And I can’t blame them. Carrie Fisher looked fantastic in that outfit.

Via Geeks are Sexy.

P.S. — See the inspiration behind Princess Leia’s iconic bikini here!

And here I thought Cranium went all-out when they replaced pictures with clay.

Check out the product page here. It seems a bit pricey at $34, but I’m sure that wouldn’t be a problem for Lego and/or boardgame enthusiasts.

Next up: a Pictionary game with origami (I kid).

Via CrunchGear.

I wasn’t planning on waking up at the crack ass of dawn to watch the royal wedding, but apparently my cranky daughter had other plans by waking up with a screamfest at 4am and refusing to go back to sleep.

You guys, I think I may have a future princess-wannabe on my hands. Or at least one with 공주병 (gong-joo-byung, which literally translates to “princess disease”), because the little girl was simply ENTHRALLED by the wedding proceedings and would not take her eyes off the TV.

When J woke up at 7am, I held her up to him and said in a little girly voice, “Daddy when I grow up can I be a princess too? Can I marry a prince? Can I wear a dress like that and wear a tiara too?”

“Of course you can!” J replied as he scooped her up in his arms. “You’re already my little princess. I’ll go buy you a tiara right now if you want.”

Obviously someone is trying a little too hard to win his daughter’s affection. (Methinks it’s because he knows that I’m her favorite.)

While the wedding itself was very beautiful and rightfully fit for the royal family, I couldn’t help but be a bit underwhelmed by the whole thing. Additionally, while I agree with the majority of the population that Kate Middleton looked beautiful on her wedding day, I personally liked Grace Kelly’s dress better.

Then there were the hats.

Ohhh my the hats!

Obviously the ones that stood out the most were those of Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice of York:

Heck, Princess Beatrice’s hat has already sparked an internet meme, with Facebook fan pages, Tumblr blogs, and various other internet shrines erected in its honor.

Go check out this Buzzfeed page for more amazing hats. The whole concept makes me want to move to England just so I can wear crazy hats on a regular basis.

And just so you don’t think this post was a total waste of internet space…

Announcing the winner of the Smashbox Perfectly Polished Lids makeup set giveaway —

The winner is:

Commenter Jen, who won by “Liking” the post on Facebook!
Please be on the lookout for an email from me so that I can send you the makeup set!

Thank you all for entering!

Stay tuned for more giveaways in the future! For example, if I ever do get 100,000 unique hits a month (it was soooo close last month with 95,000+), I have decided that I will give one lucky winner a $100 Amazon gift card. So keep reading, keep sharing, and please keep coming back!

I first saw this book on Boing Boing two days ago, and while I found it to be hilarious, I hesitated in sharing it here. Because as funny as I — among others — may find this book, I’m sure that there are parents out there who would find it horrifyingly inappropriate.

My dark side won out once again. Go the F**k to Sleep is a supposed-bedtime story book that touts itself as “the most honest children’s book ever written.”

According to its Amazon product page:

Go the Fuck To Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing off to dreamland. Honest, profane, and affectionate, Adam Mansbach’s verses and Ricardo Cortés’ illustrations perfectly capture the familiar—and unspoken—tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night, and open up a conversation about parenting in the process. Beautiful, subversive, and pants-wettingly funny, Go the Fuck to Sleep is a perfect gift for parents new, old, or expectant. Here is a sample verse:

The cats nestle close to their kittens now.
The lambs have laid down with the sheep.
You’re cozy and warm in your bed, my dear
Please go the fuck to sleep.

I’m pretty sure that the book is not meant for kids, but more as a means for parents to (jokingly) share with each other a hardship of parenting.

Go the F**k to Sleep is not yet released, but from buzz around the blogosphere, I’m certain that it will be a hit when it hits the shelves.

P.S. — Did you enter to win the Smashbox Perfectly Polished Lids makeup set yet? If not, go do so NOW — the giveaway ends tomorrow at noon!

Ever since Claire first started teething I have been examining her mouth and gums with care every morning.

Well, last night she woke up at 3am and refused to go back to sleep. J stayed up to take care of her until 7am when I took over so that he can get in a power nap before work. Then my breakdown happened. So my usual morning routine was a bit off…

Little did I know that after more than a month of hardcore teething, my daughter had FINALLY sprouted her first teeth overnight!

Yes, you read that right — TEETH. Her two bottom middle incisors, to be exact. And I am pretty certain that her top incisors are about to break through soon too as her gums look painfully swollen.

She remains cranky. Drinking from a bottle seems to bother her, so I’ve been feeding her tons of purees. She keeps running her tongue over her gums, as if wondering what the new additions to her mouth could be. She refuses to keep her mouth open for a picture, and because I have been shoving my finger in my mouth all morning to make sure that the teeth are definitely out and here to stay, she now refuses to open her mouth, period. (Poor thing, can you blame her?) So for the time being you guys will have to settle for a picture of her other end:

They say that the first tooth and the last (the molars) are the most painful. I am praying that the ones in-between will be less bothersome for my little girl, and that she will return to her usual sweet — yet still demanding  — self soon.