So, my wife bijziend and I have entered our baby into a competition to win a year’s supply of doughnuts.

Forget your Twittering Follow Friday nonsense, fire up your Facebook and vote for a picture of our baby dressed as the Fifth (and best) Doctor in a hopeful attempt to win a year’s supply of doughnuts. Which my wife will probably eat in one burpy sitting.
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After a small duo team session with my son on the cutesy dungeon crawler Spiral Knights, we just started playing a few days ago, I chased him out of my study to get dressed for the day of housework. He reappears after ten minutes wearing a T-shirt I hadn't seen before;

Son: "Dad, Dad! I managed to unlock this new shirt. It was too big for me a few ( Read more... )

We got our Fisher Price catalog yesterday and on the back cover, there were DC Superhero Little People.  Including Wonder Woman and Batgirl!!!  This made me outrageously happy and we immediately ordered all 6 of them for my son's upcoming first birthday.  There's also a Little People Batcave that he may also be getting for his birthday or possibly ( Read more... )

My son wants to have a "computer programming" themed birthday party. He is autistic and I'm honestly not sure he even knows what he means, but I'd like to make an effort. But WTF am I supposed to do with that? I did see a cool cake decorated like a Mac laptop, but I am otherwise without clue. Any ideas?

Samuel L. Jackson reads from "Go the f**k to sleep". Needless to say, not entirely safe for work.

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 Hello all! I came across this community while browsing and thought I'd join.

I'm a 24 (25 on sunday!) year old married mom of one evil genius named Xander (No connection to the Buffy variety but the humor is not lost on me). That's him in my icon. We also have two dogs. Rags, a Border Collie/Blue Healer mix and Nelix, a bartending labrador we ( Read more... )

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Originally posted by gaerfindel at It's beginning to work
A week ago, Nene posted that "It Just Might Work!", and indeed it seems so.[1]  Early on, Katydid was garnering more stones than the Gnome, but come Counting Time (yesterday afternoon), my son had her beat, 37-32.  How?  He earned 8-you read that right, 8-stones for excellent behaviour Friday morning ( Read more... )

Mostly for the big explosions, I'd hazard, but it's a promising start to learning that science is fun/cool.  He also enjoys watching Firefly with me, though I'm not quite sure why.  It doesn't have the action Star Wars, Star Trek, or even Battlestar Galactica can provide.  Plus Wheddon's witty dialogue is parsecs above his head.  Nevertheless, ( Read more... )

The film No Woman, No Cry which was directed by Christy Turlington Burns. The film shines light on the fact t hat due to substandard maternal healthcare worldwide, "more than 500,000 women die each year during childbirth-and that 90 percent of these deaths are preventable." (EMCThe film airs tomorrow night (5-7-2011) on the Oprah Winfrey Network ( Read more... )