Im on the tail end of the pain.
My youngest has one more year of pre-k.
To think I could have been buying a high end gaming rig every two months for the past three years.
Congrats on the baby, with proper training your turret gunner will be ready in time for the PU.
Hahaha... end of the pain... I wish. Boys, nothing much happens from say age 5 till they're 14 or thereabouts. Then they'll eat you out of house and home, and probably 2 or 3 neighbors too. But I understood that from the start, I mean I did that.
Let me tell you about girls. Age 8 or 9 they begin to notice changes. You will too. The sound "stomp stomp stomp slam" will take on a whole new meaning. It will appear that they're competing against ghosts sometimes, so much makeup and DO NOT let them make their own shorts out of jeans. Then by the time they're between 12 and 14, just when you think the pain is over...
BOYS happen. You will want to get a shotgun to answer the door, or patrol the yard at some point, and you'll be in the mood to use it too. And, "Hi Kiddo!" or whatever you call them will result in you sitting until your ears fall off.
Happens that my wife is good with a pistol, we had a target mounted on the door. It read "So, you want to date my teenage daughter?". There were 50 bulls eyes in that target, from 30 yards. It was effective too. One boy knocked, took one look and ran away. Apparently he threw up in his car. Interesting side note, he's now engaged to the oldest girl. A friend of mine, army colonel, had 3 girls, we compared horror stories.
And I wouldn't trade my life for the world. Besides, the girls compete about who's going to take care of us when we're old and infirm, if I ever make it that far... we still have a 17 year old boy at home.
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@ThomSirveaux just wrote is exactly how it feels.