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Well, today my second child and first son officially turned one.
He's gone from being a wriggling lump who didn't know that the pink hand that kept hitting him in the face was his own to after awaking from his morning nap gets his own way off the bed, crawls across the room and corridor, down the stairs (no handrails) and into the living room where he climbs onto the couch and hits his dad with an inflatable toy hammer from the local hardware store until I make him some lunch.
Today he got an inflatable pool in the shape of an open top ferrari and I got to drink copious quantities of beer with my friends, her indoors knocked back some rather nice bottles of champagne with her mates and all in all we thought how has the little bugger survived the year with us as parents.
This is him.
Make sure you give him a hug and a "happy birthday" for me! :)
No man is free until all men are free - John Hossack
I agree completely with this Administration’s goal of a regime change in Iraq-John Kerry
even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act-John Kerry
He may even miscalculate and slide these weapons off to terrorist groups to invite them to be a surrogate to use them against the United States. It’s the miscalculation that poses the greatest threat-John Kerry
"To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are."-Sholem Asch
"I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures."-Earl Warren
"I didn't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs."-Nancy Reagan, when asked a political question at a "Just Say No" rally
"He no play-a da game, he no make-a da rules."-Earl Butz, on the Pope's attitude toward birth control
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