Boom Baby!

This is #2’s FAVORITE thing to say.

He wakes up in the morning…BOOM BABY!

I serve him his dinner…BOOM BABY!

He gets released from prison time out, that’s right…BOOM BABY!

At first, I found it quite comical.

Then it moved dangerously close to the annoying department (especially when he said it after time out, because it sorta cheapened the whole thing, as though he was wholly unaffected by my attempt to impose my silly little rules upon him).

Now I’m starting to appreciate it for it’s ability to up the awesome on the most mundane, everyday tasks.

Can you even guess how much more amazing flushing the toilet is when there is someone saying BOOM BABY as it happens?

BOOM BABY is quickly turning into our family mantra (or motto like Mama Kat suggested for the week's Writer's Workshop. And, so what if I'm cheating a wee little bit, she'll forgive me because she loves me! Right Mama K? You do love me, don't you? I mean, that's just the impression I got when we spent that night in Vegas together. Wait...What?! What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas?! I thought you were different. I thought this was special. Like we had something.).

You know, some people say let’s roll, we say BOOM BABY.

So, while the unveiling of the First Annual Merry Effing Christmas Photo Contest entries may already be full of more excitement and anticipation than one holiday photo contest can stand, how ‘bout a little more?

Casa de Dummies style!

Here they are.

In random order.

With captions you will love, or hate, or love to hate.

For your voting pleasure (however, you may only do so once per day!).

Merry Effing Christmas.

BOOM BABY!!!

1. From When Did I Become My Mom?

2. From Adrian’s Crazy Life (get the full story on this one, by clicking the link)

3. From My Life…Badly Written (another with a worth-reading back story)

4. From My Life in Words (more this-is-a-true-story action)

5. From Seven Clown Circus (I added the elf b/c without it, the picture was just too dang cute! It was stifling my funny. My original caption was, “I love Angie even if her hair looks kinda wonky.” That’s just not funny. So, in goes creepy little elf dude and out comes a caption I can be proud of! )

6. From Confessions of a Semi-Slacker Mom

7. From She Says the Darndest Things

8. From For What it’s Worth or Not

9. From Honest To Betsy

10. From I’m Just Sayin’ (who I just realized I forgot to say congrats on baby’s birth to when he was born nearly 2 months ago, because I’m an insensitive idiot who reads and responds to comments via email instead of visiting blogs to check up on people like I should. Sorry, don’t hate me! And, when he’s not screaming because he hates his mommy’s idea of a cute suit, he is quite the cutie, so go take a peek!)

11. From Blogbaby. Where naughty is the new black and gifts for Christmas are so 2000 and late.

12. From Life With Kaishon.

13. From 4 Lettre Words. And, no. It’s not a typo.

14. From Peanut Butter in My Hair. Winner of the Least Likely to Ever Get a Good Picture of Her Kids Award.

15. From Supah Mommy. Reining PBD Photo Contest Champ and resident Overachiever. Obviously I didn’t make this card since it looks all pro-fes-sion-Al.

16. From All You Need is Love

17. From Mom Most Traveled

18. From The Mommyologist (who should get extra points for blog name originality, I think.)

19. From The Daily Dribbles. Another overachieving, contest host shower upper who made her own card just to rub my face in her graphic design skilldizzels because she’s awesome like that.

20. From Night Light Stories

21. From Food Don’t Grow on Trees, owner and operator of one of the cutest sets of triplets ever.

22. From The Triplet Crown, owner and operator of the other cutest set of triplets I’ve ever, who is also crazy brave enough to be pregnant with baby #4.

23. From Superdumb Supervillain (another best-blog-title nominee)

24. From Tracy’s Topics

25. From True Confessions of a Single Mother

26. From Hip as I Wanna Be

27. Last but not least, from The (Un)Experienced Mom

28. The real last but not least, but momentarily forgotten in my exhaustion induced haze, from Measuring My Life in L-O-V-E (who gets an extra vote for being added a day late). Thanks for showing your panties!



29) The real, real seriously this time, I'm like 99.9% sure this is the last forgotten entry from Hiding from the Kids, who has every right to boycott this contest, this blog, and me (aka the worst photo contest hosting blog owner EVER) in general. So, in an effort to prevent being hated on by her plethora of readers, I'm gonna give her 2 free votes just because I suck. Please don't hate me, because then I'll have to blog about it, and I'm WAY too tired to blog right now!



*Official Rules: One vote per person per day. No anonymous voters accepted. Voting will close at 6pm on 12/18/09. Winner and runners-up will be announced 12/19/09.

Vote for Me!

Dear PBD Readers,

This is #3 writing a note to all of you on my dumb mommy's blog.

I am reaching out to you all today to ask for your assitance with a very important situation.

I am currently in the running to be named cutest baby on Baby Makin(g) Machine's blog. She is running a second cute baby photo contest, and since I can't win my mommy's Halloween one (she said some baloney about it not being fair), I've decided to enter this one instead.

I feel like I've got it in the bag, I mean, from what Dumb Mom and Dumb Dad say, I really, truly am the cutest baby they have ever seen in their whole entire lives, so I don't see how I can't win.

But, Mommy says I still need to politic for votes, just to be sure. So in an effort to get you on the winning team, Team #3 (which actually doesn't sound like the winning team at all, it sounds more like the 3rd place team, but it totally is the winning team, I know it), I am promising every person who votes for me that Dumb Mom will not embarrass you in any way (sorry, it's the best I can do, I'm a baby, and that woman is uncontrollable).

So, my mommy's virtual friends, I need all the help I can get on this. I won't rest until I am named cutest baby. I won't stop until that button is displayed prominently on mommy's blog. I won't quit begging until you make it happen (so do yourself a favor and click on the dang button and work your magic, I'm #45, no need to spend time looking at the other blokes, just scroll straight down to me), or until the contest ends on 10/18.

Yes I can!

I'm really hoping you will pull together for me, for Dumb Mom, for cute babies every where and name me as their leader. Should I be chosen I promise to use my champion smile to win over ladies everywhere, to give hugs and kisses to said ladies on demand, and to keep the number of someone-slap-that-screaming-kid-or-so-help-me days at the grocery store to a bare minimum (no more than like once a week, promise).

Are you convinced now? Are you on Team #3 (forget Team Edward and Team Jacob, Team #3 is the shizzle)? Are you ready to take the next step?




And, be sure that once you are done over there helping me win the title, that you come right back over here and send in your Halloween photos for Dumb Mom's contest. The entries are starting to come in now and we don't want your kid to be left out (plus, Dumb Mom will so cry if at least 10 people don't enter, so please send in your photos so we don't have to endure that embarrassment).

Thanks a million!

Your friend,
#3