Baby Waste's 1st BDay

He is so adorable Waste . How time flies .. Happy Birthday :happy birthday:

 

20 years? He's already showing signs of being like Dad... very persistent and doesn't like no for an answer... I give him 17 years before he writes his first BBG trip report

 

It wasn't me... you're not getting off that easy. I still call her the gf... or in the ideal social situation, she is sometimes referred to as My Baby's Mama

Just because I don't argue it anymore, doesn't mean you're getting off that easy!

 

Thanks. With my cuteness expiring at the young age of 5, mom's his only hope in the looks department...

 

Not likely. Hopefully as he grows up, he will acquire a true appreciation for hockey. Understanding the game, the strategies and unbiased sense of fairness for the sport. As the rules of the sport depreciate over time with regulation overtimes, shootouts, etc... it will be difficult, but I am hopefull.

With teams like Montreal, Calgary and Boston, the old Blackhawks and potentially what the Penguins are becoming, hopefully there will still be something left to appreciate from this great sport. As the game continues to change, it may no longer be an option. That said, being a Jersey fan will never be as bad as being a leaf fan.

 

Thanks for the info. We did discuss teaching him to sign. We were planning on starting at 3-4 months old, but then decided against it. We consulted a few specialists in the field and decided the cons outweighed the pros. Although most specialists agreed that signing did encourage infants to communicate at a younger age, many also argued the downside as well. In the end, we decided that although the studies against signing are still fairly recent and many of the results are still in-conclusive, we didn't want to take the risk.

 

cool. We taught our oldest, who is now 9 years old, some of the basic things I listed above...but really didn't go any further...however, she had a huge vocabulary at very young age...signing was just fun for her, she spoke very clearly and didn't really need to sign. She just liked the reaction she got from other family/friends when she would do it. She gets high "A's" in school...and hasn't seem to have affected her at all that I can tell.

Thats my personal study on one child

 

Also cool. If we would of had more information as well as more accurate case studies over longer periods of time, specifically case studies that focus on living environments and not just results, we probably would of been a lot more decisive one way or the other. We based our decision on the little real world data available. Although we were shown a lot of positive results, we were also shown some negative results. There was no way of telling if the negative results accounted for 5% of infants or 50% of infants. We basically decided that we didn't have enough information to make a decision.

 

I thought I'd give it a try. :wink: