SuburbanDaddy

There are some toys you never get for your own kids, but they make great gifts for other people’s kids.
For example take this birthday present Thing 2 received from Suburban Aunt and Uncle. We’ve seen commercials for the Super Soaker on TV and usually hear comments like “that’s awesome!”.

Not so awesome when I got [...]

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I just made a $17 investment that will pay returns many times over. A third Wii controller. No more refereeing fights, or separating because of fighting. In about a year we’ll be getting a fourth controller for Thing 4.

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I was flying solo tonight with the four Things – pick them up at school, give them dinner, baths, put to bed. In these situations, there are only two realistic options for dinner: pizza or fast food drive through. I went with the fast food. Four Happy Meals.
There are lots [...]

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While many in the working world are dreading this rainy, dreary, traffic-filled Monday morning, I am not. Oh, it’s certainly not because of what I will be doing today. I look forward to my job about as much as, well, since many of my co-workers and boss read this, I’ll just say there [...]

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Or, as they refer to it in politically correct preschool: Happy Green Day.
Here is Thing 4, dressed in green, enjoying a ride on her birthday present from SuburbanGrandpa.

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Researchers recently found out that kids prefer the taste of food that comes in a package with cartoon characters. Really? I had no idea. Oh, is this the reason they put all the Sponge Bob mac & cheese boxes at knee level where Thing 3 can grab it as he is running [...]

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It takes a miracle to get Things 1-3 to sit still, at the same time, for more than 10 seconds. There is a reason you don’t see many pictures of all three.
But miracles do happen. And this miracle is sold in stores everywhere. It’s called Nintendo Wii and it’s worth every penny.

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After a Christmas Eve with family where they were all up way past their usual bedtime, bouncing off the walls with excitement. Then a late night for us cleaning the feast and doing Santa’s work. This morning Thing 1 led the way, up at the crack of dawn, for a morning full of presents and [...]

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