Romantic waves in the last six inches of long hair are a braid thing -- if you let wet hair dry in a braid, you get that look. Sally does it both because it's easy and on purpose.
Oh, that makes sense. Because the braids I've noticed a lot of.
1 is reassuring. I have absolutely straight hair and have been wondering when the style would swing back to curls. So much more work!
I think maybe I don't know what yoga pants are exactly. I thought they were just tight sweatpants -- sort of halfway between sweatpants and leggings.
Any song that mentions "Santa Claus" can be improved by substituting the metrically identical "Yoga pants."
♬ Here comes Yoga pants, there goes yoga pants.... ♬
I used to see a lot of tight black pants with the flared leg, but now they're more like just tight spandex from waist to shoes.
You spell it Y-O-O-G-A P-A-N-T-S
Hooray for yoga pants!
The back of my head. I've given up on becoming fit, rich, or famous, but I'm pretty pleased to still be able to do this at 45. Not getting a haircut is about the level of effort I need to sustain a project, apparently.
That's how you took Best Hair at Unfoggedydecagon.
8: Do you qualify as a scientist?
I saw Mommy kissing yoga pants
Underneath the mistletoe last night.
She didn't see me creep
Down the stairs to have a peep.
She thought that I was tucked
Up in my bedroom fast asleep.
Then, I saw Mommy tickle yoga pants
Underneath that beard so snowy white.
Oh, what a laugh it would have been
If Daddy had only seen
Mommy kissing yoga pants last night.
kissing yoga pants
Time was there'd be an image attached to this.
I was surprised at the universality of black yoga pants in San Diego. I hadn't understood how pervasive it has gotten.
I noticed yoga pants only via frequent mentions on Honest Toddler.
Any song that mentions "Santa Claus" can be improved by substituting the metrically identical "Yoga pants."
Likewise, any Unfogged comment that mentions yoga pants can be improved by substituting Santa Claus.
I was surprised at the universality of black Santa Claus in San Diego.
further to 17:
I just wonder if it is creepy for an older male lawyer to buy Santa Clause for a young attractive secretary.
I did the top-down nurse and got what sounds like a similar amount of no one noticing.
In conclusion, people are paying attention to their own stuff! And to yoga pants.
I'm trying to recall, and I don't think I ever got a negative comment or a dirty look that I noticed. I nursed heebie-style, under the shirt rather than over.
My (I never know quite how to explain the relationship - foster brother is the simplest, although I don't feel quite sibling-like because we never lived in the same house, and he's 24 now and my parents obviously don't foster him any more. I tend to say ex-foster brother, although that sounds like I've disowned him or something, and I haven't). Anyway, his girlfriend had fantastic tonged/curled shiny glossy ringlets at our family Christmas dinner, and I admired her hair effusively. And she's in fashion retail, so she must know what's up.
As for breastfeeding, generally out in public people go up from the bottom don't they? I'm almost convinced that I've only seen the other approach when in a bf-friendly home or other place.
20 - aha! I guess it depends on what sort of clothes you wear.
I realize that part of this is selective attention on my part, but it seems like most of the young women near campus are wearing yoga pants.
I guess it depends on what sort of clothes you wear.
True! I was also adept at starting by putting the baby in place before exposing any tit. And I often would wear a cardigan or open blouse over a nursing camisole or something low-cut, so between the line of the blouse and the baby's head, there wasn't much to see.
I always felt more awkward going up from the bottom, like I had to expose a big swath of me from different directions at once, since my nursing bras unclipped from above.
Also, I was thinking along LB's lines in 4, and 6 makes me want to ask why aren't they just leggings? I mean, yeah, everyone wears leggings (we walked behind a particularly unpleasant view this afternoon) but I wouldn't think yoga pants most of the time.
Addendum to 25: I don't know the difference between leggings and yoga pants.
6 makes me want to ask why aren't they just leggings
Yes! To me, yoga pants are not legging-fitted all the way down; that would make them leggings. To qualify as "yoga pants" they would be made of some kind of stretch jersey fabric but less fitted (at least through the calf) than leggings are.
Who looks at calves when there is a spandexed butt right there?
I'm sorry. I promise to stare at more women's calves regardless.
I don't think yoga pants are as common in the UK, at least not in the provinces. Much more likely to be leggings.
And the curled hair is a definite thing, and I think a lot of ladies are achieving it via curling irons. (I had two students in today with that exact look and it was so clearly 'done' that I'm sure they did it with irons.) Thinner hair like mine won't remain that way even after braids. I've also been seeing it on the red carpet (what, I love GFY) for a long time. One of my high school friends has an entire Pinterest board devoted to what she calls 'mermaid hair' and it's that exact look.
it seems like most of the young women near campus are wearing yoga pants.
They're not dressed like Han Solo?
I think a lot of ladies are achieving it via curling irons.
Agreed.
Wait, I am confused. Are these leggings then?
I would wear yoga pants every day if I could. Raw silk ones for formal occasions (to match my Mao suit jacket, natch).
A Redditer has an opinion on yoga pants vs. leggings.
I would wear my favorite pajama pants everywhere but they have some weird bleach stain and the dog took a bite out of them at some point, so I don't think I could get away with it. Are there yoga pants that are more like palazzo pants, not clingy at the crotch and thigh? (Sorry, Moby and apo, I know that's the selling point for some people but it's what keeps me away.) I don't wear leggings or skinny jeans either. I'm not sure if it's a good or bad thing that I'm missing out on all the trends.
I am puzzled by yoga pants being loose below the knee because I am upside-down and dressed more often while doing yoga than anything else, and I don't like having my pants fall down and get stuck.
The Han Solo outfit looks perfectly practical for being outdoors -- one even has pockets.
I don't wear leggings (and my girls don't much either) but I have succumbed to skinny jeans. And if I can wear them without my kids going etc, then I'm sure you can too.
39 - c'mon. If your entire body is covered, they can't be LEGgings. That's a catsuit or something.
I have succumbed to leggings in place of tights under skirts, because it's COLD in my work place. Or, it was. New boiler, yay.
I wear thermal leggings under pants it gets really cold out. I'd wear snow pants, but for the dignity thing.
The Han Solo outfit looks perfectly practical for being outdoors
Climbing trees in the Ewok village, say.
It's paddock clothing. Warm enough, pocket will hold an apple and a cellphone, really tight pants look good are traditional in the saddle, boots ditto.
"Mermaid hair" was kind of boring except for the discovery of hair chalk. In white! But in Seattle the dancers and the costumers are sparse and (??how??) barely overlap, so maybe I don't need it after all. Phoo. ...Unless my joints have recovered enough to Lindy again; but the Dwarf Lord's RSI won't stand for that. It's going to be mostly the foxtrot. I feel old.
I think I would be way more down with nursing in public if I had any nursing-specific clothing that was anything close to functional for me. Nursing tanks seem like such a cool idea! But they are not made for my size.
Nursing tanks seem like such a cool idea! But they are not made for my size.
Urgh annoying! Do you think a nursing bra + crossover-neckline top would work instead?
Nursing tanks seem like such a cool idea! But they are not made for my size.
I see a couple things online described as nursing tanks, and none of them are difficult alterations... do you have non-nursing tanks that fit? What kind of nursing tank are you looking for?
I never heard of a nursing tank, but the Nazis had a submarine for that purpose.
Well, I'm on the home stretch of nursing (morning and night only), so I don't much need nursing tanks any more. But the problem wasn't so much the tanks themselves as the attached bras. The same old unavailability of small band big cup options, but worse. Not like "I have to order this online from a special store," rather just not existing at all.
I had a couple of crossover neckline nursing tops that worked okay. They also had a little camisole-ish panel though, which made them a little more challenging than just pulling aside half a v-neck would be.
If the bra is hard to find or fit, attaching it to the rest of the clothes doesn't seem like a good idea... Well, I was going to offer to alter a camisole or two, but never mind!
I don't really notice what Mrs ttaM wears for nursing anymore, the baby just seems to somehow become attached with no apparent change in clothing arrangement. V-necks with those clippy lycra nursing sports bra type things, mostly, I think. I think you'd fail to notice any breastfeeding was happening most of the time as he's big enough to cover anything anyway.
On one of my recent flights I sat next to a woman with a baby. (She was very apologetic but the baby was actually fine and hardly cried at all.) At one point shortly before takeoff she breastfed it, and did so in such a way that it would not have been at all obvious what she was doing to anyone who wasn't sitting right next to her. I was impressed.
You can buy tank tops without straps (so basically just fabric tubes) that are made to attach to a nursing bra, but from what I can tell they look pretty jerry-rigged.
I think you'd fail to notice any breastfeeding was happening most of the time as he's big enough to cover anything anyway.
Sigh. This is so not the case for me. We were trying to take a family photo for a New Year's card the other day, and in several shots I was holding Zardoz in front of me and a bit to the side. My boob was bigger than her head.
(Those shots got rejected, for that reason.)
Sounds like Zardoz needs a pigeon mask.
Or a wide-brimmed hat. We had a beach holiday when kid C was about 7 months old, and I mostly wore a bikini because it was easier to breastfeed in than a swimming costume. I was a bit apprehensive at first until I realised his massive sun hat covered far, far more than the bikini.
Nursing tanks seem like such a cool idea!
Turrets! Woohoo!
re: 60
I don't quite know how Mrs ttaM manages it, as Alex's head isn't particularly huge, and milk-engorged boobs not exactly tiny, either. He is a few months older than Zardoz, though. The main problem is he likes to pop off and stare around grinning, clutching the boob in one hand just in case it gets taken away from him.
Nursing-specific clothing always seemed like more of a hassle to me; fumbling with the nursing bra is challenging enough. I haven't nursed the Calabat in public often, but no one gave me a hard time on the plane. Now I'm not sure that I would because this boy is unbelievably easy to distract. He also likes to kick me in the chin. The nursing books do not warn you about this.
Also, the Baby Bjorn people don't warn that the baby will kick you straight in the nuts once it gets tall enough.
I'm weaning Ace on this trip, which I feel kind of awful about. I'm sure that will help my resolve against excess sentiment.
You shouldn't feel awful. Nine months is a long time to be going around with a baby on your boob.
J' [Mrs ttaM] is about to start sort of weaning Alex, I think. He's 9 months, and she goes back to work full time in about 6 or 7 weeks, at which time, I'll be putting him to bed 5 days a week. And I don't have the requisite equipment.
He's been eating solid food for months and months, but he's still used to a couple of feeds a day.
I'm totally ready to be done, but the Calabat still nurses four or five or six times a day, even with eating three meals of solids.
Each time in ends up that I find bottle-feeding incredibly sweet and intimate, but it's hard to actually connect with that thought ahead of time.
Just remember to get the good kind of bottles with the BPA. Or maybe you want the ones without BPA. I've forgotten.
Φ quit the boob early, and pumping stopped at 3 months--it was an easy call once she developed a protein allergy that required eliminating tree nuts, peanuts, fish, shellfish, soy, dairy and eggs. Because of the allergy, she'll be on formula through at least year one. She's got two little bottom front teeth so we've stopped bottle feeding her to sleep in her room, although we're transitioning by doing it just before bed.
We think that the lack of breast feeding may have something to do with her not being an especially cuddly baby. So bottle feeding at night is a very sweet time. (not to mention I've missed that WHAT IS MY PURPOSE feeling that some dads come down with.)
re: 70
Yeah, I think he has a couple of biggish feeds in the morning and the evening, but he'll sometimes get a couple of other ones if he demands it. He has a rasping little grunt [as per previous conversations about how he doesn't really babble] which means, 'Boob, now!'.
eliminating tree nuts, peanuts, fish, shellfish, soy, dairy and eggs
Holy crap.
That just means not eating them. She doesn't have to go kill all the shellfish and nut trees in the world or anything.
What 75 said. Does the doc not try and figure out the actual allergy and just go "fuck it, it's going to be one of these so just avoid all them"?
This is 'get off my lawn' cane shaking, and maybe k-sky's pediatrician actually identified a genuine allergic reaction, but back when I was in the breastfeeding loop, I heard a lot of people talk about eliminating foods from their diet because the baby reacted badly to them. And "the baby reacted badly to them" meant "I ate broccoli for lunch, and that night the baby was fussy and wouldn't sleep." If you take every instance of "fussy and wouldn't sleep" as identifying a reaction to food, you're going to identify reactions to a lot of foods.
The Breathairians have gotten to LB.
That's why I recommend NyQuil as a dietary supplement for nursing mothers.
75, 77: when I was a kid (maybe age 2, not nearly as young as baby k-sky) I was diagnosed with "non-specific food allergy". The diet they put me on consisted solely of rice, apples, honey, and lamb.
I got put on a no-refined sugar diet for a while at four or so, because I was the reverse of hyperactive -- troublingly dull. I stubbornly stayed dull, and they started feeding me cookies again.
81: yeah, my uncle had the same thing - he was on nothing but rice, apples and carrots for three weeks, and then carefully added back one food at a time and watched for the reappearance of sneeziness. He likes his food (and wine) - not to excess, he's not a glutton or anything, but he appreciates good food and good wine - so he would be on tenterhooks every time one of his favourites came under test. He said that if he turned out to be allergic to chilli he was just going to put up with the sneezing.
82 is funny - "my daughter is too placid and well behaved! Don't you have some sort of Ritalin antagonist you can give her?"
They put me on a diet to check for food allergies when I was a kid. I think I was on nothing but beef for a while and then they added back one food after another. That's when I vowed never to see another allergist again.
82: Parenting was different in the pre-Red Bull era.
They put me on a diet to check for food allergies when I was a kid. I think I was on nothing but beef for a while
That's what you get if you see a Texan allergist.
"Well, we'll try and find the problem by removin' everything from his diet that ain't beef."
"What if he's allergic to beef?"
"Then he's better off dead, ma'am."
I was raised in Nebraska, which has far more cattle per person than Texas.
Also, far more cattle per acre. Pick whichever metric you feel is more relevant.
So Texans are all hat and no cattle?
And the hat is made of yesterday's newspaper.
Does the doc not try and figure out the actual allergy
Blood tests aren't all that reliable, and they're generally reluctant to do skin scratch tests on babies. It's pretty easy to restrict the most common allergens from a little kid's diet, and when she's older, they'll probably do the skin test.
The skin scratch test is another reason why I won't go back to the allergist.
And kids outgrow a lot of allergies, so it's not like she's being restricted to rice for life.
That's good. Rice is an expensive university.
93: From what I'm reading here, it sounds like there's a pretty good chance that she never did have an allergy.
OT: Because I enjoy bragging about pathetic accomplishments I'm letting you all know I got three records of Wii Fit despite having taken a 500 day break.
Thus even more pathetic than besting a second grader.
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Bye Bye Love
NMM to Phil Everly.
RIP
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Do you think Don will go to the funeral?
101 Why wouldn't he? I thought their falling out was long ago in the past.
I can get to my computer and write a post in a little bit. Parents are occupied.
Yep. It's great when parents get to the age where you can pop in a DVD and they'll keep quiet for long enough for you to get something done.
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It's official: I'll be living in New Orleans this summer. Now I just need to work on my pronunciation of the city name.
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OT: Somebody should do something about these immigrants who live here for decades but stay citizens of their old country.
106: Come visit Austin and us, and we'll take you tubing! For reals.
109: That sounds super fun, and I've never been to Austin (only Houston and Dallas).
108. It is sad that he is turning his back on his native land. Perhaps his loyalties are always this thin. Who's to say that if elected president he might not then choose to become a Russian or a Chinese citizen?! (And why doesn't he use his first name? Is he embarrassed by his heritage?)
109: it's about a five hour drive, and there's plenty to do to fill a weekend. Plus kraabie and m/tch and crimbulg and various other asundries. Do come.
Sundry Cooter would be a good pseud. Let me be the first to suggest.
108 is both interesting and funny. Thanks.
I'm trying to get a sheriff in Arizona to demand his papers.
113: I'm down, and I'll have a car and (generally? I'm told?) free weekends.
It would certainly be delicious if it were to be discovered that Sen. Cruz isn't actually a citizen of the United States.
