I HATE being called Mr. French, but it's required at my school.  With friend's kids, I'm usually Mr. Tom or sometimes Tom if they're "cool" enough.  I've gotten used to Mr. French, but will never adjust when someone calls me "sir."

Don -- those are GREAT pics!

They're not ones for formalities and calling them Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson makes them feel old.

Wasn't aware the Irish were allowed such titles as "Mr." and "Mrs."!!  Looks like the ol' homeland is making some progress...!!

again with the Irish cracks, O'Brien.

I have become one of those people who, if I'm called Mr. Lynch, I make some crack about my dad not being there. I'm only 21 years older than my eldest, so it's sort of weird for his friends to call me anything but Jim.

What's weird is, as my kids age, I notice they themselves have stopped or rarely ever call me any name. No Dad, Jim, Old Man. Is that common amongst teeenagers? My eldest just starts talking to me without addressing me at all.

And I'm with Don on baby smell. This may be a little creepy,.but when my daughter was a baby I held her all the time because she smelled so damn good. Don't know if it was the shampoo or what, but she always smelled like flowers.

I'm pretty sure Johnsons puts something in the baby shampoo...my wife loves to smell babies...I tease her that she's trying to sniff out the fresh, new baby life-force.

Playing catch up yet again!

Don wrote:
"Sadly I have done that as well...ahhh the care free days of youth. I am not proud of all of my past...But I have made up for any regrets I use to have."

You’re simply a bigger man than I am, Don. ;)

David wrote (to Geoff’s offer of pint):
" Mine's a vodka so! lol"

A pint of vodka?!?? Man you Irish know how to get down and dirty fer sure.
And congrats on the 3500!

Geoff wrote:
"That is not the case at the Heinkein Brewery in Amsterdam (or at least it wasn't when I was there in 1999)."

You do know what the Dutch say about Heineken though, don’t you, Geoff?

Jodi wrote:
"Dance like no one is watching."

Is there any other way, Jodi? And now I’m getting Zappa’s "Dancing Fool" into my head. Great tune that.

More Jodi (or is that Joda really):
"Live and let live."

And here I thought it was live and let die... ;)

Even more Jodi:
"Ask not what your country can do for you , but what you can do for your country."

I’d like to suggest an amendment to this one, to make it even "better"... "...what you can do for the world!" Patriotism in all honour, how about a little global brother- and sisterhood, eh?

Al wrote:
"Every day I try to be someone that other people's daughters would be proud to call Daddy."

There IS a thin line, Al... just so you don’t miss it. ;)

Geoff wrote:
" Where's her Dad, Don? (I am almost afraid to ask)."

And all I get in my head seeing that line, is "Who’s your daddy?"

On a serious note though (and probably repeating myself like crazy), I do hold with Andrw Vachss: "Biology does not make a man a father. Nor a woman a mother. We are what we do."

Don wrote:
" Celeste and Emma...nice mommy daughter shot."

Nah, Don, that’s an awesome mommy daughter shot. Colours, shades and motif.

Al wrote:
" Oh thank God. I re-read what I'd written and thought it sounded awful.
(Like creepy awful. It read even worse after I took the quote marks off the word Daddy.)"

Well, obviously only people with our kinds of minds saw it, Al. ;)
Though I think it clear from my smiley above that I knew that was not how you meant it (or at least if you had, that’d been as a joke).