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Isaac Finds this Water Frisbee Horribly Amusing
Issac loves to take this water toy frisbee and put it in my mouth and then I flap it around and he gets a kick out of this. He also likes sticking oher things in my mouth too. He likes to feed me food...
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Isaac’s 13th Month
Isaac has now been alive 13 months and I wanted to recap his adventures this month. The summer began which meant we were starting our time with our pool passes. Isaac loves the water and he runs...
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Isaac Turns 15
Well, Isaac is now 15 months old. He continues to master the control of his muscles and his body. He can now control his face muscles pretty well. He can also make funny faces. Here is a video really...
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Grayslake Parks: Cullen Park
Cullen Park holds the distinction of being the Grayslake Park District”s only all metal park. It is located off of 120 in the Grayslake Apartment area. There is one large play structure there with...
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Grayslake Parks: Mill Creek Park
Mill Creek Park is one of the Grayslake Park District’s must full featured playgrounds (As you can see from the picture at the bottom, Isaac gets a little overwhelmed there.) There is one large...
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Wii Review: Learning with the Poo-Yoos
While playing Super Mario Galaxy 2 last week, little Isaac wanted to get involved and kept taking my Wiimote to play the “mouse game.” (Somehow he mistook Mario for Mickey Mouse.) While this was cute...
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Thoughts about having a second child and letting the first one grow…
As I sit here with less than 12 hours until the fourth member of our little family is born, I have a chance to reflect on the last three years and what lies ahead. Child birth is a weird feeling....
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Finding Humor in the Frustrations of Parenting…
I received an e-mail a few weeks ago from a colleague with the PDF of a book entitled Go the F**k to Sleep by Adam Mansbach. I read through it an it was completely spot on in regards to trying to get...
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Natural disposition to eating cereal
For better or worse, the wife and I have no problem buying the kids sugary cereal. What I found interesting the other morning was that the children had learned to pick out the marshmallows from Lucky...
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Memorization and Learning and the Power of Games to Teach
I read in a reading I had to do for grad school there was a quote to the effect of, “If a child can memorize 100 Pokemon characters, they should be able to memorize the 101 countries and their...
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