I’m Not a Slacker

Today I figured Gavin was old enough for “The Talk”.  I know all you Dads know what I’m talking about.  Its the one that no matter how much a Mother thinks she understands the subject matter it is a job suited much better for a Father.

So today when Gavin and I were out for our walk enjoying the wonderful day, I took him aside, and showed him how big rocks make much bigger spashes than small rocks when you throw them in the river.

…there was no evidence that Wade knew the baby was in the car’s back seat. The defense relied partly on the fact that Wade was heavily under the influence of Xanax the night before the incident…

A few questions, since when is drug use a defense, and are cars so big these days that you can’t even see all the way into the back seat?

Last week I told Gavin that we would go up in the Arch another day, so today we headed out and did it.

You can read about our adventures on his website here.

Hello little baby, lets play hide and seek. I’ll hide this crack cocaine in your crib and lets see if you can find it. Wow, that was fast!

UPDATE: 
After reading the story again it wasn’t a parent, but its still too good of a story to pass up.

Yesterday Gavin and I went to a coffeshop and hung out with other stay at home dads.  Its a neat place with a play area in the back for kids and lots of comfy chairs for the grown-ups.  I had a good time talking to other guys for a change since it seems like anywhere else I go I’m the only guy surrounded by women, which in college was a good thing but not so much now.

There was a reporter from the free “West County Kids” paper asking questions about our experiences, but apparently he was looking for dads from west county.  I know that whenever I’m looking for west county parents I go to neighborhood coffee shops in South St. Louis.

The place wasn’t that far away time wise so I think I’m going to throw it in the mix of all the other things Gavin and I do for fun.  He has already asked me today if we can go back to the coffee store.

On the way there we took the highway through downtown and Gavin started asking “whats that?  Whats that BIG thing?”  with about 100 big things downtown every where you look I took a guess and said “Thats the Arch”   He said “Thats BIG!!  I want to touch it, I want to see it again”  I told him maybe we can see it on the way home.  Three hours later I go through downtown from a different direction and as soon as we turn towards the river Gavin pipes up “THERE”S THE ARCH!!  I wanna go IN IT!  Look out the WINDOWS”

I guess I know what we’ll be doing soon.

If your Meth usage causes you do go into labor, try to refrain from smoking pot to ease the pain.

The other night we were all out shopping at the mall and Gavin was holding my hand and staggering around looking up at the ceiling saying, “Weird, The lights are moving”  The wife says to him, “Are you smoking dope?”  and for the rest of the way out the mall to the parking lot Gavin made sure to say, “SMOKING DOPE” to every person that walked past.

Can somebody please explain to me how this happened? I can’t figure it out.

Forget everything I said about Gavin’s success with using the potty because we seem to have hit a lull.  For the last few days he seems to go out of his way not to use it and yesterday he pooped in his diaper THREE TIMES!  I’m guessing its a power thing with him since he won’t tell us before or during and lately he won’t even mention he’s walking around with a load in his drawers.  We might have hit it too hard right away and he’s rebelling from the pressure.  I guess we’ll let it go for a while so he thinks its his idea again.

All this week I haven’t felt like doing anything.  Aubrey got paid and I just wrote out the bills that were due without balancing the checkbook. I washed Gavin’s clothes on Monday and they are still in the dryer,, I go down and pull out what I need and leave the rest.  I’m almost out of dishes and really don’t feel like running the dishwasher.

Normally I’m up on these things, since its a part of what I do at home but either I’m just burnt out or its the cold grey days, but I really just don’t want to do anything this week.

Hopefully I’ll get back in gear over the weekend before it piles up too much.