The newest Transformers fan in the world - Orion Samuel Hopkins!

[BigTransformerTrev]

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The newest Transformers fan in the world - Orion Samuel Hopkins!

Born 19/12/12 at 1.31am. 4.25kg. My wife is the most beautiful and brave woman on the planet after going through everything she did to get him out safely!

Yes, the 'Orion' was reference was intentional. My wife liked it because of the added constellation reference and 'Orry' is a good blokey nickname. The 'Samuel' - we didn't even think of the coincidence until 3 nights ago. If we had meant to go down that road, his 2nd name would have been 'Spike'. Still, makes his name even more Transformery I guess :)


(P.S: Can't figure out how to put a photobucket pic on here so hopefully will get Gok to do it for me)

[M-bot]

Absolutely awesome news BTT. Well done to you and wife and all the best of health to Orion.:D

[Sharky]

congratulations to you and the wifey!

[janda the red]

Awesome....

Congrats to both of you. :D

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Congratulations dude.:)

Just a thought though, someone might want to move the thread to the Non-Toy Stuff or Maccadam's Old Oil House section.

[Megatron]

Congrats, dude! What a wonderful way to end the year. :)

[Deonasis]

Congratulations to you, your wife, the little guy and your family BTT!

[UltraMarginal]

Congratulations to you and your Wife, BTT, Awesome news, and your Orion looks very Healthy.

All the best wishes to your family for the end of 2012 and many years to come.

Best Christmas Present Ever.

[Kazza]

Congrats BTT and to your wife as well.

[Trent]

Congrats dude!

[Cat]

Congratulations to the both of you!!

[Slag]

Great name!!:)

[Ultra Mackness]

Congratulations to both you and your wife BTT! Best early Christmas present ever?

[Sam]

Happy for ya dude, may he grow up strong and healthy. :)

[1orion2many]

:)Congrats:)

[Jetfire in the sky]

Great news and greater idea for the name :) Hope all goes well for you all in the coming months and years.

[GoktimusPrime]

(P.S: Can't figure out how to put a photobucket pic on here so hopefully will get Gok to do it for me)
Done (http://otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?p=332382#post332382). :) Are you using photobucket in their new Beta mode? Because I find that really confusing and hard to use, so I just switched it back to the old Photobucket format (it's somewhere in the settings).

[Kapryiath]

congrats mate :) pro name is pro :D

[Slag]

new photobucket gives me the heeby-jeebies.(harsh words, i know). i'll have to suss out this setting to change it back..

[5FDP]

Congratulations to you and your partner :)

[theshape]

Wow Congrats!!

[BigTransformerTrev]

Thank you everyone for your warm wishes and congratulations :) Despite the massive hit this will give my TF budget I think I'll survive being a Dad - my giant crate full of FOC, GDO & TFPrime toys showed up from BBTS yesterday and did not even think of opening it ;)

My wife Sarah finally had a good sleep last night and little Orion is beginning to feed and sleep well. I have a friend coming up from Bendigo today and he is bringing me 3 issues of Spotlight: Orion Pax (with the cover of young Orion at the front and Optimus in the background). 1 issue for me, 1 to read to Orion that he can eventually destroy, and 1 to put in a frame up on his wall :)

[klystron]

Framed Orion comic is a neat idea.
Congratulations man. Welcome to parenthood!

[Bidoofdude]

He looks so awesomesauce.
He'll be an Optimus in no time. Nickname him Optimus when he's older.
Good luck to your family, especially young Orion.

[KalEl]

congrats bro

[Hursticon]

Rather late, I know, but a massive congratulations to BTT - I hope your Bub & Wife are continuing to do well. ;):)

[BigTransformerTrev]

Cheers guys! The complete lack of sleep takes a lot of getting used to. And here in Swan Hill we have 6 straight days of 40+ weather so it's a matter of keeping little Orion cool.

But something wonderful happened yesterday - he actually fell asleep in the bean bag with me when I was playing FOC, so to not disturb him I had to stay in that spot and play for another 3 hours ;)

http://s1294.beta.photobucket.com/user/BigAngryTrev/media/FOC1_zps8ebc8aca.jpg.html

[BigTransformerTrev]

Young Orion wearing (considering his namesake) a very appropriate bib at the age of 3 months :D

http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/b615/BigAngryTrev/DadOrry_zps22da59a7.jpg

[Hursticon]

Young Orion wearing (considering his namesake) a very appropriate bib at the age of 3 months :D

*snip*

That is an awesome photo of a Proud Bot & his Minicon if I ever saw one. ;):)

[BigTransformerTrev]

Orion had his first day at the Daycare Center today. His mother had just put his bottles, clothes etc in an old backpack. No way - my boy is going to start off with a backpack to make all the other pre-1 year old's jealous as! :D

http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/b615/BigAngryTrev/994033_10151989867362560_145902229_n_zps00528bde.j pg (http://s1294.photobucket.com/user/BigAngryTrev/media/994033_10151989867362560_145902229_n_zps00528bde.j pg.html)


By the way, he looks kinda upset in that pic but he is actually in mid-giggle ;)

[UltraMarginal]

I was going to say that he looks like a very happy little fella.

[CBratron]

That's one happy little Autobot.

[Hursticon]

Orion had his first day at the Daycare Center today. His mother had just put his bottles, clothes etc in an old backpack. No way - my boy is going to start off with a backpack to make all the other pre-1 year old's jealous as! :D

By the way, he looks kinda upset in that pic but he is actually in mid-giggle ;)

Looked like a "mid-giggle" photo to me dude! :D
EASILY the best backpack for sure! ;):)

...and if you'd like your kid to have as cool a backpack as Orion's? - I just happen to have one in my sales thread (http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=17287) for $5 + Postage! :cool:
(Sorry for the shameless plug Trev, but Orion is clearly going to be a trend setter ;):p)

[Sinnertwin]

:)

How was his first day?

[Starscream77]

Brilliant Trev !!!
These are the threads we all love to see, the forming of the next generation
My little fella is now watching an episode of G1 each week, he is only 6 months but never too young to start the passion

[BigTransformerTrev]

Looked like a "mid-giggle" photo to me dude! :D
EASILY the best backpack for sure! ;):)

...and if you'd like your kid to have as cool a backpack as Orion's? - I just happen to have one in my sales thread (http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=17287) for $5 + Postage! :cool:
(Sorry for the shameless plug Trev, but Orion is clearly going to be a trend setter ;):p)

No worries dude ;)




:)

How was his first day?

Not fantastic. Pretty miserable for the most part as it's the first time he's been without one of his parents for any length of time, and apparently he fell over during the day and hit his upper gum which then bled :( And one the old bats that runs the place thinks he's getting conjunctivitis and was crapping on about how he cant come in if he does. Wanted to turn around and yell 'You let my son bleed from his mouth on his first day, and you are lecturing me about a possible eye infection!?!' But these people are going to be looking after him every Monday from now on so best to stay on their good side.

On the upside he has been even more happy and affectionate than usual all evening as he's so happy getting fussed over by mum and dad :)

[Bartrim]

A word of warning as a parent. As soon as he starts going to daycare he will get sick a lot. Both my kids did because so many parents were lying about their kids being sick and sending them to daycare anyway. :mad:

But that was at a very bogan centric day care. Our oldest is now in primary school and we switched our youngest to a much better facility a few months ago.

Looking at that photo I would say his in mid-giggle... or just farted. Farts are funny :p

[UltraMarginal]

From everyone I know who's had a child in daycare, those facilities are where the Human race will build it's global immune system. or the mega strain of something will mutate from and wipe us out.

[Hursticon]

From everyone I know who's had a child in daycare, those facilities are where the Human race will build it's global immune system. or the mega strain of something will mutate from and wipe us out.

As someone who has never even had the chicken-pox, this concerns me. :eek:









:p:D

[Trent]

A word of warning as a parent. As soon as he starts going to daycare he will get sick a lot. Both my kids did because so many parents were lying about their kids being sick and sending them to daycare anyway. :mad:

But that was at a very bogan centric day care. Our oldest is now in primary school and we switched our youngest to a much better facility a few months ago.

Looking at that photo I would say his in mid-giggle... or just farted. Farts are funny :p

My wife used to teach in the Campbeltown area and the parents there used to bring the kids in in the morning, obviously very sick. My wife would tell them that the kid cannot be at school that sick and the parent needed to take them home. The parent would then leave and my wife would have to follow them because they would try to take the kid to the office and drop them off there. Once she chased the parent calling after them and the parent pretended to be talking on her phone and actually ran to her car to get away.

Keep in mind these aren't parents that work so have no-one else to look after their kids, these a parents that are unemployed going home so they can drink beer and watch TV :rolleyes:

[UltraMarginal]

Keep in mind these aren't parents that work so have no-one else to look after their kids, these a parents that are unemployed going home so they can drink beer and watch TV :rolleyes:

If you didn't have to work/weren't working or looking for work why would you let someone else bring your child up? :confused::confused::confused::confused:

[GoktimusPrime]

^Yup.

I know that in neighbourhoods like mine where there are a higher number of unemployed parents, day care centres are closing down. Just a few days ago one of our neighbours who has a daughter who's the same age as ours and attends a local day care centre told us that the centre is closing down. :( I've also heard from people who've worked in these centres that a lot of the kids there are really difficult to handle - a lot of them already use bad language (some of them seem to speak Swearing more than they can speak English) and behave violently.

In complete contrast, my daughter attends a day care centre that's closer to my work. It's in a neighbourhood where most parents are holding down jobs, many of them professional careers and day care is in high demand. We had to put our daughter on a waiting list the year before she started day care. Kids there are generally well behaved and motivated to learn. They listen attentively to their carers, follow instructions, know how to line up etc. Just last week I saw a white girl singing songs with a carer in English and Mandarin Chinese - they were singing in English at first, then I heard the girl say, "Okay, now let's sing in Chinese!" and she happily switched languages. :)

[BigTransformerTrev]

As someone who has never even had the chicken-pox, this concerns me. :eek:



I actually caught chicken pox off a student 5 years ago, the parents sent him in even though he seemed sick. I was in bed for 6 weeks and still sport chickenpox scars on my face to this day :(



My wife used to teach in the Campbeltown area and the parents there used to bring the kids in in the morning, obviously very sick. My wife would tell them that the kid cannot be at school that sick and the parent needed to take them home. The parent would then leave and my wife would have to follow them because they would try to take the kid to the office and drop them off there. Once she chased the parent calling after them and the parent pretended to be talking on her phone and actually ran to her car to get away.

Keep in mind these aren't parents that work so have no-one else to look after their kids, these a parents that are unemployed going home so they can drink beer and watch TV :rolleyes:

Yep, working at a specialist school we get this constantly. I've even had a parent say to me "The school holidays are in two weeks. She can stay home and get better then". The parent didn't give two damn's her daughter was spreading flu throughout the school. She just didn't want her daughter at home to interupt her drinking and watching bad daytime TV.



^Yup.

I know that in neighbourhoods like mine where there are a higher number of unemployed parents, day care centres are closing down. Just a few days ago one of our neighbours who has a daughter who's the same age as ours and attends a local day care centre told us that the centre is closing down. :( I've also heard from people who've worked in these centres that a lot of the kids there are really difficult to handle - a lot of them already use bad language (some of them seem to speak Swearing more than they can speak English) and behave violently.

In complete contrast, my daughter attends a day care centre that's closer to my work. It's in a neighbourhood where most parents are holding down jobs, many of them professional careers and day care is in high demand. We had to put our daughter on a waiting list the year before she started day care. Kids there are generally well behaved and motivated to learn. They listen attentively to their carers, follow instructions, know how to line up etc. Just last week I saw a white girl singing songs with a carer in English and Mandarin Chinese - they were singing in English at first, then I heard the girl say, "Okay, now let's sing in Chinese!" and she happily switched languages. :)

My 25 y.o niece works at the Daycare centre that Orion is attending. Not in the same room but it gives us some extra piece of mind to know that a relative is only a few seconds away. The Daycare (or learning centre) is the best one in Swan Hill, but that's out of a total of 3. And because it's the nice one we were on the waiting list for 7 months before a 1-day-a-week opening came up.

[Sinnertwin]

In complete contrast, my daughter attends a day care centre that's closer to my work. It's in a neighbourhood where most parents are holding down jobs, many of them professional careers and day care is in high demand. We had to put our daughter on a waiting list the year before she started day care. Kids there are generally well behaved and motivated to learn. They listen attentively to their carers, follow instructions, know how to line up etc. Just last week I saw a white girl singing songs with a carer in English and Mandarin Chinese - they were singing in English at first, then I heard the girl say, "Okay, now let's sing in Chinese!" and she happily switched languages. :)

Funny how it works like that, isn't it?

[BigTransformerTrev]

Finally found Size 1 TF clothing! And G1 based no less! (there is a blue Autobot symbol on the front)

Found it at Cotton-On Kids if anyone else is looking for one :)


http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/b615/BigAngryTrev/OrionTF_zps3b36f37c.jpg (http://s1294.photobucket.com/user/BigAngryTrev/media/OrionTF_zps3b36f37c.jpg.html)

[Hursticon]

+10 points for the Soundwave top on Dad! :cool:

[BigTransformerTrev]

+10 points for the Soundwave top on Dad! :cool:

Dude - I have 7 different Soundwave shirts :D More than any other character. I'll have to take a pic of them all for ya :)

[Hursticon]

Dude - I have 7 different Soundwave shirts :D More than any other character. I'll have to take a pic of them all for ya :)

Sounds like you've got far more than I dude, I must profess as to not owning a single Soundwave shirt... only a jumper! :o

So please, model for me some Soundwave shirts. :D
(I know, somewhere, Bartrim is reading these posts & he's giggling :p)

[Megatran]

Finally found Size 1 TF clothing! And G1 based no less! (there is a blue Autobot symbol on the front)

Found it at Cotton-On Kids if anyone else is looking for one :)

Went to Best & Less clothing shop today to look at TF clothing for my 6 month old nephew. Unfortunately They didn't have any in size 1. Off to Cotton-On Kids.... Big thanks!

[BigTransformerTrev]

Sounds like you've got far more than I dude, I must profess as to not owning a single Soundwave shirt... only a jumper! :o

So please, model for me some Soundwave shirts. :D
(I know, somewhere, Bartrim is reading these posts & he's giggling :p)


This isn't the first time you've asked me to put on something special for you, though it is the first time you've asked me in front of the whole board - you make me feel so trampy sometimes :p


Here's some pics from my FB. The black shirt my little mate is wearing I have as well. At some point I should take a photo of all 7 shirts :)


http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/b615/BigAngryTrev/165557_495677312559_444822_n_zps7d05b79c.jpg (http://s1294.photobucket.com/user/BigAngryTrev/media/165557_495677312559_444822_n_zps7d05b79c.jpg.html)

http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/b615/BigAngryTrev/404288_10151223937212560_2071158560_n_zps06cfeca7. jpg (http://s1294.photobucket.com/user/BigAngryTrev/media/404288_10151223937212560_2071158560_n_zps06cfeca7. jpg.html)

http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/b615/BigAngryTrev/207290_6702562559_1100_n_zps14094330.jpg (http://s1294.photobucket.com/user/BigAngryTrev/media/207290_6702562559_1100_n_zps14094330.jpg.html)







Went to Best & Less clothing shop today to look at TF clothing for my 6 month old nephew. Unfortunately They didn't have any in size 1. Off to Cotton-On Kids.... Big thanks!

They do have Size 2 and up though. Orion has just started wearing size 1, but I bought him nearly $100 worth of size 2 so they will be there waiting for him in 6/12 months :)

[Hursticon]

"Shhhhh!" you weren't mean to let people in on that dude!... :p:D

They all look quite good honestly :cool:, although it'd be great if they all came in Black & in XL... available sizes have often sought to stymy my purchase of various TF shirts :o - Online seems to be the way to go, which is already where I do 90% of my clothes shopping. ;)

Do you know if the one you've got of Soundwave's Alt mode is available in Black dude? :)
(My wardrobe deviates from Black only for work attire & a single OTCA shirt/jersey :p)

[MayzaPrime]

Congrats! :D

Awesome name :D

I wanted to call each of my kids Chaos Bringer but my wife wasn't a fan for some reason :confused:

[BigTransformerTrev]

A word of warning as a parent. As soon as he starts going to daycare he will get sick a lot. Both my kids did because so many parents were lying about their kids being sick and sending them to daycare anyway. :mad:




From everyone I know who's had a child in daycare, those facilities are where the Human race will build it's global immune system. or the mega strain of something will mutate from and wipe us out.


Well you folk were right. Orion went to Daycare Monday, a couple of days later he had bad diarrhea that then his mother suffered from yesterday and then decided hit me at 2am this morning :( Guts are feeling bloody rotten today. :(

Think it's the first time he's passed something onto us instead of the other way round so pretty sure it came from Daycare :mad:

[GoktimusPrime]

...get used to it... it'll happen a lot more. :( It personally makes me more frustrated with parents who deliberately choose not to have their kids immunised.

[theshape]

...get used to it... it'll happen a lot more. :( It personally makes me more frustrated with parents who deliberately choose not to have their kids immunised.

Oh man, this makes my blood boil!

[BigTransformerTrev]

...get used to it... it'll happen a lot more. :( It personally makes me more frustrated with parents who deliberately choose not to have their kids immunised.


Oh man, this makes my blood boil!



Yeah, but remember - Jenny McCarthy says that immunizations gives kids Autism. And I know personally I go to soft-core porn actresses when I want the truth about medical matters :rolleyes:

Oddly enough I did two years at the Autism Teaching Institute and never once in my course did they bring up the immunization thing - lax on their part I guess :rolleyes::p

[BigTransformerTrev]

http://s1294.beta.photobucket.com/user/BigAngryTrev/media/Orion2_zps53c78c14.jpg.html

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The newest Transformers fan in the world - Orion Samuel Hopkins!

Born 19/12/12 at 1.31am. 4.25kg. My wife is the most beautiful and brave woman on the planet after going through everything she did to get him out safely!

Yes, the 'Orion' was reference was intentional. My wife liked it because of the added constellation reference and 'Orry' is a good blokey nickname. The 'Samuel' - we didn't even think of the coincidence until 3 nights ago. If we had meant to go down that road, his 2nd name would have been 'Spike'. Still, makes his name even more Transformery I guess :)


(P.S: Can't figure out how to put a photobucket pic on here so hopefully will get Gok to do it for me)



Well it's one year later to the day and probably almost to the minute that I first put this thread up. I guess I had better let it slowly dissapear as Orion is probably not the newest TF fan in the world anymore :p (in fact I know that one of our number had a little lad yesterday but I will let them do the announcements :)). Anyway, happy first birthday Orion!

Thankyou to everyone who wished us well when he first entered our lives a year ago, and have taken an interest ever since. You all rock! :):):)


Now to just get through the work day so I can get home and help him ride his new little ATV scooter and read his new 'That's not my robot!' book :D

[UltraMarginal]

Well it's one year later to the day and probably almost to the minute that I first put this thread up. I guess I had better let it slowly dissapear as Orion is probably not the newest TF fan in the world anymore :p (in fact I know that one of our number had a little lad yesterday but I will let them do the announcements :)). Anyway, happy first birthday Orion!

Thankyou to everyone who wished us well when he first entered our lives a year ago, and have taken an interest ever since. You all rock! :):):)


Now to just get through the work day so I can get home and help him ride his new little ATV scooter and read his new 'That's not my robot!' book :D

hahaha, "that's not my robot", I'll need a copy for that for when I'm lucky enough to have a little one.

It really doesn't feel like a year since you put this thread up Trev, my how time has flown.

Happy 1st to little Orion.

and happy 2nd Christmas.:cool:

[Ravagecat]

Happy Birthday Orion....may you become as big a legend as Optimus Prime in your years to come :)

[Sinnertwin]

Little Orry has turned one :) & you've figured out how to use photobucket
You've both grown up so fast :p ;)

[Hursticon]

Little Orry has turned one :) & you've figured out how to use photobucket
You've both grown up so fast :p ;)


This forum REALLY needs a "Like/Favourite" button! :p:D

Belated Birthday wishes to young Orion. ;):cool:

[BigTransformerTrev]

Well this is probably the last time I will update this thread as considering how many other members have had kids in the last few years Orion is definitely not the worlds newest TF fan anymore - they grow up so fast!

But thought I'd post him getting his first TF birthday present - the Rescuebots Bumblebee Garage Playset :D

http://i1028.photobucket.com/albums/y342/sare111/BdayBB_zps87bd9obz.jpg (http://s1028.photobucket.com/user/sare111/media/BdayBB_zps87bd9obz.jpg.html)

He doesn't know it yet but in six days for Xmas he's getting an Optimus AOE Floor Puzzle, an AOE Bumblebee Bed-Tent and since I am finally getting a G1 Sixshot for Xmas he's getting my old KO one as a stocking stuffer so we have the same toy to play with Xmas day :D Thank god he loves TF's eh ;)

Happy 3rd Birthday my special little man :):):):):):):):):)

[Sam]

Seeing the smiles and sense of wonder on kids' faces as they enjoy their toys = one of the best feelings in the world. :)

[Jaxius._]

Honestly I can't wait to have kids, the look on their faces is priceless.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Seeing the smiles and sense of wonder on kids' faces as they enjoy their toys = one of the best feelings in the world. :)


Honestly I can't wait to have kids, the look on their faces is priceless.

You should have seen his face when he came outside to see he had a brand new trampoline :):D

[Jetfire in the sky]

You should have seen his face when he came outside to see he had a brand new trampoline :):D

I can't wait to get that reaction in two and a half weeks time after Dad has been up half the night putting her trampoline together for when my little one turns three as well :p
It's a good time isn't it BTT, they are now old enough to grasp the concept of Christmas and Santa and all the fun stuff from when we were little. It has really made this time of year so much fun for our little family. (Plus my birthday is this coming week) So it's presents central :D