Play Ball

Baseball has been my favorite sport and hobby since the age of six, when my New York Mets won the World Series.  As I started to grow older, I thought about how cool it would be to take my kid to a baseball game someday.  This happened last Friday.  New [...]

By |2010-07-29T14:07:03-07:00July 29th, 2010|Blog|6 Comments

Drool it Forward

                                                                                                             I drool.  I don’t drool¹ an extreme amount, but after waking up in the morning, there may be some drool on my pillow.  Unless I hook up a dentist saliva vacuum² to me at night (not in the plans), I think I’ll always drool a little bit. Most babies [...]

By |2010-07-27T13:58:58-07:00July 27th, 2010|Blog|2 Comments

Saving Tiny Hearts Fundraiser

Hello Friends! Let me introduce myself...My name is Tom Riles, and my wife Lucy and I have a beautiful 5 month old daughter, Barbara Anne. Barbara had open heart surgery at three days old, at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. As the video below shows, I am starting a monthly fundraiser here at [...]

By |2010-07-25T03:47:08-07:00July 25th, 2010|Blog|2 Comments

Male Breastfeeding Part I

As you all know, the third week in July is always Male Breastfeeding Awareness week.  In honor of this week, I will be posting three different videos over the week featuring male breastfeeding.  It can be a controversial topic...where do you stand on male breastfeeding? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uBgBm5-nFo]

By |2010-07-20T13:30:30-07:00July 20th, 2010|Video|0 Comments

Scoot

Our baby can scoot.  What is scooting you ask?  Combine elbow and knee power, add a little momentum, and you have a scoot.  Babs is a scooter.  Why is this a big deal?  Well, it is now a fact that our baby may not be in the same place where we [...]

By |2010-07-14T16:05:55-07:00July 14th, 2010|Blog|2 Comments

IKEA DIA

  A few months back, I experienced a day that a dad-to-be always dreams of…we took our daughter to IKEA for the first time.  The day was so touching that it took me a while to process, which is why I’m writing about this now for the first [...]

By |2010-07-12T14:00:28-07:00July 12th, 2010|Blog|4 Comments

Baby Food Review – Prune Juice

We're kicking off a new segment, where Babs and I review food products she is tasting for the first time. Very soon, Babs will be six months old and starting to eat solid foods. I'm going to be with her every step of the way tasting the baby foods, and [...]

By |2010-07-12T04:36:30-07:00July 12th, 2010|Video|3 Comments

Hello Ellen fans!

Welcome to Life of Dad, where I share the comical and emotional adventures of being a new dad.  You probably saw our family featured on Ellen today, and Baby Barbara is still doing great!   Make sure you become a fan of Life of Dad on Facebook, and subscribe to this website, just to the right of [...]

By |2010-07-09T14:32:28-07:00July 9th, 2010|Blog|0 Comments
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