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2/10/2012 6:40:25 PM

7.5 Months

2/20/2012 10:17:50 AM

Baby Jack

3/28/2012 3:13:19 PM

Love it. He's adorable. And you have freakishly long fingernails (or I have mistaken that wristwatch for a man's, and it's really your wife's hand).

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3/28/2012 3:50:36 PM

lol, I think that is my mom holding him. Thanks

3/28/2012 3:56:18 PM

Amelia is 9 months old and just a rolly polly little thing. Around here she is known as "fat baby."

3/29/2012 5:09:43 PM

^ that picture is all cuteness.

3/29/2012 6:20:53 PM

Taken a few weeks ago, but is one of my favorites.

3/29/2012 6:24:11 PM

got a bit of a runny nose, but i like this one a lot...4 days shy of 9 mos

4/2/2012 2:34:50 PM

Y'all make some pretty babies.

4/2/2012 3:00:01 PM

My little man is a month old today

4/13/2012 3:56:54 PM

very nice. He'll be smiling and cooing in no time (if he isn't already.)

4/13/2012 4:52:13 PM

^^ Super cute.

4/13/2012 5:10:13 PM

went to the astroturf downtown today.

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4/13/2012 9:23:36 PM

Good looking kid. Looks like he is ripping one in the second one.

4/16/2012 8:48:10 AM

Easter Weekend


Last night, sick as a dog, in our bed

4/17/2012 9:44:23 AM

4/17/2012 10:41:38 PM

My husband and I made a grocery run this morning with the kids.

4/25/2012 10:36:54 AM

lol super cute
Silas is all "imma drive it like I stole it!" and Amelia needs a booster

4/25/2012 2:51:05 PM

Mine just lost her first tooth.

She's also gotten pretty good at shifting the gears for me in my Corvette...

I just taught her to ride her bike without training wheels, tie her own shoes, and I've got her reading very simple books.

Oh, and last weekend, she ran 0.8 miles with me to the park, played for a while, including doing the monkey bars alternating hand-over-hand, and then ran 0.8 miles back home (stopping to walk a couple times on the way home)

Kinda funny, until our court date, she only stays with me every other weekend, but all those aforementioned "firsts" (except the tooth) have happened with me on our weekends together over the last few months.

[Edited on April 25, 2012 at 10:08 PM. Reason : Pretty good for a 5-year old preschooler, I think!]

4/25/2012 10:05:57 PM

She said she wanted to take her training wheels off; I gave her the ratchet and socket that would fit, told her "righty-tighty, lefty-loosy" and told her to take them off.



(after she ran to the park and back with me)




Snow White doll in one hand, Corvette Z06 gearshift in the other.



Assembling her Barbie kitchen playset

4/25/2012 10:14:13 PM

duke, you're the coolest dad ever!!!

when are you going to teach her to shoot guns? my dad showed me how when i was a little one (supervised, of course!)

btw i love that you made her take her own training wheels off & gave her the tool to do it

4/25/2012 11:45:48 PM

yeah, I'll teach her to shoot when she's young, but I think she needs to be a little older, even supervised.

...and yep, I didn't touch the bike at all. my little preschooler took her own training wheels off and then replaced and tightened the axle nuts without any help except me showing her how to flip the lever on the ratchet to change from loosen to tighten. (I did check to make sure she had replaced everything tight enough when she was done).


This weekend, we ate black bean chili, flatbread with hummus, and blueberries for dinner one night...eastern NC-style BBQ the next day for lunch, and then the next night I asked her what she wanted for dinner--did she want to eat at home or go out to eat. She said "I want to go to the Indian restaurant". Hahaha. I have them spice hers mildly, but I think it's a win that she'll eat Indian and Thai food now...6 months ago when I moved down here, she wouldn't touch anything even remotely spicy.

Still working on music...she only gets to hear shitty Top 40 and vanilla housewife pop country when she's with her mom. I've gotten her into Pearl Jam and especially Bruce Springsteen.

Check her out singing Springsteen's "Promised Land" (her favorite):



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4/26/2012 12:00:09 AM

Gonna go on the record with many others and say theDuke is a pretty kickass dad.



He got his haircut the other day. He looks like a completely different person without the shaggy curls. Like he aged a few years.

4/26/2012 7:31:19 AM

oh my goodness! he looks so grown up! i miss working with him!

4/26/2012 10:08:53 AM

Baby #2 born 4/26 @ 6lbs. 14 oz.

Abigail


Ellie is a big fan, both of Abbie and of her sweet cookin' getup.



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5/2/2012 10:34:33 AM

Double Chin Smile (Sorry for the blurriness)



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5/3/2012 3:30:59 PM

Here is a photo of my wife and baby Morrissey. This is how he spends most of the day.

5/4/2012 3:11:52 PM

My youngest is now 3-1/2

5/5/2012 1:19:39 AM

Well, yesterday, I finally got half custody of my daughter!!!

Still have to pay her mom $825/month in child support, but we're now fully equal parents, and my daughter will be living with me half the time.

5/5/2012 5:05:56 PM

I want theduke to be my dad!

5/5/2012 7:42:32 PM

That's really great news.

5/5/2012 9:04:51 PM

Kids are amazing!

^ Also, if Beethoven has any, I demand to babysit

That shit is legally binding, right?

Ignore me. Sorry.

5/6/2012 2:51:03 AM

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"Well, yesterday, I finally got half custody of my daughter!!! Still have to pay her mom $825/month in child support, but we're now fully equal parents, and my daughter will be living with me half the time."

congrats, but if you have half custody you shouldn't have to pay child support (i know that's not how it works in the real world. white man's burden and all.)

5/6/2012 4:03:44 PM

bottombaby, it fucks me up how grown your kid is.

5/6/2012 7:12:39 PM

^^ Well yeah, it's definitely not right...but that's what's demanded by FL law. You pretty much just put your respective incomes into a formula, and it spits out the support amounts.

Assuming each parent spends at least 20% of the time with the child (other situations where the child only spends minimal time with one parent have a different formula), it's a function of overnights spent with each parent. I haven't done the math, but I would expect that even if my daughter lived primarily with me, say, 75-80% of the time, and just visited her mom for 20-25% of the time, I'd STILL probably be on the hook for a car payment to her...probably $500/month or something.
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5/6/2012 8:29:43 PM

My oldest, Matthew, is almost 9 and my youngest, Charlie, just turned 5. Yesterday after school my wife gave Matthew some Benadryl because his allergies were acting up. He said he was sleepy and went to go on and do his reading for the day. I found him like this at 6:30. His little brother wanted to wake him up so he could keep playing.

5/8/2012 9:04:42 AM

^^^ Kids are bad to grow up. My son will be 4 tomorrow and my daughter will be 1 on 5/23.

5/8/2012 9:50:27 AM

whoa, banjoman, does your wife look like Rosario Dawson??!!

I am so glad this thread keeps updating!!!

5/8/2012 3:53:04 PM

^ She does a lot when it's a side profile shot like that. I tell her this all the time and she just laughs at me.

5/8/2012 6:58:54 PM

she favors her a lot in that picture

tell your wife that your internerd friends agree

5/8/2012 7:22:49 PM

First of all, thanks for calling me a friend.

Second of all, will do!

5/8/2012 7:39:47 PM

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"bottombaby, it fucks me up how grown your kid is."

lol. tell me about it!

my daughter is almost a year old and my son got in trouble today for saying "oh shit!" it's so not right.

5/8/2012 11:57:52 PM

LOOK AT MY FUCKING KID!!!!





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5/9/2012 1:55:29 AM

Just got back from the bar.

5/9/2012 2:13:33 PM

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5/9/2012 4:15:22 PM

My boy just turned 1 in April. Went to pick some strawberries and had to look the part



He was a big fan of the homemade strawberry ice cream too.


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5/9/2012 4:15:55 PM

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5/9/2012 4:41:57 PM

internerd friends!!!!

Rosario Dawson is one of my favorite beauties. Lucky lucky Banjoman!!

Oh, your kid is wicked cute as well. Let me stay on topic here.

5/9/2012 4:44:43 PM