why do they have to grow up?
babies are so cute and cuddly and funny and soft and squishy

a cute baby chameleon was here
[Edited 11/10/05 20:50pm]

cute, you say?

I know!! I still wanna squeeze my little cousin'z cheekz and she's turning 10 next year I remember the dayz when we'd spin her around and around in circlez then let her go and she'd look all dizzy and cute poor thing and she used to have a little boyfriend who'z name was Dylan but she called him Diddan it was too CUTE!!!

lilmissmissy said:

I love to spin around on my office chair with Max - he laughs himself silly and then his eyes go around like car city!

charlottegelin said:

Babiez can be SO animated!! There was this baby that a customer had brought in the other week at work...she kept smiling at me- she had this humungous toothless gummy smile it was sooooo CUTE and then she'd make a funny frowny face and whenever i'd pull a face back or do peek-a-boo she'd get all excited!! TOO CUTE!!!

Does Max coo in the morningz?

lilmissmissy said:

actually he usually just screams to get my attention

right now he is ON FIRE!!! he is giggling like a lunatic trying to get under my desk to play with the cables. I am blocking his way and he thinks that is the funniest thing in the wole world

They are indeed adorable. I was at the airport a week ago and a plane had just landed with a bunch of white people who had newly-adopted Asian kids with them, so the whole terminal was full of relatives with flowers and cameras. The parents looked a bit shell-shocked and incredibly happy all at the same time, as if they were thinking "How the hell am I going to be able to keep this precious little life in good health. It's starting already tonight!". I suppose people who have their own kids feel that way too; one second the kid is just there, and wants attention 24/7, but at least they've gone through a pregnancy and are somewhat mentally prepared.

I saw one kid that was hanging on tightly to her new father and looking at everybody else with great big eyes. She looked like she was thinking. "Oh I guess I should hold on to this new person so I won't be left alone again."

retina said:

It is VERY scary bringing first baby home for the first time. Every time they cry you think "OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD!" because you don't have a clue what could be the matter, and it almost physically hurts you when your own baby cries like that.
Second baby? Much easier
Third baby? Piece of cake! They crying doesn't even bother you any more.

charlottegelin said:

OMG that's so cute!!! My mum said i used to coo in the morning- go all happy n goo goo gaa gaa and the likez hehe, was wondering if alotta babies do that kinda thing cause i've seen it and it'z adorable!!

charlottegelin said:

2 months to go

lilmissmissy said:

he talks all day long, he uses all the right sounds for the english language - it is incredible, it sounds like he is saying stuff, sometimes appropriately - like "shoes" (shooss) when I bring him his sandals, he says "dat", and "bup" a lot cracks me up

PREDOMINANT said:

OK, don't do this OK: When the missus is using the toilet for a number 2 (which can be uncomfortable in the early days after the birth, and might take a while) do NOT bring the baby into the bathroom when he is crying to say to her "hurry up! he's crying!" it will just make HER cry. Trust me, I should know

charlottegelin said:

Y'mean "c'mon woman I got beer to drink and football to watch" isn't a constructive thing to say in the days following birth?

I will be all over this baby, she has had him for 7 months!! It's my turn already!!

PREDOMINANT said:

It's SO exciting!!! I am jealous, there is nothing in the whole world like meeting your baby for the first time.

Don't say "make him shut up I can't hear the telly!" either
or

charlottegelin said:

AWWWWW!!!

Now that my youngest is five and sometimes think of having another. But, no more kids for me.

babies are a trip, just watching them grow, taking first steps, watch how they look at you when the baby wakes up. its such a joy looking at something u and the one u love create because they are you, but not you.. yanno?

I want mine NOW!!

LMAO at "bup" genius

TheRealFiness said:

uhhuh.....

retina said:

the seriously short lived LAX tv show had that senario at the end of one of their episodes...I got all teary

i have 2 and need ONE more! well... maybe two more... three max

they're sooo much fun!

nothing funnier than a toddler entertainment in a pamper!

lilmissmissy said:

@ your cousin calling her little boyfriend "Diddan", that's just too precious! My youngest nephew used to call the color purple "purtle". We used to show him something purple just so we could hear him mispronounce the word, because it was so funny.

at all these cute stories. Gotta love little babies and kids, they grow up too darn fast!

PREDOMINANT said:

"BUP!"