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the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

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Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

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Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

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Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

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DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

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  2. 2.

    lamh35

    Aww look at those fat wittle cheeks and those fat little legs (and I mean that for both Lily and Baby Cole…lol)

  3. 3.

    Beauzeaux

    Very cute kid and very good dog. Lily assuming the submissive position for a little chub-cheeks.

    Too sweet.

  6. 6.

    raven

    My breastfeeding advocate wife approves of boobman! Also, they are trying to cut the Breastfeeding Peer Counselor Program out of the Farm Bill so get all pissed about that when you have a minute.

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    Desert Rat

    Lily’s a good pooch to be so patient with the boy.

    And dare I say it…that’s a pretty good godson you’ve got there, John. :)

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    greennotGreen

    I love that some animals are so gentle with baby humans. I have one toy dog out of my pack who is great with kids, really likes kids. The other toy dogs just want to get those unpredictable wrong-size humans *away* from them. And I had a cat who became a rag doll around children. Like people, some animals have the nurturing gene, and some do not. Lily obviously has it in spades, which is why she’s done such a great job raising John.

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    Spatula

    Love her submissive gentleness with him.

    My pup Hellen is the same way with kids. They know just what to do to put the child at ease. :D

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    Joy

    Every time I see Lily it amazes me how far she has come since you first brought her home. I remember her staying under the desk and being afraid to go anywhere and now look at her! Playing with kids and that is not a small feat for a dog not used to kids. How adorable (both of them)!

  21. 21.

    daize

    The puddins are so cute together! Cole is a beautiful little boy. The middle photo just slays me. Serious paw examination going on there.

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    gogol's wife

    @greennotGreen:

    I had a big bad black cat named Buddy who would cut you as soon as look at you, but for some reason he understood that little kids were different, and he was infinitely patient with them. I really miss that boy.

  23. 23.

    muddy

    Lily is amazed that she is no longer the tiniest one present. This is so sweet my teeth may start falling right out of my jaw any second!

    Dentists and babies…in collusion? You decide.

  25. 25.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    @greennotGreen: Our 35 lb dog (mix of some stuff that we can’t figure out) treated our two oldest as playthings. When our youngest was a baby (she was 4 when he was born) she would treat him as her child. While our oldest really couldn’t do much more than pet her, she would let the youngest climb on her. When he cried, she would come running.

    Now that he’s seven, she’s over it.

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    Jennifer

    Young Cole also has a sock monkey, I see. AWESOME.

    I don’t know why the sock monkey seems to endure with kids while other toys come and go. I had one as a kid and got another one when my niece was a baby; both she and my nephew carried it around with them whenever they came to visit. These days, the random babies that come by with friends always go straight for the sock monkey. It just never goes out of style with the kidlets.

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    Jennifer

    Young Cole also has a sock monkey, I see. AWESOME.

    I don’t know why the sock monkey seems to endure with kids while other toys come and go. I had one as a kid and got another one when my niece was a baby; both she and my nephew carried it around with them whenever they came to visit. These days, the random babies that come by with friends always go straight for the sock monkey. It just never goes out of style with the kidlets.

  29. 29.

    LanceThruster

    Mr. Cole,

    One thing that has dogged me forever since discovering Balloon-Juice. You seem like quite the decent guy with a decent family. Are you sure you were ever really a Republican?

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    LanceThruster

    @gogol’s wife: I’ve seen that before too. My cat Keba will not give any other human being the time of day (she’ll disappear), but will (still grudgingly) allow toddlers to check her out (if they’re cautioned the whole time to be gentle).

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    YellowJournalism

    @Jennifer: I had a sock monkey set (girl and bot) with matching red outfits, a gift from my grandma. I wore them out as a kid with love and play. My oldest son had a purple sock monkey that he adored as a baby and te youngest ha a mini old-school sock monkey that he wore the stuffing out of. One I my fab Christmas ornaments is a sock monkey, so I understand your love for them.

    And the Boobman tshirt is wonderful!

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    dmsilev

    @gogol’s wife: When I was a baby, my parents had a Siamese cat who, as my mom describes it, thought she was a German Shepard. Very territorial and aggressive about it, etc. A lot of people were scared of that cat. However, she used to like to sit on the rim of my crib and flick her tail back and forth inside it for me to grab at.

    Which of course caused no end of heartache from people who had had bad experiences with that cat. “Omigod, the cat is going to kill the baby!”

  35. 35.

    BGinCHI

    That’s a cute little nipper.

    My boy has a onesie from Stone Brewing that says “My Dad is an Arrogant Bastard.”

    For their famed Arrogant Bastard Ale.

  36. 36.

    muddy

    @LanceThruster: Overwhelming preponderance of evidence, and a commentariat that saw someone decent who could yet be saved, and rattled his ass continually until he saw it too. I believe Terry Schiavo was the straw.

    The fluoridation could come in handy for those of us whose teeth are rotting out of their head due to excessive sweetness.

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    Jebediah

    Great pictures – is Rosie being as gentle?
    Our big boy Otto (85 pound AmStaff) has always been very patient with kidlets – tug his ears, play with his big teeth, whatever. Daisy too (~70 pounds) – we had first-time parents visiting once with their new baby and they were too nervous about Daisy, so we ordered her to stay away from the baby. We shortly caught her sneaking up behind the stroller and using a gap in the back to ever-so-gently kiss the baby. She wasn’t going to be denied showing the baby some love…

  40. 40.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    I haven’t been sleeping well and now I’m nodding off while sitting on a bench in the laundromat waiting for my clothes to dry.

    (I’ve been super lazy about laundry the past few weeks and had to resort to the laundromat so I could do 5 loads at once.)

  41. 41.

    Jennifer

    I gave a onesie to a friend of mine for her second baby – this was something like 15 years ago now – that was white and had “got milk?” on the front of it.

  49. 49.

    eemom

    Bestest post you have ever posterated, Cole.

    baby + doggie = all that is good in the world

    Now if you will excuse me, I have melted into a warm puddle of cute-besotted goo.

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    Brachiator

    Great photos. Young Cole looks completely at ease, and Lily is such a gentle sweetheart.

  56. 56.

    eemom

    Note the total and complete trust the two innocent creatures have in each other — as evidenced by the doggie lying on her back, and the baby’s calm acceptance of the wet nose in his face.

    [re-melted]

  59. 59.

    WaterGirl

    Someone who has John Cole’s actual post office address should send Cole a BOOBMAN tee to match his godson’s. I’m talking to you JSF. Or anyone who has his address…

  60. 60.

    Devon

    That actually gave me a little baby twinge. He is such a Gerber cutie, and Lily is so docile and sweet with him. I had a dream last night that mom adopted a baby because she was sick of waiting for a grandchild. No joke!

  61. 61.

    Yutsano

    @Devon: My mom’s solution was to get horses. Although the pressure is on my youngest brother and SIL now. Which is good because that means she’s no longer bugging ME about it. :)

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