Elephantine skipping part deux

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A while back I posted a thread in AIBU that got a little attention: Elephantine skipping part un

After an extraordinarily busy year, DGS is about to be a big brother. Rather more importantly, I shall be about to set a bad example. Eleven months ago, I had an unpleasant surprise which sent me to my GP. Stage 2 colorectal cancer, could have been worse. They gave me three weeks to beast myself thoroughly in the hills (the gasman likes clear lungs and good O² transfer), then they knocked me out and sent in the robot. Which is metal as fuck. Home in a week, DD's wedding 6 weeks later. Not fit enough to drink, but certainly fit enough to dance. Started chemo, appetite went insane. Finished chemo in January, all clear in March. Net weight loss 14 kg (had been 24, I looked a bit lot poorly.) Waist reduction 40 down from 46, woo hoo! Back in the gym, back at work, got bus pass, got rash vest to hold the bag in place, back in the sea!

I buried my mum's sister in February, my niece got married in May, I buried my dad's last sister two days later, and 2 weeks ago my youngest brother's daughter got married. Lovely chap, 15 inch height difference.

So that's us all caught up.

The Bean, thus called because he doesn't stop jumping, is due mid August. We await his arrival with mingled excitement and dread. At a rough guess, the kids have got about 3 months before the wriggling starts. We are all 9 years older and as his nanna remarked "God help us".

I shall still skip though, the new knee makes it a lot easier.

I'm late to the thread - but congratulations to all on the Bean's arrival.

9 yesterday, and 18 days today. If you were at Whitley Bay yesterday, you might have seen a not so small boy pushing a pram with alarming vigour and a complete disregard for terrain. The Bean was too deeply asleep to complain, he still being in the eat/sleep/shout stage.

Little Prince is doing the big brother thing admirably. He's strong enough to handle Bean safely, and sensible enough not expect more than random flapping and weird face scrunching.

Can't wait until Christmas, when we'll do "baby in the box" again.

Until now, I don’t think I realised which part of the world you were in, and it turns out to be a wonderful one. It feels like the Little Prince & Bean combo is going to be a force to be reckoned with!

Bean smiled at me yesterday for the first time. He's past the 9 pound mark, and getting unfeasibly long. As with Little Prince, random strangers coo over him rather more than DD likes. She fixes them with a freezing glance while the hellfires rage in her eyes, to paraphrase Iron Maiden. She loves that song, I remember her singing it when she was little. "YOUR SOUL'S GONNA BURN IN A LAKE OF FIYAAAAHHH!"

Unfortunately, Little Prince sings the Tralaleio song from Brainrot, which is rather less charming.

Glad to hear everything’s going well and you’re getting to spend plenty of time with them all!

Here's a couple of big ginger geezers! You'll have to take my word for mine though, time has not been kind.

He's over 10 pounds now, good job I got a gym membership prescribed while I was off sick.

Incidentally, Little Prince described me as "one of my parents" when he was in game chat with a friend. Made me well up a bit. Then I thought of something: his friend heard a strange male and asked him who it was. That means the kids are paying attention to online safety. Good for them.

Lovely to see this thread again and what a gorgeous baby - beautiful hair

How lovely!

Fat finger!

With red hair, he'll most likely stay that shade. All of his ancestors have changed hair colour at least once, sometimes twice. Little Prince went from black to blond to an odd variegated brownish.

The Bean is now beginning to pay attention to stuff. Just like his brother, he's fascinated by Melissa Fumero in Brooklyn 99. Then he gets confused when he looks at DD, as they look very much alike. He'll be even more confused when he finds out his mother goes Full Santiago at the prospect of stationery. There was an incident in Fenwick's last year when she had to be dissuaded from spending a three figure sum on gel pens.

I got my first outright laugh today. Even better, I beat Little Prince at chess for the first time this year.

Hello everyone! Today Pop Pop and I are pulling funny faces! I pull lots of funny faces, but what I really like is being sick into Mummy's hair. Oh, and sticking my fingers up my big brother's nose, pulling Daddy's beard, making loud noises with my bottom and dancing to Latin American fruit.