Love those eyes.

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"Mwahaha!"

Yeah. I'm done for.

Oh yeah Yer toast !!
or would that be Toast and Beans ???

So cute!

she's showing you your new location/posture for the next couple decades. "see this little finger right here? you and my pinkie are going to get to know each other very, *very* well." [/voice of father of daughter experience]

So beautiful!

Yes, Choco, you are totally done for. :)

She only weighed 300 lbs at birth...
The Oregonian
12/12/03

Baby elephant at Oregon Zoo

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The naming contest has begun...

Beans has a very strong chin for a baby. I think you guys are in trouble. lol

Sooo cute though. :)

Is that your wife Lamp? ;)

(this is the pics of your offspring thread after all. It's a reasonable question right?)

Everyone in Oregon claims parentage.

Thanks, all!

A new one -- Beans enjoys the best selling novel, Fish Book.

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(It's delicious.)

she's devouring it!


eta: do you really call her beans? just here on the cellar? cause I think it's perfectly suited and impossibly cute--it doesn't matter--*I'm* callin her Beans. freakin adorable cutie bean.

She's so pretty!

A lot of times I do actually call her Beans. Her real name is Anna, but I call her "Annabeans," or "Little Bean."

That's my niece's name. :)

She gets a lot of AnnaBanana. ;)

but not ShaunaBanauna...

I lived with a girl who called herself AnnaBanana.
I thought it very silly - she was 19 (preggers by the time she was 20 - I guess she liked bananas!)

But Mum used to call me CherryBonBon and my other housemate, who'd known me since grammar school called me Cherry-Berry so really I didn't have a leg to stand on.
I still miss being called Berrily by a friend I lost (Cherrily Berrily, Cherrily Berrily, Gently down the stream).

Beans is a beauty.

My oldest son and frau. Guess he's about 47 He's the one that told me, he didn't like old people. Wear the shoe now

Chocolat: Bean is adorable!

Buster: You've got a fine looking son. Why were they dressed so nice?

My grandson and a friend at his parents wedding. They're both about 3 1/2. They play together and go to the same school. Right now he's telling everyone that she's his sister.

In about 12 years he's going to regret that.;)

He got most of my son's looks. Theres a lot of clone talk.:rolleyes:

To avoid too much gratuitous multi-posting, I'm combining replies.

Stick a guitar in his hand and you have a Springsteen album cover.


Woot is selling "retro" toys. I recognized most of them.


Nice attitude. Saw parts of the history of Vogue on some cable channel yesterday. She'd fit right in.


I like the looks on her face. It's like she's saying "Yep, I caught this one."

Choco, Beans is adorable.

A quick cell phone pic of the kids guarding the tree we picked out this afternoon.

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They look adorable!

SonofV was warming a cheesy garlic breadstick in the microwave the other day. He did a marvelous job of it too, since when he opened the door to the microwave and picked it up, it was too hot to handle. He bobbled it and caught it, burned his fingers again and bobbled it again, repeat, repeat. This was happening right at the open door to the microwave but he was losing the battle as his bats and bumps bounced the bread off the doors of the cabinet, getting lower and lower and lower. He kept with it, I'll give him that, until he was bent over double, hands almost to the floor then, plop. The bread fell on the floor. By this time he'd chased the bread down and to the left as you face the open microwave door. With the bread on the floor, there was no more need to be bent over like that, so he stood up.

...

Right under the corner of the open door of the microwave. Ouch. He kept walking forward as the corner of the door, open to the maximum, ploughed a furrow in his back. It was loud, too. Fortunately, blood was only summoned to the surface and not actually drawn. He knew it hurt, but he had no idea what it looked like, so, now we all do.

Oh, the bread? We abide by the five second rule in this house. I leaned over picked it up, and he ate it.

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Ooooh nasty! I'm sure the cheesy bread helped relieve the pain though. ;)

you could call it comfort food.

Yeouch!

Ahh, the rule about standing up carefully in a kitchen with high-mounted cupboards (and microwaves) is an important lesson in life. Most people learn it with damage to their head, though.

Microwave: 1
Son of V: 0

My girls:

Cute girls!

Love the smug look on the younger (I think?) one.

Thanks :D. They're 7 and 17. The 7 yr old (first pic) was smirking at me because I gave her a hard time about her bangs hanging in her face, so I put a frilly "baby" bow in her bangs and took a picture.

There's a two pack of trouble. They look very happy Stormie!

Minifobette's hair is pulling straight again, the longer it gets. Here she is showing off her new skirt.

She's huge, Clod! In my mind's eye she's still just crawling.

Heh... she's actually quite small for her age. She'll turn five in April, starts Kindergarten in less than a year. :eek:

a-DOR-able!!

Kids always look so cute.

You have to admit there are some crazy folks on this site, but they sure do produce great kids!

I see why Tiger's sister Kitty reminds you of her, I can see the resemblance in reverse. Except that Kitty is BIG for her age - she'll start Reception in September next year.

Wow, I love the look in her eyes.

So defintiely a minifob!
There is so much of you in her.

Very cute. She looks so elfin, I almost expected to see pointed ears.;)

Oh yes, pretty as her mom. :thumb:

My son and I went over to Arlington National Cemetery this morning to help lay wreaths at the graves. I was happy to see the thousands of volunteers who turned out to help.

You're supposed to take your time and read each stone as you are placing the wreath. Take a moment to straighten the bow and make it look nice. We only placed about ten each because there were so many people there to help, but it was a good experience.

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Each year they expand the program, but still haven't raised enough funds to place a wreath on each grave. I'd guess we ran out of wreaths when half the cemetery was covered. Those sections looked nice when we were done though.
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That's a nice action (and a good photo) but I'd rather see the resources diverted to VA. Go and help people like Buster fix his sink, and make sure Big Sarge's meds arrive on time.

Thank you, though.

There's actually enough coin in this country to do both, it's just that bailouts and corporate welfare don't come cheap, so someone has to pay.

I can't disagree with you, Zen. There is a lot of need out there. An individual volunteer, or even charitable organization, can't do it all. In fact, I think if you look at all the need out there and try to detrmine the best place to help out, you can become overwhelmed and not help at all. But when little opportunities like this come up, it's worthwhile to join in. Like Clodfobble's decorated highway, this will lift the spirits of the people who see it, and it gets my kid in the habit of helping out. And it's a small enough job that you can see what you accomplished. It's also the kind of thing a kid can do.

I don't think you need to defend what you did, Glatt. As I said, we have the resources in this country to do both, that was what you could do and made sense for you to do. It's important to honor the dead AND take care of the living.

They were taking photos at Minifobette's therapy clinic for a little Christmas ornament craft. To get a natural smile on each kid, they were being silly and making faces. Except Minifobette is keenly aware that therapy is serious business and she is 100% compliant. So she promptly did what she thought she was being told to do.




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:lol: :p: back at ya, sweetie!

She is so adorable clodfobble. What a beauty!

Oh boy, a spoon!
Oh! Oatmeal?
D:

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Priceless.

OATMEAL?!

What've you got against oatmeal?

eta:sorry, I was ... being lazy.

[grossly ignorant] Isn't Beans a little young for solids yet? [/GI]

Zen -- I thought so, too, but turns out babies are okay to start thin solids between 4 and 6 months. (I'd always heard 6 as the start.) Beans is 4.5 months old, now, and at her check up today the pediatrician told us to get started. A few teaspoons once a day to help her body get used to digesting something other than milk. It's also cereal formulated for babies -- like instant mashed potatoes, very smooth.

V -- We'll try rice tomorrow -- hopefully that'll go over a little better. She's 1/4 Asian and 1/4 Hispanic, so she should be genetically predisposed to like rice... :)

I have been trying eva on a few solids over the last couple of weeks. So far no interest at all. Maybe next week. Yes, she is only just hitting 4 months, so no big deal. Just giving her an option. One day she will change her mind. Till then she's happy with her bottle. :)

Choco, did beans cut a tooth yet? I dont think eva is too far off it. Shes been chewing everything in sight. lol