My son, he's 7 and SO cool.
The DAD Thread
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Junior just made his first three steps in a row. and i was fast enough to to catch him doin that on his own by camera. I am sooo proud of him [emoji41] [emoji41]
They grow up fast.
Y'all should listen to the Turning This Car Around podcast. 3 dads in various situations (1 big family, 1 adoption, 1 separated with joint custody) who are all highly competent podcasters just shoot the breeze on a variety of topics around life and family - usually profanely and always hilariously. It's one of the rare podcasts that always feels like a natural conversation between friends.
My little shavers
My daughter and I go running tomorrow. I'm hoping to get her brainwashed . . . er, I mean interested, in running. 
Great stories and pics, one and all. Thanks for sharing them. My wife and I are trying to start a family but unfortunately we've had a series of miscarriages in the past year. The last was in late January, and we're just now starting to crawl out from the dark place. It seems so cruel to go from the best news possible to the worst news possible with absolutely no in between. I'm sure many of you know how bad that can be. Anyway, I don't mean to be a downer, and all that to say, the pride and love ya'll are showing is awesome and gives me hope for me and Mrs. Reckoner! What a great bunch of guys at B&B.
Hang in there bro, there are sooo many ways to be a parent, my 17 year old son was part of a package deal when I got married, he was 2 at the time and just viewed me as the daddy who just showed up one day, I potty trained him, taught him to ride a bike and took him to all of his Cub Scout and sports events, no, he is not my bio son, but it matters not to me, I adopted him, he has my name and everlasting love forever!!! Just a little testimony, also have 12 year old daughter (see below)
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I wish you and your wife the very best - good luck!
I feel your pain sir. My wife had 3 and after the third, that was the last attempt. We went the route of adoption from S Korea, and 7 years later couldnt imagine my life without my son. Best kid ever!
I feel your pain. A couple years after we had our first, we had a miscarriage. NOT an easy thing to get through, it still haunts us every day.
I'm happy to say we now have two beautiful girls.
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Commander Quan
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My wife has PCOS, so we knew before we started that we were going to have a difficult time conceiving. We did the whole gamete of medication, starting with Clomid and working up to a cocktail of daily injections. When were lucky in that her insurance covered all of the medication up until the injections started, because otherwise we would have had to seriously make some changes. While we were tracking things we were going to the Dr.s at least once and up to three times a week, for months and months and months. It was emotionally exhausting, and the whole time you have those people who are trying to help by saying "Relax, it will happen" when that is absolutely no help at all.
The first cycle after we started the injections, we did get pregnant, and when we went back to the Dr we found out it was twins. Since we were seeing a specialist, we were going for ultrasounds every week. The next week when we went back they hadn't grown, and there was no heartbeat. That was a dark day for us.
We did 6 more months without any success, and decided it would be better for us to peruse IVF. Of course we had to take some time to save for all the costs that go along with that so we had some time to relax before we dove headfirst into the next thing. Due to some scheduling issues we couldn't meet with the Doc for that consultation for almost 2 months, the next week after we did we found out we got pregnant on our own. I felt like telling the Doc I wanted a refund.
That pregnancy could not have gone more perfect, but I don't feel like we enjoyed those 9 months as much as we could have because there was always thing nagging feeling in the back of your mind that something was going to go wrong.
The first cycle after we started the injections, we did get pregnant, and when we went back to the Dr we found out it was twins. Since we were seeing a specialist, we were going for ultrasounds every week. The next week when we went back they hadn't grown, and there was no heartbeat. That was a dark day for us.
We did 6 more months without any success, and decided it would be better for us to peruse IVF. Of course we had to take some time to save for all the costs that go along with that so we had some time to relax before we dove headfirst into the next thing. Due to some scheduling issues we couldn't meet with the Doc for that consultation for almost 2 months, the next week after we did we found out we got pregnant on our own. I felt like telling the Doc I wanted a refund.
That pregnancy could not have gone more perfect, but I don't feel like we enjoyed those 9 months as much as we could have because there was always thing nagging feeling in the back of your mind that something was going to go wrong.
our pregnancy was discovered in month 7 so we had not that much time to enjoy since we had to sort things out. but now. my boy is 1 year and everything is fine.
@reckoner. i feel with you and wish you the best.
@Commander Quan:
glad it all worked well in the end.
@reckoner. i feel with you and wish you the best.
@Commander Quan:
glad it all worked well in the end.
Great thread! Had a nice night out at the movies and ice cream with my kids the other night.
My eighteen year old son told us when he was in the fifth grade that he wanted to be a music teacher. He has worked his butt off, and will be attending college next year on a music scholarship, as an education major.
Solid bass trombone^^
Solid bass trombone^^
Thanks, it's a pretty sharp horn, and he pulls off a pretty badass sound with it. Classical tuba is his moneymaker, but he loves to play jazz.
I recognize that logo - that's the Godley Wildcats!
You guys are in our district. (We being Kennedale). Small world.
