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5 Crazy Kid Pics

SunnyChanel — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:00:00 GMT

Nothing tickles me more than a funny kid picture. I get a kick out of them even more than cute animal photos, portraits of Brad Pitt or pics of me on a good hair day. The website Acid Cow has collected 38 “Funny Children” photos for our amusement. Here are five of my personal favorites.

(Above) Bye Bye Johnny!

Street thugs, they just get younger and younger.

She's so really for her first frat party.

It's only fun until someone loses their head.

Snacktime!

Check out the rest of the photos Acid Cow put together here.

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Seven Holiday Card-inal Sins

Jen Chaney — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:33:00 GMT

Thanksgiving is behind us, even if the turkey leftovers are not. Now it's time to move on to the next task: sending holiday cards.

Before you start drafting that family Christmas letter and licking all those envelopes, you may want to pause for a moment and read this blog post. In it, you'll find a list of the seven most heinous holiday card sins, a series of yuletide-greeting faux pas that are both egregious and, sadly, very common. Before you embarrass yourself and your children, or potentially alienate friends and family for the entirety of 2009, make sure you don't commit any of the following Christmas card crimes.

1. Do Not Include a Family Photo in Which Everyone is Dressed in the Same Outfit: You are members of a family. You are not a Catholic school, a cheerleading squad or a bridal party. For the love of God, acknowledge that and act accordingly. P.S. That goes triple for anyone even considering dressing their children in the same reindeer sweater.

2. Do Not Brag Excessively About Your Children's Accomplishments: Yes, it's wonderful that 18-month-old Madison can count to 100 in German while standing on her head. And sure, it's impressive that, at the age of five, Wyatt has already read the complete works of Tolstoy. But here's the thing: no one wants to hear that s@*! in their holiday card. So just say the kids are doing well and leave it at that.

3. Do Not Write Freakishly Long Paragraphs About Your Pet: I love animals. I adore my dog. I'll admit to tearing up while reading portions of "Marley and Me." But even I don't want to read a monthly summary of everything that happened to your labradoodle in 2008.

4. Do Not Break News in Your Holiday Card: Here's a pair of sentences your parents do not want to read for the first time when they open your holiday card: "After careful consideration, we have withdrawn Jacob from the Wilshire Academy. We are now homeschooling him so he can focus more time on training to compete in his first ever 'Guitar Hero' battle." Here's another: "Our family has decided to move to Abu Dhabi for an indefinite period of time. Actually, we haven't just decided; we're already there." News should never be broken in a holiday card, at least not one that gets delivered to close family members and friends.

5. Do Not Forget to Send the Holiday Card to Certain Relatives, Especially the Year After Having Your First Child: It's an honest mistake. Anyone could make it. But that won't matter to your Aunt Phoebe, who will repeatedly point out that she didn't get a copy of that adorable photograph of Fiona with that sweet ribbon in her hair even though everyone else in the family did. Still, she knows this was probably a simple error even though the same exact thing happened back in 1974 when cousin Marjorie didn't send a Christmas card the year after little Tommy was born, so could it really have been an accidental oversight or is the entire family conspiring against her as she has suspected ever since the Rump Roast Incident of '65 and don't play dumb because you know exactly which one she means?

6. Do Not Go Into Excessive Detail About Your Pregnancy: This may go without saying, but the words "happy holidays" and "gestatational diabetes" should never be used in the same sentence. Neither should "merry Christmas" and "mucus plug." Keep the specifics to yourself. And if you really can't help it, at least have the sense to delete all those details from the copy of the Christmas letter that goes to your best friend from college with fertility issues. Honestly, that's just rude.

7.Do Not Get Too Cutesy With the Kid Pictures: Clearly this is a subjective area. One person's "totally adorable" is another person's "downright nauseating." So do your best to use good judgment. And remember this important tip: If your child is dressed in a Tweety costume and holding a sign that says "I tawt I taw a mewwy Chwistmas," um, yeah. That's wayyyy too cute.

Image: The Fun Times Guide

Why Jamie Lyn's Pictures Make Me Want to Buy a Printer

JeanneSager — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:32:00 GMT

The Jamie Lyn Spears breastfeeding photo debacle has made me wonder all over again if I should finally cash in on a photo quality printer. TMZ has been reporting that photos of Jamie Lyn with daughter Maddie at her left breast were printed at the local Wal-Mart by Maddie's daddy, Casey Aldridge.

The Spears' family alleges the photos were filched by a Wal-Mart employee, and a federal probe has been launched to study the implications of the sale of the photos - after all, Jamie Lyn is just 17 and whether she's feeding or not, there's a breast involved. The sale of the pics could be considered child porn and earn the seller a new home behind bars being someone's own little Jamie Lyn.

I'm not the first person to ask why Casey took the pictures to Wal-Mart to begin with (Hellooooo McFly), but considering he's a little closer to rest of us on the celebrity food chain it makes sense. He's Joe Everybody, and he did what the rest of us do - took his digital card full of pictures of his family down to the local photo joint to have them printed. Now they're out there somewhere, and someone's getting their jollies off his girlfriend's exposed breast, his daughter's little mouth.

Most of us don't have to worry that someone's going to want to steal our pictures to sell to US Weekly or the Star. (Maybe they could get a few bucks for some "what not to wear" section with my Christmas morning pajama shots.) But when's the last time you took a cute picture of your child sans diaper or a sweet shot of your wife feeding your newborn? Most of us do the upload and go, sending them off to a faceless printer who does all the hard work so we don't have to. A few days later, the package gets chucked on the doorstep, and we're slapping them on the fridge.

Or, in my case, putting up an 8 x 10 of my daughter's cushie tushie in the living room - a shot from when she was under 2 and stripped of her own accord in our front yard to "help" Daddy wash the cars. It's one of my favorite photos, and one I will refuse to remove when she brings the first boyfriend home to visit, but I'd like to think I'm the one deciding who will see it and when. The thought of anyone pulling a Robin Williams from One Hour Photo and collecting pictures of my gorgeous little girl makes me want to vomit.

Am I overreacting? In all the years I've sent my photos off to Kodak Gallery or MPix or dropped them at the local pharmacy, I never really thought about it. I guess I don't think like a child predator (phewww). Then again, I never worried about child predators either . . . until I became a mom.

So, about that printer . . .

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