Wordless Wednesday: Planting A Garden
Category: JSL
Geeks-In-Training Meet Free Comic Book Day
As a father, I have many responsibilities. I go to work Monday through Friday to pay our bills. I take the kids on excursions to let B get some quiet time. I cook dinners. I even change pull-ups and wipe rear ends. My most enjoyable fatherly responsibility, however, is training them in the geeky arts.
NHL already likes Star Wars. Both he and JSL love Looney Tunes. JSL will even, when prompted with “Rabbit Season” say “Duck Season! Fire! PSSSH!” (The sound of him imitating Elmer Fudd’s gun.) They also both love computers. NHL will beg to be allowed to learn more about computers and JSL has come to expect being able to see his grandparents via Skype whenever he wants.
On the superhero front, NHL watches Batman The Brave and the Bold with me and wants to know everything about all the heroes and villians. He gets especially excited when the heroes begin beating up the villians. (Perhaps too excited, but that’s a topic for another blog post.) He’s also watched Super Hero Squad, Spectacular Spiderman and X-Men: Evolution with me to get him into Marvel’s heroes and villians.
(Not So) Wordless Wednesday: Dr. JSL, Mr. Hyde
As JSL nears 3, he’s beginning to change. Among other things, he’s beginning to get quite the interesting temper tantrums. One minute, he’ll be sweet little JSL.
Then he changes into Mr. Hyde, screaming about the most insignificant of things.
(He wants cake and doesn’t care if they need to slice it!)
Then he’s back to sweet JSL again.
(Of course, cake helps!)
Illness-Related Blog Draught
I’ve been going through a bit of a blogging drought lately and it’s all JSL’s fault. You see, he’s been sick recently. 101 fevers and screaming that his hair/head/ears hurt. It makes it hard to blog when you’re worried about your little one. And if he’s bunking in your bed, waking you up every so many hours, well the exhaustion that sets in doesn’t help.
Luckily, though, JSL has had some happy moments in between sickly complaining. For example, last night I was sitting in bed trying to get him to sleep. JSL saw my Twitter Feed and saw a tweet from ThinkGeek. Since ThinkGeek’s mascot (and Twitter icon) is Timmy the Monkey, JSL shouted "Da Da, look! Ooh ooh ahh ahh on Da Da’s computer!" I told him that was ThinkGeek and we got him to say it. I neglected to get it on video, but I just rectified this mistake.
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Yes, he’s my little Geek-In-Training! And hopefully, JSL-Geek-In-Training will get better soon. Meanwhile, I’ll work on posts bit by bit. They’ll just come out slower than I’d hoped.