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  1. Five of the seven weekdays.
  2. Eleven of the twelve months.
  3. Sleep in on a Saturday.
  4. Sleep through the night.
  5. Have a slice of pizza.
  6. Have a hot dog.
  7. Eat solid food.
  8. Drink a coke.
  9. Drink orange juice.
  10. Go home.
  11. Sleep in her room.
  12. Make a friend.
  13. Read The Lord of the Rings.
  14. Read 1984.
  15. Read a book.
  16. See Casablanca.
  17. See Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
  18. See a movie in the theater.
  19. See a movie at home.
  20. Travel into space.
  21. Travel to a foreign country.
  22. Travel to 49 of the 50 states.
  23. Travel to Boston.
  24. Graduate from college.
  25. Go to college.
  26. Go to school.
  27. Slack off through a summer vacation.
  28. Get a summer job.
  29. Watch Saturday morning cartoons.
  30. Write a book.
  31. Get rickroll’d.
  32. Plank.
  33. Crush on a boy.
  34. Fall in love.
  35. Have her heart broken.
  36. (Assume there are a few in here about sex which it’s best I don’t enumerate.)
  37. Go to a funeral for an elder.
  38. Go to a funeral for a friend.
  39. Learn to program.
  40. Play a board game.
  41. Get trounced at Scrabble.
  42. Trounce someone at Scrabble.
  43. Go to the Aquarium.
  44. Go to the Museum of Science.
  45. Go to Quincy Market.
  46. Go to my office’s Take Your Child to Work Day.
  47. Go to a Lefton party.
  48. Go to any party.
  49. Play Zork.
  50. Play Wii Frisbee Golf.
  51. Play any video game.
  52. Use a stapler.
  53. Use a pencil.
  54. Make a phone call.
  55. Study for a test.
  56. Learn to drive.
  57. Get in a car accident.
  58. Be in a car.
  59. Buy a car.
  60. Buy a house.
  61. Buy a tank of gas.
  62. Buy anything.
  63. Walk to the corner store unsupervised.
  64. Walk.
  65. Crawl.
  66. Figure out that there’s stuff dad doesn’t know.
  67. Figure out how to work child-proof doorknobs.
  68. Figure out object permanence.
  69. Go to the dentist.
  70. Lose a tooth.
  71. Grow a tooth.
  72. Get her wisdom teeth out.
  73. Brush her teeth.
  74. Get sick.
  75. Throw a ball.
  76. Cook a meal.
  77. Fire a gun.
  78. Vote for President.
  79. Realize someone is wrong on the Internet.
  80. Realize it doesn’t matter that much.
  81. Play with crayons.
  82. Play with stuffed animals.
  83. Play with teething rings.
  84. Learn a foreign language.
  85. Learn English.
  86. Break curfew.
  87. Get drunk.
  88. Get seriously double-secret grounded. (Not necessarily a sequitur.)
  89. Go to a con.
  90. Go on a cruise.
  91. Go to a concert.
  92. Go to camp.
  93. Go to the beach.
  94. Learn a sport.
  95. Break a bone.
  96. Make cookies and eat them!
  97. Propose to someone (or vice-versa).
  98. Get married.
  99. Hold her first child.
  100. Hold her first grandchild.

10 Things My Daughter Has Done.

  1. Breathed.
  2. Complained.
  3. Looked at the world in vague astonishment.
  4. Been read to.
  5. Slept.
  6. Fed.
  7. Gotten checked out by a doctor.
  8. Altered the course of far-distant planets with her mass, however minutely.
  9. Impressed her parents.
  10. Been loved.

Date: 2011-08-25 01:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dancer.livejournal.com
This should perhaps go into a baby book of sorts to use as a kind of checklist? :)

Congrats Dad! I am so unbelievably happy for you guys!

Date: 2011-08-25 01:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] whswhs.livejournal.com
Well, technically, your daughter has yet to travel to any of the fifty states, including Massachusetts. You can't travel somewhere unless you start somewhere else!

That's cute

Date: 2011-08-25 01:49 pm (UTC)
drwex: (Default)
From: [personal profile] drwex
but man do you have too much free time right now :)

Date: 2011-08-25 01:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] woodwardiocom.livejournal.com
you have too much free time right now

No, I plan ahead.

awesome

Date: 2011-08-25 02:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] taura-g.livejournal.com
Such a *you* thing to do. :-)

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.

Date: 2011-08-25 01:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theloriest.livejournal.com
This made me all teary-eyed. :)

Date: 2011-08-25 05:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hahathor.livejournal.com
Me too! How awesome is it to see a daddy that invested in his daughter's life. Hell, there are some parents of adults who haven't spent that much brain power on their offspring. She's off to a good (and well-loved) start!

Date: 2011-08-25 02:00 pm (UTC)
ext_119452: (Balloon)
From: [identity profile] desiringsubject.livejournal.com
There are very few things I've seen in the past few years that have made me think parenting could be for me, but this list is one.

Congratulations.

And... What is to plank?

Date: 2011-08-25 02:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] whswhs.livejournal.com
I wondered about that, and about #31 and #47.

Date: 2011-08-25 02:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] woodwardiocom.livejournal.com
The Leftons are part of my local community, who throw parties that are the social events of the season.

Rickrolling is a harmless practical joke.

Date: 2011-08-25 04:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] whswhs.livejournal.com
From the definition at the link I should have chosen the adjective "pointless," but I don't have a normal sense of humor.

Date: 2011-08-25 02:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bedfull-o-books.livejournal.com
That is really odd. Teapotting is odder though....

Date: 2011-08-25 03:46 pm (UTC)
ext_119452: (Balloon)
From: [identity profile] desiringsubject.livejournal.com
I...er...

Fads are weird.

Date: 2011-08-25 04:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] smacaski.livejournal.com
Planking is so passe. Owling is the new thing. Er, newer--it might already be on its way out. I can't keep up with stupid positional fads.

Date: 2011-08-26 02:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] woodwardiocom.livejournal.com
There are very few things I've seen in the past few years that have made me think parenting could be for me, but this list is one.

And, by the way, that's high praise for both my writing skills and my nascent parenting skills. Thanks!

Date: 2011-08-25 02:20 pm (UTC)

Date: 2011-08-25 02:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] iron-chef-bbq.livejournal.com
Does she have a name?

Congratulations. I'm so happy for you all.

Date: 2011-08-25 02:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] woodwardiocom.livejournal.com
We're being discreet with her name on the Internet.

Date: 2011-08-25 05:57 pm (UTC)
archangelbeth: An egyptian-inspired eye, centered between feathered wings. (Default)
From: [personal profile] archangelbeth
She's a Roo! I suppose when she grows up, she'll be a Kanga?

Date: 2011-08-25 02:25 pm (UTC)
archangelbeth: Quote from Bujold's work: after five-space navigational math, how hard could motherhood be? (Vor - After 5-space math motherhood hard)
From: [personal profile] archangelbeth
Awwwwwwww!

(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:> )

Date: 2011-08-25 02:54 pm (UTC)
ceo: (Default)
From: [personal profile] ceo
That's really awesome.

Date: 2011-08-25 03:20 pm (UTC)
beowabbit: (Me: playing as a toddler in London’s Hyd)
From: [personal profile] beowabbit
This post was adorable!

Date: 2011-08-25 03:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kimberlogic.livejournal.com
So so happy for all of you and looking forward to hearing about all her adventures and hopefully, soon (feels like forever so far, as you & B are somewhat familiar with ...) add another baby to her big list of friends

Date: 2011-08-25 05:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ricevermicelli.livejournal.com
I hope she gives you a good long time on Item #68. Object permanence is a stone cold bitch.

Date: 2011-08-25 07:04 pm (UTC)
muffyjo: (Default)
From: [personal profile] muffyjo
I thought there were only five week days and two weekends thus equaling a full week. Learning new things all the time. Guess I can check that off my list now.

Congratulations!!! I am so happy for you all!

Date: 2011-08-26 12:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 42itous.livejournal.com
I can not wait to trounce your daughter at Scrabble.

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! :)

Date: 2011-08-26 05:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dimers.livejournal.com
Ahh, but the mass wasn't Roo until a certain point, and then once it was Roo, item 8 had been accomplished.

Date: 2011-08-26 02:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] woodwardiocom.livejournal.com
Or can the mere relocation of mass alter the course of far-distant planets?

Yah, certainly her mass was affecting planets before, but the separation from her mother does make a minute difference in the vectors.

Date: 2011-08-26 12:30 am (UTC)
bluegargantua: (Default)
From: [personal profile] bluegargantua

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

Date: 2011-09-01 11:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fitfool.livejournal.com
awww...I love seeing a dad get all enthusiastic about his kids
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