The new rolling ILX parenting thread, since the other one was getting unwieldy

Those legs! That smile! I just want to HUGGELZ you. :-)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1216/542548891_49f88d3006.jpg
Nothing much to discern (?) but this is BABY MK II. :-)

What kind of fancy scanner is that?

yeah, is it 4D?

The previous time we had an even swankier one (the salesrep brought it to test it and I was a *lucky* victim): in sepia colour we could almost *touch* the baby. Really 4D. This is one they use to test whether the brains, heart,... function properly. This way we know s/he has no "water head" (?), cleft lip, good connection with umbilical chord. It's better than the regular ones.

Hey, Nath.

What exactly is that.

This is the photo that Nathelie is commenting on in case it looks a bit weird that she says that to a photo that isn't there! Also I look so cute in it I cant resist putting it here one more time...
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/28/41222785_694e9e63f3_o.jpg

Sorry - I removed the redeye on the photo above, and Flickr changed the url. Here it is again:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/199/550131890_3b7dd1f145.jpg

gorgeous!

Schwantz, please post cranky/screaming/crying pix also or I'll think that life is just a nonstop festival of laffs at your house.

When babies are cranky/screaming/crying do you really think to run for a camera?

Here's my little girl Ivy.
http://a559.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/60/l_36f55fb06ab1f188720a8e04bb2ebd8e.jpg

Sometimes yeah, every parent has blackmail material on the kid.

xpost, cuet!

Why are all ILX babies so CUTE?!

Also, "Ivy" is a cool name.

Cheers - that's not even in the top 20 cuet photos of Ivy lemme tell ya. Also, that's quite old. She's running around with hair these days.

I will make a point of getting a few pictures of them crying/frowning/sniffling. Shouldn't be too hard. Just stop paying my FULL, UNDIVIDED ATTENTION to them for about 30 seconds, and they should completely fall apart. Maybe I could enlist the help of Jill Greenberg.

Beeps got in such a foul mood the other day, she turned her head to the heavens and wailed at the living room ceiling fan.

Kinda odd since we kinda thought that she and that fan were like best friends. She spends enough time staring at it.

Howie has been less than his usual cheery self recently 'cause of his eczema... we had to take him to hospital on Weds because he'd had an AWFUL reaction to this supposedly 100% natural/non-reactive stuff the doc had given us. He was screaming for two nights and his skin went bright red then peeled :(

However today his skin was the best it's been in weeks, so maybe somehow it helped?? Anyway it's been great to have my smiley little guy back.

Here's a little taste of reality at our house around 5:30pm:

Ben:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1136/554374364_bde296d12d.jpg

Owen:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1222/554672181_77fee1bd80.jpg

Wow, those boys are cute even when they are crying. That's impressive.

I'm not sure what perversity made me ask you to post fussy pix. But thanks. They are cute when they're mad!

Meg, I am happy to hear Howie's doing slightly better. :-)

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

Ophelia crying.

Also, sorry about the confusing login names. I should just switch to stevienixed.

http://homepage.mac.com/arobinso/.Pictures/sara_arm/4.jpg

Alex (age 9) reads to Julia (age 4)

wow...beautiful kids!

Oh, bless. It's like a real life Charlie & Lola.

Ivy is a smashing name; Am3li4 of M4rin3 R3s34rch/H34v3nly fame named her kids Dora and Ivy.

I haven't posted a pic of Tallulah for a while (she's 7.5 months and so close to crawling it's driving her mad) - this is by Pam in Greenwich Park at the weekend:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1022/558204080_5bae115943.jpg

My employee (or colleague depending how you look at it) is now off to Brussels to have a placenta test. Apparently she has "something in her blood." They didn't tell her what yesterday, when she was at the local hospiotal where they took her blood. She's also a little over 20 weeks pregnant. Her husband called and you could hear the panic in his voice. They didn't/couldn't tell him anything yesterday, they just said he had to go to a specialist in Brussels. :-(

I (stupidly) googled and discovered that, especially when you have your second child, it is/can be dangerous to catch the CMV virus. It's in the stool or blood of your children. Most people get it at one point and, I think, about 50 procent is immune to it. As nothing can be done about it and doctors don't want to freak out their (pregnant) patients, they usually don't test nor tell you about it. Maybe that's what she has? I'm not sure. I hope it turns out okay. Usually a virus doesn't affect a feotus/baby... Hopefully not in this case either.

Fingers x'ed we don't have the no remote linking thing on this folder:

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/lytton/JunSit3.JPG

Oh hurrah! More of Lytton:

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/lytton/JunPeep.JPG

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/lytton/JunSit2.JPG

omg Lytton looks fabulous!

nath, I hope your friend is ok. So many people have scares in pregnancy that turn out to be nothing though (including me).

Yes, I quickly calmed down - I got all teary eyed when I told my mom - and realized that in most cases a virus does not affect the baby. (That said, I'm not even sure it is a virus, I'll know more later in the day...)

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/lytton/JunSit2.JPG

"Leave it Phil, he ain't worth it"

Hilarious caption for Tom's last picture.
Damn.

Lytton is adorable; what a fantastically expressive face! And Tallulah has gorgeous eyes, WOW.

Nathalie, I hope all turns out well for your friend.

Fathers Day pix...

Owen:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1299/562068487_7b5c699a20.jpg

Ben:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1285/561876365_b9cf279b49.jpg

And yeah, the Jones girls have some crazy-beautiful eyes...

A long time ago, before I even met Kate, I figured that I could name my son (if I had one) My Full Name, IV. And since I'm called Tre, he'd be called Ivy. You know. I-V. Ivy Baker has kind of a nice ring to it.

But since I've met my wife, she has convinced me that Ivy is a girl's name. Coming from the South where women are named Chester and men are named Elaine, how was I supposed to know?

MONKEY SOCKS

OH NOES mine kids are both blogging, my life is pretty much over now

Just wait until they start posting here.

never gonna happen...unless they start putting up some LOLcats or something. anyone who wants their urls can email me: expresso2222 at gmail

schwantz should recognize the following:

beeps looking at the fish
http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/7403/dsc02891la9.jpg

beeps looking at the fish
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/9711/dsc0287im9.jpg

and, hey!, beeps looking at the fish
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/894/dsc02931fy4.jpg

Coming from the South where women are named Chester and men are named Elaine, how was I supposed to know?

lol @ men who desperately want sons. I used to play baseball with a guy whose older sister was named Perry Ann.

if i had a boy he'd be wearing this:

http://www.babyrockapparel.com/files/sorrygirlsonesie_LO.JPG

My father bought a great one for a friend: something about punk rock not being a crime. His Japanese friend had played in a noise/punk band. I WANT ONE AS WELL. :-)

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/6682/dsc0287im9kj8.jpg

Charlotte last weekend...

http://vassifer.blogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/06/18/lollie.jpg

Fark!

http://vassifer.blogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/06/18/lollie.jpg

oh I give up

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