Teresa took the kids for checkups today at the doctor. Everything’s fine, and we now know that Gabrielle’s 58 pounds, Ethan is 48, and Aidan is 30.
But the magical moment was provided courtesy of Aidan.
Dr. Stepney, our family doctor, asked him if he always wore his bike helmet. Looking rather oddly at her, he gently […]

As I’m doing some work on the the computer tonight (AKA bloghopping), our 3-year old Aidan pipes up:

I have to pee, Mommy.
Can I have a piggyback ride?

Hmmm. That’s a tough one to pass up!
Teresa and I both burst out laughing.

Gabrielle and a partner at school have been working on a PowerPoint presentation for their geography project on India. Last night she showed us what she’s done:

Incredible India

You name it, this PowerPoint’s got it. Flying bullets, crashing text, sounds effects for every action, animated GIFs …

Let the hackle zipper cut in the drailing wheel

Originally uploaded by johnkoetsier.

You can’t make stuff this good up:
“Let the hackle zipper cut in the drailing wheel, then draught at full tilt to upgrade, let the drailing wheel tunning hight speed, at this time set the […]

Somebody get a video of this, please, and upload it to YouTube:

The elephant is made up of hundreds of moving parts and is made largely of wood. It will thunder through streets, squares and public spaces, along with scores of performers and some large-scale puppets.

(Saw this on BoingBoing … more details at the BBC.)

Since both Aidan and Ethan were doing podcasts tonight (Aidan on his third birthday, and Ethan on his favorite games, Gabrielle could not possibly survive the night without doing her own.
So we did.
And here are Gabrielle’s thoughts on The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, which we watched tonight on DVD:

Since Aidan just did a podcast about the presents he received for his third birthday, Ethan wanted to do one too.
So we did a podcast together of his favorite games … one card game (Skip-Bo), and one computer game (Nanosaur 2).
Voila:

Aidan and I do a podcast about the presents he received for his birthday …

(As promised here.)

I’m doing some education research lately and happened to come across this article which refers to the “Canada effect.”

Some have quipped that state-level student achievement in the U.S. can be best predicted by proximity to Canada …

In other words, the most northern states typically have the best results.
However, lest we Canadians get too cockey, we […]

Now I have a great answer for all those I-was-blogging-before-it-was-cool been-doing-that-since-1997 types:

Yup, since 1970 … two years before I was born.

Aidan (my youngest son - 2 years old) and I have some fun with podcasts.

I think there is some way of publishing this with a photo, but for the life of me I can’t see how … I’ve uploaded a photo for this podcast, but it’s not showing up above. Perhaps they have some sort […]