Baby City

Apr. 30th, 2011 09:45 pm
maxcelcat: (Bug)
Man, I thought I'd reached that certain age a few years ago - that age where all your friends start having babies. All that is but the committed dinks couples anyway.

But it seems there's another wave... Either I've made new friends or some folks just forgot about it till now. Two of my oldest friends - Julie and Dave, who I met at RMIT in 1994 (gah, that's seventeen years ago now!) are cooking a baby. The girlfriend Deb's brother and his wife are also pregnant. And then of course there's the newly created, three and a half week old Hamish. And my fifteen month old niece, who has started to walk and who's favourite game at the moment is bouncing on a bed. She also loves the "Incy Wincy Spider" song, trying valiantly to do the actions.

Hey, don't look at me! I ain't quite ready to go there yet. Soon, but no yet.

In support of this we have a pile of baby clothes here, mostly from said Niece, which we are about to deliver to various current and prospective parents. Some of the things are so cute, like the little pairs of shoes.

Pink Hair

Apr. 26th, 2010 10:15 pm
maxcelcat: (Orange Hair)
This Sunday I ended up at a kids birthday party. Some friends of Deb's have twin boys who were turning three.

Kids are hilarious. The two boys involved are into trucks, Bob the Builder, and umbrellas and all things pink! They even insisted they get their toenails painted the same color as their mother. So there were pink birthday cakes, pink bunting and pink hair spray. So for a few hours my hair was pink. And... I've just noticed... so is a patch of the sofa where I was sitting last night.

There were also loads of kids at this party - no surprise really. In fact, apart from the grandparents, Deb and I were the only one's who didn't have kids in tow.

I had a hilarious conversation with a six year old girl. It went something like this:
Little girl: So do you have kids who go to school?
Me: I don't have any kids at all!
Little girl: [incredulous look] ...well, do you at least have a wife?
Me: No... but I have a girlfriend [pointed at Deb who was barbecuing]
Little girl: So why aren't you married?
Me: Um, well, we've been going out for two years, does that count?
Little girl: No, you should be married!
Me: I think I'll let Deb field this question...

I'm guessing she just assumes all adults have children, and a married. Not sure where that second part comes from!

Later I ended up being handed a baby. The lady who handed it to me didn't know who it belonged to or it's name or even it's gender! I wandered around and asked if anyone could identify it... Turned out to be a boy who belonged to a couple who were going on tour of the newly renovated house. So I had to give it back :-)

And thankfully the pink hair dye washed out...
maxcelcat: (Hypnotoad)
I'm currently down at a little town called Jan Juc (which for all intents and purposes is a suburb of Torquay these days) on the coast just past Geelong.

My sister and her husband and my new-born niece Baby X - OK, so her name is Naomi now - have set up home here. It's a long story, they needed an affordable furnished place to rent, of which there are few, possibly zero, in Melbourne. On the other hand, there are lots of beach and holiday houses down this way, so they decided to set up beside the seaside.

My sister and her husband are itinerant, having not lived in one country for more than two years. In fact they met in Afghanistan. So when they had to setting in a first world country for the birth of their first child, they ended up here.

We're here for the long weekend, which was a lucky coincidence of timing - this was when the house was (relatively) free of other visitors.

Having said that, a gaggle of no less than five other relatives have just left, during a downpour!

My niece is very cute. She's not quite a month old, so she's still in the eating and sleeping and eating and sleeping phase. She sleeps up to 17 hours a day! Babies are funny, they like being reminded of being in the womb, so they like being wrapped up tight and with lots of ambient noise. The radio tuned to static for example. Not to mention our awful singing. Old McDonald had a farm, apparently...!
maxcelcat: (Hypnotoad)
Baby X
This is my new niece. I called her Baby X for a few days because she was nameless. Then she was named Mikayla by my sister, but only for a day, now she is Naomi!

For more pictures of her and Baby Arlo visit the whole set here.
maxcelcat: (Dalek)
Crikey. Seems there's a bit of a baby epidemic going on amongst my people. My "little" sister is due to squeeze out a niece or nephew for me in February. My friends Luke and Laura had a baby girl - on my birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!! And now my peps in Berlin, Jack and Polina, are having a baby in May of next year.

I feel a bit left out :-)
maxcelcat: (Default)
My friend Brendan and his girlfriend (obviously, there had to be a womb involved!) had a baby girl this afternoon. This is getting out of hand - I demand that no one else get married or produce any more babies! Or, er, I'll, er, well, feel older than I feel already :-)

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