Gratuitous icon post...

[rivka]

...and announcement that, with the completion of Alex's November and December albums, I am finally caught up on uploading her pictures to Flickr.

Here's your preview:

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[beaq.livejournal.com]

It is to squee.

[beaq.livejournal.com]

My GOD, look at that red dress! Holy mother of wow!

(You might say I'm a bit behind.)

[rivka.livejournal.com]

You're supposed to be admiring Alex.

[beaq.livejournal.com]

I'm admiring at least half of her.

[melebeth]

Oh the cuteness! I think my uterus just ran off to maryland to try and clone her.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

How about a deal? You successfully manage to clip her nails, and you may have the clippings for DNA purposes.

[melebeth]

That seems... oddly reasonable :)

Cutie!!

[tendyl.livejournal.com]

She is a cutie. I've been rereading your newborn posts to remind me that I'm not the only one who thinks the first few weeks are insane. *sigh*

Re: Cutie!!

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Oh good lord, of course you're not. Be of good cheer! It gets steadily better, starting at about... week six.

(And many felicitations!)

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

Pat the Bunny is certifiably the tastiest book. It's also excellent for sitting on and flapping back and forth. So Elena reports, anyway.

(Meanwhile - Juanita! She was like.... *4* the last time I saw her. Sheesh!)

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Pat the Bunny has already lost its front cover and is within moments of losing the back cover. They're just too darn chewable, with that comb binding.

[tassie-gal.livejournal.com]

The cute! She is gorgeous and adorable and you just want to cuddle her to death....BTW who has the red hair?

[rivka.livejournal.com]

BTW who has the red hair?

I maintain strongly that it is not our mailman, who is African-American. And female.

[tassie-gal.livejournal.com]

OJ meet screen.... BRILL!

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

She is so beautiful. And I don't mean that only in the physical sense. I think you will be rising to many challenges to her intelligence in the next 20 or so years. And I think you and curiousangel are very much up to the challenges :):).

I am enjoying this so much. Thank you for sharing her growth, her progress, *her*.

[saoba.livejournal.com]

My goodness, you guys do nice work!

[kightp.livejournal.com]

What a big girl!

[riarambles.livejournal.com]

Yay! Just what I needed when sitting at the computer, wide awake, at 3 am!

Rivka, what kind of stroller did you end up getting, and do you like it? I foudn posts in your memories talking about checking out strollers, but didn't see one where you picked one or commented on it after the fact.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

To begin with, we had a Snap N Go - the thingy that infant carseats snap into. Loved it. Unfortunately, Alex became too long for the infant carseat before she was five months old.

Now we have a Combi City Savvy. Things I like about it: extremely lightweight, easily maneuverable, folds up very small and has a shoulder strap for carrying while folded. Things I don't like about it: the basket is very hard to access when the baby is in the stroller, and it's too small.

(And congratulations!)

[riarambles.livejournal.com]

We're going to get a convertible carseat that you can use both back and front facing, from newborn to 40 pounds, so we're not in the market for a stroller that a carseat attaches to. Does the other stroller work from newborn up, or is it only for older babies? The problem I'm having (in online research; haven't gone to the store yet) is finding a lightweight stroller that fully reclines so you can put a newborn in it.

(I posted a comment to you in Christie's journal a while ago, hinting at this development, but I don't know if you saw it or followed up on it. :) )

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Lightweight strollers pretty much don't recline fully for newborns. My friend Emily is crazy about her Zooper, and that does fully recline - you might look into that. But at 16lbs and only partially collapsible, it's more of a middleweight stroller. Still, she does take it on the bus.

[riarambles.livejournal.com]

Lightweight may be the wrong term to use; I want something that is not *too* heavy, and something that folds up to go in the trunk, but what I really don't want is one of those HUGE strollers or travel system dealies.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Also, I have serious doubts about how well newborns really fit into convertible carseats. Is your husband really big? Do you have reason to suspect that you're having a larger-than-usual baby? Is there anyone you could borrow an infant seat from?

[riarambles.livejournal.com]

Well, both Mr. R. and his brother weighted about 9 pounds when they were born, but that doesn't necessarily mean we'll have a big baby. I would check out what you say about convertible seats, but as it happened a colleague has given me an infant seat, so we can use that for a few months at the beginning.

[geekymary.livejournal.com]

She is so CUTE! That first picture is wonderful.

[chargirlgenius.livejournal.com]

cute cute cute cute cute cute!

Henry's trying to tell me that he's calling dibs!

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Alex wants me to tell Henry that she hasn't even made up her mind about boys vs. girls, yet, but she'll certainly keep Henry in mind. ;-)

[lilmasterhenry.livejournal.com]

Aw mom, you're embarrasing me!

(Alex, I haven't made up my mind either... all I know is that when mom and her friends took me to that shop with all the boobies [was it restaurant supply?], I really liked touching all of the silky things. Pretty!)

[minnaleigh.livejournal.com]

Yay for cute baby pictures!!

[thatwordgrrl.livejournal.com]

She's still got those startlingly BLUE eyes... :>

And lovely they are.

[ratphooey.livejournal.com]

When did she become completely and utterly supercute? I mean, she was always plenty cute. But now? Just as cute as could possibly be.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Well, look who's talking, with that adorably moonfaced userpic!

I'd date it to the reliable appearance of her smile, but I might also be a trifle biased.

[ratphooey.livejournal.com]

I think it's that you really start seeing their personalities expressed in their faces in a way you don't when they are especially wee.