[while looking at infant and pet costumes online tonight, something that amazes me every Halloween and is thusly a "tradition", we came across something strange]
we're so getting the wookie for our kid. omg awesome. hopefully by then we can still fit into our jedi costumes that i was going to make for this year but which will have to wait till next year.
Did you ever read any of those anthropological studies that demonstrated that human adults find anything with big eyes and a small nose attractive, and that babies are evolutionarily engineered to tug on our "cute" emotions? Makes 'em seem more like manipulative little gut tubes with oversized brains and squishy fontanelles than innocent infants.
Some batty old nurse once told me that babies bounce and are relatively sturdier than adults because their bones are more elastic. Who thinks of these things?
Looking upon a human infant dispassionately - a tiny Winston Churchill incapable of doing anything even remotely interesting for at least its first year after a painful and dangerous birth - evolution kinda had to pull out all the stops on that one.
Of course, the other issue at hand is the fact that by placing your child in that costume, you are making him/her/it a drooling, pooping billboard for the use of partially hydrogenated soybean oil.
Will you be in town for the December holiday seasonage, or are you and Jeff and the folks going up north to see other family? We NEED to hang out. I leave for a conference in San Diego Dec. 8-12, then am in Pittsburgh with M's family from Dec 12-17. Before and after that, I am freeeeee.
The only extended family we speak to lives down the road. Oh, and my other grandma up north, but we already did our good deed a few months ago, kthxbye. I'll be damned if I selectively make the effort to go visit her in Massachusetts in the middle of December!
In other words, we'll be around. We turn in our last papers tomorrow and then I am so freaking free of school through the 9th or something.
I'll never forget seeing my little niece at the age of two, doing her little duck bum waddle walk dressed in her cargo shorts hawaiin shirt, cap and sunnies, it was so gorgeously funny.
It did thankyou very much, it was a spirited debate.
Haha, naaaah. M is one of those cool men who doesn't mind discussing babies and us having them, since it's a few years down the line at least (I'm 24 and have a Ph.D. to get through first). Also, as a biologist, infant mammals are fascinating.
The baby whoopie cushion killed us though. Seriously.
Infant mammals sure are fascinating. Just as THINGS... like, the whole protective gut instinct (that some people don't seem to have) that extends to other babies, like kitties and puppies.
Yeah, i just got home from work. Tomorrow's my day off, which'll be nice... L's coming over in a few minutes, so i'm going to put a pot of water on and surprise him with some nice garlicky pasta. He learned this relaxation breathing trick that's supposed to also give you orgasms. If it works, i'll let you know.
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A baby wookie would be cute. Although an ewok would make more sense, since babies are generally pretty small. :)
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it's just the underthings that have to still fit.
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Some batty old nurse once told me that babies bounce and are relatively sturdier than adults because their bones are more elastic. Who thinks of these things?
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6355-babies-prefer-to-gaze-upon-beautiful-faces.html
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I need a fat man LJ icon for comments like that.
Will you be in town for the December holiday seasonage, or are you and Jeff and the folks going up north to see other family? We NEED to hang out. I leave for a conference in San Diego Dec. 8-12, then am in Pittsburgh with M's family from Dec 12-17. Before and after that, I am freeeeee.
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In other words, we'll be around. We turn in our last papers tomorrow and then I am so freaking free of school through the 9th or something.
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You never replied to the science-link email I sent you for your friend. Did the article I pointed her/you to help explain things?
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It did thankyou very much, it was a spirited debate.
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seconding the wtf babies.... you're not nesting, are you?
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The baby whoopie cushion killed us though. Seriously.
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Hope you're having a good weekend!
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Yeah, i just got home from work. Tomorrow's my day off, which'll be nice... L's coming over in a few minutes, so i'm going to put a pot of water on and surprise him with some nice garlicky pasta. He learned this relaxation breathing trick that's supposed to also give you orgasms. If it works, i'll let you know.
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