The 40YrOldDad

November 11

ALICE’S 3RD BIRTHDAY PARTY

AUTHOR: 40YrOldDad // CATEGORY: 3-5 years, 3-5 years, Events
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11
NOV

It seems like only yesterday, our little girl was only two. Wait…that was yesterday. We can hardly believe that today she’s turning three, and that’s mainly because for the last year her mental development has taken greater strides than John Goodman’s waistline.

They say girls develop much faster than boys, and in our experience, that certainly holds true. If Indy was the conventional chemical-soaked, red-light, dark-room developer then Alice was definitely the Polaroid insta-matic. Say, ‘Cheese’. Bzzzzzt, ding! It was like she sprang from the womb spouting instructions and was walking before I could even get a second beard shave in. She’s growing way too fast for my liking. At this rate, she’ll be married and leaving home before the end of the week. (more…)
October 3

HEY DUGGEE, GO JETTERS AND THE CBEEBIES TEAM

AUTHOR: 40YrOldDad // CATEGORY: 1-2 years, 3-5 years, Events
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3
OCT

If you have kids under 5, then no doubt you’ll be familiar with biscuit crumbs wedged in the cracks of your car seat and couch. You’ll also most likely be familiar with CBeebies TV shows, Hey Duggee and Go Jetters. They’re two of our most favourite shows to watch, if you can actually see the screen beneath a myriad of greasy fingerprints and two heads clambering to get as close to the screen as possible, whenever they come on. So, the excitement of meeting Duggee and Ubercorn in real-life was as high as my hairline. (more…)
October 2

THE TEA ‘TREE’ EXPERIMENT

AUTHOR: 40YrOldDad // CATEGORY: Videos
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2
OCT

Not to be outdone in the cloning stakes, I thought why should our boy have all the fun? And it’s always handy to have an extra man around the house…or two…or three.
July 13

TRIPLE INDY

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13
JUL

You’ve no doubt heard the term, ‘Two’s company, three’s a crowd’, but did you ever bank on ‘the crowd’ being half this cute? Or should that be, three times as cute? Thankfully, this is as close to having triplets as we’re ever going to get.

Enjoy the video.
April 28

AN INTERVIEW WITH INDY AND MELMO

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28
APR

A couple years ago I built a fury monster pal, ‘Melmo’, for our little bloke.

Well, he resurfaced a couple days ago to ask Indy what he wants to be when he grows up and his answers were too adorable not to share.
April 19

WINTERBOTTOM WINS OVER LIGHTNING MCQUEEN

AUTHOR: 40YrOldDad // CATEGORY: 1-2 years, 3-5 years, Events
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19
APR

For the last two years, Lightning McQueen has reigned supreme in pole position on our boy’s interest leaderboard, until yesterday, when a new contender emerged victorious atop the Winner’s Podium – Mark ‘Frosty’ Winterbottom.

Not since The Marx Brothers has there been such a crazy and fun ‘Day At The Races’, and excited as we were to get up close and personal with McQueen and Mack at the Disney/Pixar Cars Truck Tour, we had no idea just how close and personal things were about to get. Crazy close and personal.

The Disney/Pixar Cars Truck Tour was housed in the Disney Interactive Zone inside the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit during the WD 40 Phillip Island Supersprints, which sounds like a bunch of running robot athletes racing each other without a single squeak, but is actually a full-on, high-octane V8 Supercar Racecar Event. Discounting the slot-car set Indy got for Christmas, we’ve never been this close to an actual race track before and there really is a certain vibe, buzz and thrill in the air around it. (more…)
April 13

LIGHTNING MCQUEEN IN PHILLIP ISLAND THIS WEEKEND

AUTHOR: 40YrOldDad // CATEGORY: 1-2 years, 3-5 years, Events
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13
APR

YEEHAW! Buckle up and put your pedal-to-the-metal because Lightning McQueen and Mack are rolling right out of Radiator Springs and revving right up to our very doorstep. Yes, indeed. Disney/Pixar, Mack Trucks and V8 Supercars are excited to announce that The Disney/Pixar Cars Truck Tour will be touring Phillip Island this weekend!

KA-CHOW! (more…)
April 2

WHEN INDY MET THE DENTIST

AUTHOR: 40YrOldDad // CATEGORY: 3-5 years, Events, Toddler Years
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2
APR

When I was a kid, I loved going to the dentist. Or rather, the dentist would come to us. Huddled in a little caravan parked inside the school, we clambered in one-by-one like a budget version of Noah’s Ark, in order to have our teeth examined, cleaned and filled (as necessary) and when we spat out our last mouthful of fluoride into the spittoon provided and wiped the dribble from our lips, he’d tell us what a great job we did, hand us our cellophane-wrapped lollipop and send us off with a cheery, “See you next year.” It was a…hold-up, did I just say lollipop? Hold the phone, this guy was keeping himself in business! (more…)
April 4

DADDY’S HOME: DVD GIVEAWAY

AUTHOR: 40YrOldDad // CATEGORY: Dad Mishaps, Events, Giveaways, Trailers
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4
APR

As a kid, one of my fondest memories of my own Daddy was when we were stopped at traffic lights in our green HR Holden and when the lights changed green, my Dad just sat there laughing his head off. Cars banked up behind us and people hollered and hooted their horns at us to move, but still, my Dad just sat there and laughed and laughed. Pretty soon, a motorcycle cop came riding up beside us and motioned for my Dad to move on, but still he looked and laughed. The cop came to the window and when he told my Dad to get a move on, my Dad just laughed at him and said, ‘I can’t do that.” The cop looked at him sternly and asked, “What’s the problem?” To which my Dad, still laughing his head off, held up the gear stick from the column shift that had snapped right off in his hand when he tried to change gears when the lights changed. It’s clear we weren’t going anywhere. (more…)
March 25

ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS: THE ROAD CHIP ‘CHIPNIC’

AUTHOR: 40YrOldDad // CATEGORY: 3-5 years, Events, Toddler Years, Trailers, Videos
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25
MAR

Wow, what a nut-cracker of a day we had today when we hosted our very own official ‘Chipnic Party’ to help celebrate the digital release of Alvin & the Chipmunks: The Road Chip movie, on iTunes, just before Easter.

Not since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the courtship of Rachel and Ross or the time Mumma looked at me suggestively and said, “you know, the kids are both asleep”, has there been such an air of excitement and eager anticipation. It was all hands and paws on deck as we prepped and fluffed with the help of some fury friends to get things ‘chip-shape’ for the big day. (more…)