This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
Nov
29
2013
Gamma has been prolific in his artwork recently, so I thought I would share some of his drawings here.
I’ll start with my favorite:
This is his Frankenstein. I asked him where he saw Frankenstein, how he knew what he looked like. He said he just knew. We don’t do a lot of Halloween stuff, but I guess he just picked that up along the way.
Oct
15
2013
For Alpha’s birthday party, we decided to celebrate somewhere new. My wife found a somewhat local fishing pond that provided full service.
They provide the poles,
Apr
11
2013
So we setup a chore chart to list the responsibilities of various family members.
But the kids got ahold of the dry-erase marker and decided to update the chart. If you look closely, you’ll find that
I’ll let you guess who wrote most of the updates.
To these divisions of the gatekeepers, the chief men, were given duties like their relatives to minister in the house of the Lord.
1 Chronicles 26:12
Mar
5
2013
I used to read to Delta, but now I just hand him books. He used to get picture books, now he gets books with words only. For example, here was tonight’s selection:
At first, he was skeptical that my choice would not be very interesting. But after perusing the back cover, he decided to give it a chance. You can see by the following photo that he was glad he did.
For your own copy of Legal Fables, go visit Ray O. Sage’s Amazon page for Legal Fables.
But to the elders he said, “Wait here for us until we return to you. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you; whoever has a legal matter, let him approach them.”
Exodus 24:14
Nov
5
2012
And now it is Delta’s turn.
It is appointed to our children once to contract roseola, and after that the judgment umm… not to get it anymore.
As you may recall from having read my roseola post from a couple years ago,
Alpha got roseola at 15 months of age,
Beta got roseola at 17 months of age,
Gamma got roseola at 11 months of age,
and now Delta got roseola at 16 months of age.
Like Gamma, his fever was slight. And he had a loss of appetite. But he doesn’t eat very well anyway, so there wasn’t much to be lost there.
It’s hard to pinpoint when or how or where he picked up the virus, since the incubation period is over a week. The only major thing we did was the Lego Fest, about 10 days before the fever started.
So now we’re 4 for 4 with kids catching roseola before they turn 18 months old.
The priest shall look at him again on the seventh day, and if the infection has faded and the mark has not spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is only a scab. And he shall wash his clothes and be clean.
Leviticus 13:6
Oct
29
2012
We recently attended Lego Fest.
Although the Lego people will tell you that the official name is Lego Kids Fest, everyone calls it Lego Fest.
There are a variety of things to see and do, but most of them fall into one of two categories: 1. Build things with Legos or 2. Look at things built out of Legos
Here are some things from category 2.
A cityscape:
Jun
26
2012
Delta met a skunk last weekend:
And here he is playing with the skunk:
I tried to warn him not to squeeze the skunk, but I don’t think he understood.
No, it was not a pet.
It was a toy.
His cousin got a radio-controlled skunk for her birthday.
Push one button and it moves forward.
Push another button it moves backward.
Push another button and it lifts its tail.
To my dismay, the box stated “No spray, no mess”.
No fun.
I say we retrofit a pump in the skunk. Tie the activation of the pump to the circuit that controls the lifting of the tail.
You could fill the reservoir with whatever. For fun, it could be bubbles. For usefulness, it could be bug spray or sunscreen (“Okay kids, stand behind the skunk before you go outside.”). For security, it could be pepper spray (“Don’t make me use the skunk…”)
If you are a manufacturer of toy skunks, at least let people have the option of using the spray feature. It’s not really a skunk without it.
The nursing child will play by the hole of the cobra, And the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.
Isaiah 11:8
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