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Star Wars Weekend!
Feb 14th
How do I start this off? My son and I are having a Star Wars weekend. He’s grown very fond of Star Wars: Battlefront II for the Xbox and at the age of three I’m watching anything Star Wars related. He seems to like it, especially the clone army and/or Stormtroopers. So; Friday night I watched Star Wars: Clone Wars the movie. I bought it from Columbia House. Saturday morning, after breakfast he watched SW:CW too. Then we all watched some cartoons and Seaseme Street, then it was on to Battlefront II.
Besides that, my wife purchased the two pack DVD set of Star Wars — episodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 from Walmart online. We also got Alex a Clone Trooper outfit (helmet and blaster rifle). It’s a Star Wars weekend, no doubt!
Leeanne Reading at 22 Months
Nov 11th
Our daughter, Leeanne Victoria Ferguson is 1 1/2 years old in this video. She’ll be 2 in another 2 months and she is reading “I Like to Share!” I don’t mean to pimp these videos, but she is a product of the “Your Baby Can Read” video series. They are excellent for the kids; bad, redundant, mind-numbing for fathers! If you can stand the routine of playing it ALL the time, you will get very positive results from your kids. Oh and don’t just leave it to the videos, you should engage them to read and visit the library, etc. Seriously; all that stuff works. 
Potty Train Your Baby in One Week
Oct 24th
“How can this be done!?” one may ask! Well; this is not our idea, but my wife did take a principle and build on it. The book my wife got (when Alex was potty training; about a y) was called “Potty Train in Three Days!“. My wife noticed that most folks buy pull-ups and other diaper-like underwear and try and potty train their kids within a month or so and end up going much much longer. This method is intense and stressful, but it’ll get the job done.
- Buy padded underwear, not pull-ups or anything that more resembles a diaper. The child needs to feel themselves getting wet.
- Buy very simple potty products. The more gadgets their toilet has the more they’ll play with it and not really use it.
- Make plans to NOT go anywhere for at least a week. This process will require that you monitor the baby strictly for three days, but it could possibly leak over into five or seven days. Depending on the child or the training.
- Be very patient and find ways to keep your sanity for the first three days. It can and it will be very nerve-wraking to monitor your baby and letting them have accidents.
A Weekend with the Kids!
Sep 23rd
This weekend was like no other… my wife had some photography editing to do so I watched the kids. It was only two days, but it felt like 4 years! Looking back at it now, it really wasn’t THAT terrible. I’ve learned that if I don’t get my anger under control these kids will send me to an early grave. My issue is that I KNOW they know they know what their doing. And for some reason, in some cases, I have to sit there and take it. My attitude is, “Not on my watch, you don’t!” But in the end, it’s doing me no good by not letting them get away with some things. OMG! I’m really gonna have to start getting used to watching the kids longer than 2-3 hours.
Well; if I really think about it. It’s really my 3-year-old son testing me all the time that gets to me. He whines and cries and doesn’t listen (as often as I’d like) and then he ignores me when I’m talking to him. At that point I just lose it and want to do some damage to him. But, as a father, I’m not supposed to have those kind of feelings… or feel some kind of remorse for thinking like that. To be honest I don’t. If you cross me, I’m gonna want to cross you! Even though I feel a certain way, I’m responsible enough NOT to act on it. Again; this too will pass as soon as I spend more time with my kids, learning who they are – blah blah blah.
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