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This is Jordan Reeves. And this is her boomstick.

Jordan attended Superhero Cyborgs, a program that invited children to design prosthetics. There she used Autodesk and 3d design software to design her own personal prosthetic hand. Jordan is not fooling around with any cosmetic limb. She's built a war machine for her hand.

She calls it Project Unicorn. Jordan's new hand shoots glitter at high speed through 5 smoothbore barrels that activate with the pull of a drawstring tightening around the balloon-filled chambers.

Fast Company explains what the Superhero Cyborgs program offers to participating kids:

Over the course of five days, she and five other kids between the ages of 10 and 15 worked with design experts and engineers from Autodesk to brainstorm ideas. "Basically, if they could design the prosthetic or body modification of their dreams in a superhero context, what would that look like?" asks Sarah O’Rourke, a senior product marketing manager with Autodesk.

For Jordan, it looks very sparkly. Her plan was to transform her arm into a cannon that spread a delightful cloud of glitter wherever she went. She started with a few sketches. Then she created a 3-D-printed cast of her arm and a plastic cuff made to fit over it, for prototyping purposes. The kids used Autodesk’s 3-D design tools like TinkerCAD and Fusion 360 to test their prototypes. "It was so fun," says KIDmob co-director Kate Ganim. "The testing and prototyping was amazing. There was glitter everywhere."

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It was quite a baby shower!

Abby Rogers, the photographer, says that this happens a lot during newborn baby photo shoots. In fact, in her experience, this always happens for a long shoot. But this is the first time that she captured it on camera. Her timing was hilariously perfect. The Daily Mail reports:

'Babies like to get to me as soon as I am undressing them... typically as I am posing them,' Mrs Rogers said.

'They are so warm and they are naked for a few hours so they get comfortable but sometimes I get lucky and it's during the part when they have a diaper on.'

This little boy is the couple's third son, so they weren't surprised either.

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Did you attend an Easter egg hunt this year? If not, we’ve got all the thrills and spills for you from a typical kid’s Easter. It’s a compilation of the more typical activities surrounding the holiday.

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So nothing has changed since we were kids. Easter bunnies are terrifying, eggs are fragile, baskets spill, and then there’s the egg dye, which does not mix with new dress clothes. Also, gravity is not your friend.  -via Tastefully Offensive

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Hey, kids! A magical creature has left you treats. Start eating because that's what we do on this special day of the year.

Then, in several months, a strange man will sneak into our house at night when your parents are asleep. If you see him, be quiet and don't tell anyone.

It's not your toddler's fault that he had an accident. The potty is safe only when you're there. Otherwise, the potty monster visits. If he goes there instead of in his pants, it will snatch him and pull him in.

This isn't a real horror movie . . . yet. But it could be one. Andy Herald of How to Be a Dad has 6 great pitches to offer producers. They're terrify any toddler at bedtime, which is, of course, precisely what every parent of a toddler wants to do.

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YouTube member Lenny says that her toddler and cat have daily conversations like this. I don't understand what they're debating, but I'm impressed with the enthusiasm they put into articulating their positions.

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Grant Snider of Incidental Comics has been charming us with his comics about his daughter for a few years. Now he’s doing it all over again -with a son! He posted this comic in celebration. We’ve seen these guys before, and know they all want to hold their baby just like the very last image. A belated congratulations to the Sniders, and we look forward to more parenting insights.  

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There’s no need to invest in Oculus Rift or another virtual reality gadget when you’ve got TV and a Dad who’s willing to help out! (Though a commenter did call this “Oculus Thrift”.) Too bad this idea will be shelved when the child gains another twenty pounds or so. Still, she’ll probably remember this adventure for the rest of her life. -via reddit

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Joey Muha is a heavy metal-style drummer in Port Dover, Ontario. He's so good that he can turn even the children's song "I'm a Little Teapot" into a headbanging thrill.

He does many covers of other songs that you might not associate with heavy metal music, including the theme songs to Gilligan's Island, Bob the Builder, and The Little Mermaid.

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Tell a new mother they do nothing but lay around and babysit and it will understandably make them mad, because they feel like they're being belittled for staying home with their baby instead of going to work.

But rather than getting angry about these snide remarks Moscow mom Skorobogatova Yuliya took up a selfie stick and started documenting her day, showing that she really doesn't have much downtime while "babysitting".

Her selfie stick shots are intimate and revealing, and also one of the coolest baby photo projects ever thanks to the unique angles attained with the selfie stick.

And for those who wonder what's so hard about being a stay-at-home mom, imagine having a little imp following you around all day, leaving you without a moment's peace even when you're in the shower.

See more from I Documented What It's Like To Be A Mom With A Selfie Stick here

The father of six at That Dad Blog is ready for St. Patricks Day with a real-ilife leprechaun! See, the baby became a magical leprechaun with the help of some Photoshop. That was necessary, since the baby isn’t old enough to stand on his own. 

   

See the series of nine photos at his site, plus a video. The formatting on this blog caused me problems in reading the text, but resizing the window narrower will cause the left sidebar to disappear and the full text to show.  -via reddit

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The horror fiction writer Eric Carle created a tale that will terrify generations of adults and children--if it's told the right way. Altering traditional literature for optimal character development is one of the essential roles of the father. That's why, when I read The Rainbow Fish to my kids, I have Rainbow Fish sell his scales at a steep markup price and become the richest fish in the sea.

Two things are certain in a person's life -birth and death. But even though pregnancies are so frequent that literally every person alive has been through one, there's still a lot of things many people don't know about them. Here are ten strange facts you might not know about pregnancy.

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1. It's Possible To Get Pregnant While Pregnant

Though it's very rare, some women have actually gotten pregnant with a second child while already carrying one. The technical term for this occurrence is superfetation and while it happens in some animals, it's almost impossible in humans as a pregnant woman's hormones are supposed to serve as a natural birth control against additional pregnancies. Of course, the word "almost" means that it does happen. Generally it occurs when the pregnant woman has released an egg a few weeks into the pregnancy, but before the first embryo has implanted and the hormones haven't completely kicked in to stop additional fertilization and implantation.

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2. Vaginas Can Turn Blue or Purple During Pregnancy 

One of the earliest signs of pregnancy can be the change of a vagina's color from pink to blue or purple. The increased blood flow to the cervix and labia can happen as early as six weeks in.

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3. It Is Possible To Be Pregnant For A Full Year

It's safe to say Donald Trump is one of the most polarizing figures in the world of politics today, drawing comparisons to Hitler, Stalin and Nixon, just to name a few.

Whether you love him or despise him with every fiber of your being there's a method to his madness, and over the years he has gotten really good at playing the character "Donald Trump".

But some kids are really good at seeing through these kind of disguises, so how will they react when they watch The Don on video?

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The Fine Brothers have become quite good at picking appropriately jarring things for people to react to, but this one might qualify as cruelty to children!

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Parents want to introduce their children to the music they love. But there’s a catch. A child may very well claim that music for her very own, as in the case of 2-year-old Millie. She’s singing “Bohemian Rhapsody” in the car. But she doesn’t want anyone else to sing! It’s her music now! Too bad, Mom and dad.  -via Viral Viral Videos