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Anybody catch themselves looking at their kids' baby/toddler photos? My daughter is a year and a half now and my wife tends to send me her "on this day" memory from her phone each morning and oh boy has time flown. Have caught myself looking at my daughter's baby photos quite a bit lately. I'm not a photo guy and I realize that I took waaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy more photos than I ever planned.


Time has flown quick!
 
I'm not even that far down the road, but you see pictures of your 6 year old as a 2 year old, and it hits you how fast the years go. Enjoy them.
The other day I thought about what an absolute freight train it will be when my daughter starts school for the first time. Not prepared for that one bit
 
It's a fucking trip. I think I'm a little insulated from it so far because my daughters are all so young and close together (oldest will be 3 on 11/20, middle will be 2 on 12/20, youngest was born on 9/24).

So our household is just a constant stream of milestones one after another and we don't even have time to reflect on how fast the time is passing.

That said can definitely relate to being reduced to a pile of mush by all 3 of those little girls, especially in those rare moments where I have time to sit back and look at older pics.
 
It's a fucking trip. I think I'm a little insulated from it so far because my daughters are all so young and close together (oldest will be 3 on 11/20, middle will be 2 on 12/20, youngest was born on 9/24).

So our household is just a constant stream of milestones one after another and we don't even have time to reflect on how fast the time is passing.

That said can definitely relate to being reduced to a pile of mush by all 3 of those little girls, especially in those rare moments where I have time to sit back and look at older pics.
Plow on brother
 
It's a fucking trip. I think I'm a little insulated from it so far because my daughters are all so young and close together (oldest will be 3 on 11/20, middle will be 2 on 12/20, youngest was born on 9/24).

So our household is just a constant stream of milestones one after another and we don't even have time to reflect on how fast the time is passing.

That said can definitely relate to being reduced to a pile of mush by all 3 of those little girls, especially in those rare moments where I have time to sit back and look at older pics.
my oldest turns 3 in december, my favorite is the big hug around the neck and i love you daddy
 
I spend about 4 days a week watching my 4yr, 3yr and 11mth old. When I see those timeline pics pop up it blows me away how much they’ve grown and changed right in front of my eyes. Hard to believe I’ll be taking all three of them hunting in the deer blind this Saturday!
 
The other day I thought about what an absolute freight train it will be when my daughter starts school for the first time. Not prepared for that one bit
School is mostly stupid & useless for the first several years. Don't be in any rush to send them somewhere.
 
School is mostly stupid & useless for the first several years. Don't be in any rush to send them somewhere.
Why do you say that? I think it’s important not to send your kid too early to school, but it’s important getting off to a good start because if the kid doesn’t it’s a bitch to catch up.
 
I spend about 4 days a week watching my 4yr, 3yr and 11mth old. When I see those timeline pics pop up it blows me away how much they’ve grown and changed right in front of my eyes. Hard to believe I’ll be taking all three of them hunting in the deer blind this Saturday!
Love it. Already got mine helping me and grandpa feed cows and on the tractor moving hay around. She loves it
 
Why do you say that? I think it’s important not to send your kid too early to school, but it’s important getting off to a good start because if the kid doesn’t it’s a bitch to catch up.
99% of the stuff that sets them up for success at that age is behavioral.

Their brain will expand & grow much more healthily doing imaginative play, chores around the house, projects with dad & mom, being read to, etc., all while naturally picking up the same concepts that schools are trying to instill (in a way that young minds/bodies are not made to function).

The list of things most schools think a 3rd grader should generally know (https://www.greatschools.org/gk/articles/third-grade-benchmarks) can be easily absorbed by a well-adjusted child in a couple hours a week.
 
Love it. Already got mine helping me and grandpa feed cows and on the tractor moving hay around. She loves it
That’s awesome! I let my 4 year old drive my JD 333G skid steer the other day while sitting on my lap. A short time later we were in it again and he says, “wanna go for a ride?!”. He grabbed the joy stick and moved moved us through some trees and across a down fence between posts like it was nothin. Crazy how much kids love this stuff and what they can do
 
That’s awesome! I let my 4 year old drive my JD 333G skid steer the other day while sitting on my lap. A short time later we were in it again and he says, “wanna go for a ride?!”. He grabbed the joy stick and moved moved us through some trees and across a down fence between posts like it was nothin. Crazy how much kids love this stuff and what they can do

Awesome! 4 is real young, I can tell he enjoyed it a lot!

I grew up on a large hog farm (large at the time, one of the biggest in the state back then). We had a small case skid steer we used a lot for pushing hog shit out of the corridors in or outside of the buildings. I was running that alone by age 9 doing that kind of thing. We also had a bigger case skid steer, and a couple of larger Farmall type tractors of course too. By age 10 I was helping dig ponds (usually a half acre or a little bigger in size) on our land with the bigger skid steer. We did bring in a local excavator to do most of the big dirt moving, but we did the final moving and misc ourselves. I clearly remember how cool it felt to be running that skid steer digging out the bottom of a soon to be new pond. Just had to make sure I didn't get stuck in the muddy areas. Dad had 4 manure pits and 4 fish ponds on our land. We stocked the fish ponds ourselves, usually went over to the Verdigree area where there were lots of ponds farmers didn't mind we fished and took the fish back to our ponds. Dad had a cattle water tub in the back of the truck, that's how we transported the fish we caught. Was fun.

I still prefer Case skid steers to this day BTW. The models from the 90's are tough to kill. Which I had two of when I was building houses in Lincoln before I moved to MT. You can learn a lot of translatable skills growing up on a farm.
 
Awesome! 4 is real young, I can tell he enjoyed it a lot!

I grew up on a large hog farm (large at the time, one of the biggest in the state back then). We had a small case skid steer we used a lot for pushing hog shit out of the corridors in or outside of the buildings. I was running that alone by age 9 doing that kind of thing. We also had a bigger case skid steer, and a couple of larger Farmall type tractors of course too. By age 10 I was helping dig ponds (usually a half acre or a little bigger in size) on our land with the bigger skid steer. We did bring in a local excavator to do most of the big dirt moving, but we did the final moving and misc ourselves. I clearly remember how cool it felt to be running that skid steer digging out the bottom of a soon to be new pond. Just had to make sure I didn't get stuck in the muddy areas. Dad had 4 manure pits and 4 fish ponds on our land. We stocked the fish ponds ourselves, usually went over to the Verdigree area where there were lots of ponds farmers didn't mind we fished and took the fish back to our ponds. Dad had a cattle water tub in the back of the truck, that's how we transported the fish we caught. Was fun.

I still prefer Case skid steers to this day BTW. The models from the 90's are tough to kill. Which I had two of when I was building houses in Lincoln before I moved to MT. You can learn a lot of translatable skills growing up on a farm.
Sounds like a great childhood. You cannot replace the experiences.
 

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