The Parenting Thread

[Bartrim]

I have tears running down my face, you poor bastard Trent LMAO

I was quite lucky one night when Marcus was about 3 months. Laura had woken up to feed him and she asked me to get her a glass of water. I walk to the kitchen get a glass of water, walk back to the bedroom and discover that the little guy had exploded all over my pillow, right where my head would of been had my wife not asked for a drink.

[GoktimusPrime]

Trent: The poo smell is currently not so bad for you. Just wait until he starts eating proper solids. You will soon discover newfound motivation to want to quickly toilet train your child!

Yuki's been sick with a bacterial chest infection all week. She only went to school for one day and will have to take tomorrow off. Gargh. And I still went to her Japanese school yesterday even though she didn't, because I volunteered to help sell tea and coffee as part of the school's ongoing fundraising (it helps to keep school fees down); I took the cash float and account book back with me from the previous week, so I felt obliged to go. There's actually 3 parents rostered onto tea/coffee duty in case one is away, but one other parent has been absent for the last 2 weeks, so if I hadn't turned up, it would've only been that one poor parent doing all the work.

On a lighter note, Yuki's Japanese school teacher told me that she's getting a lot more expressive/talkative in class now, frequently putting her hand up to say something -- which is a big step for her as she's normally quite shy. As the previous week was Mother's Day, the teacher told me that Yuki had told the entire class that:
「お母さんのためのプレゼントはお父さんのトランスフォーマーの部屋に隠した。お母さんはあの部屋に全然入 らないから。」("I've hidden mummy's presents in daddy's Transformers room because mummy never goes in there.")
We were laughing, and then her teacher goes, 「本当にトランスフォーマーの部屋があるの？」("Do you really have a Transformers room?")
I just grinned.