The Halloween Witch came and went this year. Cole and Ally both did a great job of sharing their candy with the witch, who in turn rewarded them with some really fun books. All is well, except for Jen and I who are eating a little too much candy than is good for [...]
Halloween means that our house gets flooded with a ton of candy. We’ve been trying to avoid making candy a central fixation for the kids, so 2 years ago Jen came up with the brilliant plan of introducing the Halloween Witch. When the kids come home with their loot after trick-or-treating, we put [...]
As I mentioned a while back, I’m starting the long slow process of publishing the last year’s worth of photos. It’s a long process partly because I don’t make much time for it, but also partly because Jen and I have to put our heads together and try to remember why we took some [...]
Ally: “Cole, do you want to die?”
Cole: “No”
Ally: “Good. Eat your food and sleep and that makes you grow and turn into mommies and daddies”
10 days later, Cole’s birthday is still going strong. In our house, we have a rule where we open one present a day. This caused Cole no small amount of grief on the day of his birthday party when tons of kids and adults trooped in and deposited a gigantic pile of party [...]
Cole’s birthday party was today. He carefully chose 8 of his friends and we did the whole 5-year-old birthday party thing. We hired Eleanor (9 year old daughter of one of Jen’s business partners) to do the party planning. The theme of the party was “wild animals” so she planned games like [...]
Somehow, when I wasn’t looking, 5 years have passed. When people would tell me that my kids would grow up fast, I never really understood what they meant. They don’t mean that time goes faster. They mean that you are so close to your kids for so long, that you don’t see [...]
On Tuesday and Wednesday mornings I drive Cole to kindergarten. He has to be there by 10:15 AM. Jen takes Ally to school around 8:45, then heads off to San Francisco to work at ForumJobs. So Cole comes in after Jen leaves and after some negotiations, we settle on a time when [...]
We went to a rather formal 40th birthday (for the dad) and coming out (for the 2 month old daughter) party. It was in a nice restaurant in SF in a private room, about 30 people and only 4 kids (and yes, they were invited). A four hour lunch. We brought entertainment [...]
Cole: I want to go to the park!
Ally: I want to go to the library!
Cole: Let’s play ro-sham-bo!
Ally: OK!!!
Both: Ro…. sham…. bo!
Ally: Nooo! I wanted to win!
Cole: Ok, if you want to win me [sic] you have to throw paper
Ally: OK!!!
Both: Ro…. sham…. bo!
Ally: Yay!!
Cole: Oh noOoOooo, I didn’t mean [...]