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Took Miles to Peacock Lane tonight. Its a street in Ptown with all the lights on every house light up like mad...... Little elves and santas running around. Portland tradition......very cool.

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Were his eyes bugging out of his head in mesmerization? My wife and I had a phrase for when that would happen to Nicholas when he was tiny: Information Overload

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Time for another video...everybody loves laughing babies...though I really don't know what was so funny. Usually it is hard to get him to laugh, he is not easily amused

 

 

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OK Dads, last night I attended a girl scout sponsored dance for girls and their dads/male rolemodels. There were about 40-50 father/daughter teams there, and it was a tremendously positive event. I saw smiles on the faces of all the young ladies, and pure love in the eyes of their fathers. On my long drive back to Wenatchee today, I wept a couple times thinking about the event, and the bright beautiful smile my 9 year old daughter had all night. If you ever have the chance for one of these events, I highly recommend you go.

 

A much better fundraiser than selling cookies.

 

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just got my little guys a harness after our first trip to a climbing gym. cant' wait to take them out again... and onto real rock soon. :tup:

 

 

Totally rad..... I am aways from that point, but am looking forward to it. I am thinking 4 years old.

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At about 5-6 months old, I used to hang my daughter up-side-down in a full body kids harness (some modifications) and hang her from the living room ceiling. It was like her swing. I would lay under her and watch her giggle.

 

never to young to get them in a harness.

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just got my little guys a harness after our first trip to a climbing gym. cant' wait to take them out again... and onto real rock soon. :tup:

 

 

Totally rad..... I am aways from that point, but am looking forward to it. I am thinking 4 years old.

 

it's amazing how natural climbing comes to little kids... as compared to when you learn as an adult like me.

 

if I can get someone else to belay, or lock off, I'll try and get a photo.

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At about 5-6 months old, I used to hang my daughter up-side-down in a full body kids harness (some modifications) and hang her from the living room ceiling. It was like her swing. I would lay under her and watch her giggle.

 

never to young to get them in a harness.

 

This is the TRUTH...i'd hook my kids up at 2 1/2 and just swing 'em like crazy at the gym...by the time they could climb for real, ropes were "no big deal" and there were no trust issues...

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the first "game" my daughter played with me was swinging in her harness, rope in the middle of the living room. She was in a sitting position duct-taped so that she sat up nicely. I was swinging her while trying to catch a few winks of sleep. I looked over, and every time she swung toward me she would make a cute little face and open her eyes real big. took me a moment to figure out that she was instigating "play" for the first time.

 

God, I need another baby!

 

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OK Dads, last night I attended a girl scout sponsored dance for girls and their dads/male rolemodels. There were about 40-50 father/daughter teams there, and it was a tremendously positive event. I saw smiles on the faces of all the young ladies, and pure love in the eyes of their fathers. On my long drive back to Wenatchee today, I wept a couple times thinking about the event, and the bright beautiful smile my 9 year old daughter had all night. If you ever have the chance for one of these events, I highly recommend you go.

 

A much better fundraiser than selling cookies.

Although it is probably defunct now for being "politically incorrect", the Indian Princesses used to be a father-daughter group. We got to dress up in little pocahontas-type outfits for the meetings and make cool things out of sponges, potatoes, yarn, and whatnot.

I have a lot of great memories of my father, but those times I got to have him all to myself are certainly some of my best memories.

 

A great dad is one of the best gifts any woman can ask for.

 

 

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just got my little guys a harness after our first trip to a climbing gym. cant' wait to take them out again... and onto real rock soon. :tup:

 

 

Totally rad..... I am aways from that point, but am looking forward to it. I am thinking 4 years old.

No way dood...start them at 2+ to 3 years...they are climbing into and over everything by then so its an unconscious switch...by 4 they are thinking enough that they might get freaked...best to bypass that stage if possible

 

I'm struggling with several kids' in my neighborhood to get them over that issue right now...I'm convinced if you start them young enough its better...

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kind words, but no. i'm ablazing!

 

 

Pink, this thread is for fathers, not guys who don't know who their father is.

Pink was not a live birth...he was hatched from some kind of egg...

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bstach,

That one simply has to go into the album. Drag it out a few years from now when he brings his climber girlfriend home to meet you. You'll truthfully be able to say he "had climbing in his blood" from Day One. :laf:

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