As I finished my last post, I took a moment to reflect on some of my past entries, and the comments made there-of. Before you read any further, please understand that I appreciate any comment left because deep down inside, I care what you think. I want to make each of my readers so proud. I want to leave a legacy of earth shattering, ground shaking, mountain moving, sexually driven orgasmic literature, behind me, so as to be remembered for not who I was, but what I offered. I am more that a pretty face. So when I don't leave a post, every day, or once a week, it is truly for a number of reasons ( and in no certain order):
1) I have absolutely nothing worth writing about. And as we all know, the proverbial writers block must not be present for great feats of literature
2) I am busy spending time with my wife and son.
3) I am busy reading my book of the moment in my special place
4) I am working
5) Or finally, I just don't have the time to sit down a give a dissertation on what idiots surround me on a regular basis.
Honest but true, but for the needs of my viewers, I will try and make a conscious effort to leave a entry at least once a week.
And for my mother, cause I know she will read this, I must first say that I am sorry for not calling on a more regular basis, but you are dating somebody, and you didn't even want to tell me yourself?? How rude. I am truly happy for you, and I hope he knows just how lucky he is, but I thought I was special......
Anyway, Keep leaving your comments.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Sunday, August 19, 2007
My son, growing up Part 1
So, it is without question, that I love my son. It can also be said, that if anyone were to ever, ever, everevereverever, try and hurt him, they would be the recipient of one of the most legendary a$$whippings to ever be seen, spoken, and written about. And I say this, not because I am his father, or because of my love for him, but because, to see any pain on his face, or the mere thought of some low-grade life's reject looking for kicks, touching him, sends into what I call the RED RAGE. Now over the past 4 and a half years I have seen this boy grow from a screaming, pissing, crapping, eating, thing of love to a larger screaming, pissing crapping, eating, thing of pure joy and love. He has just added other tricks to his repertoire. His ability to jump long distances, his balance is an uncanny thing, his strength, his ability to see something once and be able to duplicate it. But in addition to all that, he has other abilities like: to love; I have seen more uncompromising acts of love by this one child then I have seen my entire life. He will just do something that absolutely takes your breath away, and you are just not expecting it. I have seen this child walk up to anybody and just start talking as if they were the very best of friends. "Whats your favorite color, shape, number" are a few of the starter questions that you must answer before he will move on. I have seen him stop what he was doing to go over and talk with another child in the store and strike up a conversation. I have seen this same child, take a simple look from another adult as an invitation to be shown his transformers (whichever one he may have at the time, due to him having so many....AHEM thank you Mother in Law)....
So now we fast forward to his first official day of school. I'm nervous, so is my wife SHazy, and I am the first one up, so I creep into H-dogs' bedroom to wake him, and there he is, eyes open, just chillin' on the bed!! I ask him if he was ready to get up and get ready for school, and he hops up and says OK. OK!? You are OK with it? Bath, breakfast, prepping, primping, teeth brushing, hair combing, he didn't fight me about any of it. About three weeks prior, I came up with an idea ( I am digressing for a moment) and said well, if we are going to give him MORE toys, maybe we could, I don't know.......Learn something in the process?!?! So I drew up a calender, with all the days of the week and month for August. Everyday, he would have to cross out the previous day and learn the day and the corresponding number. He was doing really well, and I asked him what day school starts and he was able to reply, Monday the Twentieth!! Chalk one up for the DAD..... So it should have come as no surprise that he was ready for school. He had been prepped as well as any two parents could prep him as far as what to expect, and what he would get out of it. This is the same child that did not want to go to preschool a year ago. Would not , could not with a fox, would not, could not in a box. Now he is ready everyday to go. It is awesome!!
Other things he does, is want to help me cook. He knows how to shake the saute pan when you saute. How to stir the stew, chili, mixture stuff in pots (enter your favorite pot stuff here) how to season (although not as delicate as me) and many other skills like allowing the egg to slip through ones fingers. And nine times out of ten, he eats it better because he was evolved in the process. AMAZING....BRILLANT....Thank you.
His talking has improved, so as now he can carry on conversations and imply feelings, and thoughts on a much grander scale than when he was 3. Now I look forward to asking him direct questions, because I will get an answer, whereas before, I would most definitely have gotten uber -gibberish and stopped due to frustration.
All in all, I have been completely amazed at how quickly he has grown in the past six months, let alone the past three weeks, but at the same time, I hope that he doesn't grow to fast. I still want to teach him stuff while he is little, because you never know what will come out of his month as a response. Hopefully many of you will tune in at some of his upcoming accomplishments in pertaining to school. If not, that's OK too, because its one thing to read, but another to experience it first hand!!
P.S. Note to all with a young one, reading this, limit your child's computer time to as little as possible, and control what sites he visits (ie NOGGIN, and SPROUT, not JET IX and CARTOON NETWORK) there are some fairly violent games on the last two sites, and that leads to fighting, also, block what channels he watches, for the same reasons. It could be, that you already know this, but we didn't and we learned a valuable lesson. On one hand, Harrison is a whiz at surfing the net, but he is also at an age, where if you don't set boundaries then it could come back to haunt you.
Till next time......
So now we fast forward to his first official day of school. I'm nervous, so is my wife SHazy, and I am the first one up, so I creep into H-dogs' bedroom to wake him, and there he is, eyes open, just chillin' on the bed!! I ask him if he was ready to get up and get ready for school, and he hops up and says OK. OK!? You are OK with it? Bath, breakfast, prepping, primping, teeth brushing, hair combing, he didn't fight me about any of it. About three weeks prior, I came up with an idea ( I am digressing for a moment) and said well, if we are going to give him MORE toys, maybe we could, I don't know.......Learn something in the process?!?! So I drew up a calender, with all the days of the week and month for August. Everyday, he would have to cross out the previous day and learn the day and the corresponding number. He was doing really well, and I asked him what day school starts and he was able to reply, Monday the Twentieth!! Chalk one up for the DAD..... So it should have come as no surprise that he was ready for school. He had been prepped as well as any two parents could prep him as far as what to expect, and what he would get out of it. This is the same child that did not want to go to preschool a year ago. Would not , could not with a fox, would not, could not in a box. Now he is ready everyday to go. It is awesome!!
Other things he does, is want to help me cook. He knows how to shake the saute pan when you saute. How to stir the stew, chili, mixture stuff in pots (enter your favorite pot stuff here) how to season (although not as delicate as me) and many other skills like allowing the egg to slip through ones fingers. And nine times out of ten, he eats it better because he was evolved in the process. AMAZING....BRILLANT....Thank you.
His talking has improved, so as now he can carry on conversations and imply feelings, and thoughts on a much grander scale than when he was 3. Now I look forward to asking him direct questions, because I will get an answer, whereas before, I would most definitely have gotten uber -gibberish and stopped due to frustration.
All in all, I have been completely amazed at how quickly he has grown in the past six months, let alone the past three weeks, but at the same time, I hope that he doesn't grow to fast. I still want to teach him stuff while he is little, because you never know what will come out of his month as a response. Hopefully many of you will tune in at some of his upcoming accomplishments in pertaining to school. If not, that's OK too, because its one thing to read, but another to experience it first hand!!
P.S. Note to all with a young one, reading this, limit your child's computer time to as little as possible, and control what sites he visits (ie NOGGIN, and SPROUT, not JET IX and CARTOON NETWORK) there are some fairly violent games on the last two sites, and that leads to fighting, also, block what channels he watches, for the same reasons. It could be, that you already know this, but we didn't and we learned a valuable lesson. On one hand, Harrison is a whiz at surfing the net, but he is also at an age, where if you don't set boundaries then it could come back to haunt you.
Till next time......
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
A quick pass rather than a bomb....
I apologize that I haven't posted anything in a hot minute, but we are attempting to get our son into school, he starts August the 20th, and that paired with my job, and my wifes business, are keeping me a little busy. SO please bear with me while we go through this transition period, and I will be back to offer once again little tidbits of worthless knowledge that you may use at your leisure.
Oh yeah.........Logan's Roadhouse
Oh yeah.........Logan's Roadhouse
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