February 3 – When reading Dr. Seuss books, Daniel gets distracted by any drawings of machines. He has to check them for validity.

February 4 – Do you remember the vintage commercial of the gorillas going “ape” on some Samsonite luggage? That was the scene just now with Daniel and a Ziploc full of banana bread batter. To Ziploc’s credit, the press-and-seal opening held tight, but unfortunately one of the plastic side panels couldn’t take the stress and burst. I guess Ziploc doesn’t do stress testing with gorillas – or five-year-old boys.

February 5 – “Before I was born, did you know I would be so cute?”

February 7 – My son is making animated .gif’s in GIMP. I’ve never made one and wouldn’t know how. Glad he figured it out. I used to think of myself as computer savvy…

February 9 – Daniel’s latest book.

http://blogs.thetucker.com/daniel/files/My-Big-Big-Party.pdf

February 12 – Papa and Daniel were playing in our corridor kitchen. Daniel was trying to get past Papa (the big bad wolf) to “take bananas to Grandma. She’s all out of bananas.” After several attempts using strategy and force, he resorts to guilt and persuasion: “You don’t Grandma to be without bananas, do you?”

February 13 – Daniel is conceptually designing a web site. He told me he’d been searching possible names on GoDaddy and had found a domain name that was available. I haven’t even finished my coffee. I’m sitting here musing how things would have been different if Steve Jobs’ parents had limited his “screen time”.

February 14 – Daniel said this light fixture arrangement at Whole Foods looks like Mickey Mouse.

February 14 – I was making shadow puppets on Daniel’s wall. I’d made a bunny and duck and he asked for an alligator. He asked the alligator if he’d like something to eat. I said that duck I saw earlier looked delicious. He offered me “three old ducks that will die soon anyway”.

February 16 – “How do you spell ‘meanwhile’?” Yes, what every 5yo wants to know.

February 17 – “Something popped up on Movie Studio and said there were two new versions. One cost a LOT of money and the other still cost a lot of money. Maybe when I’m old and do more stuff I’ll get that. When I’m old and have a lot of money.”

February 18 – We were watching the Horton Hears a Who movie and about halfway through it Daniel turns it off and said he wanted to read the book. When we finished the book he said, “The book is much better than the movie.”

February 20 – “Cat”

February 24 – I had my laugh of the day. Daniel, looking at Johnny Depp on the cover of the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory DVD: “Why is Willy Wanka a girl?”

February 26 – “I talk a lot don’t I. That just means I’m happy.”

February 28 – We are dealing with an oven error code this morning. Daniel says: “We have two problems. We have the thing that says ‘F2’ and we have you.” Yes, that just about sums it up.

February 28 – It’s good to know I always have at least one person on my side. I turned the stove eye too high and made a skillet smoke. After opening windows I started dealing with the skillet in the sink. Daniel asked how that had happened. I told him I’d turned the eye too high. He said, “Let’s just blame the skillet.” He looked down on the skillet in the sink and said, “Don’t you ever do that again.”