The things fathers think to do...

[MammaMia]

I was driving to kindy this morning and from the back of the car, I hear my 3 yo DS - well, he was channeling Timmy the Cat ... a character that my DH has created from a book he & DS read together. Timmy is full of mischief and has a special voice. He also has this habit of popping up when you least expect it.

Then of course, there are the cheeky things DH has taught DS... such as, shaking his butt at me when wrapped in a towel after a shower asking "Mum, does my bum look big in this?". And "Grandy, have you been drinking the brandy again?" Shrek has provided many lines for DH to teach DS. THe list of mischief grows each day!

They also have their own song... Dance with My Father Again by Luther Vandross. Whenever that starts up, my DS comes running for a dance with his dad. Makes me cry every single time.

I've realised over the last 3.5 years that there are things fathers think to do with their kids that would never enter my mind.... and the kids love it!

Fathers may do things differently from mums, and they may not be the best on the routine stuff... but they really can be amazing!

Signed
Keep up the good work, Dads. As you were!:yelclap:

[lukaelmo]

That is lovely Mammamia, your little man is very lucky to have such a great father.

[Charlie]

Sometimes cute, but not always appropriate,

A girl I work with used to come in with all kinds of stories about things her 2 year old son had picked up from daddy taking him to the football club, for example :
"hey grandma, Lick my balls" and thats one of the more polite ones, :laughing:

It's funny when your not the one who has to explain to grandma what he said!!

[bec79]

My 3 yr old nephew loves his daddy and is always imitating him. It is hilarious to watch him dancing around the room, struming on his toy guitar. He stamps one foot on the floor to the beat of the music (country music style) and yells "Yeha". Just like his daddy...it's so cute.

[Brooksy]

My nephew is two and his dad taught him how to do a wet willy which he decided to practice on nanna lol

[Charlie]

My mum's the director of a child care centre and she comes home with lots of stories!!
A wet willy is better than a 2 year old (GIRL) giving you a brown eye!! :laughing:

[clucky]

When I was about 3 or 4 my dad and i used play a naming game, he'd call me something then i'd call him something back, the worst i could think of was a humphrey bear lover.
whats so bad about being a humphrey bear lover? well that was another of my dad's clever things, he tought me from a young age to not like humphrey bear (and to this day i still don't). I would go around calling humphrey bear a poof IYKWIM. he thought it was cute. One day I was in a toy store and I saw a little girl, and had this disgusted look on my face when mum asked me what was the matter I explained to her that the little girl was hugging Humphrey (it was a large stuffed toy of him) and that it was gross.
the things our daddies teach us
BTW this is the dad that IS coming to my wedding.

[MammaMia]

My DH has taught my son that DT's (of the swimming variety) stands for Daddy's togs - rather than D*ck Togs.

My fear is that DS will reach his teens and none of us will have told him the truth and he will find himself in an embarrassing moment when he says something about it.:eek:

Something similar once happened to a friend of mine who thought that calling someone a Pr*ck meant that they were irritating like a pin prick. Worst still she had her mother, a Minister's wife, using it too until someone set them straight.

[onabreak]

I found hubby and daughter sitting down together on the lounge and he was reading something to her. I snuck up and had a look and here he was trying to teach her how to build car engines especially V8's. She just sat there and listened. Now she is always out helping him with tools and getting very dirty and greasy from climbing under cars. It is so cute though.

[MammaMia]

okay another one - today, DH taught DS to say (adopting serious newsreader tone)

"God save the Queen, because nothing will save the Governor-General."

I'm beginning to think we had children just to keep my husband amused.

I say, God help us!

[draught]

When DD1 was about 16 months old Dh sent me to Sydney with a friend to see "The Lion King" - my mother's day present. It was the first time I had been away and left them alone. So he responded by doing all the things I used to say no to - he took her to Ikea to play in the ball room (and was mightily disappointed when he found out she was about 2 years too young), he took her to the races at Eagle Farm (and was frustrated having to chase her when he was trying to place bets) and he generally had a great time with her.

Now they do "daddy adventures"....he takes her on the train for a ride into town and home again, he walks her up to the local pub where she has "pink lemonade" (which is actually a small dash of red cordial in water he informs me) in the beer garden, and he takes her on walks to the local corner shop to get a lemonade icy pole when she is in her pyjamas.....all things that I would never do and things that she very proudly tells me I can't do - they are just for her and daddy.

While in the supermarket one day she was standing in the front of the trolley wearing a pirate hat (as you do) when she announced very loudly that we needed to buy chips. I said " we don't buy chips - who bought you chips?" She responded "Daddy did - at the pub". The old man next to me just looked and smiled - obviously he too had children that he did special things with.

[~MUMMY~]

bubba and partner always have "daddy domie days" where they go out and do things....

partner always asks bubba when he comes home from day care if he got any girls numbers???:rolleyes:
and he always comes and tells me no girls numbers today mum.

ohh and he thinks it is funny to sing "my humps" out in public cause daddy said it is a good song.

and ask for beer when someone asks what do you want to drink. ;)

[2littleprincesses]

Aw, these replies are so cute.

Dh calls DD1's dirty nappies "stinkies" so now she says "mummy, change nappy, stinky!" He also has called them "jobbies" so one day she comes back downstairs after having her nappy changed and said "mummy I did big jobbies"

She has had a cold recently, so Daddy tried to wipe up the "green gobblins", then she says to me "mummy, sissue (yes sissue), you get the geen gobbens"

[sugar n spice]

aaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwww thats so cute all those stories:smiliedance:

[dee dee]

My dh is determined to get our little one to call him by his first name:rolleyes: (he thinks that it's cute). He repeats his name over and over, only to be met with a sweet smile and a cute little voice saying "dadda":)