This weekend Elliot, Audrey and I and went for a hike on Fowler Trail1. As always Elliot was playing with sticks along the way. At some point he showed me a stick and said, “look Daddy, it’s a gun”. I replied, “Oh, OK”. I am not a bit fan of gun play, but I realize [...]
On Saturday, after riding around with the other kids on our block for a bit, Elliot rode up to the porch and asked me, “make my bike into a two wheeler, please”. I happily obliged and since then he has spent every minute we will let him on his bicycle. This is the second time [...]
Today is Audrey’s second birthday. Catherine has the important stuff covered here so I will just say, happy birthday Audrey. Oh, and show you a cute picture of her opening her presents.
So said Elliot on the way home yesterday evening. And he was right. We spent the morning at Boulder Reservoir for a company picnic. The food and the band were great. And the kids had a blast playing in the water, jumping in the bouncy castle and riding the boats.1 One the way home we [...]
For Labor Day we took the kids on a mini-vacation to Colorado Springs. There are a lot of touristy things to do near Colorado Springs. The first we went to Cave of the Winds. Cat and I enjoyed the tour but Elliot thought was a little boring. He did find a quite few a bits [...]
It was a wonderful day. We did not have any big plans, so I got to play with the kids around the house which was very nice. Elliot and I went for a short bike ride on Big Dry Creek Trail. The creek has water in this time of year and was very pretty. Elliot [...]
Audrey stood up all by herself for the first a week ago today. I was brushing Elliot’s teeth and she was playing on the floor near by. When I looked down I saw that she had pulled herself into a standing position using Elliot’s stool. By Saturday, two days later, she was pretty much standing [...]
Things have been a little quiet around here lately because my life has gotten a little busy. We close on our new house on Friday and we close on our current house the middle of next month. Fortunately, that gives us a couple of weeks to move. The new house is a bit less characterful [...]
The other day Elliot and I were at the dinosaur play area at FlatIron Crossing Mall1 and Elliot started playing imaginary ball. He grabbed my hand and pulled me 6 or so feet and pointed at the empty floor and said, “the ball is right there.” It took a couple of tries on his part [...]
My beautiful wife Catherine has started blogging. So far it is mostly about our children. For example, in Parenthood, part XXVII “It goes without saying – but, don’t let Elliot lick his underwear.” But in addition to being a nearly perfect mother Catherine is also an extremely talented database architect so you might see a [...]
