As is painfully clear from posts like this and this and this, the Serpick family is hopelessly obsessed with Elmo. This week, we made our second annual pilgrimage to Sesame Place, the theme park 30 miles north of Philadelphia where Elmo and all the other Sesame Street characters live.
As with last year, we had a [...]

Someday, my 2 1/2-year-old son Jack will be a man. And when is, he’ll probably surf the Internets and find that his dear old dad posted this picture. Hopefully he’ll forgive me without inflicting bodily injury: Kids on the potty are just plain cute.
Potty training, on the other, is decidedly not cute. We’ve been at [...]