Last year a couple of Harlem Globetrotters came to my son's school to give a cool demonstration. My son talked about it for days. Imagine how thrilled he is now that the team is back in Los Angeles for a weekend this month! It's a performance, a basketball game, and a magic … [Read more...]
Free Chocolate!
Yeah, that's what I said. Free chocolate - for the lucky winner of my Tintin / Cost Plus chocolate bar giveaway. I love Cost Plus and I love chocolate, so when the PR team offered a set of the chocolate bars pictured above for me to give away on this here blog, I didn't even … [Read more...]
Last Minute Gift Guide: Books
For the LEGO enthusiast(s) in your house Now that you are a parent, your love of LEGO has been rekindled. You watch your kids play with the little plastic bricks, you marvel at their creations, you curse them each time you step on one with bare feet. When you were a kid, you … [Read more...]
Daddy Plays Rad Tunes For Baby
When Kid 1 was a baby I started a little ritual at bedtime: I would first read him "Goodnight Moon" and then turn on a CD of Mozart recordings. The first track was "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" and he would be pretty sleepy before that song even ended, so that was as far as we … [Read more...]
Dear Santa: LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean
We've been to a lot of Halloween parties the last few weeks. The first one was thrown by Disney Interactive on the lot at Disney in Burbank. My kids were in heaven - there were video games to play all around the room, and lots of sugary cookies to eat. They basically stationed … [Read more...]