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My lovely daughter Emily and our beautiful boy Sully on a winter walk back in February #dogsofmastodon #dadsofmastodon

While kiddo was doing his own things with #LEGO, along with the other kids there, and occasionally asking me for help taking bricks apart, or finding a certain brick, I made a miniature #tableFootball stadium for a game of two versus two. It uses four sets of two LEGO Technic sticks joined together, with the torso of a minifig attached to the joint. Each figure can be rotated and moved horizontally enough to get the 'ball' (the head of a minifig) across the entire court.
Afterwards #BeardGrabber suggested swapping the minifigs out for red and purple ghost figures.

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A table football game built out of LEGO using mini figure torso with small dots as feet, and a mini fig head as ball.

Same as previous picture, but now with purple ghosts as players; the minifigs are now standing on top of the walls as headless observers.

Visiting the local #library so #BeardGrabber can play with more #LEGO than I'd have space for at home. 😂
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small tables filled with LEGO pieces, and a happy boy with blurred face sitting behind one

@atomicpoet I hope to see my daughter share a similar interest.

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Why have I never before thought to make Vietnamese-style grilled pork at home?

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A while ago I picked up a more modern book of fairy tales because I really didn't like the old fashioned values and role models the one I had before it described, since "girls should want to be princesses who serve their husbands" and "princesses needs to be married off to rich princes and not have any wishes of their own" aren't ideals I want to teach #BeardGrabber.
Today we read a take on Cinderella (Askepott), and I really liked it, and made me glad I replaced the horrible old-fashioned book with that more modern one!

no bad step-sisters; just a bit stuck up sisters
a down to earth Askepott who likes to climb trees, ride horses backwards, and go out barefoot
Askepott likes to spend time with the cook and staff
Askepott (ash pot, since she liked to cook potatoes in hot ash) was suggested as a nickname by her sisters, perhaps mockingly, but she liked it and decided to adopt the name herself and make it her own, since she didn't like her birth name, Ella
she faked being sick to not have to go to the ball
fairy godmother was going to make her the usual Cinderella/Askepott ballroom outfit, but Askepott declined; said she had plenty of nice dresses but just didn't feel like going
instead she suggested the fairy godmother would make outfits for the staff and send them on a night out in a pumpkin carriage!
Askepott welcomes them back with food she made for them
they end up throwing a party themselves
prince charming eventually also arrives, and he likes the same mundane things as her, and doesn't want to dance
The prince hates his name, so Askepott suggests he picks his own name, which he does: Leif Ole
he is afraid, his father, the king, will make him dance and do boring things, so Askepott gets the fairy godmother to make them a hot air balloon and they run off together. 😂

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Thanks to my 5 year old #BeardGrabber wanting to watch a video from #ActionLab, #TodayILearned a bit about the theoretical concept of #WhiteHoles.

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Hyvää Isänpäivää!

I get two Father’s Day now.

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#BeardGrabber is enjoying his birthday gifts 💚
especially the wooden train set he got from me and @Siiw seems to be a great hit :D
Having his party outside at a sort of camp place, together with a bunch of kids from his kindergarten and some neighbour kids, was a good idea. Plenty of space and playing opportunities for them to get rid of some energy after all the cakes, sausages and drinks, while also not having to worry about the noise levels. 😏😀
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So today my son (almost 4) asked me how babies get out of the belly when they are born.
He got me a bit off guard because the question came out of nowhere.
The first thing that I came up with was "they come out from down there"
His response:
"Where? The butt? The ear?"

I am curious, what would you answer?

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#BeardGrabber went to a friend's birthday party for the first time, and it went very well. 💚
Good to see him have friends. :D

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Sundays festivities include destroying things and a few tips to the tip #Dadjobs .. then taking the pooch for a mooch .. followed later by some #coldbeer

That’s what Dads do on a Sunday #dadsofmastodon

Happy Father's Day, Dad! Miss you!

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It happened again, 5:25AM. Although a little different, today it was a karate kid style roundhouse kick to my head. It must have been because it felt like that.
Luckily the little karate warrior continued his rest. Me, not so much.

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This #MaySiXth #MSXDay I'm introducing almost-five-years-old #BeardGrabber to #MSX games again. He's probably the same age now as when my parents got our #Philips #NMS8250 #MSX2 #homecomputer, and now, probably about 35 years later, he gets to play on the very same machine, playing the same original copies as I got or bought during my childhood, which feels quite special. 💙
So far we've played some #BubbleBobble, #Brisk and now #PinballBlaster. His #joystick and #keyboard control isn't good yet, but he's still very much enjoying the experience! 💚

I also have some videos of him playing, but I need some time to review the footage to make sure it doesn't show kiddo's face and such. :)

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A blond haired boy sitting on a toolbox in front of a TV which shows the opening screen of "Brisk: een levendig spel".
On the floor in front of him is the MSX2 homecomputer that's running the game, with a Philips Music Module and a Panasonic FM-PAC sticking out the side, providing additional music chips for games that support them.
On the shelf on the TV furniture another of the same machines can be seen, as I was experiencing some hardware issues.
A joystick (The Arcade Turbo) can also be seen on the furniture unit.

The Loading screen of Brisk; a figure wielding a shield (which is blocking a lightning bolt) and holding a Ying Yang symbol in his other hand, following an arrow path and a ball, while another figure is holding a bomb.
On the TV desk the two transport floppies, a joystick, and the Bubble Bobble cartridge can be seen, as well as MSX DOS 2.20 and 1MB RAM cartridges in a zip lock bag

My kiddo, enjoying her first sunglasses (after rummaging through the pantry) #DadsOfMastodon #parenting

Adorable toddler with flower sunglasses on

#BeardGrabber is absolutely fascinated by a video of #NileRed turning vinyl gloves and vanilla sugar into hot sauce through chemistry.
I guess an almost 5 year old likes seeing all the chemical reactions; the colour changing, the bubbling, the crystalisation, and distillation. As well as the different tools.

My highschool chemistry knowledge definitely isn't what it used to be though. 😅

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