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Flinty wrote: Just focus on the fact that whatever horrible thing the little tyke is imposing on you is just a phase. It does get better
Forgot the terrible two's
I have a 3 1/2 year old who's much harder to live with than when she was 2.
My daughter started sleepwalking AND having night terrors at around 4. She was asleep so I stayed up late working on a 40k scale scratch built Leviathan command vehicle, parts strewn about the living room floor. She stumbled out around 1AM, sobbing and sleepwalking. I tried to herd her back to bed, but she ended up stepping on the Leviathan. It was at that moment I was glad I over-engineer all my scartchbuilds. It took her whole bodyweight without bending or breaking.
Flinty wrote: Just focus on the fact that whatever horrible thing the little tyke is imposing on you is just a phase. It does get better
Forgot the terrible two's
I have a 3 1/2 year old who's much harder to live with than when she was 2.
My daughter started sleepwalking AND having night terrors at around 4. She was asleep so I stayed up late working on a 40k scale scratch built Leviathan command vehicle, parts strewn about the living room floor. She stumbled out around 1AM, sobbing and sleepwalking. I tried to herd her back to bed, but she ended up stepping on the Leviathan. It was at that moment I was glad I over-engineer all my scartchbuilds. It took her whole bodyweight without bending or breaking.
Ouch. It's good she didn't get hurt worse, I once got a free trip to the ER for stepping on an old pewter dark Eldar masquerading as a caltrop.
BorderCountess wrote: Just because you're doing something right doesn't necessarily mean you know what you're doing...
Flinty wrote: Just focus on the fact that whatever horrible thing the little tyke is imposing on you is just a phase. It does get better
Forgot the terrible two's
I have a 3 1/2 year old who's much harder to live with than when she was 2.
My daughter started sleepwalking AND having night terrors at around 4. She was asleep so I stayed up late working on a 40k scale scratch built Leviathan command vehicle, parts strewn about the living room floor. She stumbled out around 1AM, sobbing and sleepwalking. I tried to herd her back to bed, but she ended up stepping on the Leviathan. It was at that moment I was glad I over-engineer all my scartchbuilds. It took her whole bodyweight without bending or breaking.
Ouch. It's good she didn't get hurt worse, I once got a free trip to the ER for stepping on an old pewter dark Eldar masquerading as a caltrop.
Warhammer quest goblin spearmen were great for that too
Flinty wrote: Just focus on the fact that whatever horrible thing the little tyke is imposing on you is just a phase. It does get better
Forgot the terrible two's
I have a 3 1/2 year old who's much harder to live with than when she was 2.
Yeah that was a shock to the system. You hear so much about the Terrible Twos, but nothing beyond that. I remember lamenting it and expressing relief that it was nearly over, and my parents saying "Yeah, it's the Terrible Threes next." I'm sorry, WTF??? Looking back now, it all went by in the blink of an eye though...
Wait until the teenage years then you'll be reminiscing about the early years.
Flinty wrote: Just focus on the fact that whatever horrible thing the little tyke is imposing on you is just a phase. It does get better
Forgot the terrible two's
I have a 3 1/2 year old who's much harder to live with than when she was 2.
Yeah that was a shock to the system. You hear so much about the Terrible Twos, but nothing beyond that. I remember lamenting it and expressing relief that it was nearly over, and my parents saying "Yeah, it's the Terrible Threes next." I'm sorry, WTF??? Looking back now, it all went by in the blink of an eye though...
Wait until the teenage years then you'll be reminiscing about the early years.
I would more likely expect it's a side effect of the New Year's celebration
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
Unless you've got some long standing family feud going back several centuries - You might be in the wrong thread
Can anyone explain why a pilot from a galaxy far, far away goes by the handle of 'Dutch'?
A long time ago, in a Galaxy far far away the people of the planet Dutchy fled the Clone Wars in a huge sleeper ship. A sleeper ship which travelled the stars and then the great void between Galaxies for countless millennia before crash landing on Earth. The impact was just off the coast of what we now know as the Netherlands.
This is why the peoples of the Netherlands, known at the Dutch, are raising land from the sea floor. Each inch they gain is another inch closer to their lost sleeper ship; chock full of advanced technology from a more civilized age!
Unless you've got some long standing family feud going back several centuries - You might be in the wrong thread
Can anyone explain why a pilot from a galaxy far, far away goes by the handle of 'Dutch'?
A long time ago, in a Galaxy far far away the people of the planet Dutchy fled the Clone Wars in a huge sleeper ship. A sleeper ship which travelled the stars and then the great void between Galaxies for countless millennia before crash landing on Earth. The impact was just off the coast of what we now know as the Netherlands.
This is why the peoples of the Netherlands, known at the Dutch, are raising land from the sea floor. Each inch they gain is another inch closer to their lost sleeper ship; chock full of advanced technology from a more civilized age!
Thanks - I knew it had to be something obvious I was missing
Did a good turn yesterday. Because you can the boy out the Scout Movement, but you can’t take the Scout Movement out the boy.
Was visiting a toy shop looking to get some Lego. Turned out it was release day for a new Pokemon card set. A rather panicked seem Dad wanted one for each of his kids, but there was a One Per Customer, presumably anti-scalper sales policy.
He asked if I could go up to the counter with him, so I could effectively donate my Per Customer. And it worked.
He offered me a tenner, but I declined, because c’mon. It’s no skin off my nose, and it saves him disappointing his kids. And whether it’s disappointing one, or arguably both, a couple of minutes out my day is no price to pay.
I ended up getting a little Beetlejuice Rubber Ducky. Because as well as very nice, I like my silly little things.
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As a consequence of the pet sitting? The last kitty “Wee” Neville, the youngest of the bunch, a fellow rescued and sadly sole survivor of his Mum and litter now trusts me.
He’s always been understandably skittish, and I know to let kitties come to you. And this week it happened. We had gentle cuddles on his terms, and he was even my bedtime buddy one night (kitties took it in turns over the week).
It’s good to be chosen by animals
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