Archive For September 27, 2013

Illness Bait And Switch

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I had just put Xavier down for nap when the phone rang. It was the school. Déla was in the office not feeling well. So I did what any good dad would do, I got Xavier up from nap and walked over to the school to pick up my daughter. Thankfully we live about a…

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Sofia The First: Ready To Be A Princess DVD

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Sofia The First: Ready To Be A Princess DVD

My 10 year old son even likes “Sofia The First” for some reason. I don’t get it. My 8 year old daughter of course likes the show, and my 3 year old will pretty much watch anything we let him. My 6 year old son kind of likes the show but I suspect that’s only…

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Comparing Grapes

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I pick Xavier up from preschool every morning at 11. We come home and he’s hungry so we do lunch. Yesterday he finished his sandwich and I look over at him from where I was on the other side of the kitchen. He’s holding up two individual grapes from the small bunch on his plate,…

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Stolen Pizza

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Every other Saturday we have pizza for dinner. Sometimes more often, but pretty much every two weeks. The logistics of why this is are not relevant to the story. A few slices were left over and I individually wrapped two of them up in aluminium foil for August to take to school. He’s the only…

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Two Lost (Literally) Teeth

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Two Lost (Literally) Teeth

Ciárán had 8 teeth by the time he was 8 months old. Seriously. It was a little weird. None of our other kids had that many teeth at that time. Now at the age of 6 he’s losing his teeth. Literally. Thursday Ciárán lost a tooth. At school. As in actually lost it in the school’s…

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Iron Man 3 Blu-ray

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Iron Man 3 Blu-ray

There’s been a lot of talk about Iron Man 3 being disappointing. Was this really the way to send off Robert Downy Jr. as Tony Stark? Was the plot too self serving? Was it too ridiculous? Was it enough? Was it too much?   I liked it.   While it wasn’t the actioner previous Iron…

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A Frantic Morning

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This morning was a bit crazy. The scenario: Laura leaves every day about 6:45 in the morning for work. That leaves me with August (10), Déla (8), Ciárán (6) and Xavier (3) and I have to get them ready for (and to) school by 8:20 when school begins. I say this not as a “woe…

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John Carpenter’s Prince Of Darkness Blu-ray

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John Carpenter’s Prince Of Darkness Blu-ray

Stinging from the lack of box office success with Big Trouble In Little China John Carpenter returned to his horror/thriller roots with 1987’s Prince Of Darkness. here we get a couple of familiar faces (and John Carpenter alums) Donald Pleasence and Victor Wong leading a cast that includes future Carpenter regular Peter Jason as well…

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Day Of The Dead Blu-ray

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Day Of The Dead Blu-ray

In a way this is the sort of review that doesn’t need to be written. It’s a George Romero film. It’s Day Of The Dead as a matter of fact, the third in the director’s series of zombie films. While there are six films, the last two are sort of a reboot, so you can…

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A Preschool Post

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So how is Xavier’s first year in preschool going? We’re a couple of weeks in and as a dad blogger I think there’s some sort of legal requirement to talk about the kid’s school once a month of your dad blogger license gets revoked. Every day Xavier asks if he can run ahead. We drop…

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