ILP rolling photo quarantine

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...

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Extreme trampolining!

She said she wanted to make bouncy snow.

They said it couldn't be done.

thinking baout things

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way to go Gooblar. She is insanely cute!

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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. :-)

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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!

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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:
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Owen with cylinder:
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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):
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Entranced by Schoolhouse Rock (shot with the new camera this weekend; that's her buddy Campbell in the background):
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If in doubt, go to Westow Park swings:
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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:
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A weird light spinning wand thingy:
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Tinkerbell boxes are exciting, apparently:
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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
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No.2 the Indian restaurant
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I just wanted to say Best Thread Ever (and Happy Birthday Season to beeps!).

v. important princess placement decisions being made:
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she told us this is a mouse:

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the closest we get to making snow angels in arkansas

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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!

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