Better Than A Stick In The Eye

Today in a panic, Mason ran up to me and said, "Daddy! There's something dead in the backyard!" I'm thinking, "Great, there's a body..." Mason couldn't tell me what it was that was dead. So we went to investigate and brought a stick with us for verification...

Nixon Christmas 2010 - A Photo Essay

It's a major award...on my desk!

How I want the children to behave all the time...

How my children really act all the time... 

 My sister hates having her picture taken... so like any good brother, I take a pic anyway.

 

 How my wife likes me... quiet.

 Is that eggnog with extra nog in that sippy cup?

"Hi, you're interrupting my Facebook time on my phone."

 There's a baby in your yard, you should really do something about that.

 Yay!  Presents!

 The middle child, yet, king trouble maker of them all.

 Can I open it now?

 My point of view anytime I get on her nerves... and other things.

 Why do my brothers get to have all the fun?

 Roger, Roger...what's the Vector, Victor...FIRE!

 The LONG road back home

 ...at least I wasn't driving...for now.

Spaced out man....

 The end!

Giveaway fun!

In my travels in radio, I've given away boats, cruises, vacation trips, motorcycles... but never a car. Got my first chance to blow out a BIG truck signed by Tim McGraw. I was in the truck during the giveaway. Check it out! It was pretty fun!

Duck and Roll

MR Ducks... MR Not... CMEDB Feet?  LIB MR Ducks...

@radiotodd Twitter Updates 11-28-10

• Putting up Christmas lights when it's 85 degrees outside just doesn't seem right.
• @jojamie that's what she said!
• Mason working hard on homework... Wearing a paper bag vest! http://twitpic.com/3b5vg8
• Blue's Clues gets a Christopher Nolan-esque reboothttp://om.ly/BDqbv
• I am serious... and don't call me Shirley.
• @hwhite21 we want to see that too! We almost went
• @caroline730 what I wouldn't do for a scoop of some Blue Bell!
• @FarmgirlJoanna Super nice meeting you tonight! Keep up the twang!
• Almost pulled a van gogh this morning while shaving... coulda been earless today.
• Not that school... THAT school over there! Blog at www.toddonair.com
• @hwhite21 Now if I could tickle my armpit AND fast forward to 6pm, it would be a great day!
• #sorryiworeflipflopsatthelibrary
• Mini biscuits? and gravy! http://twitpic.com/3cyfc4
• @jakcadden Nice cans!

Not that school... THAT school over there!

The move to Florida so far has been all gumdrops and rainbows... until it was time to get the kids into school. Lee County, Florida has this thing called 'school choice.' A brilliant idea (result of a lawsuit) where you can *pick* the school you want to go to; as opposed to going to the school that's closest to your house. You can probably imagine what happens... We move from Louisiana, we get a nice house in a nice neighborhood, near a nice school...and oops! That school across the street is full! OK, how about the nice school a few miles away... FULL!  OOKKKK, so the 10th school choice later there is an opening. It is 40 minutes away from our nice house, in the nice neighborhood, across the street from the nice school. It wasn't much of a "school choice" was it?

It's bad enough we had to move 1500 miles away in the middle of school year just to be in a school half way across town. We had to drive the boys there everyday, or the bus could come get them... at 5:15am. We had to fight the school system to get them closer.

After a couple of weeks, a spot opened up for our oldest, but not our kindergartner. After some convincing we talked the school district into letting us split up the kids to get them into a school closer to the house. Our third grader is now at the neighborhood school across the street, and an opening popped up at the school a few miles away for our 5 year old. Anything was better than the 40 minute drive, extra gas, time to get the kids back and forth to school.

Now if I can just get the kids in the same school together now...