[OT] The Yowlet turns 2

Holy Smokes, that time just flew by! Happy Birthday Carey and Happy Birth
Day Vicky, you did the hard work.
--
Charleen
Mr. Pumpkin
Aggie Marble
Victor Velcro

Yowie wrote:
I can't believe The Yowlet, my baby, is 2 today. He's no longer a baby, but
very much a little boy, with all the 'boy' traits of liking cars, going fast
enough to scare Mum and make Dad proud on his trike, a penchant for hitting
things with other things, insatiable curiousity, and of course, the
obligatory 'ants in his pants' - he can't stay still for more than a minute
unless of course he's asleep.


Happy Birthday, Cary!


Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh
My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com

Make Levees, Not War

"Yowie" wrote in message
...
I can't believe The Yowlet, my baby, is 2 today. He's no longer a baby, but
very much a little boy, with all the 'boy' traits of liking cars, going
fast enough to scare Mum and make Dad proud on his trike, a penchant for
hitting things with other things, insatiable curiousity, and of course, the
obligatory 'ants in his pants' - he can't stay still for more than a
minute unless of course he's asleep.

So far, all the birthday means is that he's found toys he hasn't seen
before, and that Mum & Dad are allowing him to have slighly more sugar
than usual int he form of jelly Belly beans. Other than that, he's totally
oblivious to the fuss.

On Sunday, we're being brave and inviting 8 more 2 year olds (give or
take) to a party.... not at our place though, we're not that insance.
They've probaly got them where you are too, but around here, there' sthese
'kiddy gyms', with ball pits, exotic climbing equipment, mazes, and other
'active' play things popping up all over the place, and they organise kids
parties for you (yay!). The general idea seems to be to hype them up on
sugar and artifical colours & flavours, then let them loose to burn off
all the energy on their equipment, and let them run / climb / jump / play
it out for a few hours before taking an exhausted (and hopefully sleep)
kid home again. Being inthe same room with more than 1 two year old
generally fills me with horror, but these places are generally good at
having a seperate (and sound proof) parent's area, that serves good coffee
& cakes, and has a large collection of gossipy women's magazines to pass
the time. We should survive.

Then, the weekend after that (or maybe the next one again) we'll have a
simple BBQ for family & friends. At this rate, Cary's birthday
celebrations may well extend for the whole month. Now *thats* how to have
a birthday!

Yowe



Best children's party I've every been to. They rented a preschool on the
weekend for several hours. Once we got the presents and cake over with we
pretty much turned the kids loose with a few uptight moms to keep and eye on
them. The rest of the moms retired to the kitchen. By the time we had
finished cleaning up we'd wiped out several bottles of wine and learned that
Hawaiian Punch with vodka isn't half bad. For the most part we had to call
the dads to collect us and the cars once it was over.

Jo

On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 11:02:33 -0700, "Jo Firey"
yodeled:


"Yowie" wrote in message
...
I can't believe The Yowlet, my baby, is 2 today. He's no longer a baby, but
very much a little boy, with all the 'boy' traits of liking cars, going
fast enough to scare Mum and make Dad proud on his trike, a penchant for
hitting things with other things, insatiable curiousity, and of course, the
obligatory 'ants in his pants' - he can't stay still for more than a
minute unless of course he's asleep.

So far, all the birthday means is that he's found toys he hasn't seen
before, and that Mum & Dad are allowing him to have slighly more sugar
than usual int he form of jelly Belly beans. Other than that, he's totally
oblivious to the fuss.

On Sunday, we're being brave and inviting 8 more 2 year olds (give or
take) to a party.... not at our place though, we're not that insance.
They've probaly got them where you are too, but around here, there' sthese
'kiddy gyms', with ball pits, exotic climbing equipment, mazes, and other
'active' play things popping up all over the place, and they organise kids
parties for you (yay!). The general idea seems to be to hype them up on
sugar and artifical colours & flavours, then let them loose to burn off
all the energy on their equipment, and let them run / climb / jump / play
it out for a few hours before taking an exhausted (and hopefully sleep)
kid home again. Being inthe same room with more than 1 two year old
generally fills me with horror, but these places are generally good at
having a seperate (and sound proof) parent's area, that serves good coffee
& cakes, and has a large collection of gossipy women's magazines to pass
the time. We should survive.

Then, the weekend after that (or maybe the next one again) we'll have a
simple BBQ for family & friends. At this rate, Cary's birthday
celebrations may well extend for the whole month. Now *thats* how to have
a birthday!

Yowe



Best children's party I've every been to. They rented a preschool on the
weekend for several hours. Once we got the presents and cake over with we
pretty much turned the kids loose with a few uptight moms to keep and eye on
them. The rest of the moms retired to the kitchen. By the time we had
finished cleaning up we'd wiped out several bottles of wine and learned that
Hawaiian Punch with vodka isn't half bad. For the most part we had to call
the dads to collect us and the cars once it was over.

Jo



My nephew had 8 friends over for his first birthday. They took all
breakables, and stick-up-nose-ables out of the living room, gated it
in, dropped in the kiddies, and voila! Toddler mosh pit.


Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh
My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com

Make Levees, Not War

"Kreisleriana" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 11:02:33 -0700, "Jo Firey"
yodeled:


"Yowie" wrote in message
...
I can't believe The Yowlet, my baby, is 2 today. He's no longer a baby,
but
very much a little boy, with all the 'boy' traits of liking cars, going
fast enough to scare Mum and make Dad proud on his trike, a penchant for
hitting things with other things, insatiable curiousity, and of course,
the
obligatory 'ants in his pants' - he can't stay still for more than a
minute unless of course he's asleep.

So far, all the birthday means is that he's found toys he hasn't seen
before, and that Mum & Dad are allowing him to have slighly more sugar
than usual int he form of jelly Belly beans. Other than that, he's
totally
oblivious to the fuss.

On Sunday, we're being brave and inviting 8 more 2 year olds (give or
take) to a party.... not at our place though, we're not that insance.
They've probaly got them where you are too, but around here, there'
sthese
'kiddy gyms', with ball pits, exotic climbing equipment, mazes, and
other
'active' play things popping up all over the place, and they organise
kids
parties for you (yay!). The general idea seems to be to hype them up on
sugar and artifical colours & flavours, then let them loose to burn off
all the energy on their equipment, and let them run / climb / jump /
play
it out for a few hours before taking an exhausted (and hopefully sleep)
kid home again. Being inthe same room with more than 1 two year old
generally fills me with horror, but these places are generally good at
having a seperate (and sound proof) parent's area, that serves good
coffee
& cakes, and has a large collection of gossipy women's magazines to pass
the time. We should survive.

Then, the weekend after that (or maybe the next one again) we'll have a
simple BBQ for family & friends. At this rate, Cary's birthday
celebrations may well extend for the whole month. Now *thats* how to
have
a birthday!

Yowe



Best children's party I've every been to. They rented a preschool on the
weekend for several hours. Once we got the presents and cake over with we
pretty much turned the kids loose with a few uptight moms to keep and eye
on
them. The rest of the moms retired to the kitchen. By the time we had
finished cleaning up we'd wiped out several bottles of wine and learned
that
Hawaiian Punch with vodka isn't half bad. For the most part we had to
call
the dads to collect us and the cars once it was over.

Jo



My nephew had 8 friends over for his first birthday. They took all
breakables, and stick-up-nose-ables out of the living room, gated it
in, dropped in the kiddies, and voila! Toddler mosh pit.

warning. Mother talking about her baby. warning

Cary is not into sticking things up his nose. His favourite orifices
(orifii?) are his ears. His favourite thing to stick in them? Kitty kibble!
I still have *no idea* why sticking kitty kibble in one's ears is such a
pleasuable activity, but the number of cat crunchies Joel & I have plucked
from that boys ears is incredible, and I'm always paranoid when we go to the
doctor that the doc will find one we missed!

Cary's other odd little habits a trying pretty much *everything* on as a
hat, and *insisting* on wearing one sock (the preferred foot is random, but
it has to be the foot he's decided on) around the house. Put two socks on
him, and he'll pull one off, take off both socks so he's barefoot and he'll
go find a sock, give it to us, and then climb in our laps and put his
preferred foot in our faces until we get the hint. Try putting it ont he
other foot, and there will be a tanty. He also *must* share his dinner with
all the critters, and has decided that only *he* is allowed to turn lights
on and off in the house. Thankfully, he's taken tot he job with gusto, and
is delighted every time he's asked to flip a light switch for us. Oh, and
he's also decided its *his* job to bring in the garbage wheelie, and he must
be allowed to help bring inthe groceries. Watching a two year old attempt to
drag in a heavy plastic shopping, pulling and tugging with all his might, is
kinda funny, but he gets terribly annoyed if he thinks we've given him a
'play' bag for him to bring in instead. it has to have *real* shopping in
it, and has to be *properly full* rather than just having one light item so
that he can carry it with ease. So, like properly trained Yowlet slaves we
are, every time we go shopping, we have to rearrange the shopping as we are
loading up the car, so there is one bag that, whilst full, is also light
enough for him to pick up.

Oh, we measured him yesterday because I've heard that to find out the
eventual height of someone, you measure them on their 2nd birthday, and
double it. He was 95cm or 3'1-1/2". So he's going to be 190cm tall, or 6'3".
Tall, but not ridiculous like his mum or grandad, thankfully.

Yowie

"Yowie" wrote

Oh, we measured him yesterday because I've heard that to find out the
eventual height of someone, you measure them on their 2nd birthday,
and double it. He was 95cm or 3'1-1/2". So he's going to be 190cm
tall, or 6'3". Tall, but not ridiculous like his mum or grandad,
thankfully.


First, congrats Yowie to you all for arriving at a happy & healthy
2yearold!

The height thing worked out for me: I ended up at exactly double my
2yo measurement at exactly 1.90m or 6'3"!

Warn Yowlet from me (when he's taking it all in) that unless he
develops a "scholarly stoop" on trains, buses, small cars etc. he'll
be spending a lot of time nursing bumps high on his forehead!!

Cheers
Gordon & the FF

Happy Birthday Cary and I hope everyone has a ton of fun at all the parties
:-)
--
Britta

"Yowie" wrote in message
...
I can't believe The Yowlet, my baby, is 2 today. He's no longer a baby,
but
very much a little boy, with all the 'boy' traits of liking cars, going
fast
enough to scare Mum and make Dad proud on his trike, a penchant for
hitting
things with other things, insatiable curiousity, and of course, the
obligatory 'ants in his pants' - he can't stay still for more than a
minute
unless of course he's asleep.

So far, all the birthday means is that he's found toys he hasn't seen
before, and that Mum & Dad are allowing him to have slighly more sugar
than
usual int he form of jelly Belly beans. Other than that, he's totally
oblivious to the fuss.

On Sunday, we're being brave and inviting 8 more 2 year olds (give or
take)
to a party.... not at our place though, we're not that insance. They've
probaly got them where you are too, but around here, there' sthese 'kiddy
gyms', with ball pits, exotic climbing equipment, mazes, and other
'active'
play things popping up all over the place, and they organise kids parties
for you (yay!). The general idea seems to be to hype them up on sugar and
artifical colours & flavours, then let them loose to burn off all the
energy
on their equipment, and let them run / climb / jump / play it out for a
few
hours before taking an exhausted (and hopefully sleep) kid home again.
Being
inthe same room with more than 1 two year old generally fills me with
horror, but these places are generally good at having a seperate (and
sound
proof) parent's area, that serves good coffee & cakes, and has a large
collection of gossipy women's magazines to pass the time. We should
survive.

Then, the weekend after that (or maybe the next one again) we'll have a
simple BBQ for family & friends. At this rate, Cary's birthday
celebrations
may well extend for the whole month. Now *thats* how to have a birthday!

Yowe

Yowie wrote:
I can't believe The Yowlet, my baby, is 2 today. He's no longer a baby, but
very much a little boy, with all the 'boy' traits of liking cars, going fast
enough to scare Mum and make Dad proud on his trike, a penchant for hitting
things with other things, insatiable curiousity, and of course, the
obligatory 'ants in his pants' - he can't stay still for more than a minute
unless of course he's asleep.

Has it been 2 years ALREADY? Congratulations to you all on surviving
this far and happiness purrs for Cary on the way.

--
Sam, closely supervised by Mistletoe

Yowie wrote:

Oh, we measured him yesterday because I've heard that to find out the
eventual height of someone, you measure them on their 2nd birthday, and
double it. He was 95cm or 3'1-1/2". So he's going to be 190cm tall, or 6'3".
Tall, but not ridiculous like his mum or grandad, thankfully.

And even when he's that tall, he will still be known as the Yowlet in
this little corner of usenet. ;o)

--
Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.
marina (dot) kurten (at) iki (dot) fi
Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/
Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/
and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki

"Yowie" wrote in message
...
I can't believe The Yowlet, my baby, is 2 today. He's no longer a baby,
but

Happy Birthday to the Youlet!

gyms', with ball pits, exotic climbing equipment, mazes, and other
'active'
play things popping up all over the place, and they organise kids parties

Believe me, this is the only way to throw a party for young children. The
staff takes care of everything and you get to relax. Not cleaning up is
even more fun.

Hope you all have a great birthday month!

Diane