Proud dads...
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- BonSeff5
Teaching my five year old to skate!
- monospaced26
My son is now nearly 11 months old, and every day he amazes and humbles me. He is teaching me patience and compassion, and helping me relearn the joys of being a child. I look into his eyes and I can see myself, and I can also see his mother. He's developing a strong sense of humor, and he is starting to speak to us, even though it's still complete gibberish. It's hard to put into words how. proud I am of how he's growing up, and who he's turning into. He's such a joyous, loving little guy.
He loves to pull himself up to standing on anything he can reach, cruise around and throw everything on the ground. He also loves his books, which I arranged by color the other day. This face, it is everything to me.
- I miss those days. Kids change you for the better, for sure.aslip
- he's so proud of his books! awesomehotroddy
- Nice post!stoplying
- Every day at that age you get to see them learn something new. Seeing their wonder and enthusiasm really helps dull the cynicism for a while. :-)PhanLo
- Adorable, dude!! We may not see eye to eye much but I hope to fuck this kid gets a great world to grow up in, mono. <3 He's already in Awesome U too! Smart! :)PonyBoy
- Thanks everyone. PonyBoy, although we might not see eye-to-eye, I always respect your point of view. My life is dedicated to giving this kid the best upbringingmonospaced
- Well said! I’m also the proud dad of an almost-11-month-old and it's a fantastic age.Daithi
- That's a lie! There's no way he went to university!pango
- but remember Mono, np matter how you raise him...dyspl
- he might end up liking PCs :)dyspl
- and nice post btw.dyspl
- Beautiful mono!utopian
- ah lovely, all the best to you all mono!fadein11
- Handsome little guy! Congrats mono. The meaning of life right there.maquito
- :Dmonospaced
- "Beautiful mono! - utopian" I'm going to quote this out of context in future.
A bonnie bairn, mono - good job!Nairn - Great stuff!HijoDMaite
- Nice post mono! My son is 17 months old and I've been teaching him what his feet are, and his nose, stomach, ears, etc.mg33
- Half the time I say "where's your foot?" and he puts his finger in his nose. LOLmg33
- Haha nice.monospaced
- such a wonderful age :) my daughter is 15 now, and my son is 12.. and all the wonderful moments of fatherhood continue :)exador1
- It's amazing as they get older, and have their own identities, their own likes and dislikes...exador1
- my daughter definitely got the art and design talents, and has a HUGE love for 70s and 80s music (massive Supertramp fan)exador1
- and both kids have amazing senses of humour... grew up watching SNL and Monty Python etc...exador1
- When i looked at the photo of your boy, all i could think of was, 'man...he's at the very beginning of such a wonderful adventure' :)exador1
- Is he calling your names yet? :)notype
- nope, not yet!monospaced
- BonSeff7
I feel ya, monospaced.
- look at those cuties!
ah, the endless wonders of cardboard boxes! also, love the rugmonospaced
- look at those cuties!
- microkorg6
We've been clearing our house prior to getting 6 months work done on it. I was taking out the smoke alarms at the weekend and had three of them sitting out on our front path.
Our wee 1.5yo girl takes them, lays them out in front of her and proceeds to press the buttons on them making them beep and play the alarms too.
Her first electronic music composition.
Who needs synthesizers?
*proud dad
- HijoDMaite22
ok ready. our oldest is graduating from HS early in ten days. she is just getting back some college application results. she received the top scholarship at a private university for $20k per year. This does not include any scholarships she actually has applied or any financial aid from the state. So basically we are looking at the cost of a state school for this private univ.
she is #7 in her class and she pretty much has her freshman year done with all the AP classes she's taken. we are so fortunate to have this little overachiever, she sure is making our life easier. <3
- you dun guud!monospaced
- Bravo. Excellent job, all of you.Morning_star
- Good on you and good on her. That is so cool.capn_ron
- well done!BonSeff
- Yeah we are stoked :)HijoDMaite
- bravo bravo,mugwart
- Nicely done... did you read to them while they were in the womb? hehhehenotype
- microkorg10
#2 due in just over 2 weeks
#1 is 2 in a couple of monthsThis is going to be a FUN year! lol
- err21
Hey QBN!
Meet my son Rocco
He’s 5 days old today!
- Congrats!PhanLo
- Congrats! Photo isn’t loading for me though. Hydrate!monospaced
- Welcome to the club..autoflavour
- The club of no sleep, no privacy and constant adorationautoflavour
- Congrats!fisheye
- err64
Hey QBN!
Meet my son Rocco
He’s 5 days old today!
- Congrats!ben_
- dawn of a new era for you. CongratsCalderone2000
- There he is!
Beautiful!monospaced - heeeey! congrats!maquito
- Congrats Rocky!utopian
- Go get 'em Rocco!Longcopylover
- Dont offer your children to the internet godcannonball1978
- Congrats!BonSeff
- Congratulations, err.
A great name too!
xNairn - Congrats!bulletfactory
- Congrats!Krassy
- err...what?! :-) Congrats!********
- Yeah man!stoplying
- He matches the sheets! Congrats!nocomply
- Hey little spudd********
- Congrats!!chukkaphob
- bulletfactory6
My two guys turn 4 today.
Crazy how time flies.
- pr2-8
This happened to me a few days ago:
My wife [bent over the bathroom sink, screaming]: i think the baby is coming!
Me [looking between her legs and praying that it isn't true]: no, just some mucus
I call my brother to come downstairs as we are ready to go to the hospital. He shows up a minute later.
My wife [screaming]: the baby, it's coming!
Me [with a look towards God to keep the baby inside until we reach the hospital]: the head is out! Push!
The water breaks as i'm crouching between her legs.
Me [to my brother]: call the ambulance!
Me [to my wife as the baby's face starts turning blue]: Push!
Another gallon of water comes out soaking my pants completely; baby's shoulder appear too.
Another push and the rest of the baby comes out into my hands. He cries for a moment then stops freaking me out. Is he breathing? Why didn't i waste away my life watching those shit medical TV shows so i could know what to do! 9 months of pregnancy and this child will be lost now? What did they do during the hospital birth of my 1st child? I flip the child upside down tapping his back. Nothing. I insert my finder in his throat. Maybe i see breathing. The baby isn't too blue anymore. What's too blue? My wife, still facing towards the sink, screams to pull the cord with placenta out (future tip: do NOT do it!). The bathroom floor looks as if someone threw a grande into a box of kittens - covered in blood and amniotic fluid - so with support of my brother we move to the bedroom (my 3 year old with babysitter is watching TV in the living room seemingly oblivious to drama). My brother keeps his cool talking to the emergency services which angers me - his calm voice might not present seriousness of this situation. I hear them repeating questions about the address and i start screaming back the answer - i still don't know if the baby is breathing, i need them here ASAP! In the bedroom my wife still standing screams again to pull the cord out. Holding the baby i tug on it - it isn't moving, stuck in there for good. First thing first, lets save the baby! This moment the doula arrives, "the baby is fine" is calls out calmly the moment she enters the room. Moments later the ambulance arrives. We wrap the baby in blankets on mama's chest and wheel her out to the ambulance and head to the hospital...I started taking 35mm pics the moment everything stabilized in the hospital only to discover to my horror on day 3 that the camera is empty. So here is roll "2":
- DUDE!
Amazing!
All the feelz for your wife, you and the little one.monospaced - Your wife is a hero. That is so incredible.monospaced
- just slightly eventful huh? and I though both my children's emergency c-sections were scary and hectic... this is a made for TV story. Congrats, prayers forslinky
- all of your fam.slinky
- oh man, this was intense! :) in the end its all good. when my first one came, it was so cold outside that exactly on that day my car battery stopped working...api
- thanks to car2go we made it in time to the hospital.api
- & congratulations to you and your family!api
- I would probably pass out right there in the bathroom.
Congrats!!zaq - Holy shit! Way to pull through!err
- Congratulations! That was intense even to read.fisheye
- zaq, i'm pretty sure everyone would step up to the occasion - you kinda don't have a choice.pr2
- Why is this downvoted?monospaced
- Lots of 5 year old on the board who don't like to read??pr2
- Holy fuck thats scary! Our second one is due imminently. We had a day to spare between waters breaking and baby coming. But got to hospital about 20 mins...microkorg
- ... before it came. I'm hoping the new one come nice on time like the first and doesnt do a grand dramatic entrance to the world like your new one! lol.microkorg
- I need to remember to take my camera this time ... and make sure the battery is charged and there's an SD card in there ;)microkorg
- My second son was born breached and wasn't breathing, CODEBLUE was yelled out NICU team rushed in and got him breathing. It was the scariest few mins of my lifefooler
- fooler, that's what was my fear that the baby will never start breathing.pr2
- DUDE!
- misterhow8
Henry. This guy arrived six weeks early and is one month old today. Apparently, he's also a fan of Zoolander.
- monospaced8
My son — just three weeks after his first birthday — on his mother’s birthday, started walking and said his first word on the same day. Couldn’t be more proud. Now he won’t stop talking and walking everywhere.
- was his first word "Fuck" and second... "Trump"?
:P Happy for you, man.PonyBoy - We are saying his first word is “light.” Other words he said were kinda basic but that one impressed.monospaced
- He says up and down, and dog, but those were not much beyond repeatable grunts. It wasn’t until “light” that it felt legit a word.monospaced
- Now I feel like he’s learning and saying or trying to say several new words a day.monospaced
- wow. "light"?... of all the words. probably one of the largest, yet most simplest.notype
- it's a good, one-syllable word he deemed quite important, and it applies in almost all circumstancesmonospaced
- was his first word "Fuck" and second... "Trump"?
- mg334
Oh kids and their innocence...
This morning while getting ready for soccer practice, out of nowhere my 4 year old daughter said “dad, when am I gonna turn black?” I said “what do you mean?” She said “Selene at school is black, am I gonna turn black too?”
I really love watching these parts of childhood happen.
- Lol, the imagination of a child is fantastic. My 4 year old niece lives in the countryside. She calls buildings "dinosaurs" :)maquito
- Nairn28
One more to the club with a little girl, barely three hours old.
Terrifying.
x
- Congrats! Terrifying... yes... exhilarating... yes. Best thing to ever happen to you... yes.slinky
- Big congrats!fadein11
- wow! that's great, i had no idea that was even on the cards. hope mother and daughter are doing well.hans_glib
- :)Gnash
- Ey, I didn't know about this plan yo!! Congrats, enjoy, now starts the best part of your lives, hugs for the mother too!!OBBTKN
- Congrats! Hello no sleep and wonderment.PhanLo
- Thought you brought a little girl to the club on the first read lolpango
- congratulations!monospaced
- OMFG, Nairn reproduced. There ought to have been a law against that.
I kid. ;) Congrats!Continuity - Congratulations Nairn!Bennn
- Congratulations!CALLES
- Huge Congrats!Krassy
- Congrats.
Enjoy the silence as long as you can. :)Longcopylover - Congrats Nairn!Salarrue
- congrats!!!PonyBoy
- congratsrenderedred
- who won the name battle?Gnash
- Congrats!!!dyspl
- Congrats & Welcomedbloc
- Congrats. Welcome to the best part of your life. :)mg33
- :)utopian
- Congrats man!yuekit
- No way! Congratulations old friend :)********
- Nice one! congrats. our new one is 5 weeks and still terrifying ;)microkorg
- congratulations!Bluejam
- nice one Nairn!Fax_Benson
- big congrats buddy :)exador1
- Really happy for you!!stoplying
- bravo! all the best!api
- Thanks all! x
I get the impression I'm never going to sleep well again... .
@gnash - spelling aside, we actually agreed, weirdly!Nairn - sweet :) good health to the three of youGnash
- You’ll sleep well again. In a few months. Hang in there. Take all the time from work you possibly can. It’s worth it.monospaced
- utopian1
The Worst (and Weirdest) Parenting Advice From Every Decade Since the 1900s
1) USE ACID AS NIPPLE CLEANSER
2) A HELD BABY IS A SPOILED BABY
3) IGNORING YOUR CHILD IS THE WAY TO BUILD GOOD, STRONG CHARACTER
4) PUT YOUR BABY IN A CAGE
5) STOP CODDLING BOYS
6) BATHE YOUR BABY THREE TIMES A DAY
7) START SOLID FOODS AT 2 DAYS OLD
8) SEND YOUR DAUGHTER TO CHARM SCHOOL
9) BABIES SLEEP BEST ON THEIR STOMACHS
10) TIME OUTS SHOULD BE SUPER LONG
11) BEAT YOUR BABY WITH A RUBBER HOSE
12) ONLY SICKOS KISS THEIR KID ON THE LIPS
