Comments on: Things Learned as Dad (the lesser list)

By: travellinbaen

travellinbaen — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:00:07 +0000

He still fools with it. I asked him once why he didn’t get bored and he said sometimes he does it just as a nervous habit and sometimes he tries to figure out new ways to solve it. We have to replace his stock of cubes about once every couple of years.

By: BR

BR — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:15:05 +0000

I will never forget TB’s dad mastering the
rubic’s cube, as i had to take the stickers off
to complete..

By: Jessie Lou

Jessie Lou — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:46:46 +0000

I remember my dad smelling like Aqua Velva, Blue Ice, which I still love the smell of to this day. My earliest memory of him I had to be about age 2 or 3. I can see the pocket of his blue bathrobe and edge of the kitchen counter – he was making me a bottle so I could take it back to bed early in the morning. Anything not to wake my mother up too early – she was not a morning person.

I also remember him flipping my older sister off one night at the dinner table as a joke – Daddy laughed and she cried. I thought it was outstanding!

By: jessica o

jessica o — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:45:46 +0000

Isn’t it funny the difference between the memories we have of our parents and the memories we make as parents?

I remember my dad’s five o’clock shadow scratching my cheeks.

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:08:00 +0000

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By: Jessie Lou

Jessie Lou — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:57:32 +0000

You turned out pretty well I must say. Even with the 80′s music influences that you were subjected to. Thankfully, there was enough other music of various genres around the house.

By: Harmony

Harmony — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:41:20 +0000

It truly is the smaller things that we cherish the most. Great list TB

By: irvineredd

irvineredd — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:14:01 +0000

Look at JL, letting her tactics out.

What can I say, I was aware of my role as the masculine voice, despite the lack of puberty at the point in my life.

By: Jessie Lou

Jessie Lou — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:06:40 +0000

I always said you would be a great dad – glad to see some of my prognostications come true. Enjoy this precious time because it goes by all too fast and then you are hoping to see that they have logged in on a blog just to make sure they are alive and breathing! That does not happen often but I have used that very tactic in this space. HFD to you.

IR and I used to dance in my kitchen when he was much, much younger. Also sang alot of duets – he would get mad when I sang the boy parts. He was in a carseat at the time so you see how far back that goes somewhere around 1986-1988. I sang to him all the time.

By: Samsmama

Samsmama — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:57:12 +0000

Awww, I love the pre-dinner dancing! When I was a little my dad would come home from work every night and spin me around. I remember roughly none of it but there’s a million pictures. To this day I think it’s so sweet. Yay, you!

Hope you had a wonderful Father’s Day weekend!