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!?

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!)

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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.

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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Hope Everyone Had a Good 4th of July

We hosted a Fourth of July party yesterday despite the crummy, rainy weather in Chester County, PA.  We had over both families and a few other friends. All in all it was a good time.  I was the Master Griller and spent the majority of the day standing in front of a 6 burner gas grill cooking up wings, burgers, dogs and corn.  The wings on the grill were a huge favorite! I used frozen wings for the first time and since they were frozen I couldn’t add sauce to them before cooking so i just poured on the sauce after grilling.  I used Stubb’s Moppin’ Sauce which was awesome! The sauce had a slight heat to it which was good for the company we had over, they are non-spicy/hot lovers.  I also made some apps, grilled stuffed jalapenos this year. Thankfully no one dove into them so I got to eat about 6 of them. Give them a try on my recipe blog, Two Tongues Up !

Our kids had a great time playing with their cousins and a few other friends’ children. We broke up the playdough in the kid’s playroom and really didn’t care what they did or if the playdough got smashed into the carpet. (We are getting new carpet in 4 more days).

After our family and friends left, one couple stayed for a few smaller fountain type fireworks. We bought 2 3-packs of fountains from the local grocery store. These were enough for the kids. We even set them off in a light drizzle around 8pm, it was still dusk, but the kids didn’t care. They wanted their fireworks.  The fountains lasted about a minute each and ended with some loud snapping sparks. That was enough to scary our little girl and make her cry.  It’s a good thing we didn’t go see the real ones at the township park!

Well I hope everyone enjoyed Independence Day as much as my family and I did!

Songs for Father’s Day

Tonight I’m sitting listening to my iTunes library and the wide range of music I have collected. After about an hour of sampling bits and pieces of over a hundred or so tunes I landed on a Cat Stevens hit, “Father and Son” and that made me think I should begin a post about great Father’s Day songs! Of course the next to come to my mind is my favorite Harry Chapin song, Cats in the Cradle!

So my contributions to the list begin with:

1. Cat Stevens - Father and Son
2. Harry Chapin - Cats in the Cradle

   Submitted by others

3. John Mayer - Daughters (@LindsayLebresco)

If you can come up with others please let me know and I’ll compile them on this list, feel free to leave comments and I’ll add to the list. Or follow me on Twitter and tweet me @daddystoolbox (twitter.com/daddystoolbox).

How I Spent My Father’s Day

Well Happy Father’s Day to myself and all the other great Dad’s out there. This is our day to do what we want, right? For the most part it is and on a typical weekend I would probably have gone off and took care of a few things in my basement, I’m finishing it on my own and my wife was going to hit the outlet stores to get some clothes shopping done. She was going to take our son along and I would spend time with our daughter and then have her take her midday nap after lunch. Well I decided it would be fun to have the whole family go to the outlets and spend the time together and not worry about the “things to do” around the house today! It was a good time! Surprisingly, the kids were pretty well behaved for clothes shopping! To a 3 and 1 year old if it isn’t a toy that makes noise then it’s not fun, so I wasn’t sure our shopping trip would be OK, but it was.

We just got home after a few hours drive and shopping and now the kids are relaxing. I just carried my daughter up to her crib and she had me read her one book and now she’s sleeping. Our son slept for most of the ride home and got a decent amount of rest in so he is just chillin’ on the couch with a few shows.

I’m in the other room quickly typing out this post and then will take care of a few other things and probably head down to the basement to run some wires through the 2×4’s so I can cross that off my ever-increasing-to-do-list.

So before I press submit, how are other Dad’s celebrating your day? Did you get a new tie or bottle of cologne? Could those gift items be any more time-dated!!?? I used to get my father cologne every year. He always would open the box, take out the cologne and open it and splash it on his face saying, “Ahhhh, this smells great!” My thoughts now as a father and thinking back to him doing that I think, “did he really need or want or like the cologne? Maybe he was being a dad and therefore appreciative to whatever his children gave him?” I would have to agree with the later, as a father we have the obligation to always be grateful, excited and happy when our children give us anything, even a piece of paper with a drawing of our famele (as my 3 1/2yo wrote after sounding out the word family the other day). I was so impressed and proud that he is beginning to sound out words and spell them the best his little mind knows how! He also spelled out “mos” for mouse, “sidwc” for sidewalk and a few others. I thought this was amazing!! My mother (grama) helped him sound them out but he did all the work!

That was a GREAT Father’s Day gift.