Father's Day 2013

Last year I wrote a list of lessons I had learned from being a father of a one-year-old. This year I thought I'd try it again with a few lessons a two-year-old daughter can teach her dad.

If you take Dad's car key swimming with you in the pool, it will still work when he dries it off. (I guess these car keys are somewhat waterproof.)

Vizio TV remotes are not waterproof, and they will not work when you take them out of the washing machine. But they can be saved if they "sleep" overnight in a bag of rice.

Restaurants often serve kid-sized drinks, but they always come with adult-sized straws. These straws all but guarantee a spilled drink, a mouth injury, or both.  A pocket knife with a scissors and a little discretion go a long way in preventing tall straw drama.

Toast is yucky.

Toast cut into cute shapes is the most delicious thing in the world.

You should always use classic literary characters when you name the kitty you saved from the Animal Rescue League.

Here's Charlotte's new kitty, Bobo (more on him later).

Refrigerator doors are really art galleries.

If you haven't eaten "kid's food" in awhile, you should. Bust open a can of Spaghettios, and you'll see what I mean. And Alpha-Bits? Or Teddy Grahams? Don't even get me started on Eggo Mini Waffles.

And lastly, you know all those old, tired clichés you hear about daddies and their daughters?

They are all true.