Take all of your kid’s artwork (or as much as will fit) and “bind” it into a book. Get as fancy as you want, or just staple into some cardboard. Either way works, and then your child can decorate the cover. My boys love this and have multiple “volumes”. They’re [...]
When my boys were born, their baby books asked me to write a letter to each of them so that they could read it in the future. I did, and I’d like to think it was pretty good for the hopes and dreams of a first time father. Now that they [...]
With streaming video providers like Netflix offering cartoons from ANY age, I get a kick out of watching some of the cartoons of my youth with my young boys. GI Joe, Transformers, He-Man, you name it. It connects us with together time, but it also connects our pop culture references [...]
As you get older, there are certain things that happen that make you notice your age. Whether it’s the good side of that, in which you are “in” on the jokes of pop culture nostalgia, … or the bad side, in which you start noticing all the famous people are [...]
We went to see Paddington today. This was truly a wonderful, heart-warming movie with a ton of laughs. Besides that, the director was able to pull off some really cool visuals. Very realistic looking, very colorful, very action-packed. I’d expect to see him directing bigger in the future, but not better, [...]
Ok, so TMNT meeting Goonies isn’t a totally new concept since Corey Feldman voiced Donny in the 80’s TMNT movie and was Mouth in the Goonies…but, each time it happens should be a celebrated moment! While watching today’s episode of TMNT, Raph swam up into a giant cave, looked around, [...]
So, while working on today’s kid craft, a shoebox-rubber band guitar, we ran into a couple of issues. The shoebox we used was just a little too big for the rubber bands we had. But, we were determined. We were unwavering. We were making a shoebox-rubber band guitar, and we [...]
The other night, we crossed a railroad track on an unknown road…a little fast. So, the car went airborne! As we bounced back down to Earth, my wife went into mom mode and said loudly, “are you boys ok?” My twin 5-year-olds said, smiling and laughing, “can we do that again?”
This past weekend’s outing, we went to see children’s musician, Justin Roberts and the Not Ready for Naptime Players, live in concert. The band was great, fun, and witty. They were sure to keep the kids active and into it during each song, giving the audience things to do such [...]
I’m not sure how it is with girls, but with young boys, parents must quickly acclimate to the “gross factor” as one of my friends who is adopting a young boy is quickly finding out. He’s already had incidents with boogers and poop. My boys think “poop” is the funniest [...]
