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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

Oh the cutest smiles!

― Sara R-C, Friday, 13 April 2007 03:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh Ophelia's chickenpox disappeared pretty quickly! As you can see in this picture she's back to her old self:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/169/453917167_115bac4125_m.jpg

Thanks for asking! :-)

― nathalie, Friday, 13 April 2007 07:24 (seventeen years ago) link

What cuteness! I can't believe how big Ben and Owen have gotten already, and Ophelia's looking so grown up in that photo! Meg, Howie is indeed a little cutie, that photo of him asleep on you is adorable!

Excellent news of the adoption front, fingers crossed that everything goes smoothly for you.

I'm torn - I don't want to wish my pregnancy away cos I'm rather enjoying it, but I want squirrel to be here NOW! (I think it's very good timing to see lots of fluff as the reality of what we are about to embark upon is starting to hit home and it's good to be reminded of the benefits!)

― Vicky, Friday, 13 April 2007 09:13 (seventeen years ago) link

ophelia probably has an ear infection. poor thing.

― nathalie, Saturday, 14 April 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi dere. Good to see Alice doing so well after her op and everyone else's kids coming on great too.

Here's one I took of Megan this morning. She's sitting up all by herself and now has her first tooth. She was 7 months old yesterday, I can't believe it!

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/191/460409696_127c6171ca.jpg

― onimo, Sunday, 15 April 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG, she's getting big! She was only an ickle wee thing when I saw her! Also, she looks really like you.

(p.s. you have the same carpet as us)

― ailsa, Sunday, 15 April 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Quick update: test results perfect, referral accepted. Not sure when we'll travel but probably this summer, H in Addis will be taking me on a tour of Addis Ababa's best places. Happy happy happy, so happy and grateful. Terrified too, how does one do that whole little-baby thing again?

― Dimension 5ive, Monday, 16 April 2007 02:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Start practicing now by waking yourself up every 3 hours, staggering around in the dark warming up bottles and such. Maximum congratulations to the entire Dimension 5ive clan!

― Jaq, Monday, 16 April 2007 03:48 (seventeen years ago) link

You lucky man to meet H in Addis as well! Plz to give him my very best.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 April 2007 03:49 (seventeen years ago) link

haha Jaq that's what I do now anyway with no babies in the house!

― Dimension 5ive, Monday, 16 April 2007 05:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Can the next thread title be "Teh Cuteness"?

Cyrus has been wheezing. We've got him on albuterol. About to leave the kids with an Other for a week while we gallavant off to Seattle kidless. They'll be alright, right? We're leaving them with my stepmom, a retired pre-K teacher. They'll be fine, right?

― Maria :D, Monday, 16 April 2007 05:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Stepmothers have a bit of a bad rap. Have you vetted her for wickedness and evil?

― Mark C, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:06 (seventeen years ago) link

My husband will stay a weekend with his parents to see how she copes with being in a different place. Then next time she'll probably stay over without either of us. A bit scary. I see all these sharp edges (on tables) and steps looming; :-(

She's still a bit feverish, but not that much. She's also drooling and picking her ears from time to time. She'd definitely in a "bad funk" as she has these little tantrums. I think going to the doc is maybe a bit hasty but then I feel as though I'm neglecting her by not doing it. :-(

― nathalie, Monday, 16 April 2007 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link

And OMG Megan has such pretty eyes!

― nathalie, Monday, 16 April 2007 11:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Megan is gorgeous, mate. And I can see bits of both you and Mrs Onimo in there - she has a lovely innocent look with a touch of "don't mess" thrown in.

― Guilty_Boksen, Monday, 16 April 2007 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Beeps after her first day at childcare:

woo!
http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/4859/daycaredayonebb4.jpg

wee!
http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/8805/hellokittyqs1.jpg

PHEAR TEH BEEPS
http://img490.imageshack.us/img490/9035/pheartehbeepszs3.jpg

― sunny successor, Monday, 16 April 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

She's just beautiful. I want to smooch her fat little cheeks.

― luna, Monday, 16 April 2007 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, xxxpost - they really are a perfect pair - what a great pic!

― luna, Monday, 16 April 2007 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Sunny, what a little cutie! Could she open her eyes a little wider?

Maria, don't worry. The boys will be in great hands. Your stepmum is lovely. I slept under her roof and came to no harm.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 01:29 (seventeen years ago) link

How was it putting Beeps in daycare? I dread the day I will have to do it with Baby Nr II at six months. The first day I had to put Ophelia in daycare, I really wanted to cry my eyes out. And she was over a year old. :-( I felt so guilty because it wasn't really necessary. Now we are allowed to put her three days per week in daycare, but we rarely do. We always find a reason to keep her home. :-) That said, it's sometimes a relief to put her a day in daycare because it can be extremely draining to run the shop and take care of her. That's something I have to keep in mind when those tears well up.

Those Hello Kitty sheets! ME WANT! I want Beeps as well, what a cutie, but I know that's impossible. ;-)

A friend, who's also pregnant, not only smokes like mad but drinks gallons of coffee. The only thing she doesn't do is eat raw meats. And cheese, I think. WTF. It's her fourth child, so hey, I hope this one will be as healthy as her three others.

Maria, don't worry! (Yep, easier said than done.) :-) Hey Beth survived!

― stevienixed, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 09:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Beeps is lovely. Our Tallulah is scoffing baby rice and banana porridge now (and rolling over - but not, thankfully, at the same time):

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/184/460631470_3ff9f527b5.jpg

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 09:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Beeps = beautiful! Can I set her up with Howie when they're older?

I want a girl next! Not for a while though...

― Meg Busset, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 11:25 (seventeen years ago) link

The babies all just get more and more gorgeous!

Alice has been really unsettled since the op and any routine she had went out the window, but she is gradually getting happier again:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/198/462786580_91154b5565.jpg?v=0

Helping me with the crossword:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/172/462786584_ce0ab30fb5.jpg?v=0

― Archel, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 12:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Archel, that is SO FRIGGING CUTE! <3

― nathalie, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Already doing her crosswords in pen!!

All these babies = completely, heart-meltingly adorable

― Jaq, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Aww..thanks, everyone.

Alice is looking at Monkey! So cute!

Michael, how old is Tallulah now?? It only seems like a couple of months ago that she was born!

Nath, Beeps took it a lot better than PP and I did. She was asleep when PP dropped her off and happy as a clam when I picked her up . Of course, PP didn't want to let go of her in the morning and I was racing to get her in the afternoon. She was also the least fussy she has ever been afterward. We had trouble keeping her awake to feed her! I guess because she is so young (only six weeks old) its easier on her because she doesn't really know whats going on. I can see how putting a one year old in daycare would be MUCH harder.

Now I think about it, it may have been the first day Beats didn't cry at all. Maybe they're drugging the formula! Yay!

― sunny successor, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Tallulah is 5.5 months; she's really come on in the last couple of weeks - so much more mobile. She won't be crawling or walking as early as her sister, I don't think. So much more to lug around!

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

How old was Ava when she first walked/crawled? Some people tell me kids dont walk til they're two and some say its around one. Two seems a really long time to be immobile.

I'm kind of dreading Beeps crawling. We're not prepared for it. Just in the last week I've found a whole bunch of coins, a shirt button and a big shard of glass in our carpet.

― sunny successor, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

These babies are killing my ovaries people - so sweet! Also, Alice looks wonderful!!!

― ENBB, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Our 3 year old has just been busted by his mum in the process of eating worms in the garden. Washing them in the bird bath first, then popping them in his mouth, so bonus points for good hygiene practice there I think.

― NickB, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I spoke to him on the phone afterwards and he was all 'Daddy I did eat some worms'

― NickB, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:09 (seventeen years ago) link

haha TRUE CONFESSIONS

― Dimension 5ive, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link

all babies on this thread are lovely beautiful and smart, older kids too, everyone is awesome and I love you all

― Dimension 5ive, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link

NickB your child will live forever. I read about a study that showed that farmers have fewer autoimmune diseases because of all the soil organisms they ingest. It keeps their immune system from attacking itself. A group of people who suffered from inflammatory bowel problems ingested eggs of an intestinal worm (of hogs, so that it wouldn't get too comfy in the human gut). All of them had relief of symptoms and BEGGED THE RESEARCHERS FOR MORE HOG-WORMS.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Ava crawled at 7.5 months and walked at 10.

I banged my knee on the side of the tub last night while bathing Ava; she said, "Daddy, hurt self? Don't worry, Daddy." A few minutes later she tried to pull my face off.

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

My grandfather apparently walked at EIGHT months. When you say walk, Michael, do you mean without help? Ophelia walks but needs one helping hand. She's 15 months old. I think the cut-off age is about 17 months, after that you're *late*. I don't care that much, I mean, I don't expect that she'll need a hand when she 23 yrs old. ;-)

― nathalie, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

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