water cooler :: I'm going to be a daddy!

Quote (adraker @ Jan. 11 2006,02:17)

Twins....now theres a concept. As in the Brothers Grim(m). The Grim Sisters doesn't have quite the same ring to it. Anyway, congrats to you and yours Grim.

Ha! That would be great! Hey Grimm, sometimes one is able to hide in there for a long time.......  

Chris

Quote (clivesay @ Jan. 10 2006,21:02)

Grim, You'll be amazed what you get used to. My first biological children were twins 6 weeks premature. Feedings every three hours 24hrs a day. The first 5 months are only recalled in video and pictures. Our brains shut down. You'll become a semi pro diaper changer and baby swaddler in no time. Chris

Chris,

Technically, I have a goddaughter.  I say technically because I've lost touch with her momma and daddy since I got out of the navy.

I used to change Becca's diapers all the time.  I've been puked on and pissed on but not yet shit on (though I hear it's great ).  

I'm not sweating the diaper changes, or not getting any sleep, or staying pissed off all the time.  As people who are familiar with my "work" here in the forums, I'm like that all the time anyway.

Nah, the thing I'm worried about is, what if we have a little girl.  I didn't have any sisters growing up, so I have NO idea how to treat a little girl. Sure, the diapers, the nightly feedings, I'm not worried about any of that. I'm worried about having a bunch of giggling girls around the house for sleepovers.  First periods.  Makeup.  Boyfriends.  You know, shit that I have NO IDEA how to handle.

Everybody has stories about "that chick's dad".  I'll be that guy.  Cleaning the shotgun when some little bastard comes over for a date.  Sharpening swords.  Whatever.  I can see me doing that, but, whatever.  I dunno.

I've been getting conflicting advice, but I think the idea that I'm gonna go with is sealing her in a barrell and feeding her through a knothole until she's thirty.

(can't find where I got that from, there's a whole series, something about "I love Darth"... or maybe it was "I hate Darth"...or...)

Quote (Grim @ Jan. 11 2006,17:55)

Nah, the thing I'm worried about is, what if we have a little girl.  I didn't have any sisters growing up, so I have NO idea how to treat a little girl.

Grim, that's an easy one. You'll be putty in her hands and she'll think you're the greatest guy in the world. I have 3 girls all together. They clash with you during the teenage years, as expected but now my 20yr old realizes I'm not near as dumb as she thought I was when she was 17 and 18yrs old.

Chris

Whooo boy...just wait till the little ones get mobile and start getting into crap...

If it gets reallly quiet...get up and find em..because they are doing something wrong...oh and be prepared to watch a disney movie no less than 20x in a week

have fun man...I know I am!  

p.s. Pregnancy farts can peel paint!

Brian
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