All the experiments I want to do on babies are totally unethical. For example, raise a group of babies in a completely isolated environment with robots that don't speak, to see what kind of culture they come up with....
The kids or the robots?
I tell you I have this theory. It goes where, you're the one who's not my sister. Cuz mom adopted you from a shoe box full of baby howler monkeys, and never told you cuz it could hurt your delicate baby feelings.
Dawn ,'Selfless'
Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
billytea - Nov 12, 2007 2:30:37 pm PST #1981 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
sarameg - Nov 12, 2007 2:52:08 pm PST #1982 of 10001
I love watching the cogs in children. If you're paying attention (and are lucky enough to be around at the moment) you can practically see the spark in the synapses when a cognitive leap is made. It can be hilarious. Like telling you not to look when they are in the midst of havoc, which you wouldn't have noticed had they not mentioned it!
Learning the basics of manipulation can be pretty hysterical, too. I'm not talking simple cause and effect, but more deliberately- trying to get you to give a specific kind of emotional response. Like what D was doing when I was there. He'd try to rile me so transparently and once he realized I wouldn't play would cheerfully proclaim "let's talk about something fun now!" Hah.
Jessica - Nov 12, 2007 2:59:02 pm PST #1983 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Every day, show you baby a bowl of marbles and ask her to give you one. Wait until your baby can do this. This actually takes some time, during which you'll either get nothing or maybe a handful of marbles.
Um. Am I the only one instantly imagining a third possibility that ends with a trip to the ER?
Susan W. - Nov 12, 2007 3:15:31 pm PST #1984 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Um. Am I the only one instantly imagining a third possibility that ends with a trip to the ER?
No, because marbles look like grapes. Or even olives, a favorite snack of my strange daughter.
It is fun to watch the mental gears turn, though. Annabel has been counting objects for awhile, but she's just now gotten good at counting on her fingers, and she's very proud of the skill.
Kat - Nov 12, 2007 3:16:17 pm PST #1985 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Lovely mac pictures!
ooooh, yes! please to get scrapbooking tape. probably two rolls.
ok. how do I get it to you?
I'm having trouble identifying a handful of grace/noah pics. bleh.
a handful for you to keep or in general? Take what you want.
I should go to yoga.
Cashmere - Nov 12, 2007 3:18:11 pm PST #1986 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I think I remember flea mentioning Casper putting olives on her fingertips before eating them--which I think is just too adorable.
Um. Am I the only one instantly imagining a third possibility that ends with a trip to the ER?
Nope.
I caught Owen trying to clean out his own ear with a q-tip he found in my gym bag and I freaked immediately, imagining that he had punctured his ear drum before I could get it away from him.
Jesse - Nov 12, 2007 3:23:58 pm PST #1987 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
When my cousin was little, we tried to make him put the olives on his fingers, and he totally didn't care! It was hilarious, because we were all cracking up, and he was like, "WTF, dudes? Don't these go in my mouth??" He must have been like a year and a half.
Cass - Nov 12, 2007 3:56:05 pm PST #1988 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Casper putting olives on her fingertips before eating themI still sometimes eat them this way...
Trudy Booth - Nov 12, 2007 4:40:00 pm PST #1989 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
My dad rightly pointed out that we'd be disowned if we renamed her so their names would combine into a race car driver's name.
And as I oh-so-sanely pointed out, you don't disown the guy with the cool toys.
Casper putting olives on her fingertips before eating them
Isn't that how you eat olives?
Cass - Nov 12, 2007 5:23:05 pm PST #1990 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
It's how I eat them. And how I taught the Nephlet to eat them. We were working on the concept of "serving sizes" and counting olives leads to wearing olives inevitably.
And as I oh-so-sanely pointed out, you don't disown the guy with the cool toys.You can if you're married to him. And he loses the cool toys too. Then you don't have twins to put in matching checkered flag outfits and no other cool toys either.
She's staying with that name her parents gave her. No matter how misguided they were.