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Excuses -Simon

Excuses.

I won’t be making any updates this week. Here’s my 7 pound 10 ounce excuse named Simon, who was born Saturday evening at 8:14pm, Goofy foot.

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  • Congratulations Gawlik family! Hope everyone is doing well. I can

  • Congratulations to you and the missus!!!!!

  • john aguilar

    Congratulations!!! Sr Kilwag!!!!!!!!!!

  • Félicitations !!!!!!!

  • Congratulations from down under.

  • all the best to the family. thank you for all you do.

  • Right On Kilwag, Let me wipe a tear of joy from my eye… Right On!

  • Congrats Randy and the Gawlik family. Nice one! Goofy-foot forever!

  • Congrats!! (Goofy foot is ok, just remember, no mongo!) HA!

  • Congrats! Best excuse ever.

  • cool, congrats man.
    JF

  • Congratulations!!

  • Congratulations! How about a cigar mini-session to celebrate?

  • “Simon Goofy Foot”. That’s a cool name. Congratulations!

  • Congrats.. you and Grover must be proud… oh wait… i mean…

  • Tom Miller

    Dude! Colin stole my line.

    Anyhow, good breeding; Simon’ll make a fine Bacon team rider in due time…

  • it’s true… Simon is in fact the only one not sponsored by Bacon at this time.

  • chaperone

    Congrats Kilwag!! Good luck on the sleep part. Goofy footers kill it!!

  • congratulations…..simon is very cute!

  • sheltered

    Congratulations. Now that your going to be so busy….cam I have all of your skate gear?

  • A

    Thanks everyone for the kind words.

    Nobody gets my gear, I gotta leave something behind for the kids to auction off on eBay.

  • Congrats Kilwag!

  • Good thing he’s goofy footed, or I’d say put him up for adoption.

  • From one “Simon Goofy Foot” to another… welcome little buddy! Congrats to the parents!

  • Yay! Super Good. Remember how it happened for next time. Enjoy staying up all night!

  • Way to go Randy (And Gretchen!) Nice Labor day huh? Simon says “Feed me”. Simon says, “Wipe me”. Simon says “Now get back to work!”

  • dude lucky, you got a girl. i have 3 boys. oh wait the twins are starting preschool today. gotta get off the intraweb.

  • Congrats Randy and family! For the record, Goofy footed is referred to as “Good footed” or “G footed”.

  • Awesome!

  • JAKEFERRANTI

    Sorry I’m last,congrats! Thats the best man, Im goofy(footed) also! Ps:Baby poop doesnt start stinking until they eat solids…enjoy this while he’s newborn.

  • Wait til the day you try to run out the door with your noisey keys, your skateboard, and she’s wailing like a banshee because your leaving her behind……here’s a preview ” WHA WHA WWAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! DADDA DADDA WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!” Enjoy that first 1.5 years, after that, your gonna have a new guilt. I have it. Thank god for my Freshpark QP in the garage or I wouldn’t even get a chance to skate. Oh CONGRATS on being a daddy, its the best gig in the world.

  • Congratulations to both of you!!! She’s So Cute! Good job!

  • A

    Where are you guys getting “She” out of this?

    It’s Simon, not Simone!

    Great. 3 days out of the womb and the bigger kids are already calling him a pussy.

    HA ha har har!

  • Way to go, how many of these things do you have now?!!
    I kid, Simon is very tough and masculine looking.
    At this rate, you’ll have like 8 before I get around to numero uno.

  • A

    I’ve got two now, and no more. That’s it. I’m done!

  • PiFF Huxtible

    congrats!!

  • Congratulations on the new addition!

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