Family Life

I was washing my four-year-old’s hands for dinner tonight when he cheerfully said,
- “Daddy, I know a new trick that you don’t know.”
- “Really Joel? What’s that?”
- “I can lick my snot!”
Why oh why did I have to ask? Being exceptionally slow and not yet having learned my lesson, I blurted out,
- “So how do [...]

I started to tidy up the Lego last night, clearing the floor in anticipation of vacuuming. Rather than throw everything into a box, as usual, I decided to do a more thorough job and take everything apart first. To understand how much peril this involved, you’d have to understand the rules of Lego.
Rule #1: Each [...]

After tucking the boys into bed I try to disentangle myself from their incessant need to chat and leave the room without too much trauma. Often Joel will call out, “I just need to tell you one more thing, Daddy!” Joel’s “one more thing” can last quite a while, and I’m reluctant to get sucked [...]

So everybody is sick again. Coughs, runny noses, broken sleep, lethargic. I got to sleep at about 5am last night, kept up by Micah’s restlessness. For several months we slept Micah in a playpen in the office every night, as a way of getting some distance and several closed doors between a noisy baby and [...]

I went out tonight with Joel and Micah on the bike.
A while ago I borrowed a trailer from my friend Rob, so now I can take all three kids when I go riding. One goes on the child carrier on the back of the bike and the other two get towed behind in the trailer. [...]