All About the Kids

New Baby!

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Andy

Silas Jonathan Fredman was born at 3:05 pm, October 28th. He was 12lb 5oz and 24″.

His brothers were excited to meet him!

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Hiking Time

Posted on September 14, 2013 by Andy

Watch out world, they have sticks.

2.8 miles later, not as much energy (and no more sticks–they were too heavy).

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We were walking across the street yesterday to our neighbor’s (and the boys’ babysitter) graduation party. I leaned over to Titus and asked if we should drive over to Kim’s house. He laughed at me as I described the advantages of driving over walking. Then I switched to the idea of riding bikes and scooters instead of driving. At that point we hit the middle of the road between our two houses and Titus growl-whispers to me, “Dad! Be quiet!”

It turns out that yesterday, for the first time, Titus was embarrassed by his Dad being too silly. Sarah is just glad that Titus has now joined the ranks of people who might be embarrassed by me in public. Sarah looks forward to the day when she doesn’t have to be shushing me under her breath for singing along with the introductions to a movie!

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Birthday Weekend Lessons Learned

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Andy

Here are a few lessons learned from birthday weekend:

1. Parents of three kids perform better at Chuck E. Cheese video games with one hand than two. Sarah’s best score at baseball was when Zeke was standing on the ball platform with her holding him around the waist, while Zeke and I set the daily football record together with him standing in the ball hopper chucking balls over the plexiglass together.

2. On Sunday, Titus overheard Sarah say that we could get a right-sized hat at Target and chimes in, “Can we not go to Target today?” Please Mom, if one day of the year could be Targetless…

3. Recipe to get to the front of a 15 car line for an oil change: cram 3 boys with carseats and boosters in the back of an Impala and have them wait in the car for 10 minutes. Roll down all the windows as you talk to the service desk guy. Then spill all three of the boys into the waiting area–in and out in less than 1 hour! Actually, the service was pretty impressive, and we didn’t break anything that I noticed…

4. Finally, I think Titus has the most fun of any kid that I’ve met just sauntering around his birthday party, watching his friends have fun. He required no princely favors or special treatment. He happily offered to build his Lego car out of one set of wheels. He cheered the loudest during the Lego spoon races. Fun time!