ILP rolling photo quarantine

and away we go

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3418/3193987520_7e4e10a984.jpg

Adorable.

Keeping it real (reel?) with a couple of shots on film...

Ava at 4 months:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3415/3192844128_d107577150.jpg

Ava at 3 years, 8 months:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3219/3147902946_65f9c3c9a3.jpg

Tallulah in digital:

At 4 months:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/125/409271301_d086f01e35.jpg

At 2 years, 1 month:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3101/3139850970_e00a39423f.jpg

oh come on now you cant tell me those two dont look like twins these days!! twins in cuteness! ava's baby eyes are astounding, btw.

tracer yr baby is beautiful!

Wait a minute, Tracer...are you using speakers as the legs of a table back there in that pic? What kind of environment are you bringing this poor child up in?

Speaker as the legs for a turntable. Keeping it real!

Michael I didn't even really notice how nice that photo was until you "favorited" it, which thrilled me given how nice your own photos always come out.

OK, this is going to be my fav thread. I can feel it already.

Mike, I'd forgotten how little the girls were!

This is Aidan at just under three months

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1342/1477785997_0675b16da3.jpg

And this was before Christmas at 16 months

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3249/3119132828_8e8b22b66b.jpg

They just keep getting bigger, don't they? We don't even water ours.

Howie at 4 months (note terrible eczema)

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_Q2cuqOo8v8M/RngEESZX0AI/AAAAAAAAEdI/LsXTlcsEw30/s400/CIMG0740.JPG

Driving a tractor at 22 months

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_Q2cuqOo8v8M/SVlNdd8mMsI/AAAAAAAAJ84/czcePg1JSpk/s400/CIMG0846.JPG

Ophelia:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/12/90981886_96546c9b92.jpg

Just born.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3157/3086955564_59e30bd4af.jpg

The other week.

Elisabeth:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2018/1917941146_762c2e5967.jpg

Newborn baby sleeping the days away.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3213/3153416798_8dd915d8bb.jpg

Drinking? ME? From a cup? You must be MAD.

Megan showing off her sketch

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3314/3204660221_4e8921732d.jpg

omg so grown up!!

great wallpaper btw

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y298/hukl/wavethemlikeyoujustdontcare-1.jpg

cuet!! my girl pointed at this pic and said "scheep! scheep!" (sleep)

why does this thread show up as blue on site new answers?

This is my favourite pic of H sleeping, about 4 weeks old...

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Q2cuqOo8v8M/RhfPHiBV7uI/AAAAAAAAEUY/p3b_aylZVJ0/s400/CIMG0689.JPG

beeps has had just about enough

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3089/3207343677_907f079fdd_o.jpg

earlier today, after our walk
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y298/hukl/pleased.jpg

They're all so cute.

damn... babies.

We went on a little "hike" this morning. Here are a few...

Owen:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3097/3207941911_afe94be85d.jpg

Jumping Ben
:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3312/3208790134_aa8fa026cc.jpg

Ben loving holding his mommy's hand:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3082/3208794116_8be4b5aac0.jpg

Beeeeeeps! I love that look. :-)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3330/3203683137_b5c2a10044.jpg

Yesterday.

awww, etc.

super trippy borderline terrifying a+

nath that photo is gold!

schwantz, is it true identical twins happen randomly and non-identical only happen for people with the twin making gene?

or more commonly these days those who fuck w/science

Identical twins are random, or so they say. The mechanism (random splitting of zygote) is much different than for fraternal twins (two eggs released at once). I think that there is a "release-more-than-one-egg-at-a-time" gene. My wife is in SFPOM (parents of multiples), and almost everyone other than us has fraternal twins as the result of some kind of fertility treatment or in-vitro procedure.

One more from our hike, cuz I love it. Owen:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3268/3207941007_26d99c5e6d_b.jpg

Great shot.

how will he survive in the woods on his own????

"its time 4 u 2 be a man now"

"Owen on his vision quest."

How do you get them to hike with you? Trying to walk anywhere with Howie is impossible -- he just goes round and round in circles, or gets fixated on a pile of stones and won't leave, or wants to dig for worms, or gets startled (particularly by dogs) and demands to be carried. He is fine as long as you don't have a destination, but trying to get from A to B? Forget it...

That's what Owen was doing in that picture. I dunno, I guess we just take our time, carry them a bit, etc. That hike goes from point A to point wherever, and then back to point A, so if we sense them getting worn out, we just turn around...

breakfast:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3078/3231521673_308ea1d3bf_o.jpg

later, banana coma:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3483/3231521621_ce35597d4b_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3524/3217236039_b22b2415cf.jpg

I love that protective look that older sibs have for their younger sibs...

I love this look too:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3305/3233250548_049979e8b6.jpg

CUPCAKE

Here's Ava & Lulu braving the icy winds while Sunday league football draws to a conclusion in a Merseyside park...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3452/3220633937_fd00c55ac8.jpg

beeps obamatized

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3468/3239617806_fe2322260b_o.jpg

At the very serious business of organising crayons

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_Q2cuqOo8v8M/SXtikjDAIsI/AAAAAAAAKOs/BG5ldCsP1uc/s400/wot.jpg

Wow sunny :)

And nice Clarks shoebox Meg, they do come in handy don't they!

Alice just born:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/126/322500370_e4d5d1e1d4.jpg?v=0

First birthday:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2248/2120653064_cde205c1a6.jpg?v=0

Second birthday:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/slightlyfoxed/DSC00407.jpg

I can't believe she's two already! I remember you posting the pictures when she was first born.

wow @ Alice getting big and growing hair!

Here's a rubbish phone shot of Megan actually facing a camera for once
http://i40.tinypic.com/2d7tyx4.jpg

Just thought I'd bring a downer on the thread by showing you the kind of horrors awaiting you in 10 or 12 years times.*

http://www.aozj96.dsl.pipex.com/andylondon.jpg

*Only joking btw, even if he's now lost the puppy fat.

Just for comparison, here's one taken ~2000.

http://www.aozj96.dsl.pipex.com/andy.jpg

and he was such a nice boy

Id say these kids need to quit growing up but they just get better looking.

Here is Beeps holding Foofa while watching Foofa.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3337/3248806807_234ce071f1_o.jpg

Also, hiding in bushes:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3425/3248811813_edc3f2a789_o.jpg

the reveal:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3356/3248822079_324c093c32_o.jpg

Hey SS do you let her play with the Wii yet? My husband is planning to "expose" Ophelia soon. :-)

that's an xbox360 (white box) and a ps3 up there. we're planning to get rid of the xbox. the only video game she's really shown interest in is katamari and last time i tried (which was a long time ago, i guess) she couldn't quite get the analog sticks on the ps controller moving together all the time. plus im sure she was just all 'woah! ball!'. but, yeah, i'm happy for her to play games as soon as she can/wants to. i bet wii would be fun with a toddler/preschooler!

I helped her get to hitman level by firing a rocket launcher into a gang of ballas, so she's got that under her belt.

true

Air Piano Time!
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y298/hukl/2009_0128sixttoeightweeks0036.jpg

i feel super weird lurking this thread so i just wanna let everyone know that all of your kids are adorable. i work at a day care type place when i'm not at school and this is making me miss my kids there so much :(

Ah shit, an Xbox. Shows how little I know about these darn things. I'm such a mom. ;-)

Out in the snow...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3395/3252116695_8e41c56aa9.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3530/3252116731_4be4d3e9ab.jpg

yay!

Not really sure about all this snow stuff...

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Q2cuqOo8v8M/SYgeCsWQ2PI/AAAAAAAAKS4/3H68DwCbCJw/s400/CIMG0867.JPG

My son was totally gung ho with his sledging throwing himself down crazy slopes headfirst. I think we may have found his sport! Now all we need to do is move somewhere this happens all the time.

Right up to the top of their wellies...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3261/3249130988_4c03c04774.jpg

OMG kids in snow XD

so great!

Hi, my name is Alice G-P and I'm new around here. I enjoy white noise, sucking on my fingers, and all things breast- and mommy-related.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/235/3263531119_a4fe9e720c.jpg

congratulation g00blar & welcome to Alice!

Awwwwww congrats!!!

congrats ^_^

Beautiful.

Awwwwwwwww. Congratulations! She's so cute.

Thanks, guys! I'm in heaven, I think.

Hold that with you because soon you'll be in Iowa.

hey congrats g00blar

just don't read the "flashes of pure anger" thread and you'll be alright

wowowowowowow

haha EdIII, too late!

Aw congrats and welcome to The Other Alice!

She is beautiful, congratulations! Hope mum is recovering well!

Mum is indeed recovering well; labour took something like twenty hours but we (well, she) made it through and is now on her way back to herself. What would help, at this point, is her proper breast milk to come in so she doesn't have to nurse every hour.

Adorable, G00blar! Great outfit too.

Congrats! And a cute outfit too!

d'oh.

Sorry Mrs GOOblar, hope the milk comes in soon, but get used to baby being latched on for the majority of the time for the first couple of weeks! It is worth it though, promise!

Congrats to you Gooblar!

I enjoy white noise, sucking on my fingers, and all things breast- and mommy-related.

She'll need to get over to ILM then...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3434/3271750210_7972ed5189.jpg

Extreme trampolining!

She said she wanted to make bouncy snow.

They said it couldn't be done.

thinking baout things

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1152/3270401114_c08cd4428f.jpg

way to go Gooblar. She is insanely cute!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3455/3222064257_902b335529.jpg?v=0

WAHEY!

aww babby <3

Gooblar, tell mummy we're crossing our nipples (hahah uh...) that the boob milk will come in gallons soon. BFing can be hard. Good luck! Also, DAMN, you made one cute baby! Alice looks peaceful. :-)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3447/3303473225_70650dd74c_b.jpg

Oh FEK didn't mean for it to be that big. :-( Also fuzzy iphone pic. hah

Is that a seat thing Elisabeth is sitting in? And what age were you able to stick them in the bath together? Current no.1 on my panic list of 'how the f am I going to cope with two children' is the logistics of bathtime...

how close are you now, meg?

Eight weeks (or ten, if he's as late as Howie was). Close enough to be terrifyingly real yet long enough for me to despair at having another two months of reflux, sore feet, breathlessness, constant blocked sinuses and all the other joys of late pregnancy...

ok, TMI but whatevs (waves at elisabeth): she loves to rub her vagina while sitting in this little seat. and no it isn't allergy, unless she loooooooooooooooooooooves being itchy if you know what i mean. but anyway, i bought this for ophelia who freaked the fuck out (same goes with anything which is/was confined). so i neglected it and always went in her in the bath until my belly was too big. with elisabeth i put her in and she loved it. at what age? not sure really, as soon as she was able to sit indie style (more or less). don't worry about two kids in a bath. in the beginning we would always be with two (husband and i) but now i could handle it alone pretty easily. but we usually do this together as it is LOADS of fun! more fun than one kid plonking in the bath!

xpost What a great pic, Nath! And yes, K's milk came in, maybe about day five? Latching was surprisingly easy--now our 'problem' is that we're always just a little worried that she's feeding too often (that we use the breast to soothe her too much, that maybe she's become a 'snacker' who doesn't suck enough to satisfy herself for very long, etc.).

But really I think that's pretty much an evening thing, when K's milk is lower...it happens every evening, but we've actually been having pretty good nights lately (fingers crossed): 2 or 3 hours of sleep in between feeds.

gooblar, don't worry (hahahah as if you're not going to) just go with the (milk) flow. i have heard of only one case where the mommy created a big fat michelin baby cause she BF like every other five minutes. heehee.

also, i think my first real experience of the joy of having two kids was when i put them in bath together and they really played together. SO SO SO much fun. nearly shed a tear. (yeah i'm a crybaby stfu)

X-post: Ah yes, the evening cluster feeds. Very common but it does pass -- for now, think of it as the baby getting her order in for the next day.

yeah i think tanking up is good in the eve, helps them sleep better

(as if i freaking know, but.. hey)

Meg, I'm totally excited for you!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3547/3312236304_9ab73397d5_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3537/3312236328_ce195acabf_o.jpg

omg leaf picture needs to be submitted to some cutest kids photo competition in life magazine or something

Beeps is so adorable.

Here are a couple from this morning...

Ben with ball:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3302/3316544865_349d8d63da.jpg

Owen with cylinder:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3397/3317368996_bbfd6152d9.jpg

First Beeps pic is wonderful! She has hair a bit like Tallulah's; is it insanely fluffy and flyaway the morning after she's had it washed and you comb (hairpick, natch) it out? Cos I love that.

Arrival of a new camera in our household doesn't mean the kids are being any more cooperative for the lens, but I'll what I can dredge up from the first few hundred exposures tonight...

Owen looks so much older! Can't tell with Ben in that photo but I imagine the same goes for him.

PS: don't mind me lurking creepily here

michael, im not sure if beeps hair does that because she gets a bath before bed and i have to blowdry it so she wont be sleeping on a wet head of hair. i expect ill find out in summer after kiddy pool afternoons though.

Sharing grapes on a bench in Battersea Park a few weeks ago (shot on APS film):
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3439/3310388202_10daef6976.jpg

Entranced by Schoolhouse Rock (shot with the new camera this weekend; that's her buddy Campbell in the background):
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3646/3321018574_b3cfd7132f.jpg

If in doubt, go to Westow Park swings:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3635/3321001026_4946fd0beb.jpg

your kids are always dress so beautifully, Michael.

Beeps hits the big 02 today. here are a couple of shots from her mini b'day party

Cake:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3580/3320838587_2050723a07_o.jpg

A weird light spinning wand thingy:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3574/3321670210_a91ab68da0_o.jpg

Tinkerbell boxes are exciting, apparently:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3552/3320839581_04e8d6a5b0_o.jpg

your kids are always dress so beautifully, Michael.

Except when I get them ready. Ava is wearing my hat in the first one, mind!

Happy b'day Beeps!

Happy birthday Beeps! Looks like she had a good mini-party!

Happy Birthday BEEPS!

Waiting for food - a series.
No.1 the pub
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3650/3301523324_44ff863339.jpg
No.2 the Indian restaurant
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3580/3325590890_6afa1ed3b5.jpg

I just wanted to say Best Thread Ever (and Happy Birthday Season to beeps!).

v. important princess placement decisions being made:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3351/3331158500_859ecf77bd_o.jpg

she told us this is a mouse:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3547/3331158528_ff2a9b4082_o.jpg

the closest we get to making snow angels in arkansas

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3579/3331158460_41999d3575_o.jpg

she told us this is a mouse:

You don't see it?

haha

Aw, I love Beeps and her mouse drawing too.

all beeps pictures make me so <3!

I love her belly sticking out in the one with the wand thing upthread. So cute!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3550/3331905040_7ab834b178.jpg

looks like s/he's been ~~~READING~~~

awwwww

it's a he, although he doesn't know it yet

it's always a surprise

Baking:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2174546&l=ee943&id=616388932

Snowing:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2174555&l=56ce4&id=616388932

Ok do those links work for anyone?

If I copy the urls I can view them in another tab.

See if this works...
Baking:
http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs011.snc1/2629_66413693932_616388932_2174546_5938444_n.jpg

Snowing:
http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs011.snc1/2629_66413883932_616388932_2174555_2806702_n.jpg

She doesn't appear to have been stealing any of that chocolatey mixture - my daughter's face would have been covered in chocolate long before any picture could have been taken.

Haha. Seconds later...
http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs011.snc1/2629_66413863932_616388932_2174551_2983357_n.jpg

That's more like it :)

OMG Alice in the snow <3 <3

ok this one's too good

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3286/3292884067_073752a524.jpg?v=0

Man, Tracer. Being a new parent can really age you, can't it?

What happens when you give a 1-year-old a Mr Potato Head set:

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/l_a35db6998bc446a6b40903a809c3d4b1.jpg

awwwwwwww

Sorry it's the Giant Baby that Ate Montague, Michigan.

Oh, wonderful pics! Alice in the snow, indeed.

Got the gals to walk the two miles from Marble Arch to Covent Garden last weekend; it took over 2.5 hours cos there are a lot of railings en route:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3308/3338955823_27c90a5fbe.jpg

Ava objects to the jazz in Ray's Jazz Cafe:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3334/3342113045_4d448faa8d.jpg

They get to stuff their faces with pure sugar thanks to freebies from the waiting staff in Patisserie Valerie:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3342/3339773954_fba51c3464.jpg

(they have swapped hats and it confuses me)

We took the boys for haircuts, and then their first ice cream cones.

Ben:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3559/3344871552_a78b82c345.jpg
I told him "you can eat the cone, it's like a cookie." He took a bite and said "like a waffle."

Owen:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3548/3344036963_719d9587b6.jpg
He ate a little, and then shouted "It's a beautiful day!"

OK you're killing me with the cute. Laurel that's your nephew, right? Those eyes!

wow i dropped off the parenting threads a while back and now there's a whole board. and an adorably boggling ilx brood to go with it. reproductive R us.

anyway, these days i'm sort of half a home-dad -- i have them every day from about 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., when the nanny comes and i go to work.

here's the 3 of us, recently
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/Photo2503.jpg

(rex, 10 mos., on left; the indomitable z, 4 1/2, on right)

and here's a few of z's recent photo booth shots (i have literally thousands of these on my hard drive -- he's the one who first discovered all the effects and everything on it that i didn't even know were there)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/Photo2520.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/Photo2554.jpg

and for good measure, rex attacking a george w. bush jack-in-the-box

http://funhouserock.com/funhouse/blab/picture.php?albumid=26&pictureid=461

i just saw g00blar this morning at the u.s. embassy w/his whole family! dude i hope they didn't give you too hard of a time.

I think it's gonna be ok! Not too long after you guys left, we got called up, and the actually nice lady assured me that if I could get my high school transcripts faxed over, I could bring 'em in (without having to bring the baby in again) and get the passport without having to make another appointment.

So I've called my high school, who can't, apparently, send a fax overseas. But my mom's neighbor is going to pick up the transcripts and scan+email them to me. Maybe by the time I get them my stomach will have returned to normal functioning.

(Awesome to run into you guys, and meet Louis, though!)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3007/3335339964_2c41094da5_m.jpg

This is Jules with Ophelia. He's a doll that is used in school. He "teaches" the kids things from washing properly to... going to the doctor. Every weekend or so he gets to join one child and have a sleepover. Sheer hell for the parents cause the whole box with toys, books and CDs have to return the next monday. And "Ophelia"gets to write in the diary and add some pics. :-)

le cute bomb

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3544/3349953892_7d5fb55be0.jpg?v=0

On his 2nd birthday: "Waht, is this one for me too?"

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_Q2cuqOo8v8M/SaW8aCNABFI/AAAAAAAAKg8/KGMe4dmveRw/s400/CIMG0979.JPG

In the playground at Center Parcs:

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_Q2cuqOo8v8M/Sb1oC6_lmYI/AAAAAAAAK0I/isa8tPA6J68/s400/CIMG1055.JPG

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3451/3362543112_d27dd61ff6.jpg

whutchoo lookin at

man i think he could crush louis just by looking at him

Howie's slightly worried little face and....oh I dunno, the way he smiles and his lips close funny...always make me so happy.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y298/hukl/knucklesandwich2.jpg

^^^^^^^^ "WAHT IS IT"

http://www.krowzi.com/kerryjunk/BabyScaredByTunnel.gif

LIFE

Cuteness! Aidan has conjunctivitis at the minute so is not particularly photogenic, but I took these off the camera last night. He is so cute with his cousin! He tries to give her his toys to play with, it's so sweet

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3452/3366385664_8a1cbd2d94.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3457/3366411342_a05658f3a7.jpg

So adorable! His chubby cheeks!

Isn't it scary/amazing when you see them next to an even littler person and you realise that they're not babies any more...

omg vicky that last pic is adorable
makes me want more kids... hahah

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1311/3352714883_0f582d43b6.jpg

Hahahaha Stevie she's so cute.

OMG Vicki Aiden and his cousin are RIDICULOUSLY CUTE. Babies = want.

^^^ o rly

Yeah yeah it's no big secret but the time isn't right now. If it were I'd have one in a heartbeat. I mean, look at how awesome they all are!

gotta say the picture of those two on the chair is major size lolz. every time i see really little kids i just think to myself 'you have got to be kidding me'

how is it possible that i am an adult when getting at some point in my life getting into a chair was a serious and vexing problem

I know, it's pretty wild when you think about it. A couple years ago my Dad hauled out some super 8 footage of me from when I was stumbling around in diapers and it was so nuts watching that little drunken sailor looking person and realizing that was me. Mind was blown. I can't even imagine what that's like when it's your own kids you're watching do the growing.

I think the cousin is actually a baby doll.

It may be the wrong place to say this, but I wouldn't worry about things like "timing" when it comes to makin' babies (if you want 'em.)

If someone had told sunny and me, Yeah you're going to get this kid, but three months later he's going to get six months of chemothereapy and then a year's worth of two mortgages, we might have postponed.

And that would've been regretful, to say the very, very least.

x-post - The cousin is like the perfect looking plump little babe. So sweet.

I know PP. That said, we're both out of work and well yeah - not just yet. I'll keep that in mind though because I've heard similar sentiments from others.

i didn't know about the chemo!! oh no!

I'm all good! Just a little cancer.

Vicky's 2nd photo is really gorgeous. They all are, goshdarnit.

I love it when A+T share stuff:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3547/3363483523_02f06917d4.jpg

Or even a bit of parallel play:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3603/3363472049_563dfbbbfe.jpg

Yay sharing!

I hope that is a cocktail of everything in that pub you're in.

(still lurking, still in awe of the lot of you, still never having one of my own, still think Aidan and Alice look scarily like their dads)

z playing with the photo booth effects again.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/Photo2593.jpg

Yeah yeah it's no big secret but the time isn't right now.

The timing is never perfect. Get off the net and make one already. ;-)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3560/3375444242_1a056f486e_m.jpg

Yuo guys do not realize how happy this made me: she ate veggies and didn't gag nor cried.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/stvingottalent.jpg

School talent show, Friday night. Rest of trio deleted for data protection.

beautiful pics, guys.

here a couple from free day at the zoo:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3467/3382005295_7bd86a2f75.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3546/3382005655_73b5f7f6c8.jpg

haha, pay no attention to that man behind the gorilla.

Playing in the backyard...

Owen and his bubble machine:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3460/3391233142_d87e4fb320.jpg

Ben and a dandelion:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3637/3391228332_03b114a9d5.jpg

happy kids!

so happy!

at the park yesterday

http://funhouserock.com/funhouse/blab/picture.php?albumid=26&pictureid=500

another childless wannabe in this thread just saying AWWWW and all these kids are totally adorable, keep up the good work!

http://daddytypes.com/archive/Arbus%20Baby.jpg

guess the mom
guess the baby
guess the photographer

all three very famous!

never knew he had her as a mom!

coop!

Christ, I really am retarded. Never realized that Gloria was his mom. And Arbus took the picture! WTF.

is Gloria his actual mom or step-mom?

We got Beeps' latest school photo today. Its kind of terrifying how much she has grown in a year.
Note: ghostly figures are my shoddy attempt at hiding identity of classmates and teacher.

2007-2008 school year:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3397/3419387879_d222cc3765_o.jpg

2008-2009 school year:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3552/3420195108_7c4d425460_o.jpg

Nath, I only knew that was coop and who his mom was because i accidentally caught a biography type show on him a few months ago. xxpost

I found one of Anderson Cooper's dad's books at the library bookstore! I should have kept the GV bio.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3345/3416065022_f347a5e6b9.jpg

surprised we managed to get a picture without the hat completely obscuring her face

Give that baby an award for cuteness right now! Beautiful :)

That is quite some growing up that Beeps has done! Loving her shoes. (What with Alice's Wizard of Oz obsession it can only be a matter of time before we have to source some ruby slippers of her own...)

beeps and pup

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3579/3429194600_072b1e93f3_b.jpg

aw. see, i wish we had a dog just for the cute kid-dog pix. not enough to actually want the hassle of having a dog, but i do miss the photo ops.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y298/hukl/withdad2.jpg

Bathtime and bedtime...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3597/3433195984_147826c256.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3298/3433191066_5b5d064cd3.jpg

That is some Grade-A goofin' aound!

Oh God, they're so cute.

makes me kinda want another

that bath time photo is A++++

this is not a great photo but heres Beeps standing on skates during her second lesson:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3579/3438108893_f4514e4990_o.jpg

also love the dr. superman pic. so pretty.

going to keymer on the 2:11 from london bridge

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3654/3438389025_02604245e6.jpg?v=0

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/Apr09_Ireland185.jpg

Here's two we made earlier.

(Guys I don't say this often enough cos of angsty don't-copy-me awkwardness but nice offspring there people)

aww--when's that picture from?

Sunday I think.

ah never mind, I misunderstood--I thought it was from years earlier

Gotcha.

Mrs V's new camera is pretty sweet I think.

She's taking skating lessons? That's beyond awesome! Did she you guys just enroll her or did she ask for'em? I loved that clip you posted on your flickr page.

is Gloria his actual mom or step-mom?

Pretty sure it's his biological mom. Awesome no? I mean, how the ef do you beat that?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3555/3429385542_e7a0e4b29f.jpg

She's such a shouty face. :-)

Sorry for crazy sentence construction, I am battling headache with nausea.

I cannot believe beeps is learning to ice skate, that is so cool! Alice has two left feet even when walking, let alone let loose on skates...

Here she is in the woods today (off gallivanting with daddy while I'm at work hummph):
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3366/3444210111_9cf646e633.jpg?v=0

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3615/3445310520_127e92c898_o.jpg

Yes, I do take my children to see collections of phone kiosks if you must know...

Beeps is lucky to have an aunt who is a figure skater and skating coach so she gets free private lessons. They usually don't let kids under four in the classes but the rink owners don't seem to mind when it comes to a coaches relative. Also nostalgic for me because my father snuck me off to ice skating lessons (ie without my moms knowledge) when I was two.

All these beautiful, wild kids.

Things is Beeps looks so damn confident there - "I'm gonna be skating over to that corner and then probably over to that corner" - and her little skates - so cute - I see little versions of Converses or Dr Martin's and I immediately want to have another baby just so I can buy 'em.
(note to self: this is not a good reason to have another baby)

haha Ned, you and me both. I still feel kinda sad about not having any more kids. But y'know, I don't wanna be this crazy mom with eight kids. Crazy mom with two is enough. hah

best face ever
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y298/hukl/smiles2-1.jpg

also, re: "Gloria's Kid" I thought we were talking about Batman. Different Gloria. I think... I'm really not sure of anything anymore.

Owen eating pizza:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3540/3430729122_02c5ff4e2a.jpg

Morning family snuggle:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3329/3450973557_08d161f648.jpg

Owen hunts for Easter eggs:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3400/3450977919_58e4e2328f.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3329/3450973557_08d161f648.jpg

• Having fun.
• Having fun.
• Having fun.
• "You all are in my bed."

I can't believe how big your kids are Schwantz!

Straight-up toddlers, I know!

The boys found a skeleton. I had to explain to them that the museums wouldn't be very interested in "Cow N37".

http://i43.tinypic.com/2vbly00.jpg

bones must be a boys dream find. also, schwantz's cat's face!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3656/3468903591_242da010e7.jpg

yay caterpillar

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3659/3469718790_b423e4af8a.jpg

http://s83.photobucket.com/albums/j314/backsliding/?action=view¤t=3473857638_33173c2d46-1.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3375/3486306368_1610a1bdbb.jpg
Veronica Ròisìn reporting for duty.
(Born at home in the pool early hours of Monday morning, 9lbs!)

doh, here she is.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3375/3486306368_1610a1bdbb.jpg

She is just adorable! That picture is making me want another baby right away.

Many congrats, what a beautiful baby!

awww what a pretty little baby face. congrats!

Welcome Veronica, you are beautiful!

She's lovely...and so alert!

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_Q2cuqOo8v8M/SfoBpDwVi7I/AAAAAAAALG8/GiazZBSyhHc/s800/IMG_0824.jpg

Here's Archie!

Wow! Hooray! Congrats!

(to Stevie as well!)

Oh wow, Meg made another gorgeous boy yay!

Hope all the new parents are well and enjoying these first days. Am so broody!

Lovely, lovely, lovely.

I don't really know how they go from that little fragile bundle, more swaddling than actual human, into lunatic kids...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3580/3446094170_a2ee141bd1.jpg

hahah Lulu's face!

Archie is beautiful Meg! He looks so much like Howie!

Lulu is some kind of silent comedy goofball thesedays...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3353/3483782939_639700e1c4.jpg

Or maybe she can do the wistful doomed romantic heroine thing too...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3572/3472599005_b595d3c88b.jpg

haha. beautiful.

Hello gorgeous...

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_Q2cuqOo8v8M/SgRIdcqMpBI/AAAAAAAALNA/icGxmajtCCI/s800/CIMG1149.JPG

awwwwww!!! look at that hair!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3342/3516664979_40a62364ef_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3416/3517476856_9ae057fef1_o.jpg

btw i took the swing photo on my iphone and tbh its 1000x better than anything ive managed to take on my dslr

Here's a shot from Ben and my weekend together in Madison, WI (Owen and my wife had the flu, so couldn't make it):

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3585/3521117676_a645462988.jpg

happy kiddo!

aww! all so cute!

michael jones, i am so jealous that your kids will grow up to have these beautiful photos of themselves as little ones.

i mean, imagine them on 'lolkindergarten: a picture thread' in 20 years. aw!!

Ben wrote (!!) his first word yesterday:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3539/3525121315_ae432bca4e.jpg

Ide is the nickname for his aunt Ilene. He's two-and-a-half.

woah!

O and B could say the alphabet around 18 m couldnt they? or did i dream that?

We hear "A B C D E F G, how I wonder what you are" a lot.

Which, to put some spin on it, I never realized those two songs had the same melody until I was like nine or 10.

i just realized right now.

Yeah, they are alphabet pals... I didn't realize the twinkle-abc connection until playing them on the piano a few weeks ago...

also only realized mary had a little lamb/london bridge connections a couple of months ago too. beeps has no hope.

i just realized that right now.

good thing she goes to school and isnt relying on our brains

Ben is smart! Ava's a good reader, not such a good writer (but she's come on a lot in the last six months - maybe it's a left-handed thing but she'd get tremendously frustrated at not being able to do much more than scribble at 3-3.5; now she's drawing "mummy, daddy and two monkeys having an argument on the moon" and it doesn't look like an off-day at the Pollock studio).

No way is Mary Had a Little Lamb the same as London Bridge!

<PRE>Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, LIT TLE LAMB</PRE>
<PRE>London Bridge is falling down, falling down, FALL LING DOWN</PRE>

FFS

i hope nieces are allowed:

https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/818963/Photos/Achill%20walk%2009/grace.jpg

super-cute!

wow elisabeth is pretty slow. just started walking at 18 mo. but hey einstein didnt talk until he was three so there is hope for liesje. hahah

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/P1020398.jpg

isn't baa baa black sheep the same as twinkle,twinkle/ABC ?

yes!!

however,

http://www.mamalisa.com/images/scores/london_bridge.jpg

vs

http://www.musicnotes.com/images/productimages/mtd/MN0034759.gif

Brotherly love:

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_Q2cuqOo8v8M/Sg1ZTPhU8uI/AAAAAAAALQY/rYqiWhGdBN0/s800/CIMG1157.JPG

Awww, archie's face is a picture, looks a bit one sided to me!

awwwwww

beeps ready for some traveling

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2419/3532139549_e394f40e04_b.jpg

Dancing to daddy's band

hahaha so great

We built a playhouse for the kids! I mean, Ava did. She's the one with the screwdriver, anyway.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2226/3532351522_2233dbb51f.jpg

geez schwantz's kids are writing, ava is building houses. talented kids here!

Howie has been all over that playmat since we got it down from the attic for Archie. Funny thing is, as a baby he absolutely hated it, see evidence:

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_Q2cuqOo8v8M/RfQxgqH2DnI/AAAAAAAAEQE/DxBsdSyPAyA/s800/CIMG0669.JPG

did you see somethi.....aghhhhhhhhh

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3327/3536437948_6f815b9a59_b.jpg

hahahahaha omg.

wow

SS awesomest pic EVAH.

Somebody pls with Photoshop:

http://thestartingfive.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/brian-dawkins.jpg

http://thestartingfive.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/brian-dawkins.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3619/3535763083_370a8c681d.jpg

Awwww.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2478/3542940360_7facd42b54.jpg

O looks like she just got busted about to do something bad! Both so beautiful though. Is E wearing a denim miniskirt?

Also, Alice + Daddy + Guitar so adorable.

yeah Ophelia looks like she just body-slammed Elisabeth

Friends!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3024/3546958430_d71e44e6e2.jpg

oh dear lord

wow~!

Me and Owen:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2446/3561521490_cd04a5033f.jpg

The boys with some of their twin friends:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3403/3560704771_3c7c61373c_b.jpg

that may be the cutest thing i've ever seen

are those four sets of twins or am i up way too late on ILX again?

Adorable!

Lulu calling us in for pretend in the garden playhouse...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2471/3561726541_b3c18fef58.jpg

Aw, what a gorgeous picture!

(That was supposed to say "pretend dinner")

@musically - that's four sets of twins. My wife is in the SFPOM (SF parents of multiples) club, so we know lots of twin families. Makes for a lot of cute photos!

One of Ava's neighbourhood chums is a boy called Roman - he has younger triplet brothers (Devon, Sonny and Lucas), two of which are identical. They have this great Goodies-style "trandem" buggy.

They call that "a pair and a spare" in POM speak...

One of my good friends is an identical twin and neither of them met another pair of identical twins until they were in middle school. I'm sure they would have loved being in a POM-type club as kids.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3663/3562872864_17ccfde28e.jpg

Yes, she loves the sea. And so does Elisabeth.

SS, not a miniskirt! Just a pair of jeans. :-) I guess O does have that "oh busted" look but usually it's the other way around: Elisabeth may be the youngest, she can kick up a mean storm when she doesn't get her way. it seems this is usually the case: the youngest being the "bully". :-)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3621/3562873196_ee0272b122.jpg

I can has smiles:

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_Q2cuqOo8v8M/Shr9aXSQi1I/AAAAAAAALcU/IqmsybuZPcY/s800/photo.jpg

those hands! those cheeks! meg, can i just nibble at your kid a bit? ;-)

hudson river today (g. washington bridge in remote background)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/IMG_2001.jpg

what goes in ...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/IMG_2004.jpg

... must come out

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/IMG_2015.jpg

little brother decides to stick with the smaller beasts

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/IMG_2020.jpg

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/n556118782_2707208_6058731.jpg

haha the hippo!!

KKvsG is this your adopted boy??

We make it official on June 19th.

congrats!!

Awesome.

So great about the adoption!

A little snugglin' time with Ben:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3363/3588342892_60017d64bc.jpg

awwww

i guess its almost summer:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3309/3592490660_32e935e321.jpg

We started her on "solid" foods two weeks ago, and she's already advanced to meat, or at least jam.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y298/hukl/delicioustoe.jpg

Human meat, apparently!

I'm not really sure if she even realizes that her toes are part of her yet. I'm sure once she gets some teeth she'll figure that one out.

Lulu at the British Museum (this was back in February - only just got this roll of slide film processed):

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3641/3600463746_2fc68c8b47.jpg

Ava in the summer version of her school (nursery, that is) uniform:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3381/3593721406_3a9a144aac.jpg

(Pic by Pam)

SO CUTE.

i guess its almost summer:

Even here!
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3561/3594056297_7a422dbf36.jpg
(not shopped - even though it looks a bit like it has been!)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3411/3610729585_5488d78019.jpg
(she's the one ducking)

Wicked mid-air shot!

Alice is helping me decide whether or not to get laser eye surgery:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3358/3611732488_63c3fc3815.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/may09278.jpg

Forgot I had this one on my cellpwn.

http://www.axcessmypics.com/photos/photo03/93/47/c7603ebf96de.jpg

Missing her and her mommy so much. Three more days!

Noodle, I love your curly monster.

Aw PP that's so cute and I agree about the curly monster. Such rosy cheeks!

Thanx Laurel. She's lost three front teeth in the space of a fortnight and developed a hilarious lisp now.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3357/3631995601_5010391378.jpg

Solid food? :-P No way jose.

I love my 50 mm lens btw. Bestest purchase I have made in Tokyo. It was only 10,000 yen! In Belgium it costs double that price.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3397/3632246635_2489acd040.jpg

Since being in Tokyo, they've really hit it off. They really play together which is the "awesomest" thing ever. So so so cute. Until they fight over a toy of course. hah

Ned, that pool pic is the greatest!

"Lulu, try to be scary without making a noise..."

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3640/3637085914_40b81a8235.jpg

More goofing around, just before Ava walks to school with her sis...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3308/3637082878_22867e5111.jpg

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nedtrifle/3644688264/"; title="Seen at Seldom Seen Farm, Leicestershire by Ned Trifle, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3633/3644688264_0b0747417a.jpg"; width="500" height="375" alt="Seen at Seldom Seen Farm, Leicestershire" /></a>

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3633/3644688264_0b0747417a.jpg

And this is what he was doing...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3657/3644403379_482775b735.jpg

aww strawberry picking. i grew up in a house with a field of wild strawberries growing behind it. good times. also, i spend a good chunk of shopping time searching for shoes just like ava and lulu's but in my size.

What Ben made for me on my birthday:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3391/3664435636_49ea69cbdb.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y298/hukl/DSCF1502.jpg

live long and prosper to you too!

LOL cuet!

I'm glad I figured this picture-posting thing out. Here's my daughter:

http://i42.tinypic.com/2eaqwib.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/20sdagm.jpg

http://i44.tinypic.com/kt6c3.jpg

Sorry if three pics = too much.

Three, as we all know by now, is a magic number. Beautiful!

Schwantz - good to see Ben playing fast and loose with typography there.

Your daughter is gorgeous!

Thank you!

A+ shades

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2473/3621932297_e83625709f.jpg

with the standard this-ain't-my-kid-it's-my-niece/godchild disclaimer

http://files.getdropbox.com/u/818963/Photos/IMG_0001.JPG

phenomenal

https://files.getdropbox.com/u/818963/Photos/drums.jpg

Cute!

Okay I probably would have given up 5 years' worth of birthday and Christmas presents for that drum kit.

Aaah. I got one as a kid. A Muppet Show kit. My parents threw it out. My obvious No Wave tendencies didn't click with my mother's migraine attacks. hahahahahahah I would play HOURS on it. I loved it so much. There you go, a career as an 80s Shaggs drummer was lost forever.

Those babies sure are growing fast! We need some new ones here. :-)

Is it me, or is everyone having kids? Friends of ours as well. One's expecting in November. Anotehr couple are due in September. Twins no less!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2546/3699388766_12c1d8d066.jpg
Veronica and I momentarily complacent in the fourth set of the Wimbledon Men's final.

A little collage of recent pics; some film photos taken at Ava's school sports day (though Lulu was clearly determined to be centre of attention anyway) and a coupla digital pics from Soho Square on Saturday (the dance stage at Pride, drag queens not pictured):

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2621/3706684785_d04c1d1cb0.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mUFtBONM5w

im cooking this kid as fast as i can!

hahaha....that was on my clipboard from a facebook post.

I meant to reply to:

Those babies sure are growing fast! We need some new ones here. :-)

Lulu lokks like shes got some bitchin attitude

As usual MJs kids are adorable and yeah, Lulu looks like the coolest little girl ever.

At a party, with a bunny:

http://i30.tinypic.com/if1xs8.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3507/3720870788_aa2d0ece65.jpg

we went to some amusement park today. after i came home, i took two ibuprofens 400s in one go. same like i was a kid: i can't handle that much heat and excitement. haha

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2550/3720870476_c6a17c8001.jpg

bit fuzzy but the enthusiasm just oozes off the screen heh

That's lovely.

Oh thanks! I am happy with the pictures. :-) Bit funny seeing how there were lika dozen parents standing around with gigantic DSLRs shooting pics. haha

I love that look!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2431/3716522551_94f2392bcd.jpg?v=0

awww!! so happy!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/818963/grace.jpg

wow so beautiful!

Ha! Gorgeous. (There is a newer thread, y'know)

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6148/6019114302_52c1db1af3_z.jpg
IMG_0935 by remy bean, on Flickr

nephew

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y161/MarkGrout/CIMG0033.jpg