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― Madchen, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you! I might start her on the "Little House" books - she's too young for Nancy Drew and most of the list sites are really about selling particular books.
I can't buy into the American Doll thing unless she is exposed to it. It's not bad, but it's also NOT GOOD.
I am the "Book Auntie"...
Thanks, rolling parents!

― aimurchie, Friday, 23 March 2007 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

Tummy time for Ben (Owen looks on, Cat Benatar sits in the sun)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/161/432043024_f4b077289f.jpg

― schwantz, Saturday, 24 March 2007 04:26 (nineteen years ago)

aimurchie, is your niece from the Scottish side of your family? I just bought Mairi Hedderwick's Katie Morag books for my niece. They are really aimed at the 5+ age group - a little above her age - but no matter, I just wanted her to have something relating to traditional Scottish life (her father is Scottish, but her mother is American and she is being brought up in Florida).

― ailsa, Saturday, 24 March 2007 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

("her" being my niece, not yours, re ages)

― ailsa, Saturday, 24 March 2007 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

Lots of girls like the Junie B. Jones series. A new author, Sarah Pennypacker, has just released "Clementine" and a follow up. This is an adorable and clever book along the lines of Ramona, which wouldn't be a bad choice either.

― Virginia Plain, Saturday, 24 March 2007 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Ophelia had her first long tantrum. She wanted another yoghurt and I refused. I realized I should have put'em in the cupboard so she didn't see'em; but that doesn't mean that I should reward her for knowing where they were. So I put her on her back on the ground so she could howl as much as she liked. She eventually crawled onto my lap but then realized, probably, that daddy was a better companion and reached out to him.

― nathalie, Saturday, 24 March 2007 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure Lucy gave her a long-suffering look.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 March 2007 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

The family is going to Scotland nexy month! Them, not me:(
I will tell my sister in law about the Katie Morag books. Thanks!

― aimurchie, Saturday, 24 March 2007 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

i've been off thee parente threade for a while, hope everybody's doing well. i do have some new pix.

this was his christmas outfit:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/0002230-R01-053-25.jpg

at central park zoo:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/0002229-R01-053-25.jpg

and the ever popular pool of balls:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/0002229-R01-009-3.jpg

― tipsy mothra, Saturday, 24 March 2007 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

Why bother building her a bed?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/164/432863989_6fed17f40a.jpg

She slept like this for two hours (it was her afternoon nap) but - success - she did actually sleep in her bed 8:30pm-4am last night, which is a start. She's in there right now - 3 hours and counting...

― Michael Jones, Saturday, 24 March 2007 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

Whoops.

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― Michael Jones, Saturday, 24 March 2007 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

we bought a miracle blanket today

OMG PLEASE WORK

― sunny successor, Saturday, 24 March 2007 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

lemony snicket isn't for girls?!

― emsk, Saturday, 24 March 2007 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

Nope, just for evil stinky boys.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 March 2007 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

THIS MAKES NO SENSE

i read (some of) them in borders when there were some decent freebie live things happening there and the whole time i was just thinking DAMN, i wish i'd had these when i was 7. and i was an GURL.

― emsk, Sunday, 25 March 2007 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

Good luck with the Miracle Blanket! Make sure you wrap 'em up tight!

(Ben's back to waking up at 2-3am - I guess the other night was a fluke :( )

― schwantz, Sunday, 25 March 2007 03:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.bibsandstuff.com/miracle-blanket-1.jpg http://www.keyboardbiologist.net/knitblog/images/Equals.JPG http://www.affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/Horse_with_blinders_small.jpg

(So far, apparently...)

― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 25 March 2007 05:35 (nineteen years ago)

And they wrapped the Beeps in swaddling clothes and lay her in a manger.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 25 March 2007 05:39 (nineteen years ago)

I love the Lemony Snicket books as well, and as someone recently pointed out to me, my lip gloss collection suggests that I'm a "girly girl."

Hope all the babies are sleeping peacefully tonight!

― Sara R-C, Sunday, 25 March 2007 06:09 (nineteen years ago)

Ben's back to waking up at 2-3am - I guess the other night was a fluke :(

They *always* do this! But it's not far off, those long nights. Hang in there!

Morning sickness is still in full swing. Really full swing. :-(

― nathalie, Sunday, 25 March 2007 07:50 (nineteen years ago)

i'm a grown up girl and i've read some of the lemony snicket series, i thought it was great. two of the key characters are girls, i can't see why it would be thought to be aimed at boys.

― gem, Sunday, 25 March 2007 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

I always found them a bit negative. I'm a sensitive chap.

― Mark C, Sunday, 25 March 2007 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

UMMMM.....I bought the Lemony Snicket books for her brother, who is seven. The books are reccomended for 7 and above. He already has the books - the family is reading them together. Why would i get her the same books?
In fact, i mentioned them because - well - her brother already has that collection, so I Would Like To Get Something Else For Her!
She's very girly, but I tend to "combat" that by NOT buying her barbie stuff, etc. In fact, I only give books to the kids - they get plenty of toys from other relatives.
I didn't ask about books for girly girls - i asked what parents thought about for a five year old girl. i guess i could have said "five year old not gender specific", but "niece" kind of gave it away!
Anyway - not the point of this thread.
Thanks for the reccomendations!

― aimurchie, Sunday, 25 March 2007 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

Mrs COastaltown seems to have morning, afternoon and evening sickness at the mo:(

― Matt, Sunday, 25 March 2007 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

We have thought about swaddling Howie, but given that he loves to sleep with his arms above his head, and kicking his legs in the air is one of his favourite things, I don't think it would go down too well. When we try to wrap him in a towel to wash his hair, it's mere seconds before he has arms and legs sticking out all over the place. He be a free-spirited baby...

― Meg Busset, Sunday, 25 March 2007 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

Whoo-hoo!

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/164/435925876_426497ad6e.jpg

Ben gets a private concert from atop the piano:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/172/433147978_b4433083cc.jpg

― schwantz, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously, how long can you have a cold? Sheesh, it's been a couple of weeks and she's still not recovered. Some nights are horrendous: wakes up every night and cries. I refuse to put her in our bed this night. Which I know is cold and severe, but I wanted to let her learn that she has to remain in her bed. :-( (Also, I was so sick and feeling horrendously crap, I don't think I could have more than *me* in bed.)

― nathalie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 06:26 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry to hear about Mrs Coastaltown's all-day-long morning sickness. There's been a thread on this which might help

― C J, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:26 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently swimming in the morning helps alleviate morning sickness. So a daily routine of 30 minutes should help (and is also extremely good for zee bones and muscles). I don't of course swim so much, but the weekly swim does help with the morning sickness. I feel exceptionally well after it.

Still suffering from morning sickness coupled with dreadful cold. And hormones. I am as a result a bit out of it. :-(((

― nathalie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, poor you :( I suppose you can't take much in the way of cold medicine, can you?

― C J, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

Well, sort of homeopathic ones that don't do me anything. I mean, works for an hour and then it's full on snot mode again. hah. It's not so much the physical aspect but the fact that mentally I feel awful. :-( Ah well, this too shall pass. ;-)

― nathalie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

Any chance you can have an indulgent day pampering yourself with Nice Things, or are you working in the shop today?

― C J, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

Much obliged for the link CJ, some helpful stuff (the swimming also sounds a good idea, she starts easter hols next week so I shall suggest it). My sympathy to Nath.

Scan today!

― Matt, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

Pampering? haha No. The shop has to be open seven days a week. The only pampering I can do is stuffing myself. ;-) (Which I realize is NOT good but it alleviates the sickness a bit.) Also, we just discovered OPhelia has the measels (from the creche). ARGH!

― nathalie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

Oh lordy - are you rubella immune, nath???

― C J, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

shit, i mean chickenpox.

― nathalie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

Ah shit, I just read the effects it can have on a foetus. :-((((((((((((((((

― nathalie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

But YOU don't have chickenpox, right?

― schwantz, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I'm not sure I had it as a child. I think I had *something*, probably chickenpox, as a teenager. But I'm not sure. So we had to take my blood. I'll know next week (argh!) if I'm immune. If not, then I hope we're in time for some immunization. :-(

― nathalie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Good luck to you... I'll keep my fingers crossed.

― schwantz, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

My mom had chicken pox while pregnant near me, near the end. I turned out okay. (I think)

Hopefully you won't get it Nath so you won't have to worry! I hope you feel better soon.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Well, near the end ofyour pregnancy isn't as hazardous as the first twenty weeks. When you are pregnant, the first three/four months are the riskiest. If I have chickenpox (before they can immunize (?)) me then the baby can not only die, it can, if it survives the ordeal, develop a range of problems ranging from shortened limbs to cataract (?). That said, my doctor says that most people have had it during childhood (even when they didn't show the signs) and are thus immune to it. I think it's about 95 procent. Even if I didn't have it, they will probably be in time to give me an injection.

If you have it the last couple of days before your delivery, then they have to inject the baby with something, I think.

In short: this has been one hellish ride so far for me. I feel completely crap. I also think I managed to *dry myself out*. I need to drink more. I am also going to pop a Dafalgan cause of my splitting headache. :-(

― stevienixed, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry it's been such a rollercoaster so far Nath, I'm sure you'll have had chickenpox already, and you and baby will be fine.

Matt - hope the scan went well! How are you finding cooking for a pregnant woman?! Are you being ultra cautious, or are you throwing some of the overly strict precautions to the wind?

I am in the honeymoon period of pregnancy :0) Feeling great, got a bump, can feel little squirrel wriggling without it keeping me awake at night... (sorry to rub it in Nath, but I'm sure it won't be long before you turn the corner....) We've bought a buggy (with car seat and carry cot) too, thanks to Pam (Mike's mrs and Ava and Lulu's mum) and our second scan on wednesday went fine, no problems at all so far.

Lovely twin fluff, they're so gorgeous! But we need more piccies on this thread!

― Vicky, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

Schwantz - we love the Bumbo seat. We also used to take pix of Ava in it, perched on top of things, but worried Social Services would come after us if we posted them anywhere ;)

I'm entirely confident everything will be fine for Nath. There you go.

Lulu is now almost rolling over and remains a pretty easy baby (up to 16lb now), even if it took us 40min to pacify her last night at bedtime. Ava is well into her naughty phase (I hope it's a phase) - she thinks throwing food is more fun than eating it and has explosive tantrums at every opportunity (last night, she agreed to a bath and then went ballistic once I got her up there). The transition to her own bed is having mixed results - two nights recently she's wailed at the safety gate in her doorway for 20min before falling asleep on the wooden floor but last night, with the help of fairy lights on a timer, we did get her to stay in her bed until 4am. Oh, and bathtime last night was carnage.

Here's Tallulah doing her bit for the Dairy Marketing Board:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/184/432867681_2f6fd22a62.jpg

And here's Ava weighing up the possibilities during a slightly more successful mealtime:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/177/427241284_a67bb6dce0.jpg

― Michael Jones, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry about mentioning last night's bath twice - that's what happens when you compose a post over half an hour inbetween work things - though it was so traumatic there's a chance I might bring it up again.

Did I mention Ava's bath last night?

― Michael Jones, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/145/437627723_e03e91b38c.jpg?v=1175094082

Before the red spotty state. ;-)

Vicky, no, you're not rubbing it in at all! You're giving me hope again. :-)

― stevienixed, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Hi guys, no interweb yet in new house wahhhh!

Just had to check in on my fellow parents though. And parents-to-be! Hope things improve for you nath and for mrs coastaltown, and continue well for you vicky :)

Alice is taking to the new abode very well although we've discovered that our donated cot is missing some vital pieces so she's still in with us at the moment, and she's been a bit poorly after her jabs last week.

And please send us good thoughts on Thursday which is the day of Alice's lip repair. I'm going to miss her wide grin :(

― Archel, Saturday, 31 March 2007 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

Good thoughts coming your way! I'm sure she'll still be pretty cute.

― Beth Parker, Saturday, 31 March 2007 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

I love you guys but I have been too crazy busy to post here much. In the last few weeks, Emma has made her stage debut in "The Music Man" (rocked it), Sammy is still tap dancing but has also had his Little League baseball tryout and been assigned to a team (oh god oh god oh god please don't let him be on a team with a meathead jerk coach and mean little bastards on the team, or else let him be good so they like him), my wife has had an emergency appendectomy, and I've started a new fancier job (at the same company) so that I can conceivably make more money to pay for it all.

Good luck to all, many good thoughts to Alice/Matt/Archel for the surgery, and love to all. Okay back to lurking until we hear about the adoption thing.

― Dimension 5ive, Saturday, 31 March 2007 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

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