Wordless Wednesday #3:

Flower in Our Yard

Flower and a Bee

My wife took these two photos of a bee and a yellow flower.

Politics: What Blogger wants to be my Running Mate?

Image by Tonyç via Flickr

This just in!

I’m looking for a blogger to be my running mate for the upcoming elections. As you can see I already have a pretty good presence in some markets! I’m not sure what platform I’ll be running on or what issues I’ll be looking to “fix”, but in any event I think I’ll be able to overcome McCain or Obama.

If you vote for me, All paths lead to water….

Now Who’s With Me!?

There’s a Spotlight on Me – Featured Writeup of Me

For my post of the day I’d like to let everyone know that Jeremy Biser, Discovering Dad, has a Spotlight Feature of me on his blog. It was a great honor to be asked by Jeremy to be included in his weekly series, Discovering Dad Spotlight Series On Dads.

Please head over to learn more about me and to read the great articles that Jeremy writes!

My Spotlight writeup is here.

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Wordless Wednesday #2

Here is my second Wordless Wednesday Photo. This time I better show off my son who is 3 1/2. (oops, scheduled this wrong, so I’m posting now!)

The Night of the Fake Crier – Does Your Child Whine Non-Stop

Wow, our family is gonna be famous!

I can’t confirm anything yet but I have a tingly feeling on the back of my neck that there is a movie production company out in our back yard secretly filming the next Summer Blockbuster, “The Night of the Fake Crier“, starring our son. I mean, MAN, does he have the part of lead actor down pat! Whining, pouting, whimpering, tears and whatever else his little mind can muster up. (read this post about Dry Crying and how Actors have to learn to cry)

I’m not sure if he’s reading from cue cards underneath the kitchen table (nope, just checked, nothing was there!) Maybe he’s learning something from The Backyardigans, Diego, or even Word World! Yep, probably Word World sense it’s been teaching him how to spell. Or maybe it’s because he sees Mommy and Daddy guzzling down bottle after bottle of wine and thinks that WINE and WHINE are the same! Sorry bud, they aren’t — not even close!

Anyway, I’m not chucking my son “under the bus”, I’m just trying to find humor in parenting and laugh a little more about things like this.

So not to digress any further, my wife has been catching our son snickering when she turns her head after he’s been having a whining fit. See!!? He is faking the whining. Even tonight at bedtime, which was after 9pm (totally bad!) he was so cranky and exhausted that when we made him go to bed (in our room since the t-storms were out there booming!) he went back to acting and gave us a good show of tears, pouts and whines. “I’m not ti-rrr–ed”, “I don’t neeeedddd to go to bed!” “blah blah blah”.

Both my wife and I can say, “Logan, stop with the fake cries and whines” and usually he does. Hopefully that IS A GOOD THING and we are progressing in the right way because I don’t think my wife and I can handle much more whining. I’m thinking a chalkboard and nails running up, down, sideway, back and forth would actually be soothing!! LOL

I did some research on the web to look for an image or video to use on this post but instead found this great info about whining.

Here is a kick-ass article on Daddy Dan about whining, originally posted on The Baby Shrink (which I think is no longer)! Did you know…

Whining, believe it or not, is a way your toddler has developed to avoid melting down into a total tantrum. This is good, right? What would you rather have: whining — or a kicking, screaming tantrum? It’s also a way your toddler is working on to establish some more power around this place.

read Daddy Dan’s full post on What To Do About a Whining Toddler

Tags: whining, preschooler, children, bedtime

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Wordless Wednesday #1

Maybe I’ll start something new for a few weeks and see how it goes. I’ll just be adding a photo that I want to show off and display.

For starters I’m going with my almost two year old daughter, K-Bop. I think the black and white really make this image perfect!

Pic taken 7/16/2008 by Mommy

Daddy’s Toolbox Carnival #4

Wow, this time I did it right. I used my Twitter account (@DaddysToolbox) to tweet about the upcoming carnival and this fourth edition received the most submissions thus far! I’m excited to bring you the following posts, please read them and share with others. If you want to have a parenting or Daddy post included in my monthly carnival please read the last part of this post.

Jeremy Neal presents Do It Because I Said So! posted at Discovering Dad.

Ron Mattock presents Chipmunk Gets A Post posted at Clark Kent’s Lunchbox, saying, “A short post about fathers and sons, catching chipmunks and passing along small lessons to your children that they may remember later.”

Petteri presents More About My Wicked Grandpa… posted at My Grandpa.

Being a Daddy

Jeremy Neal presents Top 5 Favorite Daddy Daughter Activities posted at Discovering Dad.

Kevin Heath presents Parenting Tips for New and Expectant Dads posted at More4kids.

Dad of Divas presents Remember Me posted at Dad of Divas.

Dads Summer Fun

ISPF presents Fun Family Vacations (That Don’t Cost an Arm and a Leg!) posted at Daddy Financials.

Modern Parent presents Summer Fun: Splish Splash He’s Not Taking a Bath posted at Modernparent.org.

James Hills presents La Tomatina – a Tomato Party In Spain | Father and Son Mancation posted at Man Tripping – Guys Getways and Mancations, saying, “This year’s festival is coming up on August 27 … probably too late for anyone in the US to visit, but should be a fun summer idea for next year like this dad/son pair did!”

Parenting Issues

Neelakantha presents 100+ Health and Safety Tips for Your Newborn posted at Nursing School Search Blog.

Jeremy presents Standing Firm – Cutting: One Dad’s Story of Intervention posted at Discovering Dad.

Special Memorial

This post was a last minute addition that I wanted to include in the carnival.

Anthony McCune presents a memorial to Todd Christopher Weaver who died in the attack on the World Trade Center. He was 30-years-old.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of daddys toolbox carnival using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

If Your Child Has a Peanut Allergy Read This

Since last week after finding out K-Bop has a nut allergy my wife and I have spent some time researching and finding sites pertaining to nut allergies. I just ran across some valuable information that I would like to share with everyone, especially those with a nut allergy.

Read Labels Carefully!

If you see any of the following items listed as an ingredient in a food, it will not be peanut free.
# Peanut / may contain traces of peanuts
# Cold-pressed or expeller pressed peanut oil
# Ground nuts
# Mixed nuts
# Peanut butter
# Peanut flour
# Peanut oil
# Peanut starch
# Beer nuts
# Arachis
# Gianduja
# Goober peas or nuts
# Mandalona (a nut substitute derived from peanut meal)

Peanut can be found in many foods in different forms, as an emulsifier or thickening agent, i.e., (in prepared foods, fried prepared foods, battered foods and roasted chickens may contain peanut oil).

Candy – peanut ingredients may be found in candy and it is best to use only wrapped candy where you can read the ingredient label.

Asian cuisine has a high percentage or foods made with peanut or peanut derivatives.

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Sunday Night Fun at The Disco

Well not really at the disco, but I found this great clip up on Jib-Jab and just HAD to do this!

Sorry kids, don’t hate me when you’re teenagers!!

My kids are 3 1/2 yo son (Gogo) and 2 yo daughter (KBop).  I can’t wait to show this to them Monday after daycare! they will love it.

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