Wed 16 Nov 2005
Can We Still Call Him Lil Smudge?
Posted by Liza under Pregnancy
He doesn’t look like a Lil Smudge any more! He really looks like a camera-shy baby. 
And even… 
Those are the most no-paparazzi pictures. There are a few more, including with little feet and fists, in the photo album.
But I have to end with my favorite one!
Something tells me we’re going to see a lot of this expression on his little face.
Fruit & Veg Count, 11/16: 1/2 cup frozen raspberries, 3/4 cup mixed veggies.
November 17th, 2005 at 10:44 am
We had been impressed with our 3D ultrasound pictures - though it took 3 session to get one (Julia’s a very cuddly baby and always had her face pressed into the placenta — she still tries to press her face into soft, warm things) everyone thought Julia was pretty cute. But when she came out and we got to see her face for real… we were even more impressed with the 3D picture. It looked just like her.
Take a good look at your son. He’ll look just like that (minus the technical lumps and such)
November 17th, 2005 at 4:36 pm
Oh he’s beautiful. I am assuming that the ‘he’ part has been verified? We didn’t know until the birth so we used ’she’ most of the time. Maybe that’s why he refused to be born…
Charlie looks exactly like his 3-d u/s pic. Really, he does. When he was born… he looked so much like the u/s it was scary. I think lil’ smudge will be looking a lot like that at birth.
You can see the ‘before and after’ pictures here. Unfortunately typepad won’t allow html. jerks
http://faggotsonthethirdfloor.blogspot.com/2005/09/charlie-then-and-now.html
November 17th, 2005 at 5:30 pm
Ok, you don’t have anything specific I can comment on this, but I noticed that you finally read (or are in the process of reading?) Trickster’s Choice. And you rated it less than Plains of Passage? Hello? Ok, I love Auel’s books, too. But didn’t you think that PoP could have used some MAJOR editing? There was so much redundancy and explanation of motives — and I know that SOME redundancy is important since it’s the 5th (I think it’s the 5th) book after a loooooooong hiatus, but still. Some of it was redundant of stuff that happened earlier in the book. As I was reading it I was happy to be back in the story, but really just wanted to pull out a red pen and start cutting out unnecessary verbiage!
Anyway. Have you read any Martha Wells? The final installment of her trilogy “The Fall if Ile Rien” is finally out and so far it is fab! I recommend her highly. I’d start with “The Death of the Necromancer” as that is a sorta-prequel to her trilogy and it is completely compelling IMHO.
Oh and, Charles de Lint’s Spirits in the Wires follows up from Onion Girl (sorta-kinda) and was, I thought, more intriguing theory-wise…
November 17th, 2005 at 5:32 pm
Wait, wait, wait. I didn’t mean plains of passage. I meant shelters of stone. Which I also see here is your favorite of the whole series. Don’t stop adoring me, though, I still hold to my comment…
(even though Ayla does do some amazing growth through the book!)
November 18th, 2005 at 6:07 am
Of course I still adore you, Trista! In fact, your recommendation of Trickster’s Choice was a big part of my reading it. We’ll see how much it stays with me and how I feel about the series; maybe the rating will improve.
I have to admit, SoS is my favorite of the Auel series, but I wouldn’t say that it’s because of the writing. I tend to get really attached to some characters, and in that book, I felt like Ayla was finally getting the relatively nice life she deserved after all the suffering in the earlier books.
I do the same thing with Neal Stephenson’s later work, although esp with Cryptonomicon. When I re-read that, I only read the parts narrated from the POV of the characters I like best.
Thanks for the additional recommendations! I went book-shopping last night for our big trip and came home with not enough and feeling unsatisfied with my choices. I looked at Spirits in the Wires, but I find the premise sort of off-putting and didn’t buy it. Maybe I’ll reconsider.
What I really want is a new Philip Pullman book.
November 18th, 2005 at 6:13 am
Wow, Estelle! That’s wild.
We found out that Lil Smudge was a boy at our last u/s; it didn’t look ambiguous at all. But since we hope he’ll still speak to us as a teenager, we didn’t put that picture up online.
I also just knew that he was a boy from very early on, maybe as early as 6 or 7 weeks. The first u/s was basically when I got to/had to quit pretending that he might be a girl.