***What to Expect When Maeve's a Stay at Home Mommy***

[Joeyfish5]

Meave i would interdoce your children to aimanls more then anything if i was you...
I think children who grow loving aimanls are much more happier overall and around the family pet and are overall better for the eivroment. When i was about 4 my grandmom got me an aimanl collection book. Each week or so they would send in 3 or 5 new pages of info on aimanls and it wasnt no picture book it was hard cold facts like habits, matinging everything, i read every page (i skipped the black window one cuz i was scarded lol) now i have a huge insterts in aimanls and want to be a large aimanl caretaker (aka zookeeper) when i get older. Also i had a love for dinos and read very large books (again no childrens book) on them. Thanks to all this i had a 12 graders reading level in frist grade and had a bookcase and heart filled with aimanls, dinosuors and fansty books.

Sorry big rant but what i am saying is
Dont be afired to let your kids have the big books when they younger.
If they are the children of two book worms they will probbuly get bored quicky of the thin picture books. I did

*hugs* very happy fr u meave  

[hazel843]

Joeyfish5

Meave i would interdoce your children to aimanls more then anything if i was you...
I think children who grow loving aimanls are much more happier overall and around the family pet and are overall better for the eivroment. When i was about 4 my grandmom got me an aimanl collection book. Each week or so they would send in 3 or 5 new pages of info on aimanls and it wasnt no picture book it was hard cold facts like habits, matinging everything, i read every page (i skipped the black window one cuz i was scarded lol) now i have a huge insterts in aimanls and want to be a large aimanl caretaker (aka zookeeper) when i get older. Also i had a love for dinos and read very large books (again no childrens book) on them. Thanks to all this i had a 12 graders reading level in frist grade and had a bookcase and heart filled with aimanls, dinosuors and fansty books.

Sorry big rant but what i am saying is
Dont be afired to let your kids have the big books when they younger.
If they are the children of two book worms they will probbuly get bored quicky of the thin picture books. I did

*hugs* very happy fr u meave

Aw thats such a good idea, I'm going to do that when I have kids  

[chidorilash]

Also, introducing them to animals isn't a bad idea. Not only can it do what Joey said, but it can also teach them to care for their fellow beings, and become more caring to others. Big books aren't that bad either, it can raise their knowledge. Like Joey I was a total bookworm, there wasn't a single book in my schools library that I didn't read -literally- and it was a big library! I also won a bike for reading the most and got the teachers/principal to dance atop the rooftop to la vida loca (the principal made the students a bet...it was funny, >.<) Also,maybe when your child gets bigger, try getting them to learn a new language, young kids are more inclined to learn it faster/better than adults because adults fear of making a mistake and sounding stupid, while a kid does not.

Try and keep teaching the baby new things (but also keeping the things you've already taught them going on... do NOT just move onto the next thing, completely forgetting about it later on). A child's brain (before 12 months of age) is extremely fragile, whatever senses/abilities/knowledge you do not teach and let them retain it. It will help with their perception and knowledge in general. Their brain is like a field of flowers (wow ironic lol), but whatever abilities that are not used get tooken out of the batch of flowers, thus becoming very difficult to get back in there, undamaged. It may seem like a lot of work, but that's what having a child is, work to make them the best they can be.

And! lol, okay I'm almost done with the rant >.> But anyways, be open to them about things, and be accepting of their choices that they make in life.

Okay, done with this rant...for now o.O

In order to help the baby sleep at night it is best to limit naps to less than 3 hours during the day.

 

[abandoned_nr_5448214]

Waaa! I remember when I was little! 'n I mean really little. We had the most baby-friendly cat you could ever imagine, named Sixten. There's pictures of my preggo mum with him, and later a photo of baby-me using him as a pillow.
When me and sis grew older he got more strict on us, dabbing after us if we was disrespectful (valuable lesson for any child: pull someone's tail and you WILL end up more hurt than the cat).
I don't know if you have the habit to announce a baby's birth in the local paper in the US, but I've never heard of anyone not doing it here. Hold on, I'll fetch the scrap book and quote it:

Quote:

Ann Persson and Mats Nilson, Solbacka, * had a daughter the 31th of May. She will be named ******, weighted 3795g and was 50 cm tall. Big brother is named Sixten.

There usually is a photographer and someone to write up the announcement somewhere in the delivery section of the hospital, so there's a picture of happy mum and dad and very newborn me XP

Now I've found a lot of cute baby pictures, so I'll be gone for a while to scan and upload the best (and least embarrassing) ones.

*Solbacka means sunny hill and that's the name of our house :]  

[abandoned_nr_5448214]

Doubleposting... sorry. Click the links for pictures, or don't rolleyes

Mum and Sixten
Yup, I'm in there somewhere, making mommy look fatty ^^;

Baby me and Sixten
(mum and dad have at least 3 copies of this one, one is framed and hangs over their bed)

As they said, early with the books

"look at me when I'm cute dammit"

"I has bad fur day - dunnt look"
(we actually have this one supersized and properly framed in the hallway)

Me and baby sis  

[Your Bucky]

Joeyfish5

Meave i would interdoce your children to aimanls more then anything if i was you...
I think children who grow loving aimanls are much more happier overall and around the family pet and are overall better for the eivroment. When i was about 4 my grandmom got me an aimanl collection book. Each week or so they would send in 3 or 5 new pages of info on aimanls and it wasnt no picture book it was hard cold facts like habits, matinging everything, i read every page (i skipped the black window one cuz i was scarded lol) now i have a huge insterts in aimanls and want to be a large aimanl caretaker (aka zookeeper) when i get older. Also i had a love for dinos and read very large books (again no childrens book) on them. Thanks to all this i had a 12 graders reading level in frist grade and had a bookcase and heart filled with aimanls, dinosuors and fansty books.

Sorry big rant but what i am saying is
Dont be afired to let your kids have the big books when they younger.
If they are the children of two book worms they will probbuly get bored quicky of the thin picture books. I did

*hugs* very happy fr u meave

No worries there Joey...we already have two basset hounds. And let's just say there's a reason my Kindergarten teacher said I lived at the zoo. I've had 2 mice, a nasty hamster, MANY fish, 2 newts, 2 birds, 2 hermit crabs, 3 cats, 7 dogs, a turtle or two passed through our house, a tadpole or two...I come from a family of animal lovers. I am an animal person. them! heart  

[Joeyfish5]

then check out wildlife exploer (i dont think i spelled rifht) and if they still do that who book/mail thing you sould try it for your kid  

[chidorilash]

Joeyfish5

then check out wildlife exploer (i dont think i spelled rifht) and if they still do that who book/mail thing you sould try it for your kid

I believe they still do it too (well, at least the general area I am in), my t.v. has been spammed with the commercials for it. Spammed I tell you!

So have you thought of any names? *still wants to know* lol

Oh oh, and try giving the child a stuffed animal or a blanket, it helps with seperation anxiety when they get bigger.

 

[Your Bucky]

Joey: I checked out the National Wildlife Foundation's website and they have three age levels for magazines...Animal Babies for ages 1-4, My Big Back Yard for ages 3-7 and Ranger Rick for ages 7 & up. My sis and I had the last two growing up. Plus I have quite a collection of my own I put in the library and science centers in my classroom. Again...the hubby and I are big book and animal lovers.
Music, too. I play two instruments and the hubby can play *counts on finger* at least four really well and he's pretty good on a couple more...plus we love to sing.

And baking (I LOVE to bake) and cooking (the hubby cooks all the time)...and crafting...and sports, we both played sports growing up. LOL hopefully we'll offer a well rounded selection of interests to the baby.

Chi: Lily Maeve for a girl and Taran Dale for a boy. smile

:EDIT: And if the baby is like me it'll still have it's favorite blankie hidden in the bed covers at the age of 26. wink  

[tigris cobaltchaos]

maeve ditto on the blanket.....  

[Your Bucky]

tigris cobaltchaos

maeve ditto on the blanket.....

cool nice!  

[MystiBlu]

As I was growing, my mom took a bunch of my old clothes and blankets and put them aside and eventually made a quilt out of them for me. 8 or 12 of the receiving blankets that were in the best shape she set aside and used for the back. She was a crafty one. I still have my first stuffed animal - it's the bright hot pink rinocceros kinda thing called a puffalump. The cloth is really silky and the stuffing is sooooooooooo soft!!!!! You can probably guess where they both can be found.  

[hazel843]

Maeve of the Sea

tigris cobaltchaos

maeve ditto on the blanket.....

cool nice!

Haha, I'm the same, but it has big holes in it crying crying crying  

[Joeyfish5]

i never had a stuffed aimanl while a baby but i had a big box of the tiny legos and i spent all day with them. My momma throwed them away in an in vain effort to get me to "grow up"  

[abandoned_nr_5448214]

MystiBlu

As I was growing, my mom took a bunch of my old clothes and blankets and put them aside and eventually made a quilt out of them for me. 8 or 12 of the receiving blankets that were in the best shape she set aside and used for the back. She was a crafty one. I still have my first stuffed animal - it's the bright hot pink rinocceros kinda thing called a puffalump. The cloth is really silky and the stuffing is sooooooooooo soft!!!!! You can probably guess where they both can be found.

Ooooh, I had one of those too! Although mine was a bunny with dark blue body >w<