Hello Juicers! Reporting in from fatherhood. Camille is four months this week…
…and doing great! She’s ahead on most of her benchmarks, starting teething, and still super chill, at least by baby standards. No complaints, 10/10.
Boy it sure is a disaster out there, though, isn’t it? Fortunately I’ve got a lot to keep me busy right here. Camille isn’t even the only baby in the neighborhood…
But they grow up so fast, don’t they? Ten days later…
They weren’t even there the last time I walked by. Flown the coop! I’m an empty-nester now. Oh, and the yard is coming along really well, too. Thanks to a big assist from TaMara a couple years ago, we now have these lovely and prolific irises, which gave us quite a show this year!
Other than that, been reading, working on the video game (just about time for the demo and kickstarter!), playing video games… specifically Clair Obscur, Blue Prince, Lies of P, and The Hundred Line Last Defense Academy… Been trying to avoid Doing Politics Online, with mixed success. Not much point arguing about anything with anybody. Just gotta keep the house in order.
And of course we still have the cats.
So let’s call this a respite thread, for all your respitey needs. Playing? Reading? Watching? What’s up?
Baud
Whoa. Good looking baby. And tall.
WaterGirl
He is very handsome! Not to mention the requisite rosy baby cheeks!
Major Major Major Major
@WaterGirl: She!
@Baud: Yeah, here’s hoping the height sticks, our donor is five foot nothing.
Scout211
AWWWWW! Camille! She’s such a cutie! I want to snuggle and hug that cutie pie. I bet she gives the best snuggles. :)
Gloria DryGarden
Gorgeous! The clear eyed centered baby, the glamor photos of the cats and the iris. I an JEALOUS of your iris! Speckles.
just looking at your baby exuding that smooth calm…. She’s beautiful. What energy!
SpaceUnit
10/10? Are we judging and grading babies now?
ETA: Okay, I was probably a one star baby.
sab
Is that grey guy a Gandalf? I thought we had a front pager with a grey Gandalf.
Denali5
Congratulations! What a beautiful baby!
zhena gogolia
Thank you for this! Love all the pictures! Camille is beautiful!
I guess WG was thinking of Camille Saint-Saëns.
Just finished watching Miss Austen. It started slow but ended with a devastating episode. Great acting all around.
Also watching the old Middlemarch with Rufus Sewell. He was very cute. Jonathan Firth is also easy on the eyes and a good actor. But it’s very, very slow.
This season of Hacks has been a roller coaster. But very funny. I have a lol almost every episode, in the literal sense.
Mike in Pasadena
Camille is a beautiful name. Congrats on a 10 out of 10 baby!
Josie
A beautiful name for a beautiful baby. She looks so happy.
ETA: Do the two cats get along with each other. They both look rather snobbish.
Major Major Major Major
@zhena gogolia: my grandma was named Camille, as was her father, but in the states it’s been a girl’s name ever since the Garbo movie.
zhena gogolia
@Major Major Major Major: The Swiss proprietor of a local jewelry store when I was a child was named Camille, and she was one of my favorite people. I am still wearing the garnet ring my mother got for me when I was ten.
SiubhanDuinne
Good to see you, M4! Camille is gorgeous, as are owls, iris, cats….
Old School
Four months? You must be in the walking around like a zombie stage.
She’s adorable!
Elizabelle
Camille is beautiful. She looks like she has something to tell you all.
Glad to hear you are settling in so well in your Western state.
Suburban Mom
Congratulations! Camille is a beauty.
prostratedragon
Baby! My godsister’s middle name is Camille; always liked it. Do the cats like Camille?
Major Major Major Major
@Old School: nope doing great, my shift ends at 02:30 and I get eight hours, my husband’s up around five when she gets up too. So we each shifted an hour-ish. Remote work, very understanding. We’re lucky. She sleeps like a champ, too.
Mai Naem mobile
Camille’s a very cute baby. Camille’s a pretty and classic name that sounds good for her as a baby and as she grows into adulthood. Not common but not uncommon enough to have to spell it out everytime you make an appointment or whatever.
Rugosa
The gray cat has the look that says “You are not stealing my soul. I am stealing yours.”
Congrats on a lovely baby.
Major Major Major Major
@Mai Naem mobile: I’ve been terrified that it’s going to coincidentally be a hip name for her cohort but so far seems to not be!
@prostratedragon: Samwise pretty much ignores her but Momo gets really jealous and will climb on top of her if she’s on your lap, lol. She’s started to notice Momo now. But she doesn’t quite realize she has hands yet… we’ll see how that develops.
zhena gogolia
@Major Major Major Major: I’m feeling like Harriet is the new cliche name.
divF
Hi Camille ! (Waves)
I go out for coffee every morning. One of the day’s pleasures is to smile and wave at the little ones that pass through Peet’s (after making eye contact with the parent to make sure it is ok). My day is made if I get back a smile, or for the older ones, a wave.
bbleh
Well that is just some RAMPANT cuteness all around. Very welcome, especially here where it’s March in May. Also glad to see you’re still in the game.
(Also I’m sure you’re aware, but just in case, watch the cats around the crib…)
Major Major Major Major
@zhena gogolia: I haven’t met a lot of babies yet, we’ll see! I’m excited to find out what mangled spellings of the exact same name everyone has when she starts school
eclare
@zhena gogolia:
Planning to start Hacks season four tonight! I think someone here said it really starts to click with episode six, and my good friend said the same thing.
HinTN
What’s up? Headed to Hotlanta for three afternoons of jazz in Piedmont Park. Food and beverage vendors lined up to serve the madding crowd. Oooooh yeah.
Bunter
Will be working on and off this weekend but hope to finish reading “Kills Well with Others” the sequel to “Killers of a Certain Age”.
eclare
Awww…what a happy baby! Very cute! Samwise looking regal as always, although he is missing his bow tie.
Princess
She is really cute! You should definitely keep her.
West of the Rockies
Mega congrats, 4M! Being a papa is the best! What a cutie…
Major Major Major Major
@eclare: oh shoot new season? I will definitely have to check it out. Great show
Lyrebird
CONGRATS MAJOR^4 AND SPOUSAL UNIT!!
Welcome to the world, Camille!!
Rusty
Camille pins the cute meter, you are a lucky parent.
Old School
@Major Major Major Major:
That’s not fair!
Major Major Major Major
@Old School: good genes, some might say the best 😇
They Call Me Noni
@zhena gogolia: Just a delightful baby girl. Very pretty flowers, cute kitties and adorable birds. Life is good when you look at the gifts it gives us. Nice break from the horrors. Thank you for the reminder that it does, in fact, keep delivering beauty and wonder all around us.
They Call Me Noni
@They Call Me Noni: Obviously this was should have been a reply to 4M. Tried replying from my phone and messed it up. But sentiments remain.
Tehanu
What a great little girl! That smile is fantastic!
TaMara
@Gloria DryGarden: Since we are neighbors, kind of, come fall I’m sure I can procure some similar iris for you. We all have to cull them they are so prolific here.
TaMara
@Major Major Major Major: She is beautiful.
Camille is a family name here, too. My youngest brother would have been Camilla if he’d been a girl.
sab
@Major Major Major Major: Hope they mangle it.
I had three or four girls with my exact same name all through school in every class and in every home room.
My family was very traditional. This was their first new name in generations, and they blew it.
Lately, it is so rare that I have to spell it to order a pizza.
LOL
Camille the name is lovely and Camille the baby is very cute.
EarthWindFire
Oh my, what a cutie. You know, they say the first baby sleeps through the night to trick you into having another one.
zhena gogolia
@eclare: Yes, hold on through the first few episodes, which are funny but somewhat irritating.
lowtechcyclist
Camille looks adorable, M^4! And that would certainly explain why you haven’t been around much lately!
@zhena gogolia:
If I knew one of those new parents, I’d sing “You’re So Vane” to the baby. Because I’m wimsical like that.
rikyrah
Hi Camille🤗😊
Mike E
12/10
p.a.
Wonderful!
Flying the coop: Graduates bid farewell to beloved crochet birds project
Birbs, adorable handmade crochet birds, have been a coveted find on the Brown campus in the two years since an anonymous Instagram account, @birbsatbrown, started posting photos of the colorful little crafts hidden in different spots across College Hill for people to find.
As they prepare to graduate, account co-founders Jen Chen, Angela Li and Jane Zhou are letting their closely guarded anonymity fly and celebrating the nearly 600 plump, colorful birds they have nestled in bushes and flowers, wedged between books at University libraries, tucked into the campus gates, dangled in trees and more.
“I’m filled with warmth and pride to have made something that’s given a lot of people joy,” Chen said.
As the account has soared to more than 6,000 followers, the team of birb creators has grown to about a dozen members, each of whom has expanded the birbs’ creative designs — fashioning birbs that look like peapods, Minions, tomatoes, pineapples and more. Support and enthusiasm for birbs also swelled among Brown alumni, who have generously donated funds and yarn to keep birbs hatching, the founders said.
“The generosity of alumni has been really meaningful,” Chen said.
The founders also collaborated with social service organizations and hospitals in Providence, where they donated birbs.
“Being able to utilize birbs and the generosity of everyone in the community to impact the local Providence area was really special,” Li said.
Ahead of Commencement and Reunion Weekend, the team bid farewell to Brown with a series of birbs in the University’s signature red and brown colors, each with a mortarboard cap and tassel.
“The fact that we grew so much is a testament to the culture at Brown,” Zhou said. “People appreciate this simple, little joyful thing.”
zhena gogolia
@lowtechcyclist: I got it!
Sure Lurkalot
What a sweetheart! Nice to hear good news and read comments about an adorable baby, spring flowers and beloved cats.
Yutsano
@zhena gogolia: I just want to say you unintentionally (but delightfully) got Dance Macabre stuck in my head.
Gin & Tonic
@Major Major Major Major: One of the most destructive Gulf Coast hurricanes, too.
Gin & Tonic
@divF:
You’ll never be able to afford to buy a house if you do that.
Dan B
The baby, pets, and plants all look great!
Sister Golden Bear
Everyone say: AWWWWWWW!!! 12/10
Dorothy A. Winsor
Camille is such a cutie!
zhena gogolia
@Yutsano: The theme song for Jonathan Creek!
mrmoshpotato
Cubs @ Reds
Also. damn you Lilo and Stitch trailer
ETA – also Johnsonville wants us to KEEP IT JUICY! OH! BABY!
lamh47
Lordt the time has flown!!! #GodbabyMaddie graduated from 8th! Yall we got a high schooler now 😩. My auntie would be so proud! RIP Auntie and congrats Maddie! Look how far we have come!!
https://x.com/psddluva4evah/status/1925955317549916655?s=46
eclare
@p.a.:
So cute, thanks!
Manyakitty
@Major Major Major Major: Camille is GORGEOUS and obviously thriving. All the best to you and yours.
eclare
@lamh47:
She looks like a lovely young woman, I’m sure everyone is proud!
eclare
@Gin & Tonic:
Yep. My family is not from the MS coast, but not far from it. They talked about Camille til they died.
MagdaInBlack
Oh my! That is a beautiful child, your Camille =-)
And such handsome cat-critters.
And of course, the lovely iris, one of my favorite flowers.
Itsa 3-fer ! Thank you
eta: AND the cute little owls
zhena gogolia
@lamh47: Beautiful!
mrmoshpotato
@lamh47: Congrats!
mrmoshpotato
Quality baby, as one of the Cubs TV announcers says.
mali muso
Too adorable! A baby really does keep you grounded in the here and now. My kiddo was born in November 2016 and I think being able to focus on her kept me sane in those early days of the horrors. Sending you and the family best wishes!
MazeDancer
Such a perfect baby! And comes with matching cats. How wonderful!
Suzanne
Look at that gorgeous little munchkin!!!
ronno2018
lovely kid and pets! great idea to focus on the wonderful life we have personally and not the disaster of politics in the good ole usa!
Pauline
Such a gorgeous baby! Look at that smile!
eta: Owl and cat pictures are much appreciated also.
hitchhiker
Beautiful, beautiful child! Thanks for sharing.
Pauline
@zhena gogolia: That Middlemarch production was rather slow, it was Rufus Sewell that kept me going with that one.
Getting ready to start Miss Austen now that some of my other shows have finished up for the season.
VeniceRiley
Just popping in to say Camille is ADORBS!
WaterGirl
@Major Major Major Major: Still a pretty face, regardless of gender!
zhena gogolia
@Pauline: The whole thing perks up when he comes into view.
I think Juliet Aubrey doesn’t carry the role of Dorothea well. She’s kind of bland.
Major Major Major Major
@Gin & Tonic: my grandma was very unamused by this
schrodingers_cat
@Major Major Major Major: She is adorable!
Yutsano
I am going with the crowd here. However, I will say that Camille has wonderfully pinchable cheeks!
prostratedragon
@lamh47: It does indeed fly. Congrats to the grad!
Gin & Tonic
@Major Major Major Major: Apologies to your grandma.
Sort of tangential, but my dear wife and I once attended a wedding during which the church was struck by lightning; everyone said that was an omen of good luck. So may sharing a name with a monster storm lead to good luck for Camille (who is beautiful, BTW.)
dnfree
@Major Major Major Major: We named a child Caitlin when that was an unusual name. Five or six years later there were MANY Caitlins, few of them spelled correctly.
Another Scott
Hello M^4! Good to hear and see that things are going well. Don’t be a stranger.
Best wishes,
Scott.
Gin & Tonic
This is some exciting basketball action.
tobie
Camille is a cutie pie. Wishing you endless joy with her, M4.
I’ve got one flower bed to clear tomorrow. Hope I can boast of irises in the future.
laura
Your family treasure is beautiful. Your fog-pelted and wee orange she-tabby are also handsome and winsome. Solid check in and field report!
Central Planning
She’s adorable!
dww44
@Major Major Major Major: About Hurricane Camille.., the storm was so named at the time after the young daughter of John Hope , the then director of the Hurricane Prediction Center and later with the Weather Channel. Storms were not prenamed in those days and either he or his coworkers decided to name the storm after Hope’s daughter since they needed a C name and all hurricanes got feminine names.
The young Camille in 1969 grew up to become a lawyer and married a guy named Jim Marshall, also a lawyer, who became our Mayor. From there he became the last Democratic Congressman from these parts. Was ousted after the passage of the ACA in that big red wave year and the redrawn district to insure that no Democrat ever got elected again.
Buggrit
WHAT a pretty baby! There’s an alert intelligence in her gaze.
Lynn Dee
That is one beautiful baby! Congratulations, Dad.
Kayla Rudbek
@divF: I always like showing babies the Vulcan “live long and prosper” hand gestures and they always seem to like it. And small children are fascinated by watching my live knitting (particularly if it’s socks)
Noskilz
An adorable little tot!