Noah is 4

I can hardly believe it, a 4 year old and a soon to be 6 year old.


Yesterday I was looking at Noah, I didn't say anything, and he gives me this weird look and says, "What?", like I'm acting weird or something. I'm like, "Nothing". A minute later I look at him again, he gives me the same funny look and says, "What?" Nothing, I said, I'm just looking at you. He thinks I'm crazy.

22

Today in the car Noah was playing with a new toy.

"Daddy, this is 22."

"What do you mean?"

He holds up the toy and on the bottom it's marked '22'.

Not bad for a 3 year old that thinks he's yellow years old.

Big Girl

Wow, tomorrow is Lexi's first day of Kindergarten. It really is hard to fathom how quickly 5 years have gone by. Today we dropped off supplies at her classroom, and tomorrow we'll drop her off at the front of the building and pick her up 2 hours later.

It's a big day for all of us /shudder.

RIP Alex Chilton

"Here's a revision that's kind of minor, it's just a little town down in Indochina" - Bangkok

The sad thing is, I thought he was already dead, but he was only 59.

If the name doesn't ring a bell, you'd probably at recognize him as the singer from the Box Tops with the hit song, "The Letter".

If it does ring a bell, you probably already know.

Happy Birthday, Lexi

Five years.

Five short years.

Sometimes it feels like 10, but usually more like 1 or 2. The time just flies past like nobody's business.

I remember that first night, Swedish Hospital, just the 3 of us. They got the bed, I got the chair. It was such a blur, such a lack of sleep that you didn't really know what was happening at any time. Changing diapers, feeding her, and sitting around until they finally released us late the next afternoon.

The first time I had to drop her off at daycare at 3 months old. It just seemed so cruel. Now it's such a relief sometimes, to know that they're going to be playing with other kids and eating a couple of square meals, compared to whatever slop I throw together for them.

Her first tooth, steps, words. Her first scrapes and tumbles. Her first smile and her first bath.

It's amazing how scared you can be with the first child, thinking of all the awful things that you are sure are going to happen any day now...it's just a matter of time. By the time her little brother was born, you're fine giving him a shard of glass and a lighter and just letting him go for it.

The time she was only maybe 6 months old and was throwing everything up for days, we took her to the emergency room and fed her by the dropper full. The doctor says, "Everything's fine, as long as she's not dehydrated". That's what I pretty much say all the time, but the wife never takes my word for it.

The first time she slept through the night all the way. Now THAT was a good night.

I'm not going to win any best-parenting contest anytime soon, but I will love that girl with all my heart for the rest of my life.

Happy birthday, babe.

March 6th and 7th

My wife is working that Wednesday and taking the weekend off. I cannot forget this.