ILX Parenting 3: Back In (Potty) Training

That's lovely, Nath!
This thread cheers me up on a miserable wet day following a miserable weekend.

awwww, nath!

oh wow. from a blog i accidentally found:

"Book your tickets now, because the annual baby jumping festival in Castrillo de Murcia, Spain is only eight weeks away. In this bizarre festival, grown men, dressed as El Colacho (the devil) jump over tiny babies to ward off bad luck and to cleanse the babies of the evil that infests them when they are born"

http://broncosrule.files.wordpress.com/2006/04/baby%20jumping.jpg

A question for PP/SS occurred to me: is Beeps picking up any Australian accent as she starts to talk or is it all Arkansan?

its all martian right now - bebopbeedleeeeeglorp!

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412KymSlqUL._AA280_.jpg

also, she recently found out she can scream really really loud at a really really high pitch.

Hee hee. That stuff is hilarious when you are out for dinner.

Pix!

Reading a bedtime story on Fathers Day:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3090/2582885198_89e7e70080.jpg

Ben hates it when Owen steals Thomas:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3122/2582054997_4f1eb1a4ce.jpg

Ben getting the hang of brushing his teeth:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/2578127855_581a525b90.jpg

Hee hee. That stuff is hilarious when you are out for dinner.

There really isn't any difference between taking a toddler out to eat and having a drunk friend at the table.

1.) They're both prone to loud exclamations.
2.) Both are extraordinarily curious about what's going on under the tablecloth.
3.) Both get into conversations with diners at other tables.
4.) Both usually pass out in the car ride home.

its not so much the conversations with other diners as it is them turning around in their seat and glaring at one particular diner like 'oh, you got something to say?"

and then shouting something unintelligible at them

And then throwing up down themselves.

yeah or throwing their drink on the floor

hey schwantz i just saw those pics - the one of you and the boys is so awwww some

Thanks. Anyone got a hair cutting tips? We've been butchering them.

not me. i came half an inch from stabbing beeps in the eye when i cut her bangs. gave me the hebegeebees.

photo time!

beeps and the big dog:
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/2237/junevandbyb8.jpg

in GTA IV training
http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/63/junegtaivcp0.jpg

hanging in the kitchen
http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/5605/junesye3.jpg

It's been a while, so here's three...

Tallulah points at some balloons (or was it baboons?) at the Marylebone Village Summer Fayre. I never want her to have her hair cut, I just want her to have this blonde mop forever.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3102/2588728228_8ebaec33fa.jpg

Ava pinching my smoothie at Eat and Two Veg:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3115/2588703538_f2afdc37e7.jpg

And sisterly love in the park:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3104/2588724896_17fe5cc1a6.jpg

Some recent ones:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3287/2596873861_fcb67d0064.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3034/2596879845_221e271b31.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3182/2597718110_053503a835.jpg

http://www.axcessmypics.com/photos/photo01/b9/f5/8f69d28a5a24.jpg

Solarized Cheeks (+ Dog Leg)

Big dog and little girl! It loks like the huge dog is just trying to let her know in a psychialldoggie way that he will defend her and protect her forever.
And she can squeeze his nose, if neccesary.

or maybe it's "Wait until you throw the ball."
Amazing!

(I have friends with an 18 month girl living with Suzzie, the husky mix good dog who is 10!
They have a wood stove. Suzzie KEEPS the babe from the woodstove.

It seems scary to some people, but - dog and child LOVE each other, and I think the whole family is safe because Suzzie is there.)

one day i hope to sleep straight through. for now it's been hellish.

Poor Nath :(

Hey, guys, can we start a new thread? My wireless connection crashes every time I load this one.

I'm happy for there to be a new one - it's been nearly 8 months. I can't do anything with "Citizens on Patrol" though...

ILX Parenting 4: We make our own people

Itty-bittyzens on Patrol?

hahaha best part about schwantzs fathers day reading pic is he's the only one of the 3 who looks confused

sunny what is the story behind 'beeps' (the name/nickname)? because it is awesome

ummm..lets see. we had decided on the name Beatrice when I was still preggers. we started referring to her as Beats and then that changed into Beeps for awhile which just kind of stuck on ilx i think because i started a thread about "beeps" at the time. She is really "Beats" at home though.

Before we leap into the inknown that is ILX P4, any news on rumpie?

Her babe must be out by now.

Fingers crossed!

sunny if i start a beeps vs beats poll thread & beeps wins out will you guys change yr mind on that one?

I want her to be a drummer, not a keyboard player.

YOU ARE LIVING IN THE PAST MAN, at least give her a chance!

DO IT

i will - ILE or 77? thats yr only choice other than the vote - after that it is out of yr guys' hands

btw split vote = i choose

wow i dont know. more bros on 77 but more peeps on ile. you decide

I don't know, deez. Singing "Beats Street, Queen of the beat, you see her rocking that beat from across the street" to her at night ain't gonna sound the same if her name is "Beeps".

not to mention "we got the beat"

well you two might just have to get 'creative' & substitute 'beep' for 'beat'

deal with it motherfuckers

we are polling on 77 in t-5 min i submit that all ILXP's be invited if they have not been already

no mentions of 77 on this thread pls. Some of us aren't that cool.

(Or invite me)

whats yr ilx email SCHWAAAAAAAAAAAAN? ill feel very powerful if i successfully invite another user

Hi everybody, see you in December!

preggers!!!

Can I repeat: HELLISH. Last couple of days it was 4 or 5 am. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then an accident as well, she fell off the diaper table. But (I hope) nothing's wrong. Thank god. So has anyone gritted their teeth and let their baby cry? I still can't. Silly me. :-( I'm going completely k-razeee tho.

i could let beeps cry to some degree at infant stage but i cant now. i guess because she can communicate better now so crying more often than not does mean something is wrong. poor nath. do you have someone who can give you a day, or at least a night, off where you can hide in your bedroom with earplugs in?

3 months away.....and its a boy! just one, we thought two....but just one. We have decided to name him Cole.

Thank your lucky stars ;)