For the last few months my little bean won’t fal asleep in my arms.

Mom’s shoulder = out cold.

Grandma’s shoulder = practically dead

Granpa’s shoulder = snoring like a whale (do whales snore?- well if they do- this is what she sounds like)

Needless to say, I found this not only a little bit frustrating, but also a bit hurtful. Whats wrong with daddy’s shoulder? There was my dillemma, how do I bond with my beanie? I’ve tried lots of things over the last few weeks: rhythmic walking, rhythmic patting, shushing loudly, shushing softly, sinking, etc etc. To tell the truth I finally gave up, and just let my wife put her to sleep. If my wife had trouble I wold just say “give her to the Pros, Grams and Grmaps”.

Today I was determined to do it though. I first strated with playing with her forever and ever. She loves it when I zoom my hands in and out and wiggle my fingers. This lasted for thirty minutes. She wasn’t anywher near tired. I then walked around with her for a while. I admit i got tired and passed her to my wife. However, she had to write a blog post so she passed her right back. I knew my mission. I had to put her to sleep this time. I grabbed her and slowly walked around and patted her back softly. I turned all the lights down and lifted her up higher on my shoulder than usual. I also leaned my head up against her sholder. As soon as I did that I felt a thud and a little exhale. I thought to myself. “I think I got it!” And I did. She fell asleep, i sat down in the rocking chair and she snored away for an hour.

I feel much better about myself now. For those dads out there who are having trouble my advice is stick with it. Don’t get frustrated it will happen.

Well- it looks like rock climbing is more difficult than balancing on one of those cement parking blocks. (who makes those anyway, they must be millionaires.) Anyway, I did my rock climbing and got hurt. It seems the more body weight you are trying to climb with the more stress and strain it creates on your body. Who would have thunk it??? I was grasping for a hold and heard a huge pop in my right wrist. It hurts to the point where I can no longer hold little M in my right hand alone.One of my friends at work told me to exercise my wrist with a 2 pund dumble to strengthen all the muscles around the wrist. I hope it works

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Polo Ralph Lauren is having a huge factory warehouse sale. You have to go shop at their factory outlets you can get up to 50% off. Go Shop Los Angelinos, Go Shop.

funstuff4babies.com is the provider of the daddy tool box. This state of the art Daddy diaper changing toolbox has everything a new Dad or Dad 2 Be needs to survive the dirtiest of diapers. Its amusing and functional a great gift for dad at the baby shower so papa doesn’t feel left out.

We’ve been struggling to find a good name for our baby bean. She’s on her way and I would really like to have a name picked out. I found some resources on the net for names heres a list of ones I liked. I also purchased a book and it was fun to get my friends drunk while we discussed names. Unfortunately the book wasn’t a success.

Babynamesguide.com

Babynames.com

Babyhold.com

Babynamesworld

Thinkbabynames.com

There are a ton of others. Usually they focus on particular nationalities. For instance babynamesguide has Scandinavian names, whereas the others do not. It’s all about what you like. Check them out and let us know what you are naming your child and where you are getting your names from.