Michael "Dog3" Lonergan wrote:
> I'm not sure what Joel is. I'm not up on relatives lingo. It's Steven's
> niece's littly boy. I guess Joel is grand nephew? Anyway, it's his second
> birthday. We got him a Matchbox Snowmonster something or other. It comes
> with a bunch of trucks, snowplows and his fave; the Bigfoot monster. When
> you push to button on the monster it's eyes light up bright red, it's
> drooly mouth opens and it roars.

His parents are gonna just love you, all that noise, why didn't you
just get him a drum? And all those vehicular wheels, and a plow yet, I
hope they don't have nice hardwood fllors. In my experience the best
giftss for someone elses twosies are bath toys.

http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html...sin=B000ENRW4U

Sheldon

Michael "Dog3" Lonergan wrote:

> I love giving him loud toys.

That's evil Michael!!
Friend of ours (ex-friend I might add) gave our twins a 'Music Set' for
their second birthday.
Container was the drum, inside were cymbals, drumsticks, kazoo,
sopranino recorder.
Our friendship died about 2 months later. A month after that most of
the two sets were either in the sand pit, munched on by the dog or lost
forever in the cubbyhouse.
Both kids are/were musical though - he went on to play a mighty fine
clarinet while she went on to play the flute ...thankfully neither
showed an interest in brass or drums!

I/we always gave books for birthdays - Graeme Base "Animalia" (and his
other titles), Janet and Allen Ahlberg (Peepo, The Jolly Postman, Each
Peach Pear Plum, Starting School)...
happily both my kids were/are avid readers!

LadyJane
--
"Never trust a skinny cook!"
remembers fondly their 2nd birthday party... did around 30 cupcakes,
iced with butter frosting and dredged in coconut, then placed on a very
large cake board & decorated with chocolate legs, antennae & eyes to
form a giant caterpillar (they loved Eric Carle's The Very Hungry
Caterpillar, at that age.)

Michael "Dog3" Lonergan wrote:

> Ex-friend was obviously as evil as I am. Did the noise keep you awake
> nights?

Only until I accidentally on purpose stomped on the drums!
After parties my two would be totally hyped - one early morning, I'm
talking about 2am, they were having a 'picnic' in my dining room with
all my best china & every scrap of milk in the house in the tureen, all
stuffed toys gathered around for the 'picnic'.
The terrible two used to get up to some unbelievable
antics....pictorial evidence attached!

http://i14.tinypic.com/29gd5w0.jpg - 3am.. utter chaos
http://i13.tinypic.com/3508brm.jpg - thats 7 DOZEN cloth nappies
(previously folded & ready for immediate use) combined with 1 container
talc, 2 tubes barrier cream, 1 large tub petroleum jelly.... that
carpet was never the same after this episode.
It was around this time I discovered Vallergan.... thanks to my GP!
http://i13.tinypic.com/2sbwsuv.jpg - the culprits in a (brief) moment
of non-rivalry

and on a food related topic...
http://i13.tinypic.com/2ijg3te.jpg - daughter absorbing (no other word
for it) her afternoon tea! thus began a life-long addiction to all
things sweet!!!

those were the days my friend.... geez I'm glad they ended!!
fun, but very very harrowing.
Nowadays it's still harrowing and not nearly as much fun.(they're 22 in
March)

LadyJane
--
"Never trust a skinny cook!"
or a woman with PMT AND TWINS AND SLEEP DEPRIVATION!

In article . com>,
"LadyJane" > wrote:

>
> Michael "Dog3" Lonergan wrote:
>
> > Ex-friend was obviously as evil as I am. Did the noise keep you awake
> > nights?
>
> Only until I accidentally on purpose stomped on the drums!
> After parties my two would be totally hyped - one early morning, I'm
> talking about 2am, they were having a 'picnic' in my dining room with
> all my best china & every scrap of milk in the house in the tureen, all
> stuffed toys gathered around for the 'picnic'.
> The terrible two used to get up to some unbelievable
> antics....pictorial evidence attached!
>
> http://i14.tinypic.com/29gd5w0.jpg - 3am.. utter chaos
> http://i13.tinypic.com/3508brm.jpg - thats 7 DOZEN cloth nappies
> (previously folded & ready for immediate use) combined with 1 container
> talc, 2 tubes barrier cream, 1 large tub petroleum jelly.... that
> carpet was never the same after this episode.
> It was around this time I discovered Vallergan.... thanks to my GP!
> http://i13.tinypic.com/2sbwsuv.jpg - the culprits in a (brief) moment
> of non-rivalry
>
> and on a food related topic...
> http://i13.tinypic.com/2ijg3te.jpg - daughter absorbing (no other word
> for it) her afternoon tea! thus began a life-long addiction to all
> things sweet!!!
>
> those were the days my friend.... geez I'm glad they ended!!
> fun, but very very harrowing.
> Nowadays it's still harrowing and not nearly as much fun.(they're 22 in
> March)
>
> LadyJane
> --
> "Never trust a skinny cook!"
> or a woman with PMT AND TWINS AND SLEEP DEPRIVATION!

Priceless pictures...... :-)
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In article . com>,
"LadyJane" > wrote:

> After parties my two would be totally hyped - one early morning, I'm
> talking about 2am, they were having a 'picnic' in my dining room with
> all my best china & every scrap of milk in the house in the tureen, all
> stuffed toys gathered around for the 'picnic'.
> The terrible two used to get up to some unbelievable
> antics....pictorial evidence attached!
'
Holy crap! If they were mine, they might not have lived to their next
birthday.

--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
"Maligning an individual says more about you than the one you malign."
http://web.mac.com/barbschaller; blahblahblog 10/13/2006
http://jamlady.eboard.com, Cedric Adams' Hotdish, 10/20/2006

Melba's Jammin' wrote:

> Holy crap! If they were mine, they might not have lived to their next
> birthday.
>
Believe me... it was touch and go there for a while! LOL

Still is as far as the male of the species is concerned - 22, still at
home, an utter grot, AND out of work for the past 2 months!
ggggrrrrr

On the upside, he's seldom home for dinner these days - cooks for
himself at midnight or 1am when we're slumbering oblivious to his
presence....and sometimes even cleans up after he's done eating.

LadyJane
--
"Never trust a skinny cook!"