Did I not say that right? Pumpkin ice cream last year = disappointing. Pumpkin ice cream this year = delicious.
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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.
Jesse - Oct 08, 2012 11:17:53 am PDT #24945 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sheryl - Oct 08, 2012 11:19:52 am PDT #24946 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
~ma for your Mom, Scrappy.
flea - Oct 08, 2012 11:23:58 am PDT #24947 of 30001
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For the record, the secret to the "holding breath until the face turns blue" phenomenon is to forcefully blow a puff of air in the baby's face. That generally startles 'em out of it. (Signed, it's still really scary, even if you know logically that once they pass out they'll start breating automatically.)
Jessica - Oct 08, 2012 11:25:38 am PDT #24948 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I think it was Plei who correctly identified that feeling of wanting another baby around 10 months as actually wanting this baby for just a little longer. (Of course there are people who have babies that close together, on purpose, but I think for the vast majority of us, it's that we miss our current baby's infant phase, not that we actually want to be pregnant while also chasing a 1 year-old. )
Steph L. - Oct 08, 2012 11:30:02 am PDT #24949 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I bought the pumpkin cream cheese this morning
TJs pumpkin cream cheese is amazing. As is their pumpkin Greek yogurt.
flea - Oct 08, 2012 11:33:52 am PDT #24950 of 30001
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I know someone who deliberately spaced her two children 17 months apart. Her first child was one of those incredible babies who sleep through the whoooole night (not just the doctor's definition of "sleeping though the night," which I was very sad to learn was only 5 hours in a row, not that either of my children ever did such a thing anyway) at 6 weeks and she also had a remarkably placid temperament. Second child, yeah, no.
Jesse - Oct 08, 2012 11:34:10 am PDT #24951 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OK, after all the talk of monthly cooking, I'm sort of doing it! Or a lazy single person's version of it, anyway. Currently cooking a potato-kale gratin, roasting leftover butternut squash I'm going to make into soup, and defrosting tomato sauce to put in some strombolis I'm going to make with dough I also bought at TJ's. Oh, and I'm going to make an apple crisp next. Seasonal!
Kate P. - Oct 08, 2012 11:37:10 am PDT #24952 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Jesse, that sounds delicious! I'm so happy it's finally soup season.
Jessica - Oct 08, 2012 11:39:52 am PDT #24953 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
not just the doctor's definition of "sleeping though the night,"
Yeah, I'm still mad about that, by the way. 5 hours = "the night" MY ASS.
My kids were the opposite of that. #1 didn't sleep more than 2 hours at a time until we Ferberized him at 10 months. #2 started sleeping 10 hours straight at 5 months with no parental intervention whatsoever. (#1 also gave up naps at 18 months, meanwhile #2 has been asleep for almost 3 hours this afternoon.)
Kate P. - Oct 08, 2012 11:51:04 am PDT #24954 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
#1 didn't sleep more than 2 hours at a time until we Ferberized him at 10 months.
Oh god. Two hours? That's just miserable.
Rose is actually a pretty good sleeper, which I fear means that our next kid will never sleep at all.