ILP rolling photo quarantine 2

18 months, and very active! I love the way toddlers create these self-imposed pointless tasks (Must move all these bits of gravel to the other side of the garden, one by one), and then do it with such total dedication (and fury if interrupted)

Good lord, Ella is like an illustration of a babby.

ella is awesome!

when is the ILX international play date

our London baby seems to be operating on Pacific time

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I watched that movie! That's your kid?

I mean I guess you just said it is. Crazy!

yeah...when i judge other parenting i somehow don't include our idea of "sure let's put him in this brutal movie and let a guy covered with blood hold him!" though i probably should....

Well, you can only look better in comparison.

hahaha

As long as you don't tell him you're done with him before you hand him over to the blood covered dude.

Boys "doing that Thinker guy" at the Palace of Fine Arts yesterday:

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ha!

Love it.

aghhhhhh babby omar I love it

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Awesome picture. That looks like a girl that doesn't take much crap from anybody.

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<3

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i was trying to get him to wave and say hi. he only did the latter.

ohhhhhhh

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first day of kindergarten. unbelievable!

Nice! we just had our oldest do his first day last week! Really a strange feeling, I was more heartbroken than I thought I would be. It was this "wave bye to your family" moment where I had to put my phone back in my pocket and put my sunglasses on.
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oh what a lovely photo :')

that is awesome!

Oh man, how do you cope? Euler (I think) made a comment on the parenting thread about how teeth are the end of babyhood, beginning of personhood and I'm shall we say struggling a little with that.

ps m bison that is one cute kid.

It was really surreal, hadn't put much thought into it until that moment tbf. one of those pillars of parenting that everyone gets/has to pass through I guess. Thought about it for days, what it was like for my parents? What big changes are ahead? What level of control are we losing and is it worth it? How will he get along with kids? Will he make good friends? Have I taught him enough? Is he gonna be a punk?

Now I KINDA see why people home teach!

He's having a great time so far and that makes everything easier, tho.

Portobello Beach at dusk.

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They don't charge for table football in Scotland?

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Mark Spitz without the chest hair.

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Awesome girls

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outstanding

I love it!

nice

She came home from daycare the other day having been introduced to Power Rangers by one of the other kids. It's probably the first media/art/culture that she has embraced that we did not introduce to her, and that's a weird feeling. But we will support her in her Power Ranger fandom as long as she's interested.

Year 5 and Year 3. Already. :/

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they've got such amazing eyes, michael.

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"hey."

HEY

so cute.

i love him!

me too!

awwww! how old are your twins DJP?

seconds before, our cat had just rubbed noses with her for the first time
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Oh my heavens, that is too cute.

oh that's a magic moment right there.

wow!

I'm admittedly envious. Francie will join Ivy and I in the recliner on weekend mornings when Jeff has gone running before feeing the cat, and will put up with some baby interaction in the service of maybe, just maybe charming me into getting up and feeding her, but Francie's just not the nose-rubbing kind of cat.

This is the best documentation of their interactions we have, and it about sums it up: excited baby, wary kitty.

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Sometimes I scroll through this thread for kicks and really, ILXors have some shockingly adorable children.

omg stevie

awwww! how old are your twins DJP?

6 months! time FLIES