Self indulgent parent thread

No pictures (you guys all have awesome looking kids!) but I just got word that my daughter made it into the National Junior Honors Society. Good stuff!

FSeven wrote:

the dude abides

Bravo, sir!

We recently watched "How to Train Your Dragon" and I was a little unsure of how some of the themes would be interpreted by my kids (now almost 5, and 3.5, where does the time go?).

Seems I had nothing to really worry about. The next day, after some industrious clattering in the corner with her Duplo/Lego, my 3.5 year old turned around and presented the family with this and the question, "Do you like my dragon Daddy?"

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Nutty little bugger... Love her to pieces.

My daughter has been teaching herself to draw, and got a new Wacom tablet this Christmas.

Here is her Emma Watson.

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Moar like EMMA WACOM, amirite??

But srsly, that's pretty good.

Jayhawker wrote:

My daughter has been teaching herself to draw, and got a new Wacom tablet this Christmas.

Here is her Emma Watson.

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I have tried to draw in real life using pencil/papper and on a wacom... I never produced anything that good!

Quad rider at 9 1/2 months

Are we on vacation? YEAH.... first 30 seconds of this video is awesome.. Again only 9 1/2 months at film time.

Jayhawker, that's amazing. She's got some serious talent.

That's pretty fantastic Jay. Talented girl you have there.

Thanks guys! The hard part now is keeping her nose in the books.

9 months old tonight!
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Me and the little man enjoying a break in the madness. He somehow managed to start Steam Big Picture with the controller. I still have no idea how.

Anyway, he giggled himself silly at Botanicula.

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You must have a cloning vat somewhere. You just need to get the same onesie in adult size.

Self indulgent photo barrage incoming!

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Why so serious dad?

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Dad and Dave on Australia Day

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Babies first laptop (Don't worry it's a junker a client spilled wine on)

Prozac wrote:

Self indulgent photo barrage incoming!

Why so serious dad?

Uhhh.....Gotta ask...Is your baby half-zombie? Looks like the little bugger got a hold of someone.

Now witness the adorableness of this fully armed and operational almost-seven-month-old!

You can guess who dressed her like this (and who objected on the strongest terms).

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Duckface?!

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Sooo... how do you like avocado?

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Oh no! Baby's doing the duckface!

Seriously cute little girl Gravey.

Our eldest attended her first day of pre-school today.

"Was your first day of school good Lilly"?

"No Daddy... IT WAS AWESOME!"

Colour me proud.

Gravey wrote:

You can guess who dressed her like this (and who objected on the strongest terms).

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I can only imagine that your objection stems primarily from the missing period after the final F. (Unless there's a weird wrinkle in the shirt that I'm missing.)

Little Mono was having a really good time doing this.

Teagan send out her valentines day cards with cheezy 80s effect photo.

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MonoCheli wrote:

Little Mono was having a really good time doing this.

Big Mono too

Yesterday after being out for two hours with my wife we arrived home. To my surprise my daughter wanted to see me before my wife.

you know you are a parent when... you get excited that your 11month old daughter peed into a balder bag and you managed to snag it before it leaks everywhere...

Bonnonon wrote:

you know you are a parent when... you get excited that your 11month old daughter peed into a balder bag and you managed to snag it before it leaks everywhere...

I thought it was when my daughter got salmonella poising, which forced me to catch her poop for a week soI could have it tested. I had to get it before it went into the toilet, and it couldn't get peed on. They needed to know when it got out of her system.

My frickin' brother-in-law and his frickin' turtles...

Of course, I told my mother-in-law she got it at her house.

Jayhawker wrote:
Bonnonon wrote:

you know you are a parent when... you get excited that your 11month old daughter peed into a balder bag and you managed to snag it before it leaks everywhere...

I thought it was when my daughter got salmonella poising, which forced me to catch her poop for a week soI could have it tested. I had to get it before it went into the toilet, and it couldn't get peed on. They needed to know when it got out of her system.

My frickin' brother-in-law and his frickin' turtles...

Of course, I told my mother-in-law she got it at her house. :evil:

after hearing this I am very happy that I gave my turtle away to a restaurant. Jayhawker, I am having trouble deciding between laughing and crying at your story. I guess I have many more potential experiences coming ahead in parenthood.

Bonnonon wrote:

you know you are a parent when... you get excited that your 11month old daughter peed into a balder bag and you managed to snag it before it leaks everywhere...

Yeah, I'm amazed how interested in poop becoming a parent makes you. Colour, consistency, frequency, amount. Did she poo today? It's been three days since her last poo. She pooed but it's green. Is she getting enough hindmilk? She pooed today, it's yellow, hooray! Flip through my wife's and my photo texts to each other over the first few months at your own peril.

Now that she's started on solids, the obsession with poop has started anew. Is it solid, semi-solid, soft? Big, medium, just a nugget? Green, yellow, becoming brown? Look like the avocados going in? Chicken make it smell worse? I can tell she had bananas yesterday. And this one's even divided into two separate layers of colour!

Gravey wrote:
Bonnonon wrote:

you know you are a parent when... you get excited that your 11month old daughter peed into a balder bag and you managed to snag it before it leaks everywhere...

Yeah, I'm amazed how interested in poop becoming a parent makes you. Colour, consistency, frequency, amount. Did she poo today? It's been three days since her last poo. She pooed but it's green. Is she getting enough hindmilk? She pooed today, it's yellow, hooray! Flip through my wife's and my photo texts to each other over the first few months at your own peril.

Now that she's started on solids, the obsession with poop has started anew. Is it solid, semi-solid, soft? Big, medium, just a nugget? Green, yellow, becoming brown? Look like the avocados going in? Chicken make it smell worse? I can tell she had bananas yesterday. And this one's even divided into two separate layers of colour!

That sort of thing starts all over again when potty training begins.

My strangest poop story was changing my daughter's diaper to see what looked like mold staining her entire behind. It was bright green poop, and it left a distintive tint. I brought her in to my wife, to figure out what happened.

Turns out, at the weekly happy hour her law school holds on campus (WashU-StL Anheuser-Busch Hall FTW!), which we would always bring the our daughter to, they had cake with green icing for St. Patty's. Apparently Jordan had figured out how to get more cake by hitting up different girls my wife was going to school with, and had a ton. The dye from the cake then stained her behind every time she pooped.

The most embarrassing law school happy hour story was when Jordan locked herself in a random locker at the school. We were downstairs while my wife was grabbing books and I was playing with Jordan and chasing her around, when she spied an open locker. She jumped in, closing the door. Apparently at the gym my wife had been going to, my daughter would play in the lockers, which did not have built-in combination locks.

We had to find janitor, who let us know that they didn't have universal keys, so we had to cut it open. Of course, the police came. When Jordan got out, the officer questioned her to make sure we had not locked her in while we "partied." We weren't drunk, and the cop was satisfied it was just an accident, but it was pretty embarrassing.

Of course, Jordan thought the entire experience was awesome. While my wife went to find someone, I sat outside the locker chatting with her, looking like a weirdo talking to nobody when students walked by.

In a similar vein (and color) a friend was changing her daughter's diaper and found bright green poop. And by bright green I mean #00ff00. She asked her daughter,

"Did you eat a crayon at day care today."

"Yes!"

"What color was it?"

"Green!"

padriec wrote:

In a similar vein (and color) a friend was changing her daughter's diaper and found bright green poop. And by bright green I mean #00ff00. She asked her daughter,

"Did you eat a crayon at day care today."

"Yes!"

"What color was it?"

"Green!"

That conversation gets really weird when it transitions into your signature.:P