Well, Connor is 8 now, and in grade 3, while Ethan is 3, just about to turn 4, and is in Junior Kindergarten. Both boys are pretty sharp, both started walking early, got out of diapers early, etc., and are (of course) great kids. (Hmmm.... methinks I may be a little biased, no? 😆 )
Here's an older picture, from when Ethan was just a few weeks old. (He's a tank now! Not fat, just big for his age and strong... he'll be a big boy when he grows up! Most people think he's 5 years old...)
Originally posted by bLooMiLiCioUs
AAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!THEY ARE!!!!!!!!!oooo caaareful now i'm gonna go n KIDNAP ur kids!!!!!!(haha yeah i'll do that - frm like the other side of the globe😉)
Heh heh heh. 😛
If it ever did happen, though, that anyone touched my kids, I'd hunt them down and kill them. (Seriously, though... if anyone ever did anything to my kids, their lives would be forfeit... they'd die a horrible, slow death.) Funny, I wasn't nearly as sensitive to children's feelings until I had one of my own. Now, I have trouble watching any movie or TV show in which a child is hurt/killed, or even in danger. (e.g. I turned off the movie 'Mimic' when the two boys were killed... just too disturbing to me... and I had a very hard time watching 'Ransom'.)
I know you were only joking though... no offence! 😎
Originally posted by bLooMiLiCioUs
ooo they're sooo cute!!!i can't stop lookin at ur elder son!!!ive always wanted to be a paediatrcian u know - but i realised i dun reaaaly hv a strong stomach 😮 i shall be a voluntary foster mother when i grow up instead😉
And they're really well behaved boys, too. I think it has a lot to do with the fact that both my wife and I are really consistent with the boundaries we set, and the punishment that comes if those boundaries are crossed. Consistency is the key. (That, and lots and lots of love!) I give the boys a lot of my time, and so does my wife... they'll never complain that we weren't "there for them", if you know what I mean. (I rarely work late, and play with the boys a lot...) It probably helps that my wife and I are also very calm people... we never yell/scream/fight, etc. The only time I raise my voice is if the boys need correction. That way, when I do have to raise my voice, they listen right away. Ah, I'm talking too long here... better get back to work! 😉