Aiden starts pre-school again this week. He’ll be going back for three days a week this year, up from two last year. However, he’ll only be going to private school this time, since he doesn’t need speech therapy from the public school anymore. He really likes school, but I don’t think that he missed it...
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Aiden had such a good time at C2E2 in April that I had planned to take him to Wizard World Chicago later. Wizard is a declining force in the comics industry (they were huge back in the 90′s), so they changed the name of the event back to “Chicago Comic Con” this year. This con was arguably bigger than C2E2, but...
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Aiden used to love “Thomas The Tank Engine”. We watched the show all the time and had tons of the plastic tracks to build railroads with. However, Gavin soon became mobile and started trashing the sets. So the tracks went into storage until Gavin was old enough to play with them too. Now is the time to get Gavin...
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I’m not proud of it, but I often hide from my kids while eating snacks so that I don’t have to share with them. Hence the term “clandesnacking”, an amalgamation of “clandestine” and “snacking”. Yes, I made that up. Why would I go through all the trouble of avoiding the boys...
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Although our family has an annual membership to the Brookfield Zoo, this is the first time that I’ve been back since the Spring. The last time I was there, the “Great Bear Wilderness Trail” was still under construction and the dolphin stadium was being renovated. Both are now completed, so we wanted to get...
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Aiden has never been to a theater before. We didn’t want to be those parents that bring a child who was obviously not ready to sit still through an entire movie. But we had taken him to the Field Museum a few days earlier, and he sat through the 3D dinosaur movie about Sue The T-Rex very well. He even wore the 3D...
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The boys fall down about a hundred times a day. Each time, we pick them up and tell them that they are okay and send them off to play again. On Sunday morning, Aiden was running down the hall when he fell. He was on the floor crying, so I picked him up from behind and said, “You’re okay, buddy”. By the...
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Katie called to say that her friend Julie got a block of tickets to see Choo Choo Soul at the Radisson Star Theater in Merrillville because she’s interning at Radio Disney in Chicago. She had about forty tickets to give away and asked if we could help her distribute them. The boys liked Choo Choo Soul on the Disney...
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