Babies are cute! Show pictures!

[viscousmemories]

No really, I mean it.

One of my nieces just sent me a pic of my other niece's baby. I'm not sure how old she is (1 or 2) but she's adorable. I'd prove it by posting a pic, but I won't until I get to talk to her mother and get permission or until she turns 18 and gives her own permission, whichever comes first.

But anyway, that needn't stop y'all from posting baby pictures!

And for bonus points, can anyone tell me what relation my niece's daughter is to me? Grand-niece just doesn't sound right...

[pescifish]

And for bonus points, can anyone tell me what relation my niece's daughter is to me? Grand-niece just doesn't sound right...
That's what it is, all right.

Main Entry: grand·niece (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=grandniece&x=16&y=10)
Pronunciation: -'nEs
Function: noun
: a granddaughter of one's brother or sister

[viscousmemories]

Huh, freaky. I guess I'm like an old man now. Thanks for the lookup, fish. :)

[pescifish]

I dunno, I was thinking it must be nice to be "grand" in some way. At least you can be a proud Grand Uncle.

You'll have to wait a while to become Great.

[viscousmemories]

I dunno, I was thinking it must be nice to be "grand" in some way. At least you can be a proud Grand Uncle.

You'll have to wait a while to become Great.
Ah, if only age guaranteed greatness. :didi:

[Lauri D]

The younger of my 2 nephews - Rainer.

[viscousmemories]

OMG he's adorable!

Thanks for posting, Lauri. :)

[Beth]

My kids as babies. Jimmy is nearly three, I think. Emma, a month or so, I think. I do not think they'll mind me putting baby pics up. They just think I have wild ideas and do not want to be recognised as the kids belonging to the opinions.

[viscousmemories]

How cute, Beth! :)

I forget... how old are they now?

[Beth]

JImmy is 11 1/2 and Emma will be nine Saturday of next week. Thank you.

[Roland98]

*shameless bump*

Finally got around to getting some pictures of my kids up, emailed, all that jazz. Thought I'd post 'em here too. This is Zavier (he's 2):

[Roland98]

And Aurora, who will be 5 (!) in December:

(that's my sister holding her, not me. As usual, I'm behind the camera).

[viscousmemories]

They're both gorgeous. Thanks for posting the pics. :)

[Petra]

Awww. They're so cute. Almost oven-ready, too. Yum, yum.



I'll scan some baby pics of Zoe soon and get them up.

[wildernesse]

Bwhaha. Baby pictures have no effect on me, no matter the cuteness. RA is spared from talk of babies for at least another day.

But, seriously, everyone's chil'ens are adorable.

[Sonnet]

Call me a cynic - 0r worse - but when I see baby pictures I just think 'Well, that one looks like it came from your gene pool - of course you think it's adorable.' But honestly, don't they all have big eyes and round cheeks and little button noses, and don't they all look sleepy sometimes, or wear cute little pajamas, or get food all over themselves? Baby pictures are useful if you want to chronicle your family history, but one pretty much looks like another if you don't happen to have a vested (read: selfish) interest in one in particular. We were all just DARLING, after all, and look how we turned out.

[Goliath]

But honestly, don't they all have big eyes and round cheeks and little button noses, and don't they all look sleepy sometimes, or wear cute little pajamas, or get food all over themselves?

Yay! I'm glad that I'm not the only one who sees babies this way.

Honestly, if it weren't for the fact that different babies are of different size, hair, skin color, and eye color, I probably wouldn't be able to tell one of them apart from another.

[Shake]

Here's my nearly 4-year old son, in a shot taken earlier this summer.

I'll have some more recent pics available soon.

[viscousmemories]

Honestly, if it weren't for the fact that different babies are of different size, hair, skin color, and eye color, I probably wouldn't be able to tell one of them apart from another.
Hm. Can't you pretty much say the same thing about adults? :chin:

[Scotty]

Well, you have to look at it from the side of the ugly baby.

QUIT LOOKING AT ME THAT WAY!

-Scott

[Goliath]

Hm. Can't you pretty much say the same thing about adults? :chin:

Not really. Two adults that are of the same size with the same hair, skin, and eye color almost always (unless they're identical twins) have differing facial features and different voices. Also, two such adults would likely have different interests and different names (and they would be able to tell you their own name).

IMO, babies tend to all have the same kind of pasty, roundish face, they all seem to sound the same, and they don't really have interests and can't tell you their own names.

Edited to say: Woohoo! 300th post! :D

[viscousmemories]

IMO, babies tend to all have the same kind of pasty, roundish face, they all seem to sound the same, and they don't really have interests and can't tell you their own names.
Well okay that's definitely true of infants (to me, anyway) but I don't think it's true of kids that are 2+ yrs. old, as are almost all of the kids whose pictures have been posted in this thread.

Maybe you just haven't interacted with many kids? I have over 35 nieces and nephews, so it definitely took me a while to differentiate between many of them, but once I got to know a little bit about them and saw them with a little frequency they began to be pretty obviously different from each other.

[Goliath]

Yes, I do definitely mean very young babies. Once they start to learn how to speak and explore the world around them, they start to develop more distinguishable facial features and (again IMO) become little people rather than crying, screaming poop factories. I'm not sure about the cutoff line being at age 2, though...do kids start to speak that early?

I've interacted with some kids...obviously not as many as you have (I only have 2 stepnieces and a couple of friends with kids), but between baby pictures and young babies that I've seen up close, they all essentially look the same to me (again, except for size and the color of their hair, eyes, and skin).

[Roland98]

I'm not sure about the cutoff line being at age 2, though...do kids start to speak that early?

Many do. Aurora started really early; she was speaking in full sentences by maybe 15 months, and already sounded like a little adult by around 2. Zavier's more laid back (and can hardly get in a word edgewise with his chatterbox sister), but he's 2 1/2 and can carry on a conversation.

[wildernesse]

I would back the age of individuality up before 2 years. I think there is a lot of individuality in children even at a very young age--but that it's hard to think "little person" for me before they can sit up. I'm not terribly interested in babies until they can sit up on their own--so I don't pay attention to them before that time--so of course they all look like "babies" to me.

I luv babies. The pictures I could resist, but now you've gone and made me think about babies--and worse than that, 2 year olds! I luv 2 year olds . . .and 3 year olds. . . and. . . . Poor RA.

[Ronin]

I may be way offline in analyzing this too much, but I'm fairly sure I disagree with the idea of babies being generically cute as opposed to uniquely cute.

You back up the age thing to right out of the shoot...when they're all slimey and red...then they are not "cute" (generically or uniquely).

By the time they start to develop differentiating features they each can become uniquely cute.

As for me, I can identify a butt-ass ugly kid any day of the week.

The issue now becomes, would any of us be pro-active and admit such an assessment to the parent of such a critter?

[/fart in church]

[viscousmemories]

The issue now becomes, would any of us be pro-active and admit such an assessment to the parent of such a critter?
Pro-active? You mean so the necessary steps in cases of "ugly baby" can be taken immediately? :D

[Ronin]

Well...only so far as saying:

"GAH!! What in the HELL is THAT!!?!"

...right after spraying up one's Mountain Dew.

[Sonnet]

Honestly, if it weren't for the fact that different babies are of different size, hair, skin color, and eye color, I probably wouldn't be able to tell one of them apart from another.
Hm. Can't you pretty much say the same thing about adults? :chin:

Well, yes. I guess that's pretty much my point.

Ok, I was being kind of flip there for a sec; ADULTS are people, who look different and have interesting attributes. I look at pictures because I want to know more about (a very few of) them, find out who they are. I'm sure that's true of some folks with babies, but not me, particularly. I think of it as kind of blindly self-indulgent to assume that everyone thinks your baby is as fabulous as you (generic 'you', of course) do. It's only special to you; I don't happen to think that you and the person you like to fuck are the singularly most charming and adorable people in the world, and so your offspring is nothing special until it does something to distinguish itself - and that WON'T be when it gets chocolate cake all over its round little cheeks and drooly little mouth. I'm sure it does go poopie and enjoy opening Christmas presents, and I'm glad for it and for you, but not so glad that I want to pore over pictures of the glorious event. There are already too many of us; babies are just... more, until they've had a chance to prove that they can do some good here - and a great many prove nothing of the kind.

[Goliath]

Many do.

Huh. Well, ya learn something new every day.

Still, though, until a baby starts to speak and express a personality, it looks like prettymuch every other baby out there to me.

[viscousmemories]

Well, yes. I guess that's pretty much my point.

Ok, I was being kind of flip there for a sec; ADULTS are people, who look different and have interesting attributes. I look at pictures because I want to know more about (a very few of) them, find out who they are. I'm sure that's true of some folks with babies, but not me, particularly. I think of it as kind of blindly self-indulgent to assume that everyone thinks your baby is as fabulous as you (generic 'you', of course) do. It's only special to you; I don't happen to think that you and the person you like to fuck are the singularly most charming and adorable people in the world, and so your offspring is nothing special until it does something to distinguish itself - and that WON'T be when it gets chocolate cake all over its round little cheeks and drooly little mouth. I'm sure it does go poopie and enjoy opening Christmas presents, and I'm glad for it and for you, but not so glad that I want to pore over pictures of the glorious event. There are already too many of us; babies are just... more, until they've had a chance to prove that they can do some good here - and a great many prove nothing of the kind.
:roflmao: Don't hold back Sonnet, tell me what you really think.

Okay so you won't be offended if I suggest that in the future you avoid threads titled "Babies are cute! Show pictures!" if you are averse to seeing pictures of people's babies? I mean it's not like these folks were exactly forcing these pics on us. I kinda asked for 'em. :P

[dave_a]

This is, so far, my only child, Calvin shortly after birth in the neonatal intensive care unit waiting for his first heart surgery:

http://webpages.charter.net/davea/calvin16060399.JPG

This is him celebrating his 5th birthday with his friends(wearing the batman shirt):

http://webpages.charter.net/davea/Resize%20of%20Calvin%205yr%20Birthday9.jpg

Sorry for the large size, I have no idea how others are doing the thumbnail thing.

[Sonnet]

:roflmao: Don't hold back Sonnet, tell me what you really think.

Okay so you won't be offended if I suggest that in the future you avoid threads titled "Babies are cute! Show pictures!" if you are averse to seeing pictures of people's babies? I mean it's not like these folks were exactly forcing these pics on us. I kinda asked for 'em. :P

Sorry; I was just doing that whole Freethought thing... :)