Video: A Comparison Of First Food Moments

Last night, we gave Charlie his first food that did not come from a boob. Rice cereal of course and he seemed to enjoy it.

I took some video because it is one of those “first” moments you want to have.

Of course, it got me thinking back to Harrison’s first food moment and thanks to the wonder of YouTube, I have it to compare.

Harrison’s first food video had a lot more production value. You see, it was after we had just watched the Canada-USA Gold medal game in 2010. If you watch the video you will see fireworks in the background because, well we won.

Harrison’s moment also came about a month later in his life, so he was way more into it.

Harry was Feb. 28th, 2010 (being born in Sept.)

Charlie’s was Feb. 10th, 2013 (being born in Oct.)

The reason? He is a much bigger kid and is eating a lot more. My wife can’t keep up so we are seeing if some cereal will help fill that belly.

Anyways, here are the two videos.

Kia Debuted ‘Space Babies’ Spot During Super Bowl

Did you see it last night? Did you see the big reveal during the Super Bowl?

Kia Motors America, showed off the 2014 Kia Sorento in a commercial spot that aired during last night’s game that the Baltimore Ravens won in the end.

The spot featured the all-new 2014 Kia Sorento Limited, and answered the age-old question: “Where do babies come from?”

Yeah, now you remember it. It is okay, the beers were flowing.

Watch the full-length spot here:

“Space Babies” 2014 Kia Sorento Big Game Ad

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The premise is this. The protagonist, a young, nervous dad attempting to navigate the delicate question with the help of his 2014 Kia Sorento Limited’s new UVO eServices infotainment system with voice-command navigation system. It’s just one of the many new features that help dads get through another day in the adventures of parenting.

This machine is certainly doing it like a dad.

If you missed it, story takes place on the distant planet, Babylandia, and includes baby boys, baby girls, baby dogs, baby pandas, baby everything.

Got Milk? I Did Not Friday Night – A Dad’s Story

The worst feeling when you are a parent has to be helplessness. A situation where there is little you can do but cope and hope. I have never been through too many thank God and there are much worse than I am about  to share. I realize in the grand scheme of things, an hour is not a long time to cope. But I am going to share it with you anyways, as it is a night in every Dad’s life that comes at some point.

Your wife goes out free of kids.

Yes, yes, not a big deal but on this night, it was the first night left with the boys with the new bedtime routine. No more just keeping the baby up in front on the TV. No it was a night to put both boys to bed at the same time.

The nights when my wife is out has also been tricky because of the whole breast milk thing. All week, my better half needs to collect, hoard and salvage milk so I can survive without her in the house. Up until this point, it has been somewhat okay.

Gone Baby Monitor, Gone. Going Digital Is The New Way To Go

Recently we reached the stage where it was time to move our 3-month old out of our room/bassinet, to his nice, big crib next door. It meant a lot of things – less constant sleep, a new bedtime routine and of course digging out the old baby monitor from last time.

Apparently a lot has changed since we last relied on the old baby walkie-talkie because this time when we turned it on, 8 out of 10 times, there was nasty interference.

Crap.

I spent a good day trying to crack the code. What was different from last time? Was it the Wi-Fi? Was it the neighbours Wi-Fi?

Anyways, while this was going on, it meant my wife was basically trapped on the top floor of the house each night, because we would not be able to hear the baby from the basement.

While she did enjoy the peace, the chance to read, and going to bed early, after a few nights, she was craving TV. We had a backlog of shows piling up, one of which, Top Chef, our weekly hit of crack.

As I was using tin foil on the baby monitor to see if that would magically fix it like a bad episode of MacGyver, I realized I had gone too far.

It was time to suck it up and just get a new one. Gone baby monitor, gone.

Dad Bloggers Make Super Bowl XLVII Predictions

On Sunday, Feb. 3rd, the biggest game of the year will take place. I am referring to Super Bowl XLVII of course.

The Baltimore Ravens will take on the San Francisco 49ers. If you want to know about the actual game, well I know you can find that in five seconds somewhere. I am not here to focus on that.

With the Super Bowl, there is the week long lead up, the commercials, the food, the 56 hour pre-game show, the monster halftime show and of course, there is the actual game.

Did I forget anything? Oh yeah, predictions, betting and all around opinion time. There are only two teams, you have a 50/50 shot.

Since I have access to a huge group of awesome dad bloggers, I threw out the simple question, who do you think will win the Super Bowl.

Here are the responses. I want to see yours as well.