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Aww, cute! Is everybody healthy nowadays?
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Yes, everyone is very healthy, it's been great. I'm finally back to a life with no more appointments or hospital visits.
Still the issue of prematurity, as in they're 13 months now but really only the size and development of someone 10 months old. For example, still cannot crawl, still cannot really eat solids, still figuring it out. But those are minor problems that will eventually fix themselves.
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That's the best news I've read in a while!
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Adorable!
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Love it.
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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MLB is playing games in London? And your kid is there?
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The girl got an invite to play with the varsity soccer team for their Summer 7v7 league. Our HS coach organizes, 12 teams play every Thursday, 2 games at a time across the field sideways. Had their first game tonight, and she got a hat trick in an exciting 6-6 game. Scored the first two goals for her team and drilled the post with an absolute rocket shot from 20 yards out. Had a nice assist, too.
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Nice!The Sybian wrote: ↑Tue Jun 27, 2023 5:47 pm The girl got an invite to play with the varsity soccer team for their Summer 7v7 league. Our HS coach organizes, 12 teams play every Thursday, 2 games at a time across the field sideways. Had their first game tonight, and she got a hat trick in an exciting 6-6 game. Scored the first two goals for her team and drilled the post with an absolute rocket shot from 20 yards out. Had a nice assist, too.
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First 2 APs for the boy...both 5s...
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Nice! Woke up to two 4s and a 5 here.
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Damn, nice work Swampkids!
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Only thing she announced this AM was that she managed a 3 on whatever version of the Calc exam it was that she took, which she was happy with since she ended up not studying for it.
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Our eldest wants to see "Asteroid City" because they really liked "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" and "Isle of Dogs". As a result, we are starting to go through the Wes Anderson catalog. They watched "Bottle Rocket" tonight and the two of us will have a viewing of "Rushmore" on Saturday. I am excited.
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That is one of the things I'm looking forward to the most with the girls getting older. Not Wes Anderson specifically, even though he will be on the list, just in general all the awesome movies they're too young to watch.DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 20, 2023 7:09 pm Our eldest wants to see "Asteroid City" because they really liked "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" and "Isle of Dogs". As a result, we are starting to go through the Wes Anderson catalog. They watched "Bottle Rocket" tonight and the two of us will have a viewing of "Rushmore" on Saturday. I am excited.
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Similarly, I'm working my way through the Rocky movies with my kids. I watched Rocky I with them on Father's Day, and we try to catch another one every weekend they're down.
After we work our way through those (and the Creeds), I want to do LOTR, but L-Jam4 wants to read the books first. Get on it!
After we work our way through those (and the Creeds), I want to do LOTR, but L-Jam4 wants to read the books first. Get on it!
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I've found this hasn't gone nearly as well as I'd hoped. Some movies don't hold up. Others (recently watched History of the World) aren't nearly good as I remember, more just funny because we used to reference some of the quotes. You wait for the delivery of the line... and they fell flat. Ended up watching it with my son and parents, because my mom was disappointed in the new Hulu show, saying it was really lame with a few good jokes. I said I wonder if the original was as good as she remembered. Both parents believed it'd still be great. All four of us agreed, it was really slow and boring with a few hacky jokes. Often long stretches of pointless plots just waiting to tee up a stupid joke. I loved Mel Brooks movies as a kid, but they don't hold up as well as I hoped.Giff wrote: ↑Fri Jul 21, 2023 8:15 amThat is one of the things I'm looking forward to the most with the girls getting older. Not Wes Anderson specifically, even though he will be on the list, just in general all the awesome movies they're too young to watch.DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 20, 2023 7:09 pm Our eldest wants to see "Asteroid City" because they really liked "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" and "Isle of Dogs". As a result, we are starting to go through the Wes Anderson catalog. They watched "Bottle Rocket" tonight and the two of us will have a viewing of "Rushmore" on Saturday. I am excited.
Been wanting to show my son The Godfather, but not sure I can get him to sit for 3 hours. My kids just don't watch anything on the TVs. They prefer to watch Netflix or whatever on their phone. I'll never understand that.
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Team Syb here. Outside of a few things (LOTR/Hobbits and batmans) really nothing I grew up on resonated much or held interest. But hope it works for you, GIff!
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Part of it is the style of storytelling in movies has changed. I get bored by 80s and 90s movies that I loved. Part of it is that they are used to watching things in 10 second clips. My daughter likes to DJ on Spotify when we drive to her practices, and she drives me nuts playing half a song and constantly jumping to the next one. Says she gets bored, even when it's songs she loves and chose. And she'll play the same damn songs several times in one trip.
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Just my opinion, but I’d stop after the first (and only good, imho) Rocky movie.L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 21, 2023 8:21 am Similarly, I'm working my way through the Rocky movies with my kids. I watched Rocky I with them on Father's Day, and we try to catch another one every weekend they're down.
After we work our way through those (and the Creeds), I want to do LOTR, but L-Jam4 wants to read the books first. Get on it!
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Rocky IV! “If I can change! And youse can change! Everybody can change!”sancarlos wrote: ↑Fri Jul 21, 2023 9:03 pmJust my opinion, but I’d stop after the first (and only good, imho) Rocky movie.L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 21, 2023 8:21 am Similarly, I'm working my way through the Rocky movies with my kids. I watched Rocky I with them on Father's Day, and we try to catch another one every weekend they're down.
After we work our way through those (and the Creeds), I want to do LOTR, but L-Jam4 wants to read the books first. Get on it!
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I strongly recommend the Swamp Quarantine Movie Night thread as a fine companion piece for "Rocky IV".
But, don't read it first to make sure it's okay for your children.
But, don't read it first to make sure it's okay for your children.
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L-Jam4 just beat me in chess for the first time as I honorably laid the king down. I’m both proud and a little pissed.
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The Mel Brooks genre fell flat for my oldest, but Airplane was a HUGE hit. Way more laughs and stupid jokes.
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Signed mine up for chess club last school year so he's been kicking my ass for a while now. Sighs as I take several minutes to prolong the inevitable.
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My son (7 going on 8) has been soccer soccer soccer. About a month and a half ago he was home sick and my wife popped in The Sandlot. Since he's been all about baseball. We played in the backyard and then got him in a coach-pitch then tee league. I'm really proud that he's gotten better each time he's played and hasn't gotten frustrated (he wants to succeed the FIRST TIME and will go into a pile of uselessness if he doesn't most times.) Today he hit his first home run! A GRAND SLAM!! The topper was that it was no doubter off a dad in a Yankees tee.
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Moral of the story: don’t show your kid a baseball movie.Rush2112 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 23, 2023 3:15 pm My son (7 going on 8) has been soccer soccer soccer. About a month and a half ago he was home sick and my wife popped in The Sandlot. Since he's been all about baseball. We played in the backyard and then got him in a coach-pitch then tee league. I'm really proud that he's gotten better each time he's played and hasn't gotten frustrated (he wants to succeed the FIRST TIME and will go into a pile of uselessness if he doesn't most times.) Today he hit his first home run! A GRAND SLAM!! The topper was that it was no doubter off a dad in a Yankees tee.
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Wow, that was close, you almost had a gay communist in the house!Rush2112 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 23, 2023 3:15 pm My son (7 going on 8) has been soccer soccer soccer. About a month and a half ago he was home sick and my wife popped in The Sandlot. Since he's been all about baseball. We played in the backyard and then got him in a coach-pitch then tee league. I'm really proud that he's gotten better each time he's played and hasn't gotten frustrated (he wants to succeed the FIRST TIME and will go into a pile of uselessness if he doesn't most times.) Today he hit his first home run! A GRAND SLAM!! The topper was that it was no doubter off a dad in a Yankees tee.
(totally kidding... just channeling 1978 baseball dads)
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No worries soccer dad. As soon as the kids start chucking it the game will grind to a halt and everyone except the pitchers and catchers will lose interest
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I mean, I got nothing against baseball... Playing on youth teams where they knew I also played soccer is where I heard this kind of crap from coaches/dads at practice and whatnot.
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Probably the best thread for this since we don't have a Nostradamus thread. Every time my youngest walks in a room with a sporting event on TV, he proclaims that he's rooting for whichever team is in the lead. I've given him considerable shit for it for a few years now. He and I have been watching the WWC highlights together the past few nights and tonight we went back and watched the RSA/SWE highlights. South Africa was up 1-0 and he says to me, "I'm going for Sweden". Sure enough, Sweden complete the comeback 2-1.
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They both gave me the finger at the same tonight. Got a pic.
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What prompted the birds?
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