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althen artren
Senior Scribe
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 Posted - 26 May 2009 : 03:53:17
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I'm back, just had my second kid almost a month ago, and
totally exhausted. Any daddy's out there want to share some stories?
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Fillow
Master of Realmslore
France
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Posted - 26 May 2009 : 05:25:13
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Congratulations Althen.
I had my second child, a daughter, last month too, on the 1st of April (which is the day of the jokes in FRance).
4,560 kg and 56 cm ! (10.05 lb and 1.53 ft !). My wife will remember for long for her birth ! 5that's not the same wife than the mother of my first child, my son, and µI forgot to tell her about that ! 
A great moment in life... |
"Today is a good day to smile",
Fillow Big'n'Book Mahlemiut 'Lead-dog', Son of Garl, Wanderer of the Masked Leaf and Namer of Oghma.
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I am a French FR fan, so please forgive my lapses in English language and do not hesitate to correct me. Thanks a lot. |
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Fillow
Master of Realmslore
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 26 May 2009 : 07:09:21
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Originally posted by Fillow
I had my second child, a daughter, last month too, on the 1st of April (which is the day of the jokes in FRance).
It's April Fool's Day in the US, too. I've seen a website (I don't recall the URL) that lists some of the best April Fool's Day jokes ever pulled. It's a fun read.  |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 26 May 2009 : 07:09:59
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Originally posted by Fillow
quote:
Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
I wish I was a daddy. 
I will happen Wooly... no ?
Would you need some help ?
Heh, I just need to get some income going on, so we can afford to have a little one. |
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edappel
Learned Scribe
Brazil
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Posted - 26 May 2009 : 12:26:33
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Hey Althen...
Well, my son was born in november 17th... 3,050 kgs, and the heigth I truly don't remember (**I truly hate my memory**)
Now, with 6 months, the things got better.. Finally he is sleeping well, my wife is a bit more relaxed, didn't got any health problem... A perfect boy. Theo is his name.
Hold on Arthen. Those three first months I remember as ones of the most hard of my entire life. But probably you already know it (did you took care of your older one?) |
--- Ed Appel
*** I'm a brazilian FR fan. So, feel free to correct my writing mistakes to improve my english. |
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althen artren
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 26 May 2009 : 22:09:33
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Oh yeah, I know. My daughter is a beautiful energetic
4 year old and she never learned to sleep.
Small stomachs lead to many night time feedings.
Done it all.
I don't know. I just wanted to see some people talk about their
families more. I want to see more human traits than gamer traits
once in a while. (Though I wonder why I'm always visiting this website if I want to see more real life stuff?)
My first was 8lbs and 9oz and 21 inches long. My wife had a c-section
and I thought I was watching the surgeons killing her on the
operating table. They were tugging and pulling and slurping and tissue was flying everwhere. They say I lost color a time or two.
But when I picked up my daughter for the first time out of the warmer,
she stopped crying instantly, as if she knew she would be safe there forever.
Second baby was a boy 6 lbs 13 oz 19 inches long and he has/had several small non-serious health issues. Just enough to worry my wife
and me. With being a 5th level father, I wasn't as in shock at the treatment on the operating table.
Oh' Handsome Hampster:
You should have litters by now. Rodents procreate at amazing rates.
Seriously, what do you do in real life? |
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edappel
Learned Scribe
Brazil
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Posted - 27 May 2009 : 13:33:38
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quote:
Originally posted by althen artren
I don't know. I just wanted to see some people talk about their
families more. I want to see more human traits than gamer traits
once in a while. (Though I wonder why I'm always visiting this website if I want to see more real life stuff?)
That's something that normally I ask too. Even being a new user at this forum, I'm very fond of many people around here.
I remember some years ago when I played MUD... It was very nice to enter their foruns and get knowing many people from different plaes of the world. |
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edappel
Learned Scribe
Brazil
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Posted - 02 Jun 2009 : 19:21:00
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Well Althen... Nobody answered us.  |
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Fillow
Master of Realmslore
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Stonwulfe
Seeker
Canada
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Posted - 18 Oct 2009 : 22:21:37
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Congrats, Althen. I, too, am a father. I have an 8 year old daughter, and she's been a joy and a trial, all rolled into one. I wouldn't trade her for the world. I do have a fun story of a trying time, that made me love her as much as it made me cringe.
One day, while I was still living in Edmonton, I took my daughter out for a walk in the hot days of summer. We had been walking a long way for a girl who was then only five. So we stopped in a small hole-in-the-wall, the kind of grocery store that condo residents use in older buildings. Well, while I was at the counter paying for a couple of creamsicles, she was sitting behind me quietly. Too quietly. I turned around and she was stuffing her face full of cherry gel candies, the kind that look like a pair of cherries hanging from a stem.
I was mortified, and I nearly lost it. I only had the $5 in my pocket, and was working a job where I couldn't afford many luxuries but the time I spent with her. I'm a single father, you see, and had returned to university to finish my degree. Well, I kind of lost it. I paid the man, apologized profusely for her stuffing her face, and dragged her from the store a little ashamed. Then I saw the look in her eyes; the look that said I had frightened her.
I felt, in that moment, as though my world were breaking apart. So I gave her a hug, and she hugged me harder than in many moments I can remember.
Sometimes being a parent is really rewarding in unexpected ways - sometimes it's the lessons your kids teach you that are the true reward. Patience, dignity, understanding... |
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Delzounblood
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Posted - 25 Oct 2009 : 22:46:01
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Originally posted by Stonwulfe
Sometimes being a parent is really rewarding in unexpected ways - sometimes it's the lessons your kids teach you that are the true reward. Patience, dignity, understanding...
True wisdom is often found only in the mouth of babes!
I have a 3 year old little boy and he teaches me more than my 35 years have done.. But on the flipside I get to teach him about DnD he loves the original cartoons.
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J D Dunsany
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01 Dec 2009 : 08:49:46
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Belated congratulations!
I'm a father too. Two boys - 14 and 12. Both gamers, but of the XBox 360 variety. When their beards grow in, that might change of course!
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"How content that young woman looks, don't you think? How content, and yet how flammable." - Lemony Snicket, The Unauthorized Autobiography |
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Thauramarth
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01 Dec 2009 : 14:24:29
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Putting in my two coppers' worth - first child, baby girl, born on 4th September
Anyone know where you can get a big, plush d20 (to get her an early start?) . |
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 01 Dec 2009 : 18:34:40
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Originally posted by Thauramarth
Putting in my two coppers' worth - first child, baby girl, born on 4th September
Anyone know where you can get a big, plush d20 (to get her an early start?) .
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