a pilates ball beat down in the playroom
My son put one of my wife’s hair bands on his head, because he thought it was cool. Then put a compass necklace that he also thinks is cool. I tried to take his picture. He didn’t want his picture taken. Battle ensues…
He attempted pilates ball warfare as well as heaving soft chairs at me. That was good daddy-son fun. Getting beat up by your son is good for you.
- Padded Chair – I wonder if I would look out of place if I brought this in as my desk chair at work
- Stupid Viral Marketing Attempt Backfires – when they forget to register the URL they spray painted all over London streets.
- People in Newspaper Ads Who Look Like They’re Farting – quite possibly the most brilliant thing ever placed on the Internet…ever
- Click Here for Nothing
April 20th, 2007 at 8:50 am
I love getting the beat down from my kids. However, good tip on using the soft chairs instead of the dining room furniture.
Badway
April 20th, 2007 at 9:28 am
LOL – oh, the Paddy Chair is TOO funny. I think it would be GREAT for work.
April 20th, 2007 at 9:48 am
Those photos are great … what a beatdown!
Nothing is funnier than that nothing site.
April 20th, 2007 at 10:25 am
That’s a seriously cute kid. And there is a certain kind of play that sons and dads do so well. In our house, it involves a lot of karate chops.
Those Pilates balls need to be fun for someone; since they’re torture for adults, the kids should enjoy ‘em.
April 20th, 2007 at 11:40 am
Looks like a very happy kid.
I can’t believe those marketing idiots who didn’t register the domain. That campaign is dumb on so many levels it makes my brain hurt.
April 20th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
I love daddy son time like this.
April 20th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Nick – that’s the second rule of playroom fightclub…always use soft furniture for beatdowns
Chris – my cube at work is supposed to be uniform with the corporate policy on desktop cleanliness. people in my office with back problems have to get special permission to have a pillow…which makes me want that chair more (and need it more too)
apertome – you know Shakespeare used the word nothing 37 times in Hamlet – which was his age at the time he wrote it.
Jocelyn – I would totally go to a Pilates class that involved throwing them at your classmates
Diesel – so I shouldn’t do my MattressPolice.com spray paintings in the streets of Medford Lakes, NJ?
April 20th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
tori – me too, it’s funny because he was acting up quite a bit before we went all apeshit in the playroom. after that, it was like it recharged his good boy batteries.
April 20th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
I always find that if I catch my kids off gaurd and do something silly it works out much better to make them behave than if I would have just told them to stop whatever they were doing that was bugging me. Plus it’s more fun (because apparently I am still a little kid).
April 20th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
The cube within the cube–the paddy chair makes perfect sense! And you’ll up your metrosexual quotient with the daring pink upholstery.
April 20th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Those photos are great…what a fun time that looks like.
April 20th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Ha, that’s great stuff. I’m glad to see someone else embracing the ab ball on their blog.
P.S. I love your son’s pajamas.
April 20th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
OMFG!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjA5faZF1A8
April 21st, 2007 at 12:35 am
[note to self: "Paddy is a comfy chair for nutters"]
oh, did i just type that out loud?
April 21st, 2007 at 7:21 am
I LOVE the smackdown montage, and the headband is a really nice touch — very 80s. When we go to the playgroup at the Y, Oliver always runs down to the end of the big gym to where the pilates balls are sitting on shelves so he can beat the fuck out of them. Must be a guy thing.
I clicked for nothing and I feel like a loser now.
April 21st, 2007 at 8:22 am
tori – the unexpected silliness is the most effective kind of silliness known to sillykind
V-Grrrl – which of course is my goal with anything, metrosexual quotient weighs on your credit score these days too
Hilly – ’twas a good time
egan – I’ve been looking for a big boy size of those too.
mrs. k – i better get to work on teaching our son how to play guitar pronto
obsidiankitten – it was in brackets though, which is whispering in typese, perhaps some didn’t hear/read it
mamatulip – my best friend since before kindergarten (and to this day too) had an older brother that used to wing hippity hops at him and make him cry. we boys love fuck beatery, which explains our preoccupation with football, homeruns, MMA, ice hockey, and watching stuff get all blowed up.
April 21st, 2007 at 8:40 am
Are you sure that the title of this shouldn’t be, “The Makings of a Rock Star”? With the get-up and the photo shoot and all?
April 21st, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Great pics. I can’t wait to have real genuine fun again.
April 21st, 2007 at 7:59 pm
So your son is into “hair bands?”
DOOOD! EXCELLENT!!!
So who does he like? STRYPER or TWISTED SISTER?
April 21st, 2007 at 9:08 pm
oh, i do love watching stuff get all blowed up–even though i’m not a d00d. ideally, movies should have (a) stuff getting all blowed up, (b) happy endings, and/or (c) Christopher Walken in them.
actually, the hair band sorta made me think of steven tyler. (as smart as he is, do you *really* want dee snyder growing up in your house? see, i didn’t think so.)
April 22nd, 2007 at 11:06 pm
Honestly, how do people sit in that chair? Why would they want to sit there? I don’t get it. I think the people who came up with it probably need a padded room.
And I still put bands around my head because I think they’re cool. I still got that early-80s mentality.
April 23rd, 2007 at 9:46 am
Kevin – this was the rock star photo shoot.
corky – thanks man, lil’ corky will be beating you up in no time
Craig – I have a Robert Sweet autograph…yes, really
obsidiankitten – I don’t want Christopher Walken or Dee Snider in my house.
Dorky Dad – yes and what chair goes perfectly in a padded room?