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I'm totally jealous of you, Teeny, why don't you adopt me and Ophelia? We'll be good, I swear!

Maria, long time no... uh read? It's great to ~~hear~~ read everything's going great (apart from the croup - boo!).

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:12 (twenty years ago)

haha omg that story is awesome, teeny! Lukas is always helping me flirt with hot moms when we go grocery shopping.

In fact, grocery shopping with the boy, apart from the obligatory hot moms, is always a treat these days. He's nothing like me & my sister's were at his age ("mom, we NEED this, it has a free toy inside! [30 seconds later] no actually we need THIS!"), he's patient, he asks politely if he sees something he wants me to buy, he's always eager to push the cart (at like 4'8" or however friggin tall he is now, it's no problem), and lately he's been totally obsessed with expiration dates, which for some reason I find hilarious, especially when we get into the canned foods. Just the awed expressions on his face..."woah, dad, this doesn't expire until 2012!!!!!".

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Also, that was funny of him to say "even the Justice League" when Batman is IN the Justice League!

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:55 (twenty years ago)

OMG I've never posted no pics of the boy on this thread. This one is kinda older (as the date stamp confirms), and it's totally on my myspace, but I love it, and most of y'all haven't seen it:

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/nickstravaganza/LukasEasterBunny.jpg

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Why he was wearing a jacket in Texas, I have no idea.

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 15:14 (twenty years ago)

Very cool. Is he about to punch the rabbit?

(I know I've been an avid reader of this thread anyway but now I'm up the duff myself there'll REALLY be no getting rid of me...)

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 15:20 (twenty years ago)

Oh, here's one from his recent 7th birthday party. He was so excited to open these presents that he didn't bother wiping the pizza sauce off his face:

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/nickstravaganza/100_0936.jpg

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 15:47 (twenty years ago)

What a cute boy! :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Nickalicious, m'friend, you remain the coolest single dad I know. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 19:03 (twenty years ago)

Hey Maria if you wouldn't mind sharing I would really really be interested in your experience breastfeeding with your second. I'm remembering that right, you didn't with your first? My sister in law is about to have her third and is interested in trying to breastfeed for the first time..her second had problems with colic and formula tolerance etc. I fucking love breastfeeding but I know it can be a different set of challenges from formula, and I would love to hear from someone who's been there.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 19:43 (twenty years ago)

oh hey here's a picture too:

http://static.flickr.com/53/172183343_c5424b044e.jpg

adventures in solids!

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 19:57 (twenty years ago)

OK, anyone had an "inappropriate" kisser? Our 2 year old spends some time at day care. A few days ago, as I was picking him up, I advised him that we were leaving, and instructed him to say goodbye to his friends. So, to his best friend Trey: "BYE TREY"! *grabs both sides of Trey's face and-- SMACKEROO! on the lips* I laughed pretty hard, but there were looks of consternation from the employees. I didn't say anything to kiddo, and we left. Couple days later, a similar performance (the grab, a cheek kiss). The next morning before dropping him off, kiddo and I had a little discussion about kissing, and who it is appropriate to kiss. He then started walking around all of the rooms announcing loudly "DON'T KISS TREY! OK! NO, DON'T KISS TREY! OK?" and I'm cracking up again.

Well, we had a relapse, and today Trey got another kiss--on the BACK of his head. So, what do you with a kid who kisses his friends?

The technique, an unprompted demonstration on his little sister:

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/5080/kisser3qg.jpg

― Hunter (Hunter), Thursday, 22 June 2006 04:09 (twenty years ago)

Uh, yeah. When my parents went to look for an appartment when I was about two. The landlady had taken her son with her. Apparently they left us two alone somewhere in a room (or vice versa, we walked off). After a while they found us snogging. Yes, that includes tongue on tongue action. hahahahaha My mother was so embarassed.

Teeny, what a good boy! Our Pheke just spits most out. hahah :-)

I can't count how many times she rolled over completely yesterday.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 22 June 2006 04:54 (twenty years ago)

ARCHEL IS UP THE DUFF!!!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 22 June 2006 10:49 (twenty years ago)

As I do not have a web space with images of little sara, and as I want to do a little proud-mummy-show-off, here she is in a picture that has been taken for a campaign http://www.diesis.it/ufficistampa/img/1231-55.jpg. Please note that:
1)I don't usually do this kind of things, but the photographer was a friend and he needed a baby of Sara's age for the campaign, so I thought why not, as I knew I could trust him
2)I am not obvioulsy the lady who is holding my baby. Considering my pregnant belly at the moment I wouldn't have fit in the seat anyway, but I probably I wouldn't fit the "model requirements" even when i'm no-pregnant size ;)
3) I've never posted an image, so it may simply not show, in that case, sorry

― misshajim (strand), Friday, 23 June 2006 09:47 (twenty years ago)

oh please, it's too big! somebody do something about it! sorry everybody

― misshajim (strand), Friday, 23 June 2006 09:48 (twenty years ago)

Wow. It's massive, but it does show! And Sara is totally cute :)

xpost

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 23 June 2006 09:50 (twenty years ago)

Sara is beautiful! I hope you got loads of cash for that. I would like Ava to appear in a campaign for Pot Noodle or Hob-Nobs.

Perhaps someone with PhotoShop skills can turn my pic of Ava upthread into an ad for Grado headphones?

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 23 June 2006 10:08 (twenty years ago)

Haha, "I nostri treni sono i piu sicuri in Europa" ... perche' sono i piu lenti in Europa? All the trains I've ever caught in Italy have been total trundlers. Maybe I'm just taking the wrong ones.

Gorgeous picture of Sara, though.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 23 June 2006 10:32 (twenty years ago)

Yes I had some perplexities about the contents of the campaign myself, but then I thought it would be even better to get money from them. if they ever pay us...

― misshajim (strand), Friday, 23 June 2006 11:00 (twenty years ago)

What a beautiful photo.

Today Rufus said as we were riding in the car through the denuded forest (caterpillars have defoliated), "I want to get a gun that shoots real bullets and kill everything that's bad and that would make me really, really, really GOOD!"

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Saturday, 24 June 2006 01:17 (twenty years ago)

That's exactly how it works!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 24 June 2006 01:48 (twenty years ago)

xpost Ah man, I love it when kids get philosophical and outwit us with it. :-)

misshajim, you have such a beautiful, cute, pretty daughter. But you didn't need me to tell you that, I'm sure. :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 24 June 2006 06:27 (twenty years ago)

Rufus just asked if he can paint his toenails pink.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Saturday, 24 June 2006 11:43 (twenty years ago)

So will you? :-) I'd say YES!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 24 June 2006 12:54 (twenty years ago)

15 months:

http://static.flickr.com/77/172642874_64d8e416fe.jpg

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 26 June 2006 07:21 (twenty years ago)

Bill, aged 2. On his bike. Looking surly. With a girl.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/birdnestsoup/Billbike.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 26 June 2006 07:56 (twenty years ago)

Aw! Very Easy Rider!

And Edith bookworm is the cutest thing... (even if she isn't actually reading it quite yet. Or is she?)

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 26 June 2006 08:21 (twenty years ago)

We went out on Saturday and bought a girlfriend for Ava's guinea pig.

http://static.flickr.com/65/175302181_8ff897ca3d.jpg

She named her Shelly, after we flat-out rejected her first suggestion. ("Fluffy")

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 26 June 2006 08:35 (twenty years ago)

Rufus a couple of months ago at the library "meet George" event.
ihttp://myspace-476.vo.llnwd.net/00784/67/46/784546476_l.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 26 June 2006 08:50 (twenty years ago)

http://myspace-476.vo.llnwd.net/00784/67/46/784546476_l.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 26 June 2006 08:50 (twenty years ago)

Did Rufus suffer any cognitive dissonance due to there being MORE THAN ONE GEORGE? (I like his small one better.)

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 26 June 2006 09:03 (twenty years ago)

Every time that our Billy meets someone iconic (eg. Father Christmas, Thomas the Tank Engine, a random man driving a digger, a different random man dressed as a wizard) he gets really shy and runs away. Rufus is a brave dude indeed. What does that say on his shirt Scott?

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 26 June 2006 09:06 (twenty years ago)

AB/CD in an AC/DC stylee maybe?

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 26 June 2006 09:19 (twenty years ago)

No, Edith isn't reading yet, but she seems to like the mechanism of turning the pages.

I didn't know we had two Avas. What are the odds, etc.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 26 June 2006 09:28 (twenty years ago)

AB/CD in an AC/DC stylee maybe?

For those about to learn the alphabet, we salute you.

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 26 June 2006 09:33 (twenty years ago)

Yup, one of those baby rockstar t-shirts. Rufus asked Big George if he drove a car and he nodded yes, so then Rufus didn't want to leave afterwards because he was keeping his eye on the parking lot from an upstairs window to see which car George would get into. When the librarian told him George left already in a hot air balloon, he didn't believe it.

It was a little freaky to him to see Big George.

Ava is quite a popular name here. There are a couple of Avas at Rufus's daycare.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Monday, 26 June 2006 10:35 (twenty years ago)

Oh man! I was going to order those t-shirts! I fell in love with those AB/CD t-shirts but now I can't find it online anymore.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 26 June 2006 10:50 (twenty years ago)

After we'd been out all day at a party:

David: Thanks for being my best friend today Mark.
Mark: I'm always your best friend.
Me (to self): Aawww
David: Well sometimes you annoy me but you didn't today.
Mark: Well sometimes you annoy me!
David: Well I'm going to annoy you tomorrow.
Mark: DAD! DAVID'S ANNOYING ME!

2 seconds of harmony from 4 years :)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 26 June 2006 11:52 (twenty years ago)

New Ava things:

(1) Wandering around with the TV remote, holding it like a phone (except with her hand folded in and the "receiver" behind her ear on her shoulder) and babbling away in the rhythms of phone speech..."Yeth? (pause) Ba-chya-ya ba do? (pause) Hi ya cha. (emphatic nodding) Bye." Now I know what Pam does all day.

(2) Licking her lips and generally scooping up food drippage with her tongue instead of the usual face full of gunk after spoonfeeding. This is a major step forward, I think.

(3) Climbing on Dad and bouncing up and down trying to break my ribs.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 26 June 2006 12:07 (twenty years ago)

Now I know what Pam does all day.

ROFL! I hear this a lot from friends who have toddlers. They mimic the way the parents speak. It's a real eye-opener as you are confronted with how you address your partner. I think I'm not looking forward to that confrontation. ;-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 26 June 2006 12:12 (twenty years ago)

The results of Sterling's first attempt to feed himself yogurt with a spoon:

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 26 June 2006 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Eh eh eh, cute. Yesterday I gave Sara - or better, Sara forced out of my hands - my icecream...after 5 minutes the result on her face was very close to Sterling's.

― misshajim (strand), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 09:53 (twenty years ago)

I hope Pam's glasses don't fall off when she does her EMPHATIC NODDING.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 09:59 (twenty years ago)

Yesterday I had my first walk with Sara and no stroller. I was very proud of her, particularly because we managed to hold our hands for (almost) the whole time, which was an educational issue of great importance with me. I know it's a small thing, but it feels important, if you know what I mean

― misshajim (strand), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 12:51 (twenty years ago)

Our son, finally born!

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 1 July 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Oh man, Kyle! I am JEALOUS (tho not of sleep deprivation). :-)) Congratulations! Yay for babies!

We've been trying solids. It's going pretty well. I mean, of course she doesn't eat more than a few spoonfuls but it's going pretty well. She doesn't seem to like spinach though. And the WTF looks are so darn cute!

Today we received a walker! HURRAH. I know that in the US they're more keen to use the exersaucer but I don't think we have those here. WhatEVAH I'm happy to have the walker.

Sterling is so cute, Douglas!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 1 July 2006 19:00 (twenty years ago)

I've become a dad! 2 days ago after a long painful labour.
We've called her Emily and she's beautiful, this is her at 2 hours old
http://static.flickr.com/47/179251524_6e49ce2b12_o.jpg

― Bidfurd (Bidfurd), Saturday, 1 July 2006 19:22 (twenty years ago)

!!!***!!! :)

― youn (youn), Saturday, 1 July 2006 19:23 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, that's a bit big.

― Bidfurd (Bidfurd), Saturday, 1 July 2006 19:24 (twenty years ago)

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