Category Archives: Personal

What’s Average?

Today I said to Elliot, “on average …” (What I was talking about is not very interesting. Trust me.) Of course, Elliot immediately asked what average is. It turns out that describing average to a four year old is really hard. My first inclination was to describe the function that is used to calculate the arithmetic mean of […]

MountainWest RubyConf

I am going to be at MountainWest RubyConf tomorrow and Saturday. I looking forward to meeting and hanging out with lots of interesting peoples in the Ruby community. Oh, and the schedule looks very interesting.

We Must Be Doing Something Right

Yesterday while Elliot, Audrey and I were walking through DFW1 Elliot — he is 4 years old — asked me, “Where are we going?” “Concourse C, but I am not sure which gate yet2.”, I said. “Daddy, is it C dot com or C and some other letters?”, Elliot asked in reply. Which, I must say, is really a pretty […]

Four is a very literal age

This weekend Elliot, Audrey and I and went for a hike on Fowler Trail1. As always Elliot was playing with sticks along the way. At some point he showed me a stick and said, “look Daddy, it’s a gun”. I replied, “Oh, OK”. I am not a bit fan of gun play, but I […]

Look Ma, No Training Wheels!

On Saturday, after riding around with the other kids on our block for a bit, Elliot rode up to the porch and asked me, “make my bike into a two wheeler, please”. I happily obliged and since then he has spent every minute we will let him on his bicycle. This is the second time […]

Happy Second Birthday, Audrey

Today is Audrey’s second birthday. Catherine has the important stuff covered here so I will just say, happy birthday Audrey. Oh, and show you a cute picture of her opening her presents.

“Today was such a good day”

So said Elliot on the way home yesterday evening. And he was right. We spent the morning at Boulder Reservoir for a company picnic. The food and the band were great. And the kids had a blast playing in the water, jumping in the bouncy castle and riding the boats.1 One the way home we noticed that […]

Mini Vacation in Colorado Springs

For Labor Day we took the kids on a mini-vacation to Colorado Springs. There are a lot of touristy things to do near Colorado Springs. The first we went to Cave of the Winds. Cat and I enjoyed the tour but Elliot thought was a little boring. He did find a quite few a bits of it […]

Father’s Day 2006

It was a wonderful day. We did not have any big plans, so I got to play with the kids around the house which was very nice. Elliot and I went for a short bike ride on Big Dry Creek Trail. The creek has water in this time of year and was very pretty. Elliot especially likes […]

Audrey Can Stand

Audrey stood up all by herself for the first a week ago today. I was brushing Elliot’s teeth and she was playing on the floor near by. When I looked down I saw that she had pulled herself into a standing position using Elliot’s stool. By Saturday, two days later, she was pretty much standing all the […]