- Five of the seven weekdays.
- Eleven of the twelve months.
- Sleep in on a Saturday.
- Sleep through the night.
- Have a slice of pizza.
- Have a hot dog.
- Eat solid food.
- Drink a coke.
- Drink orange juice.
- Go home.
- Sleep in her room.
- Make a friend.
- Read The Lord of the Rings.
- Read 1984.
- Read a book.
- See Casablanca.
- See Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
- See a movie in the theater.
- See a movie at home.
- Travel into space.
- Travel to a foreign country.
- Travel to 49 of the 50 states.
- Travel to Boston.
- Graduate from college.
- Go to college.
- Go to school.
- Slack off through a summer vacation.
- Get a summer job.
- Watch Saturday morning cartoons.
- Write a book.
- Get rickroll’d.
- Plank.
- Crush on a boy.
- Fall in love.
- Have her heart broken.
- (Assume there are a few in here about sex which it’s best I don’t enumerate.)
- Go to a funeral for an elder.
- Go to a funeral for a friend.
- Learn to program.
- Play a board game.
- Get trounced at Scrabble.
- Trounce someone at Scrabble.
- Go to the Aquarium.
- Go to the Museum of Science.
- Go to Quincy Market.
- Go to my office’s Take Your Child to Work Day.
- Go to a Lefton party.
- Go to any party.
- Play Zork.
- Play Wii Frisbee Golf.
- Play any video game.
- Use a stapler.
- Use a pencil.
- Make a phone call.
- Study for a test.
- Learn to drive.
- Get in a car accident.
- Be in a car.
- Buy a car.
- Buy a house.
- Buy a tank of gas.
- Buy anything.
- Walk to the corner store unsupervised.
- Walk.
- Crawl.
- Figure out that there’s stuff dad doesn’t know.
- Figure out how to work child-proof doorknobs.
- Figure out object permanence.
- Go to the dentist.
- Lose a tooth.
- Grow a tooth.
- Get her wisdom teeth out.
- Brush her teeth.
- Get sick.
- Throw a ball.
- Cook a meal.
- Fire a gun.
- Vote for President.
- Realize someone is wrong on the Internet.
- Realize it doesn’t matter that much.
- Play with crayons.
- Play with stuffed animals.
- Play with teething rings.
- Learn a foreign language.
- Learn English.
- Break curfew.
- Get drunk.
- Get seriously double-secret grounded. (Not necessarily a sequitur.)
- Go to a con.
- Go on a cruise.
- Go to a concert.
- Go to camp.
- Go to the beach.
- Learn a sport.
- Break a bone.
- Make cookies and eat them!
- Propose to someone (or vice-versa).
- Get married.
- Hold her first child.
- Hold her first grandchild.
10 Things My Daughter Has Done.
- Breathed.
- Complained.
- Looked at the world in vague astonishment.
- Been read to.
- Slept.
- Fed.
- Gotten checked out by a doctor.
- Altered the course of far-distant planets with her mass, however minutely.
- Impressed her parents.
- Been loved.
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Date: 2011-08-25 01:16 pm (UTC)Congrats Dad! I am so unbelievably happy for you guys!
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Date: 2011-08-25 01:29 pm (UTC)That's cute
Date: 2011-08-25 01:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-25 01:54 pm (UTC)No, I plan ahead.
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Date: 2011-08-25 02:32 pm (UTC)I commented on B's LJ that I won't be able to make it over today, but I will check in with you guys on Saturday about when to come visit.
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Date: 2011-08-25 01:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-25 05:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-25 02:00 pm (UTC)Congratulations.
And... What is to plank?
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Date: 2011-08-25 02:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-25 02:52 pm (UTC)Rickrolling is a harmless practical joke.
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Date: 2011-08-25 04:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-25 02:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-25 02:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-25 03:46 pm (UTC)Fads are weird.
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Date: 2011-08-25 04:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-26 02:12 pm (UTC)And, by the way, that's high praise for both my writing skills and my nascent parenting skills. Thanks!
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Date: 2011-08-25 02:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-25 02:23 pm (UTC)Congratulations. I'm so happy for you all.
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Date: 2011-08-25 02:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-25 05:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-25 02:25 pm (UTC)(But -- mine went to a con before she was born! I was pregnant at Arisia... And next year, she went to a midnight panel about ... she's reading over my shoulder now ... "grown up stuff" that had been patented, presented by an ex-call girl. (I think she was ex...) Of course, she slept through it once she got a nosh in, so that may not count. O:> )
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Date: 2011-08-25 02:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-25 03:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-25 03:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-25 05:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-25 07:04 pm (UTC)Congratulations!!! I am so happy for you all!
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Date: 2011-08-26 12:11 am (UTC)I also can not wait for your daughter to trounce me at Scrabble!
I think #8 out of 10 is wrong, though: isn't mass never created or destroyed? Or can the mere relocation of mass alter the course of far-distant planets? Certainly if she waves her arms, she creates air currents that affect the weather patterns within our atmosphere... but she's not old enough to have caused Hurricane Irene! :)
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Date: 2011-08-26 05:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-26 02:14 pm (UTC)Yah, certainly her mass was affecting planets before, but the separation from her mother does make a minute difference in the vectors.
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Date: 2011-08-26 12:30 am (UTC)You have forgotten the most important thing:
She has not yet traded away the Epidemic calamity card to her old man.
We'll let her be Egypt the first game
Tom
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Date: 2011-08-26 04:33 pm (UTC)http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-most-horrible-things-nobody-tells-you-about-babies/
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Date: 2011-09-01 11:40 pm (UTC)