Baby Sees His Mom Clearly For The First Time Ever

One of the first people babies see and recognize soon after they enter the world is their mother, however, one Danish baby has had to wait months before being able to see his mom.

Soon after giving birth to her first baby, new mom Christine A.J Friis Rosenhøj could tell that baby Emil was struggling to focus his eyes on things and squinting and decided to get his sight checked. As they suspected, Emil had very bad vision, which made everything, even his parents’ faces, extremely blurry.

Photo by Christine A.J Friis Rosenhøj

Recently, however, baby Emil finally received his glasses, which were specially made for him, and decided to film the moment he finally got to see the world more clearly. “Today is a great day. Emil got his glasses. The journey has been long and our little baby has a lot to go through to sit here and smile with his small glasses, but now they are here,” said Rosenhøj.

Photo by Christine A.J Friis Rosenhøj

In the video, which went viral after the excited mom posted the special moment to her Instagram account, Rosenhøj carefully slipped the glasses over Emil’s eyes. However, instead of darting his eyes around the now-visible surroundings, baby Emil couldn’t take his eyes off his mother, and his face adorably lit up once she spoke and he knew for sure that he was looking at his mom for the first time.

Photo by Christine A.J Friis Rosenhøj

Watch the entire video below to see the precious moment this baby sees his mother for the very first time.

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12 Incredible Ways To Reuse All The Old CDs You’ve Got Collecting Dust

I don’t know about you, but I’ve got tons upon tons of old CDs sitting around the house. I know I’m probably never ever going to need them again, not with modern music streaming technology and even the resurgence of record players.

I also don’t want to throw them away, though — they have a certain degree of sentimental value. Plus, the thought of them sitting in a landfill for years and years seems unnecessary. If I can reuse something in an entirely new way, I’m definitely going to take that route!

These 12 ways to reuse old CDs are all so genius. Plus, you can use them as a jumping-off point for your own next big masterpiece of a project.

Do you think that you’ll be using your stacks of old CDs for any of these projects? There are so many that I never would have thought to do on my own, but the iridescent shine on the disks makes for a perfect DIY material!

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1. CD Earring Holder

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If your earrings are scattered all over your dresser or floating about your jewelry box, grab an old CD to make this cute earring holder.

2. CD Table Mosaic

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Break apart your old CDs to create these mosaic pieces and put a brand new tabletop on an old piece of furniture.

3. CD Bookend

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You can bend a CD if you heat it with a flame and get this awesome bookend for either your CDs or your books.

4. CD Fish

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This is a great craft to do with the kids or the grandkids on a rainy day.

5. CD Lamp

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The reflective qualities of the CDs used to make this LED lamp make it sparkle all the more. And smartly, the special LED lights won’t melt the plastic.

6. CD Roof

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I don’t know if I’d trust CDs to roof my home, but I’d definitely use it on the top of a dog house or a fun DIY playhouse for the kids!

7. CD Clock

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This clock made of sections of old CDs is something that any music lover would like to make for their own wall.

8. Giant CD Clock

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You can also gather a bunch of CDs to make a big clock like this. You could even do a circle formation, or really any shape you’d like!

9. CD Solar Curtain

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This solar curtain keeps warmth in your home in the wintertime, and keeps the heat out in the summertime. It works like those shiny windshield covers you see in parked cars. And you probably have all of the necessary materials in your home already!

10. CD Candle Holders

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This is another fun craft to do with younger (or older!) kids. Get creative with your designs and materials for these CD candle holders.

11. CD Secret Safe

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There’s always something you need to hide from either strangers or from a curious kiddo. This safe hidden in a pile of CDs will do the trick perfectly.

12. CD Cube Lamp

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I’d put this lamp on my desk, for sure. Would you?

Will you try any of these DIY ideas? Let us know your favorite in the comments and please SHARE with your family and friends on Facebook!

This Policeman Tried To Help A Fifth-Grader With Her Math Homework And It Got Tough

Remember fifth-grade math? Yeah… Neither did police Lt. B.J. Gruber, but he still responded to the call of duty when a 10-year-old girl asked for help on Facebook.

Marion Ohio Police Department

Lena Draper had been struggling with the order of operations (PEMDAS), so she reached out to the people she thought could solve the problem — the police department of Marion, Ohio.

Molly Draper

At first, she received a standard automated response, but then Gruber replied, “What’s up?”

Lena shared the problem she’d been struggling with: “Well I don’t understand (8+29)x15.”

A tough one, but Gruber nailed it.

The lieutenant has four kids of his own, ranging in age from a third-grader to college-aged, and is no stranger to homework queries. Math, however, is not his strong suit.

“My wife usually does the math homework and I take the other stuff because I don’t remember how to do it,” he told BuzzFeed News.

Molly Draper, Lena’s mom, couldn’t believe her daughter had messaged the police about a math question. “We never truly thought they’d respond,” she told BuzzFeed News. Thankful and surprised, Draper shared the exchange on Facebook, and it’s since gone viral.

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Lena enjoys math, but “new concepts are always overwhelming,” Draper said. Stumped by this lesson, the fifth-grader got resourceful.

And seeing that Gruber was committed to the cause, Lena asked another question.

Here’s where Gruber wishes he remembered the helpful mnemonic device “Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally” (parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction). He told Lena to add first before multiplying. But still, valiant effort.

“Maybe should have mentioned that history was my favorite subject before answering,” he joked.

The two math wizards continued to exchange messages after the semi-successful tutoring session and recently met in person. Gruber stopped by Lena’s school for lunch and says the experience exemplifies his department’s commitment to community policing.

“We really try to increase trust and show kids we are approachable,” he said. “This time it was homework, but hopefully next time if a kid is in trouble they will also reach out.”

This Mom's Heartbreaking Photo Of Her Son's Battle With Cancer Is Going Viral

For many people, their first reaction when looking at this gut-wrenching photo would be: “why would on earth any parent in their right mind share this image to the world?”

The powerful picture shows a 10-year-old boy called Drake, in the bathroom wearing a pull-up nappy. He is standing over the toilet clearly in excruciating pain as he battles the insidious disease that is cancer.

This may seem intrusive to some, but when his mother who captured the heartbreaking moment explains why she decided to share the photo, it all makes sense.

“For anyone battling cancer or enduring chemotherapy, for anyone going through this horrible disease - it is about to get real, real hard and real quick, she says on her post that was picked up by Love What Matters.

“The picture I’m posting is from this morning, and before you scream and cry ‘why would she post a picture of him in a pull up, the indecency’, well….

1. It doesn’t show more than swimming jammers would
2. Because life is not always politically correct and pretty, it is real Life isn’t pretty, and cancer destroys a person.”

The heartbreaking photo of Drake has truly touched people all over the world. Source: Love What Matters

“This was this morning after carrying Drake to the bathroom”

She goes on to describe how truly devastating it is to have your child going through a cancerous hell.

“Yes, he is in a pull up because 75 per cent of the time he can’t control his bathroom habits. This is skin and bones, because I have to beg him to eat ONE green bean for supper, or drink a cup of water throughout the day,” she says.

“This is having your son sleep with you at night because he is afraid of something happening and being alone, and by something I mean dying. This is having middle of the night conversations with a ten year old, asking if he dies will he go to heaven and will he see his dad there and be able to talk and play with him.”

Drake spending Christmas in hospital. Source: YouCaring

“This is him, throwing up every medication I give him”

Drake’s broken mother goes on to paint an even more heartbreaking reality of the torture that her beloved boy endures every second of the day.

“This is him being too weak to get out of bed or walk and needing to be carried or in a wheelchair. This is him falling asleep as someone is talking to him, because he is too exhausted. This is him, throwing up every medication I give him and him dry heaving because his stomach is empty except for the spoonful of yogurt I just gave him with his pills. This is having to take 44 chemo pills last week in a matter of 24 hours,” she says.

“This is him telling me, ‘mummy, I’m not going to make it.’ This is him not wanting to be touched, because it hurts too much, and using morphine to get through his day. This is him telling me he is scared and thinks he won’t see his 11th birthday. This is him and me, telling him that I will continue to fight for him when he can’t. This is him and me, and our world.”

Drake means the world to his mother. Source: YouCaring

“He is my smile, my love, my heartbeat”

Drake is very lucky to have a mother who will love him – no matter how tough life can be.

“This is him, Drake, Stinky Joe, my whole world. From the moment I found out I was pregnant till future forever, he has been my reason for life. He is my smile, my love, my heartbeat. He is also my tears, my heart ache, my frowns. He is my life.”

Outpouring of love and support

The post has resonated with hundreds of thousands of people with 155,000 reactions and more than 17,000 comments:

“I’m sitting here at work, tears just rolling down my face. There is nothing in this world I could say that would even express how much my heart goes out to your family and families like yours.”

“Your little man is EXACTLY the reason I am running the London marathon in the UK In 9 weeks to raise money for Children with Cancer U.K in the hope it will help to find a cure and further research into childhood cancer. Sending lots and lots of love and cuddles to you, your boy and your family x.”

“No one knows unless they have taken one step in your shoes, slept one minute in your bed or spent one minute holding that head. Post your pictures and tell your story. No one will know unless you show them as some people need pictures to get it in their head. Cancer is not glamorous. It’s mean and ugly and hateful and it doesn’t care if you’re old or young. Tell them everything. You go Drake!”

If you would like to donate to Drake and his family go to Help Drake Medinger and Jessica kick cancer

Expert Warns North Korea Planning A ‘9/11 Style’ Attack

A Korean expert has claimed that North Korea is planning a September 11 style attack on the US early into Trump’s administration.

The communist regime, headed by Kim Jong-un, is delaying an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test and a nuclear test until the political turmoil in the south of the country settles down.

Victor Cha explained that Pyongyang is building a strong nuclear arsenal ‘to field a modern nuclear force that has the proven ability to threaten first US territories in the Pacific — including Guam and Hawaii — then the achievement of a capability to reach the US homeland, starting with the West Coast’.

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Speaking at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Tuesday, Victor Cha, a Georgetown University professor and Korea chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said:

Pyongyang carried out two (failed) medium-range ballistic missiles tests prior to President Trump’s election on October 15 and 20, 2016. The only reason they have not followed the election with an action, we believe, is because of the domestic political crisis in South Korea,

However, once this crisis of leadership in the South is resolved (or even before then), ballistic missile and nuclear tests are sure to follow.

Very soon North Korea will be able to target all 50 states, and our allies.

With hundreds of thousands of North Korean laborers abroad — sending as much as $2bn (£1.6bn) a year back to the regime in hard currency — we should look at targeting this expatriate labor.

Loopholes in our sanctions on North Korea’s shipping and financial sectors must be closed. And when we discover that foreign banks have helped Kim Jong-un skirt sanctions – as those in China have repeatedly done – we must give those banks and businesses a stark choice: do business with Kim Jong-un or the US” he reportedly said.

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Cha is urging to US government to take out strict measures against North Korea in terms of closing loopholes and enforcing tighter sanctions.

The US has approved plans to move ahead with the THAAD missile defence system to South Korea, which has the capability to shoot any nuclear missile detonated from the North out of the sky.

Just as September 11 was the defining event of Bush’s term, a potential attack from North Korea would define Donald Trump’s tenure.

NASA Live Feed Cuts As ‘Six UFOs’ Fly By International Space Station

Some UFO hunters decided they wanted to see some UFOs, so examined footage from the space station and branded six orbs of light as signs of alien life.

The footage from NASA’s live feed was spotted by UFO spotter Streetcap1 who shared it with the ‘experts’ SecureTeam10.

After some very serious and reliable investigations, the secure team shared their findings online.

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Tyler from SecureTeam said:

He has discovered what some are calling a fleet of unidentified flying objects moving in the distance behind the International Space Station.

We have about six UFOs passing behind, and judging from the distance, I would guess that the size of these objects, whatever they are, would be fairly large.

Much larger than Nasa’s typical excuse of ice particles, we must be looking at icebergs.

Tyler claimed that NASA was trying to cover up the suspicious feed by cutting to a scene from inside the briefing room.

Yes six lights do pass across the screen, and they are unidentified. Not sure where the link to extra-terrestrial life comes in though.