The Mona Auntie Lisa

  The speed at which the progress happens and how exponentially fast the connections take place truly has my head spinning.  I know every parent thinks theirs is the gifted one, but man, he's only just turned three! I guess it just means we are gonna have to graduate to the canvas sooner! In any case, here you are auntie Lisa, he said it was you in all your etch-a-sketched splendor! He did say he had to add more hair but then noticed Isaac was watching youtube nursery rhymes and that was that.

Rainbow Country

  Bob Marley's song "Rainbow Country" was playing in my car through most of my twenties driving up and down coast highway. I was by myself most of the time. Now days I have my buddies. I'm so relieved that cali finally got some rain after such a drought. It just makes me all nostalgic and stuff.

Midweek Mutterings

After picking the twins up from preschool, strapping them in their seats and handing out snack bags(because they barely eat at school), I asked what they did today.
Dad: Did u guys read books or sing songs?
Evan: Yeah.
Dad: Tell me more.
Evan: There was an old woman who lived...in a snack bag.

Evan's Etchings

  I remember it like yesteryear. I was in the social room at Mema and Grandpa's one spring day in Minnesota with a pencil and my tracing books. I was probably five or six. For some reason the time had come to stop tracing over bugs bunny and instead I drew him free hand on a piece of lined paper. I went and showed Mema when I was done and she almost hit the roof. She couldn't believe I did it so she asked me to do it again in front of her. When mom came to pick us up she handed her the drawings and said something about getting me into art classes right away. That moment will always be there until the lights go out. It was that important, so when Evan showed me the drawing of the snail, at THREE YEARS OLD!! I wasn't faking any surprise, a true 'holy shit!' moment. But thanks to the memory of Mema's reaction I knew exactly how important to the make the memory for this young artist. Thanks to all you Grandma's gettin' it done!

Tuesdays Tip (How to be a rockstardaddy)

  Handle one crisis at a time. Fire by fire, diaper by diaper...just do it real f#@%ing fast.

Midweek Mutterings

  Evan is attached to a book of animal pictures, Isaac too but it's Evans nightly choice for story time. He points and names almost every one of the hundred critters in the book. The other night he identified the porcupine. Marie asked him what does the porcupine do...
  Evan: "He porks people."

Monday Quotables

This weeks quote comes from the mouth of Mr. Nine Months himself... "Mama."