It’s The Dad Life

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A few things ella has said recently

“I am going to call you The Solutioner. Is that ok?”
“I want the Pacers to win; don’t you, daddy?”
“This place is boring.” (Talking about being at home)
“Did you know the dinosaurs went unskunked? That means they lived a long time ago, but not now.”
“I just want to thank her for the game. (Not all the [...]

Dad’s Weekend with the girls

So Erin went to San Fran for 5 days and I got to have the girls to myself. Unfortunately I had to work some of the time, so grandma picked up my slack. But I still got to do a lot of fun stuff with my little ladies. Highlights include a pirate-themed birthday party, the [...]

What a cutie…

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Professing my lifelong love for: Movies

If you know me at all, you already know I am a cinephile. I simply love movies – I always have and likely always will.
I go to around 40 movies a year in the theater, and I watch 2-4 additional movies at home each week. I have like all the movie channels and Netflix. I [...]

Ella is a dreamer

Ella has not been wanting to eat dinner lately. Instead she throws a fit, saying she is not hungry for dinner, but is actually hungry for snacks and wants to eat them instead. Obviously that’s not working on ol’ mom and dad. But the other night she tried another tactic, shortly before dinner she snuggled [...]

The long and short of it

Ella: “Did I take a long nap?”
Me: “No, it was a short one.”
Ella: “Was it a little long AND a little short?”
Me: “Ha. Well it can’t be a little long and a little short.”
Ella: “It could be medium then.”
Me: “Yup, I suppose so, you little genius.”
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Ella’s Secret mix

After the success of Ella’s first mix tape, she decided to make a second one yesterday. She called this one, “Ella’s Secret”. Here is the songs she chose:

Bee Gees – Staying Alive
Blind Melon – No Rain
Joan Jett – I Love Rock & Roll
Ray Charles – Hit The Road Jack
Smasmouth – Walkin’ On The Sun
Snap – [...]

Ella makes a mix

Remember mix tapes? So awesome. I can not even count how many of those I made in my youth, I remember I would always listen to Casey Kasem count down the Top 40 and I would record my favorite songs when they came on – so that is at least 1 new  mix tape a [...]

Ella’s first Pacers game

It was a big day for us last week, I took Ella to her first Pacers game! We had been talking about doing this for awhile and after I returned from a few recent games she started asking when she would get to go. So on New Year’s Eve there was an afternoon game – [...]

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