At the age of six months or so Dr. Mrs. Dr. F. Jr. (DMDFII) seems to have found forward gear.
Reflecting on my own youth as narrated by two PTSD’d parents, we are considering a tattoo that reads ‘If found please call this number…’. Maybe a microchip between the shoulderblades?
ETA: anyone notice that she has gone towheaded since birth? Apparently that happens with babies. Her first word-ish things were dadadadadada so I have the mom vs. dad score tied at one apiece.
Jebediah, RBG
such cuteness! you are doomed.
Cervantes
It gets better — but not easier.
cmorenc
Just wait till he starts walking (or “toddling”), and see how fast he can scoot off the nanosecond you take your eye off him, and into the kind of mischief that takes wet towels and a load of laundry to clean up. And some antiseptic and a band-aid for his boo-boo.
Villago Delenda Est
“I did not knock over the blocks. Max did. Yeah, that’s the ticket!”
ranchandsyrup
Great pic Tim!
koalaholik
Adorableness personified!
WereBear
Babies are the only ones who make overalls work.
esc
When my kid started pulling himself around on his tummy, he was also at max drooling, so I found out very quickly how dirty my hardwood floors actually were. It was appalling.
She is lovely, and I thoroughly endorse continuing to dress her in dark colors through this stage.
srv
You lose. It’s not Dad. It’s Dada-ism. It’s all performance art.
Don’t believe me? Have her try this: youtube.com/watch?v=ezgi1OkeGU8
D58826
We live in truly great times. The microwave to heat water and make popcorn. The intertubes for cat/puppy and oh so cute baby pictures.
Jerzy Russian
She is cuter than a bug’s ear, that’s for sure!
StringOnAStick
After baby-proofing the house comes toddler-proofing, followed by if-it-is-breakable/climbable-it-will-be. FYI.
Oh, and stairs may be what scares parents, but the corners of coffee tables are where the need for head stitches tends to come from. Save yourself some trouble and get rid of that now or put it in storage for another 3 years, then you can use it again.
Joshua Norton
6 months is a splendid age. Being a baby is hard work! And she seems to be handling it quite well.
MomSense
So very cute!!
SuperHrefna
She is absolutely adorable!
Angela
Having just packed up my youngest for his new adventure in life away from our house, I admit this picture made me a puddle. This little girl is all kinds of precious.
SuperHrefna
Also, I think what you are looking for is a GPS monitor rather than a microchip. They make cool ones for cats that you could repurpose…
Susanne
She really looks like she’s got your number. I predict that you’ll be sleeping with one eye open for the next couple of decades.
dr. luba
My friend’s son was born with dark black hair. I guess it must have fallen out, as by age 1 he was blonde. And still is. He’s at University, so sometimes it lasts.
seefleur
As a PTSD parent of 4 (now all ‘legal’ adults – 2 daughters, 2 sons; yeah, nothing scares me anymore), I gotta say, this little one is not only adorable, but in the photo she’s giving you the look that will be on your face continually until she’s on her own. It’s the look that my family has titled “You expected what out of me?? I’m only (insert age here) – what do I know???”. Have fun – eventually the stories outweigh that facial expression, and of course no one outside of your immediate family will believe the stories. (Unless there are witnesses – sometimes a good thing, but generally not.)
Such a cutie!!!
Litlebritdiftrnt
When I was 18 months old my big sister took me for a walk to the local prison and left me there. The guards found me and managed to translate my vocalizations into “My name is Dawn and I come from Mary’s house in Holme”. Luckily Holme was a small enough village that it didn’t take one of the guards long to figure it out. My big sister still tells that story at family gatherings as a matter of pride and laughs like a drain about it.
I just love your daughter’s overalls Tim, considering that she is now crawling it is perhaps the best outfit. When I developed forward gear as a young ‘un my Mum left me in the able care of our Boxer Dog Dee Dee, if I wandered too far from her presence she would pick me up by the diaper and deposit me back into her vicinity, Mum said it was funny as all get out to watch. Unfortunately Dee Dee had passed by the time my sister took me on that walk.
Josie
Look at that gorgeous face and those alert eyes. Boy, are you in for a wild ride. Have fun along the way.
gogol's wife
Those eyes!
gene108
OT (?)
Came home from work. Flipped on the TV. CSPAN was showing a Q&A from the Republican Governor’s Association in D.C. with Jindal, Haley, Perry and Haslam. They were talking about Sec. Def’s proposed cuts to the National Guard.
Perry complained about how the NG was seeing longer deployments, in the last 10 years than ever before and their equipment was getting chewed up and needed replacing and cutting NG funds would hurt states.
Others agreed with him. Haley talked about her hubby’s recent year long deployment.
None of the governors in the Q&A ever mentioned the Iraq war and that caused the Afghanistan war to be prolonged as the root cause of the unprecedented longer deployments.
The topic seemed to be about budget issues, so no reporter threw out a question about their support for the Iraq war, but boy do these guys not grasp the consequences of their actions or are utterly unaware of how the all volunteer military will meet troop level requirement absent a draft, which the military does not want to reinstate.
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Tim, you have a very cute baby. Love the big eyes that want to explore everything.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
You are indeed likely in for a wild ride with DMDFII. She is clearly bright and inquisitive, and forward gear with keep you all scrambling. Consider bumpers on coffee (and other low) table corners or storage. It will save on suture material. A very cute child. Now, can we see Maxpuppeh as well? kthxbai.
D58826
@Josie: Probably want to join the support group ‘DADDs’ (dads against daughters dating). Never to early to start learning about these things:-)
satby
Look at that precious little face! What a great age 6 months is, when everything is an enormous and exciting discovery! Takes me back to when mine were that young.
Bob
Kitties and puppies don’t stand a chance.
D58826
@gene108: They also completely ignore the fact that both wars were put on the national credit card, that this is the result of austerity, sequestration, and tax cuts. These folks and their Senate counterparts were all for not raising the debt limit and shutting down the government.
I don’t want to see the military ‘hollowed’ out but if the elected representatives only give you x dollars when you need y dolloars than you have to make due with x.
but its the kenyans fault so we are good
JPL
Cute overload!
@gene108: It’s all about the money. We don’t like state aid for health care but defense money is okay.
Josie
@D58826: You sound like a man with some experience. Tim could learn from you.
Baud
That face just screams “Fox News said what?!”
Roger Moore
@gene108:
It’s not that they don’t understand the problem; they’re just trying to shift the blame. It’s perfectly appropriate for a baby post, because it’s the kind of thing that even four year olds have mastered.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
This always makes me giggle. Reminds me of Elmo’s riff on The West Wing…
Cassidy
@D58826: I’ve got 3 daughters and I only have one rule: her body, her rules. I’m just the enforcer.
Fuzzy
I want pics with cute bug daughter and big bad Max.
Gex
This is one adorable child. Many comments on her looks, but the brains are what are going to keep you hopping!
OT: I don’t particularly want to have to pay the same rate for Netflix with my provider who is probably downgrading my service as someone who is streaming Netflix over Comcast. I wonder if this opens Netflix up to lawsuits from customers for whom they will not be ensuring reasonable service via protection payments.
dr. luba
I should wait for a JC post, but had to share: WV is number 1—in misery! Don’t know if this has come up before, but I just saw it today at DKos. Then again, I have been distracted by events in the homeland.
I am informed that 9/10 of these states are red.
PurpleGirl
Oh, those eyes… she’ll be a handfull for sure. Wishing for her and whole family a healthy and joy filled future.
WereBear
@dr. luba: Growing up in America, I would have never dreamed that the state you lived in would turn out to be a life or death decision.
Gex
@dr. luba: Which one isn’t a red state? Nothing on there looks blue to me. My best guess on those numbers is maybe Ohio counts as purple.
danielx
Sort of makes you want to think twice about doing away with the umbilical cord, don’t it now?
“where did she go??!?”
“i don’t know, honey, let’s reel her in!”
And you have SO much to look forward to in about thirteen years and six months. Also. Too.
D58826
@Roger Moore: Krugman calls it militarized Keynesianism. You buy a C-130 for the Air Force and it creates jobs and stimulates the economy. You buy a C-130 for the Forest Service and it is a job killer, destroyer of the nation’s economy and SOCIALISM.
It’s a stupid idea but then its the republican idea. but I repeat myself
mellowjohn
my mother had a t-shirt made for my sister to wear around the neighborhood. it said: “My name is Jane. Please don’t feed me.”
Kay (not the front-pager)
OMG you should have had a PTSD trigger warning! Flashbacks, let’s see: putting my 3 month old (yes, three) on the floor in the dining room while I took my 3 year old to the bathroom, and coming out to find him on the stairs in the living room… the time when he was 17 months old and the police brought him home because he had crawled through a 6″ hole in the back fence (he was only in the fully fenced yard 5 minutes without an adult) … the time this 20 month-old ran away to Taco Bell for lunch while being supervised by a father, uncle, and 4 older children (I knew where to look because he told me at breakfast that he wanted Taco Bell for lunch)…
He did survive and is now in his 30’s, but it doesn’t take much to flash back to those indelibly vivid, more-real-than-the-present memories. I wish I had had a microchip inserted!
Seriously though, there is nothing more entertaining than a bright, curious crawler/toddler. Enjoy her – some people will tell you it only goes downhill from here, but that’s not true. If you let her be who she is meant to be, you will have a joyful (if, erm, exciting) couple of decades.
LauraPDX
@Cervantes: Not better. Different. Every stage is wonderful.
LauraPDX
@Cervantes: Not better . . . just different. Every stage is wonderful.
SiubhanDuinne
Oh, Tim, DMDFII is gorgeous! And I co-sign with everyone who commented on her eyes.
Someone, can’t be arsed to go back and look for the comment, asked for a picture of your daughter with Max. That would be diabetic levels of cuteness. Please do so without delay!
LauraPDX
@Cervantes: Not better . . . just different. Every stage is wonderful.
debbie
@SiubhanDuinne:
Max is probably hiding behind his couch, quivering at the prospect of a joint photo.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@StringOnAStick: When my toddler fell down the entire flight of stairs, our pediatrician poo-poo’ed it: “That’s not a big fall, that’s a lot of little falls.” He was right, the kid quit crying pretty quick and there was essentially no damage.
gogol's wife
I like the retro blocks and rubber duckie. No ipad in sight.
dnfree
@srv: Yes, sad to say it’s not “Dad” or “Da” unless she uses it specifically to mean you, her father. Babbling doesn’t count as words–just practice.
dnfree
@srv: Yes, sad to say it’s not “Dad” or “Da” unless she uses it specifically to mean you, her father. Babbling doesn’t count as words–just practice.
Tim F.
@gogol’s wife: Well…we have been known to cheat when we travel. Those iPad apps for baby soothing / stoners are absolutely fucking hypnotic for a small baby. I refuse to be that parent on an airplane when we have an easy out.
It’s not like we keep her fixed for the whole trip, we just use it to zonk her out of a pre-fit state and into a state of mind more receptive to sleep, play or a pacifier. For the most part she is an absolute dream to travel with. Nonetheless I always go prepared.
Tim F.
@dnfree: People who say that are probably moms.
Svensker
@StringOnAStick:
Also, too, AWESOME kid. Scary, but awesome. You got a big job ahead of you.
You can buy corner covers from kid-protecto-stores for just that purpose. We had vicious corners on our coffee table we discovered.
HRA
Your baby is going to grow up to be a stunning young woman. I have the experience of raising 5 daughters. I can see it in your beautiful baby.
Child proofing the house was always an ongoing learning project. Good luck.
Violet
Adorable. You must be one proud papa.
Manyakitty
Gorgeous! Also, excellent cobra pose–is she doing baby yoga?
Gretchen
Cute! My precious grandbaby iscoming up on five months and it is already going too fast.
dmhlt
Just wanted to say that both yesterday and today when I scrolled past this picture, I immediately broke into an ear-to-ear grin.
What a cutie!