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I pick Xavier up from preschool every morning at 11. We come home and he’s hungry so we do lunch. Yesterday he finished his sandwich and I look over at him from where I was on the other side of the kitchen. He’s holding up two individual grapes from the small bunch on his plate,…
Every other Saturday we have pizza for dinner. Sometimes more often, but pretty much every two weeks. The logistics of why this is are not relevant to the story. A few slices were left over and I individually wrapped two of them up in aluminium foil for August to take to school. He’s the only…
Ciárán had 8 teeth by the time he was 8 months old. Seriously. It was a little weird. None of our other kids had that many teeth at that time. Now at the age of 6 he’s losing his teeth. Literally. Thursday Ciárán lost a tooth. At school. As in actually lost it in the school’s…
This morning was a bit crazy. The scenario: Laura leaves every day about 6:45 in the morning for work. That leaves me with August (10), Déla (8), Ciárán (6) and Xavier (3) and I have to get them ready for (and to) school by 8:20 when school begins. I say this not as a “woe…
So how is Xavier’s first year in preschool going? We’re a couple of weeks in and as a dad blogger I think there’s some sort of legal requirement to talk about the kid’s school once a month of your dad blogger license gets revoked. Every day Xavier asks if he can run ahead. We drop…
My son Xavier is 3 years old. He’s sitting on the toilet. “I’m a boy, right dad?” “Yes you are.” “But you’re not a boy.” “I’m not? Then what am I?” “A dad!”
I woke up at 12:30 this morning. My mind was racing, fixating on … stuff that this post isn’t about. I finally wound up surrendering to whatever it was that prevented my sleep and got up about 1. At 2 in the morning I was downstairs sorting socks (don’t ask) when I heard the telltale…
Kid number 6 is due towards the end of April. It’s not like we were trying, actually we were sort of trying to be careful. Things happen. People ask if we know what we’re going to have. There are two things wrong with this. First, Laura is only about 7 weeks pregnant, a little too…
With all of the younger kids in school my mornings have finally opened up. More laundry getting done. More blogging getting done. And now time to visit the dentist. Several years ago one of my molars got infected and needed to get pulled. It was a horrible experience, and one that I’m surprised I can’t…