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Ophelia has caught her first (very small) cold.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 05:31 (nineteen years ago)

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― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

how old is O now?

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

Nine months and a day. :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

you could have made her all over again by now!

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Awww, all these babies are SUPER-FREAKIN'-CUTE!

^_^

― GLC (ZakAce), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: Hah! Didn't think of that. :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

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Ophelia doing a Jane Fonda!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

Ava can now say "Everton". Well, no, she can't - but she can say "Abigave", which is her word for Everton, every time she sees John Roberts' Centenary History of EFC. Unless "Abigave" is her word for "disappointment" or "bitterness" or "not enough about Dave Hickson".

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

I bought Colours Are Brighter as a conscience-salving charity exercise, but I haven't listened to it or forced anyone else to listen to it yet.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 26 October 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

last week, Louis got two teeth, a cold, and the ability to walk. Phew.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

A busy boy!

I would quite like to get this baby out of me now please. Even though I don't look that huge it feels like I'm carrying an elephant (I must have some sort of super-dense baby?), and I can't find a single comfortable position to sit/lie in.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

SUPER-DENSE BABY
How much longer, Archel? Did you find out the sex?

How old is Louis now, Teeny?

I didn't think I was getting much bigger but last week I tried to put on a zip up hoodie Id worn the week before and I couldn't even get the bottom of the zipper to join. It was about an inch and a half off!

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

8 weeks to go! Little (heavy) girl!

I can't do up any of my coats any more, even baggy ones, and have broken the zip on one of them trying :(

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

Alex was pointing out in the car yesterday how much emo was on her mp3 player. "It's all Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Panic! At The Disco..."

"That's because you bought an emop3 player by accident!" piped up Charlie. Oh, how we laughed.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

lou will be 11 months on the 9th. How much weight have you gained archel?

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

i want to be with baby. :(

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Monday, 30 October 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

aww..Archel I'm having a girly too.

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 30 October 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

Conversation I woke up to yesterday

5yo boy: You're not gonna pinch me. 'Cause we're buddies, right?
2yo girl: I turn into a monster. (pinches him)

― Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 30 October 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, is that cute or what?

For about a week Ophelia has been known to wave and say "baba." Yep, her first words are BYE BYE! I think it's cause our salesperson talks English to us. (She talks Japanese to Ophelia though. I asked her cause, heck, why not?) So yes, she waves and says baba. Not only when we do it, also when she feels like it. And the other day she was grabbing for the sushi magnets and Thom said:"That is sushi." What did she do? Repeat it! But of course not in the correct way, more busi or something. I had the feeling she was beginning to repeat sounds but I was wary cause as a parent you're prone to *see* things even when it's clear to the whole population your baby isn't doing it. ;-)

She knows for quite some time who papa and mama are. It's dead cute to say:"Where's papa?" and she looks around for Thom.

I HEART MY BABY SO MUCH. :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

Aww.

teeny, I have no idea how much weight I've gained. My midwife doesn't believe in weighing me and that's fine by me!

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

Well, my OBGYN one time didn't believe me and demanded I weighed myself AGAIN. He discovered that I had in fact gained about 4 kilos in two weeks. :-( Which reminds me that I need to lose another six kilos. I can't seem to do it. :-(

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

I have gained about a stone so far - but have actually lost a pound or two in the last couple of weeks, because I haven't been stuffing my face with ravenous hunger in the way I did during the first trimester.

People are being nice and saying it's all in the bump/boobs, but I have definitely got a bit more padding round the hips and bum. I don't care, though - I'm pregnant and it's allowed!

― Meg Busset (Mog), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah mine seems mostly in the bump but today I decided that my face is fat too :(

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Archel, it's inevitable! Don't worry about it, you'll quickly lose it once you have delivered your baby. :-) When I look at the pics of when I was pregnant and the ones right after the delivery, I looked like Javva The Hut. I didn't actually see it but looking at'em now... Oh dear! :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

hey guess what, I might have some news for y'all

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

NO WAY!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

well, it's not exactly like that.

we just found out last week that our application to adopt a baby from Ethiopia has been approved. within six months, we will PROBABLY be new parents...just without the whole childbirth/pregnancy thing.

keep it on this thread though, okay? I don't want to get into a whole thing except with you guys/gals.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

awesome! congratulations! that's a very brave undertaking.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations, good luck, blimey, etc.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

holy shit way to go!! good luck!

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Wow good luck M, I'm sure you'll be great parents all over again :)

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

from africa to wisconsin! lucky kid! lucky you too. congrats!

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

thanks everyone. we're really excited, even the kids (who've previously complained 'what about our slice of the attention pie?' == actual quote from emma)...but kinda nervous too.

but let's get back to actual tangible kids. e just turned 11, she's going trick or treating as marcia brady tonight. sammy's tapdancing classes are really paying off -- he's dressing up as gene kelly!

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

am I the only non-parent who reads this thread?

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

nope.

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

okay, cool.

matt, are you going to adopt an infant or an older child?

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

infant girl, although that can mean anywhere from four to eleven months. not sure why we decided on a girl, except that my son and i didn't care about gender and my wife and daughter wanted another co-conspirator.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

(hey sam, did you get my invitation to the new nba keeper league?)

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

have not checked my fantasy league mail in a couple of days. I barely am understanding the first fantasy league!

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

haha awesome

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

I HATE DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!!! My kids are driving me bonkers with the 5am wakeup call. Like HELL I "got an extra hour" of sleep.

― don weiner (don weiner), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

yeah but you make it up on the other end, no?

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Haikunym, I'm so happy for you! Just had clients the other week who said their kids (adults of course) had to wait for THREE years until they could adopt a Chinese girl.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Don, you said it. But O's adapting quite well.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Ethiopia is one of the easiest places to adopt from in terms of time and bureaucracy. But some agencies still require 18 months of waiting. We have a good agency though.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

Congrats, Matt! May I suggest the name nabiscunym?

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

don otm!!!

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

No, Ken, you may not.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure there are plenty non-parents who read this thread.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

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