As a dad with a six-year-old son, I have seen recently and recall from my own childhood how boys gravitate toward fantasy violence, whether in video games, books, movies, or imaginative play in the backyard with toys as simple as stick-swords in the hands of diminutive swashbucklers. Boys write stories about battles, and draw pictures [...]
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Since Kris is now napping on the couch in front of the wood stove, I get to write the first blog post about her first half marathon (though I won’t steal her fire by retelling too many of the stories – just wanted to post some of these pictures). She finished the 13.1 miles of [...]
I took Sofia to the father-daughter dance at our parish last weekend. She’s four, and it was the first of these sorts of events for both of us. I had a bit to learn. Mid-afternoon on the day of the event, I posted a Facebook status update saying I was looking forward to the dance. A friend asked [...]
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We went to Beverly, Mass., Sunday afternoon with the Broussards to see the Le Grand David magic show at the Cabot St. Cinema (the story of which will be a post unto itself soon) and afterward grabbed dinner at Acapulcos. Here we discovered what a mariachi fan Sofia is…
I won tickets to Sesame Street Live in Lowell tonight and we took the kids – and now I get why parents brave traffic, the risk of tired kid melt-downs, expensive concession stands and all the rest of the challenges presented by packing up the family and trucking off to a nighttime spectacular. All of [...]
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For my first posterous to blog to Facebook to twitter post via mobile I wanted show off this pic of my cool runner wife modeling her new favorite shirt. “I run like a girl”? Yeah, and?
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Mother and Son Woodworking!
Originally uploaded by Ernesto and Kristen Burden
New Year’s Day. Kris works with David on a woodworking project he got for Christmas. This is after she hung some new blinds in the bathroom and instructed David and Sofia on drilling pilot holes with a power drill. Nice!
David building his first circuit boards. Awesome!
Originally uploaded by Ernesto and Kristen Burden
A quiet Saturday afternoon — just right for some geeky (and I mean that with the happiest sentiment!) father and son circuit boarding fun!
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One of the best parts about in-town living is the great neighbors we have. And though we all get along and really like each other, we don't see them all that often. Busy lives, different schedules. But almost every time there's a good snow, you're sure to find neighbors from two or three of the [...]
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‘Bela demonstrating some wicked chops on the piano. There are all kinds of “toddler playing the piano” videos that show up as related videos to this one I just posted of our littlest one jamming after dinner tonight. The difference? She takes a bit more of a outsider art, punk rock, Hendrix closing [...]
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