That makes my ankle hurt just to watch it.
Until she dropped him and almost brained him on Kimmel's desk.
His head wasn't near anything but a padded chair.
Of course, she's probably the one who inherits if he does die. Maybe she's luring him into a false sense of security. When she does drop him onto the something hard, everybody will say it's a wonder she never dropped him that hard before because he's obviously too big for her to carry.
4: And he insists that she carry him everywhere now.
It was about 18 inches from the desk, that's not much of a miss for a 7 foot guy.
Wait, Shaq married Hoopz from Flavor of Love? Huh.
Almost anybody can lift Flavor Flav.
Good point, Moby. Probably that's why the two of them didn't last.
Impressive! After a weekend of carrying a 23 pound baby, my back is ready to give out. I'm not sure what I'm going to do as she gets heavier. I should really stop feeding her.
The Calabat has given me some impressive arms. Now that he's often in full-on toddler passive resistance mode, I get HIIT too!
That sounds more like active resistance mode.
Oh, you meant high-intensity interval training, not being hit.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do as she gets heavier.
Find a Mexican with calves the size of cantaloupes.
That stage when walking while holding your hand is the BEST NEW SHINY TOY in the UNIVERSE and they insist on doing so everywhere so you creep along bent over with your lower back in agony ... and then someone with a 7 lb. newborn sacked out and strapped to their torso cruises past ...
Mmmm. Miniature veal.
14: I cannot wait for this stage. She's pretty tall so I'm not bent over too much.
A was progressing towards walking for awhile until she figured out that she's much faster crawling than trying to walk. Even better, she realized that she can push her body backwards on the hardwood floors without having to even crawl. So it may be a few more months before she's walking.
The Calabat didn't walk until he was 15 months old, because he'd developed a very good crawl: feet and hands, flat on the floor, tear around at 90 miles an hour. Walking? It's slow, and you might fall down. Now he's 2 and goes everywhere at a dead sprint.
Yeah, xelA doesn't really walk unless he's grumpy. He runs. Even in the flat, which is not big. He walked at 11 months which seemed, in context, late because he'd been standing and cruising for months. Our friends' kids who both bumshuffled walked much later because bumshuffling is faster and more efficient than early walking, I think, and leaves hands free, which crawling doesn't.
I love the stories of kids that walked later since A is 14 months old and not walking. I did not love the cashier at the grocery store informing me that all of his five kids started walking when they were eight months old.
Eh, I started walking at nine months and was bloody and bruised all the time, so it isn't really an unalloyed advantage.
That's not what really causes red hair.
My nephew started walking around his first birthday. He's almost 15 months now and is really into stairs. I think he started walking a little earlier because he never really got the hang of crawling. Now he's constantly racing across the apartment to stack things on top of other things.
Shaq married Hoopz
They were dating and have since broken up, says the internet.
Sorry, ogged. I don't even SEE marital status now that the Supreme Court ruined it for everyone.
20: There's a very wide range for those milestones for a reason! The Calabat hit all of his physical milestones on the late end of normal (sat at seven months, crawled at nine months, walked at 15) and at 2, you can't tell which of his friends walked before he did and which didn't. They all sprint like mad demons everywhere.
Mine told a homeless guy to stop smoking at 42 months.
To be fair, that's pretty young to be smoking.
20: Your girl is gardening and distributing applesauce. The latter of which my nephew might do, but not at all how you'd want.
Re: 27
Yeah, xelA was early on the physical ones, and was very coordinated and very strong. But definitely on the late side verbally. Very very late for babbling, and late but less dramatically so on actual speech. Late enough that it became a concern. All caught up now, though. And yeah, at 2 and a bit, his peers have all largely evened out.
I haven't done the baby thing all the way through but Selah came here in Early Intervention (physical and occupational therapy in her case) and finished at 14 or 15 months and at almost three remains faster, stronger, more dexterous, definitely more verbal than her peers. That's useful since she's also ended up looking bigger than she is and thus judged by older-kid standards in public, but it's sometimes hard to believe she had delays given where she is now.
My girls walked around a year, but Kid C was only a couple of days past 9 months - just stood up in the middle of the room one day and took a few steps. I think it was mostly because he hated crawling and would literally crawl around moaning and grumbling to himself. Also did that one knee on the floor, one leg straight style of crawling as if he was trying to minimise contact with the floor. And then within a month he was walking down the stairs, which was fucking terrifying. He's the only one of mine never to have fallen down them though.
Another "It all evens out in the end". My two were middle of the road to slow on physical stuff (complete meatloves until about a year -- no crawling, not much scooting), and each walked within a week of their first birthday, so nothing interesting there. On speech, though, Sally was weirdly articulate, weirdly early: she sounded like a school-age kid almost as soon as she was saying words at all. Three years later though, the peers who were grunting and pointing while she said things in complete sentences had all caught up.
Cf this entire thread: I remain convinced that the circa-1930s British term for toddlers is the one we should go back to using: runabouts.
37: As a sad reflection on myself, that only makes me think of DS9.
37 to 36, obvs.
Surprisingly, runabout isn't in the OED with that meaning - I guess it was a brief run. But they do have "trudgeon", "fauntekin", "fauntelet", "weanie", and "spoon-child".
Thanks for all the stories everyone, I feel much better now. She has great verbal skills and her ability to identify birds is better than mine! I'll stop worrying for a few more months.
He's finally all out of chewing gum?
He's gone to the big squared circle in the sky.
And the same goes to the blog
irrelevant to everything:
My procrastination is so bad that if I didn't go on holidays I would never get anything done without that gun to my head. today I was so nervous and queasy all day about outstanding work that I didn't get any of it done. Finally started getting through it tonight instead of reading the whole internet. It is now after 2.30 am and I realised I had two more files to finish. I have to finish packing and be on the road by 8 am because I am picking up someone else en route. That is actually a good thing because it means I can't opt to come back in the morning, I have to finish. I am really tired now but have been increasingly calmer as I reduced the pile of crap.
Boats. Is there any problem they can't solve?
Done at last and should be gone instead of checking back here. 4 hours between now and hitting the road. Why do I always do this, ffs.
Done, though, emir. That part is great! Enjoy your trip!
I've been productively occupying myself by building the a trench in Minecraft. It goes from the surface through to the bedrock. If a cow falls in, you get free meat.
I just finished the blog post I've been working on for weeks now. No boats, though.
We just finished a week long multi agency operation. On Wednesday I watched another cop get intentionally tagged by a fleeing suspect at around 100 miles an hour. I was down with him, maybe 20 yards away, while he was trying to spike the car. That motherfucker who was fleeing intentionally swerved at him. He jumped out of the way at the last second and it only caught him on his lower right leg. Still, it spun him tumbling like a damn rag doll and I'm amazed he's not dead or at least shattered all to hell. Some dash cam stuff here. It's in the first clip but the chase car was too far back to really see it. I'm the voice in the last three seconds or so that starts to call for medical.
Right? Haven't seen that before. Tonight some idiots did a drive by with one of the units on out operation like a block away. That turned into another chase and I ended up as a runner on one of the K9 teams going yard to yard after they bailed out of the car. Not a bad way to end the week.
If we're sharing traffic videos, this https://youtu.be/2PFRdEUN240 (which is just round the corner to me) should annoy/entertain cyclists and drivers alike. Do watch till the end.
Sort of speaking of crashes, ekranoplan smash-up (30 to 45 seconds shows the actual incident--a thing that makes sense that could go wrong but that would not have occurred to me).
I was just thinking: if you were to engage in autobot-erotic activities, that would give a whole new connotation to the phrase "blowing a transformer"