The official "Hai! Here's mah bebbeh!" thread

[Merusk]

Mid pic is excellent and if you REALLY care about the flash, I'm sure you can edit it out easily enough.   I think it adds something because otherwise it'd be "babies. in. spaaaaaaaace" as the rest of the background is so inky black.

[Yegolev]

I compensate for my terrible photography by going the motion-picture route.  I seem to get much more of a pass there.  Especially now that I know how to make BRD out of the videos.

[murdoc]

They tend to move a lot.  

Or reach for the camera. Or look away. Or hit their brother in the face with a little plastic phone. They look happy in the middle picture, but I assure you - violence is about to ensue.

[Paelos]

This thread needs more pictures of your kids looking mad that they are in terrible sweaters!

There's a holiday at steak!

[JWIV]

Very happy with what I was expecting to be a throwaway shot of the boy while standing in line at the Maryland Science Center yesterday.


Brendan by jwiv, on Flickr

[Bunk]

Very cute.

My new nephew Aiden, taken at Christmas Dinner, born one week before.

[Paelos]

That's adorable!

[Slayerik]

Rockin' the mullet AND bad sweater :)

[Bunk]

Dang that boy has some deep brown eyes.

[Rasix]

This thread needs more pictures of your kids looking mad that they are in terrible sweaters!

There's a holiday at steak!

Ohh, so you want sweaters...





Res isn't great, but I just pilfered these off my wife's FB.

[Paelos]

Ah the polar bears!

[JWIV]

I somehow forgot to start dressing the kids in terrible Christmas sweaters this year.  Hopefully I can fix that next year.
 

[voodoolily]

My kid won't hold still anymore, so photos are hard. I need to take the camera outside, I guess (hate using flash). BUT:



We put a Yo Gabba Gabba decal on our old first gen DS and gave it to the boy. This games really sucks, btw.

[voodoolily]

...and yes, he is straight up double-fisting some Hot Wheels. At least they're cheap!

[Rasix]

Ahh, has he gone/going through the "everything in my arms at once" phase?  My son has finally started handing me his trains to carry instead of trying to go up the stairs holding the entire cast from Thomas the Tank Engine.  The worst was when he'd refuse to give up the toys and fall asleep with them in his hands.  Always nice to get a 3am wake up call of "JAMES! WHERE'S JAMES???!?!?! DADDY, FIND HIM!!!"

[JWIV]

Ahh, has he gone/going through the "everything in my arms at once" phase?  My son has finally started handing me his trains to carry instead of trying to go up the stairs holding the entire cast from Thomas the Tank Engine.  The worst was when he'd refuse to give up the toys and fall asleep with them in his hands.  Always nice to get a 3am wake up call of "JAMES! WHERE'S JAMES???!?!?! DADDY, FIND HIM!!!"

It is amazing how given any size pile of animals/toys, they somehow manage to remember EVERY SINGLE THING that is in said pile and god help you if any of it is missing.

[Lantyssa]

It is amazing how given any size pile of animals/toys, they somehow manage to remember EVERY SINGLE THING that is in said pile and god help you if any of it is missing.

Hah!  So true.  I had like thirty stuffed animals on my bed and I always knew if one was missing.  I haven't thought of that in... a long time.

[WayAbvPar]

Ahh, has he gone/going through the "everything in my arms at once" phase?  My son has finally started handing me his trains to carry instead of trying to go up the stairs holding the entire cast from Thomas the Tank Engine.  The worst was when he'd refuse to give up the toys and fall asleep with them in his hands.  Always nice to get a 3am wake up call of "JAMES! WHERE'S JAMES???!?!?! DADDY, FIND HIM!!!"

Percy is ten times the engine that James is.

[Slayerik]

but Gordon really thunders down the line. God, I hate myself.

[Selby]

Always nice to get a 3am wake up call of "JAMES! WHERE'S JAMES???!?!?! DADDY, FIND HIM!!!"

My niece has taken to doing this.  Her logic is that it's mommy and daddy's fault for not putting the toys in her bed after she fell asleep (yes, she did say that).  She's hysterical about her Thomas... never seen a 3 year old so into something... 

[Ironwood]

Sternly tell them that we'll Find Them In The Morning and tuck them in.

Then Shut The Door.


This advice is instantly rendered fuck all use if you've given in already even once.

[Zaljerem]

Sternly tell them that we'll Find Them In The Morning and tuck them in.

Then Shut The Door.


This advice is instantly rendered fuck all use if you've given in already even once.

This.

[Engels]

I'm not a parent, so feel free to disregard this with extreme prejudice, but there seems to be a parenting style that treats kids as if they can be reasoned with, as if they're friends you can negotiate with.  The parent lead lives of haunted exhaustion, badgered and cajoled by their kids into just about any concession. I'd probably be one of these parents if I were one, so I am not getting on a high horse here, but it just seems that that's a dangerous road.

[murdoc]

My wife tries to reason with the dog, and I think she gets further with it than the kids.

[Ironwood]

Children are born little animals and only get better much later.

Routine and training are all.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Children are born little animals and only get better much later.

Routine and training are all.

Yeah, but try telling the average parent that and see how far you get.  Suggesting that children need to be "trained" in anything - going to bed at a certain time, acting like human beings in public - generally can result in getting an earful on how that will somehow harm the child.

[Slayerik]

I agree, do not reason with them unless they have a very good point. And they won;t have any of those until they are older anyway.

"Do what you're told."

*command voice* "NOW."


You have to learn the command voice (make them shit themselves) NOW'


Buddy come here and have your diaper changed... Buddy comeon. (Ok fuck it) Buddy get over here N O W !!!!

Make sure you say it so they jump a little bit. Yes, loud and fuckin' scary.

[Ironwood]

Children are born little animals and only get better much later.

Routine and training are all.

Yeah, but try telling the average parent that and see how far you get.  Suggesting that children need to be "trained" in anything - going to bed at a certain time, acting like human beings in public - generally can result in getting an earful on how that will somehow harm the child.

The average parent was lucky to find the right hole to inseminate.  I tend not to aim my advice at average people. I have two good friends who had a kid at the same time as we did and their son is an enormous shitty cockweasel because they love him so very very much.

So I'm sure it'll be a comfort to them as they try very hard not to cry as the little dickhead gets the lethal fucking injection for stoning two of the neighbours children after he'd tied them up and pissed on them.

[Azazel]

I agree, do not reason with them unless they have a very good point. And they won;t have any of those until they are older anyway.

"Do what you're told."
*command voice* "NOW."

You have to learn the command voice (make them shit themselves) NOW'
Buddy come here and have your diaper changed... Buddy comeon. (Ok fuck it) Buddy get over here N O W !!!!

Make sure you say it so they jump a little bit. Yes, loud and fuckin' scary.

They need to love you, and fear you - just a little bit. - so yes!

[Abagadro]

We were at the park this weekend and there was a large tree that had been cut down.  My 7 year old jumped up on it, put his hand to his chin, furrowed his brow, and said "Look, I'm stumped on a stump!"

[Paelos]

Oh man, a 7 year old who likes puns? You are in some trouble. Hahahaha.

[voodoolily]

Sternly tell them that we'll Find Them In The Morning and tuck them in.

Then Shut The Door.


This advice is instantly rendered fuck all use if you've given in already even once.

This.

I am the law around here, and the rule is we say goodnight to whichever of his cars/trucks/vans/buses/trains he's holding before bathtime and they stay downstairs. My worry was always that he'd roll over and get a facefull of cars, which would wake him up. I am totally rigid about this, for some reason, even though it's kind of not that big a deal. I just don't negotiate with toddlers.

If I do decide to give in on something (usually a snack, even though I'm fixing dinner), I always tell him that I've changed my mind instead of just rolling over and giving in to his pleas.

[voodoolily]

Ahh, has he gone/going through the "everything in my arms at once" phase?  My son has finally started handing me his trains to carry instead of trying to go up the stairs holding the entire cast from Thomas the Tank Engine.  The worst was when he'd refuse to give up the toys and fall asleep with them in his hands.  Always nice to get a 3am wake up call of "JAMES! WHERE'S JAMES???!?!?! DADDY, FIND HIM!!!"

Percy is ten times the engine that James is.

Heh.

[Stormwaltz]

Goddamn monkeys pile up if you sit still for even a minute...

[Lantyssa]

That's a cute picture.