Maddox does her uncanny impression of a boneless rag doll.
And the great thing is, while Sydney’s asleep, we know she’s not destroying anything. Except in her dreams, of course.
Awwww….
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May 15th, 2006 at 9:25 am
Look! They have identical noses!
Poor kid.
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May 15th, 2006 at 9:57 am
Aw! It’s the Boneless Baby Ranch!
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May 15th, 2006 at 1:22 pm
AWWWWWW!!
Seriously, our older son exclusively slept on a parental tummy for the first six weeks of his life. Babies make the best teddy bears.
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May 15th, 2006 at 3:42 pm
05/15 “I Am Man” Burger King Commercial 05/15Monday baby blogging: Daddy is the best mattress
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May 15th, 2006 at 6:49 pm
They do not make good teddy bears, because they’re not fuzzy (except for my older son: Yeti Boy. Pity the hair didn’t photograph well). Also, yucky stuff comes out when you squeeze them.
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May 16th, 2006 at 4:18 am
Maddox does her uncanny impression of a boneless rag doll. And the great thing is, while Sydney’s asleep, we know she’s not destroying anything. Except in her dreams, of course. Awwww….Continue reading at Alas, a blog … posted 10:50 am at Alas, a blog
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May 16th, 2006 at 8:00 pm
gosh, how did Maddox get so big all of a sudden??
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May 16th, 2006 at 8:13 pm
Ahhh, yes. I remember those days. Since I couldn’t get up very well or very fast, Peanut slept on my chest for quite a while. Then he just slept cuddled next to me when he got too long. I actually loved the co-sleeping thang and sometimes still do.
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May 17th, 2006 at 3:55 am
Aww … they’re adorable!
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May 17th, 2006 at 10:27 am
Very sweet pictures.
What has me curious is how dad can keep all that hair out of little girl vise grips. Mine’s only 2″ long (much to my dismay- damm corporate world and their regular paychecks) and our baby pulls it regularly. That is when he’s gnawing on my ears. Seriously, does he usually keep it up and only let’s it down when they are near sleep?
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May 17th, 2006 at 11:04 am
Matt keeps his hair down all the time.
In my experience, the little one - Maddox - still grabs onto long hair sometimes. But unlike short hair, long hair (unless it’s perfectly straight) has several inches of pulling leeway before it turns into a painful yank, so it’s not really a problem. If she does grab in a painful way, it’s not difficult to pull the hair away from her.
Besides, she really doesn’t pull that hard; the occasional instances of beard-grabbing are cute, not painful. I’m more concerned with preventing her from developing a glasses-grabbing habit.
By the way, with all due respect, I have to ask: Would you have asked the same question in response to photos of a long-haired mom holding a napping baby?
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May 17th, 2006 at 12:11 pm
Thanks for responding. Yes, I have asked women that question. My partner recently cut her long hair into a short skater-boy cut. Actually it went in two stages; the first wasn’t short enough to be effective. A male friend cut his hair & shaved off his beard for the first time in a decade when it became too much trouble with the little yanker. Most of the women I know with small children cut theirs very short too. I’ve heard it referred to as a mom-haircut. One of the few parents I know who kept long hair through several children is my sister, who has beautiful long hair too. She said she just puts up with it because she hates short hair on her.
The hair-pulling hurts, but the nipple-grabbing is quite painful. Maybe he’s just a grabby kid.
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May 17th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
Get the hair long enough, it can go back and up and nearly unpullable. Besides, short hair needs cutting regular to look good, whereas long can just hang around. Mine hangs to just past my butt now. There is one problem with having long hair around babies that’s more significant with boy babies: loose hair somehow finds its way into diapers and wraps itself around boy baby parts. Don’t ask me how it happens; I don’t know; all I know is that I regularly had to dehair both boys when changing their diapers.
This comment was written by Ledasmom.Grow it long enough and it’s a jiffy baby leash. Or noose.
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May 19th, 2006 at 9:22 pm
The problem I found as someone with long hair whose kids liked to sleep on people when babies was that there were some things besides sleep that I sometimes wanted to do when baby went to sleep, like, you know, shower, or eat, and it’s very hard to lay a baby down in crib/bed/cradle if said infant has braided his fingers into your hair. I wore it in a french twist or a tight french braid (which I could sleep in) for about eight months when I was going to deal with baby. I sleep with it braided anyway, so it’s no big deal.
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