The 9 Bestest Pumpkin Carvings
We love Halloween. Can you tell? So, we decided to scour the internetz and find our favorite works of art on the pumpkin canvas… Number nine is my favorite. Amazing. GO SEE OUR PUMPKINTACULAR! – Read more of our awesomeness here… It’s happy happy funtime goodness pickles.
My Kid Just Said… #11
[hands behind back ] “I do NOT hab poop on my fingews.” -Lucas (2012, 3 years old) “Whuchoo got behind your back there?” (sniff) “Uhhh… What’s that smell?” There are some lies you hear that instantly tell you the truth. When someone says they don’t mean to sound a certain way or offend, you know […]
Homemade Birthday Cards 2005: Dash from The Incredibles and Metroid’s Samus
Max’s 5th custom Birthday card: Dash from the Pixar film, The Incredibles. When I first presented this card to Max on his 5th Birthday, it was the first bad reaction from the boys about any of their cards. He was obviously weirded out by it but tried to put on a twitchy artificial smile; he […]
I Wanna WRECK-IT TOO, Ralph.
There’s a film coming out next month that you should go see. And I did some voiceover on it! No, besides Christmas in Compton. I mean Wreck-It Ralph! When I heard I was going to see the movie more than a month before it arrives in theaters, the video game fanatic in me was thrilled. […]
My Wife Just Said… #81
“You know there’s a problem when your son, who is a toddler, is telling you to calm down.” -Elizabeth ““ Previous “My Wife Just Said…”
Fatherhood Fridays #12: Five Weirdest Halloween Costumes
Every year the evolution of Halloween costumes seems to go away from the upright-walking hominids we have become and drifts toward regression. In a sentence: WE ARE GETTING WEIRDER, PEOPLE. So, I felt it would be a “good” idea to highlight the strangest Halloween costumes you can now buy online and drive the point home […]
Turning the Tables on Family Dinner
So, I’m an okay cook but by Friday night, my whole family are a bunch of zombie meatsacks. I decided to write about how to remove the stress out of family dinners by week’s end because I know so many families are dealing with the same problem. I wrote about it for Annie’s Homegrown, a […]
Safety from Children: Impact Probability Chart
It’s a Murphy’s Law of sorts. What can make an impact on a Peril Zone, will… reeeeally hard. Not every time, of course, but that’s what this chart is for, to show you the likelihood of impact, and where. Instances of board-books that weigh as much as a manhole cover making a “direct hit” are […]
Charlie Brown & Halloween PB&Js of the Heart
When we grow up, we tie some of the things we experience together; associations. Things that will forever remind us of other things later. They’re little peanut butter and jelly sandwiches of the heart. For me, the peanut butter I’m talking about is Halloween and the jelly is It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. […]
How Kids Defend Against Loud Sounds
Fire engine sirens, jackhammers, alarms, elevator musak, oh my! It doesn’t matter what it is. Loud or awful sounds can freak a kid out. And every kid has their various ways of responding and even defending against these things. Here’s Lucas (3yo) holding up his toy tool box, demonstrating the Arm Muff technique as a […]
