Waking Ava

Getting up in the morning is hard enough, let alone dealing with my 5-year old. As good as she is, she is a pain in the rump to wake up in the morning. And it is usually my responsibility to drag her (literally) out of bed and get her downstairs. Here is a sequence of [...]

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Ava’s 1st Day of Kindergarten

Dunno what happened but I forgot to post this last week! Here are some photos of Ava’s first day of kindergarten! She is attending full days and has loved every second of it so far. The only downside…getting up at the crack of dawn!

Getting her hair done for school.

All ready to go!

On the [...]

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2nd Grade & Growing

Christopher starts 2nd grade today. I’m feeling like my little boy is growing up and there’s nothing I can do to stop it. Funny though…2nd grade just seems like a slight bump from 1st. I imagine when he hits 4th grade I might actually have a mid-life crisis. So….you have THAT to look forward to! [...]

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The Last Day: School’s Officially Out For Summer!!!

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1 Year Down

Remember Day 1?
Today is Christopher’s last day of 1st grade. Hard to believe it was only yesterday when he was taking his first steps, let alone finishing up his first year foray into the world of education. But here we are, and I’m thinking this has been a good year for him. He’s accomplished a [...]

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Konversations With Kids: Ooooh…The Pain!

Firepower my butt!
Recently, my wife signed my son up to play pee-wee football for a local team. Needless to say, Christopher is very excited! He loves football and with the Steelers and his high school team winning championships this year, he can’t wait to put on some pads and make some tackles. And I am [...]

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28 Minutes Later…

To begin this post, I must let you know that Christopher’s school starts at 8am sharp. It is a 18 minute walk or a 12 minute ride with the drive + traffic + the school line. Now…on with the story…
Every weekday morning, 7am - I wake up and go upstairs to wake up my son to [...]

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Walking The Halls

Today Christopher & I walked to his school. I actually enjoy walking with my son to school. Its a nice way to get in a little exercise to get my day started and we can get caught up on all things Christopher. Today he rambled on about his Pokemon cards and how many he has and [...]

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Happy Birthday Christopher!

All this talk about what a good dad I am, but today I am working on my son’s 7th birthday. Oddly enough, it was 7 years ago when I was concerned that I would have to work when my wife gave birth to him. We should have planned better! The Derby happens the weekend following his [...]

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Pictures In The Attic

by Alan
Senior, 1987
(Writer of the Month – Philo H.S.)
Here I sit,
gazing at the pages of a book
found in a dusty attic,
looking at what is supposedly my past.
It’s strange
but I remember very little
of any of these happenings
which are now nothing but paper.
I don’t remember riding on a carousel
at the annual summer festival.
I can’t recall ever sitting
on my [...]

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Making Mercury

Oh how I  love my wife. She has only our children’s best interests in mind. And with Christopher taking part in a classroom play, she wanted to make sure that his costume was one of the best! So for this particular performance, Christopher is playing Mercury…the closest planet to the sun.
A little bit about Mercury: [...]

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The Boy Woke Up Stupid

Just so you know right out of the gate, I love my son. He is an incredibly bright young man who has excelled in so many ways. He is tops in his class in reading and math. He is polite to others and has an amazing personality. He loves sports and Pokemon and farts and [...]

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And Then…It Happened

I am the father of a 4-year old girl. I have watched her learn to scoot across the floor (she never did crawl). I have seen her take her first steps. I have watched as she has grown from an infant into the beautiful little girl that she is today. She dresses herself (and very well, [...]

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Trajectory

If there is one thing I know, it’s how to shoot a basketball. I’m no Steve Nash, but I played long enough that I can be just about anywhere on the court and toss the ball up and have some idea where the rim is and what it takes to get it to the hoop. The [...]

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Huh? Uh-uh! Can I…?

6 years and this is where we are. 3 years of pre-school and 1/3 of the way through a 1st grade year and now we are that point where, after all the letters learned and the numbers counted and the writing of the letters & numbers counted, things have taken a turn for the worse and [...]

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