The "I HAVE KIDS, SO NOW WHAT?" thread

[wclem]

Raised a kid, kid out of house, free to be a kid again!

[Luke]

Any foster parents here?

[BoneSnapDeez]

My little girl turned one today:


Went out for Mexican food, she loves guacamole:

[prfsnl_gmr]

Cute! She is so much bigger than when I saw her! I know you are so proud, and she will get more and more fun in the coming year.

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My little girl, Hollis, turned five a few weeks ago. She was really excited about it:

The little guy, Halkett, does not turn three until August, and apparently, he looks a lot like his daddy:

(At least, that is what everyone says when they see us together.)

Currently, my kids love playing (or watching me play) LittleBigPlanet (PS3) and Angry Birds Star Wars (3DS), and letting them sit in my lap or snuggle up on me while we play one of those games for 20 minutes or so each night is one of the highlights of my day. (Also, my daughter is hilarious when I play LittleBigPlanet. She tells me what to do (i.e., "Daddy! Don't touch the electricity!" and "Daddy! I told you not to touch the electricity!"), and she closes her eyes and hides her head whenever I am playing a dangerous section. The little guy, on the other hand, raises his hands and yells at the screen (i.e., "Stop, robot, stop!"), but he also does this during movies.

[TSTR]

^ur kids look eerily similar

[prfsnl_gmr]

^ur kids look eerily similar

I know. With two blue-eyed parents, however, there were not a lot of different ways they could have turned out. Their personalities are radically different, however.

[TSTR]

^ur kids look eerily similar

I know. With two blue-eyed parents, however, there were not a lot of different ways they could have turned out. Their personalities are radically different, however.

Hahaha I was talking about b4 you snuck in with the edit dood! But even still they do look similar.

[prfsnl_gmr]

Hahaha I was talking about b4 you snuck in with the edit dood! But even still they do look similar.

I had the same picture for both of them up for less than a minute. You just caught me at the right time!

[BoneSnapDeez]

Cute! She is so much bigger than when I saw her! I know you are so proud, and she will get more and more fun in the coming year.

She's still a little peanut. Went to the doctor today; she's not quite 17 pounds yet.

She's always been in great health - no colds/flus/ear infections/whatever at all during the first year. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Your kids are quite cute and older than I thought they were!

What are the origins of their names? "Hollis" is actually a town in Maine close to where I grew up.

My daughter's name is Iris (as you know). It makes people chuckle because my wife is an optometrist, but it was also my great-aunt's name.

[prfsnl_gmr]

What are the origins of their names? "Hollis" is actually a town in Maine close to where I grew up.

They're both surnames from my wife's side of the family.

Also, Hollis is the neighborhood in Queens that gave us Russell Simmons, LL Cool J, Ed Lover, Young MC, and all three members of Run DMC. (It also gave us Ja Rule, however; so that neighborhood carried no weight in our naming decision.)