About Me

Babble.com's Top 50 Dad Blogs of 2011!I'm a 32-year-old father and husband born and bred in Massachusetts. I have a beautiful son named Will, a gorgeous wife named MJ who is far too hot to have married me, a dog I love and two cats I put up with. I'm a smart-ass former newspaper reporter with a penchant for turning a phrase, who decided to go corporate and is now enjoying life as a content manager for a website.

This blog is not just another "daddy blog." Sure I write about my son, but these pages are a record of my life. I don't just highlight the fun milestones like first steps, I also chronicle the "other stuff." The fights, the torment and the doubt that inevitably come with being a husband and father. It's not always puppy dogs and rainbows, but it is very real. And often there is beauty in the sadness, redemption in the struggle.

Thank you for checking me out, giving me a try and sticking around for the journey. If you'd like to contact me you can email aaron_gouveia (at) yahoo (dot) com.

It’s a Guy Thing

Will was in the bathroom dropping the Cleveland Browns off at the Super Bowl. And from the sound of it, they had a pretty tough road through the playoffs to get to the big game because it sounded like Will was wrestling an elephant in there. And suddenly he called out to me. “Daddy, Daddy! Come quick. Come look at my poop!” I didn’t give it a second thought. I was up in a flash and headed to the bathroom, my curiosity thoroughly piqued. MJ—looking as horrified and disgusted as is humanly possible—stood up and firmly objected. “You can’t be serious. Why are you going in there to look at poop? What the hell is wrong with you??” “Are you kidding?” I asked incredulously. “I have to go check it out. What if it’s something awesome? You only have a handful of truly memorable poops and this could be his first one. I’m going in there. You should come too.” She walked away muttering something about disgusting men and lamenting the fact that she lives with heathens, but I stand by it. [...]

Crossing Streams, Golden Showers

As any parent will tell you, potty training is almost always a work in progress. Will is pretty good about it, although he’s not fully there yet. He doesn’t crap in the toilet. Never has and it feels like he never will. The silver lining is he doesn’t like pooping in his underwear, so when [...] [...]

Nature’s Call

“Why is it so great for guys to pee outside?” This question, recently posed to me by my wife, caught me off guard. What’s so great about peeing outside? Is she kidding?? The real question is what’s bad about peeing outside? I just looked at her as if she had just asked why oxygen is [...] [...]

Will, Urine Trouble!

There was an…incident, on Monday. Will was watching Handy Manny on TV, happily enjoying his morning milk when Nature called to me. So I walked to the bathroom and I started to pee. And since we’re slowly trying to get Will used to the idea of going in the potty, I’ve been instructed to leave [...] [...]

Don’t Eat the Urinal Cakes

When I’m really hungry, I’ll eat almost anything. And yesterday that almost got me into a world of trouble. I came home from work starving and craving something sweet. MJ had just picked up some things at the store so I started to peruse my choices. I was looking up on top of the fridge [...] [...]