tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50928078536383859432024-03-06T01:03:02.226-05:00Blacks RockA Blog for the Black family of Astoria, New York.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395515958529046927noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092807853638385943.post-46816329455029765732016-11-01T12:58:00.001-04:002016-11-01T12:58:22.331-04:00The Splits
Building traditions are an important part of family bonding.
Many extended families have long traditions that have been passed down from
generation to generation, but it’s important for parents to find new traditions
that their children will take as their own.
This creates a bond within the family based on a unique shared
experience.
When my oldest daughter first started Trick or Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395515958529046927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092807853638385943.post-51852184174620396322015-05-10T01:15:00.001-04:002015-05-10T01:18:56.606-04:00Mother's Day 2015 - #H2O4MOM
Lyla (8)
The mother of my children (and conveniently, my wife), Erin, posted this message on my Facebook timeline a few weeks ago:
"Since you asked what I wanted for Mother's Day -- this is it. Please donate to this cause. I can't imagine adding walking 15 miles a day to make sure the kids have water to my "to do" list. Please also explain to the kids the cause and why helping people who Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395515958529046927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092807853638385943.post-44159112557504057292014-06-13T10:26:00.002-04:002014-06-13T10:26:40.257-04:00Father's Day 2014
Father’s Day is coming up again, and it seems like the Dad
buzz is high this year. Apparently, Dads are big in popular culture right now.
It seems that people are suddenly realizing that there are involved Dads in the
world. Wow! Who knew?
There are all kinds of articles and online photos about Dads
actually doing things with their kids and what you should get these Dads for
Father’s Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395515958529046927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092807853638385943.post-86349988160201106552012-06-16T21:03:00.000-04:002012-06-17T14:04:33.491-04:00Father's Day
Tomorrow is Father's Day. I've been thinking about it enough to actually blog something for the first time in a long, long time.
My assumption is that I'll get lots of "Happy Father's Day!" and some cute presents that I'll love (even if it's a fist full of dirt). I don't really care about getting presents for Father's Day. I do care that my oldest will put some thought and Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395515958529046927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092807853638385943.post-63232598947453825982010-10-12T19:54:00.006-04:002010-10-12T20:19:37.011-04:00Did You Miss Us?Once again, I find myself apologizing for not updating this blog. This time it's been four months. Shameful, I know. There's lots of reasons for this. I put a lot of emphasis on putting up pictures and that takes a lot of time/effort. There are probably easier ways to do it than the way I do, but I haven't found something I like. The four months I've missed are a little intimidating, too. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395515958529046927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092807853638385943.post-85924656915139714732010-06-12T20:39:00.005-04:002010-06-12T20:51:11.084-04:00Quinn Turns Two!Quinn hit his second year with style throwing our first ever backyard bash. His friends all had a great time playing in the sandbox, drinking juice boxes and riding around in plastic vehicles. Pics of the festivities are up in his birthday image gallery.He even got to show off a little of his walking, though he seemed to still prefer the crawl.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395515958529046927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092807853638385943.post-48262277532104091072010-04-26T20:53:00.007-04:002010-04-26T23:53:11.093-04:00Lyla's New Bike - Trike-a-thonLyla got a chance to put her new bike to the test during a neighborhood trike-a-thon to raise money for Hope & Heroes. Quinn mostly was carried along, though he did get some time on his trike. He's just not so big on keeping his feet on the pedals just yet. More pics to come later... you know... eventually...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395515958529046927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092807853638385943.post-49868729900186638782010-02-19T00:38:00.003-05:002010-02-19T00:50:41.063-05:00Back by Popular Demand!I've neglected The Rock for too long it would seem and the outrage has been singular (namely from my brother). So, to keep you upon the Black Family's activities, I've put December and January up in one gallery. The quick update is that Quinn is walking around a little more when supported, but still not on his own. He also just started speech and feeding therapy (that makes three therapies... Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395515958529046927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092807853638385943.post-88607680557160249072009-12-18T09:47:00.009-05:002009-12-18T12:43:31.734-05:00Happy Hannukah!Tonight is the last night of Hannukah, so I just have enough time to get this greeting up! We hope you all had a great Hannukah. We had a great November and got to see lots of friends and family, as you can see by our November Photo Gallery. December has been a little rough with cold season and some little aches and pains along the way, but we're hoping everyone is in great shape for next week Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395515958529046927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092807853638385943.post-56289318986223519442009-11-20T09:59:00.003-05:002009-11-20T10:01:49.693-05:00Black Friday!!What better way to celebrate our family's national holiday, Black Friday than shopping with us! If you're planning on shopping at Amazon, do it through our link below. It will keep our kids cute. I swear! We'll be able to keep them fed and clothed and it won't really make a difference to you if you're shopping there anyway.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395515958529046927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092807853638385943.post-3113802013597647992009-11-12T23:59:00.005-05:002009-11-13T21:13:52.668-05:00October Photos are Up!The latest photo album is up for your viewing pleasure.Things are going pretty well in the Black Haus. Lyla informed me the other night, "You're the best daddy I ever had. I'm gonna love you forever. You're my hero." Lyla now has a pony, ice cream for dinner every night and a gold tea set for her dolls. Aside from that, she's been loving pre-school and is coming home with all kinds of new Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395515958529046927noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092807853638385943.post-27132288411559085662009-10-17T20:29:00.006-04:002009-10-29T15:17:44.311-04:00Quinn CrawlingSo, Quinn finally got shaped up enough to get to crawling a few weeks ago. He has low muscle tone, which has led to developmental delays in a few areas, like mobility. Erin has been dealing with juggling his physical therapy and occupational therapy for the last six months or so. Unfortunately, the Early Intervention program is filled with a bunch of therapists who don't really answer to Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395515958529046927noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092807853638385943.post-30729337453240399332009-10-12T22:43:00.009-04:002009-10-12T23:04:16.200-04:00Settling into AutumnThe September Gallery is up! Everything is going pretty well, aside from the regular kid issues like crying for unknown reasons and whining and sibling rivalry. I'll update a bit more on that later and have some video of Quinn crawling... finally!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395515958529046927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092807853638385943.post-40405177303976204122009-09-24T09:53:00.004-04:002009-09-24T09:57:02.595-04:00No Tears Today!Lyla appears to be getting into her groove. Today, she just walked right on up the stairs without even asking me to come up to the classroom. Yesterday, she told me she wanted me to leave her in the classroom, but today was fine heading up on her own. One of the teachers told me that yesterday, once Lyla was sitting down on the carpet, she looked around, realized no one else was crying and Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395515958529046927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092807853638385943.post-24070643262141094932009-09-23T11:02:00.006-04:002009-09-24T09:57:34.601-04:00Instead of chronicling Lyla's pre-school saga in my Facebook status, I realized I should use the blog and open up the info to people like... oh... my mom. Hi, Mom! The first two days of pre-school were great. We had gone to an orientation earlier and Lyla met the teachers and saw the classroom. Then when I dropped her off on the first couple days, she was a little skeptical about the process,Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395515958529046927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092807853638385943.post-63758880188193383072009-09-20T23:26:00.003-04:002009-09-20T23:47:18.280-04:00I'm Catching Up!I've got the August Gallery up! Yay for me! We're only most of the way through September. The gallery includes pictures of crazy couple weeks for us. We traveled to Oshkosh, left the kids with their grandparents there, drove to Chicago for Jamie and Joe's wedding, then Erin brought me to the airport in Milwaukee to head back to NYC solo. My flight got diverted due to "developing weather" and IAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395515958529046927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092807853638385943.post-23839903719140576052009-09-18T00:16:00.001-04:002009-09-18T00:19:24.207-04:00Shana Tova!The Black Family wishes everyone a happy and healthy Jewish New Year. I know it's been forever since I've gotten anything up here, but I FINALLY have the July Gallery up. Hopefully, I'll have August up shortly, too. Sorry for the delays and enjoy!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395515958529046927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092807853638385943.post-25689601203729968002009-07-24T22:06:00.006-04:002009-08-12T00:17:37.719-04:00We Survived!!I know this has taken a long time to update, but first, my computer died. Motherboard just blew out. Then, I used Erin's computer and spent about an hour updating how my weekend with the kids went. Then, it turns out I wasn't actually logged in and three quarters of what I wrote disappeared. I didn't have the heart to write it again. Now a little time has gone by and I have my new MacBook Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395515958529046927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092807853638385943.post-58566513920891872192009-07-18T10:31:00.008-04:002009-07-24T22:07:26.308-04:00Weekend for ThreeErin is off to Chicago for the weekend and I'm home with the kids all by myself, so I figured I'd utilize this blog to schedule out my weekend. Then I can let you all now how it went afterward. I definitely don't expect it to go as planned, but here's what I'm hoping to do [note: I started this Saturday morning, but I'm not posting it until Saturday night, but I'm not changing the content]:Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395515958529046927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092807853638385943.post-21916133321202233202009-07-14T00:12:00.002-04:002009-07-14T00:27:52.032-04:00June Pictures are up!I've got our June gallery up and ready for your viewing enjoyment. Our summer is jam packed with lots of fun and craziness. June included my college reunion, Quinn's first birthday (and party), Joel and Becca's wedding (and the kids visit with Mima) and hanging in the Hamptons with Arthur and the Leavitts. July and August are almost as busy, too.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395515958529046927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092807853638385943.post-34014957265566340492009-06-12T22:03:00.004-04:002009-06-12T22:16:24.825-04:00Happy Birthday, Quinn!Quinn's Birthday party was a huge success with a house full of babies, babysitters, toddlers, friends and family... ...and dinosaurs.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395515958529046927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092807853638385943.post-3857816971341040482009-06-10T00:02:00.003-04:002009-06-10T00:05:51.778-04:00May Gallery is Up!Here it is (and on the link on the left). I'm moving a little bit quicker now. The kids are still cute, too!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395515958529046927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092807853638385943.post-68619568865725152162009-05-24T20:53:00.002-04:002009-05-24T21:28:00.216-04:00April Gallery is Up!I finally got our April photos up, so you can check out the gallery here. We had a lot of visitors in April and our traditional Passover Seder brought a full house and sent away full bellies. As of April, Quinn was 28 3/4" in height and when weighed in May for a blood test he was around 21 lbs.Aside from that, the pictures pretty much tell what happened over the month.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395515958529046927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092807853638385943.post-83461773858162137382009-04-30T23:55:00.002-04:002009-04-30T23:58:06.124-04:00Bad BloggingSorry it's been so long since there has been an update. The whole family is doing well and I finally got March's Gallery up, so check out the pictures there. Quinn has FOUR teeth now right up in front, but you'll have to wait until I get the April Gallery up to get a glimpse of those. I'll try to do a better update... some day.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395515958529046927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092807853638385943.post-18360355883057575062009-03-23T00:19:00.000-04:002009-03-23T00:20:41.875-04:00Lyla Gives Ari the RunaroundAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395515958529046927noreply@blogger.com0