What is it about potty training that get's us as parents so excited. Well, let me tell you. When you realize you don't have to change anymore poop diapers. It is liberating. Of course things are different with my oldest, but that is something I have come to accept. But the other 2 that is another story. Finally today my middle who is almost 5 pooped in the potty, and let me tell you the celebration. I am very proud of her, she was very apprehensive about this, and did it without anybody really prompting her. Of course she had to see her little sister triumph yesterday and then fail today before she felt confident enough to go to the potty. She was so excited I thought she was going to have us take a picture. now that might have happened, but quickly erased.
Ah after this I can't wait until they are teenagers.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
I have nothing
That's right I have nothing. At least nothing positive or amusing to write about. I can't write about the kids I work with, that would break confidentiality. I could but the situations could be figured out. Let me tell you I had a few doosies today. With my kids it was even worse. I am not the best father in the world, by any stretch if the imagination, but I am a passable father. They just don't listen and with my luck they never will.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
The day is over
OK here is the sequence of events from today. (times are sometimes a guesstimate)
6 am - woke up, took care of some things.
6:30 - woke up wife and 2 of 3 kids
6:40 - woke up Rai
7:19 - on the road to Gillette's (Children's Hospital in St. Paul)
8:20 - arrive, abortion protesters are out
8:35 - admitted to pre-op
9:50 - Rai and Jo head back, I go to eat with Mira & Laura
11:15 - Rai in post op
11:45 - I see Rai for first time since 9:50
12:45 pm - we are released and are home
7:30 Rai in bed doped to the gills
All in all this was a very minor surgery. they removed 4 screws and 2 plates and shaved down some bone spurs. Jo described it to her mom as the continental plates shifting and forming mountains, I thought that was cool and clever. The doc was cool, he gave us the 4 screws (the size used in glasses, maybe a bit bigger) and plates (less than an inch long and 4 mm wide), which I think is very cool. She is asleep and was even a little chatty before bed. Hopefully this is the last one ever, especially since the 3rd plate is now covered in bone and there is no way a screw can poke through her scalp.
6 am - woke up, took care of some things.
6:30 - woke up wife and 2 of 3 kids
6:40 - woke up Rai
7:19 - on the road to Gillette's (Children's Hospital in St. Paul)
8:20 - arrive, abortion protesters are out
8:35 - admitted to pre-op
9:50 - Rai and Jo head back, I go to eat with Mira & Laura
11:15 - Rai in post op
11:45 - I see Rai for first time since 9:50
12:45 pm - we are released and are home
7:30 Rai in bed doped to the gills
All in all this was a very minor surgery. they removed 4 screws and 2 plates and shaved down some bone spurs. Jo described it to her mom as the continental plates shifting and forming mountains, I thought that was cool and clever. The doc was cool, he gave us the 4 screws (the size used in glasses, maybe a bit bigger) and plates (less than an inch long and 4 mm wide), which I think is very cool. She is asleep and was even a little chatty before bed. Hopefully this is the last one ever, especially since the 3rd plate is now covered in bone and there is no way a screw can poke through her scalp.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Follow up
OK so the doctors were attractive, but not so that I felt like slinking away in a corner. The procedure is on Thursday morning and it should only last about 30 minutes. Here is the kicker. the reason she has to go through this is because she is growing, which is a good thing, sort of, more in a moment.
Because she is growing one of the plates holding the scull bones together has detached and that is what is causing the screw to poke though her scalp. Now when I say the screw is poking through her scalp, I mean it. You can see the star of the phillips head, and it is shiny. if you ever saw the movie Judge Dread, yeah I did, there is a character in the beginning who is a cyborg of sorts and you can see the metal plate in his head. Even though this screw is about 5 millimeters big it seems to cover her whole head when I describe it, ah the power of descriptive wording.
Now you may ask why it is sort of good she is growing. My daughter is very disabled, both physically and mentally. she still wears diapers and is going through what is called precocious puberty. This means she is starting to grow breasts and has pubic hair. she will probably have her period in the next year or 2.
Just another chapter to the book.
Because she is growing one of the plates holding the scull bones together has detached and that is what is causing the screw to poke though her scalp. Now when I say the screw is poking through her scalp, I mean it. You can see the star of the phillips head, and it is shiny. if you ever saw the movie Judge Dread, yeah I did, there is a character in the beginning who is a cyborg of sorts and you can see the metal plate in his head. Even though this screw is about 5 millimeters big it seems to cover her whole head when I describe it, ah the power of descriptive wording.
Now you may ask why it is sort of good she is growing. My daughter is very disabled, both physically and mentally. she still wears diapers and is going through what is called precocious puberty. This means she is starting to grow breasts and has pubic hair. she will probably have her period in the next year or 2.
Just another chapter to the book.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Attractive Doctors
So my wife and I are talking about Rai going to the Dr. tomorrow and she proceeds to tell me that the hospital where we were going tomorrow had a plethora of attractive Doctors. Hmmm. OK I am mid 30's going grey and right now overweight to the point I am changing my clothes in the dark, ok not that bad, but I am in need of a few good workouts, to say the least.
I have never had a good looking doctor, for anything. The closest I came to that was some fairly hot nurses. That is another story and is better told in person (I tell a pretty good story if I do say so myself). so tomorrow I am accompanying the rest of my clan to this hospital, where I am going to feel very insecure, a feeling that has not been in my repetoire for many years.
Oh well. Tonight I drink red wine, tomorrow I see attractive doctors and feel insecure, and then realise that at one pint in my life I was a bad ass and feel a little better about myself. Shallow? Absolutely. Coping? Most definately. Do I care? A little. Will I lose weight? Someday, give me a break I only quit smoking 26 days ago.
I have never had a good looking doctor, for anything. The closest I came to that was some fairly hot nurses. That is another story and is better told in person (I tell a pretty good story if I do say so myself). so tomorrow I am accompanying the rest of my clan to this hospital, where I am going to feel very insecure, a feeling that has not been in my repetoire for many years.
Oh well. Tonight I drink red wine, tomorrow I see attractive doctors and feel insecure, and then realise that at one pint in my life I was a bad ass and feel a little better about myself. Shallow? Absolutely. Coping? Most definately. Do I care? A little. Will I lose weight? Someday, give me a break I only quit smoking 26 days ago.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Another hole in her head...
One of my favorite sayings to my kids and some students I work with is "You need that like you need another hole in your head." Well, my words have come back to bite me, and how. My oldest daughter is disabled and has had 4 different brain surgeries since 2003, the last being in 2004. All has been relatively good for her since then. Only a few seizures a year now rather than a few dozen a day. because of the extensive brain surgeries she has plates screwed in to her skull to keep it together. it now seems that one of the screws has rubbed its way through her scalp. Now she needs to have another surgery, albeit a minor one, this week.
Ah, just one of the great pleasures of fatherhood. :)
Ah, just one of the great pleasures of fatherhood. :)
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Welcome
Welcome to The Book According to Dad! Yes, I am a dad. I have 3 beautiful daughters who are smart, sassy and very independent, although they are all under 10 years old. The reason i started this was because I could not think about what to write about at my other blog (the Book According to Dave) and I was getting increasingly frustrated. after speaking with a friend she suggested that I write about being a dad, since my stories amused her. So here I am, and I hope if you come and read I can add a little levity. There will be serious stuff, maybe, but my kids provide me with an unending supply of fodder.
Who knows maybe this will still be going when they are teenagers and I can really embarrass them.
So keep an eye out and enjoy the folly that is my life. :)
Who knows maybe this will still be going when they are teenagers and I can really embarrass them.
So keep an eye out and enjoy the folly that is my life. :)
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