Archive for November, 2008
Who knew it would be so difficult to send your wife away to Amsterdam for a couple days to herself?
Especially when April loves nothing more than to travel, and Amsterdam is one of her favorite cities on the planet, and I offered to keep Alleke at home with me while she was gone. The idea was to send April to Amsterdam for a weekend conference while Alleke and I stayed in Madrid. April often [...]
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MORE ON: amsterdam, april, attachment parenting, dad, holland, marriage, travel, work and family
Bed Book
I just finished writing my first kids’ book. I won’t be looking for a literary agent, however, because I wrote this book just for Alleke. In fact, she is the main character in the story, and the book is about her new bedtime routine. Discipline as training (not punishment) I made a significant breakthrough in [...]
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MORE ON: alleke, attachment parenting, books, co-sleeping, discipline, how to, sleep
Medical Certificates
“Let me check to make sure we have everything,” April said, opening the binder with the word “ADOPTION” written in permanent black marker on the binding and flipping through pages of blood test results and tax records and goverment-stamped certificates. I glanced at the clock. “We won’t be late,” April said, trying to reassure me [...]
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MORE ON: adoption, bloopers, health care, spain
Dumpster Diving
Today after I put Alleke down for a nap, I began clearing the dishes from lunch, which included eating the cold eggplant parmesan off Alleke’s plate and checking to see if she had left any chocolate milk in her glass. What most people don’t realize is that cleaning up after a toddler is a completely [...]
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Learn to Count to 10 in Spanish
Alleke’s Online Spanish Course. Live from Madrid… Watch Learn to Count to 10 in Spanish on Vimeo.
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MORE ON: alleke, fun, spanish, toddler, video
Blue Marker
N by cursedthing. Alleke and I were jumping on the bed and playing balloon volleyball (which is what we do every day when April is gone) when Alleke noticed something on the bottom of her foot. She sat down on the bed to inspect it. I peered over her shoulder at the fuzzy blue spot [...]
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MORE ON: alleke, attachment parenting, dad, play, toddler

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