Miss. Chit-Chat

Juniper has already said the usual words like Mama, & Dada at 6 months and continues to blow my mind with her growing vocabulary. I was surprised her first word was "dada". Uh Hello? Haha. Since then she has mastered , fish, dog,baba,whoa, tree, hi, and everything is a duck. But the other day she squeezed my belly and said"tickle tickle tickle" I could not believe it! What the heck are we feeding this kid? At her 10 month visit her doctor almost fell off her chair when she looked up at the wall and pointed to the decals of fish ..and said "fish". Apparently it's early for her to talk. Who knew? I suppose she takes after her daddy. I'm expecting next month she will be asking for the keys to the car.

Juniper's first steps at 10 months!!

Juniper's First steps!! Go Junie Go!!

Here is a project I did for an online parenting blog called the Parent Du Jour

Juniper getting her groove on :) haha

"Learning to walk" is giving me grays

Juniper has started to pull herself up on anything she can find and creep along furniture..she is such a little explorer. It seemed to happen overnight! As excited as I am to see her develop this new found skill..I am terrified. The child has yet to understand that she can not defy gravity. And being that she has inherited my big head..she's a bit top heavy. She hasn't quite mastered falling on her tush yet, which results in her falling back straight as a board.. landing directly on her head. I cringe everytime I see her fall back. I know it's coming..the bang, the shocked look she has on her face..the tears.  It's like slow motion when it's happening. I realize this is a right of passage but i'd like her to make it to preschool without significant brain damage. I'm having a hard time resisting the urge to properly gear her up in a  helmet and wrap her in Charmin. Daddy and Dr.Rubin have banned me from getting the helmet. I'm upping my zanax.

Juniper is Moblie!

I made a movie dedicated to all the anti-vaccine lunacy..Enjoy!!

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/11055986/?listtype=SERIES&listid=20829785

First Mommy war on facebook..apparently with talking monkeys

So I made the mistake of chimming in on an acquaintances post with a cheeky comment that I thought was pretty funny. I found it all really amusing..kind of like going to the zoo and watching the monkeys fling their shit around.
Listen up .....Apparently disagreeing with someone is BAD.
And having an OPINION is even worse!
Vaccinating your children is an uneducated choice people..
hahaha
Here is the background story...
SO ...
A former acquaintace posted a story about a Measles exposure at a local mall.
I made a "snarky" comment that said"That's brilliant ..lets keep NOT vaccinating our children people"
Holy shit...The response I received was insane you would have thought I pissed in someones granola cereal.
Here are some of my favorite quotes...

" I used to sound JUST like you, until I read a few books and met a few people who suffered at their own hand by vaxing all the recommended doses"

Well then..Obviously she is more educated than 100 years of established immunology results... she's read a few books people!

 " I don't call people "brilliant" or crazy for injecting toxic material into their i...nfant children"

Because isn't the point of vaccinations to "poison" our kids??

"Know that I have read REAL literature...and as far as the research states, the ONLY people who don't think that the Autism epidemic is dominantly F...ROM us over vaxing, is the vaccine makers"

 People...she has read "REAL" literature. My bad.

"TW, THANK THE GODDESS, we have the right to religious exemption or philosophical exemption from vaccination for school if we need it"

Thank the goddess this womans children do not attend my kids school.

"I'm self centered and selfish because I trust in the human body and Nature... and it is against natured to allow a denatured (that means minisule amount) of a disease into my childs body, so small that his body doesn't know its there, doesn't go on a full on attack of that foreign disease... and let it sit, unchecked, doing god knows what, deep down in his body. I must have entered the Twilight Zone"

If it's against nature then by all means lets go live in caves and get eaten by wolves and go back in time were the average life expectancy was 30..Woohoo for nature! Poor sods.

I am always amazed by the utterances from antivaxxers. 

Consider: "immunization is another part of fear-based medicine, its not natural". What is "fear-based medicine"? What alternative does the woman propose in its place? Sorry, I find it very difficult to understand how the anti-vaxxers come to their beliefs. Somehow they've decided that the medical establishment is lying to us and that they're smarter than than 100 years of established immunology results. They back up their beliefs with claims of "research," probably meaning some articles on the internet, participated in some anti-vaccination forums, maybe even read some of Andrew Wakefield's discredited writings. But in the course of their thinking, they've somehow had to ignore the complete or almost complete eradication through immunization of dozens of deadly diseases such as smallpox, TB, polio, and yes, whooping cough, that killed and crippled only a few generations ago. Personally, I think that what drives the anti-vaxxers is the contrarian impulse, that they resent being told what to do and they feel the need to challenge authority, even if it results in harm to themselves and others. What is dawning on the rest of us is that these people are not harmless cranks and their actions endanger the rest of the community.The anti-vaccine proponents are condescending to those who fall prey to scare tactics supposedly put on society by the pharmaceutical companies, but yet they are being persuaded by the articles written to scare people away from vaccines. I just think it's funny, yet disturbing that people are taking this information at face value without understanding any of the science behind it. I understand that biology and chemistry are not everyones' favorite subjects, but they need to understand bodily processes before they start spouting off why immunizations are so terrible. We can't fight off disease merely by eating healthy and exercise. Parents need to understand how infections affect the body and how they spread.Folks, vaccinations have been around for a long time and have helped to nearly eradicate many of the plagues that killed 10s of thousands in Europe. Medicine may not be perfect, but wearing a tin hat and sipping aloe juice thinking you'll stave off mind control and disease is just plain lunacy. 

And on that note..i'm off to bed