I am at the hospital. My wife's water broke earlier this afternoon. With luck, our son will be born today (or tomorrow at the latest). I am giddy and just felt like sharing.
Your first? I have two (boy & girl) and my brother/sister-in-law just had their second (boy) on Wednesday. Hope everything goes well.
clueless wrote:
I am at the hospital. My wife's awater broke earlier this afternoon. With luck, our son will be born today (or tomorrow at the latest). I am giddy and just felt like sharing.
Congrats, man!
Suhweet! Congrats man!
Congratulations!
Just the other day I found out I'm gonna be a father too! I'm happy, but insanely scared at the same time.
If anyone here has any tips on how to conciliate our kind of hobby with being a family man, I'm all ears! =)
Good luck, clueless!
tokumaru wrote:
Congratulations!
Just the other day I found out I'm gonna be a father too! I'm happy, but insanely scared at the same time.
If anyone here has any tips on how to conciliate our kind of hobby with being a family man, I'm all ears! =)
Congrats!
My boys [8 and 7 yr.] come running whenever they hear SMB or Zelda coming from my laptop. They know dad's either goofing around or working on NESICIDE but in either case they *LOVE* watching me play those good ol' 8-bit games.
Don't get me wrong...they love the Wii probably more but it makes me very happy they're not like "dad's playing that old 8-bit crap again..."
Congratulations & good luck to you & your wife, clueless.
My first baby was born this March after 48 hours in the hospital...
You'll be busy with diaper explosions, etc. My advice is to support your wife first (who will be very tired) and if there are breaks when she's breastfeeding lying down or when baby's sleeping, you can duck out to get some gameplaying.
You people make me...feel young
Congratulations to all father in this thread.
I can't give any real advice, but I second ccovell about breastfeeding.
I heard it's healthier than bottle feeding.
And one more time:
CONGRATULATIONS!
Woah people let's do the congratulations AFTER the baby is born and the mother AND baby are doing well.
Apart from that good luck.
Edit: Post some pictures please when you can. I love babys and cats.
Congrats on the new one hope all are healthy and well!
I actually missed out on the birth, first words, and first steps Of my oldest while I was deployed. So one of my proudest firsts I got to witness was her beating the first level of SMB for the first time. My 4 year old probably plays as more NES than anything but she still spends time on the SNES, N64, wii and gameboy. Although her attention span per game is much shorter on the NES, she goes in spurts from one console to another. She only plays 1-2 games on each console, except the NES. Her favorite thing to do with the NES is randomly pick a game that looks good out of the cabinet which reminds me of how I acquired most of them
tokumaru wrote:
If anyone here has any tips on how to conciliate our kind of hobby with being a family man, I'm all ears! =)
I really don't think it's as hard as it sounds. We had our second child nearly a year ago. I'm pretty sure I wrote a few thousand lines of code with our then newborn in my lap. The difficulty comes when they realize how awesome the keyboard is and they try to attack it whenever in sight. There isn't much I can't do with a kid in my lap which helps, so perhaps thats a skill/tip to work towards. Software is also significantly easier to work on than hardware with young ones so most of you have that advantage.
The other thing that goes a LONG way in things more than just deving is keeping them involved with your interests even when they're really too young. Figuring out ways for them to help out when they are ~3+ years old allows you to work on your hobby while entertaining/teaching them. For me I always ask for help testing things, or maching things up before final assembly. Kids are also FULL of ideas for things like games, and love to draw. So those are integratable skills for deving also.
Aside from hobbies I think getting the older one involved and helping out when the second child comes around is also a huge key to help them cope with the family change and shift in attention.
tokumaru wrote:
If anyone here has any tips on how to conciliate our kind of hobby with being a family man, I'm all ears! =)
Get them involved!
Finding time to actually sit down and code is a whole other story...
Never knew that you were a cute little 3 year old blonde girl James
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Why does people have to expand their private lives on the net ?
Oh well since Clueless started it, if his baby is born today (October 10th), he's born the same day as my second nephew. That's a fun think to know.
@Tokumaru, I agree it'd be very hard to combine fun hobbies with a family. It'd be possible but then you'd probably be a terrible father, taking more care of you computer than your own children, which is not a good idea (even if technically possible).
Even though I'm a lot into computers and technical stuff, I have to admit social links between people have probably never been so damaged in history because of computers, as people care more about virtual stuff than the real people that are around them which is sad.
You have to make choices in your life I guess....
I'll prefer having some fun hobbies myself, the world is already overpopulated enough (at least in my country), and I have my nephews (from now on with a s) for a nice change if I want to do child-ish things. I might change my mind later though.
As for people saying congratulations I'll just add that while having a baby is easy, rising him/her is the really hard part. I don't want to say anything negative or anything, this is just the reality.
In short :
Still I wish you best of luck and a lot of pleasure in rising your children, Clueless. I hope you'll be able to continue some sparse NESdev, but I perfectly understand if you don't.
Wow great way to sour the mood...
Bregalad wrote:
I agree it'd be very hard to combine fun hobbies with a family.
Seriously? So family fun isn't part of your vocab?
I'm not sure how many children you've given birth to Bregalad, but I'd like to see you try and convince the women I know that having a baby is easy...
Sorry but parenthood is not the end of your hobby/fun life unless you want it to be. In my opinion it only makes that hobby/fun time more enjoyable. Your welcome to your opinion Bregalad. If one's only hobby were drinking at the bar I'd agree with you. I just hope everyone else doesn't see it the same way and feel they have to abandon their hobbies (and nesdev) as new or soon to be parents. Unless you also think all parents who are active on nesdev must be terrible, there are plenty of us here who are proof of that it can be done.
I haven't given birth to noone (I stated this in my previous post indirectly.... sorry if it wasn't clear enough).
You're right being a parent doesn't end all your hobbies, and of course you can have hobbies with your family, but different hobbies, especially with newborn children.
It of course also depends on the children's personality and attitude.
In all cases it's obvious having children reversibility change one's life. Saying the opposite would be a straight dishonest lie, or someone who never actually dealt with a baby or a young child.
Children needs that you pay attention to them all the time. You can't just sit in front of your TV, your computer or whatever else and let them play alone. Or if you do, you'll probably not a good parent. But I'm not one to juge whenever other people are good parents.
Bregalad wrote:
Why does people have to expand their private lives on the net ?
This is the general forums and the internet is now the #1 for people to communicate over vast distances so I don't see what the problem is.
These aren't really "general" forums, otherwise Jargon would be posting here.
Dwedit wrote:
These aren't really "general" forums, otherwise Jargon would be posting here.
Board index » Other » General Stuff
Excuse me?
Usually, I guess I should wait to say congratulation once we are sure that everything went fine. Let's hope for the best.
As for hobbies.. It depends on the kids. My kids are like tornadoes and never stop. The oldest one is getting better (now 6) and play games here and there, can play nes kirby and stuff like that. The youngest one (2), is in-stoppable and love to destroy her ds, quite fast for her age but needs a lot of attention. So for now, no coding possible. When they will be older I may be able to work back on some project.
There is time for coding and hobbies after bedtime. If you are allowed.
WedNESday wrote:
Board index » Other » General Stuff
Excuse me?
People have used this forum for unpleasant subjects in the past, so the general consensus now is that the subjects should be at least vaguely related to the theme of the forum, so that they have a better chance of appealing to the other members.
Having kids isn't exactly related, but dealing with kids and NES-related hobbies is, right? But unless the subject is bothering a significant number of people I don't think there's any problem in having it here.
tokumaru wrote:
People have used this forum for unpleasant subjects in the past
Dare I ask what?
WedNESday wrote:
Dare I ask what?
I don't wanna taint a thread that should be about happy things by remembering Jargon. Just look his posts up (if they haven't been deleted, that is).
Any news? We want to know!
tokumaru wrote:
Any news? We want to know!
Don't tell me its one of those 72 hour labours!
Agreed, I'm craving more info! I hope all is well!!
tokumaru wrote:
WedNESday wrote:
Dare I ask what?
I don't wanna taint a thread that should be about happy things by remembering Jargon. Just look his posts up (if they haven't been deleted, that is).
Maybe we were a tad hard on the guy. I mean for some people places like this are their only output.
WedNESday wrote:
tokumaru wrote:
WedNESday wrote:
Dare I ask what?
I don't wanna taint a thread that should be about happy things by remembering Jargon. Just look his posts up (if they haven't been deleted, that is).
Maybe we were a tad hard on the guy. I mean for some people places like this are their only output.
Couldn't agree more. Way to go guys. Nice to know that community doesn't really mean community. If you don't want to read anything but technical discussion, you can always *ignore* threads like this. Contributing to the thread just to share/spread your negative attitude helps *no one*.
Plz, no more Jargon in happy baby thread. =) Plz make new thread for Jargon if you want to discuss Jargon. Thx!
tokumaru wrote:
Plz, no more Jargon in happy baby thread. =) Plz make new thread for Jargon if you want to discuss Jargon. Thx!
I put a Jargon in your Jargon so that you can Jargon whilst you Jargon...
Sorry for the lack of updates. Zeke Dale Hudgins-Jenkins was born at 2012-10-10, 3:21 am CDT. He is 8 lbs, 9 oz, 20.5 inches, red hair. Zeke is healthy. He poops alot. Thank you all for your kind words. Later tonight I will create his shell account on my home server - although he probably won't use it for a few years.
Awesome man!
Congrats!
OMG Hes so cute!
...and the baby isn't bad either!
As we say in World of Warcraft. gz.
Glad to know everything went OK! Congratulations!
Good, no need to woorry anymore about you and your son.
Congrats.
Cute boy you got there. I pray he stays healthy and attains all his dreams...so many possibilities
Congratulations to you and your wife.
I have to give the three of you my blessings for so nakedly bearing your all to people you hardly know in a forum of semi-anonymity. It shows me that there are still good people in some of the few good places on the internet that haven't changed.
Is Zeke short for Ezekiel? I like that name too.
Many hebraic names are very powerful and pretty. Keeping the "el" on Ezekiel refers to him being "of God." Religion and subscribed belief systems aside, I wish and pray the safety and health for your child.
Autism is something that many logical thinking partners have been facing in the past two decades; as some of the highest rates of autism come from "silicon valley-like" bedroom communities. It also can happen from taking specific antibiotics in the early development stages. Signs of autism are not apparent until the end of the first year and the beginning of the second. Language development and normal cognition may seem to progress normally until around that time. I mention this because I work with autistic individuals and know how common it has become. Even if it does, I can tell you that even though these individuals may be entirely too much to handle by their parents' lives and standards, I love them as my own. I currently take care of 7 individuals. I pray that your child develops without the complications of autism and is able to succeed in their personal goals.
I send love to you three and your family.
P.S. Haven't seen you on IRC in a while.
Congrats! I had been wondering how this was going, I knew you found out about 3 months after my wife and I found out we were having one. Zeke is a cool name, ours is Zane. Z's! Pictures attached of newborn, and now.
Also, congrats Chris! And congrats and good luck to tokumaru!
Memblers, I am so happy for you and your wife. Your son is adorable.
I thought that I would resurrect this thread. Zeke is now 16 months old. He said his first word ("momomomaa") at age 7 months; now he says quite a lot! He is a handful and very smart. He has defeated most of the child safety locks on cabinets and doors. Last month I had to mount the TV high up on the wall to keep him from touching it. He can occasionally count to 4. Only a few more years until I introduce Zeke to 6502 assembly language.
If I am not traveling on business, I'll bring Zeke to the 2014 MGC on Sunday (April 12).
Zeke will be joined by a kid sister in mid July of this summer! Jayme is pregnant and we're going to have a daughter! I am so excited. I'll have a complete set. Now I just need to go get neutered.
clueless wrote:
Zeke is now 16 months old. He said his first word ("momomomaa") at age 7 months; now he says quite a lot! He is a handful and very smart. He has defeated most of the child safety locks on cabinets and doors.
'Leet.
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Zeke will be joined by a kid sister in mid July of this summer! Jayme is pregnant and we're going to have a daughter! I am so excited. I'll have a complete set. Now I just need to go get neutered.
Gonna name her "Emma" after the
Jane Austen novel that
a certain film is based on?
Congrats!
mikejmoffitt wrote:
Ahhh the happy ending!
tepples wrote:
clueless wrote:
Zeke is now 16 months old. He said his first word ("momomomaa") at age 7 months; now he says quite a lot! He is a handful and very smart. He has defeated most of the child safety locks on cabinets and doors.
'Leet.
Quote:
Zeke will be joined by a kid sister in mid July of this summer! Jayme is pregnant and we're going to have a daughter! I am so excited. I'll have a complete set. Now I just need to go get neutered.
Gonna name her "Emma" after the
Jane Austen novel that
a certain film is based on?
No, but Jayme wanted to name her first daughter "Emma" for many years. She gave up on that five years ago one of her good friends had a daughter named Emma. Name is a secret for now!
Hello Everyone,
At 5:59am (CDT), Thursday, 2014-07-03, Jayme (my wife) gave birth to Zelda Elayne Hudgins-Jenkins. Zelda was 7 lbs, 13 oz and 20 inches at birth. She is healthy and doing great. We came home from the hospital today. Her brother, Zeke, is adjusting to his new sister.
Zeke is now 21 months old. He knows the alphabet, can recognize some small written words and we are working on numbers. He can defeat every child safety device in our house. He likes to watch me play Lego City Undercover on the Wii-U. Zeke especially likes to watch me run over pedestrians (Lego mini-figs) and lamp-posts!
My wife is amazing. I feel like my children are the luckiest in the world - they have an awesome mother.
Someday I will have time again for working on Nintendo homebrew, but probably not for a few years though.
Congrats!