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When your baby first sees that plastic tub that you picked up at Walmart for $15, he’ll wonder if he was accidentally switched at the hospital. A more refined choice is this ceramic whirlpool bath by BluBlue. Sure, it’s $3,200, but that’s the price you have to pay to keep up with the Jonses’ baby.
Link -via Gizmodo | Company Website
The Karpiuks’ wanted to make their nine month-old little baby his very own Millennium Falcon and dressed up his pup companion to play the role of Chewbacca. They have photos of the full process over on their Flickr page so you can follow the process yourself.
Link Via Geeks Are Sexy
“He dug a hole, but he had dug only a little of it when Frith came over the hill alone. And he saw El-ahrairah’s buttom sticking out of the hole and the sand flying out in showers as the digging went on. When he saw that, he called out, ‘My friend, have you seen El-ahrairah, for I am looking for him to give him my gift?’ ‘No,’ answered El-ahrairah, without coming out, ‘I have not seen him, He is far away. He could not come.’ So Frith said, ‘Then come out of that hole and I will bless you instead of him.’ ‘No, I cannot,’ said El-ahrairah, ‘I am busy. The fox and the weasel are coming. If you want to bless me you can bless my bottom, for it is sticking out of the hole.’”
Easter is over, so mark the Blessing of El-ahrairah with these pancakes by Farmlife Chick. They’ll be a fine complement to the bunny face pancakes.
Link -via Darcy Roederer
How did you share the good news that you were pregnant? I’m guessing you didn’t put an add in the Missed Connections section of Craigslist. Or maybe you did. Anyway, this post was titled, “Did we hook up at the Megadeth/Motorhead concert? -w4m-28 (Aragon Ballroom).
Me: Blue hair, silver tube top, fishnets, Knee high black biker boots.
You: Red mohawk, black pentagram gauges, viper piercings…Anyway I’m pregnant. It’s yours. contact me if you want to be part of your child’s life.
If you want to read the full touching text be sure to go to the link. I really hope she saved a copy for the baby book.
Photo: Bad Ass Pacifier
A cover of the Rammstein song “Sonne” (sun), performed by the Children Medieval Band. The three siblings are 10-year-old Stefan, 8-year-old Olga, and the amazing 5-year-old Cornelia playing drums better than most adults. If you really don’t like Rammstein, skip ahead to about 3:30 where they pick up new instruments. You can see more of their musical performances at YouTube. Link -via reddit
The driver of a school bus in Fife, Washington had a heart attack while driving. The bus began careening down the road and might have crashed disastrously, if not for the quick thinking of 13-year old Jeremy Wuitschick. He jumped in the front seat and brought the bus to a full stop.
The video above is pretty amazing. Jeremy really did respond instantly and intelligently despite being taken completely by surprise. The time between the driver’s heart attack and Jeremy has his hands on the wheel is under ten seconds.
Caine had the summer to hang out in the back of his father’s auto part store. He was bored, but he was also creative.
Caine loved arcades. He couldn’t pass by one without stopping inside to play. So he built one inside the store.
Oh, it was just cardboard boxes, cut up and taped up. But they were reasonable approximations of arcade gaming cabinets. It was time to open for business!
Got a dollar? That’ll earn you four games. Got two? Then you get a Fun Pass! That’s five hundred games.
Still, no one was interested, except for one man who needed a new door handle for his car. Independent filmmaker Nirvan Mullick knew a bargain when he saw it and bought a Fun Pass immediately. He also used his connections to drum up some business for Caine. This is the story of how he did it.
This particular review was deleted from the Amazon product page, if in fact it was ever posted there. But it speaks the truth! There are more reviews at reddit. Link
Decipher The Doodle Contest #7 Winners!
The Answer: According to the pint sized artist this is a picture of a little girl walking through the woods with a picnic basket. Along comes a monster who tries to scare her and steal one of her very favorite chocolate chip cookies. The little girl is brave and tells the monster to be nice. This takes the monster by surprise. The Monster is sorry. The little girl gives the monster a cookie. This makes the monster happy. The little girl and monster are now friends. The little girl snacks on a cookie as she heads home.
The Most Correct Answer: The girl in the dress encountered upon an eyeball monster harassing/mugging the girl in the shirt, trying to steal her cookie.
In a moment of quick-thinking, the girl in the dress reveals an eyeball monster friend from within the depths of her purse (to distract the would-be mugger), along with a second cookie for herself.
The two girls are able to evade the eyeball monster with their cookies in-tact.
Congratulations! You really got in the head of this pint sized artist. You win a Hip Hip Array t-shirt.
The Funniest Answer:
While at first glance it may appear that Little Miss Blondie is on a shopping trip (note the purse in the left hand), upon further examination, it is clear we are being told a cautionary tale about encounters with germs and the importance of hand washing. A bucket (source of water for hand washing- much too hard to draw a sink!) is seen in every picture. When the girl encounters the germ (pink cyclops) she is taken off guard! But then she remembers her handy-dandy hand washing bucket, washes the germs off her hands. The germ gives a look of defeat and the girl goes off into the sunset *not pictured* with her hand washing bucket) to live happily ever after.
Congratulations!You win a Mmm…. pi t-shirt.
Thank you to everyone who participated. We hope you had as much fun as we did. If you didn’t win don’t worry! We will be back with another Decipher The Doodle Contest in a few weeks.
The American Girl doll line contains a vast number of different ethnicities, eye colors, and hair styles. There are clothes for every occasion for these tremendously popular high-end dolls. Ilona Szwarc photographed American girls who own American Girl dolls, often in matching outfits.
Before I looked at the tutorial, I tried to figure out how Jenni Price made these amazing pancakes. How do you make one pancake multiple colors?
Here’s what you do: apply your batter with squeezable bottles. Do so while the griddle is still cold. This lets you create an outline for your rabbit face, which you can then fill in while the pancakes are warming.
Link -via That’s Nerdalicious!
Kelley of Enter Gently is a mother of six children. During five of those pregnancies, she made plaster casts of her belly as keepsakes. The lower photo shows her son Ever inside his own cast. If you’d like to make your own cast, you can find Kelley’s instructions at the link.
Link -via Hilary Ingoldsby
This 22-month old girl wants her stuffed animals. But they’ve been put up high on a climbing wall!
Not a problem.
Link -via Blame It on the Voices
Happy April Fools’ Day everyone. Do you have big dreams of plotting pranks against your kids and other family members, but don’t know where to start? You should check out Heather Kempski’s article on 10 Best April Fools’ jokes for kids. This is one of my favorite suggestions:
Mess with breakfast (or lunch or dinner). Put gummy worms in their scrambled eggs, green food coloring in their milk or switch out cereal boxes. Franklin mom Kellie Carrara told her daughter they were having fish for dinner. “She HATES fish. I served her a plate of multi-colored big and little SWEEDISH Fish and told her she had to clean her entire plate!”
Her suggestions are funny, not mean, family friendly practical jokes.
Photo: Lil Devil’s Trick of the Day
Russell Greenberg, a designer who lives in New York City, makes custom objects that look like the silhouettes of specific people. His own wedding ring, for example, has the outline of his wife’s face. My favorites, though, are the baby rattles that look like parents.
Link -via Bit Rebels
Tom Schaar is only twelve years old, but he already has bragging rights for life. What did you do when you were twelve? Because this kid broke a world record. He’s the first person to ever do a complete 1080° turn — that’s three full rotations — on a skateboard. He did it this past Monday on a ramp at a sports camp at Tehachapi, California.
Link -via Geekosystem
Just look at this adorable tableau from The Chawed Rosin. It’s the children’s book I Am A Bunny illustrated by Richard Scarry, recreated with a marshmallow Peep! See a photo essay following the build process. Link -via Everlasting Blort
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Alicia Silverstone is getting all kinds of flak for her unique method of feeding her baby. Let’s call it Mama bird style. Yes folks, she chews the food and spits it into her baby’s mouth. Are you ready to follow in the footsteps of this celebribaby trend?
Hello Neatoramanauts and welcome to our seventh Decipher The Doodle Contest. This doodle was created by my 5-year-old daughter. I dare you to delve into the mind of this pint-sized artist and tell me what her doodle means.
We will award 2 prizes. One to the first person to come up with the most correct answer. The second for the funniest but ultimately wrong answer. The winners will win a T-shirt from the NeatoShop and be featured in next weeks post.
Please write your T-shirt selection alongside your guess (suggestion: Science T-shirts / Funny & One Liners). If you don’t include a selection, you forfeit the prize, okay?
Happy commenting!
Update (4/06/2012): The contest is now over. The winners will be announced shortly.
The “Kangaroo class” at the Sullivan School in Seoul, South Korea performs Randy Newman’s song “Short People.” They may be short, but they will get taller someday! They were supposed to sing this song with frowning faces, but they had a hard time keeping the smiles down. Iowa native Peter Strutt teaches English School of Rock-style to his 4-year-old students. See more videos of the class performing songs by David Bowie, Janis Joplin, and more at banjois’ YouTube channel. Link -via Everlasting Blort
This little guy is bushed. It’s time for a nap, and the fact that he’s standing up in skis won’t deter him.
David Delony of Walyou’s first thought was “Tron.” That’s a good interpretation, but Bhautik Joshi is actually going for the classic lowrider look. He plans to add rims and hydraulics next.
A friend of redditor kelseypolo built a new house that has a secret playroom decorated with images from The Chronicles of Narnia. His nine-year old daughter can access it through a small passage hidden in the back of a wardrobe. Awesome! You can view more pictures at the link.
Naturally, some redditors have more puckish ideas about what to do with it:
If it was my kid, I would let her have the room until she starts to lose interest in it, and then I would quietly cover the back of the wardrobe and seal the room. Eventually, she’ll want to go back to Narnia, but all she’ll find is an ordinary wardrobe and a solid wall behind it, and I will maintain that the room she keeps talking about never existed.
Admittedly, this is probably why I should not have children.
Pictures and Discussion Thread -via io9
Baby Björns are cute and practical but…well, they just feel odd at the range or the stockyard or the tractor pull. Andy Herald has a great solution that should go into immediate production.
Link -via Matt Anderson
Previously: Camouflage Moby Wrap
I’m too old to want this, but I do. I’ll just make it for my kids, but accidentally make one too many slices.
Link -via Swiss Miss | Photo: Minieco
He’s got a lot more facial hair that Lynda Carter did in the role. But that’s okay. This man spotted at WonderCon understands that a father shows his daughters how to be heroic.
Joanna Krzysztonek of Poland was pregnant with triplets. One of her babies died in a miscarriage, and the other two were in serious danger. Doctors had an idea about to save them, but it required Krzysztonek to hang upside down for two and a half months. She endured this great discomfort and successfully gave birth to the remaining baby boy and girl:
The head of the Wroclaw obstetrics and neo-natal clinic where Krzysztonek gave birth, Mariusz Zimmer, said doctors managed to ease Krzysztonek’s contractions, but considered her to be in labor from the birth of the first child.
“This procedure – I mean giving birth – has a beginning and an ending. If the first baby was born that means the birth had started,” Zimmer said.
Both babies, Iga and Ignacy, are doing well and doctors anticipate that they will be able to go home soon.
Link -via Oddity Central | Photo: Se.pl
Jennifer Perkins has a great idea for entertaining young children in the summer heat. Her toddler loves dinosaurs, so Perkins gave her a way to play junior paleontologist. Perkins froze toy dinosaurs in a tub of water, then gave her a spoon, a plastic shovel and a toothbrush to dig them out.
There are lots of reasons not to leave your keys in your car, but I bet you never really thought about the dangers of joyriding toddlers. Toddlers are a wiley group, especially when they are on a mission to visit their dear old Dad. Here’s a story about a little Wisconsin boy who decided to take a car for a trip to see his Dad.
The boy’s mother said she was taking care of her other child when the 3-year-old left the trailer and walked across the street.She said she saw the car moving and quickly went over and removed her son from the Dodge Intrepid, where it came to rest after striking the trailer.
(image: Road Signs – Wall Decal)
This couple worked for nine months to make the video birth announcement for Amelie Amaya. I think it came out just wonderful! -via Buzzfeed
