Jaime wrote:

Girl?  *haughty sniff*  I was too busy hanging with the boys to be a GIRL.  Total tomboy, me.  Still am.

That`s quite surprising really Jaime. I`m not trying to butter you up or anything but after observing you in New Orleans I thought that even if you weren`t pretty you`re way too quiet and sensible to be a man. Buffy the Vampire Slayer mebbe, but not a guy ;)

All that shrieking I did and you think I'm quiet and sensible?  o.O  That's a new one.  I gotta share that with a couple of my non smarch friends, they'll wet themselves.  :)

No, Miiru muffles it.  I can be perfectly obnoxious when you get me going.

Oh. I guess I made a mistake going off with Susan and Mwyaren when you took off down Bourbon Street with Auros but I figured Susie might need some manly protection (in which  event I can scream louder than she can).

[ January 22, 2004: Message edited by: Angelus the Remover ]

Jaime wrote:

I had books, Legos, and Thundercats.  All was right in my world.

change thundercats to...speed racer, the first time around (i think) and same for me. i loved my legos; did you know they work fine in the bath? i took almost all my toys into the bath or water at some point, as i was usually in water to some extent. oh, and my barbies. i used to make furniture for them out of legos. *grin* oh, and i was known to go play in a muddy field in a long dress. *rolls eyes* my poor mom.

It's also quite possible to be a tomboy and not touch icky slimey creepy crawly things. One must simply be able to beat the snot out of anyone who calls one a "guurrl".

Tad wrote:

Stuart: Have you guys looked into the possibility of food allergies?  Devon had a lot of problems when she was little until we released she had some kind of dairy intolerance -- we had to put her on special formula.  Weeks of throwing up sounds like something beyond the usual "toddler tummy" sort of complaints.

Thanks for the concern but a slight missunderstanding has occured.  Our baby isn't due to be born until June, it's mum-to-be who is the serial up-chucker.  (Just noticed Miiru has pointed this out below).

Having said that she has now got it down to feeling sick all the time but only actually being sick every other day (although some days it's 3 or 4 times). So there are some signs of improvement; having said that it is just moving from one level of hell to a slightly better one, I don't think this is appreciated by said wife.  We are reliably informed that some women get it far worse, again no real consolation, but that this is no sign of a problem with the baby, big consolation!

I'm hopefully going to get another contract soon and be off working so I'm just counting on Ange feeling much better by then, and thus needing less looking after.

If the truth be known, I just can't wait to join in the fun of parenting conversations, that's all. Sorry for the confusion.

LEGOS!!! The ultimate child's toy! So versatile, so colorful so FUN!!!
And unisex to boot. I garauntee my kids toy boxes, when I get around to having them, will be chock full of Legos...and books, of course books. TV? Hell no. I spent the first 10 years of my life I spent without TV and I turned out pretty normal.
I shudder to think of parents that use the TV as a Babysitter, worse thing that can be done to a child.

Oh, yeah.  That's what one gets for being in a hurry  (I was just about to run out the door to see a basketball game.)  Got it.  Of course.  Hello, Tad.  Welcome back to our lovely green and blue planet.

AJ wrote:

Stuart, has your wife talked to her doctor?
I had the same problem, morning sickness that lasted 24 hours - makes leaving the house a bit of a challenge I know, my doctor gave me suppliments that helped and by week 22 I could live outside the bathroom. For me it was a mineral deficiency, it's an outside chance I know, but it might be of some help  to her.

Thanks, we went to the doctors last week, for the third time, and all the tests have been fine.  Her blood and wee are normal and she is still gaining weight so it's a grin and bear it thing.

@Tad, green and blue planet? Next thing you'll be saying there's only one moon, the idea of it!

Sahi wrote:

I do hope Lego goes back to their basics though. Nowadays when you buy a box of Lego you hardly have to build anything. It's all prefab. I loved the Lego-blocks. Still do. When I was in Legoland (Denmark) last summer you could buy blocks (in every imaginable colour and shape) per hundred grams. I was severely tempted.

yalahii.

I have to say, some of the prefab Legos did suck, but when I was little I did like the pirate ships and castles.

God, Legos rule...

Hey....now that I think about it I think Ettelewen lives near the US Lego Factory. Wonder if they can still by Legos's en masse from them? I'll have to ask!