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Not nearly as good, but on a similar theme (this was when Ava was four months old)...

http://static.flickr.com/13/19322906_6a89267ed9.jpg

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 19 June 2006 21:42 (twenty years ago)

Newsflash: Edith can walk!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 09:58 (twenty years ago)

definitely some resemblence there, Andrew.

Hah! She's not biologically mine. She's my partner's daughter, but I call her my own for simplicity's sake.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:10 (twenty years ago)

http://www.fqmagazine.co.uk/images/sce/About_image_Mourinho.jpg

I saw this today in the opticians waiting room. It made me feel sad somehow.

I haven't checked this thread for a while cos I've been too busy, but some of these pictures are beautiful. Fuck it, no, all of them are beautiful, what am I saying.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:19 (twenty years ago)

FQ, the first in a new genre of men’s magazine, developed entirely for family-oriented men who’ve grown up and subsequently grown out of the stable of lads mags on offer today.

Targeting all fathers and men whose lives and perspective have changed as they’ve entered fatherhood. FQ is set to revolutionise the men’s lifestyle market by celebrating parenthood and lifestyle changes that come along with it. Solely catering for today’s modern man, FQ reflects the lives and aspirations of men who have grown out of ‘lads mags’ and require a more sophisticated read to suit their newly acquired tastes and interests.

I still can't believe it's not a spoof.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:21 (twenty years ago)

I hope it features pictures of lovely ladies covered in baby food.

Incidentally, I was criticised (obliquely) by another dad on Sunday, because I was sitting on the ground at the playground. Apparently this is a bad example, because I would get my trousers dirty and have to wash them.

However, I am proud to fly the flag for punk rock.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:44 (twenty years ago)

Eh? Being able to roll around in the dirt again is half the point of being a dad, I thought. You should have chucked sand at him (perhaps served with optional wedgie).

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:03 (twenty years ago)

I used to get Parenting magazine, and, the way it was so specifically catered to the moms (articles like "how to get back in your bikini" and somesuch), I actually really look forward to FQ. What does FQ even stand for?

And I'll tell you what, for some reason, nothing quite goes together better in photos than kids and artillery. Somewhere I have a picture of 9 year old me sitting in a Blackhawk helicopter (from an airshow). And one of my favorite pictures of my son (I'll try to dig it up from my parents' house this weekend), he is standing on top of a tank, pointing and yelling.

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 12:15 (twenty years ago)

Father's Quarterly, I suppose, from Gentleman's Quarterly. Not quarterly at all though.

Yeah, next time I will kick Boring Dad's head in, the boring c*nt.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 12:19 (twenty years ago)

he was probably just jealous as you'd won Best Dad Ever award yet again (although i'm not sure who judges said award, i certainly wasn't asked. far be it from me to suggest nepotism but...)

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 12:36 (twenty years ago)

Quick update: Emma's 5th grade graduation sleepover party featured NINE of her best friends at our house; they watched "High School Musical" (at least four of them knew every word and dance routine) and "School of Rock" (which at least two of them refused to watch at first because they HATE JACK BLACK, but they got over it because the other seven LOVE JACK BLACK) and had a dance-off, which Emma won with her interpretive beatnik performance called "Alone." Only one emo meltdown, which was pretty ace. She's off to junior high next year, gulp.

Sammy is still Sammy: obsessed with Broadway (lately, "Annie" and "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Singin' in the Rain"), with writing plays (his latest was a kind of origin story of Hitler, showing how he became evil because of a 2000 year old curse inflicted on his family by a pissed-off pharaoh), with baseball (he could be quite a good little infielder in the David Eckstein mode if he really stuck with it), and with hating George Bush.

[We might not be done.]

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 12:45 (twenty years ago)

Aw thread cuteness reaaching critical mass again!

Btw I can totally buy the pharoah thing.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 12:48 (twenty years ago)

We just did our first solid food eating *experiment*. It was actually a big success. She definitely had a WTF experience but she ate a few spoonfuls! I'm so frigging proud of my daughter.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:43 (twenty years ago)

yay feely, way to eat!

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:44 (twenty years ago)

More baby pictures from the vault, on a horticultural theme:
Tucker (now 21)

Nigel, who's turning 24 on 7/16. I'm getting him an iPod.

There's actually an ancient picture of ME with a peony, too. Runs in the family.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 23:39 (twenty years ago)

i spent father's day at bonnaroo. my wife called and said the kid missed me and had made me a present -- O THE GUILT! (actually, kid was at bonnaroo for a few hours the day before, but i couldn't imagine keeping him there overnight.) anyway, the present was some homemade chocolate truffles (actually made by my sister-in-law) presented to me in a tupperware container with a big fingerpainted handprint on it. cute.

latest kid feat: making cow noises. i am entertained.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 00:33 (twenty years ago)

Nathalie, she is gorgeous!!

― youn (youn), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 00:42 (twenty years ago)

i spent father's day at bonnaroo
Take him camping! We took our boys to the Winterhawk bluegrass festival in Ancramdale, NY for years and years, until WE got sick of the discomforts of camping and the crowds (leaving Martha's Vineyard in mid-July to go to a crowded festival? What were we thinking?). Now they rent a minivan, load it up with camping gear and go without us. Not for the music—they couldn't care less—but for all the friends they made there, other kids who were dragged there by their parents.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 00:50 (twenty years ago)

yeah i definitely plan to take him camping. maybe more in the mountains, tho, and less in a big hot field full of 20-year-olds with 3-foot bongs. (very friendly 20-year-olds, i should add -- the bonnaroo crowd was nice. during the couple hours z was there, he got lots of smiles, people taking his picture, one guy even gave him an inflatable monkey to dance with.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 00:54 (twenty years ago)

Now my kids ARE the bong guys.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 00:56 (twenty years ago)

This is the moment to share this story. Our boys, 12 and 14 at the time, I think, were acting squirrelly, so we did some detective work and followed their footprints in the snow. They had made a tent of sorts in our neighbor's woods, out of trash bags and sticks. Inside was a bottle of liquor that they'd gotten by taking a little bit out of every bottle in their grandmother's fully-stocked liquor cabinet. Even they couldn't drink it. Also, there was a bong constructed out of my older son's empty Prozac prescription bottles. Why oh why did we throw it out? We had to SET A GODDAMN EXAMPLE!

(the Prozac was prescribed for ADD after Ritalin made him lose weight, appear visibly drugged, and become anemic. He's off all those helpful pharmaceuticals now, thank you v. much.)

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 01:08 (twenty years ago)

oh, the pharmaceutical thing. i have a younger brother who's just now coming to resent the wide range of drugs he was prescribed for assorted things from the age of 12 on. he thinks most of them didn't help anything, and a lot of them had bad effects. why did anyone ever think it was a good idea to mess with adolescent brain chemistry? there's this whole generation of kids who grew up popping pills. not that i blame any parents -- including my own, who were just trying to help my brother -- but i think i'm going to be pretty circumspect about anybody trying to sign up my kid as a marketing opportunity for the drug industry.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 01:30 (twenty years ago)

Nathalie, she is gorgeous!!

Oh thanks! I just thought it was me, the mother, who thinks she's so pretty.;-)

This morning we came in the room and she was on her belly. WTF!

Beth, you have such cute sons!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 05:14 (twenty years ago)

Look out Natalie—one minute they're rolling over, the next minute they're toddling down the road! I always had to have a fenced yard. My boys had wanderlust as soon as they could crawl.
The pharmaceutical thing is so hard. If your kid's in trouble you're even more vulnerable to the medical world's "blah blah blah, fully tested, perfectly safe, no long term effects, blah blah blah." In reality, they know NEXT TO NOTHING about these drugs, and as soon as something, like Prozac, has been around long enough to really have been monitored, the patent runs out so the companies start pushing something else.
I know I referred to ADD upthread, but that was lazy shorthand for a whole bunch of stuff that was going on with him. I don't really approve of that catch-all diagnosis. A lot of it has to do with getting the kids medicated to make things easier for teachers, who more often than not have their own kids and are seriously overextended. Americans are so afraid of paying taxes that the public schools will never get the kind of teacher-student ratios that work. We should just go back to the spinster schoolteachers who were pouring all of their sublimated sex drive into their work, and were allowed to smack the little bastards once in a while (just kidding about that last—I'd go ballistic).
Speaking of blah blah blah. I could go on.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:25 (twenty years ago)

oh man I had such a day with the kid yesterday. 6-month doctor checkup, everything is good, he weighed in at 20.5 lbs. Got home, put him to bed, and then when he woke up, I brought him into our bedroom for a round of foot-eating. As I was twisting him around on my lap, he gave me a big kick and pushed right off! Thank god for the new yorker summer fiction issue because it kind of cushioned his fall but he fell right on his head and was super pissed. No bump, just a little pink at point of impact, but I was still on the phone to the doctor to make sure they didn't want to see him. Once I got over my initial mortification everything was fine.

My husband came home early from work (unrelated) and so I went to the grocery store by myself and there was this HOT MOM there with her son and I totally flirted with them. This kid was four and he was so cute, skinny with jug ears and coke-bottle glasses. I told the mom her kid was cute and he totally struck up a conversation with me in the checkout line. Among the things I learned:

"I wear glasses because I can't see small things very well."
Me too. I think they look good on you, men with glasses are handsome. Mom: "See, I told you!"

"I like Batman. I like all the superheroes actually. [significant pause] Even the Justice League."
I feel exactly the same way.

"When I was little my dad called me Elvis because...because...because...Mom, why did he call me Elvis?"
Mom: "Because your hair was as black as mine." [she totally looked like Joan Jett in the 80s, HOT MOM HOT MOM]

"Do you have a son?"
Why yes I do, thanks for asking, I appreciate the opportunity to let your mom know that I'm a parent too and not just some random baby-crazy stranger.

He made his mom drive by me in the parking lot so he could say goodbye. I gave him the devil horns.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:58 (twenty years ago)

EROTIQUE

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 13:00 (twenty years ago)

Cyrus is just now at the stage where he's rapidly developing language. Every couple of days he seems to add a new word to his vocabulary. Now we've got titty-tat, hi, bye bye, night night, light, car, uh-oh, mama, dada, up, out, bottle, ball....

Oh, so much fun!!

Last week was not fun. He had croup and was barking like a seal. His breathing was so laboured, it was pretty scary.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 13:57 (twenty years ago)

I'm totally jealous of you, Teeny, why don't you adopt me and Ophelia? We'll be good, I swear!

Maria, long time no... uh read? It's great to ~~hear~~ read everything's going great (apart from the croup - boo!).

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:12 (twenty years ago)

haha omg that story is awesome, teeny! Lukas is always helping me flirt with hot moms when we go grocery shopping.

In fact, grocery shopping with the boy, apart from the obligatory hot moms, is always a treat these days. He's nothing like me & my sister's were at his age ("mom, we NEED this, it has a free toy inside! [30 seconds later] no actually we need THIS!"), he's patient, he asks politely if he sees something he wants me to buy, he's always eager to push the cart (at like 4'8" or however friggin tall he is now, it's no problem), and lately he's been totally obsessed with expiration dates, which for some reason I find hilarious, especially when we get into the canned foods. Just the awed expressions on his face..."woah, dad, this doesn't expire until 2012!!!!!".

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Also, that was funny of him to say "even the Justice League" when Batman is IN the Justice League!

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:55 (twenty years ago)

OMG I've never posted no pics of the boy on this thread. This one is kinda older (as the date stamp confirms), and it's totally on my myspace, but I love it, and most of y'all haven't seen it:

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/nickstravaganza/LukasEasterBunny.jpg

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Why he was wearing a jacket in Texas, I have no idea.

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 15:14 (twenty years ago)

Very cool. Is he about to punch the rabbit?

(I know I've been an avid reader of this thread anyway but now I'm up the duff myself there'll REALLY be no getting rid of me...)

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 15:20 (twenty years ago)

Oh, here's one from his recent 7th birthday party. He was so excited to open these presents that he didn't bother wiping the pizza sauce off his face:

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/nickstravaganza/100_0936.jpg

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 15:47 (twenty years ago)

What a cute boy! :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Nickalicious, m'friend, you remain the coolest single dad I know. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 19:03 (twenty years ago)

Hey Maria if you wouldn't mind sharing I would really really be interested in your experience breastfeeding with your second. I'm remembering that right, you didn't with your first? My sister in law is about to have her third and is interested in trying to breastfeed for the first time..her second had problems with colic and formula tolerance etc. I fucking love breastfeeding but I know it can be a different set of challenges from formula, and I would love to hear from someone who's been there.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 19:43 (twenty years ago)

oh hey here's a picture too:

http://static.flickr.com/53/172183343_c5424b044e.jpg

adventures in solids!

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 19:57 (twenty years ago)

OK, anyone had an "inappropriate" kisser? Our 2 year old spends some time at day care. A few days ago, as I was picking him up, I advised him that we were leaving, and instructed him to say goodbye to his friends. So, to his best friend Trey: "BYE TREY"! *grabs both sides of Trey's face and-- SMACKEROO! on the lips* I laughed pretty hard, but there were looks of consternation from the employees. I didn't say anything to kiddo, and we left. Couple days later, a similar performance (the grab, a cheek kiss). The next morning before dropping him off, kiddo and I had a little discussion about kissing, and who it is appropriate to kiss. He then started walking around all of the rooms announcing loudly "DON'T KISS TREY! OK! NO, DON'T KISS TREY! OK?" and I'm cracking up again.

Well, we had a relapse, and today Trey got another kiss--on the BACK of his head. So, what do you with a kid who kisses his friends?

The technique, an unprompted demonstration on his little sister:

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/5080/kisser3qg.jpg

― Hunter (Hunter), Thursday, 22 June 2006 04:09 (twenty years ago)

Uh, yeah. When my parents went to look for an appartment when I was about two. The landlady had taken her son with her. Apparently they left us two alone somewhere in a room (or vice versa, we walked off). After a while they found us snogging. Yes, that includes tongue on tongue action. hahahahaha My mother was so embarassed.

Teeny, what a good boy! Our Pheke just spits most out. hahah :-)

I can't count how many times she rolled over completely yesterday.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 22 June 2006 04:54 (twenty years ago)

ARCHEL IS UP THE DUFF!!!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 22 June 2006 10:49 (twenty years ago)

As I do not have a web space with images of little sara, and as I want to do a little proud-mummy-show-off, here she is in a picture that has been taken for a campaign http://www.diesis.it/ufficistampa/img/1231-55.jpg. Please note that:
1)I don't usually do this kind of things, but the photographer was a friend and he needed a baby of Sara's age for the campaign, so I thought why not, as I knew I could trust him
2)I am not obvioulsy the lady who is holding my baby. Considering my pregnant belly at the moment I wouldn't have fit in the seat anyway, but I probably I wouldn't fit the "model requirements" even when i'm no-pregnant size ;)
3) I've never posted an image, so it may simply not show, in that case, sorry

― misshajim (strand), Friday, 23 June 2006 09:47 (twenty years ago)

oh please, it's too big! somebody do something about it! sorry everybody

― misshajim (strand), Friday, 23 June 2006 09:48 (twenty years ago)

Wow. It's massive, but it does show! And Sara is totally cute :)

xpost

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 23 June 2006 09:50 (twenty years ago)

Sara is beautiful! I hope you got loads of cash for that. I would like Ava to appear in a campaign for Pot Noodle or Hob-Nobs.

Perhaps someone with PhotoShop skills can turn my pic of Ava upthread into an ad for Grado headphones?

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 23 June 2006 10:08 (twenty years ago)

Haha, "I nostri treni sono i piu sicuri in Europa" ... perche' sono i piu lenti in Europa? All the trains I've ever caught in Italy have been total trundlers. Maybe I'm just taking the wrong ones.

Gorgeous picture of Sara, though.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 23 June 2006 10:32 (twenty years ago)

Yes I had some perplexities about the contents of the campaign myself, but then I thought it would be even better to get money from them. if they ever pay us...

― misshajim (strand), Friday, 23 June 2006 11:00 (twenty years ago)

What a beautiful photo.

Today Rufus said as we were riding in the car through the denuded forest (caterpillars have defoliated), "I want to get a gun that shoots real bullets and kill everything that's bad and that would make me really, really, really GOOD!"

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Saturday, 24 June 2006 01:17 (twenty years ago)

That's exactly how it works!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 24 June 2006 01:48 (twenty years ago)

xpost Ah man, I love it when kids get philosophical and outwit us with it. :-)

misshajim, you have such a beautiful, cute, pretty daughter. But you didn't need me to tell you that, I'm sure. :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 24 June 2006 06:27 (twenty years ago)

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