Check. Do not invite the Grinches.

You're welcome.

One, I apologized immediately. Two, I'd simply never seen anything quite that hairy. It was more surprise than horror.

All is forgiven. You and the Grinches will be invited. Be sure to wear your flea collars.

6 Month Old Alone for 5 Days Next to Dead Parent
 

Okay - this is my worst nightmare, as a single parent who often works from home and is pretty much a loner.

I could definitely see 5 days going by before work sent a cop to the house and I often go 5 days without talking to my family on the phone. Daycare also doesn't call if your kid doesn't show up. At least a two year old would probably think to drink the toilet water and maybe even rummage around for food. It's too awful to think what an infant would do. I remember the incident where Sheila Bellush was murdered while with her 4 infant quadruplets and the quads spent all day slumped over her dead body, crying. I'm relieved the Babe can climb out of her crib and (usually) open doors.


Sorry for being such a bummer today!

6 Month Old Alone for 5 Days Next to Dead Parent
 

The second most distressing thing about this is that your source trumpets the fact they carry Rush Limbaugh. I know this is America, but given the level of idiocly and hypocrisy that this guy spews, why does he still have a bully pulpit?

Why, Bilmore, why?

6 Month Old Alone for 5 Days Next to Dead Parent
 

I finf these two stories unimaginably depressing. The Bellush one especially (I Googled it)because a) I have multiples, and b) her kids were roughly the same age as the baltspawn are now. That is one creepy story.

Her 13 year old daughter found her body with her 23 month old quads running around naked except for each wearing a life preserver and covered in blood. Nobody knows why they were wearing life preservers, or who put them on them.

We have no family here other than one set of the kid's grantparents and an errant uncle who works weekeds and that's a pretty lame party. We have several neighbors that I would like to invite and many more who would like to be invited - I am wrestling with how to pare it way down. That is our biggest problem. Oh - that and the fact that Mr. Lex wants to have the party AT a football game. Men.

Oh, and can someone post something happy? - I came here to get the CNN images of the dead Russian kids out of my head.

I may have to go and browse the talking pinatas again.

-TL

I have to admit that going to baby parties doesn't exactly fill me with joy. But one baby party I went to had a no limit hold em tournament for anyone who wanted to play (mostly men), and that wasn't too bad at all. If it's for a small kid who won't care anyway, it might not be a bad idea to have something the attendees can do--say, watch a football game, drink themselves blind, etc.

eta:For entertainment at our baby party, we're planning to mock and tease the Grinches for wearing flea collars after Labor Day, quelle horreur.

Fuck art, let's dance
 

I wouldn't normally think of Wagner's "Flying Duchman" as dance music. But, somehow, a 4-year old girl at a "symphony in the parks" event can pull it off.

No problem with football and beer at my house. He wants to do it at the game. I should add that both the attending grandparents are British, so as you may imagine, they are not real big football fans. Plus, the cake will probably melt on the tailgate.

I hate to be negative, but you are married to either a madman or an idiot.

A one-year old at a football game? With a tailgate party of some sort? In November (I realize it's in Texas, but it could still be cold. Or at least cool. Okay, not blazing hot.)? And you're going to feed the kid cake?

1) It's not going to be fun for the kid, who'll have to sit still waaaaaay longer than he wants to. 2) It's not going to be fun for the adults, mainly because of 1). 3) Fewer people can participate on a casual basis (i.e. neighbor pops in to drop off cool toy and grab a piece of cake on the way to taking kid to soccer game).

Unless, of course, you have access to a skybox of some sort. Then I take it all back. That would actually be pretty cool. We're trying to swing this for baltspawn birthday number 3, but they (a)really like baseball and (b) will be 3.

ETA: Upon rereading, I don't think I adequately conveyed how much this would suck. Especially for the kid, and therefore the parents. No way you're getting to stay until halftime.

Possibly. He obviously hasn't thought this through and I can guarantee it won't happen anyway, because I won't be there and if I'm not there the kid won't be there either (I wear the boobies in this family!). We will have a normal party between naps at home on Sunday so Mr. Lex can enjoy his game on Sat.

-T(I can hear someone jabbering in his crib when he should have been asleep 45+min ago.)L

Fuck art, let's dance
 

Dude, PM me next time you're going to hit one of these--I'd love to see Magnus and Ruth Bader having their first dance together.

tm

Clown About Town
 

VM --

It looks like you didn't get any answers to your own party question, while you were answering others'.

1) Yes, you should invite the whole street over, even though it'll be more of a pain than it seems now and you'll spend more attention on the neighbors than you really probably want to at a birthday party. You can't do a clown on the lawn and not invite everyone. The good news is you'll have fulfilled your social obligations for a while.

2) There is no need to serve adult food at a 2 y.o. birthday party, esp. if it's midafternoon. Expect that most of the adults will take a piece of cake (if you get a large sheetcake you can always cut pieces based on how many people show up).

Good luck!