“Daddy” is definatly the best job in the world. Just keep reminding yourself that everything that comes out washes off.
My daughter would wait until I had her legs lifted up to put the diaper under her then let loose with a Force 10 Pantsbuster™ that would make me weep with pride…
Well, weep anyway.
According to Toby Ziegler,they come with hats.
In five months you are going to look back on the last week and think about how easy and peaceful it was and how much your baby slept!
No, really- the first few weeks they sleep so much and you can do whatever you want because even when they are awake they just lie there- at 5 months they require entertainment and don’t sleep so much.
the sleep deprivation is just beginning!
irishbaby is 17 months, and now comes over to me, says “cuddle”, throws her arms around me and plants a kiss on my cheek. That is a good feeling.
She still won’t say “mama” though (dada, her soft toys, the names of her childminder’s entire family and the rest of our family, yes…mama, no)
I’m not even a father and that’s one of my favorite scenes in the history of television.
One of mine had a knack for shooting it out of one leg of his diaper. He grew out of it, but until he did I always had a baby blanket on my lap.
Congratulations on your new learning project. You’re right, they are totally worth it.
Mine is 6 months and it’s been the coolest journey. I love watching his face as he figures out the world.
The hiccups got worse when he was learning how to laugh. Every time he tried to laugh he just ended up giving himself the hiccups. So cute!
That is the sweetest wish I’ve ever heard. It brought tears to my eyes.
Congratulations, mozchron! Thanks to you my clock is ticking even louder. 
I was so lucky with my little girl. For the first few months of her life she only pooed once a week. I kid you not. But when she did poo it was epic! For the first few week or two we were worried but she got a clean bill of health from the doc and after that we tried to plan for a babysitter for her poo night 
This thread brings tears to my eyes.
The Rykid got hiccups all the time, but especially when he laughed.
And, new fathers beware: Little bitty young’uns can do the projectile thing in two opposite directions simultaneously if their tummies are upset.
Who told you a baby girl can’t pee in your face? Because my niece was either very talented or you’ve just never been christened.
Maybe you think that now. You’ll reconsider in 10-18 years’ time.
Baby pee does that.
I just remembered a one-two we had with the Kidlets.
I’ve mentioned before that, until her son healed her of those notions, SiL-the-doctor used to think that “the average” was the most common value, the default value, and well, pretty much what happened every time. I’ve checked the curricula of a couple of Spanish medical schools out of curiosity and they don’t even have a “stats” course - some don’t even have a “maths”… so what’s a wonder is that we manage to have any epidemiologists worth their salt, but I digress.
The Proud Parents were very surprised when The Kidlet was born with eyes wide open and following people’s movements up to 2-3 meters away (it was the first trait in which he fell squarely on Our Side). Years later, his sister would open her eyes only to a scrunched-up expression and didn’t follow movement, for the first few days. And their mom had a Revelation moment, and said out loud “wait a minute, when Kidlet was born, I was expecting exactly this kind of behavior and was freaked out that he wasn’t behaving as expected… and now that Kidlette behaves like they told me newborns do, I was about to freak out because she’s not behaving like Kidlet did? :facepalm:”
Having kids has done wonders for the width of her expectations. I’d love those kids to bits if it was just for that.
I hope you haven’t learned this one yet;
Babies held over your head makes them very nauseous. My step-dad learned that one the hard way