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Man, you are in for so much trouble.

Awesome family, dude.  You done good.

My thoughts exactly.

--Alex

Lovely family photo but I adore the shot of the two girls.  Yeah, you are toast when they are teenagers.

Karon Flage Photography | SPX | Sequential Tart

This was on our walk around the neighborhood today. It's hard to look like a bad-ass when you're 8 months old and rocking a pacifier, but Nina gives it a shot.

Man, those shades are WRONG.

No, I don't mean the baby's

1) They're prescription, and therefore harder to replace;

2) I'm a child of the 1980s after all;

3) Your mom.

Don't listen to him. He doesn't even need sunglasses, always being in the shade of people taller than him*.

*Everyone.

I refuse to believe all the other models at the shop were uglier.

I'm sure you just saw them and imagined yourself looking all spiffy in a dark coat in bullet-time.

The good thing about living in Spain, besides good food, nice weather and naked boobs in the beach, a lot of people are my same size or smaller.

Folks your size we usually send them to the bullring.

Spain is in the Shire?

eeee!

"A lot of people are my size or smaller"

A typical Spanish town:

So, "tapas" is Spanish for "regular-sized plates", right?

Serving platters, surely.

It's a little known fact the prime mover in Spanish politics is, in fact, the Lollipop Guild.

Watching you Americans trying to do comedy is like being a judge at a chalkboard-scratching contest.

That's some funny chalkboard scratching.

Can you reach?

Oh, I see you can.  Great!

That is not a chalkboard, American!

So really old cliches (like chalkboard scratching) is the way to your funnybone?

A million paths lead to my funnybone. (fnar)

Hey guys, aren't we supposed to be celebrating small children in this thread?  Leave Marcos alone!

True, the focus of the thread is children, not just any small person. Good point.

Hmmm...I don't think my point came across properly...

See, you totally need me to back you up b y posting clarifying pictures.

Because I'm dense, and/or have a lively imagination and can read your comment several different equally-valid ways, what the heck: let's clarify. Are you saying the thread should be pictures-only (or close to it) with not much discussing? That we should take care not to derail so much, to maintain a high proportion of cute kid photos, or that photos should be more the kids and not so much the parents and the kids?

I honestly don't have a complex about this (no, really!). I do think some clarity of direction can only help some threads, this being one of them.

I was implying Marcos was small...like a child.

sigh. I am not funny.

Everybody knows you krauts have no sense of humour.

Naw, dude, it's me. Some days I don't speak to another adult in person from about 8am to 6pm. It... does things... to one's brain.

And in general, this would be a thread in which - because it's easily ignored by people who don't wanna look at pictures of tiny nerds* and easily followed by people who do - it just seems like a considerate thing to not go too far off-topic. Should this ever become a thread that, for some weird reason, becomes worth following to someone who actually doesn't enjoy The Cuteness, then that could be awkward. Ditto for going too long without actually showing some cute kids.

Just a thought, really, and I know every thread is a special and beautiful snowflake. But this one stands out, I think.

Now. Showing, not telling:

* again, kids; not Marcos

The Germans got involved in the Spanish Civil War. I think that's hilarious.