Category: Parenting

I will never tell her she’s doing it wrong.

I love getting emails like this one:

No, I’m not being sarcastic. You see, this email came from an iPad/iPhone game called Pocket Frogs. In this game you breed and nurture tiny frogs. You can feed them and race with them with the goal to create new generations of offspring with new combinations of colors and designs. To encourage new users the developers have a messaging feature baked in. You can message your friends to let them know about the app in hopes they’ll download it.

So why do I love emails like this? Because they’re from my daughter. At the ripe old age of five, she’s discovered how to use the in-game messaging – she taps on the frog, then the “Share”, then “Email” and sends a message to my name, stored in her Grandmother’s iPad.

So while I’m staring at code, sitting in a meeting or editing video for 8 hours a day, my daughter sometimes thinks about sending her newest frog to her old man. I’ll never tell her she’s doing it wrong.

The Power You Wield

This post isn’t much larger than something I’d put up on Twitter, but it deserves it’s own post.  Today alone I have witnessed the overwelming cutness my daughter Kari posesses.  When she’s tired she likes to have a pacifier and secuirty blanket to comfort her.  We call these binkies and wambies.  Now that’s something kinda silly to say when you think about it.  But today I heard 3 different adults say binkie and wambie when talking about Kari.  Two years ago no one in my circle of family and friends knew what these things were, but now it’s part of their nomal vocabulary.

Musical Interlude

This evening while I gave my daughter a bath, the following songs were played randomly from my iTunes library.

Jacksonville – Sufjan Stevens
Woman King – Iron & Wine
Maps – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Croquet – Bitch and Animal
Goon Gumpas – Aphex Twin
Gravity Rides Everything – Modest Mouse
Cloud Watch – Lol Hammond
Decatur – Sufjan Stevens

Yes, it began and ended with Sufjan Stevens.  And I must say, as we were listening it all seemed to fit the mood quite nicely.