SuburbanDaddy

We all know the image of Christmas morning portrayed in movies and television.  Snow gently falling on the rooftop while you peacefully wake to the aromas of breakfast and coffee.  The innocence of pajama clad children opening presents.  Blah, blah, blah.  Here’s how it went in my house this year.
We were jarred from our sleep [...]

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Apparently, this is a big enough story to make the front page of the Washington Post.  Forget Tickle Me Elmo and Webkinz, the hottest toy this year is a baby doll that actually poops.  Baby Alive comes with food you feed it, and then it pretends to poop.  Just like the real thing.
I don’t know, [...]

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When I introduced the world to Spider-Bat, I thought he would be a short lived phenomenon, not lasting much past Halloween.  But, the legend of Spider-Bat lives on and keeps growing.
StickyFan is a cool website that creates giant life-size posters from your own digital photos.  It’s great for action photos of your kids doing sports, [...]

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The Things are more than eager to “help” with jobs around the house.  Usually, this so-called help results in a tripling of time to do the job, but it’s usually a fun activity for them.
Thing 1 and Thing 2 recently “helped” me put up our Christmas tree.  Keep reading to see the pictures

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I’m always amazed when my kids are into stuff that I liked as a kid. Books like Cat in the Hat, games like Candyland, and now cartoons like Tom and Jerry, Superfriends, and The Smurfs. Compared to today’s computer generated animation, cartoons of the 70s are laughable. Just like the video games [...]

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