With my alma mater's homecoming around the corner its been that time if year where I get nostalgic. I don't know what it is, maybe its something about the crisp air that reminds me of leaving New York nine years ago and starting my adult life or it feeling like the beginning of a New... Continue Reading →
Evolving
Kids grow up quickly. I look at my.nephew who's six and I remember exactly what I was like, what I liked, and who I liked at his age. I think a better word for growing up is evolving. To evolve is to slowly adapt to changes in your environment for survival. As we grow older... Continue Reading →
The Weekend in Pictures 10/19-10/21
This weekend we tried at the last minute to check out the Brooklyn Nets in the preseason. Unfortunately, the tickets were sold Out by then. We stopped in Cypress Hill and got burgers instead. Saturday say my sister and I went to a memorial at our old high school that was for a friend who... Continue Reading →
The Kevin Hart School of Parenting (Watch First)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYQJCgO96wI&feature=youtube_gdata_player I saw this a couple of years ago but at nearly two years into parenting this is the truest thing I've heard about fatherhood outside of Chris Rock's "Big Piece of Chicken" and girls that have daddy issues (reminder: two posts for another time). The way almost every man watches their and other people's... Continue Reading →
All That Hair
Since I wrote about the Hair Struggle yesterday I thought I'd post a couple pictures of all this hair and the relief that I can finally pull it all into one ponytail. I all of this and she's only 20 months.
Why God Gave Me A Girl
When I was about fifteen or sixteen I just had premonitions that just happened to come true. For example when I was about that age I dreamt that my unmarried and not pregnant aunt had a baby who was light skinned and her name began with a T. Two years later when she had Tyler... Continue Reading →
The Hair Struggle
Between Cydney's mother and I Cydney was bound to have a head FULL of thick hair. We just knew it. Even while pregnant we knew that and her mother was curious who's texture it would be like. When Cydney was born she cane out with a full head of hair and we just knew it... Continue Reading →
Daa-yee! Daa-yee! Eye-you! (Daddy! Daddy! I love you!)
When I first got Cydney back six months ago she could only say a few words like uh-oh and mine. Her vocabulary was pretty limited which is ok for a 14 month baby. All these months later she has a lot to say. She counts up to 14 and up to ocho in Spanish and... Continue Reading →
A Lesson from the Ninja Turtles
Saturday morning I woke up to a familiar song that sounded a little different than I remember. As a musician I recognized the music instantly but something about it sounded unfamiliar. I walked into my nephew's room and he was watching the brand new reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and was all into it.... Continue Reading →