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(lol i know. just repeating what i'm sure he gets too much of already)

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3/11/2013 11:35:23 AM

posting again as no one cares about last post of the page

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"my sister is pregnant and i am thinking about buying a baby monitor for her. Any recommendations? "

3/11/2013 11:46:30 AM

I enjoyed the summer slim & secure video monitor while it lasted. It eventually died--prolly after a year of use, and now we just use the graco secure coverage monitor. He's older now, but being able to check in on the video if he made a noise and see if he would settle himself back to sleep over charging in the room to check on him was worth every penny of the video monitor. I will def buy a new one for the next child, or get a camera and have an app on my phone (there's gotta be one by now).

3/11/2013 2:02:22 PM

I consider receivedeath to be a TWW baby

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

3/11/2013 5:24:46 PM

Jack waking up to find a house full of people for his birthday party. That is my father in-law holding him




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3/12/2013 3:21:05 PM

My middle child is in Kindergarten this year and we got these with the standard spring pics this year. Didn't even know they were going to do it. Wife started crying



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3/12/2013 6:30:37 PM

My sister has been in the process of adopting a child from NC Childrens Home. They were looking into welcoming an older child into their home, but this week they got a surprise! She now has a 4 month old boy and a 4 year old girl, brother and sister! She has pretty much everything she needs for the girl, but only basic needs for the boy. If anyone has anything left over from their kids around the 4 month old that is boyish or gender neutral that they would be willing to part with please send me a pm!

3/15/2013 11:29:27 AM

how much does the 4 month old weigh?

3/15/2013 12:23:21 PM

He is wearing 3-6 month clothes, they don't know the weight. These kids came straight from the ex- parents house, and my sister hasn't taken them to the pediatrician yet.

3/15/2013 6:08:14 PM

Don't have any stuff on hand to donate, but would love to offer a gift card or something to somewhere if it would help. Feel free to pm a place to mail it if you want

3/15/2013 7:45:07 PM

Pm sent.

3/15/2013 8:56:30 PM

Jodle Jodle Jodle!!

3/15/2013 11:08:05 PM

Changing a fuse in my motorcycle for me.



Changing a taillight bulb in the truck.



Horseback riding.



Small blonde roast for a small blonde girl (just filled that little cup about 1/3 of the way...I just give her a little bit).








Helping refinish a bookcase for her room.



At my dad and his wife's house, sporting some of her lipstick.

3/16/2013 3:57:46 PM

very cute

3/17/2013 12:34:38 PM

Baby Abigail 'Abby' Grace Borka was born @ 11:56pm on 19 March 2013, weighing 6lbs 14oz, 20.25 inches long. Baby and Momma are doing well!

3/20/2013 12:48:53 AM

awesome

3/20/2013 11:01:57 AM

^^Congrats

Jack's 1 year pics



Excellent...

3/25/2013 2:19:11 PM

Happy 5th Birthday to my oldest, Landon.



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5/9/2013 9:09:59 AM

Happy 2nd birthday to my youngest, Ava.



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5/23/2013 10:40:42 AM

Jack got his first hair cut last week

5/24/2013 12:59:57 PM

2 months old... couple shots of Sadie Lee!

7/4/2013 9:35:13 PM

It's been a fast 7 months!

Fresh out of the oven. Stupid head got stuck necessitating a c-section.


1 month in


3 Months


2 days ago (7 months give or take)

7/12/2013 8:33:26 AM

Your daughter is about the same age as mine, man. She's 7.5 months old now.

7/12/2013 8:35:47 AM

hah yeah, I remember when we posted like 2 weeks apart in the Birth Club thread.

7/12/2013 8:36:39 AM

(at Tweetsie Railroad)




(in the back of the Blue Angels' C-130, "Fat Albert")

7/31/2013 2:03:16 AM

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9/9/2013 11:42:22 AM

9/9/2013 2:39:48 PM

New daycare right before she saw me and started crying in her cucumbers.

9/10/2013 9:53:53 PM

We gave into her innate girlyness and bought her a tutu.

9/19/2013 11:31:36 PM

Jack's first football game. La Tech game

10/3/2013 9:57:46 AM

where's all the black and mexican babies in oldschool? ther was sure a lot of randy minorities around when i was at statw

10/3/2013 2:57:45 PM

10/22/2013 3:21:33 PM

11/5/2013 6:47:16 PM

Duke... i know it wasn't a planned thing, but you are blessed with a great child, and from what you have posted in here, she is blessed with a great dad.

(blessed in the totally secular sense)

11/6/2013 6:51:45 PM

thanks. yeah i sure as hell wouldn't want to go through all that again, and I will be glad when I don't have to deal with her mother anymore in 11 more years, but my daughter is awesome. she, in isolation from all the peripheral issues, has been a great experience.

also, I'm not religious, but I'm not one of those dickheads that gets bent out of shape at people using terms like "blessed", regardless of context.

11/6/2013 7:12:16 PM

Yeah, those dickheads who are literally zero people on the entire planet sure are dickheads.

On a serious note, how old was she when she got her ears pierced? Wife and I are mulling over that conversation atm.

11/7/2013 9:43:47 AM

She was a baby. I think she was less than 8 months, because I remember being there with her, and she was about 8 months old when I left FL for WA and didn't see her much for a couple of years.

11/7/2013 10:37:37 AM

My niece just got her ears pierced at almost 6. It was her adoption anniversary present. I got mine pierced at 11.

11/7/2013 11:03:05 AM

My husband and I refuse to pierce our daughter's ears before she's old enough to want them done and appreciate it. I think that it is unethical to cosmetically alter a child's body without their consent. Not to mention, I think you're robbing your little girl of a milestone. I had mine pierced in elementary school. I wanted it, waited for it, and had to earn it with good behavior. My mom would just touch her ear lobe when I'd get out of line. Once I was allowed to have them pierced, I felt so grown up and proud of myself. I really don't want to take the choice and the experience away from her by doing it before she's old enough to really want it done. It's tempting to do it because it's "cute," but then i really think about it. You're poking holes into a baby who is completely unaware of what you're doing to them or why you're causing them pain just because you think it's cute. That's kinda f'ed up.

11/7/2013 12:30:22 PM

beat me to it. you're going to make your child cry, not just during the appointment, but throughout the healing process, because you want to see sparkly things in her ears years before she'll ever appreciate it or have a conscious thought that maybe she doesn't want bars of metal inserted into her body. I went with my friend to get her baby's ears pierced, though. The baby didn't cry that long when they did it, but got a pretty shitty infection on one side, and that took like 6 weeks to heal.

I also asked to get my ears pierced in elementary school and would suggest it. some of my peers never did get their ears pierced and are satisfied with their choice, and I assume it's not just a case of 'wimping out'.

11/7/2013 12:39:30 PM

I wasn't flamebaiting TheDuke so back the fuck off.

Our girl is 5 and she hasn't bothered asking about it. I like the idea of letting her approach us if she wants and making it something to earn.

11/7/2013 12:49:06 PM

My niece definitely asked to have it done. And because it was her choice and because my sister took a few weeks to decide and discuss all the care they would need with her she took great care ofthem and let them heal properly. She is very proud of them. I didn't want them until I was 11so I didn't ask.

There was definitely a "if you don't keep them clean and keep your fingers off them" warning. Basically if they got infected because of something she did or didn't do they would take them out and she had to wait X amount t of time before getting them pierced again. And I think it was at least a year.

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11/7/2013 1:44:45 PM

^^ Yeah, it was really her mom's doing. I wasn't totally sold on the idea, but not severely opposed to it either, and I wasn't about to pick a fight on something I wasn't really interested in going to war over, haha...not when there was a whole list of things to fight about.

I get the letting it be a milestone/experience, etc. On the flip side, it was almost a non-event as an infant.

11/7/2013 8:55:46 PM

Got some of our Professional Christmas photos back.

11/21/2013 9:44:06 AM

We took some professional Christmas photos this weekend. Only got a few back so far. Will post soon. Need to get this to the next page

11/25/2013 11:11:09 AM

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/12/10/ho-ho-howard-100-plus-prospective-kris-kringles-attend-cw-howard-santa-school/

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"IDLAND, Mich. – Where does Santa Claus learn to chortle "Ho, ho, ho!" and listen to the wishes of children all over the world? He goes to Santa School. Each year at the Charles W. Howard Santa Claus School, dozens of prospective St. Nicks come to learn the art of being Santa. They are given instruction on the finer points of makeup, wardrobe, sign language and even reindeer care. Now, the Santa army is deployed all over the world, just in time for Christmas. Cliff Snider was among the 100-plus Santas and Mrs. Clauses who comprised this year's class of the Midland, Mich., school. He's back in North Carolina now, making his usual rounds, including a recent meet-and-greet in Raleigh. Sitting in his high-backed Santa chair, Snider had the Moser kids on his lap — Landon, 5, and Ava, 2. Ava stared in amazement at his white mustache and beard, glistening after a light coating of glitter spray that Snider tells kids is frost. "You can touch it. You want to feel it?" Snider asked the little girl. "Yeah," she said sticking her right index finger just under his nose, before quickly looking away as her mother, Virginia, laughed. "It's real, isn't it?" he said, smiling. Snider has portrayed Santa Claus since 1962, but when he made his first trip to Midland about 30 years later, he was more than a little nervous. "When I saw all the other Santas there and the Mrs. Clauses, I was sort of overwhelmed by the whole thing," he said. "Tom Valent, the director of the school, told me something that I never will forget. "I told him, I said, 'Tom, I'm not sure that I'll measure up to these guys,' and he said, 'Cliff, you remember that when you go back to High Point, North Carolina, you're Santa Claus. You be the very best Santa Claus that you can be.'" Some at this year's three-day seminar were first-timers, but quite a few Santas were, as Snider calls them, "returning alumni." Doug Dodge, a bespectacled, white-bearded Santa from Burlington, Mass., made his second appearance at the Howard school. "It's an awesome responsibility, and you've got to portray your Santa (with) honesty, integrity," he said following a session on Santa storytelling. Before that, Dodge and his cohorts filled a hotel ballroom to hear a talk from an accountant on best tax practices, because, after all, Santa must report to the Internal Revenue Service. Other topics included the history of Santa, resume writing and techniques designed to help them nab the perfect Santa gig. Tuition is $425 for new students and $395 for returnees. New Mr. and Mrs. Clauses who attend together are eligible for a combo price of $835 while returning couples pay $750. Paul Headley, a business owner from Hamilton, Ind., came along with his Mrs. Claus. "You just learn every time you come up here," said Headley, who makes Santa appearances back home at schools, senior centers and the occasional Notre Dame basketball game. Valent, who is an engineer and executive at a construction company, first came to the nonprofit school as a student in the 1970s, when its annual sessions were held in nearby Bay City. Charles W. Howard founded the school in 1937. It later moved to Michigan from New York state and has been run since 1987 by Valent and his wife, Holly, in Midland, about 100 miles north of Detroit. "We've been given a great gift — to be allowed to portray the image of Santa Claus," Valent said shortly after giving the class a few pointers on interacting with children. "We can't teach people everything there is to know about Santa Claus in this short time, but we can just throw things out there and develop their interests and they'll be thinking about it for a long time." Snider gets so much out of it that he has gone back a half-dozen times. "The heart of Santa resides in the Santa School at Midland," he said. "So we come back at often as we can for the fellowship ... to compare notes and get ready for the new season." ___ Online: http://www.santaclausschool.com ___ AP National Writer Allen G. Breed in Raleigh, N.C., contributed to this report. ___ Mike Householder can be reached at mhouseholder@ap.org and http://twitter.com/mikehouseholder"

12/10/2013 3:17:54 PM

^Awesome

12/16/2013 11:29:31 AM

set em up -->

1/20/2014 3:24:54 PM