Parents! only you can relate, check out these hilarious memes from father-hood.co.uk
Reblog from Father-Hood.co.uk
As I was doing some nightly reading to catch up on what every other Parenting Blog (and more) have been up to I came across this one that I felt the need to share with everyone.
Anyone who is connected to the various social pipes knows what a meme is and appreciates and values their humor.
While non-parents may still get a laugh out of this list,
Only parents will truly understand them.
Enjoy!
any resemblance to actual kids is purely coincidental
any resemblance to actual kids is purely coincidental
A woman has twins and gives them up for adoption.
One of them goes to a family in Egypt and is named Amal. The other goes to a family in Spain. They name him Juan.
Years later, Juan sends a picture of himself to his birth mother. Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband that she wishes she also had a picture of Amal.
He responds, “They’re twins! If you’ve seen Juan, you’ve seen Amal.”
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Ready for the week to start all over again? me neither.
Ready for the week to start all over again? me neither.
My work roster gives me a 4 day week and a 6 day week, unfortunately this week was the latter of the two. That means less time spent with the family, less adventures, and less time writing for my readers, it doesn’t mean it was a quiet week though.
We should always spend some downtime reflecting on our day to day happenings, that’s what this is about,
Down Under Dad presents – The Week that Was.
After a busy couple of weeks I finally got around to finishing my account of our short getaway, you can check out Our Quick Escape – Part 3
In case you haven’t been following, part of the reason for our little holiday was our family is about to become bigger, you can check out the details here When 3 become 4. . . . The other part was to celebrate our little guy turning 2 and Mr and Mrs Down Under Dad surviving 2 Years of Parenthood.
The main focus of day 3 of our getaway was our visit to the Hunter Valley Zoo. While we didn’t spend a full day there, it was well worth it to see Ollie’s reactions to finally seeing animals that he had only ever seen in books, in real life!
Well, not in the traditional sense of the word, but hey, you gotta take the small wins when you can get them.
I was invited by Chris of Dad of Divas to be featured on his segment Dad’s in the limelight. A series of interviews with various Dads around the world answering questions to give you a deeper understanding of them.
You can follow the link to check out the full interview Featured – Dads in the Limelight
You already know that our little guy recently turned 2 and the celebrations were out of control (well, as out of control as you would expect for a 2 year old).
What you might not know is that he has group of friends all with birthdays within 2 months of each other.
What does this mean? every year around this time the Down Under Family spends at least 1 day of most weekends attending a child’s birthday party.
You can check out our adventures at 2 of them here 2nd Birthday Bonanza
If you can’t tell already they were pretty wild too.
Dad Jokes of course!
If in need of a good laugh you should check out 25/7/18 – Dad Joke of the Day
and there you have it, the week that was!
Stay tuned for the week ahead!
or if you have been away for awhile and want to see what we have been up to, check out Weekly Wrap Up – Sunday 22nd July 2018
With a title like that you’re thinking one of 2 things, either:
I am one of those (insane?) parents who not only celebrates the birthday of their children but the entire month, or
We somehow had another child born within a couple of weeks of our first – now that would make for a good story.
With a title like that you’re thinking one of 2 things, either:
note, you could be forgiven for choosing option 1 as we did go away for 3 days leading up to the little guy’s 2nd birthday, you can read about it here Our Quick Escape – Part 1
Or I could be wrong and its something completely different, either way I’ll offer up a third option;
I don’t think I’ve mentioned it before but my wife has a group of Mum friends that she is really close with. They all met during antenatal classes before babies came along and stayed good friends, the Dads became friends too, albeit not as close as their other halves.
Anyway that means they have a group of friends all with kids around the same age. That’s means the kids all know each other and are growing up together (to a point). This also means that their birthdays are around the same time of the year.
Last year that meant every weekend for almost 2 months there was a 1st birthday party to attend – if we’re honest it was the most social any of the group had been in 12 months.
This year the calendar isn’t quite as fully booked, but there has still been some fun to be had, you can check out the celebrations for Oliver’s 2nd birthday here 2 Years of Parenthood
Want to see how we celebrated his friends birthdays?
Well 2 if you count ours as number 1.
So our Party was held at a Pub, Party number 2 was held at a local Play Centre called ‘Megamania’ – Think Multi-Story indoor playground.
As far as a venue for a kids party goes, this would have to be right up there. Its secure so your kids can’t escape – not that they would want to, they provide party food, drink, and cake – because you can’t have a party without cake, and the fun is physical enough that your toddler will be worn out enough by the end to have a sleep – at least you hope so anyway.
The playground itself is imposing enough for an adult (would be close to 3 stories tall), let alone a toddler.
No, don’t worry, the playground doesn’t have some inbuilt spy cameras, to give Ollie enough confidence to play by himself, Down Under Dad had to play with him for the first few times.
You can see below just how high the playground is
After being forcefully removed by his Dad as cake was being served, the little guy ended up going back inside all by himself – #proudparentingmoment right there.
If you look closely you can see him up the top
If you look over the right of the photo you can also see the large red slide. While this was the cause of much joy and laughter, it wasn’t without some bumps.
At some point Ollie decided to go down on the slide by himself. Long story short he ended up with a small friction burn on his chin. Like a true toddler though he continued playing like it was nothing, he did however drag Dad back up to the slide each time after that though.
Overall the Party was a success, although it didn’t quite wear him out as much as we would have thought.
or is it 3??
The next party was something completely different again. The venue? a local park, if you have been following you would know that this is a dream come true for the little guy, check out Weekend Adventures .
Luckily at the moment we are going through a surprisingly warm time for the middle of winter. Not only is it warm but the sun is out and there is little wind. Perfect for a day at the park.
One of the bonuses of this park was it was also only a short drive away, no major planning needed and anything we forgot was a short trip back home.
note, not that we did, I did see that as a bonus though in case we needed it.
A feature of the park was a large network of paths connecting BBQ areas and playgrounds. This proved to be the perfect chance to try out one of Ollie’s birthday presents.
Before you say anything, yes he does have a helmet, but it was left at home – only a short drive away. Not that we did go get it, #parentingfail , to be fair he didn’t actually spend a lot of time on the bike.
He did however choose to eat freshly cut fruit over crackers and dip, already choosing the healthy option, that has to be a #parentingwin right there.
Did we mention at earlier that this party was held at a park? part of the reason not a lot of time was spent on the bike was that he was distracted by the play equipment.
Here you can see him climbing up the netting, the first couple of times he got stuck at the top but once we showed him where to hold on, he did it all by himself, over and over and over.
Unfortunately our time at this party was cut short as Down Under Dad had to work in the afternoon, however a great time was still had.
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