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Saturday Snap (Classic) – An Obscene Children’s Toy

Found this funny clip while looking at some old videos we had from when Pace was little…

Posted 22 September 2012 § Censorship § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § SaturdaySnap § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Pace’s Kindergarten Class (Revisited)

Just about five years ago, I did a post called “Pace’s Kindergarten Class” where I listed some of the names being given to the children of many of our friends, relatives, co-workers and so on. At the time, I did bit of speculation about what the names of his classmates might be when he finally […]

Posted 13 September 2012 § List § Meme § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – Pace’s First Day of Kindergarten (Video Edition)

Posted 10 September 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Sad § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Pace Starts Kindergarten Today

I know I keep saying it but where did the last five years go?  Wow…

Posted 05 September 2012 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sad § Shea ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “What’s gonna happen to you/You have woke up too soon/And found the world rearranged/And now your feelings have changed”

Shea found this one which is timely for Pace’s first day of kindergarten this week (and also for triggering tears in his very mixed emotion parents):

Posted 03 September 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Pace § PopCulture § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – 11 Month Old Twins Dance To Daddy’s Guitar

Go ahead and try not to smile – I dare you!

Posted 31 August 2012 § Family § Humour § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Ranking The Top 10 Milestones of a Person’s Life

In exactly one week, Pace starts kindergarten. It’s a cliche but it truly is hard to believe how fast the time has flown. I thought it might be fun to try to rank the major milestones of a person’s life. Other than being born and dying, I know not everyone will hit these milestones but […]

Posted 29 August 2012 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § Sad § Shea § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Saccarine Sunday – Eight Month Old Has Cochlear Implants Turned On For the First time

This is pretty amazing and heart-melting.(via MetaFilter which has a good discussion of the implications for the deaf community, many of whom are opposed to this type of operation.  Man, I never would've thought there was any question about doing something like this!) 

Posted 07 June 2010 § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

The Generational Sweetspot or Why Your Parents Have Such Bad Taste In Names

Interesting theory on why names come in and go out of fashion – it's tied to generational rebellion.  The names of your own generation sound too ordinary, your parents' too boring, your grandparents' too old. But by the time you make it back to your great-grandparents' names, things start to perk up. You've never known […]

Posted 06 May 2010 § Main Page § Pace ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – What Do Today's Parents Need To Know That Previous Ones Didn't? (March 7, 2010)

Seriously, I think I could start dedicating a day to an Ask MetaFilter Question o' the Day.  (I did ask a category for MetaFilter recently so that's part way there already!)  This one was particularly relevant – what things does a new parent today have to know about/worry about that previous generations didn't? 

Posted 06 March 2010 § FridayFunLink § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °