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watt price tully 
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| David wrote: | Getting a call on the way home from work last night with a tired girlfriend and screaming baby on the other end of the line. "I've put you on speakerphone," she said. "Can you keep talking? Your voice seems to calm him down."
What!? I'd never thought of that before, but I tried singing to him when I got home and it actually worked. It's a nice feeling.  |
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watt price tully
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Up to 16 laps of the 50 metre pool. Moved from the slow lane to the medium lane which is where I'll be staying a while. Goal is to get to 20 comfortably. 16 was comfortable but need to do this for another week or two. Slowly getting the rhythm back.
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| David wrote: | Getting a call on the way home from work last night with a tired girlfriend and screaming baby on the other end of the line. "I've put you on speakerphone," she said. "Can you keep talking? Your voice seems to calm him down."
What!? I'd never thought of that before, but I tried singing to him when I got home and it actually worked. It's a nice feeling. |
Sounds awesome David. You will lose count after about 10,000 for the amount of times you will sing "twinkle, twinkle little star"
It can get boring so I suggest mixing it with the A,B,C song and confusing the kid.
Twinkle, twinkle little star, H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P Up above the world so high... |
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stui magpie 
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| David wrote: | Getting a call on the way home from work last night with a tired girlfriend and screaming baby on the other end of the line. "I've put you on speakerphone," she said. "Can you keep talking? Your voice seems to calm him down."
What!? I'd never thought of that before, but I tried singing to him when I got home and it actually worked. It's a nice feeling. |
It happens.
A loooong time ago when my daughter was a baby (you've met her - shut up) I had to go away for work for a couple of days. The (then) wife had to get the male neighbor from across the road to come in at dinner time, stand behind the high chair and just talk otherwise she wouldn't eat.
Enjoy this and the next few years while they last, the period of time in which you are their god goes extremely quickly and you become just another silly old phuk who they have to condescend to. |
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think positive 
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| David wrote: | Getting a call on the way home from work last night with a tired girlfriend and screaming baby on the other end of the line. "I've put you on speakerphone," she said. "Can you keep talking? Your voice seems to calm him down."
What!? I'd never thought of that before, but I tried singing to him when I got home and it actually worked. It's a nice feeling. |
What did you sing?
(Well done xx)
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David
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Haha, good advice Stui. 
Jo, it was an improvised tune that mostly went "la-la-la-la..." etc. I wasn't feeling very articulate at that point. 
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Morrigu 
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^ thats cute!
How's the sitting bouncy thing working David?
I am sure it has a proper name but ....... 
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HAL
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| What is so cute about ^ that? |
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David
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HAL, have you no heart? Oh wait.
| Morrigu wrote: | ^ thats cute!
How's the sitting bouncy thing working David?
I am sure it has a proper name but ....... |
Just tried it out for the first time this morning! He seemed to like itthough, with babies his age, it can be hard to tell. He didn't cry, anyway.
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HAL
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| What is so cute about [quoteMorrigu]^ that? |
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think positive
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| David wrote: | HAL, have you no heart? Oh wait.
| Morrigu wrote: | ^ thats cute!
How's the sitting bouncy thing working David?
I am sure it has a proper name but ....... |
Just tried it out for the first time this morning! He seemed to like itthough, with babies his age, it can be hard to tell. He didn't cry, anyway. |
I used to sit my eldest in the bouncer in the middle of our bed and turn the ceiling fan on, it amused her while I had a shower!!
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Me
I made me happy.
Did the stampede. My sister had to pull out so a friend of juniors came instead, she's not as fit so they did the 5klm, I skipped about a k and a half, as someone had just broken their leg on the big water slide, the queue was a mile long and they wanted me to hand my brand new GoPro to someone o hold. So I skipped a loop. So I did about 8.5 k, up and down hills I'm covered in mud, climbed through an esky of ice, got electrocuted about20 or 30 times, squirted with a fire hose, I'm totally knackered, thank god junior is old enough to drive! Cheers
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| think positive wrote: | Me
I made me happy.
Did the stampede. My sister had to pull out so a friend of juniors came instead, she's not as fit so they did the 5klm, I skipped about a k and a half, as someone had just broken their leg on the big water slide, the queue was a mile long and they wanted me to hand my brand new GoPro to someone o hold. So I skipped a loop. So I did about 8.5 k, up and down hills I'm covered in mud, climbed through an esky of ice, got electrocuted about 20 or 30 times, squirted with a fire hose, I'm totally knackered, thank god junior is old enough to drive! Cheers |
So it was like an outdoor Boxing Day sale? |
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think positive
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| 3.14159 wrote: | | think positive wrote: | Me
I made me happy.
Did the stampede. My sister had to pull out so a friend of juniors came instead, she's not as fit so they did the 5klm, I skipped about a k and a half, as someone had just broken their leg on the big water slide, the queue was a mile long and they wanted me to hand my brand new GoPro to someone o hold. So I skipped a loop. So I did about 8.5 k, up and down hills I'm covered in mud, climbed through an esky of ice, got electrocuted about 20 or 30 times, squirted with a fire hose, I'm totally knackered, thank god junior is old enough to drive! Cheers |
So it was like an outdoor Boxing Day sale? |
Hehe, just got out the shower, put on a pair of compression pants, I feel like I've been in a boxing ring, with my hands tied and everyone taking a shot at me!
Ugh
Need alcohol, spa, and alcohol
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HAL
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| Older sister or younger? |
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