BABIES and Friends.

[browngirl]

So I did various things yesterday, but the ones that are really important: I rode to work with Tigerlily to work and I held two babies.

The school counselor brought in her GINORMOUS baby son with his huge blue eyes. He kept looking at me curiously -- apparently I resemble his Early Intervention counselor. And he is so CUTE and curious, staring at everything as if to memorize it. We had a great hour of every woman in the office clustering around him and the lone man running away (I thought of teasing him that the AD, a sturdy guy of sturdiness, would also have been all over holding the baby so he wouldn't lose any masculinity points by saying hi, but I decided that was too likely to be unfairly putting him on the spot).

After that stuff happened and it was hot outside.

Then I got to gosling and ceo's place and met their adorable dumpling P, who really likes being stood up and has very strong legs for how little he is. It was great to see all of them, as I haven't since before P's birth, and 5.5-year-old B is tall and smart (we chatted about adding negative numbers) and has a scarily good memory (he remembered the time I was late to dinner because I fell asleep on the T). All that and they acquired shellfish to feed me. *beams happily*

Next time I visit I must remember to bring the dairy-free Olive Oil Chocolate Chip cookies I found a recipe for.

(And oh, BABIES, with their soft cheeks and huge eyes and fuzzy heads and baby milky smell. Eee!)

Comments

[cereta.livejournal.com]

BABIES!

[asimaiyat.livejournal.com]

BABIES. OMG. I love the way they just look at everything.

[boosette.livejournal.com]

BABIEEEES ♥

[anodyna.livejournal.com]

NOMS ALL THE BABIEZ!

[chienne-folle.livejournal.com]

I'm usually like the guy in your office. All the women in a place crowd around the baby, and I'm like, "Yep, that's a small human, all right, I've seen those before." I always feel like a terribly unnatural woman.

I crowd around anybody who has a puppy. I think maybe I was supposed to be a dog, and the Goddess made a mistake. :-)

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

I'm like that about babies and puppies.

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

If ever you are called upon to make adoring small talk about a baby and you find yourself without a reaction that wouldn't be a faux pas, may I suggest: "Oh, just look at him/her. You must love him/her so much." Honest, unforced, doesn't require you to voice an opinion about the state of the baby per se.

(I love babies with a deep squeeful love, but I am deeply sensitive to the fact that not everyone is as enthralled as I.)

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

"My, that is a baby!"

[bearfairie.livejournal.com]

:) I'm generally like that too unless the baby is one of MY babies (ie: the baby of a close friend or family member), in which case all bets are off. Not so interested in baby for the sake of baby. Kittens and puppies reduce me to a puddle of nonsense-spouting goo.

But yay browngirl for having a day full of delight!

[redbird]

As another person who doesn't squee about strange-to-me babies, thanks for not putting the guy on the spot.

I may take a quick look and mutter something, because it's so much expected for people of my gender, but if there's a crowd, I'll most likely let them enjoy the baby and quietly go do something else.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

I myself am a fan of babies! YAY BABIES!

Also chats with children about negative numbers.

YAY

[joecoustic.livejournal.com]

I had a baby and toddler filled weekend :).

Yay babies and toddlers! :)

[leftarrow.livejournal.com]

babies, lordy.

We've got regular parent+baby swim lessons at the pool where I work, and I like to joke that they're a hazard to the safety of everyone in the place because the lifeguard is invariably ignoring the whole pool and watching the baby class with a goofy grin on their face. (It's not just me, either: I've never seen a guard manage to not be charmed to the point of complete distraction.)

Some of the babies are all WATER OMG SQUEEEEE and some of them go WATER WHUT WHYYYYYY and some of them just say, "I will remain unperturbed by anything in this strange life as long as I am allowed to continue nomming on my own chubby hand."

And yeah, sharing cute-baby-squee can be surprisingly delicate sometimes! On one hand, I don't want to make people feel bad if they just don't like babies, but on the other hand: I want to make sure people (especially guys) are allowed to express appreciation for adorable tiny humans if they feel like it.

(Also, those cookies sound delicious and intriguing.)

[ceo]

I was mostly indifferent to babies until I had one of my own; now I'm a complete sucker for them. And now I have another one!

I did once look into a total stranger's stroller and say "That is the ugliest baby I have ever seen." (It was a small dog.)

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

BABBY!

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

I love that intent look that babies get where it looks like they're trying to memorize every detail of your face. :)

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

But often it's just the prelude to a burp.

Silly kiwi bird

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

I think I must have an out-of-date email address for you, sweetie. I wanted to sent you a have a good day e-card, but it doesn't seem to have gone through. Can you send me a note about that?