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  Ornaments

  Late in 2007, around our first wedding anniversary, Mrs. G and I found out that Tiny was on his way. That Christmas I commemorated his anticipated arrival with an ornament; it was a bun in an oven. Each Christmas since then, I’ve made a new one. On Tiny’s first Christmas I made a cast of [...]

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  I Knew this Day Would Come

  Tiny has been trying to seriously injure himself for the last two and a half years. He has employed various means including, but not limited to: doors, floors, walls, bats, cats, slides, shoes and concrete. This time it was a rock lodged in his head that prompted a worried call and an MMS from his [...]

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  Taking His Lumps

  Children, especially toddlers, have tiny bodies with great, huge, heavy heads, and very little good sense. So any time they move (which in Tiny’s case is all the time) it’s like they’re challenging the world to a head-butting contest that they are destined to lose. Today, though, it was another kid who stepped in front [...]

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  I Love My New Camera

  I got my birthday present a week or so early (Thanks, Mrs. G!).  It’s a fantastic Digital SLR camera.  And while I still love taking lo-fi shots with my phone, I am really happy to have the opportunity to try my hand at portraiture.  Now if that new portrait lens would somehow find its way [...]

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• My Kid Can Count to Six

  Tiny, who’ll be 21 months old Thursday (that’s “almost two” for people who favor solar age above lunar), saw some change on a chair in my bedroom this morning and became very excited. He really enjoys putting coins in his piggy bank, so I told him he could have them if he helped me count [...]

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