( …Or, what happens when couples with math degrees have kids.)
Joey just asked, “Why do numbers never end?”
To which Sarah responded that you can always add one to a number to get another larger one. He didn’t seem completely satisfied. Just wait till he finds out you can find an infinite number of [...]

I made Joey a little blank book today and he wanted to fill it with a story. When I asked him to think of the beginning, ending and what happened in between, he looked at me funny.
“Well,” I said, “how does your story begin?”
“Once upon a time,” he replied.
“Okay. How does it end?”
“The [...]

Earlier today, my kids were playing with their rubber stamps and I was explaining the purpose of the exclamation point and question mark. After I explained that the exclamation point was to show excitement or surprise Maggie created this:

Think she’s trying to tell me something?

The New York Times has an interesting article suggesting that disorder may not be as bad as the “professional organizers” have made it out to be:

An anti-anticlutter movement is afoot, one that says yes to mess and urges you to embrace your disorder. Studies are piling up that show that messy desks are the vivid [...]

The little ones are getting to the point where they identify or focus on particular characters when they watch movies. Sometimes their choices are a bit interesting, for example:
When watching Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Maggie wants to know where Gaston is and she’s concerned that he hurt himself when he falls from the [...]

Joey comes walking into the dining room holding his crotch with his left hand.
“Joey, do you need to go to the potty?” my wife asks.
“No. There’s no pee!” he replies.
“Then why are you holding yourself?”
“Because I can.”
My wife has no response to this and I can’t say a word because I’m holding in a [...]

Over the summer, my wife took a course in wilderness skills and we bought an inexpensive camera for her to take kayaking. It’s really amazing how inexpensive five megapixel cameras have become. This past week, I started teaching Joey how to use the camera and the results have been impressive — I think [...]

Want to get a reaction from people? Have your three-year-old walk around loudly reciting these lines from Jack and the Beanstalk:
Fee Fi Fo Fum!
I smell the blood of an Englishman.
Be he alive or be he dead,
I’ll grind his bones to make my bread!
Some of those classic children’s stories are much more graphic than I remember.

I’ve been working on a new fantasy campaign setting over the past year, and given that I’m one of those “world builder” GMs, I’m currently in the process of plotting out historical population movements using multiple copies of the same map. Don’t judge me, I enjoy this type of stuff. Anyway, last night [...]

I’m playing with my two kids and their Little People castle set and each of them has a dragon that they are using to menace the castle. Somehow, I ended up as the princess and her retinue of two identical knights, Bob 1 and Bob 2. Anyway, the princess and her escort happen [...]