Surly Dad Thread

[Thatguy 8692]

55 minutes ago, CleverNickname said:

I was watching my youngest and my nieces on Saturday. I farted a little louder than I intended. My youngest niece immediately said, "Uncle X, you are a tooter." Not that I tooted. That I am a tooter.

Since I supplied it, I did not deny it. But 48 hours later I can't help thinking...I'm a tooter.

 Username spot on!!

[fattyflattie 4639]

7 hours ago, Celery Man said:

Man, I had been kinda looking forward to my first business trip since Covid, get a break from everything. Nope nope nope. She just started kinda vocalizing more, and we’ve been jamming out to different music on Spotify, I don’t want to leave

I missed 9 months of the first year with my oldest.  Didn’t know what I was missing. Didn’t travel much with the next two. This last year I’ve been traveling (literally) over 75% of the time. It sucks. Avoid it like the plague. Cats in the cradle and all that. 

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4976]

On 7/8/2021 at 11:34 AM, Bevo Num1 said:

On 7/8/2021 at 9:29 AM, Jkwellborn said:

Congrats. It’s an amazing feeling to see and hold them for the first time.

You are not lying. I never realized how emotional I could be until I saw her for the first time. I think I cried more than baby did. After 18 months of negative tests, doctor appointments, and labs the miracle finally happened.

About a year after our first was born we started trying for another. The wife was charting her temperatures every day and we were doing everything in our power to time her ovulation for a full year before we found a specialist who diagnosed her with endometriosis. She underwent surgery and her tubes were also blocked, possibly a complication from the emergency C-section she had to have with the first. Her very first cycle after the surgery I successfully knocked her up. First two kids were right at three years apart. Two months ago today our third was born, twenty months after the second, because we apparently hate ourselves. Not sure where I am going with this other than there are lots of us out there who have been through similar, and the rewards are worth the trouble.

[MNLonghornFUKM 8817]

Watching kids movies through your kids eyes is awesome. Not boring.

And it will be hundreds. Not dozens.

It is awesome until it’s the third showing of frozen that afternoon

[Jkwellborn 6697]

It is awesome until it’s the third showing of frozen that afternoon

Man, just let it go.

[txhorns 2409]

My kid got his SAT scores back and got a 1400 on it!  This is huge for him as he lives with his mom and goes to a tiny ass school with only 58 kids, 14 in his class.

There's almost no way he was going to be valedictorian as there's a kid in his class that moved in last year, junior year, from a much bigger school and that kid is a total geek.

All that kid does is study and UIL activities.  Mine plays football, cross country, basketball, tennis, track and golf along with UIL, robotics and various other things.

[South Austin 52490]

Random proud Surly dad moment:  My kids is upstairs playing Fortnite online with his friends, and I hear him scream, "Get to the choppa!!!!!"

[atomheartbevo 89659]

2 hours ago, South Austin said:

Random proud Surly dad moment:  My kids is upstairs playing Fortnite online with his friends, and I hear him scream, "Get to the choppa!!!!!"

My kid was watching the new Dune trailer over my shoulder and kept saying "that's from Star Wars, that's from Star Wars!"

[atomheartbevo 89659]

On 7/9/2021 at 2:30 PM, atomheartbevo said:

I can watch Bluey for an hour or two with my kid every day of the week.

This hasn't aged well.

I feel like when they watch Bluey, they are sometimes judging me and my wife, and  always finding us very lacking compared to Bluey's parents.

[South Austin 52490]

2 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

My kid was watching the new Dune trailer over my shoulder and kept saying "that's from Star Wars, that's from Star Wars!"

There’s still time.

[next2naus 439]

31 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

This hasn't aged well.

I feel like when they watch Bluey, they are sometimes judging me and my wife, and  always finding us very lacking compared to Bluey's parents.

Bandit is a great dad and his brother Stripe is good fella as well

[NorthLoop 14195]

Bluey is fantastic. American kid's cartoons don't have to balls to be as realistic. 

[atomheartbevo 89659]

33 minutes ago, next2naus said:

Bandit is a great dad and his brother Stripe is good fella as well

The amount of imaginary play the parents do with the kids, like the imaginary bus driving,  etc. is awesome, but makes us look bad.

 

[atomheartbevo 89659]

18 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

Bluey is fantastic. American kid's cartoons don't have to balls to be as realistic. 

I've noticed they've had the parents letting the kids piss in a bush or behind a tree multiple times in the show, and now when we are at a park, my kids ask if they can do a "bush wee".

I can't think of any American kids' cartoons where they'd show the parents holding the kids while they are pissing in a bush or whatever.

They also had an episode where I think it was Bingo, was trying to do handstands, and all of the adults were so busy that they were completely oblivious, and there was just a ton of stuff that was going on in the background, and she kept trying to get people's attention, she wouldn't, then they'd get distracted before she did it.  Really well-done episode.

Wife almost teared up at the episode where Bluey was a baby and wouldn't walk.

[NorthLoop 14195]

8 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

I've noticed they've had the parents letting the kids piss in a bush or behind a tree multiple times in the show, and now when we are at a park, my kids ask if they can do a "bush wee".

I can't think of any American kids' cartoons where they'd show the parents holding the kids while they are pissing in a bush or whatever.

They also had an episode where I think it was Bingo, was trying to do handstands, and all of the adults were so busy that they were completely oblivious, and there was just a ton of stuff that was going on in the background, and she kept trying to get people's attention, she wouldn't, then they'd get distracted before she did it.  Really well-done episode.

Wife almost teared up at the episode where Bluey was a baby and wouldn't walk.

We use "tactical wee" regularly. It's also the name of my fantasy baseball team. 

[Apep 645]

My kid won an award for his AP English class this year, his worst subject. The subject where he’d have Aspie meltdowns in middle school. (He’s actually on the spectrum.) I asked him about it, he said he was just better at it than the rest of the class.

[MNLonghornFUKM 8817]

Random proud Surly dad moment:  My kids is upstairs playing Fortnite online with his friends, and I hear him scream, "Get to the choppa!!!!!"

I play squads with my brother in law and 11 year old nephew every so often. I’m god awful on the controller as a life long controller player up against mouse/keyboard 14 yr old wizards…but it’s fun seeing a dad/kid combo take out other kids lol.

Fun game tho regardless

[atomheartbevo 89659]

6 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

I play squads with my brother in law and 11 year old nephew every so often. I’m god awful on the controller as a life long controller player up against mouse/keyboard 14 yr old wizards…but it’s fun seeing a dad/kid combo take out other kids lol.

Fun game tho regardless

Wait, you're older, you should be the wizard on the mouse/keyboard while I thought the 14 year-olds would be controller players.

[next2naus 439]

4 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

The amount of imaginary play the parents do with the kids, like the imaginary bus driving,  etc. is awesome, but makes us look bad.

 

who's "us"?

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I've noticed they've had the parents letting the kids piss in a bush or behind a tree multiple times in the show, and now when we are at a park, my kids ask if they can do a "bush wee".

My kids are 4, we let them take a emergency wee when required

[BrazilHorn 6599]

Went with my older son to pickup his football equipment at Austin High yesterday. He’ll be a freshman this fall. Was cool deal meeting his coaches and seeing him get all of his stuff. 

[52-80 19151]

On 7/13/2021 at 6:44 AM, fattyflattie said:

I missed 9 months of the first year with my oldest.  Didn’t know what I was missing. Didn’t travel much with the next two. This last year I’ve been traveling (literally) over 75% of the time. It sucks. Avoid it like the plague. Cats in the cradle and all that. 

i went from a travel-heavy job, to a travel-dead job (covid didnt help...), and now im trying to get back in a travel-heavy job... and we got news of a kid on the way

[MNLonghornFUKM 8817]

Wait, you're older, you should be the wizard on the mouse/keyboard while I thought the 14 year-olds would be controller players.

You’re a bot if you don’t play mouse/keyboard…according to my nephew


Bot =bad player

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4976]

On 7/22/2021 at 3:38 PM, atomheartbevo said:

I've noticed they've had the parents letting the kids piss in a bush or behind a tree multiple times in the show, and now when we are at a park, my kids ask if they can do a "bush wee".

I can't think of any American kids' cartoons where they'd show the parents holding the kids while they are pissing in a bush or whatever.

They also had an episode where I think it was Bingo, was trying to do handstands, and all of the adults were so busy that they were completely oblivious, and there was just a ton of stuff that was going on in the background, and she kept trying to get people's attention, she wouldn't, then they'd get distracted before she did it.  Really well-done episode.

Wife almost teared up at the episode where Bluey was a baby and wouldn't walk.

We spent a month camping out of our van accross the western US last summer, mostly staying on BLM or Forest Service land with no utilities, so our almost four year old got pretty used to just peeing wherever. We stopped at my BIL's place in Kalispell, Montana for a couple days to get to sleep in a real bed and all that, when his daughter comes running into the house yelling "(Name retracted) peed in the front yard again!" We didn't even know she had peed there the first time. It took them a bit to get used to civilization again after that trip.

[hookemATL 11724]

We’ve had a trip to Port A on the schedule for about 2 months and we leave on Sunday.

Every other question from the 6yo this week “do we leave for the beach today??”

She is going to have a blast and it will be  first trip to the coast with the new baby (5 months) as well. Vacation with kids can be a bear, but they are worth it. 
 

 

[atomheartbevo 89659]

21 minutes ago, hookemATL said:

We’ve had a trip to Port A on the schedule for about 2 months and we leave on Sunday.

Every other question from the 6yo this week “do we leave for the beach today??”

She is going to have a blast and it will be  first trip to the coast with the new baby (5 months) as well. Vacation with kids can be a bear, but they are worth it. 

If she watches Bluey, here is a Bluey beach book based on the beach episode. You could probably get it at one of the large bookstores.

We are going to the coast next week as well for the first time since 2019.  Thankfully it’s a friend’s place, and we can haul everything we need down there and cook and jot get out amongst the general population or worry about shutdowns.  

[hookemATL 11724]

Bluey is awesome and my 75yo Dad fucking loves it. I caught him whistling the theme song while working in the yard the other day. Great great show that has some good lessons presented in a creative and funny way. 

[ajax 2611]

Starting this fall my daughter will be an Aggie.

 

That's right - she'll be attending UC Davis.

[JesusSweatDuck 17781]

My daughter (13) broke down last night with all the stress over the past year and a half. She wanted me to hold her to until she fell asleep. Selfishly I really enjoyed the time with her

[hornian 5218]

On 7/22/2021 at 3:38 PM, atomheartbevo said:

I've noticed they've had the parents letting the kids piss in a bush or behind a tree multiple times in the show, and now when we are at a park, my kids ask if they can do a "bush wee".

I can't think of any American kids' cartoons where they'd show the parents holding the kids while they are pissing in a bush or whatever.

They also had an episode where I think it was Bingo, was trying to do handstands, and all of the adults were so busy that they were completely oblivious, and there was just a ton of stuff that was going on in the background, and she kept trying to get people's attention, she wouldn't, then they'd get distracted before she did it.  Really well-done episode.

Wife almost teared up at the episode where Bluey was a baby and wouldn't walk.

My oldest has a “pee tree” in the backyard and has no problems peeing on just about any tree when nature calls and we are out snd about. I encourage it. 

[texanbychoice 354]

Growing up so fast.

[Hate 20108]

Starting this fall my daughter will be an Aggie.
 
That's right - she'll be attending UC Davis.

[Guest Lobo]

23 hours ago, ajax said:

Starting this fall my daughter will be an Aggie.

 

That's right - she'll be attending UC Davis.

That's a great school, probably the most underrated UC campus.  I've had a handful of relatives attend there, and I knew several of my nearby law school classmates went there for undergrad.  You're gonna have a blast visiting her.  "We could go to the co-op and buy schwag young lady, or we could walk over to the enology building and see what they're sampling today."   

Plus, it's a great jumping off point to Napa/Sonoma, San Francisco, and Lake Tahoe.    Congrats.  

[Thatguy 8692]

On 8/3/2021 at 6:17 PM, JesusSweatDuck said:

My daughter (13) broke down last night with all the stress over the past year and a half. She wanted me to hold her to until she fell asleep. Selfishly I really enjoyed the time with her

  Elementary school. All roses. She is super outgoing. We always got,"Great student but a bit of a social butterfly in class", her whole life up until middle school. We moved to a new city. She walks into a new school for 6th grade and her weight starts dropping like crazy. Pretty soon she cannot stay awake anytime she sits for any length of time, is going to the bathroom a lot, and drinking tons of water. She is down to 90lbs(she is tall), about 25lbs lighter than her usual. We take her to the doctor. They run tests. The doctor calls and says to rush her to the emergency room at Texas Children's asap. Type 1 Diabetic. She is in there for a week until they get it under control.

  She goes back to school. Everything is different. Kids are making fun of her for being a diabetic. She withdraws. Depression sets in. We start finding her talking about ending her life. She is model pretty, mixed with White, Black and Asian. She has always had everything, been everywhere, and now we are fighting each day to help her see that life is worth living. As we are fighting, things are going wrong. Covid hits end of 6th grade year. Some kid calls her the N word at school. The principal calls and tells me some kid sent her a dick pick. Yes at 11 years old. She loves volleyball, but cannot play because play has been cancelled. Schools close and she is an only child. We are reeling.

  Fast forward to the Summer of 2020. We get a kid who is the best volleyball player on the team at the high school here to start working with her because our kid's club was closed. Things start opening up. We send her to a couple camps. School starts back up. She is going to class, and even though she is still withdrawing, we are seeing sign of a comeback. She makes the 7th grade volleyball team. As soon as school ball is over it's on to club. By the end of the year she is starting to brighten up. We go to Orlando for Nationals. Now all summer all she has been talking about is how 8th grade is going to be so different. Her eyes are bright again. She is healthy looking. We are hoping we weathered the storm.

  Point is, love on her all you can. You never know how deep the struggles go and what is around the corner. But most of all talk to her, and if you see signs of anything pick up that phone and go through it. Sometimes invading privacy can save a life.

  The kid with her head above the net is ours. She is an athlete like momma and daddy!

 

 

Edited August 5, 2021 by Thatguy

[JesusSweatDuck 17781]

4 hours ago, Thatguy said:

  Elementary school. All roses. She is super outgoing. We always got,"Great student but a bit of a social butterfly in class", her whole life up until middle school. We moved to a new city. She walks into a new school for 6th grade and her weight starts dropping like crazy. Pretty soon she cannot stay awake anytime she sits for any length of time, is going to the bathroom a lot, and drinking tons of water. She is down to 90lbs(she is tall), about 25lbs lighter than her usual. We take her to the doctor. They run tests. The doctor calls and says to rush her to the emergency room at Texas Children's asap. Type 1 Diabetic. She is in there for a week until they get it under control.

  She goes back to school. Everything is different. Kids are making fun of her for being a diabetic. She withdraws. Depression sets in. We start finding her talking about ending her life. She is model pretty, mixed with White, Black and Asian. She has always had everything, been everywhere, and now we are fighting each day to help her see that life is worth living. As we are fighting, things are going wrong. Covid hits end of 6th grade year. Some kid calls her the N word at school. The principal calls and tells me some kid sent her a dick pick. Yes at 11 years old. She loves volleyball, but cannot play because play has been cancelled. Schools close and she is an only child. We are reeling.

  Fast forward to the Summer of 2020. We get a kid who is the best volleyball player on the team at the high school here to start working with her because our kid's club was closed. Things start opening up. We send her to a couple camps. School starts back up. She is going to class, and even though she is still withdrawing, we are seeing sign of a comeback. She makes the 7th grade volleyball team. As soon as school ball is over it's on to club. By the end of the year she is starting to brighten up. We go to Orlando for Nationals. Now all summer all she has been talking about is how 8th grade is going to be so different. Her eyes are bright again. She is healthy looking. We are hoping we weathered the storm.

  Point is, love on her all you can. You never know how deep the struggles go and what is around the corner. But most of all talk to her, and if you see signs of anything pick up that phone and go through it. Sometimes invading privacy can save a life.

  The kid with her head above the net is ours. She is an athlete like momma and daddy!

 

 

My daughter plays volleyball as well.  I'm sure we played you this year.

So happy y'all figured out the diabetes and she's doing better. Hug 'em tight

[Thatguy 8692]

33 minutes ago, JesusSweatDuck said:

My daughter plays volleyball as well.  I'm sure we played you this year.

So happy y'all figured out the diabetes and she's doing better. Hug 'em tight

  It was a rough ride, but we got through it. We will see you on the courts!!

[Thatguy 8692]

49 minutes ago, JesusSweatDuck said:

My daughter plays volleyball as well.  I'm sure we played you this year.

So happy y'all figured out the diabetes and she's doing better. Hug 'em tight

  On a lighter note. We were at a vball camp. By daughter hits a ball into the middle of the court. Later in the car she says, when I was looking for a spot for that ball I could see the spot on the floor and no net. I said kiddo that's because you were above the net. She just sat there dumbfounded. She doesn't know how high she jumps.

[Hate 20108]

That’s some scary stuff, Thatguy, and I don’t necessarily mean the diabetes. That can be controlled. The between the ears stuff is the scariest part for me especially since high school is just a year away for my son. I’m glad to hear that she seems to have settled and is back to being mentally healthy. Good job to you and your wife for recognizing it and working with her to figure it out.

[BabaYaga 15294]

Cool summer camp moment with my 15yr old son @ Pine Cove a few months back.  When we picked him and his sister up he had a big grin on his face.  He came up and gave us both big hugs.  His counselor called him over and told us that on his own volition, he was the first in his cohort to publicly accept Jesus Christ into his heart as his lord and savior.  It created a cascade and all the other boys did too.  Wife started balling when the counselor told us and all the other boys came up and had a big group hug before they started peeling off to go home.  

We're not overly religious.  Have intermittent attendance at a non-denominational local church, but have always loved Pine Cove and how inclusive it is.  He now wants to be a counselor their next year.  

[Thatguy 8692]

1 hour ago, Hate said:

That’s some scary stuff, Thatguy, and I don’t necessarily mean the diabetes. That can be controlled. The between the ears stuff is the scariest part for me especially since high school is just a year away for my son. I’m glad to hear that she seems to have settled and is back to being mentally healthy. Good job to you and your wife for recognizing it and working with her to figure it out.

   Agreed.  I will tell you "girling" is difficult in this era. My daughter came into middle school a stick figure. A few days ago we are all in victoria secret shopping for bras for back to school. The changing rooms are closed so the attendant just measures her right there. "34 DD" she says. I about fall out right there. She is super insecure about her body, and insecure about just about everything. She told us her best friend is bi and dating her other best friend who is currently very girly but wants to identify as a boy. Neither of their parents know. A third friend isn't allowed to have girls sleeping over because she keeps fooling around with them.  A fourth friend likes to send nudes to boys at school. All I can say is at least we have an open line of communication with the kids. Our daughter says our house is a safe space for her friends. That's a good compliment. These kids have it hard with all this early sexuality right when they are at their most vulnerable stage.

[Hate 20108]

Jesus...I am so glad I do not have a daughter.  That's some messed up stuff they are having to go through.  I guess it was probably always like this, but it wasn't so freely discussed out in the open.  I'm a simple man, so in some ways I miss the old days but I can recognize that it is better for those kids to be able to express themselves like that. 

[txhorns 2409]

My 6 year old son has been watching beach volleyball in the Olympics every night.  He's been cheering for the A Team for the USA.  He was sad this morning when I told him that beach volleyball is over now.

[BabaYaga 15294]

3 minutes ago, txhorns said:

He was sad this morning when I told him that beach volleyball is over now.

[Celery Man 20943]

I've been thinking about my dad experience/transitioning into dad life. People sometimes talk about the moment they see their firstborn being a huge "I knew right then" or "everything was different" or whatever kind of thing where you change in that very moment. The one thing like that for me was that it was just very obvious that my number one priority was the safety of this little thing. Immediate reshuffling of the prioritization deck with a clear leader in the clubhouse, this baby. But outside of that, I was scared shitless (is anything wrong with the baby, scheduled c-section is my wife OK, are we getting through this without any kind of big life altering complication, on top of regular covid times hospital stuff and a doctor handing me a slimy screaming little thing). Really thinking back to other moments in my life it was similar to, it's more like the death of my mother when I was 15. I was in the room saying goodbye, she went, and then... a lot of "oh shit this happened. this is a big moment and it's happening right now. what am I supposed to be doing, we're going here now? ok. do I just... be here? what do I do? what do I talk about? is it weird if I look at this magazine, what does this person want from me, what's next".

And there was the whole hospital thing, lots of moments along the way, but it's been just a gradual transition into being a dad, with the fundamental thing being that bedrock shift of "this is priority #1 out of all of the things no matter what" and everything else catching up with new habits and behaviors after that. And then last night I've put her down, cleaned up downstairs, emptied her diaper genie, took a shower, am going to bed and just playing this live image in my phone over and over again and realize that this reaction (that i get from her and I managed to capture here) is my favorite achievement in life far and away, and that is some dad shit. Transition complete.

[pearlandhorn 3269]

Dropped the boy off at kindergarten today.  As other kids were welling up and starting to cry, my son looked at my wife and I, said "see you this afternoon!" and walked right in and sat down at his table.

At that moment, so many emotions ran through me but I think I had just a huge dad moment where I was so unbelievably proud of my son.  I remember bringing him home from the hospital like it was yesterday when in actuality, it was 5 years ago. 

To the dads with young ones not yet in school - cherish the times because they fly by and you will soon find yourself dropping your kiddo off for their first day of school.

[tbone_ 14118]

And the day after that will be their first day at high school, which I did last week.

[next2naus 439]

twin 4YO's (B&G) had their MMR's and a blood draw yesterday, so that was fun. 

[hookemATL 11724]

On 8/13/2021 at 12:06 PM, Celery Man said:

I've been thinking about my dad experience/transitioning into dad life. People sometimes talk about the moment they see their firstborn being a huge "I knew right then" or "everything was different" or whatever kind of thing where you change in that very moment. The one thing like that for me was that it was just very obvious that my number one priority was the safety of this little thing. Immediate reshuffling of the prioritization deck with a clear leader in the clubhouse, this baby. But outside of that, I was scared shitless (is anything wrong with the baby, scheduled c-section is my wife OK, are we getting through this without any kind of big life altering complication, on top of regular covid times hospital stuff and a doctor handing me a slimy screaming little thing). Really thinking back to other moments in my life it was similar to, it's more like the death of my mother when I was 15. I was in the room saying goodbye, she went, and then... a lot of "oh shit this happened. this is a big moment and it's happening right now. what am I supposed to be doing, we're going here now? ok. do I just... be here? what do I do? what do I talk about? is it weird if I look at this magazine, what does this person want from me, what's next".

And there was the whole hospital thing, lots of moments along the way, but it's been just a gradual transition into being a dad, with the fundamental thing being that bedrock shift of "this is priority #1 out of all of the things no matter what" and everything else catching up with new habits and behaviors after that. And then last night I've put her down, cleaned up downstairs, emptied her diaper genie, took a shower, am going to bed and just playing this live image in my phone over and over again and realize that this reaction (that i get from her and I managed to capture here) is my favorite achievement in life far and away, and that is some dad shit. Transition complete.

Thanks for sharing this. Truly. 
 

what a beautiful baby girl. That photo brings tears to my eyes. 
 

here is a silly one I got yesterday. Jynx the cat is obsessed with the baby. He basically is an unpaid, four legged babysitter at this point. Perfect timing to get them both smiling at same time 🤘
 

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4976]

On 8/13/2021 at 12:06 PM, Celery Man said:

I've been thinking about my dad experience/transitioning into dad life. People sometimes talk about the moment they see their firstborn being a huge "I knew right then" or "everything was different" or whatever kind of thing where you change in that very moment. The one thing like that for me was that it was just very obvious that my number one priority was the safety of this little thing. Immediate reshuffling of the prioritization deck with a clear leader in the clubhouse, this baby. But outside of that, I was scared shitless (is anything wrong with the baby, scheduled c-section is my wife OK, are we getting through this without any kind of big life altering complication, on top of regular covid times hospital stuff and a doctor handing me a slimy screaming little thing). Really thinking back to other moments in my life it was similar to, it's more like the death of my mother when I was 15. I was in the room saying goodbye, she went, and then... a lot of "oh shit this happened. this is a big moment and it's happening right now. what am I supposed to be doing, we're going here now? ok. do I just... be here? what do I do? what do I talk about? is it weird if I look at this magazine, what does this person want from me, what's next".

And there was the whole hospital thing, lots of moments along the way, but it's been just a gradual transition into being a dad, with the fundamental thing being that bedrock shift of "this is priority #1 out of all of the things no matter what" and everything else catching up with new habits and behaviors after that. And then last night I've put her down, cleaned up downstairs, emptied her diaper genie, took a shower, am going to bed and just playing this live image in my phone over and over again and realize that this reaction (that i get from her and I managed to capture here) is my favorite achievement in life far and away, and that is some dad shit. Transition complete.

Thats quite a bit of hair. If I recall correctly, she was born just before our last one was (May 13th). This one was our third, but the first was a daughter, so good luck to us both. Anyhow, I lobbied to name him Jedediah Luke so we could call him Jedi Luke for short, but I was overruled. 

[washparkhorn 9939]

Beautiful kids one and all. Thank goodness you goons married up:

 

[atomheartbevo 89659]

Netflix has been running occasional movie(s) of Octonauts (which had been canceled a few years ago).

They are bringing a brand-new full-on series on September 7th.