I hardly need much encouragement I must admit, I'll see what happens once this holiday is over and done with.
I have a niggling feeling that my health is failing, my heart scare probably contributes to this even although the doc says that they'd rather not take any more action for the time being. I wonder if this will change when I tell him I want to conceive.
― *rumpie*, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 14:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Rumpie: :-(
Ophelia just came back from the crèche. The caretaker (?) said she did very well and also added that Ophelia's a sweet girl!!!! I mean, shit, I know but I can't help but *enflate* with pride. hah
― nathalie, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 15:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Owen in a pool for the first time: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1026/541586953_89ccbbd165.jpg
The boys are both sitting up on their own (never mind the cushion behind them...) http://farm1.static.flickr.com/199/550131890_4bed8996a4.jpg
― schwantz, Friday, 15 June 2007 02:40 (sixteen years ago) link
^^ great smiles! "This sitting up lark's easy! What's next?"
Megan's started pulling herself into a standing position against boxes and furniture. Stop growing up so fast! You're our last baby!
My oldest son Mark's got a karate grading tomorrow so I've got hours of being Supportive Dad. I'm a bit worried about this one as they've being getting progressively harder for him (I know: DUH!).
Then on Wednesday David's getting a prize at school and I get to be Proud Dad :)
― onimo, Friday, 15 June 2007 09:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I should scan the photo of me supposedly sitting at a very early age. Only years later did my mum admit that she was propping me up from underneath the table. Mums, eh?
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 15 June 2007 09:12 (sixteen years ago) link
In fact here it is... http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1350/551586903_c4a8f531ef.jpg
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 15 June 2007 09:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Those legs! That smile! I just want to HUGGELZ you. :-)
― nathalie, Friday, 15 June 2007 09:31 (sixteen years ago) link
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1216/542548891_49f88d3006.jpg Nothing much to discern (?) but this is BABY MK II. :-)
― nathalie, Friday, 15 June 2007 09:44 (sixteen years ago) link
What kind of fancy scanner is that?
― schwantz, Friday, 15 June 2007 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, is it 4D?
― sunny successor, Friday, 15 June 2007 16:54 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― stevienixed, Friday, 15 June 2007 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey, Nath.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 15 June 2007 17:27 (sixteen years ago) link
What exactly is that.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 15 June 2007 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 15 June 2007 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― schwantz, Friday, 15 June 2007 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
gorgeous!
― luna, Friday, 15 June 2007 20:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Schwantz, please post cranky/screaming/crying pix also or I'll think that life is just a nonstop festival of laffs at your house.
― Rock Hardy, Friday, 15 June 2007 20:27 (sixteen years ago) link
When babies are cranky/screaming/crying do you really think to run for a camera?
― Ms Misery, Friday, 15 June 2007 20:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Here's my little girl Ivy. http://a559.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/60/l_36f55fb06ab1f188720a8e04bb2ebd8e.jpg
― everything, Friday, 15 June 2007 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Sometimes yeah, every parent has blackmail material on the kid.
xpost, cuet!
― Rock Hardy, Friday, 15 June 2007 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Why are all ILX babies so CUTE?!
Also, "Ivy" is a cool name.
― Sara R-C, Friday, 15 June 2007 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― everything, Friday, 15 June 2007 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― schwantz, Friday, 15 June 2007 20:49 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 15 June 2007 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Meg Busset, Friday, 15 June 2007 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― schwantz, Saturday, 16 June 2007 02:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow, those boys are cute even when they are crying. That's impressive.
― Sara R-C, Saturday, 16 June 2007 02:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not sure what perversity made me ask you to post fussy pix. But thanks. They are cute when they're mad!
― Rock Hardy, Saturday, 16 June 2007 02:31 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― nathalie, Saturday, 16 June 2007 07:29 (sixteen years ago) link
http://homepage.mac.com/arobinso/.Pictures/sara_arm/4.jpg
Alex (age 9) reads to Julia (age 4)
― Sara R-C, Monday, 18 June 2007 22:51 (sixteen years ago) link
wow...beautiful kids!
― sunny successor, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 03:41 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 04:45 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― nathalie, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 08:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Fingers x'ed we don't have the no remote linking thing on this folder:
http://freakytrigger.co.uk/lytton/JunSit3.JPG
― Groke, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 09:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh hurrah! More of Lytton:
http://freakytrigger.co.uk/lytton/JunPeep.JPG
http://freakytrigger.co.uk/lytton/JunSit2.JPG
― Groke, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 09:24 (sixteen years ago) link
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).
― Archel, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:55 (sixteen years ago) link
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...)
― nathalie, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:57 (sixteen years ago) link
"Leave it Phil, he ain't worth it"
― Mark C, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 11:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Hilarious caption for Tom's last picture. Damn.
― Mark C, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 11:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Lytton is adorable; what a fantastically expressive face! And Tallulah has gorgeous eyes, WOW.
Nathalie, I hope all turns out well for your friend.
― Sara R-C, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 13:25 (sixteen years ago) link
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...
― schwantz, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 15:28 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
MONKEY SOCKS
― sunny successor, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
OH NOES mine kids are both blogging, my life is pretty much over now
― Dimension 5ive, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 16:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Just wait until they start posting here.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link
never gonna happen...unless they start putting up some LOLcats or something. anyone who wants their urls can email me: expresso2222 at gmail
― Dimension 5ive, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― sunny successor, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 19:40 (sixteen years ago) link
if i had a boy he'd be wearing this:
http://www.babyrockapparel.com/files/sorrygirlsonesie_LO.JPG
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 13:07 (sixteen years ago) link
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. :-)
― nathalie, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 13:23 (sixteen years ago) link