Cute kids, but your frames are crooked.
I'll straighten them right up for you.
Awesome! They look so proud of their costumes. I love how Sally's all in charge and shit.
I'm working on bringing the little bitchiness into more areas than just grammar.
Is that a black cape on Superman? I'd make fun, but then Farber would show up to say that he'd blogged about the original Superman color scheme months ago.
4: It's working, benben.
Great costumes, LB (and nice lookin' kids too).
They remind of the best costume idea I heard about this time around (I didn't actually get to see the costumes in person). A guy I know and his girl companion went as the superheroes I Love You Man and You Go Girl.
I didn't see the latest Superman movie, but apparently the costume is now darker and grittier. The cape, briefs, and boots are kinda maroon.
(I'm assuming it's from the latest movie. Possibly Ricky's just sells weird costumes.)
I went as The Course (that we're no longer staying), and the girlfriend went as the dried dessicated corpse of American democracy. How'd everybody else's costumes turn out?
And Armsmasher, was your Teen Wolf costume chosen with the Michael J. Fox campaign ads in mind, or if that was just serendipity?
or if that was just serendipity
Still not working for me.
Is Sally a redhead or blonde w/ some costume coloring?
the girlfriend
Is this a new gf?
Dirty blonde to the point where I'd really call it light brown -- that's orange from a spray can.
I'm glad to see that if w-lfs-n's moving on, LB is ready to step up as grammar bitch. Cute kids, LB.
9: The Poor Man has the answer.
I was in fact pleased with myself for wearing a non–politically themed costume to Julian Sanchez's party, because I don't think Halloween should be bent to the service of partisan politics—but then RL intervened and invested my costume with (tangential) relevance.
I don't believe that for a second. The cheap kids look like this.
Imports are spendy. The great thing about the models I got is that they're made domestically with unskilled labor.
A search for LB's ukiyo-e artists led me to this awesome shunga page. (NSFW. Sorry, LB, but this thread's too wholesome.)
Nice costumes, and I'm loving Sally's fist-pump.
The more and more I read here, the more and more I'm convinced LB is the superhero. Or possibly a ninja.
And yeah, the kids are adorable.
Seeing everyone's kids is creeping me out: I'm starting to wonder if you're all really good-looking. I may have to recenter my sense of self-worth, and base it on something like penis size.
Masochism will get you nowhere, Timmy.
Grandnephew as Adamms Family kid
That is a fetching little specimen of the undead you've got there.
Yeah, your kids are cute, but can you top this?
And she is just ridiculously charming (as well as an excellent blog-namer.)
A very spunky Nausicaa and a very cute Batman. Awesome!
I am now realizing that I've done a very bad thing by posting adorable kid pictures, and the blog has lost it's edge. Could someone post something unjustifiably defamatory about Instapundit now?
I don't have any kids, but I have a SuperNanny page-a-day calendar at work, and it's really opened my eyes. It's especially useful on the subject of how the toddler's brain works - page after page says things like "Do not try to reason with the toddler, because the toddler's opinions make no sense." "Don't worry if the toddler doesn't want to eat something - she may change her mind at any second." "Don't get upset if the toddler says she hates you. She's just trying out new forms of emotion." "Don't get mad if the toddler forgets where her shoes are. She has no way of knowing what information is important to remember."
I know that certainly with me, if a child suddenly appeared in my apartment one day I would be constantly trying fruitlessly to reason with it, so it's nice to get these reminders that reasoning with them is impossible, much like Arabs.
I developed a theory when mine were smaller that they should be treated if they were drunk. Toddlers swing back and forth from maudlin affection to violence, they fall down a lot, slur their speech, and they have a tendency to sing tunelessly and loudly at inappropriate times. The preschool years can be treated as a process of sobering up.
It works surprisingly well as a parenting philosophy.
38 - I have a theory that parents are playing constant man-defense from the minute kids can crawl until they are about five. You can't let your kid get a step; they juke to lose you and can bust for the endzone at any time; you must keep an eye on them and the game at all times. If you are around other skilled adults, you can temporarily shift to zone-D, but soon you'll have to go back to man D. For years.
helpy-chalk gets it, pictures are supposed to be submitted to the group pool.
for years
And then they come up with ideas like throwing your couch off the roof.
I found myself wondering yesterday whether Sally had got her Nausicaa costume! She looks brilliant, and the others are very cute too.
My eldest dressed up as Athena (goddess of wisdom) and went about offering nuggets of wisdom such as "you can't rollerskate in a buffalo herd" and "Don't get tattooed".
Way to reopen old wounds, swift. Only group members can access the group pool.
Your kids look terrific. With as little time as you had, I think you did great. It would compete very well with costumes I see at cons.
I was actually thinking I should look back at the old posts to figure out how to do all that -- I'm new to Flickr. And man, g, you have some remarkably pretty kids. (It's an unusually charming bunch around here. Go figure.)
Blimey Megan, I've never been that attentive! Benign neglect is more my style.
45: Max's mom? Hey, thanks for the advice and the pictures -- without them I might easily have decided to give it up and just go Disney.
LB, to join the group, you need to add either me or Smasher as a contact, and then beg us to let you join. Then we'll have a convo to discuss your prospects. You should hear back in a couple of weeks.
Way to reopen old wounds, swift. Only group members can access the group pool.
I like to flaunt my membership like the elitist latte swiller I am.
I was actually thinking I should look back at the old posts to figure out how to do all that -- I'm new to Flickr. And man, g, you have some remarkably pretty kids.
Thanks. What Ogged said. Smasher's and Ogged's pages. Hover over the pic icon and you'll get a drop down with the option to add them as a contact.
I have already added Smasher as a contact (because he added me. I notice you haven't. It's all right, I'm not hurt.) So now what do I do?
Hover over the icon, and beg via the "Send FlickrMail" option.
Having a 51 percent stake in Deggofnu's management, I have unilaterally added LB to the pool.
Score! Consider the plaintive email I was about to send Ogged erased.
Having a 51 percent stake in Deggofnu's management, I have unilaterally added LB to the pool.
Fucking inclusive hippie boys.
56: Facial hair always tells in the end, my friend.
Cute kids, LB!
I'll get a shot of Audrey the ladybug up later today.
45: Max's mom? Hey, thanks for the advice and the pictures -- without them I might easily have decided to give it up and just go Disney.
Yep, I had my Mom post to Unfogged. HAH. She was very pleased with your work (for which you deserve the credit). Also, methinks Sally there is destined to be a redhead whatever you think of hair dye.[*] I'd suggest just letting that one go now, before it actually comes up. Glad to help, BTW.
[*] You could call her MiniB!
max
['Halloween? Was that yesterday?']
58: It's these sorts of cute-offs that lead to child beauty pageants. Only pudding shots from now on.
Only pudding shots from now on.
That happens to be my rule for pictures of female bloggers.
58 -- No need to worry about a pageant. You see, I hold all the trump cards.
I'm loving Sally's fist-pump.
ATM.
(Sorry, LB, but no one else would say it, so I had to.)
Heh. Good lord do we have a lot of lurkers around here. Over two hundred people have looked at that picture. I'm suddenly feeling a little shy.
Probably available for a limited time only.
Awww. Such an alert little munchkin.
OMG, teh cute! Teh intelligent little baby face!
How's the colic?
I can't believe I get no credit for posting obscure Asian porn in the aww-cute-kid thread.
What makes you think it's obscure?
Three more pictures, just because I can't help myself.
I feel like I'm in very serious danger of getting in big trouble with the Landers family wife for posting these online without advance discussion.
70 -- the one that is linked as "pictures" is a seriously good photo.
That is a kid with a lot of personality (or who just photographs well). The suspicious (challenging?) look at the 'more' picture is priceless.
68: I'd have given you shit, but I don't click on anything that's NSFW.
65: I like noname1 best - that sidelong glance of suspicion, the raised fist, the I-may-be-tiny-but-don't-mess-with-me look...
Is this a new gf?
Newish. We've been dating several months, and she's the first person I've dated since the Greek and I (amicably) went our separate ways. Becks and 'Smasher and several other Shafters met her in DC a couple weeks ago.
amicably
Is this what they call it when you don't challenge the restraining order?
owww. the landers baby made my baby alarm go off...
want one.....
out walking the dog with my twelve-year-old.
she commented that there are a couple of things people never dress up as, for Halloween. Curious omissions.
Santa Claus. And Uncle Sam. Probably not the Easter Bunny, either.
And yet they would all make good Halloween costumes.
75 - Newish girlfriend was very cool. I imagine a lot of people would have been a little apprehensive about that situation (A table full of random people that my boyfriend met on the internet?) but she jumped right into fray.
igggawiggga ladybug! I'm going to die of cuteness.
Oh, my my. What a snuggly little one.
LOL. I love the way her expression seems to be saying, "oh all right, I'll go along with this if I must."
76: What? She told you about that? That BITCH!
83--That's the tail end of a sugar high.
Noah's been sick and was mostly just annoyed at Halloween and not much cooperating with the picture taking. Keegan had no such problem.
86: Keegan's costume rulz. I wore this fake bullet wound to school in 7th grade (unbeknownst to the Moms and the Pops {and before Columbine happened}). The school called home to, ahem, check on things. Whoops. Hope you didn't get any awkward phone calls yesterday, apo.
The friend he went trick-or-treating with was Harry Potter. Contrasting styles, you might say.
86: Dude, you are so screwed when your boys hit high school.
I can't believe you stood there and took a picture when your kid was bleeding profusely from an obvious carpentry accident. Bad dad!
86: I'd cooperate too if someone jammed a pencil in my face.
Noah has the same expression Ralphie did in A Christmas Story when his mom made him wear that bunny suit knitted by his aunt.
