Nov~Dec 2002 tots - Page 10

[eilonwy]

27 pounds & 34 inches.. such a big girl!

Does it seem to anyone else that only yesterday you were looking at a tiny new baby and now you're looking at a toddler person and it just happened overnight, by magic? I was watching Eli asleep today and he just looked so big to me, I can't believe that my little baby has gotten so big! And he's a little tiny guy! :LOL

[tea olive]

that reminds me....a general indication of adult height is derived from doubling the height at two years.

lilyka you crack me up. cos you figured out what ava wanted anyway. at least it's not perpetual back arching for cheetos, which is what ruby wanted yesterday and today from other people's snacks.

[DecemberSun]

My friend and her 7 yr old DD are visiting from Washington (I used to live there), and they've stayed at our house the past two weekends. We've gone to the lake both Saturdays, and it's just beautiful! We take the boat out to a sandbar and meet up with other friends with kids. The kids play in the sand, and throw rocks into the water, and enjoy the sunshine. The only problem is that both my babies fight tooth and nail not to take a nap. Zach will nurse and nurse and eventually give in and fall asleep, but the second I try to put him down and he realizes he's not in bed he'll wake up screaming. Julianna drinks bottle after bottle and rubs her eyes and cries, but will not let herself fall asleep. Last weekend they both finally gave up and slept for an hour on a blanket on the beach, but this weekend was horrible! I bet it was the wind that was bothering them, now that I think about it...

We're really having a great spring. The weather is nice and warm, cool enough to be outside all day, and warm enough to go to the lake and swim. I'm enjoying it thoroughly- dreading the days of 100+ degree weather that are to come... Ugh...

[lilyka]

I will have to take Ava to the post office and weigh her. the last time we had her weighed she was 26# and 11 months old. I don't think she has gained anything since then. She had actually gone down a pound fom her 9 month weigh in. she is definitely getting longer. I walked in and she had turned sideways in the bed. adn she almost stretched the entire length of it! of a queen size bed. crazyness.

[majazama]

At my 2 year height, doubled, I would have been 6'1" by now.. but I am 5'10". I wish I was 6'1" :LOL I think Haeven will be taller than me.

[eilonwy]

My doubled 2-year height made me just over five feet, which is where I am; I know this because my mother told me about it when I was 9 or 10. She said that I'd probably stop growing fairly shortly (no pun intended) because I was 4'10", and she didn't think I'd make it much past 5'. :

I hope Eli is taller than that! :LOL

My nieces should both be really tall by that logic, especially the younger one. Of course, they have a tall father (his whole family is tall!)

[tea olive]

talking to myself......

leah, that sounds like way too much fun. i wouldn't be able to nap either.

i remember something about sharing. good luck with that ladies. it is a difficult one to instill without organic social community, and annoying enough to wish for a week in daycare or school just to teach them the hard way. the other day our homeschool group was laughing about how we don't do sharing. (a schoolboy was pestering one of the kids to "share" his lightsaber and went to the trouble of finding the mamma to complain). taking turns can work with a bit of cleverness and distraction, and otherwise the goal is for true generosity and the patience to wait. which does happen eventually......haha, i'm laughing thinking about how many times i've yelled about : please just let him have the durned thing. and i have to remind myself that i don't like to share my things either. in fact i'm more protective about my stuff and the way i do things than other people (forks go up in the dishwasher!)......good thing i'm propagating these genes, huh?

i know, it's a habit i got from my mom that want to tone down (no one can throw away trash correctly around her). but all my stuff gets broken and ruined and my home gets disgusting. maybe it's a money thing. if i felt i could afford time and money to replace items than i would be not so antsy. let's see, according to the wise woman in me, if i don't care so much then they wouldn't break stuff, maybe? i guess i need to rethink my childproofing schemes. but i want so much to be continuum about objects and function......maybe i should just find a way to hire out my kids as consumer testers, since they are such experts at dismantling.

alright, i'll measure soon.

[kerc]

hola,
just checking in for a bit -- i'm trying be online less at work. more time spent working = more time with my family.

we just hosted a LLL enrichment meeting on cloth diapering. Also slings -- kind of interesting on both counts. I got to see in person one of those didymos slings. makes a mama want one REALLY bad. Too bad we already have a backpack, front pack and maya wrap. I think I might have to sew one up and see if I can talk erin into riding on my back in it.

[punkprincessmama]

We took Mariah to a WBC at the end of March, she was 31 1/2 inches long and almost 20lbs. Long and lean she is.

That is really interesting about doubling the height at 2. I will have to write that down somewhere or I will forget!!

Someday I will figure out how to post pics to a website so y'all can see my little Zoomba. Maybe this summer.........

Do any of you have nicknames for your little one(s)? Do you use their given name or their nickname more?? I started calling Mariah "Zoomba" around the time she started crawling and would "zoom" around the apartment so quickly. I tend to call her Mariah or Mariah Rose more than Zoomba, but dh almost exclusively calls her Zoomba or Zoomey (nickname on top of nickname!!). Surprisingly she answers to all of these (when she wants to answer! Sometimes we go through all of them and still get no response! Stubborn!!)

Just curious...

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. We did.

[lilyka]

Madeline is Poo which is short for princess poop which goes back to a NICU incedent and some really good distance and aim. :LOL

Lilyka shortened naturally to Licky so she gets called Licky B (b is short for baby) or just Lick.

Ava is Bava (short for Baby ava) or Steve or Avy or Avy bean occaisionally bavy. She answers to all. Steve happened one day when I was sick of everyone assuming she was a boy and when they said "my what a cute little fellow you have i said "thanks his name is steve." It also goes back to a carton where one of the characters was " Hey Steve" (www.homestartrunner.com - look under strong bad e-mails. I think it is called the greatest cartoon ever. it is pretty fiunny in a twisted so bad you have to keep watching kind of way)

anyhooooooo, didn't get her weighed today because just as we were walking out the door a huge hail storm blew in . one minute it was sunny then dark. I called dh to tellhim we were about to leave and within a minute I said "holy crap looks like a storm is gonna be here soon, 30 second later I quickly hung up and started strappin stuff down. I git the bikes on the porch the recycling bin reassembled and put in our windless place and the lid to the sand box on and then the hail started pelting me. about every 5 second they doubles in size until they were the size of, . . . of. . . . well biogger than peanut m&ms and smaller than pingpong balls. I sent the girls to the basement, closed the windows (which I had just opened" turned onthe news, and then it was over. j ust like that. our lawn was completely covered with ice in about 6 minutes. weirdest thing. It didn't come back but I wasn't about to risk going anywahere. So my chunky monkey still hasn't gotten weighed.

[hjohnson]

DH and I call Christopher either by his given name or Chris, Bubba, and when I was pregnant with him Peanut. Why I call him Bubba I don't know. He got the name Peanut, because they did an ultrasound at 8 weeks when I thought I was having a miscarriage and he looked like a peanut in the ultrasound. Currently we call DS #2 "lil' bit". DS will show up in September.

[punkprincessmama]

Originally posted by lilyka
It also goes back to a carton where one of the characters was " Hey Steve" (www.homestartrunner.com - look under strong bad e-mails. I think it is called the greatest cartoon ever. it is pretty fiunny in a twisted so bad you have to keep watching kind of way)

I have seen that website, it is funny. I had totally forgotten about it though until you brought it up :

Originally posted by lilyka

anyhooooooo, didn't get her weighed today because just as we were walking out the door a huge hail storm blew in . one minute it was sunny then dark. I called dh to tellhim we were about to leave and within a minute I said "holy crap looks like a storm is gonna be here soon, 30 second later I quickly hung up and started strappin stuff down. I git the bikes on the porch the recycling bin reassembled and put in our windless place and the lid to the sand box on and then the hail started pelting me. about every 5 second they doubles in size until they were the size of, . . . of. . . . well biogger than peanut m&ms and smaller than pingpong balls. I sent the girls to the basement, closed the windows (which I had just opened" turned onthe news, and then it was over. j ust like that. our lawn was completely covered with ice in about 6 minutes. weirdest thing. It didn't come back but I wasn't about to risk going anywahere. So my chunky monkey still hasn't gotten weighed.

That is so crazy!! And definetley a good reason why you didn't way her today! Being from S. Texas I can't even imagine what your day was like!

[punkprincessmama]

i'm glad we aren't the only ones with a kooky nick name for our kiddo!! (I'm thinking about Steve for Ava and Princess Poop here, not so much Bubba)

Although on the Bubba for Christopher issue, I started calling my DH Boo one day for no apparent reason and it has stuck for years now!! Isn't it funny how these things work?

I'm still curious to hear everyone elses nicknames for your dc, if you have any.

[tea olive]

reed has given ruby a multitude of names. the best one is "professor sabe" (like wasabi?). she is named ruby mei and mei mei means little sister in a few asian languages, so we use that alot.

[lilyka]

ooo, that should have been
www.homestarrunner.com sorry about those pop ups

[kerc]

(I know I said I was going to be offline today. taking a coffee break!)

erin is .... peanut, bunny and most often "champ" her dad gave her that name and it just sorta stuck.

[majazama]

haeven is bubby, stinky poo face, angel, sweets, ... got the stinky poo face name from my bro, who calls his son elwynn that sometimes.

[DecemberSun]

Zachary's nicknames: of course Zach, and Zachary Soza when he's in trouble, but mostly we call him "Mac". Dh started calling him Mr. MacHenry (Mack-en-ree) when he was little, then it shortened to Mr. Mac, and now Mac. Sometimes we'll mix it up and call him Smack Down or Zacharoni. When he was a newborn I had to force myself to call him Zachary, because I called him "Pumpkin" all the time LOL. We used to call him Spike for awhile when his baby hair stood up straight.

Julianna's nicknames: Julianna or Juliana, however you want to say it; Julianna Rose when she's in trouble; "Nanna" from Zach. Osa, which means bear in Spanish, is the most common one. She also answers to Jul, Osa Bosa, BoBo, SoBo, and the Spanish pronunciation of Juliana (Hoo-lee-on-ah).

Funny to hear every else's nicknames, too!

[eilonwy]

Eliyahu's Nicknames: Eli, EliBean, EliBellyBean, BeanBean, CutieMan, Sugar Pea, Sugar Plum, LoveyMan, LoveyMuffin, LoveyBean, SweetieBean, CuteAndHandsome, BeanBoy, Bananas, Nanas, MiniBuns. He also gets "awards" from me all the time... for example "Most Kissable goes to.... EliBeanBean!!!" (lots of kisses and cheering from Daddy). :LOL Most Kissable/Huggable/Loveable/Nursable/Washable... You get the idea.

NewBean's Nicknames: NewBean, MiniBean, SiblingBean, SisterBean, SisterBaby. I'm sure more will come after she's born & we name her. :LOL

I have a niece named Elizabeth; I used to call her "A Little Bit" but she has long since ceased to be a little bit of anything; she's a big girl! I call her Beasty-Beast, which is derived from "ElizaBeast of the Apocalypse". She's also MooseBaby or BigGirl ("I'm a baby girl big girl!") When she was learning to stand up & walk, I called it "The Rise and Fall of the Elizabethan Empire", which was hilarious. :LOL She has a sister whom I call Chibi, so when I call them or refer to them together they are Chibi and Libby. My mother calls her "Lizabeast", "Lizardbeast" or "Lizardbreath". :LOL

My other niece is Chibi, Chibi-moon, Usagi, Usagi-moon, Usako, Usagi-chan, Moon-moon.. you get the idea. I also call her Skinny or Slim Shady sometimes. :LOL She's a stringbean.

I don't see my nephew often enough to have a nickname for him other than the obvious shortening of his name. My brother was calling him "Dr. Poopenstien" or "Poopstain" for short, which I did not approve of.

[lilmiss'mama]

Scarlett is sweatpea or sugarbunch or sweetiepie, but mostly Scarlett. My family doesn't do nicknames, I guess I have never thought about why. After reading all of these maybe I should come up with some good ones!

Also, Scarlett is totally into asking why? after I tell her something. She even says it in this high pitched raised voice, question format. Right now she is walking around in swim goggles. She thinks she is so funny and she's right!:LOL