OT: I'm gonna be a dad!

In article <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]> wrote:

> SWMBO told me late Sun night.
>
> It's our first child, due (according to some arcane device she calls
> The Wheel) late in Aug. Holy shit.
>
> When my wife told her grandfather, his tongue-in-cheek reply was, "Tell
> old whatchacallim congratulations. I didn't think he had it in him."
>
> Guess I better hurry up and get Dave's ten-foot table done and start on
> a crib, huh?
>
> -Phil Crow

Congrats, Phil!

This is where you realize what your Mom meant when she said "Just you
wait till *you* have kids!"

<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> SWMBO told me late Sun night.
>
> It's our first child, due (according to some arcane device she calls
> The Wheel) late in Aug. Holy shit.
>
> When my wife told her grandfather, his tongue-in-cheek reply was, "Tell
> old whatchacallim congratulations. I didn't think he had it in him."
>
> Guess I better hurry up and get Dave's ten-foot table done and start on
> a crib, huh?

A big congratulations to you! I just found out a couple of weeks ago that
I'm gonna be a dad for the second time myself.

Now onto the baby woodworking!!
Babies are a very cool thing.
SH

"Silvan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Slowhand wrote:
>
>> A big congratulations to you! I just found out a couple of weeks ago
>> that
>> I'm gonna be a dad for the second time myself.
>
> Have you got your new job lined up yet? :)

As if two houses, a 20 unit condo, and a military base classroom doesn't
already keep me up at night. ;-).

The worst part is last time I had a child, I was building a custom harley.
Ended up selling it because I never had time to ride. Guess what? I'm
about a month away from being done with another one. Anyone in the market
for a custom?

> Yowza, nobody told me two kids = three times as expensive.

Now now now, you know children are priceless ;-)
SH - The child rearing woodworker

I called my mom last night, and she, too, was overjoyed. After the
initial pleasantries, she told me, and I quote:

"Son, it's time for you to pay for your raising."

With added interest and penalties, I'll be completely gray before the
child is toilet-trained.

-Phil Crow

Thanks. Hopefully, the baby will be better about sleeping through the
night than I was. My grandfather told me once that as a baby staying
at his house one night that he and I "rocked all the way to Bogalusa
and back." Funny how things change. These days, I seriously wonder if
the smoke alarm would wake me up.

-Phil Crow

<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> SWMBO told me late Sun night.
>
> It's our first child, due (according to some arcane device she calls
> The Wheel) late in Aug. Holy shit.
>
> When my wife told her grandfather, his tongue-in-cheek reply was, "Tell
> old whatchacallim congratulations. I didn't think he had it in him."
>
> Guess I better hurry up and get Dave's ten-foot table done and start on
> a crib, huh?
>
> -Phil Crow
>

We had a set of twins in March of Y2K. I was able to stay home for the
first 6 months and after the first night of neither of us getting any sleep,
we worked in shifts.

When I was on the midnight to 6:00 AM shift, I would pack the kids into
their carriers and head to Denny's. If they were asleep I tossed them under
the counter, and if they were awake they were on top of the counter making
goo goo with the waitress.

Our lives have not been the same since. Mom can't wait for September and
pack them off to school.

Some pointers, buy cheap at the thrift stores. Your little monster will
grow out of everything real fast. Same thing with the toys.

Congratulations.

--

Roger Shoaf

About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then
they come up with this striped stuff.

Thanks to all for the kind words. I guess I'll try to live it up for
now, because in the not-too distant future, I guess my idea of a great
night will be one where I get to sleep through it. *sigh*. I am
pretty fired up about it, though.

-Phil Crow

Tue, Jan 4, 2005, 5:48pm (EST-3) [email protected] says:
SWMBO told me late Sun night. <snip>

I take it you're happy, so congrats.

Remember, don't bother with a cradle, make a rocking chair. You'll
get lots more use out of one.



JOAT
EVERY THING THAT HAPPENS STAYS HAPPENED.
- Death

Tue, Jan 4, 2005, 5:48pm (EST-3) [email protected] says:
<snip> It's our first child, <snip>

Oh, yeah. No worries about ever knowing when the kid needs his/her
diaper changed. First off, you'll notice a mild odor. Something like
a fertilizer factory on a hot day, but a bit less of a flowery smell.
Then, when you get the kid changed, he/she will look at you, sort of
scrunch up his/her face, then smile. Then you'll know the kid needs
changing. I just wish I could see your face the first time that happens
and it hits you what just happened. LMAO



JOAT
EVERY THING THAT HAPPENS STAYS HAPPENED.
- Death

Their hollow leg syndrome? Or is that merely an introduction?

On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 01:11:50 -0600, Patriarch
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Silvan <[email protected]> wrote in
>news:[email protected]:
>
><snip>
>> Yowza, nobody told me two kids = three times as expensive.
>>
>
>Has anybody told you about the cost of teenagers yet?
>
>Patriarch

[email protected] wrote:

> SWMBO told me late Sun night.
>
> It's our first child, due (according to some arcane device she calls
> The Wheel) late in Aug. Holy shit.

Congratulations! Buy him/her a set of tools too while you're at it. :)

I just had a great time in the shop with my ten year old son and seven year
old daughter making a ridiculously fancy walnut and brass bile bag clamp
for Mommy.

--
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Dave Balderstone wrote:

> This is where you realize what your Mom meant when she said "Just you
> wait till *you* have kids!"

Yeah buddy. In spades, shovels, buckets, and maybe even plastic tubs.

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patrick conroy wrote:

> 4) Drop the "Sh*t" - it's "Gosh Darn It!" and "Dagnabbit!" now...

Or it was until we went to a restaurant with a friend of mine who taught my
son all kinds of new words.

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[email protected] wrote:

> Thanks to all for the kind words. I guess I'll try to live it up for
> now, because in the not-too distant future, I guess my idea of a great
> night will be one where I get to sleep through it. *sigh*. I am
> pretty fired up about it, though.

Your idea of a great night will be one where you don't get some combination
of vomit, fecal material or urine directed toward your person, and
especially your face, whether you sleep through it or not. :)

Babies are leaky little critters. Fortunately they grow out of that in
about three years.

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Mortimer Schnerd, RN wrote:

> Silvan wrote:
>> patrick conroy wrote:
>>
>>> 4) Drop the "Sh*t" - it's "Gosh Darn It!" and "Dagnabbit!" now...
>>
>> Or it was until we went to a restaurant with a friend of mine who taught
>> my son all kinds of new words.
>
>
> If he didn't he would have learned them in school anyway... or on TV. You
> can't shield them forever.

Yeah, true, but my son didn't have "holy motherfucking shit!!" in his
vocabulary until that particular misadventure.

I enjoyed explaining that one to the principal.

You thought the principal's office sucked when you were a kid...

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Slowhand wrote:

> A big congratulations to you! I just found out a couple of weeks ago that
> I'm gonna be a dad for the second time myself.

Have you got your new job lined up yet? :)

Yowza, nobody told me two kids = three times as expensive.

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Patriarch wrote:

> <snip>
>> Yowza, nobody told me two kids = three times as expensive.
>>
>
> Has anybody told you about the cost of teenagers yet?

Dave Leader reminds me constantly. He's doing a fine, fine job of filling
me with dread and foreboding. :)

I await those days. Starting with when he realizes he's not wearing [insert
brand here] shoes, but some crap from, gasp, Pay-Less.

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[email protected] wrote:

> Our daughter was getting nasty phonecalls in middle school and she
> asked me to listen in on one. I apologised to her when we got off the
> phone for the language but she said she learned them in grammar school
> and it was no big deal.

Nor should you. I should clarify that it has never been a question of his
hearing and learning the words. The problem is monkey hear, monkey say.
So if you go around shouting shit this and damn that, so will your kids.

That's where the principal's office comes in. I've had to train myself to
cuss in babytalk so my children emulate me and keep me out of the
gaflorkin' principal's office. That lady is a blarfunking foosahootchie
for sure.

The trip out with a friend not used to children got me in trouble. Monkey
hear, monkey say. When he gets pissed off. That's the difference between
being an adult and being a kid. When you're an adult, you can cuss when
you get pissed off. Kids aren't ever allowed to cuss. It's the end of the
fucking world or something.

So either A) don't cuss around him any more than you can avoid, or B) don't
ever let him get pissed off at anyone.

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Paul in MN wrote:
> <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> SWMBO told me late Sun night.
>>
>> It's our first child, due (according to some arcane device she calls
>> The Wheel) late in Aug. Holy shit.
>>
>> When my wife told her grandfather, his tongue-in-cheek reply was, "Tell
>> old whatchacallim congratulations. I didn't think he had it in him."


Well, he doesn't... any more.




--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN

[email protected]

phil, congrats - that's fantastic. best wishes for good health.

-- dz


[email protected] wrote:
> SWMBO told me late Sun night.
>
> It's our first child, due (according to some arcane device she calls
> The Wheel) late in Aug. Holy shit.
>
> When my wife told her grandfather, his tongue-in-cheek reply was, "Tell
> old whatchacallim congratulations. I didn't think he had it in him."
>
> Guess I better hurry up and get Dave's ten-foot table done and start on
> a crib, huh?
>
> -Phil Crow
>

"Roger Shoaf" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
> Mom can't wait for September and pack them off to school.

No kidding!....here in Canada, there is a store chain that in August runs
commercials (for school supplies, or is it clothing, can't remember) based
on the Christmas song that says: "it's the most wonderful time of the year".

Our daughter was getting nasty phonecalls in middle school and she
asked me to listen in on one. I apologised to her when we got off the
phone for the language but she said she learned them in grammar school
and it was no big deal.

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:45:45 -0500, "Mortimer Schnerd, RN"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Silvan wrote:
>> patrick conroy wrote:
>>
>>> 4) Drop the "Sh*t" - it's "Gosh Darn It!" and "Dagnabbit!" now...
>>
>> Or it was until we went to a restaurant with a friend of mine who taught my
>> son all kinds of new words.
>
>
>If he didn't he would have learned them in school anyway... or on TV. You can't
>shield them forever.

"Slowhand" wrote in message

> A big congratulations to you! I just found out a couple of weeks ago that
> I'm gonna be a dad for the second time myself.

Congratulations to you also ... from someone brand new to the second stage
of the affliction:

Grandfatherhood sometime in May ... is that a word?

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Silvan <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

<snip>
> Yowza, nobody told me two kids = three times as expensive.
>

Has anybody told you about the cost of teenagers yet?

Patriarch

[email protected] wrote:
> SWMBO told me late Sun night.
>
> It's our first child, due (according to some arcane device she calls
> The Wheel) late in Aug. Holy shit.
>
> When my wife told her grandfather, his tongue-in-cheek reply was, "Tell
> old whatchacallim congratulations. I didn't think he had it in him."
>
> Guess I better hurry up and get Dave's ten-foot table done and start on
> a crib, huh?
>
> -Phil Crow
>
Congratulations you and the little mother to be.
You will realy know you're alive when the littleun arrives. :)
All the best John

congratulations whatchacallim ;!)

<[email protected]> wrote in message
> Their hollow leg syndrome? Or is that merely an introduction?
>
> On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 01:11:50 -0600, Patriarch
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Silvan <[email protected]> wrote in
> >news:[email protected]:
> >
> ><snip>
> >> Yowza, nobody told me two kids = three times as expensive.
> >>
> >
> >Has anybody told you about the cost of teenagers yet?

One of Life's Rules #1: Let a sleeping dog/teenager lie.

When deciding upon whether or not to get them out of bed before 3 PM, keep
in mind that an awake teenager is much more expensive than a sleeping
teenager ... and the longer you wait, the smaller the envelope for the mall
being open.

Thankfully, sleeping is one of the things they do best.

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<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I called my mom last night, and she, too, was overjoyed. After the
> initial pleasantries, she told me, and I quote:
>
> "Son, it's time for you to pay for your raising."
>
> With added interest and penalties, I'll be completely gray before the
> child is toilet-trained.

Just so's you know, it's only called "toilet" training in the books, in real
life it's properly "potty" training ... you'll understand when the time
comes. ;)

Congratulations, Dad!

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[email protected] wrote:

> SWMBO told me late Sun night.
>
> It's our first child, due (according to some arcane device she calls
> The Wheel) late in Aug. Holy shit.
>
> When my wife told her grandfather, his tongue-in-cheek reply was, "Tell
> old whatchacallim congratulations. I didn't think he had it in him."
>
> Guess I better hurry up and get Dave's ten-foot table done and start on
> a crib, huh?
>
> -Phil Crow
>
Congradulations to you and your wife.

>[email protected] (J T) wrote:

>> [email protected] says:
>> SWMBO told me late Sun night. <snip>

Very cool. Congrats, Phil! I have a 6yr old son and a 3yr old
daughter. They've helped me in the shop, and I've enjoyed the heck out
of making things for them. My first real ww project was a highchair for
the daughter.

You might want to get a lot of sleep now, 'cause you won't for the next
year or two!

> Remember, don't bother with a cradle, make a rocking chair.
> You'll
> get lots more use out of one.

JOAT's right on this. They fly right through the cradle stage in just a
couple of months. A crib gets used for a couple of years. And a rocking
chair gets used to comfort kids and read stories for many years.

Enjoy the trip!

> SWMBO told me late Sun night.
> It's our first child, due (according to some arcane device she calls
> The Wheel) late in Aug. Holy shit.
> When my wife told her grandfather, his tongue-in-cheek reply was, "Tell
> old whatchacallim congratulations. I didn't think he had it in him."
> Guess I better hurry up and get Dave's ten-foot table done and start on
> a crib, huh?
> -Phil Crow


That's incredible, many congratulations! That crib will be high-tech in detail
for the cutting and assembly. But then again, "the grass is green and the sky is
blue".
--
Alex
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http://www.e-sword.net/

[email protected] wrote:
> Thanks to all for the kind words. I guess I'll try to live it up for
> now, because in the not-too distant future, I guess my idea of a great
> night will be one where I get to sleep through it. *sigh*. I am
> pretty fired up about it, though.

You get to sleep through the night again before you know it, for me
it was being able to stay awake as long as my older daughter. Even
at 2 or 3 years of age that kid could stay up late and still get up
early and go all day. She just never seemd to need much sleep.
Now in her 4th year of med school she actually shows signs of
being tired once in a while. Now, my younger daughter would
ask if it was all right to go to bed earlier than her bed time
and never showed the same night-owl tendencies as her sister.

You just never know what they're going to be like, but it's
a blast finding out.

Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.

<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
>
> SWMBO told me late Sun night.
>
> It's our first child, due (according to some arcane device she calls
> The Wheel) late in Aug. Holy shit.

1) Congrats!
2) Your life will never be the same
3) You'll be happy about #2 - someday
4) Drop the "Sh*t" - it's "Gosh Darn It!" and "Dagnabbit!" now...

Silvan wrote:

> Yowza, nobody told me two kids = three times as expensive.

Worse. It's the square law of appetite. Two kids are /four/ times
as hungry as one. (Three times as expensive means your spouse is
doing really good shopping.)

Worse still - 'smarts' is an inverse square law: One kid, one
brain; two kids, 1/4 of a brain; three kids,... d-:

--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
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Silvan wrote:
> You thought the principal's office sucked when you were a kid...


Ah, but it did....




--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN

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On 4 Jan 2005 19:19:15 -0800, [email protected] wrote:

> These days, I seriously wonder if
>the smoke alarm would wake me up.
>

I used to be able to sleep through anything, but at the first cough,
fart or squak from the new baby, I was wide awake. Better than my
wife, in fact, I'd get up with the baby, get him calmed down, and back
to sleep, the next morning she would claim no knowledge of any of it.
If it wasn't for breast feeding, she never would have lost a bit of
sleep, I bet.

Funny how I can sleep through some things and not others. I guess a
part of my brain still works, even while sleeping.

I concur with Joat, don't bother building a crib. The kid will be in
a bed before you know it, and he (she) ain't gonna remember the crib
anyway. I built mine a toy box instead, it can be modified to make a
decent footlocker if he ever needs such a thing.

Anyway, Congrats, you'll have a blast!

-Dan V.

"Silvan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
>
> Babies are leaky little critters. Fortunately they grow out of that in
> about three years.

Both my boys managed to "tag" me during a change. Them seem to sense when
your guard is down.


Paul - glad to hear you're pumped about it.
Being a Dad is the best thing that ever happened to me.
Hope it's the same for you!

<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> SWMBO told me late Sun night.
>
> It's our first child, due (according to some arcane device she calls
> The Wheel) late in Aug. Holy shit.
>
> When my wife told her grandfather, his tongue-in-cheek reply was, "Tell
> old whatchacallim congratulations. I didn't think he had it in him."
>
> Guess I better hurry up and get Dave's ten-foot table done and start on
> a crib, huh?
>
> -Phil Crow
>

Congratulations. Big changes are acomin' for you!!!

Paul

On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 01:12:13 -0500, Silvan
<[email protected]> wrote:

>You thought the principal's office sucked when you were a kid...

Actually it was kind of home away from home, for me. Spent a lot of
time there waiting for him to get off the phone with my mom or dad.

Tim Douglass

http://www.DouglassClan.com

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:45:45 -0500, "Mortimer Schnerd, RN"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Silvan wrote:
>> patrick conroy wrote:
>>
>>> 4) Drop the "Sh*t" - it's "Gosh Darn It!" and "Dagnabbit!" now...
>>
>> Or it was until we went to a restaurant with a friend of mine who taught my
>> son all kinds of new words.
>
>
>If he didn't he would have learned them in school anyway... or on TV. You can't
>shield them forever.

I don't worry about them knowing those words, I just don't let them
use them around me.

Tim Douglass

http://www.DouglassClan.com

Silvan wrote:
> patrick conroy wrote:
>
>> 4) Drop the "Sh*t" - it's "Gosh Darn It!" and "Dagnabbit!" now...
>
> Or it was until we went to a restaurant with a friend of mine who taught my
> son all kinds of new words.


If he didn't he would have learned them in school anyway... or on TV. You can't
shield them forever.



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