseball Rant: Interleague Play
I love the game of baseball. It, like football, is one of those subjects in which you can quickly learn that the more you know, the more you don’t know. I love the mental chess game, the one-on-one matchups within...
The Name Game
For the past couple of years I’ve been keeping a running list of names. I started this list before I knew I was going to be a dad, before I was married, before I was engaged and even before I...