Noggin

Took Josie to her two year check up. Turns out she is of normal height and weight. But her head is in the 95th percentile. She's got a melon on top. I think this is the reason why she identifies with the cast of Super Why.

almost 2

Today is the second anniversary of when Becky called from work and said she needed to be taken to the hospital. Her water had broke. Even though it was 2 weeks before the due date, Josie decided to pull a hurry up and wait. She didn't get out until the next morning. Two years? My memories of that night involve confusion, somewhat helping becky with her struggle and that really nice HDTV. I got to watch Ice Road Truckers and Pitchmen and Battlestar Galactica inbetween asking if there was anything I could do besides hold her hand and not point out that my other hand held the TV remote.

After two years, my life has been changed a bit. The biggest part if discovering that I no longer sleep according to my own desires. Today I was up at 6:45 a.m. How can I be the father of a morning person? Even when she's at her grandma's house, I wake up early wondering why she hasn't woken me up.

The Love Bug

The hidden gender baby made it on the Today Show....kinda. They just ran the newspaper pics. I'm not going to guess the gender, but I swear it's the reincarnation of Buddy Hackett.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/#43179739

Really? You think this is a great idea?

A goofy couple decided that they're not going to tell anyone the gender of their baby.

"We've decided not to share Storm's sex for now--a tribute to freedom and choice in place of limitation, a stand up to what the world could become in Storm's lifetime (a more progressive place? ...),"

People might figure out the gender of your kid when they decide to drop diaper and piss on the wall.

"In fact, in not telling the gender of my precious baby, I am saying to the world, 'Please can you just let Storm discover for him/herself what s (he) wants to be?!." she wrote in an email.


Where did they get this idea? from a book called X: A Fabulous Child's Story. It turns out not to be a scientific study like Project Nim. It's a 52 page kid book about a kid who nobody knows the gender. I don't know if I want to take parenting tips from pure fiction. I got into enough problems when I sought advice from Jean Genet's Our Lady of the Flowers for gardening tips.

don't they understand they've now eliminated the grandmothers from diaper and babysitting? or maybe they're saying they weren't happy with what the grandmothers did when given the chance to watch their first two kids?

"The couple's other two children, Jazz and Kio, haven't escaped their parents' unconventional approach to parenting. Though they're only 5 and 2, they're allowed to pick out their own clothes in the boys and girls sections of stores and decide whether to cut their hair or let it grow.

"Both boys are "unschooled," a version of homeschooling, which promotes putting a child's curiosity at the center of his or her education. As Witterick puts it, it's "not something that happens by rote from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays in a building with a group of same-age people, planned, implemented and assessed by someone else."

While my Raised By Wolves method of childcare is rather open about things, there are periods when you have to bare your fangs and let them know things have to go your way. You can't buy whatever clothes you want. Otherwise we'd all be wearing pimpsuits at age 4 - cause of the flashy colors and slick gators. And you do have to teach them things they might not want to know. Otherwise how will they win enough money for retirement on Jeopardy?

here's the article. Turns out they're in Toronto.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110524/ts_yblog_thelookout/parents-keep-childs-gender-under-wraps

I'm thinking when Josie says, "Tickle," it's her version of LOL.

No Steps

We're in the process of getting a house since we need the space. Little kids take up way too much space. They're like the Jack Russell terriers of people. The good part is we have gone with a ranch house since I'm kinda fearing this fearless child at the top of a staircase. Now she can run around like a maniac and my only fear is her head pinballing off the walls.

Better Slogan

Nick Jr. - It's like Preschool without the disease