To clap my hands and skip about in a elephantine manner?

[DisgraceToTheYChromosome]

I'm going to be a grandfather! Woo hoo! They haven't tuppence to rub together, so there'll be 3 generations under one roof. Still, DD is doing well after the throwing stopped, he's working all the hours God sends, and with luck I shall see New Person into their teens, as opposed to my DF who got less than 7 years of DGF hood. Wish us luck.

The stove will be easy. The remote control for the kitchen, which resembles the bridge of the USS Enterprise: that'll be hard bit.

THE hard bit. Why is there no 15 minute edit FFS? Other boards manage fine with one.

@DisgraceToTheYChromosome - just wing it & day you were posting in a Yorkshire accent

SAY!!! Arghhh. I agree with you now!

DD and DGS have been down this week for her graduation. DGS is now 50/50 walking and crawling. However, after the ceremony (which he slept through) I nipped to the cathedral font for some holy* water, just in case. This was because you really don't expect someone who's not quite 13 months to walk into your bedroom and shout "Grandad! Get up!". However, he didn't fizz or vomit pea soup, so I suppose he's really that advanced. What interesting times we'll enjoy.

*C of E, so probably quite homeopathic.

When is the Great Move, Disgrace?

Still waiting for our buyer. Tsk.

Just catching up via the Mumsnet memories thread.

So what's been happening? I used to be PerfectlySymmetricalButtocks.

DD 11 said "Wow! It speaks and walks!" 😂

I think the pronoun your DD might be looking for is "he". As I said, I'm fairly sure Little Prince isn't actually possessed. Well, as long as you don't give the chocolate, and that's more a Tasmanian devil than a real one.

Him, not the. Grr.

You're lucky, with DS2 it's just food, any food. Actually, no, Tasmanian devil would describe him any time when he's not asleep.

He's 7.

God help us, he tried to do handstands. This hasn't gone well. Landed on his face, profuse nosebleed, covered everything in claret. DW facetimed at just the wrong moment to catch all three of them looking like serial killers. Oh, and just to make things really interesting, he's started using the N-word.

On the plus side, he takes himself to bed with help, undresses himself for bathtime (as long he gets the sleeves first go) and have given up crawling. More words, including "this one" for things he's holding, "that one" for distant things, and "funny" whenever he sees me.

Oh dear, not the dreaded ‘n’ word! My eldest used to always say it multiple times for emphasis; he never said just “no” - it was always, “No. No-no-no-no!”

this one and that one - that's really all the vocabulary you need for most things! And he's summed you up beautifully! 😂 Silly bugger trying to do handstands though.

By the time she was 6, his mother was being offered a season ticket by her orthopaedic surgeon. I'm on my 2nd broken leg and 4th knee operation, DW's knee crackles like twigs and his dad spends his free time ramming other 250lb males over a leather egg.

One of DS's first words was 'careful'. I feel he's letting the side down somewhat.

Same here with DD iklboo.

AIBU to laugh in a cruel and sarcastic manner because DGS pooed in the bath? Because revenge is sweet, even after two decades. I facetimed them, and Little Prince shouted "GRANDAD! I DID POO!" Three word sentence, you'll note.

By popular request, a few pics from the last year. One week old:

One month old:

Three months, and the smile is developing. Grandpa is setting a bad example

Rapt

House Elephant, one of the Disgrace family genii. Some of the others include my welding test piece and DGM's copy of French Provincial Cooking.