So, the run down on binkies. Me eldest was a thumb-sucker, can't throw those away so she twiddled with it till she was 9 or so ( don't look at me like that! I may be evil but I draw the line at amputation) but she threw her own bottle in the trash when she was about 16 months old, she dropped it and when she picked it up there was something on the nipple and she said "OOOO, naassy" and threw it out. The second daughter followed that same pattern almost to the letter(rest of the story goes with youngest son). The eldest son sucked his thumb till he was 10 months old and quit on his own and he did away with his own bottle as well because his sissy drank out of a cup. AND true to form my youngest wonderful biological do-over is where the story lies....

He did this projectile hurl, exorcist style, every time he ate until he was 6 months old. The doctor kept telling me it was acid reflux and when he was 3 or 4 weeks old she suggested I get him to take a pacifier. The youngest daughter saw this, went into her room, dumped her toy box and found in the bottom a nasty, funky binky and popped it in her mouth. If he had one..then she wanted one too. Couple days later we were visiting a friend of mine (one that is more of a grandparent to them than any of the real ones) they call Granny. Daughter asked for a cookie, Granny said "Throw that nasty binky away and I'll give you one." She did, ate the cookie and walked out the door sucking her thumb, she was two. She's twelve and she doesn't do it all the time but if she's tired or upset...yep, she still does. (The drawing of the line at amputation may have to be amended).

OH, turned out it wasn't acid reflux, when he was six months old the docs did an endoscopy. Four biopsies later it was discovered he was allergic to cow's milk and soy milk. The formula they put him on was horribly expensive and the container said "predigested' but I never found out who digested it first and it certainly smelled like someone had.

mALX I have so many stories about these four, 25 years worth, but it's fun to recall the ones I had let slip to the back of the closet....


This post has been edited by Athynae: Feb 21 2012, 12:43 PM

I had one that was sucking his thumb in the ultrasound photo.

Eldest daughter was too. Tech pointed at her head and said "See that? She's sucking her thumb." Then she pointed to the other end and said "See that? It's a boy." HUH??? Yes, I had several ultra sounds with her because of the enormous amount of weight I gained with no apparent other health problems. Every one of them showed what was perceived as male parts...after SHE was born I asked the doctor if it fell off during the trauma of the birthing process.

Just because he was curious too he had the last one enlarged to see exactly what it was. Her umbilical cord had a tiny loop that rested right at the junction of her legs...go figure. She wore nothing but blue sports outfits til she was 3 months old....probably why she's such a "girl" now...

I had a boy they swore was a girl the whole time. I guess his little "friend" was hiding like a turtle or something. He spent a lot of time in T-shirts the first few days because everything we bought or got at the Baby Showers was pink and purple.

xD, the only few pictures of when I was a baby, i'm wearing *shivers* pink, they thought that I was going to be a girl xD, they did do ultrasounds, but did not want to know the gender...welll .

Parenting sounds....so much fun? Can't wait to become a parent myself....in 20 years or something.
For me it was not sucking my thumb, it was my Mikey Mouse stuffed animal, had it till middle school, yes I know very late, but it randomly vanished into the flea market, but now I need to be hugging something in order to sleep, in my case right now it's a pillow

I'm the same way, and my grandmother-in-law bought me a 5 foot long down bolster - it is actually a down pillow but extra-EXTRA long. I love it !!

I sleep in a queen size bed with so many pillows that my children complain that they can't find me if they happen to get up before I do, which only happens on 5th Tuesday in April (if there is one) and Christmas.....hahaha. Woohoo for the giant pillow mALX that sounds wonderful, I need 3 or 4 of them, lol. Issues? I don't have issues....mostly...

Here's the secret though, the pillows don't snore, they don't hog the covers, they don't slobber on your pillow, I'm sure there's more that makes them better I just can't think of them just now...

I just like to spoon, lol. My husband says I fidget too much and disturb his sleep if I spoon him, ROFL !!

Athynae, I just saw your siggy and almost died laughing - has Foxy seen it?

He either hasn't seen it OR he's doing what I said which is very doubtful, I just don't think he could resist saying something....

This post has been edited by Athynae: Feb 22 2012, 05:07 AM

Spooning can be hazardous. Back in our small bed days we didn’t have room to roll over, so we had to sort of flip in place. Once Mr. Grits flipped over and gave the pillow a couple of vicious punches to fluff it up again. Of course I had been curled up right against him. Got me twice right in the side of the face.

I woke up confused. Mr. Grits was too horrified to speak. Apparently I said something like, “Fine, I’ll get my own alarm clock.”

This conversation really brings a wonderful line from Terry Pratchett to mind: 'A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.'

Believe I had the rather odd habit of walking on the tips of my toes when I was younger. Nearly got to the point where I had shortened hamstrings, which is a slightly alarming prospect...

Completely unrelated to the topic at hand, but;

I CAN LEGALLY DRIVE UNSUPERVISED! FEAR ME!!

I agree!




URK !!! My hair used to be down to the middle of my thighs, and my husband (then) used to roll over on it in his sleep if I was facing away from him. My head would jerk back painfully and I’d wake up like this:

“YEEEOOOOWWW!!!!”

I cut my hair twice, once to the top of my hips, second time to the middle of my back, same thing. He just found my hair like some kind of magnet and wallowed on it. If I lay my hair up on the pillow to avoid his ruminating over it, somehow his meaty arm would plop down on the top of my pillow and yank it.

NOT spooning was dangerous with him, lol.



GAAAAAAH !!!

My youngest son tiptoed longer than most, he could balance on the handlebars of his Hotwheels trike on tiptoes. It just went away after an ear operation before he was two, though how or whether that was connected I’m not sure.


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This post has been edited by mALX: Feb 22 2012, 05:59 PM

Ooh, that does not sound fun. I went through a period of immensely big, curly hair at one point in my life, which did have the rather unpleasant side effect of a) making hats impossible to put on and sometimes getting caught in low hanging tree branches/bushes (it was very curly and kind of grew upwards and outwards more than anything else). After something like the fifth time, I just thought 'sod it, I'm cutting it short'. Turns out it looks better and I can wear hats properly, so everyone wins.


Yes, fear me! FOUR-WHEELED DOOM IS UNLEASHED!!

Also, could be the ear canals, maybe? They're connected to balance, after all, so that might have been affecting it.

It was his ear canals, created a terrible imbalance and he was hearing impaired almost all his life because of it. That early surgery didn't give him hearing but did stop the tiptoe-ing. Numerous surgeries later they did make it so he could hear, (that had to be redone a couple years ago). So what did he do as soon as he could hear - took up music. He plays about five musical instruments now.

And - I want to see a picture of the long curly hair !!! Lol.

I was a tip-toer...until I was like 3 or 4...but I think it was just because I wanted to sneak up on everyone...

Colonel, let me know when you'll be on the road and I'll let you have it. Actually, thus far I have successfully taught 4 teens to drive, 2 of mine and 2 that were friends of my children because their mothers refused to even walk out to the driveway with them. I started driving a farm truck on the farm when I was 10, the tractor when I was 8. The truck had no brakes so I learned A LOT before I was actually on the road. I think my Dad let me actually drive the car on pavement the first time when I was 12.

I second the vote on the big, curly hair!!

So the Great Rabbit (aka Mrs. Treydog) is one of those women who thinks 70 degrees F is chilly. Except in the summer when people coming into the house have to bring sweaters. Reason this matters is it means she tends to sleep under LOTS of covers- including a nice thick LL Bean housecoat, complete with sash.

So one night, I was minding my own business, sleeping soundly. Feel her roll to her right side (away from me). And then I feel something around my THROAT!

Much pulling ensues, and I begin to make the sort of sounds one would expect to make when being garroted with the sash of a housecoat.

She CLAIMS it was an accident- but I am a bit more careful about sleeping too soundly.

xD, my cousins cat did something similar to this, keep in mind this is a really BIG cat, I was sleeping on the floor in their living room, then I opened my eyes because I felt something strange, the cat was looking at me, his orange eyes were shining in the dark, well that creeped me out, okay i went to sleep again, a little while later I opened my eyes and saw that it was on the couch, then it jumped and landed RIGHT on my neck, I could not breath for a little while.
Proof that cats have no souls and want to feed on ours.

Also for the driving thing, I really need to learn how, but driving scares me t-t

Also it feels like everything is bunching up o.O, First the funeral, I got a little fever that week, then all the course work that I'm lagging on, NOW a cold, complete with sinuses(i hate this with a passion), huge headache, and with a dizzy spell! And here I thought that I was going to start writing again this week! xD

This post has been edited by Fawkes: Feb 23 2012, 03:12 AM

ROFL !!!!

Probably scared poor Ms. Treydog to death!!! And if it was intentional Trey all I want to know is what did you do to warrant such an act?? I mean I would have to have a pretty good reason for taking my robe sash to someone.

OK, I'm on my way in a couple of hours to meet the new little human. Son just sent me a text and they just broke his wife's water....