your family looks very happy kegmama!
do yr kids play any instruments?

Ha! They remind me of my cousin's kids. Almost the same ages. Quinn, the older sister, and Rhys, the younger brother.

Four year old boys are the coolest to hang out with.

I'll take some time to read through the thread. But in the meantime: it must be scary to think that your little girl is interested in boys!

Is Evan 4? Why has it never registered with me that he's the same age as Kitty? She was 4 in January and she had a great party.

I'll post some pictures when I get the chance, but for now I can tell you that Kitty and Seth are both doing well. I'm off work all this week, so we're doing lots of stuff together.

Yesterday we went to the park and played Pooh sticks for the first time (corny I know). Seth is walking now, but still isn't saying any words (Kitty was saying loads by his age!).

Kitty is such a lovely girl, and is becoming really good company, by which I mean you can have conversations with her!

She's really getting interested in space at the moment. Watching a quiz show recently, she amazed her mother by very matter-of-factly answering the question, What is the biggest planet in the solar system?

Holy shit, Pookie you're back!

Kids are a lot of work. But they grow and go away, and then you can enjoy yourself again, so it's not like it's forever. Still if you're not willing to work really hard and feel totally unappreciated for everything you do for them, I can't blame you.

Dogs are easier.

I've considered that but after a lot of thought, I came to the conclusion that, no, that is not the case.

Maybe they're just shit kids?

I've gone over the security camera tapes a hundred times.

Work harder.

This is the only recent picture with both children in. That boy just won't stand still. A visit to a castle. Fun and educational.

 

That would make a cool record cover.

pookie your kids are so damn cute

however, i thank god i'm not a sonic parent, because i'm not, as gmku said, cool with sacrificing all my free time and feeling totally unappreciated by them. and i don't like dogs either. the cats will just have to do.

So I guess I'm the only Grandad on the board?
My baby boy turned 30 last month!
His babies are Oliver (18 months) and Sofia (3 months)

So here's Oliver



and here's his sister

Hey, they have their hair done by the same guy as Kegmama's son!


That top one is a lovely picture.

I just joined this list last Saturday with my son, who is currently (already) in the hospital fighting an infection. It was apparently a very big deal, but he, and the scads of anti-biotics, seems to have beaten it.

I also have a genetic daughter of ten, who was adopted by a family in an open adoption, who I get to see. She was going to meet my son tomorrow, until the infection thing went down. Sad, because tomorrow is my mom's birthday, and she was very excited for them to meet.

Congratulations! And I'm glad to hear that your son is winning the battle with the infection.

Yeah it's cute!
Unfortunately Oliver's has grown out now, but he's still cute.:)

cute!

i have been recently informed that i'm going to be a sonic sibling in the fall (and a sonic step-sibling in april)

this is going to be weird being almost 19 years older than this kid.
word of advice: don't have kids when you're 40. please. the generation gap will be overbearing.

i'd argue the opposite-- work out your fucked up neuroses in your 20s and wait until your 30s or 40s to have kids. that way you won't take your shit out on the poor bastards. there's a reason why grandparents are cooler than parents-- they are not burdened by utter ignorance of life. they are comfortable in their own skin. they don't give a fuck about small shit. i had less "generation gap" with my great grandmother than with my parents. she was funny as fuck & told awesome ghost stories. the parents on the other hand were too nervous trying to look good & make it in life. annoying.

on that note-- my cousin who was raised by my great grandma turned up to be the coolest, sanest and most successful and happy of the rest of us. true story.

oh see, my mom had me when she was my age and it worked out really well. i would say 30 is the limit for me though.

im gonna ask for 3rd party verification on that :p

wtf?
blow me.

HA HA HA HA


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come on now...

I had this in the post a picutre of yourself thread, but realized that it probably belongs here...

Great picture afterthefact.

This thread makes me feel sorry for all the poor childless people on this board.:(

Here's mine (re-posted in this thread at Kegmama's request) - she already has exquisite taste in music and literature as she 1) only throws my Bach CDs around the room and 2) managed to mangle a page of my favourite book (Pynchon's V). :D

http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/att...4&d=1206655776

so wait ... if grandma cantanky was also 18... she'd be 54 now.

my grandpop was born '06. thats right 1906. and he's still fuckin kicking it in san deigo at a hundred and fucking two this summer. that's 3 generations a century. compared to 3 generations in 50 years.

americans, CHILL OUT WITH THE BABY MAKING ALREADY!!!!

That's a fantastic picture!!!

Went to the park yesterday and had fun in the snow for the couple of hours before it all melted.

 

grandma cantankerous was 27
she is now 63

Yes, it's been a while. Seth is really well. He's 1 1/2 now and finally starting to speak. He's the jolliest child I've ever known. He wakes up in the morning smiling and chatting, smiles and laughs all day, and then goes to bed with a smile at the end of the day.
I have difficulty taking decent pictures of him because he won't stay still for long enough, but here's a recent one:

 

Kitty is starting primary school in September, which I guess is the same as kindergarten because she'll be five in January. We've been to the school a few times now and she's really excited about going.
She's really into Scooby Doo at the moment for some reason. She's so clever (in the way that girls of her age are) that you find yourself outwitted way too often.

Glad your children are doing well. I don't want to think about boyfriends at the moment, but I know it will happen one day. I'm so going to be the scary daddy that puts any potential boyfriend off. Is Kellian's "boyfriend" rich from all his acting? Will I see him on the cover of the gossip mags in ten years?
How different are boys!? Seth too is rough and crazy. It's good to see that Evan is doing well. I can't believe he's five soon either. I still picture him as a tiny toddler (albeit with a mohican), it certainly is scary.

Looking forward to some more pics!

Incidentally, for the last two months and for at least another month, I'm a house-husband while the wifey goes off to work. So I'm a full-time daddy.

pookie, your children are perfect

Gawd bless ya. They certainly bring much joy to my life.

I would also like to say I hope that your son is turning into a young me. I remember you stating that you hoped he would.

i can't help but feeling that if i had a unit of offspring i would actually have something constructive to do. but no. not now.

I've already starting him swinging off lamp posts!

Definitely not now. Something to do a little later in life. I'm glad I didn't have children until I was a bit older.

this is good advice and i will heed it

That's bloody dangerous! When I was his age I was eating sausage rolls and watching The Moomins with my big sister. Safety first.