Children and their favorite toys from around the world

Toy Stories by Gabriele Galimberti.



I would totally love to do a picture like these with Linus.  I am not sure what his favorites would be, I suspect that right now it would be the duplo blocks like for Niko in Homer, Alaska.

Thief steals iPhone from a baby!!!

I am sure this guy is going to get fried by the internet.  He stole an iPhone from a baby who was watching a video in her baby carriage.

Linus loves to watch videos on my iPhone and has his favorites, PBS kids, and the Disney shows like Jake and the Neverland pirates.  I always keep an eye on him when he has the phone if we are not at home.  I think I would go crazy if someone did this to Linus.

(via BoingBoing, via CultofMac, via macgasm, via macobserver, via CNET, via The Sun)

Eating sugar doesn't make children hyper, or does it?

It turns out that eating sugar doesn't make children "hyper".  Studies do show that thinking that children ate sugar does make parents think that the children are acting hyper.  The animated GIF says it all.

(via Mind the Science Gap, via BoingBoing)

Linus as Woody from Toy Story for Haloween

 Linus wanted to be Woody from Toy Story for Halloween.  It's understandable given that we have watched Toy Story 3 and Toy Story 2 dozens of times in the past few weeks (the original only once).  Lynn made the vest and scoured his closet for the appropriate clothes.

 He even has a cowboy hat.  It's an interpretation given that the vest is a dalmatian print instead of a cow print.  Linus doesn't have a snake in his boot, or boots for that matter.

After some intensive training to teach him to say trick or treat, we went out into the neighborhood.  It turns out it is relatively easy to teach Linus something when there is an immediate reward of candy during the process.  Finally Lynn and Linus devoured the take.

Happy Halloween!

Linus captured experimenting with spooky science in the Community News

Linus and Lynn got to perform a spooky science experiment at the Delaware Childrens Museum last week where they made slime from glue and borax and food coloring.  Linus' awed expression was caught by a Community News photographer.  He's in the third picture in at the link.

I am perfectly happen to encourage his fascination with science, even spooky science.

Linus sends a message

I am not sure where he got this from but last night suddenly Linus wanted to send me a message.  I suppose he has seen us send text messages or discuss it so he wanted to do one.

He was playing at the computer and out of the blue says, "Daddy, I am gonna send you a message."  he furiously types at the keyboard, then stands on the chair and "grabs" an imaginary something from behind the monitor and then mimes throwing me the message.   Across the room I catch the message, open it up like it is a little piece of imaginary paper and read it, "It says Linus loves Daddy.", and we all laugh.  We spent the next half hour throwing imaginary messages back and forth.  Some to Lynn, which read "Linus loves Mommy".  I supplied the reading of the messages, since Linus wasn't to clear on their content, he was more interested in the typing and sending. 

He has a good imagination.

Linus and Daddy at Pirate Day