Posts Tagged ‘kids’

This week’s Photo Friday is a bit lazy. My son’s park district basketball team had a game tonight, and we had a few other things going on so I figured this would be easier than getting creative.
I’ve never been a big basketball fan, but it’s fun watching the little guys run around and do their [...]

Saturday night’s fights opened with an unusual Muay Thai match:
We thought it was a joke at first, but when the bell rang, these little dudes went to town on one another. They punched, they kicked, they threw knees to the ribs.
And the crowd went nuts.
I felt almost guilty encouraging two little kids to beat the [...]

This should be a familiar scene to dads who have sons (and probably a few who have girls):

Had the Midget shootin’ out the other end once, too. Painted the wall. I wrote “warning: contents under pressure” on his diaper to give the Wife a heads up for the next change.

The Midget is back in karate with me. Today I ran the class, and we watched one of our brown belts run the kata bassai dai. It’s an advanced kata, and it includes a movement often referred to as “monkey steals the peach.” In the attack team I’m on, it’s my job to attack the [...]

It’s important to remember when kids ask you a strange question, they have a very specific reason for said question.
Today, the Midget asked “Do ninjas have real jobs?”
I probed that a bit further, and came to realize he wanted to know if “ninja” is a real job. In other words, do people still make a [...]

Your Robot Overlords
Originally uploaded by MikeOliveri.

The Midget’s teacher put out a call for parents to help build robots. Who am I to pass up an opportunity to take an hour or so out of the workday to help kids play with aluminum foil, cardboard, and PVC tubing?
Not only was I the only dad to show [...]

Thinking about having kids? Let me tell you a story.
I was in the shower this morning, minding my own business, when I heard the bathroom door open. I heard my wife say something about “upstairs potty” and the Squirt making some noises of protest, and then the door closes again. No problem, thought I.
A moment [...]

New Blue Belt
Originally uploaded by MikeOliveri.
It’s been 11 months since I first earned my blue belt and left my son in the dust, but he’s finally earned his new rank and he’s wearing it proudly. Friday night he didn’t even want to take it off, as if he were treating it like a new black [...]

I’m embarking on a road trip that will include about 12 hours of actual driving time with three young children.
I’m either really brave or totally insane. (To some of you, there’s no question.)
I’ve already been asked if there’s some mysterious agenda bringing the Four Horsemen together for the second time in a month. This is [...]

The Wife handed me a nice, big chunk of my ass again today.
Yes, again. I have a bad habit of forgetting what the rugrats should and shouldn’t be watching, and I have yet to live down a two-week streak of nightmares the Midget had when he was two. Nightmares caused by a viewing of the [...]