Bear Down Wildcats

Great pics everyone.

Longhorned wrote:

YES, LH!!

Thanks!

Best thread ever!

Chicat wrote:I love everything about that picture. Awesome...

thx, J -- on the rad kid front your boys are on point!!!

the frickin older one is damn crack-up!

LH, so happy for you -- it's easily the best thing on the planet and no doubt you're gonna be a great dad.

love every minute of it, my man -- JG

97cats wrote:LH, so happy for you -- it's easily the best thing on the planet and no doubt you're gonna be a great dad.

love every minute of it, my man -- JG

Thanks, J. I'll try to love every minute, even when she pulls me out of a dream at 4 AM for literally no other conceivable reason than she suddenly decides that she wants to be bounced.

^^^^
angel

Really glad no one in our community here is having ugly babies

Yeah, they're definitely wild things . . . but they're my wild things and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Reading it to my kid, every time I see Max howling and dancing on that page of the book, I stop and wonder why that looks so familiar. Suddenly it hit me.

LOL, just bought that book for my daughter a couple months ago. Don't know why I waited so long.

Puerco wrote:LOL, just bought that book for my daughter a couple months ago. Don't know why I waited so long.

This has to be the best illustration in the book:

^ one of my son's favorite books. My two boys sure were wild things.



Daughter, with hubby. I'm the old man in the middle.

Damn Merk, your sock tan line is on point....

Chicat wrote:Damn Merk, your sock tan line is on point....

It's to prove that I actually have a tan! Damn Merk, you got some white legs!

Hold on, let me show you my tan lines!

If President Meyer's White House Spokesperson Mike McLintock had hair and wore jorts....

Old Easter picture but it's probably my favorite one because of his expression (which is the opposite of his personality)


1st birthday picture:


Saturday, pre-game:

Great pics Bug.

Outlaw.

He looks great, Bug!

Thanks! I've alwasy felt like he just posed after killing the duck

He made that duck his bitch!

Cute kid! We're taking up a collection to get him a vintage Miles Simon jersey. You're welcome...

Chicat wrote:He made that duck his bitch!

On planet Earth, Easter features chicks, a.k.a. baby chickens, not ducks.

Baby animals of all sorts are a symbol of Spring. Take the lamb for instance...

6 months old to the day today, and decimating an adult-sized chicken sandwich.



Yep. Now I'm pretty sure she's mine.

^^^^^^way cute, LH.

First day of preschool. Prefers wearing backpack as a frontpack.

Damn fine looking kids LH & SG. Well done.

Chicat wrote:Damn fine looking kids LH & SG. Well done.

Thank you Chi

Here's one more of my little dude.

6 months, 3 days -

My little Henry VIII with a giant chicken leg. Up next: an entire wheel of cheese.

From Thanksgiving

Kids are awesome. PM me your address so I can send that ankle-biter some UA gear.

I'm almost 31 now and have been married for all of 8 months and I'm just now beginning to feel the slight twitchings of wanting a kid. My entire life I've abhorred the idea but maybe 5-10% of me now actually looks at a baby and thinks it's not just awful.

It changes your life, to say the least. Nothing wrong with being 1 and done either.

As long as you or your wife are ready to retire from your job. What's the point in working when your entire income goes to day care?

scumdevils86 wrote:I'm almost 31 now and have been married for all of 8 months and I'm just now beginning to feel the slight twitchings of wanting a kid. My entire life I've abhorred the idea but maybe 5-10% of me now actually looks at a baby and thinks it's not just awful.

Oh, but it is awful.

Of course, it's also joyous.

The %'s of each vary from kid to kid

MrBug708 wrote:It changes your life, to say the least. Nothing wrong with being 1 and done either.

Only children are awful

Have 2.... get a vasectomy... and start counting down the days until they move out

Two, with discussions of going for number 3 in 18-24 months from now.

The old catholic italian genes in me really want a boy, but if I get another girl, that than would be 3 weddings and a lot of hormones during teenage years.

Alieberman wrote:

MrBug708 wrote:It changes your life, to say the least. Nothing wrong with being 1 and done either.

Only children are awful

Have 2.... get a vasectomy... and start counting down the days until they move out

that's my plan. unless we have 2 boys or 2 girls...then the wife would want to try for a 3rd to even it out.

What I don't get is people who are interested in kids. I like to see posters' kids because I'm in this posting community, and I like my kid. But when I'm in a store with my kid, or with a friend and their kids, all these strangers just congregate around the kids as though they were free bacon. I don't notice the kids at all, unless they annoy me because they're in my way.

Alieberman wrote:

MrBug708 wrote:It changes your life, to say the least. Nothing wrong with being 1 and done either.

Only children are awful

Have 2.... get a vasectomy... and start counting down the days until they move out

You mean count down the decades.

Longhorned wrote:What I don't get is people who are interested in kids. I like to see posters' kids because I'm in this posting community, and I like my kid. But when I'm in a store with my kid, or with a friend and their kids, all these strangers just congregate around the kids as though they were free bacon. I don't notice the kids at all, unless they annoy me because they're in my way.

my exact thinking as well. my wife has taken care of children her entire life, whether because it was her younger half siblings, for her job as a pre school teacher, or when she nannied for countless families so it is second nature to her. but i literally have never seen a baby in my life and had even a fleeting interest in it. i mostly just wanted it to go away.

now this appeared to change when i spent xmas in wisconsin and a lot of time around my wife's 1 year old cousin. some strange feeling came over me that one of those little fuckers wouldn't be all that bad all the time. scary shit.

scumdevils86 wrote:

Alieberman wrote:

MrBug708 wrote:It changes your life, to say the least. Nothing wrong with being 1 and done either.

Only children are awful

Have 2.... get a vasectomy... and start counting down the days until they move out

that's my plan. unless we have 2 boys or 2 girls...then the wife would want to try for a 3rd to even it out.

As a father of 2 boys, my biggest fear was having 3 boys

Stop at 2 no matter what.

Like Sean Miller I prefer playing a man-to-man defense over a zone

Alieberman wrote:

scumdevils86 wrote:

Alieberman wrote:

MrBug708 wrote:It changes your life, to say the least. Nothing wrong with being 1 and done either.

Only children are awful

Have 2.... get a vasectomy... and start counting down the days until they move out

that's my plan. unless we have 2 boys or 2 girls...then the wife would want to try for a 3rd to even it out.

As a father of 2 boys, my biggest fear was having 3 boys

Stop at 2 no matter what.

Like Sean Miller I prefer playing a man-to-man defense over a zone

that's my strategy but we'll see if i win out hah.

See, I have a boy and really have no desire to have a girl, mostly because I don't want new things for the girl, especially clothes. Most of the clothes are hand me downs from friends whose kids outgrew it and we'll pass it on to the next friend in our group.

If I knew then what I know now I don't think I would have had any in the first place.

MrBug708 wrote:See, I have a boy and really have no desire to have a girl, mostly because I don't want new things for the girl, especially clothes. Most of the clothes are hand me downs from friends whose kids outgrew it and we'll pass it on to the next friend in our group.

I only dress my girl in boy's clothes. When family members send her gifts of girl's clothes, I pass them on to somebody else with the tag still on them.

MrBug708 wrote:See, I have a boy and really have no desire to have a girl, mostly because I don't want new things for the girl, especially clothes. Most of the clothes are hand me downs from friends whose kids outgrew it and we'll pass it on to the next friend in our group.

I've heard lots of good arguments about not wanting to have kids but not wanting to cloth them is a new one for me!

pretty much everything about having kids and raising them sounds awful. (at least from when they're born to their 20-30 and independent...hopefully). no thank you.