Plenty of drooling and biting, but no teeth just yet. At least the initial frenzy has died down!

Ali, how about a pic of all four kids? :)

Yeah Ali, how ABOUT pictures of all four kids, hmm?

to Chocolatl and Aliantha

I carried SonofV in a sling for a long time, back in the day and I loved it. Here's a link to show how to carry a young baby on your back or side with a single piece of cloth. I hope you enjoy the link, however you carry the baby.

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-...tyle/?ALLSTEPS

I'll post a pic of the whole lot of them soon Choco. Good luck with the teething then. lol

V, I used a sling often with Max. He loved it. Eva isn't so impressed, but maybe she'll get used to it. It's pretty hot weather here since she was born, so maybe she just gets hot. Not sure. I used it with Max till he was almost 2.

We've got a front carrier that I use fairly often. Beans wasn't too impressed with the sling, either -- I think we suffer from the same heat problem.

Since the ladies offered nuttin' - Here are my three.

there's an "adopted" joke in there somewhere, but honestly, I just want to say, what a beautiful family! Sir, you have a great deal to be proud of!

Boy #1
 

is here:

boy #2 is more elusive since he's moved to Cincinnati. I'll get him next time.

OMG Classic, The son on the right is like mini-classic. Gorgeous kids, good thing you've got two flankers for your dau.


Triliobyte: That's a handsome boy. His hat's on backwards. Is he in the music business? Does he call you dude?

I love these cellar offspring!

He really is mini-Classic!

Nice lookin' kid, Trilby. Tell him I said 'yo.' :)

I love these pictures of older kids. One, because you can really see the resemblance to their parent dwellars more, and two, because even though people start to get tired of you by the time you've been around for a dozen years, big kids need just as much attention as the adorable little'uns.

thanks.
Yes.
No.
No.


He's a die-hard baseball/football/basketball fan.


he's also a ref for basketball and an ump for baseball. he actually got certified at OSU! But he's a business major so all he cares about is money and really horribly superficial women and working out. But he's my precious and I loves him. He's also a rabid Christian Republican. We have interesting talks.

I'd forgotten about that Cake song. Thanks! I really liked it.

and yeah, my son is in those lyrics somewhere. Definitely.

danny my magician son....

again as an elf...

He really, really , really loves his job.

Ha! That elf picture is great!

I'm on a binge....the job has it's perks....

more..eating fire

last one....promise! these are the people he hangs out with...Danny is in the black half ninja mask...

onnnnnnnne more....with flapper

He's quite the social butterfly. Looks happy!

Shoot, babba - I thought I saw me in my twenties there, with pink hair.
No more pics of Mr Hottie please, you know how I am about gingers. It's inappropriate and you would have to slap me upside the head.

Seriously though, you squeezed out two fine boys.

He's the one with (what was) crippling OCD and I had to kick him out.

Best thing I ever did for him. He's in a job he ADORES with loads of friends (all circus people, like him; so, all weird) and he lives with an ex Ben-Gal cheerleader in Cincy - which he loves. he says dayton is soooooo boring now's he's seen cincinnati! lol!

thanks, Sundae. They are my precious. They are my amethyst and opal. they are my suns.

I see what you did there.

Both very handsome guys, and how lucky that Danny has found something he's passionate about and so obviously enjoys!

thanks gals & guys.
Foot3 - I do have a mini me. Its truly frightening.

Good lookin young men, Tribly. Ya done well.

I've been meaning to tell you classic----you've got a nice bunch there but your girl----she's a killer!

Thanks, thats nice of you to say.

Ya'll have wonderful looking kids. Very nice.

Trilby - Can I get a job at the circus?? please! I'm very good at panda imitations

Yeah! They're always looking for a good panda! you'd have to move to Cincinnati, though.

you know, brown eyes in my family is considered very exotic.

we've only three brown eyed people in our whole extended family!! that's weird.

Glad to hear he's come to grips with the OCD, one way or another. He does look very happy in his new situation. Good for you, Tril.

Pink hair and biguns in both people pics... Sundae is watching over him

You know, after I posted that he had crippling OCD so I kicked him out I realized that sounded rather cruel if you didn't know the machinations I went thru to get that boy help. Three different docs told him he had OCD and here's the med for it---he refused the med and disparaged all three docs with , "They think I'm crazy!!!" I was there in the room with them. Nobody said 'crazy' at all. He refused to go to a therapist I offered to pay for----and a good one, at that, which is no easy feat to find. Refused. When he came at me, all 6' 6" of him, I told him to get out or I'd call the police. He was pissed and that was all last Jan. He's seeing a therapist on his own now but I am forbidden to talk / ask about it, which is fine. Once he didn't have a punching bag to blame all his mojo on he had to deal with it. That's how all that came about.

Oh I remember, you posted a lot about it at the time. You put up with a hell of a lot before you finally had to do the tough love thing.

6'6".
Can I swoon any more...?

this wonderful result might have seemed unimaginable at the time. I love a story with a happy ending (middle? current episode?) :)

What? Me boinking Bri's ginger son?

believe me-you don't want to.

he's 22. Yuck. I like my men with some seasoning on them, ya know?

I'm wondering about a stage magician with OCD. Does he always pull two rabbits out of the hat?

he just keeps pulling it out over and over

Actually the OCD helps with the training---doing the same trick over and over and over until it's perfect. It's the "magic" rituals that finally got to me. If he enters a certain room he has to do a ritual with his feet or hands (something he thinks other people don't notice but I notice) and he's weird about food (as you can see he's a bit on the thin side) all he has to do is take one little pill a day and these compulsions would go away but he won't do it. He thinks he should be able to OUT THINK his own brain wiring. Like a depressed person willing themself out of depression. All I know is that willing yourself out of chemical nuttiness doesn't work BUT he is better.

I once willed myself out of a broken ankle. It took me 8 weeks in a cast, but I was finally successful!

j/k But that is kind of how my wife thinks. She still thinks a) she's not depressed and b) Depression is a weakness of character.

that's what Danny thinks, too.

It drives me batty when he doesn't have to suffer but insists that he does.

He has the perfect 'entertainers' face Tril. I hope this sustains him for a long while, since he loves it so much.

thanks. He is charming when he wants to be. and he has a good smile.

it's funny--when I was pregnant with him his father (who has dark brown hair) said, "He'd better not have red hair!" (my family has it) and what do you know- I got a redhead anyway!

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Trying to settle the argument with my aunt of who my daughter looks like, I pulled this together. That's me on the left and Kitsune on the right.

I'm going to say Kitsune, but there's obviously plenty of you in there Choco.

The facial expression makes Beans match Kits more, but with a smiling photo of you, that might reverse.

I think she looks like Kitsune way more than me. It's funny, though, because people say she either looks JUST like me or JUST like him. No one says "Oh, a good mix!"

Either way, I'm not sure where her abject cuteness comes from.

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I think the sunglasses help with the cute bit. lol Could be those chubby cheeks too though. ;)

I've had people tell me my girls look just like me, then they meet Pete and suggest I wasn't there at all...

My mother-in-law seems to think that the highest compliment you can give someone is that their children resemble them. She is most especially determined to do this when the child is mixed-race like two of her grandchildren. Someday she's going to start marveling in the grocery store at the cross-racial resemblance of what turns out to be an adopted child, I'm just waiting with bated breath.

I noticed older Asians do the same. My mom said we should say the baby looks like the dad so his side of the family would love the baby. It's usually the mother's side of the family who loves and care for the baby more. I don't know about this society, but for Vietnamese, the woman goes home to her mother to give birth and to be taken cared for.

I brought the box of pictures in to work last night, and started scanning them. These are all from the pre digital days....

Spencer was a cute little bugger:

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Easter Egg Hunt!



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Yum, Squash!

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Boo! Eagles! Don't worry.. I made sure he's a Cowboy's Fan


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Cover of Kids Quarterly?