Random Acts of Mind by Dones

STANDING UP ON HIS OWN!!! Originally uploaded by metamorphilia. He’s been doing this for a few days now, but we felt the need to snap a pic of him standing up! Granted, it’s for all of about 2 seconds right now, and mama had the camera ready while I set him up with a toy [...]

A quick preface with the info that may or may not be known to the readers of this blog: My son’s birth father is african-american. Which makes us a mixed-race family. While race has never been the reason I voted for Barack Obama, I’d be lying if I said I’m not excited and greatly moved [...]

Daddy teaches baby Josh how to nap on couch. Originally uploaded by metamorphilia. From one generation to the next.

Watching Two Babies! Originally uploaded by metamorphilia. Wrangling my nephew and my son is getting more tenuous. No daddies were harmed in the making of this photo.

Beep Boop Boop! Originally uploaded by metamorphilia. Joshua is into old-school arcade classics. I think his favorite so far is Donkey Kong.

Baby Joshua has been learnng new things and getting bigger and stronger every day! Here are the two latest videos of his exploits:

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted about my life, so I thought I’d share one of my more recent reflections on fatherhood: parents are not kidding when they say certain things about parenthood: 1) IT’S HARD WORK. I don’t say any of this for those readers out there with children–this isn’t news to [...]

This being my 4th day of work in a row, with 2 more to go (all 8.75 or 10 hour shifts–I’ll have worked at least 58 hours by the end of those 6 days) and of course I’m tired. My clock never really got settled after taking the cat to the airport at 3am last [...]

We have our very own ‘singing frog’ situation here with our little boy. It appears that when we are face-to-face with him now, he’ll just smile, and laugh, and coo to us, thinking we’re the greatest things he’s ever seen. I can’t even voice to you how thrilling that is: what a beautiful sight it [...]

5 new baby videos (son & nephew) & my first Spore creature creation on my Youtube channel. It’s a lot for me to embed here. Check ‘em out!