About Tommy Riles

Tom Riles is a husband, father, and original founder of Life of Dad, the largest community of dads in the world. Riles is also the long-time audience warm-up comedian for “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in addition to hundreds of other TV shows in Los Angeles. Riles started the Life of Dad community from a hospital room as his daughter was awaiting open-heart surgery at only three days old. His daughter is now a healthy nine-year old, while Riles and his wife, Lucy (who also started Life of Mom), have helped to raise over $1 Million for congenital heart defect awareness and research.

Riles Family on Ellen

Lucy and I had the incredible opportunity to share our baby's story on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."  Watch to video to the right to learn about our entire journey with our amazing baby, Barbara Anne.

By |2010-05-26T18:20:23-07:00May 26th, 2010|Blog|0 Comments

First Date (with Baby)

Lucy and I went out to dinner on Saturday night to Mexicali, a hip Mexican joint in Studio City.  We went here on our first date years ago, and now were making our triumphant return with the baby we have since created. Below I compare our first date to our first [...]

By |2010-05-19T13:59:33-07:00May 19th, 2010|Blog|8 Comments

We’re Rolling.

  If you caught the Life of Dad Breaking News¹ over the weekend, you saw that Babs rolled over from her tummy² to her back.  Well, just a couple of days later, she went from her back to her tummy.  And she squirms a bit while doing this.  This has made me [...]

By |2010-05-17T13:46:37-07:00May 17th, 2010|Blog|2 Comments

She Knows

  She knows.   This morning I was holding Babs tight, and rocking her to sleep, when I tried to check my email.  I continued the same rocking motion as she was 95% asleep, but moved one hand from holding her to the mouse of my computer.  Babs knew exactly [...]

By |2010-05-12T14:25:06-07:00May 12th, 2010|Blog|5 Comments

Day with the Kid

  Saturday was the day before Mother’s Day, and my wife was out on the town with her cousin. They went shopping, to lunch, and for manicures. This meant I had the baby for about six or seven hours. A record for me, for sure… Here are a [...]

By |2010-05-10T14:22:49-07:00May 10th, 2010|Blog|3 Comments

The Look

Yesterday was the first day I have ever gotten “the look.” You all know what “the look” is. Everybody has given “the look” to parents of a crying baby in the past, as have I. It was the day of our sweet baby’s baptism into the Catholic Church. If you [...]

By |2010-05-03T19:09:42-07:00May 3rd, 2010|Blog|5 Comments
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