Category: fathers

  • My Little Girl’s New Word…Thanks, Jake!

    Lately, my little girl’s new favorite show is Jake and the Never Land Pirates on Disney Jr.  This is a cute show revolving around Jake and his friends: Cubby, Izzy, Skully the parrot and their adventures with Captain Hook and his band of bumbling pirates.  Like most kids shows nowadays, this show teaches counting, teamwork,…

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  • National Daddy Daughter Tea Date

    Yesterday was National Daddy Daughter Tea Date/Day and even though I had to work all morning I made sure that when I got home I had tea time with my little girl.  Cheers! National Daddy Daughter Tea Date was started by Tshaka Armstrong in 2010 as a way to, according to the Facebook page, “Encourage…

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  • Warrior Dash Take Two!

    If you are a follower of our blog you will remember that last year I participated in the Warrior Dash on Father’s Day. That experience was amazing and I told myself that I would do it again the following year and prepare better for it this time around.  Well, with about a month to go…

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  • The 10 Days of Fandads

    Starting today we are starting the 10 Days of Fandads on our Facebook page.  Everyday we will post up a question or saying and the first person to answer or post a comment will get a prize. It’s as easy as that.  So head on over to our Facebook page, “like” it if you haven’t…

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  • Happy Thanksgiving from Us!

    Happy Thanksgiving from the Fandads.  We are very thankful for the exciting past few months.  We saw our first sponsored giveaway from Rockabye Baby and from the Chicago Toy & Game Fair.  We also want to say thanks to all our friends and family that have supported the site.  We have a couple of interesting…

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  • Five Favorite Things & A Giveaway UPDATED

    Last month we did a post about the Dad Blogs we like and we promised we would do more posts in the future highlighting some of the things we like.  This month we decided to go with a mixture of things from video games to movies and even CD’s that are great to have around…

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  • Dad blogs we like

    There are so many great father blogs out there that it’s impossible to visit all of them, but we have decided to highlight a few of our favorite ones and share them with our loyal readers.  Now this is not a “best of” or “top five” type list, this is just a few blogs that…

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  • Happy Father’s Day!

    We here at Fandads would like to wish all the fathers out there a Happy Father’s Day and thank you for all the support in our first year here.  Being a father is an amazing experience and everyday it just keeps getting better.  As we grow as fathers we remember words of advice that was…

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  • The Accident

    In video games when a character gets hurt they lose a bit a stamina or a bar of health.  The same could be said about comic book characters, they are usually well by the next page or last panel.  Unfortunately, this is not the case in real life, when someone gets hurt or has an…

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  • The Accident

    In video games when a character gets hurt they lose a bit a stamina or a bar of health.  The same could be said about comic book characters, they are usually well by the next page or last panel.  Unfortunately, this is not the case in real life, when someone gets hurt or has an…

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