Oh Great… Another Dad Blog About Another Baby
It’s for realsies now… After weeks and weeks of false alarms, the little man is finally teething. His ridiculously adorable toothless grins are coming to an end and before we know it, he’ll have a brand new set of mini-chompers and we’ll be eating beef jerky together. Now when he…
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Vicks NyQuil created two commercials about how parents don’t get to take sick days. The first features a sick dad and the second features an ill mom. While these commercials are short, they make a valid point. Parenting is not a job, it’s a 24/7 commitment.
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The average school year is 36 weeks, which is a little over 8 months, and Popeye turned 36 weeks yesterday (at 2:32AM to be precise). The only thing these two events seemingly have in common is that they are the same length of time. Normally I would totes agree, but…
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When you are in the process of having your first baby, also known as expecting, you look at everything in a big picture sense because you have no frame of reference. When it comes to baby proofing the house, we all know the major items: electrical outlets, corners, disgustingly unclean…
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I will be the first to admit that I used to laugh and laugh and laugh when friends with kids would plan to spend a Sunday afternoon doing family activities. Things like waiting in long lines for a photo with Santa at the mall, staging Easter egg hunts around the…
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I am always a little behind when it comes to tying in current events on this site, so it should come as little surprise that I am just now going to bring up Derek Jeter. I spent my youth as a Yankee fan, watching as Phil Rizzuto and Bill White…
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In typical fashion, the little man hit 200 days with nary a peep. It happened a few weeks ago and I was totally unaware until I busted out my solar-powered calculator and did some number crunching. Even with the device I was struggling to pinpoint the exact day, so I…
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There are loads of landmarks when you’re dealing with a new human and the age category is chock full. You start, simply enough, with hours. Once you get through that very first sleepless night, you get the honor of upgrading to days. After six head-spinning, life-altering days, you graduate to…
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The act of having a baby is, quite possibly, the most scrutinized thing most people will ever do. Every decision you make, and I mean EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. has a well-documented list of pros and cons. There are people who will literally stop being friends with someone if they happen…
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In case you are not aware, Popeye is a quarter Jamaican. Mama’s mama is from the island and lots of her side of the family, including Popeye’s great grandmother, reside in Kingston. With our five year anniversary approaching (we were married in Jamaica), Mama thinks that it would be a…
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If you do decide that cloth diapers are what you want to do, or if you are already using cloth diapers, then I definitely recommend that you use the bumGenius 4.0. They are well made, easy to use, look great and most importantly, they work.
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The awesome father trend is worldwide now as German company Hornbach recently released a commercial where a dad of a teenage goth girl supports his daughter as best he can. The commercial is in German but it is completely visual, so no worries if you don’t sprechen Deutsch. The name…
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