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[RMJ12345]

Current toddler status, 4/9
We had a father-daughter squabble about how I needed to work and couldn't play with markers. She ran out of my office crying. A minute later she ran in, put a little gift bag with a plastic CUNT in it on my desk, and then ran out again, still sniffling. Already, a black belt in guilt.

[linnea]

Oh man! That is just brutal. An adorable toddler who gives you a present after a squabble. Too cute. The plastic CUNT says, "Pa, I love you even though we is fightin'."

[Victoria Waterfield]

Current toddler status, 4/15
The plan was to go to the San Francisco Zoo, but it was too crowded, so we went to the beach, where I worried about the seething old drunk with the heavy cane who wouldn't stop staring at my car.

[Victoria Waterfield]

Current toddler status, 4/19
Slowly, surely, day by day, we are learning not to rock the dog's head with a length of BRIO track.

[Victoria Waterfield]

Current toddler status, 4/23
She likes to scribble with a Sharpie while sitting in my lap as I write, and I am innocently becoming a huffer.

Am I the only one paying attention to these any more?

[wombat]

No! You're not! How do you keep beating me to them?

[Drygioni]

I share Wombat's concern. I've slipped so badly.

[RMJ12345]

Current toddler status, 4/25
She is out with my parents, buying fancy new rocks.

[jaydub]

When I go for wallks with my little girl, I always come home with pockets full of interesting rocks.  These find their way, variously, into the dog bowl, planters, or the vacuum cleaner with alarming sound effects.  Still, she can now identify "quartz", so I consider it a worthwhile thing.

[Golfhaus]

When I go for wallks with my little girl, I always come home with pockets full of interesting rocks.  These find their way, variously, into the dog bowl, planters, or the vacuum cleaner with alarming sound effects.  Still, she can now identify "quartz", so I consider it a worthwhile thing.

Get her started on identifying cubic zirconia now. This could prove very useful to her down the road.

[RMJ12345]

Current toddler status, 4/30
Yeah, I just spent money on tickets to ride Thomas the Tank Engine this summer. See you in the roiling sea of Kelty and sippy-cup mayhem.

[Drygioni]

Damnit! All you new people are musclin' me out of my baby updates. That'll teach me to sleep.

I have actually been on those Thomas the Tank Engine rides. Onstad is in for a treat.

[side_show]

1) Thomas the tank engine scares the shit out of me.
2) The son of the creator of Thomas came by my work last year to read from the books for an ultra special group of kids, and there was this huge Thomas in the lobby for days, all staring at me with his cold dead eyes.  So creepy!  I never got within 10ft of him.
3) The current Thomas show is about to tour to my area, and the commercial has a point where one of the engines is mad, and I screamed in terror when I saw it.
4) Ringo Star... what the hell?

[CortJstr]

What happened to George Carlin as Mr. Conductor?

[jaydub]

The son of the creator of Thomas came by my work last year to read from the books for an ultra special group of kids.

Considering how old the stories are, I'm retroactively bummed to have missed them growing up.  I looooved trains (especially steam engines) as a kid and would have driven my parents insane with Thomas minutiae.  Considering I lived in a Commonwealth country, I'm at a loss to explain this gap in my cultural education.

Slight correction - I still love steam engines.  My trip to Sacramento's rail museum a few weeks back was awesome.