A Day in Paradise

Annie lost her first tooth today. She’s been playing with her “wiggle-tooth” for the last few weeks, and has been getting exceedingly anxious to get it out of her mouth.
Today, after my failed attempt to pull it, she disappeared for half an hour, and then re-appeared with a tooth in her hand!
Before

After

Now we are waiting […]

We took the kids out to the park to have a bbq. While we were waiting for everyone to show up, Annie comes up and says
Annie: “I want to play goofball”
Stella: “goofball?”
Annie: “yes, where you have a stick and hit the little ball”
Stella: “You mean mini-golf?”
Annie: “Yes, mini-golf”

Nikon D50/D70 vs Canon Rebel XT Shootout
I’m looking at upgrading my s100 to a digital SLR. I played with Mike’s on Sunday and I am totally sold on getting an upgrade.

Taking these kinds of pictures is worth whatever the cost.
I checked out this review on the difference between the Nikon and Canon low end digital […]

We just watched Stuart Little with the girls and now Sid (our pet dwarf hamster) just got an upgrade from being “Sid” to being “Our brother, Sid”.
I need to put up pictures of SidCity2006 but over christmas we expanded his complex, it now consists of his condo (sleeping room, food, and a look out tower […]

Annie just came home from shopping with Stella and showed me her new shoes. After a minute she ran off and said “I need to put them on so I can feel how they look”.
I corrected her and told her that the term was actually “See how they Feel”. Which when thinking about it, isn’t […]

UtterlyBoring.com: Biblical Laws for Children
Very funny set of “Biblical” laws for children…
My favorites:
Laws When at Table: Sit just as I have told you, and do not lean to one side or the other nor slide down until you are nearly slid away. Heed me; for if you sit like that, your hair will go […]

Annie is an Artist Originally uploaded by aaronwormus.
I guess every parent is flabbergasted by what their kid can do.
Annie loves drawing but when I saw her butterfly, I couldn’t believe that she had done it. Fabulous! It’s better than I can do. I just need […]

Annie can now ride her bike!
We got Annie a bike for her birthday, but in the beginning she didn’t really take to it, she would just sit on it stare up in space pedal backwards and ring the bell, not really understanding what the point was.
Thinking that maybe the bike was too big for […]

Annie came and asked if she could borrow my “Sharpanetto” today… I quickly scanned my desk wondering what she might be referring to, but couldn’t find anything.
I quickly started offering alternatives: “Scotch tape?”, “Sharpener?”, but she said “No, the sharpenetto” and reached over and grabbed my stapler. I said “You mean the stapler”, “Yes, […]

Just thought I’d jot down a few “Annie Antics” before starting work this morning.
Annie has been growing up so fast! She has a mind of her own and it really works! It’s amazing to see how her thought patterns develop. One of the things that she has been really on about the last few weeks […]

So I’m reading the story of Noah’s Ark to Annie out of her bible book, and I get to the part where Noah starts building the Ark. I ask Annie, “What’s an ark?” and she says “It’s a Puzzle”.
We have this big floor puzzle of all the animals in the ark, so I guess that’s […]

OK people you HAVE to hear this, it’s just the cutest thing in the whole wide world!!! Sung by the future diva Miss Andrea Pearl at age 2 years and 7 months!
Annie sings “Itsy-Bitsy Spider”

I made a bunkbed for Annie and Mia, but it’s not complete yet, and I don’t have a ladder for Annie to get up into her top bunk. Today, when I was playing with Mia, Annie came and asked me if I could put her up in her bed. I said “Why don’t you fly […]

Annie was preparing to leave the table without finishing the food on her plate. Usually I don’t force her to finish everything, but so that I maintain the illusion that I have control of the situation, I make her eat a few more bites before she leaves.
The conversation went like this:
“Daddy, I’m done”
“OK, but first…”
“Annie […]

Was giving Annie lunch, and she wanted a piece of the grapefruit I was eating. So I obliged her. She took one bite and screwed up her face and said “Daddy, it has sour on it.”.