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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Archel, I'll be thinking of you and Alice. I am sure it'll be a smooth operation, but I realize that's a cliche comment cause as a parent you're still worried.

Matt, how was the scan?

The pharmacist gave me PrimPram which apparently can make morning sickness disappear. I still a bit nauseous but I am feeling a teeny weeny bit better.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/167/440597678_7a23d060d9.jpg?v=0

First signs of chickenpoxyfuled.

― stevienixed, Sunday, 1 April 2007 06:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Archel, hope all goes well with the op.

Vicky, are you finding out the gender?

We are making good progress with bedtimes - Howie went down without a peep at 9pm yesterday, and only woke twice in the night (12.30 and 4) before getting up for the day at 7. As if to compensate, daytimes are getting trickier - he's awake more and more, but not yet in any kind of nap routine, and if he goes too long without sleeping he turns into an overtired grizzle-monster. Tried to put him in his crib for a nap for the first time this morning, but he screamed the place down, so had to go for a long walk in the pram instead.

― Meg Busset, Sunday, 1 April 2007 12:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I discovered that I once had chickenpox so the baby's safe from harm and 2 I was drinking so little that probably caused the headaches/morning sickness. I had the same thing when I was pregnant with Ophelia: I always forget to drink, it's silly really.

Ophelia has been sleeping in our bed the last week or so. She wakes up at 4 am and screams. As I'm so crap, I think "what the hell" and put her in our bed. But I think we'll have to *grit our teeth* (?) and ferberize a bit. She's feeling much better and I think it's time she learned that sleeping with us is the exception, not the rule. *sigh*

Archel, good luck on thursday!

― nathalie, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 12:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Good news, Nath!

It's been four days, so time to post another goofy snap of the hellion:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/175/441930890_01ce327660.jpg

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 12:08 (seventeen years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/182/443704980_8e44cea8ef.jpg?v=0

Choco and chickenpox :-)

― nathalie, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 12:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Hello everyone. :) :) :)

― Dimension 5ive, Friday, 6 April 2007 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

hee hee hee

― Dimension 5ive, Friday, 6 April 2007 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

wow

― Dimension 5ive, Friday, 6 April 2007 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

*freaking out, a little*

― Dimension 5ive, Friday, 6 April 2007 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

:D !!! spill!

― teeny, Friday, 6 April 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

we got our referral

― Dimension 5ive, Friday, 6 April 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

but i aint sayin nothing else for right now

― Dimension 5ive, Friday, 6 April 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Whoa! :-)

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 April 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Robin (as in Zander) would be a fine name either way.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 April 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

How are Alice, Archel and Matt?

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 01:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Static electricity + trampoline = exploded hair state.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/190/453045601_995f2ba6b3.jpg

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 09:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, I was asking myself that question, Beth. I hope they are doing well.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/233/453783947_d65a368302.jpg%3Fv%3D0

11 weeks! Hopefully morning sickness will subside. The baby is extremely active, pretending to be a breakdancer on speed when we did the ultrasound. ;-)

― nathalie, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 10:30 (seventeen years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/233/453783947_d65a368302.jpg?v=0

Will THIS work? If not, well, uh...

― nathalie, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 10:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi guys,

All went well with Alice's op although it was pretty damn stressful and emotional. The surgeons did a great job (despite leaving her with a stunning black eye) and she's recovering really quickly.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/232/449393981_f0b505596b.jpg?v=1175952838

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/239/449389312_95766a3d94.jpg?v=1175952688

― Archel, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 10:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Archel, is she home already? How is she coping with the stitches? How's eating?

I love love LOVE her *pink eye lids* (Is that how you say it??)

― nathalie, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Hurrah! Very glad to hear things went OK. She appears to be just as gorgeous as before (black eyes tend be cuter on toddlers, but she wears it well).

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Awww, what a little sweetie! Hope she coped ok and didn't find it too traumatic

Nath- yay on the little bean! Is 11 weeks where you thought you were, or is it a bit further along? Hopefully the morning sickness will start to ease off soon, fingers crossed.

Meg - a very belated answer- we're not finding out the sex, keeping it as a surprise. I hope the bedtime progress has continued!

― Vicky, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 11:09 (seventeen years ago) link

No, we had calculated the exact date! This is because I had quit the pill on O's borthday and knew when I had my period. So we sort of knew EXACTLY when the baby was conceived. heh Morning sickness *should* disappear at around 13 weeks, the OBGYN promised. (Or I'm asking for a refund. hahahaha) Next month we'll probably know the gender. Yes, I wanna know. :-)

― nathalie, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 11:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Good to see Alice looking chipper!

― Madchen, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Aw, Alice babykins!

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:54 (seventeen years ago) link

AND spotty O!

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:54 (seventeen years ago) link

my brother had the first baby out of all of us today.

girl, dark curly hair, seven pounds four ounces. she's gorgeous, photos to follow.

chuffed at being an uncle, but as there's no rolling uncling thread i thought this was next appropriate.

― darraghmac, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 02:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay so I guess I'll just say it here: we got our referral for our adoption, about to accept it as soon as we get one more test result (which is why I didn't say anything before now, but I just kinda can't wait anymore so there). She's an adorable wonderful cool smart-looking little thing, just four months old this week, we'll probably be traveling early this summer *knocks wood* and then I can finally post some pictures, not yet though because it is illegal.

― Dimension 5ive, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

:-D

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Without trying to be flippant, I honestly think that if I ever became a father, it would be through adoption. I think it's an extremely cool thing your family is doing. :-)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Are the pox gone, Nath?

Aw, wee Alice and her black eye! She looks as beautiful as ever, I'd love to have a cuddle with her!

― luna, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Congrats Haiuknym!

I would definitely love to adopt. but I still would want to have one too.

yay for Alice! (and Nath's in progress)

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Flickr doesn't work on my Macbook for some unknown firewall-based reason so I can't see all these lovely baby pix :(

But glad Alice's op went well.

Howie is doing well, he went to bed at 8.30 and my husband is down the pub so I am about to sit down with a glass of wine to watch Starsky & Hutch - a rare treat. He has been waking us in the night flailing his arms and legs wildly and crying out, but while he's fast asleep - doesn't seem to bother him, but hard for us to sleep through! So I'll probably be asleep after the first sip.

Oh, and he has baby acne so not such a handsome boy any more... hope it clears up soon!

― Meg Busset, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Aw but baby acne rules!

― Dimension 5ive, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Surely not for the baby!

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Babies are the only ones who do not care about their own acne, Ned.

Wow there are tons of cute ILX babies.

― Sara R-C, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Sara - this cuteness is what I was referencing the other day!! Out of control adorable!

― ENBB, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Here come some more!

Ben flirting with a our waitress:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/188/441503488_c0fc8db231.jpg

Ben gets his first piano lesson from dad:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/168/446869309_45ad63659b.jpg

Owen after his bath (with Grandma):
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/195/446869763_0a5e7d0255.jpg

― schwantz, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

last pic classic, nice comedy reaction shot by owen

― Dimension 5ive, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

ENBB is right; I'd totally be wanting to reproduce again after looking at these pictures if I hadn't already caught my limit of babies.

― Sara R-C, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Seriously. Let's take these two in particular, they're perfect and there's two of them! So sweet.

― ENBB, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

That is Owen's default look: surprised/fascinated.

― schwantz, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, maybe they'd play with each other when they got to be toddlers...? I love infants but it is when kids get to be 3 that I start to flounder. Even so, I'm done with the babies; everyone else can enjoy their reproducing, though, and I'll look on admiringly! (It's so clear that everyone is doing a better job than I am...)

― Sara R-C, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link

That top Ben picture is an absolute gem!

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, go on then - a couple more pics posted at http://pregbasket.blogspot.com

― Meg Busset, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Aw Meg, he's just gorgeous.

― luna, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link

"Howie" = super-awesome name!

― schwantz, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

OK - one more. I got home and my wife had taken this:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/182/457228887_34c16a387a.jpg

― schwantz, Friday, 13 April 2007 02:47 (seventeen years ago) link

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