Humor

The LeapFrog Clickstart Is Clearly Not of the Devil

February 12, 2009

This may be the most bizarre toy behavior I’ve ever seen. The J-Man usually picks a couple of letters or numbers to be his favorite for a given length of time (for a day or two, most of the time). Recently, he settled on two particular numbers while playing with his LeapFrog Clickstart keyboard. So, [...]

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Adventures in Not-Really Potty Training

November 22, 2008

For the record, we aren’t potty training and haven’t even begun to ponder that idea with any seriousness. We’re adherents to the rule of not working on more than a couple of major things at once, and frankly potty training just doesn’t rank compared to other stuff we’re working on right now. Anyway, so after [...]

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If Parents Started Talking Like Skateboarders

November 19, 2008

I’m at the perfect age (35) where you’re neither old nor cool. In fact, 35 is probably the utter nadir of coolness. Plus I’m tired, punchy, and in need of a laugh, even if I end up being the only one laughing. In a sorry attempt to make parenting sound cool – or to, more [...]

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Roll Your Own Muppet

November 11, 2008

After several serious posts and two days of croup in the house (thankfully getting better thanks to an armada of humidifiers), let’s take a break and find something fun to play with. So I give you, The Muppet Whatnot Workshop courtesy of FAO Schwarz. Believe it or not, you can actually buy whatever bizarre muppet [...]

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Just Another Mopey Monday

October 27, 2008

Man, everybody was grumpy today. The bottom fell out of the thermometer with no warning. It was cloudy, windy, and generally yuck outside. And it by-god sleeted for a few minutes. It’s North Carolina in October!? Three weeks ago it was like 90 degrees! And I’m sure the autistic kids’ teachers at school would add, [...]

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The Adventures of Captain Diaper Hat

October 21, 2008

Getting J-Man to in any way cooperate with getting his nighttime pull-up on has been a complete mess lately. We used to just say, “time for your diaper!” and he’d stand up, step in, and off to bed we went. Then for no explicable reason – which is how things normally happen around here – [...]

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Thilly Thursdays – Joes, Bobs, the Race for the White House, and the Decent Into Political Asininity

October 16, 2008

JOE, MONTANA, Oct. 15 — After Senator John McCain last night invoked the name of “Joe the Plumber” over 20 times in the final Presidential debate, today Senator Barack Obama’s campaign sought—and quickly found—its own construction-based voter and adopted him as the new symbol of their campaign.     “Bob the Builder is the symbol [...]

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Think Outside the Bun

October 7, 2008

[aka "In which Tim looks dazed and confused for a minute" or "Wherein the bun in the oven picture is explained"] Right before we had the J-man’s IEP meeting, I had been feeling hungry every night. EVERY little thing pissed me off, and I was hungry ALL the time. In fact, if I didn’t eat [...]

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