He's Here!

[The_Black_Knight]

Woohoo! He's here!

Maxfield Robert was born January 2, 2008 at 9:05 PM. He weighed in at 8 lbs., 7 oz.

Mommy, Mini-TBK, and TBK are all doing fine. :)

http://studentpages.scad.edu/%7Ecweath20/MRW.jpg

[Exodus]

WooHoo! Congratulations, TBK! http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/6848/nanneryi9.gif

[PrintDriver]

Congratulations, man!

[Mynock]

Congratz!!!

[jimking]

Surprise! Congratulations The_Black_Knight. :D

[balou]

Congratulations!! A wonderful way to start a new year. I bet Mom is relieved after being overdue - what was it - two weeks?

[frankster]

Aw, that's just great news! Congratulations! He looks gorgeous! You must be a very happy dad indeed! :D

[Two-Toe Tom]

WOOOT! congratulations!! first thing u gotta teach him to say is "none shall pass"

[Jackimalyn]

congrats tbk!! lol was he really late?? haha "NONE SHALL PASS!"

<couldnt resist...>

[Red Kittie Kat]

aww thats wonderful TBK!!! Glad Mum, Daddy and the wee one are all doing well :)

He is adorable!!!

[graphicsmama]

Congratulations!!! What a sweet face!

[tuliptree]

What a great name Maxfield is. Congrats TBK and family! Whoo hooo!!

[Kool]

Awesome TBK, huge congratulations. http://koolsplace.com/images/woohoo.gif http://koolsplace.com/images/woohoo.gif http://koolsplace.com/images/woohoo.gif

[Virgo Nightingale]

Congratulations TBK!!! He's a cutie!! Good luck getting some sleep for the next few weeks though... :D

[Neballer]

boomBLAMO!

Congrats to yous, Black Knight.

[morea]

congratulations Black Knight! Glad to hear that everyone is doing well. :)

[Craig B]

He's adorable. Congrats TBK! Nothing will ever be the same again ...

[Typically]

awesome name! congrats!

[WannaBrie]

Awwww, TBK! He's beautiful! He looks nothing like the odd thing I gave birth to my. (one of my dearest friends said "Your baby looks like a monkey!") Imagine hearing that with a very cockney accent. :) Congrats! Oh and excellent choice of name, he's destined for greatness!

[pantonedream]

Beautiful. Congrats!! I still get caught by my wife sniffing my youngest son's little head. Baby heads are so soft and smell so good after a bath.

[frankster]

Beautiful. Congrats!! I still get caught by my wife sniffing my youngest son's little head. Baby heads are so soft and smell so good after a bath.

Someone once told me that the sweet new baby smell is actually that of the cerebrospinal fluid that bathes the brain, which can be smelled due to the large gap in the skull plates (fontanelles) of a newborn. Not sure if I believe that one or not.:confused:

[The_Black_Knight]

Thanks, everyone!

Yup, he was a week late. You can't see it in the picture, but since he was a natural birth, he has a bit of a cone head, which is perfectly normal. It's already starting to look more round as of this morning.

The first name came about because my wife always liked the name Max, but neither of us liked the full name Maxwell or Maximillian or Maximus all that much. Then I remembered that I really like the work of Maxfield Parrish, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxfield_Frederick_Parrish) and suggested the name to my wife. We both thought it sounded nice. His middle name was my late grandfather's first name.

[cornfed]

Congratulations! He's absolutely adorable!

[budafist]

Congrats TBK! You must be so chuffed.

Yup, he was a week late. You can't see it in the picture, but since he was a natural birth, he has a bit of a cone head, which is perfectly normal. It's already starting to look more round as of this morning.

Is that why they give babies little hats? To hide their cone heads? :eek:

Someone once told me that the sweet new baby smell is actually that of the cerebrospinal fluid that bathes the brain, which can be smelled due to the large gap in the skull plates (fontanelles) of a newborn. Not sure if I believe that one or not.:confused:
Ewwwww Frank, way to make a sweet and innocent thing like sniffing a baby's head into a gross science thing.

[frankster]

Ewwwww Frank, way to make a sweet and innocent thing like sniffing a baby's head into a gross science thing.

Thanks Buda! :D I wasn't even trying that time either!

[budafist]

Just a natural gift you have! :D

[Red Kittie Kat]

Franks knows her fontanelles :D

She named me after them :D

[The_Black_Knight]

Congrats TBK! You must be so chuffed.

Is that why they give babies little hats? To hide their cone heads? :eek:If chuffed means being very happy about things in general, then I guess that's what I am. :D

The cone head thing is actually more noticable in the baby's profile than from the front (so the little hats don't really hide that much). It just has to do with the angle at which the baby comes out of the birth canal. Their heads do reshape amazingly quickly -- his head is darn near close to normal less than 24 hours after being born.

And frankster, I'm not sure if I buy the whole fontanelles thing. I think that baby smell is just a mixture of baby soap and all the stuff that babies wear, and not cerebrospinal fluid. At least, I hope it's not the smell of cerebrospinal fluid. Tell you what, I'll just pretend it's not the smell of cerebrospinal fluid and continue to live in blissful ignorance, if that's all right with you.

[Red Kittie Kat]

I'm with you BK ... I think mmm baby smell ... not mmmm cerbral fluid :D

[MyST]

Congrats, TBK family!

[frankster]

You're all so romanticised and nice. I bet I'm the only one that thought "holy crap! I've just expelled an entire, rather large organ that I don't need any more!" when the placenta was delivered. Birth is freaky! Babies are ace!

[cornfed]

Placenta is some funky stuff. If it comes out in one piece, it looks pretty crazy. If it comes out partially gooped all over the babies head then it looks even more bizarre - as does the baby! Birth is way more than freaky. It's scary as all get out. I was petrified every time. I hyperventilated with my third one!

[urstwile]

Yay, TBK, congratulations! I love the name as well. :)

[budafist]

TBK, chuffed is indeed that.

I have yet to see a placenta in the flesh. It's just not something that people talk about. I guess the baby is more important!

[The_Black_Knight]

I have yet to see a placenta in the flesh. It's just not something that people talk about. I guess the baby is more important!I tried not to look directly at the placenta. And "in the flesh" is a heck of a way to describe it...

[frankster]

I guess the baby is more important!

Well, they are considerably more photogenic (even with the cone heads) They make a hell of a lot more noise too, which tends to command one's attension.

[budafist]

What do people do with placentas? I've heard of all sorts of weird things. I reckon the nicest by far is to plant a tree for the child and bury the placenta in the ground. The tree is nourished by it and when the child is old, they can appreciate that the tree is the same age as themself. You would have to bury it deep though. Wouldn't want the dog to dig it up.

Hey honey, Sparkey has left something on the kitchen floor. What do you reckon that is?

[budafist]

Well, they are considerably more photogenic (even with the cone heads) They make a hell of a lot more noise too, which tends to command one's attension.

Placentas make noise? :eek:

Ewww, I'm glad no one takes photos of the placenta now I think about it. Imagine that pic in the baby book...

[frankster]

What do people do with placentas? I've heard of all sorts of weird things. I reckon the nicest by far is to plant a tree for the child and bury the placenta in the ground. The tree is nourished by it and when the child is old, they can appreciate that the tree is the same age as themself. You would have to bury it deep though. Wouldn't want the dog to dig it up.

Hey honey, Sparkey has left something on the kitchen floor. What do you reckon that is?
Well, after my initial shock as to how floopy and gross it was. I just ignored it until someone doctory took it away (the placenta, not the baby (seeing as Buda needs clarification)). I do know someone who has thiers in the freezer though. Scary.

[The_Black_Knight]

Well, after my initial shock as to how floopy and gross it was. I just ignored it until someone doctory took it away (the placenta, not the baby (seeing as Buda needs clarification)). I do know someone who has thiers in the freezer though. Scary.I can just see it now:

Man to wife: "Honey, I'm glad you liked dinner tonight. I was finally able to use that liver that was in the freezer so that it wouldn't go to waste... what's the matter, honey? Honey?"

[Red Kittie Kat]

I think I'm gonna be ill .... http://redkittiekat.com/p9/gross.gif

[cornfed]

They wouldn't let me keep mine. I've kept everything else, though. I have my wisdom teeth in a cup, all of my kids umbilical cord stumps, all their teeth, and a host of other items that would embarrass my children if I them mentioned online. But placenta is definitely the grossest thing I've seen. It looks like its own little living being when its all intact.

[doubting_thomas]

Congrats, T_B_K and family!! You're in it deep now :D

I could have gone the rest of my life without thinking about what a placenta
looked like, btw. Not really my favorite part of the whole birthing experience.

[budafist]

I've heard of people making placenta pâté. Google "placenta pate". No joke! I heard it's customary to serve it up after the baby is born at some kind of celebration with the family. Here's a bbc newslink (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/101944.stm) - don't worry, no pictures here.

Puke!

Oh great. Look, I made this into a food thread. You didn't see that coming now did you?

Sorry TBK. As you were.

[Danger_Mouse]

hey congratulations!

A little bitty black knight!

[Virgo Nightingale]

I've heard of people making placenta pâté. Google "placenta pate". No joke! I heard it's customary to serve it up after the baby is born at some kind of celebration with the family. Here's a bbc newslink (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/101944.stm) - don't worry, no pictures here.

Puke!
I actually saw a TV segment about that. They even got a vegetarian to try it (and yes, she knew what it was), and everyone seemed to like it. Blech.

[Typically]

I actually saw a TV segment about that. They even got a vegetarian to try it (and yes, she knew what it was), and everyone seemed to like it. Blech.

i had to google search it. i found this
kinda gross be forewarned (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.seattleweekly.com/food/blogs/voracious/placenta.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.seattleweekly.com/food/blogs/voracious/2007/07/&h=266&w=400&sz=24&hl=en&start=22&sig2=c5gxXWSTXUrT7G0DSLzKSw&um=1&tbnid=s8Qru-cQfOACjM:&tbnh=82&tbnw=124&ei=NUd-R9brN5XWgQL389w1&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dplacenta%2Bfood%26start%3D21%26ndsp%3 D21%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.mi crosoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox%26rlz%3D1I7GGLJ%26sa%3DN)
it's like the 3rd or so one down

[Virgo Nightingale]

I think it was on an HBO special called Shock TV, if I remember correctly. The segment centered around a couple from the UK who'd just had a baby and were having a welcoming party with a particularly 'special' appetizer. Hurk.

[doubting_thomas]

I've heard of people making placenta pâté. Google "placenta pate". No joke! I heard it's customary to serve it up after the baby is born at some kind of celebration with the family. Here's a bbc newslink (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/101944.stm) - don't worry, no pictures here.

Puke!
I don't think pictures to would do justice to how foul that is. It'd probably look
good or something.

[Two-Toe Tom]

i wonder if u can make sausages with the umbilical cord

[cornfed]

The idea of eating placenta is disguisting. I can't even imagine!

[Virgo Nightingale]

Yeah, wouldn't that constitute cannibalism? :confused:

[cornfed]

There's gotta be another word for it if you're eating part of yourself rather than someone else. Had I eaten the placenta that I grew in my body for my child, then that would be like eating myself. If someone else eats that placenta that I grew in me, then I think that would be cannibalism.

[Virgo Nightingale]

Cannibalism n. [Cf. F. cannibalisme.] The act or practice of eating human flesh by mankind.

The definition itself doesn't distinguish whether the flesh should be someone else's. There is a term for eating oneself (autophagy), but it's usually used in reference to cell biology (digestion of a cell's own organelles).

[Two-Toe Tom]

eating parts of yourself is called autocannibalism. there's actually a wikipedia article on placenta eating, it's called placentophagy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placentophagy

[Virgo Nightingale]

Tom, yes, autocannibalism is a better term.

This made me go ick:

On January 13, 2007, Chilean artist Marco Evaristti hosted a dinner party for his most intimate friends. The main meal was agnolotti pasta, on which was topped a meatball made with the artist's own fat, removed earlier in the year in a liposuction operation.
:eek:

[Two-Toe Tom]

there's also a wikipedia cookbook entry on placentas :eek:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Placenta

[Two-Toe Tom]

Tom, yes, autocannibalism is a better term.

This made me go ick:


:eek:

reminds me of the movie hannibal

[cornfed]

Oh, those recipes sound so gross.

[doubting_thomas]

Is it possible for a mod to lock me out of this thread just in case I think I
have the stomach to look back? I may have to skip lunch today. Thankfully
I didn't bring sausage.

[Red Kittie Kat]

I would ... but then that means I have to come back to ....

aww crap .... I swore I wasn't coming back lol :D

[The_Black_Knight]

Okay, I'll just have to distract everyone by posting another picture of little mister:

http://studentpages.scad.edu/%7Ecweath20/mrw/MRW_02.jpg

[Virgo Nightingale]

Ahhh, much better... :D

[morea]

thanks BK... that's much better.

[MyST]

Aww... so cute!

[Red Kittie Kat]

awww ..... so sweet ... thank you BK :)

[Tea]

Perfect!

Your best design ever! Congratulations!

[cornfed]

He's precious! I have a soft spot for babies! His color looks great, too! He's a big ole boy!

[budafist]

I may have to skip lunch today. Thankfully
I didn't bring sausage.

...or pâté.

[urstwile]

He's delightful, Black Knight! You must be on cloud nine right now. :)

[The_Black_Knight]

He's delightful, Black Knight! You must be on cloud nine right now. :)I'm as happy as I can be after the night I had last night (first night at home with Max). But then I see his little face and think, "Awww. Everything's okay." :)

[cornfed]

That's so great! Where you are right now was the best time of my life when I was there. How's momma tbk getting along? Tired, I'm sure. Take lots of pics! The first two weeks fly by and before you know it time starts to blend together!

[Tea]

Yep. Cornfed is right. All of a sudden it will be 16 years later. Take pictures of everything! And video tape too if you can. Have the grandparents do that so you are not behind the camera always.

The best part is, it gives you license to play again!

[budafist]

Have the grandparents do that so you are not behind the camera always.

That's so smart! I hardly have any pics of myself...

[tuliptree]

TBK he's beautiful!

I'm cracking up over here. I expected lots of cooing and ahhhs when I checked back here, never expected I'd be reading about placenta pâté. I will say though, I now feel better educated regarding the topic of canabalism, not to mention armed with new recipes! Hmmm Spankin A Pita and a side of special pâté....http://forums.viachicago.org/style_emoticons/default/uhoh.gif (javascript:add_smilie()

[budafist]

Don't ever tell Max that his birth spawned the placenta pate thread!!!

Well, not until he's much, much older.

[Red Kittie Kat]

Now that he is home, he will be on a schedule soon ... you can pop on here and say hello after those midnight and 4 am feedings :D

[The_Black_Knight]

Now that he is home, he will be on a schedule soon ... you can pop on here and say hello after those midnight and 4 am feedings :DNope. I sleep after those midnight and 4 am feedings! I can only imagine what kind of random garble I would wind up posting if I did try to stay awake after that.

I'm trying to follow the advice I got in my infant care class: When the baby sleeps, you sleep. It seems to be working so far.

[Red Kittie Kat]

lmao BK .. that is all you can do ... your hours will be screwy but take every op to sleep when he does :D

My sisters new little boy was soooo colicky he rarely slept and neither did we ... now he is over it and sleeping 4 to 5 hours at a time ... thank God! lol :D

[The_Black_Knight]

I'm cracking up over here. I expected lots of cooing and ahhhs when I checked back here, never expected I'd be reading about placenta pâté.Well, this is the GDF, after all. Either food or sex (or both) has to enter into the discussion somehow. :D

[cornfed]

TBK, I think the best advice that I give to new parents is to make a lot of noise when the baby is sleeping. If you start making noise now, then they'll learn to sleep despite the noise. This was critical for us as my husband and I are both musicians. We played a lot when the babies were sleeping. My kids can sleep through anything now!

[The_Black_Knight]

TBK, I think the best advice that I give to new parents is to make a lot of noise when the baby is sleeping. If you start making noise now, then they'll learn to sleep despite the noise. This was critical for us as my husband and I are both musicians. We played a lot when the babies were sleeping. My kids can sleep through anything now!I don't doubt that advice, but we're actually very quiet most of the time, except for when we vacuum. We also don't normally have a lot of people over the house (although more people will be here over the next couple of weeks than normal).

[frankster]

I hope he's a good little sleeper for you, with none of that collicky nonsense. My first was collicky and shouty and generally a grumpy little flump until she was 3 months old, but the second was a dreamboat of sleep and really made me realise what people were on about when they talked about the calm, cosy quiet of having a newborn in the hosue (except baby number one was 17 months old and performing death defying bionic stunts all day long, so it wasn't actually that calm). Now, at nearly two and just turned three, they are both like evil knievil and bounce off each other and the walls regularly. I'm thinking I might be able to sell them to the Chinese state circus. :D

Big love to the little cutie! :)

[The_Black_Knight]

frankster,

No colick yet (thank ye, Lord above), but I understand that it can show up after he's a few months old (here's hoping it doesn't happen). He seems to sleep better in his crib than his pack n' play, so we might try letting him sleep in the crib tonight. That might buy us an extra hour or two of sleep a night, which would be well worth it.

[cornfed]

I had one that screamed constantly. We couldn't take him in public until he was 7 months old cause all he did was scream! He learned how to walk when he was 7 months and thats when the screaming stopped. When he was about 5 I looked out the window just in time to see him jumping off the roof onto the garage door in an effort to create a super slide. Frankster, I think our kids would have a great time together!

[The_Black_Knight]

Sounds like people's kids here need the t-shirt that says "I do all of my own stunts."

[frankster]

Lol! My 3 year old does have that tshirt!:D She does several other people's allocation of stunts too along with her own though.

and yes Corn, I think our kids are probably on the same wavelength. Mine older one walked at 8 months and that is what really transformed her into a happy baby. Up until then she would scream and scream unless she was walking around with us holding both her hands. Even at 5 months old!Talk about independant and stroppy!

Here she is doing push ups at 5 months old. Is that weird or is it just me?
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/457/5months23xp8.jpg

[tuliptree]

Well, this is the GDF, after all. Either food or sex (or both) has to enter into the discussion somehow. :D

But of course. And to think, placenta here somehow encapsulates both, in a round-about fashion, anyway! :D

cornfed, good advice on the noise. With our first daughter we made the mistake of trying to keep everything quiet, and she grew to expect that. She hated to sleep anyway, she seized any excuse to wake up or get up.

With our second, we were lucky, she LOVED to sleep (she still does at almost 5 years). When she was still in the crib, but learning to talk her signal that she wanted to nap or go to sleep was "Bacca, pillow, blankey, tubbies!"

DICTIONARY:
Bacca=pacifier (my parents called pacifiers "plugs" so we called them "pluggies" which degenerated further into "puggies" for our kids :o which she in turn interpreted as "bacca")
Tubbies=her little teletubbies figurine she carried EVERYWHERE! She didn't watch the show much, just loved the figurines she had.

Ahhh...its great to collect all the silly and fun memories. Hope you're having a blast TBK!

[Red Kittie Kat]

Frank that's not wierd at all ... Mikey rolled over at a week old :eek:

If the pediatrician hadn't witnessed it she wouldn't have believed it. He is now 4 months old and pulling himself up to a standing position. He has been holding his head up for nearly a 2 months now.

I think the babies of today are a lot different than when I was born ... Mothers take those super vitamins now .... Creating some new brand of Super Babies. I think I laid in bed until I was 9 months old :D

[budafist]

I'm afraid of the super babies. Will they be reciting pantone numbers at age 2?

[Red Kittie Kat]

I don't want to think about that.

My nieces have already "borrowed" a lot of my graphic supplies..... ie. pens, markers, paper, card stock, stamps, ... you name it they have borrowed it...

I have to go to their room if I need something :D

I think they are all little designers in the making ;)

[cornfed]

They are definitely influenced by my being a graphic designer. With every project I have had my kids come in and critique them. The other day my 5 year old heard me talking about an ad and she said "Is it black and white or full color?!" I was cracking up! She goes into my sketch book and writes mom on every drawing. This year Santa brought her her own sketch book. I said "Oh, he must think its time you stayed out of mine!!"

[Red Kittie Kat]

That's what Auntie Amy gets them for Christmas and Birthdays too ... Sketch books, markers, pencils, and pens. It never seems to last them very long tho :D

[cornfed]

You know what I gave that was a hit this year? Blank puzzles! They're great! I now have some on hand so when little kids need a gift, I grab about 6 of them and stick them in a gift bag!

[Red Kittie Kat]

Ooh yeah those are great :D

[urstwile]

Frank, I had to struggle up off the floor after falling over from the cuteness of that picture. :D

[frankster]

I think they are all little designers in the making ;)

Funny you should say that. I've just spent the last hour scrubbing waist height coloured pencil off our hallway wall with a mr muscle magic eraser!

At least it wasn't my nice set of watercolour pencils (although that would have come off easier :rolleyes: )

So, it's the supervitamins that does it then is it? My second baby broke the little plastic baby bath that they gave her her first wash in at the hospital because her legs were so strong. It was at that point that my husband understood why the kicking made me wince when I was pregnant.

[tuliptree]

How did I miss that photo when I last posted (Franksters that is)? That's crazy cute! I picture her getting up and doing bench presses afterwards!

My daughters are prolific artists, too. At any given moment I have a pile of about 20 drawings from the two of them. I get deliveries as I work on the computer. I don't know what to do with all of them! I have a hard time picking what to save and what not to, though I trying to teach them the value of assessing their own work and saving what's worth saving, and letting go of other items that are for practice. Just harder when your the mom judging your kid's work.

[frankster]

Frank, I had to struggle up off the floor after falling over from the cuteness of that picture. :D

Lol! Maybe I should do a reshoot now that she's 3 and see if I can get her to do a one handed push up or with her little sister sat on her back or something. She's into hand stands at the moment and the little one is into rolly pollys. Brace yourself Knightyboy! It's all in the not too distant future!:D

[urstwile]

Lol! Maybe I should do a reshoot now that she's 3 and see if I can get her to do a one handed push up or with her little sister sat on her back or something. She's into hand stands at the moment and the little one is into rolly pollys. Brace yourself Knightyboy! It's all in the not too distant future!:D
^^^This post is nothing without pictures!^^^

[budafist]

So, it's the supervitamins that does it then is it? My second baby broke the little plastic baby bath that they gave her her first wash in at the hospital because her legs were so strong. It was at that point that my husband understood why the kicking made me wince when I was pregnant.

Ouch! My tummy hurts just from reading about it!

The baby push up photo certainly is a winner :)

[frankster]

I'll keep the camera handy;) Not got one of the handstands yet. It's funnier still when they are pretending to be cats, shouting "meow meow" at each other and tumbling all over the place.

[urstwile]

Of course, I'm talking from the perspective of someone who doesn't have to be around them all the time, but your kids sound hilarious, Frankster. :D

[budafist]

Well, Franks probably used to them by now. Must remember to supercharge oddball it when it comes to getting Frankster to laugh.

[cornfed]

Frankster, my oldest pretended to be a cat all the time. Even when you just wanted to talk to her normally, she would still be a cat! It lasted an incredibly long time, too.

Tulip, when Sadie, my youngest, gives me her artwork, I take it all straight to a closet and stack it. I can't bring myself to let go of any of them! I bet I have hundreds of them! I find I keep up with them better now that I've designated the "school supply closet" as the "Sadie artwork closet" too!

[frankster]

The vast majority of the time they are totally hilarious and have me grinning from ear to ear. Sometimes it can be like trying to manhandle two sacks full of excited weasels though.

They had a wickedly funny conversation while we were in Britain. We were staying in a mate's spare room that was being decorated, so it was completely empty apart from us and the travel cot and futon we were sleeping on. We'd only been there a couple of days, so the kids woke up at 2am, wide awake due to the jet lag. They climbed into the cot together and started having this totally bizarre conversation. It went something like this:

1 year old: Look beedas (Beedas is her contraction of "Big Sister", so sometimes we call her big sister "Badass Beedas")
3 year old: What is it Ffion?
It's a scary ghost. Oh no!
It's not a ghost. There's no such thing as ghosts.
A ghost, look beedas!
No Ffion, it's not a ghost. Don't be scared.
pauses
It's a robot hand.
A robot hand
yes, it's a robot hand. Look at the fingers.
Fingers! Look!
Yes. It's the fingers to get you!
Oh no!

After lying in the dark listening to this nonsense for a while I suddenly realised what they were talking about. It was the compact flourescent lightbulb that was hanging from the middle of the room without a lightshade. It looked like this...
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/3160kihz-2L._AA280_.jpg

[budafist]

It's no lightbulb, it's a robot hand dressed up as a lightbulb. It's going to get us all! Your superbabies are smart.

[urstwile]

LOL, Frank, that's a great conversation. :D

I'm always amazed by some of the things kids come up with.

[The_Black_Knight]

Dang, frankster, it looks like you've got some sort of überkind there, doing pushups at 5 months! :eek:

My little guy is already pretty strong. He is already arching his back like he's trying to lift his head, and he moves his head from side to side pretty well. It feels like he could start rolling over any time now.

[Red Kittie Kat]

lmao Frank ... I love your kidlette stories :D

... and BK if he acts like he is going to turn over this soon ... don't ever turn your back on him :D

[budafist]

lmao Frank ... I love your kidlette stories :D

... and BK if he acts like he is going to turn over this soon ... don't ever turn your back on him :D

What if you attach a loud buzzer to his chest? That way you'd be warned if he flips over :D

[Red Kittie Kat]

If only it worked that way ;)

[budafist]

Have you seen those squeaky shoes parents put on their walking babies so they know where they are? Or I guess they alert parents to a runaway baby.

They're hella annoying, but I've yet to have kids. Maybe they would be handy.

[frankster]

I don't see how they are of any use at all, but then again I have escapologists, not babies, so by the time I heard the doppler effect on the squeak, they would be too far away for me to catch them. :rolleyes:

[budafist]

I bet your kidlettes would also learn to walk on their hands :D

[frankster]

Probably. Sigh. Maybe one of those retractable leashes you can get for dog walking. With a powerful rewind mechanism. I always fancied putting the older one in my husbands climbing harness and putting the rope through a metal bracket in the middle of the ceiling with a supported counterweight and a remote control, so that if she got into a dangerous position while I was breastfeeding the baby then I could just press the remote button, release the counterweight and she would shoot up to the ceiling and dangle there in the harness until I had finished feeding her sister.

[budafist]

Probably. Sigh. Maybe one of those retractable leashes you can get for dog walking. With a powerful rewind mechanism. I always fancied putting the older one in my husbands climbing harness and putting the rope through a metal bracket in the middle of the ceiling with a supported counterweight and a remote control, so that if she got into a dangerous position while I was breastfeeding the baby then I could just press the remote button, release the counterweight and she would shoot up to the ceiling and dangle there in the harness until I had finished feeding her sister.

You better patent that one, some people might be listening!

[Red Kittie Kat]

They already have kiddie leashes lol ... been out for some time now ;)

[urstwile]

Probably. Sigh. Maybe one of those retractable leashes you can get for dog walking. With a powerful rewind mechanism. I always fancied putting the older one in my husbands climbing harness and putting the rope through a metal bracket in the middle of the ceiling with a supported counterweight and a remote control, so that if she got into a dangerous position while I was breastfeeding the baby then I could just press the remote button, release the counterweight and she would shoot up to the ceiling and dangle there in the harness until I had finished feeding her sister.
That's brilliant! :D

[frankster]

Thanks, but unfortunately we rent, so drilling load bearing fixtures into the ceiling was kind of out. I had to stumble around with a newborn clinging to my boob whilst grabbing for a 18 month old that was (insert foolish stunt of your choice here).

[Red Kittie Kat]

Frank you should write a book on the Misadventures of Motherhood. You would make a mint ;)

[frankster]

That's very sweet kittie, but I don't think I'd be able to organise my thoughts on the subject into anything coherent enough for another human to pay to read. Maybe I'm still too much in the thick of it and it'll seem a little clearer in a few years time. It amazes me that people can write whole structured novels. I have the attension span of a fruit fly and doubt I'd ever get beyond a few column length anecdotes.

[The_Black_Knight]

Lol! My 3 year old does have that tshirt!:D She does several other people's allocation of stunts too along with her own though.

and yes Corn, I think our kids are probably on the same wavelength. Mine older one walked at 8 months and that is what really transformed her into a happy baby. Up until then she would scream and scream unless she was walking around with us holding both her hands. Even at 5 months old!Talk about independant and stroppy!

Here she is doing push ups at 5 months old. Is that weird or is it just me?
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/457/5months23xp8.jpgWe took Mini-TBK to the pediatrician yesterday for his first post-hospital check-up (he's in perfect health, BTW). What freaked me out was when the pediatrician flipped him over onto his stomach, and he was already supporting himself on his arms, and holding his head an inch or two off of the examination table! :eek: Um, he was only five days old at the time! I knew he was already pretty strong, but yikes!

This kid is going to be a handful. I better start working out now just to be able to handle him later.