Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Kindergartener, Matthew on May 29th, 2013
If there’s one thing Americans know about Soccer, it’s that it’s a low-scoring game. It is not uncommon for a ninety-minute game to produce a single goal. Think that’s bad? Plenty of games end with no goals at all (or nil-nil, as we like to say), draws being perfectly acceptable in most matches. Consequently goals […]
Posted in Little Boy, Matthew, Simon says... on May 6th, 2012
Simon received a small Foosball table for Christmas last year from his grandparents, and, with all the soccer we’ve been watching lately, he has taken a renewed interest in it. He’s constantly begging me to play, and if I’m too busy I frequently hear him in his room narrating a game that he’s playing against […]
Posted in Little Boy, Matthew, Simon says... on Mar 13th, 2012
After an exciting evening of Soccer practice, a late dinner and the Merseyside Derby, I was helping Simon wind down in bed. Lying there with the lights off, we were talking about one of Simon’s favorite subjects: the planets. “Earth,” I was telling him, “has a lot of things that make it a good place […]
Posted in Little Boy, Matthew on Jan 23rd, 2012
Simon has recently picked up the expression “the usual” (as in, “bartender, gimme the usual”) from a Daffy Duck cartoon, and has been champing at the bit to try it out in public. Since I rarely take Simon to bars, he figured that maybe the ice cream shop would be a good place to try […]
Posted in Little Boy, Matthew, Simon says... on May 11th, 2011
Simon announced he wanted to play basketball tonight, which was an inspired idea, as we play in the cool, cool basement, and today was the hottest, most humid day of the year so far. After a few warm up shots, Simon ran towards the basket for his new lay-up move. BOOM! Simon was down on […]
This is why I think Simon is the easiest two-year-old in the world. We were upstairs tonight getting him into his PJ’s, and since Simon is really interested in numbers these days and also likes to point out clocks, I decided to introduce him to the wild world of digital alarm clocks. “See these numbers, […]
With less than twenty-four hours to go before Kentucky’s Democratic primary election, Simon has decided to throw his support behind candidate Barack Obama. What finally encouraged him to make a decision and go public with it? This evening’s news reported that Michelle Obama appeared in Louisville today reading The Runaway Bunny to kids at Kosair […]
Yesterday was a tough day. I was feeling a little off, but Jessica was a complete wreck from her continuing bout with the stomach bug. She was exhausted from being up almost all night the night before and still achy and sick. I decided that if there was ever any reason to take a sick […]
Posted in Matthew on Dec 29th, 2007
As most of you already know, the okcomputer.org server suffered a catastrophic disk failure back in October and my back-up scheme was, er, less than optimal. I’ve spent the last three months trying to put the pieces of the old server back together, while Jessica just started a new blog from scratch over at wordpress.com. […]
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