The new rolling ILX parenting thread, since the other one was getting unwieldy

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A walker?

http://www.emoryhealthcare.org/Images/ww_images/senior-walker.jpg

― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 9 March 2007 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha, you're going to feel that old in a month or so.

I noticed that you're doing all the posting. How is SS?

― Rock Hardy, Friday, 9 March 2007 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

If I can find a walker with a barf bag (sorry!) attached to it, I'm definitely interested. Morning sickness is even worse than the first time. *sigh* I got what I asked for, I guess. ;-)

― nathalie, Saturday, 10 March 2007 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

My ex-mother in law was a big believer in those hard leather shoes for babies. The white ones—I don't know if they even make them any more. She told me that my older son would not learn to walk right if I didn't put those shoes on him, and she sent me a pair. I threw them out. Awful things.

Dr. C, your children are splendid! My boys were so thrilled when they grew taller than me.

― Beth Parker, Saturday, 10 March 2007 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

Ophelia is suddenly a little girl! Not that she was a little boy before or anything. Ms Beeps is amazin' and so is Howie. And Alice! Am I forgetting anyone? A bumper crop of cracking kids.

Here's Ava playing in Stambourne Woods near our house earlier this afternoon (monkey backpack restraint deployed because Tallulah was in a Baby Bjorn and we were walking a friend's dog; didn't really fancy chasing her into poison ivy/other people's gardens [it's a very suburban wood]):

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/149/416552641_96803b6d9a.jpg

― Michael Jones, Saturday, 10 March 2007 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

They still make them, Beth. I didn't use them, either, though my mum all but insisted.

Beeps is gorgeous - love those little plump cheeks!

― luna, Saturday, 10 March 2007 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Alex in NYC posted an adorable photo of Oliver on his blog today.

― jaymc, Saturday, 10 March 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. In the very back of my mind, I was still thinking of Oliver in NYC as being a little infant kid.

That's already been a year? Whoa.

― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 10 March 2007 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Lovely sweater, too.

― Michael White, Saturday, 10 March 2007 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

At the pediatrician's my sister saw this other mom who had brought her baby in for his two-week checkup. She had him dressed in those hard-soled shoes, shirt, pants and a BELT.

― Beth Parker, Saturday, 10 March 2007 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

No tie?! Such informality is allowed these days!

― Michael White, Saturday, 10 March 2007 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

I thought belts for babies were illegal!

I still haven't bought Lou hard-soled shoes and he's been walking for six months.

― teeny, Saturday, 10 March 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

My kids managed to learn to walk, too.

― Beth Parker, Saturday, 10 March 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

I put leather shoes on. Not always but still do. She LOVES it. Even grabs the shoes as to say she wants'em on. It's certainly not a bad thing to put shoes on, as long as they are well-made. My husband was shocked at the price of shoes for babies. hah. We paid about 90 euros, which is about 110 dollars. (Exchange rate is crap, so just think 90 euros. We also have crazy high taxes.)

He's been walking for SIX months? Sheeit. How old is he again? Ophelia has been *letting go* but cruising is still her main form of going from A to B. She also crawls at an amazing pace. Thank god there are no cops around, or she'd have a speeding ticket. ;-)

― nathalie, Sunday, 11 March 2007 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

Alice has suddenly decided that life is worth smiling about after all:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/175/417810058_153664ed17.jpg?v=0

― Archel, Monday, 12 March 2007 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Archel! Don't you just fight back tears of happiness when she smiles? I still remember the first time she turned and smiled at me. It's something you never ever forget. :-D

― nathalie, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Archel, Alice's smile is so gorgeous! I can't wait til Howie starts smiling. At the moment he seems like he is kind of trying, but it could just be wind...

Meanwhile, H weighs 8lb 14oz as of today, which means he has put on two pounds in less than two weeks! He is already growing out of newborn-size clothes, and developing proper (and lovely) baby fat. In less welcome news, his colic has meant some very wah-filled evenings in the last few days. I'm really hoping he doesn't go the full 12 weeks with it - it's so distressing to see him crying, when no amount of soothing / cuddling will help.

― Meg Busset, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

Why I'd missed the Beeps photos! Hurrah!

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

Those pictures were taken during the five minutes last week that she was actually asleep.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

Archel,
Beth Parker is going to come over to this thread and start collecting rocks!
Alice is amazing. I am also fond of the pictures of her eating daddy's nose.
Any protuberance is a nipple, I suppose.
I love the milky eyes that infants have - so many decisions to make!
Happy -sad -hungry -poopie. What color should my eyes be? Hmmmmm....

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Haha yes Howie had us fooled with that one - the ventouse delivery meant he was quiet as a mouse for the first two days of his life. Talk about lulling us into a false sense of security...

― Meg Busset, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

(x-post dammit)

― Meg Busset, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Has anyone else read Neal Pollack's piece in salon.com about having his son circumcised? Made me mad—the way he capitulated to the demands of his horrible, horrible family. I mean, if he and his wife felt strongly about it, fine, but the way it played out—ugh.
They're going to have trouble with his family sooner or later. May as well bring it on.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

Neal Pollack is a shitty excuse for a parent. If that article was the only example, that would be a harsh thing to say. But I remember the one article he did for Salon where he complained about how inconvenient having a child around was, and his daycare center should accept the boy even though he had repeatedly assaulted other children .

― Nicole, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

Beth - I read his book! If that issue ever comes up for me, I have my arguments ready.

― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

I guess this is a good a thread as any? What's an appropriate christening gift? I was thinking check (but how much??) and illustrated children's Bible (maybe signed by the illustrator).

― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

I was thinking check (but how much??) and illustrated children's Bible (maybe signed by the illustrator).

The bible sounds like a very good idea, but I'm not sure about the check amount -- the christenings I've attended were for nieces and nephews and the children of very close friends, so I guess it would depend on how well acquainted you were with the family.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

Wait a minute. Where did kevin's cheeky comment go?

I knew he was being cheeky since his comment was patently false.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

They grow up so fast! I just found this one of my two boys from summer 2002.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/183/420363729_c85b4e0465.jpg

Mr Collander Head is now a fluent reader!

― onimo, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

Aw. His big brother is obviously privy to the ancient 'sieve on the head' method of encouraging young readers.

More Alice on beach:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/179/420263696_f3620df11a.jpg?v=0

(Note classic parent pose in the background - holding orphan shoe which has been wriggled out of for the tenth time that day...)

10lb 13oz at weigh-in today, and final farewell to the Brighton health visitors before we move away next week. Eek!

― Archel, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

Great pics of Alice.

How come shoes never stay on, no matter what kind you get and how well they fit?

― onimo, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

We are closing in on Teething Time, M (6 months old today! Blimey!) is beginning to have grumpy spells.

She's also getting a bit clingy with Mrs O, which is bad news as she's thinking about going back to work in a couple of months.

― onimo, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/182/416372736_29d4328358.jpg?v=0

helping out in the shop. oh yes, she has discovered the ring cases.

― nathalie, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

O so cute!

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

i think i am a bit in love with alice. that last pic with the squirmy can't-help-myself smile and the laughing new-moon eyes made me exclaim out loud.

― emsk, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

All the babies are so squeezable.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 15 March 2007 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/132/423123103_9efde5404e.jpg?v=0

BabyMkII! We calculated the right date. *It* Iz 8 Weekz old! Expected delivery date: two days before my birthday! 26th of Oktoberfest! Hoera!

― nathalie, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Awwwwww.

― luna, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Congrats!

― schwantz, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

Woo! Two is better than one, honestly - despite all my moaning.

― Michael Jones, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Aw, Nathalie - it's amazing how that makes me want to be pregnant again, even though the stitches haven't yet healed from this one! (and I spent a lot of my labour chanting in my head, "I am NEVER doing this again")

― Meg Busset, Saturday, 17 March 2007 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if ILX will still be here when we're withered and gray, and we'll be posting pics of the great-grands. I hope so. At the very least I want to be here when these babies have their first compulsory brushes with the law.

― Beth Parker, Saturday, 17 March 2007 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yay nath! It truly is a rolling parenting thread - I wonder who the next ilxor to get pregnant will be?

― Archel, Saturday, 17 March 2007 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

My wife, as it happens. Though she's not technically an ilxor. So it looks like I may be hanging around this thread a bit.

― Matt, Saturday, 17 March 2007 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

!!!
Congratulations! So happy for you both :)

― Archel, Saturday, 17 March 2007 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations!

― luna, Saturday, 17 March 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

matt, tell us more! How (heheh), when,...

― nathalie, Saturday, 17 March 2007 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks!

Sometime towards the end of january I think. It wasn't really a surprise as we'd started trying (well, in a half-hearted if it happens it happens sort of a sense) in the vague expectation of pregnancy occurring at some point this year. Within two weeks came as a bit of a surprise, though.

― Matt, Saturday, 17 March 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

The boys, after a particularly draining (hehe) feeding:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/424186895_44074e1d2d.jpg

― schwantz, Saturday, 17 March 2007 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if ILX will still be here when we're withered and gray...

That's a shorter stretch for some of us than for others. The gray is advancing by leaps and bounds, but the witheredness is still holding back, thank goodness.

― Aimless, Saturday, 17 March 2007 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

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