A+ for effort

son:	My tummy's hot.
me:	Your tummy's hot?
son:	Yes
me:	Do you feel ok?
son:	Yes
me:	<checks for fever> You don't feel hot.
son:	Yeah, but my tummy is hot.  I think I need some ice cream to make it cooler.

It's starting

Sitting at the table eating supper.

son: Why do I have to eat?
me: So you can get bigger.
son: Then I can drive a car?

...sigh...

You know you're a dad if...

...you get yourself a glass of water and half-way up the stairs you realize you're holding a sippy cup.

To play, or not to play - make up your mind

son: Daddy can you come outside and play fwisbee (frisbee) with me?
me: Yes, just a minute.
<repeat 20x>

We go outside with the frisbees.

son: Wait daddy
<runs off to play with something else>

me: I thought you wanted to play frisbee?
son: Oh, ok

I throw the frisbee at him but he's too busy looking at the other 4 things he wants to play with and just lets the frisbee hit him in the head.
<repeat 4 times>

me: Ok, if you're not going to play frisbee I'm going inside.
son: NOOO!! I wanna play fwisbee <starts crying>
me: Fine, we can play but you have to play too.
son: Ok

I throw the frisbee at him but he runs off to go hang on the tree.

Nighttime routines

Putting kids to bed at night is generally wrought with a long list of items.
- bath, check
- brush teeth, check
- go to bathroom, check
- hugs and kisses, check
- water cup, check
- kleenex, check
- read a story, check
- sit up by himself to read a story after we already did it, check
- turn light off, check

And if it's not done in that order you can pretty much count on doing it again.  Then there's the final, last second ditch effort "Daddy I have to tell you something" phrases that he always musters up just as your closing his door to keep from going to bed.

"Don't run into monkeys."
"Ummm......ok"

"I love you daddy"
"I love you too"

And that makes it all worthwhile.

Levels of Knowledge

Here are 3 sites that list the levels of knowledge for CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. I think I rank a 5 on all 3. Level 6 in CSS and HTML would require a more forward thinking, "How can I make CSS and HTML better", type of attitude. While I think it would be interesting to work on making CSS and HTML specifications better, I'm happy just sitting on level 5 and knowing how to work with it.

I would, however, like to bring myself up to a level 6 on Javascript. In the past Javascript has always been looked at as a "kiddie language" and that isn't the case today. With the emergence of the social Web 2.0 sites and the Javascript frameworks like Prototype, Script.aculo.us, and Atlas.net (among others), Javascript has become a very big player in the game.