Things my daughter says #9

Driving down the road. From the back comes “Mom’s hair is brown. My hair is yellow. And dad’s hair is pokey. See, poke!”

Hey no making fun of the bald guy. Thanks cute daughter.

I love Twitter and so should you + Super Big Giveaway

Everyone uses social media.  Okay maybe not everyone but just about. Then there is the big debate about which social media to use. Are you a Facebook person? Google plus? Twitter? I imagine there is even people out there still using MySpace.

I was super sceptical of Twitter early on. All you heard about was Ashton Kutcher and his race for one million followers. But I was curious and wanted to be in the know. I joined twitter and started following all the cool famous people I thought might be interesting.  Doing that was BOOOORRRIIINNNG.  I was about ready to give up on it.  But then I started meeting real people.  Real people make all the difference.

Let me tell you a story about why I love twitter. I tweeted about having a new nephew named ‘McCoy.’  i got some congratulations and such but then I got “Congratulations but now we want some crisps.” What??? It was from one of my favorite people on Twitter.  Cat and Lynx goth twin writers from Wales.  Apparently there are McCoy potato chips (crisps).  They looked awesome what a cool gift for my new nephew.

I looked around on-line and the cheapest I could really find was 33 dollars for one bag of chips.  It is a cool gift but I couldn’t spend that much money on a bag of chips.  So what happens?  The wonderful Cat and Lynx mailed me a box of chips.  That’s right.  Out of the kindness of their hearts.  I came home one night and this was sitting on my doorstep.

Not only did they send me a box with some chips they sent me a whole lot of chips.

That’s why I love twitter.  Bacon Sizzler McCoy’s awesome!!!

Now for the SUPER BIG GIVEAWAY -

Leave a comment about why you love twitter.  Have you meet super nice people?  Do you have a great stories like above?  I will take my 10 favorite comments and give them a copy of Cat & Lynx wonderful book “Gunning Down Romance” to each one of them. That’s right 10 copies.  You have until my birthday on June 8th when I will determine the winners. It is a wonderful read.  Trust me here is my review.  All you need is a comment and an email and you could be the proud owner of a digital copy of “Gunning Down Romance”.

Instructions. Who needs instructions!!

My daughter doesn’t sleep in her bed.  I mean like never.  She will sleep on the floor. She will sleep on a chair. I want to say one time she fell asleep in the closet (sure is a scare coming into your daughter’s room and not seeing her anywhere). She has a nice day bed that she loved when we converted it from a crib but no more.

Needless to say I want my daughter to sleep in a bed.  She can get cranky when she doesn’t get enough sleep. So we got her a new bed. Nothing expensive but we let her choose it herself. It took a couple of days to get delivered and she asked every day if it was here. When it came, being the awesome father I am, I set it right up. Or at least I tried to set it up.

I open the box pull out the instructions and start to put it together. I like to follow instructions but these were horrible. I had little or no chance of putting the bed together from these instructions. I do my best the whole time cursing the company who produced this product.

After some difficulty, a little hed slapping, some reconnecting I get the bed together. Check it out.  It’s a beauty.

Later I was cleaning up all the plastic and card board and come across another instruction manual.  What??  Two instruction manuals??  That’s right this bed came with two separate instruction manuals. One for the canopy and one for the bed. No wonder I was using so many expletives. I was trying to put the bed together using the canopy instructions.

Some of you may be thinking this is a blond moment for me but you would be incorrect.  The company is still at fault.  They still deserve some expletives just with a lot less exclamation points.

p.s. She did fall asleep in her bed.  It took a while for her to fall asleep (way too long if you ask me) but when she did it was in her bed.  Success.  At least for one night.

Book review of “The Secret Of Excalibur (Nina Wilde & Eddie Chase #3)” by Andy McDermott

1) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

2) Genre: Adventure

3) Synopsis: Excalibur used to be the most powerful weapon of its time and can help create the most powerful weapon of today. Nina and Eddie race to find it to stop it from being used for bad.

4) Feelings: This is the third book in the Nina Wilde & Eddie Chase series. All these books have a bit of the unbelievable in them. It is sort of like watching a James Bond movie. You just go in expecting action and adventure and try not to worry about believability. Still I love the ideas and items that Nina and Eddie need to find.

5) Final recommendation: I have liked all three of these books. If you liked the first to pick this book right up.  It is fun and entertaining.  Eddie was a little whiney in it but I forgave him in the end.

Ryan James Burt

Husband, Father, and Writer

http://ryanjamesburt.wordpress.com/

 

Things my daughters say #8

My daughter loves time.  Everything we do needs to involve some time frame.  The only problem is she doesn’t really understand anything about time.  Well she does understand one word. “Today??”

Anytime you mention anything it seems like her response is “Today???”  Only imagine it all drawn out with some serious inflection at the end.

When is Christmas?  “Today???”

When are we going swimming “Tooooddayy???”

When will the world end?  “Toooddaaayyy???”

Things my daughter says #7

We were putting my daughter into pajamas and as my daughter was standing there she pointed to her belly button and said “Daddy this is my belly butt.”

“Sweetie it is called a belly button.” I say not wanting her to sound foolish.

“It’s my belly butt.” She repeats with confidence.  Then she squeezes her belly button making it kind of look like a butt.  A belly butt.

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom – Will my house have enough room?

My wife is super social.  Not only that but it is rubbing off on my daughter.  My daughter is super super social.  She loves playing with other kids. One day she was watching my wife on Pintrest and saw a Chicka Chicka Boom Boom activity.  Right then and there she decided she needed to throw a Chicka Chicka Boom Boom party.

What is a CCBB party? Who knows? My wife put something so I guess I know what a CCBB party is now. Everyone knows what CCBB is right? A children’s book to help them learn their letters.  A told B and B told C I’ll meet you at the top of the coconut tree. I am not going to quote more than that.

Friday night a bunch of 3 to 5 year olds came over to my house.  excitement was everywhere.  As the kids came trickling in they got a coconut tree to color and then letter stickers to spell their names on or going up the tree.  Then story time.  They all got to hear the actual book. For some it was the umpteen thousandth time.

We even rented a CCBB DVD from the library. It always amazes me how mesmerized a bunch of kids can be by a TV. It was a nice calm 4 or 5 minutes.  But who wants calm kids.  Then we decided to hop them up on sugar. My wife and daughter made some palm tree cookies for the kids to decorate.  Serious decorating skills were involved.

That is impressive and no it wasn’t me who made it.

Now that the kids are all sugared up we pull out the big guns. The gift we got for them all to take home. Nothing to fancy just took a little bit to put together. Their own magnetic CCBB tree.

Some dollar store cookie sheets and magnetic letters.  You actually need the cheaper cookie sheets to make sure the magnets will stick. Then we got some magnet paper and print out the coconut trees.  How cool is that.

Yes my wife is too social but she has some crafty skills.  She is a first grade teacher.  This is how her mind thinks. The kids loved it.  Not only did they love it but now hopefully they will know their letters better.  Educational and fun.