Best part of being Dad

Baby is technically due July 8th, but we feel like it will come sooner. He’s been sitting on Rachel’s cervix for the past several days and she feels like she may be dilating already. She’s going in to the doctor this Wednesday and may see if they’ll strip her membranes.

As we get closer, I’ll move over the Sober Babies for updates.

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Woke this morning to find that Elliott had gone to sleep with his gum. It was stuck all over his pj’s.

We are not a gum household. Its gross hearing people smack their gum and its rude to do in public. Though it would be fun for a ball game. I was wrong. I’ll bring different snacks next time.

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Mine had her third swim lesson today. Making her dad super proud. :swimming_woman:

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That’s awesome! My boys recently became good swimmers. The twins are 5 1/2.

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Do you have just the one? How old is she?

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One is a handful i couldn’t imagine twins. Mine is 16 months. Shes working up to a vocabulary of about 20 words now. My favorite is when she says "baaybiie":baby:

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Haha! That’s the best when they start talking! My wife is due any day now with our 5th boy. We will be back to baby mode all over again.

Twins was a different experience. Twice as much work. They were mischievous and had boundless energy (still do). Left us completely exhausted. At least you have a girl though. Lucky you!

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Jordy and Madd :heart_eyes::heart_eyes: with a sober dad.

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Great photo @CaptAZ plus it rhymes too! :grin:

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Having the time to listen to my two boys and remembering what they have said to me…so many more memories :grin:

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They aren’t twins are they? They look so similar in height!

No Jordy is 10 and Madd is 8. Madd is just beast!

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@anon37742172 Ahh! No fun! Were you dehydrated? Sounds like it was super hot there.

@CaptAZ Haha! I guess so! They look like they could be twins with how similar in size they are. My oldest is almost 8, but he’s a shrimp.

Mine are both January babies. Capricorns… aye carumba lol.

@DungeonMaster they’re tall as hell. I’m 6’2" and the wife is 5’9" so they got some growing to do lol. When Madd was going into 1st the teacher asked our then 4 year old Bailey if she had found her seat. She’s a sprout too.

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Lol! You should have just left her to start school early!

@anon37742172 we talked about your headaches before, right?

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She would have been cool with that lol. Lil tagalong. Her nicknames are Mama, because she’s such a little mom, and Bako, short for bacon lol acted like a wittle piglet when she was still crawling around.

She’s also known as tato, tater tot, betato and the list goes on and on haha

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Haha! Bako! That’s awesome. Our kids nicknames are less creative. We called Collin Collywog when he was a baby (like a pollywog), now we just call him Wog. Ellbuh short for Elliott Beau. Truman just goes by Tru. Then our little one is Bennett-Pie, or sometimes just Pie.

Excited to see what this new one’s name will be, and nicknames.

It’s one of the great joys of being a parent.

I have a Jorn/Jordy, a Munky/Madd, a Bako/Bailey durl and then there’s Buddy/Buddy guy/Boyo/Teefen/Mocho de Gocho/Jack.

Buddy is the youngest and my only boy, the girls adore that kid and he has easily the most mames

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I’d like to hear about that.

@CaptAZ kids are the best part of my life! Sounds like you’ve got an awesome piece of life carved out for yourself as well!

Working on it. Took them for granted in my selfish haze of drinking and drugging. The wife and i’s last fight led to them being placed in foster care. Wife went to the hospital and I was “escorted” to the mental health facility. Every day sober is a day of blessing on my life and those around me. We will be reunited soon, and on that day the lovequake will be felt worldwide

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