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Now THAT’S a bag of candy!

David — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:05:48 +0000

As you might recall, I declared Monday that M&M’s are evil because of their influence on my son.

Following that post, I decided that after the final snack-sized bag was gone, NO MORE M&M’s!

Yes, I was exercising my parental right to ban them until my son is over his chocolate-induced temper tantrums.

So, of course, the VERY DAY that we ran out of candy, my wife and son visited our elderly neighbor and brought him some birthday cake. The man gave my son what I can only describe as

THE BIGGEST F-ING BAG OF M&M’s EVER!

56 OUNCES! Who needs this much M&M’s?!

I’m pretty certain he doesn’t read my blog. If he does, then he is quite clearly the MOST EVIL MAN ALIVE!

Note: I did not take the photo of M&M’s with my son. As far as he knows, the candy is gone. And don’t any of you even think of telling him where the candy is.

Here’s some recent cuteness for your picture viewing pleasure.

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Making time for routines

David — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:02:26 +0000

I’m kinda’ disappointed.

I expected my sister-in-law’s visit with her four girls, aged two to nine, to produce some humorous stories in which I lost my cool or mind or perhaps a little bit of both. While there were a few moments of insanity which made me question why anyone would choose to have four or more kids, for the most part, the visit went smoothly. In fact, I kinda’ miss having them around because I really enjoyed seeing E interact with other children. Well, when they weren’t fighting over toys, anyway.

One of the good things to come from the visit was a new routine E and I have, coloring.

While we have colored before, and I often draw for him, the routine was sporadic at best. Mostly because he grew bored quickly.

However, while the girls were here, they colored at the table on a daily basis and E thrived on the interaction. So much so that he is now asking Blogger Mom and I to color several times a day. Being a cartoonist, this is all kinds of awesome for me. For one, I get to impress my son with a talent I have. For two, it’s nice to see him get lost in the act of coloring.

I probably got into drawing in order to connect with my mother.

When I was a child, my mom used to draw in a tablet all the time. She was really good, too. I remember her drawing animals, cartoon characters and pictures from greeting cards we received. She usually colored them in with colored pencils, something I was never really good at doing. I remember looking through her book on almost daily basis, wishing I could draw the things she drew. I tried, I mimicked several of her drawings. Then I progressed to tracing images from a Spider Man coloring book until I was able to train my muscle memory to draw Spider Man, or at least a seven year old’s version, on my own.

So it is interesting that my son is taking to drawing at the age of two.

Saturday, he grabbed my hand and said, “color, daddy?” and led me to the kitchen table where we sat next to one another with a box of well worn crayons and a stack of paper.

He asked me to draw different things, including a penguin or a “pen-pen” as he calls them. I quickly drew a crude crayon penguin. You have to be fast with E, because he is chomping at the bit to get his hands on the picture. Once I was done, he asked, “I color penguin?”

So I handed him the penguin, he scribbled circles all over my drawing, then handed it back to me.

“I colored pen-pen,” he said.

And my heart melted.

My drawings are not art until E has taken a crayon to them.

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A pony of his very own

David — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:00:20 +0000

So, yeah, I got E a My Little Pony. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, read this post.

Thanks for all the comments. I responded to them all. Lots of Pony Supporters out there!

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I told you my cat is evil

David — Tue, 12 May 2009 09:51:56 +0000

Going through some old photos and came across this one. If this is not proof of his evilness, I don’t know what is!

Thanks to everybody who came by to greet my wife yesterday. She responded last night, in case any of you missed it.

And this is officially my shortest post to date.

See you tomorrow with a bit more substance.

Ask Blogger Dad is here, plus cute pics!

David — Fri, 08 May 2009 09:24:02 +0000

As I mentioned the other day, I’m going to be writing an Ask Blogger Dad column over at Dad-O-Matic once a week. Well, the first one is here, so go check it out.

The newest installment of the horror story, Available Darkness is here!

And now, because I am out of words for the next few hours, some cute pictures my wife took of our son at a friends’ house. Click on the images to make bigger. Once you are at the second page, you can click again to see in full size.

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