Glad to hear she's doing well. Damn 3 already? I remember when you first started this thread. My daughter just turned 3 as well and my youngest just turned 1. Time flies.

I know right? I kinda miss my littler baby..I like what she's been replaced with though.

Update...today she got into some makeup and managed to do this. X

Spallalala here because I can't remember my password and email address isn't accessable anymore.


Ha good to see you posted the photo hubby.
At first I thought she was bruised because she is like me and clumsy as fff.
She handed me my eyeshadow pallet and it all became very clear what happened. Glad she was gentle with it and her face isn't all black hahaha. I'm impressed.

Clearly she watches you put makeup on! Budding supermodel?!

Yup...me pretty much when I try put the stuff on too. Hiya River!

Thanks Guys for all the kind words and your attention. - B.

She's a lovely cutiepie, cheebs. Much love and hugs to her.

Time flies, eh? Don't I know the feeling - only yesterday I was holding my little bundle of joy in my hands and today she's all of 5 years old and a mischievous, constantly-laughing little brat.

Here she is with her 3 besties. All 4 of them together are an absolute riot. (my Isha is second from right)

Still can't get over that she's 5!!!

Yup..they grow up so fast! Can't believe mine one going to start school in next year!

Anyway, awesome to have you back here, V. You've been missed terribly!



Thanks to Ridley Scott! ::wink::

Thanks, rosh.

Actually, thanks goes to hammerfan for her convos on Facebook and for luring me back.

But let's not derail Cheeba's thread any further.

Ah, now I know who to blame. ::big grin::

Just a few more incase horror goes bye bye again.

I've taken screenshots of all these posts and will send them to an email for River to read later on.


So glad to hear horror was back, I rushed to screenshot everything River related.

She is just too adorable!

She really is!

Hey guys....so just an update from work.
River is, allover the place.
She's always cute, though gets into everything, tests boundaries and tempers and seems to have developed my liking of being slightly and deliberately irritating. I think she's really thriving on reactions right now.
Beautiful kid though, always says hello to people, she's polite, and she's made happy by the smallest things.
She's trying new sentences all the time and referring to herself as "I" now. Eating on her own. Running around. Climbing. Showing empathy - even for video game characters.

U know she's still very young but I get an idea now, the kind of little person she's becoming. She still makes me super proud and I still think she's the most beautiful girl on the world.

Ah well...*tried* to post some pictures. I will from home I guess.

What a joyful update!

She is adorable! What did you mean by "and seems to gave developed MT liking of being slightly and deliberately irritating."? MT Montana?

Ha "my". Fix'd.

My grandson, whose a few months older than River, is all about the "irritating" right now and there ain't no slightly about it. I love the very bones of him though! Glad to read the update.

I really need to learn how to resize pics. Not one goddamn pic off my phone is small enough to work on this site...

Transfer to computer, then Photoshop - Resize or MS Paint - Resize.

Never works when you try to attach a pic directly from your phones. Resolution is always too big.

Right click the image, hover over "open with", click "Paint", then "resize". I prefer to customize the pixels not the percent, usually with a maximum width of 800 to 900 for forums.

So today I had a day off work...didn't really have to take the whole day, but I just felt like "I'm in the work day already...stuff it".

I took River out for a babycino and some toast.
So we're sitting there eating and drinking and like what tends to happen sometimes, I look at her and thought how pretty she was ::love::
So I told her, like I always do.

I took a photo - so I thought hey I'll come in here and update with said picture because it sure turned out pretty well.

Standard update:

It's been a while.

This whole thread really puts in perspective how things go on FFWD when you have a kid...I remember when I *was* a kid, it felt like you had to wait for some things, now it's like everything is on top of me before I know it.

River is 4 and a half now, almost exactly.
She's a walking, talking proper "child" now. I mean she's still my baby, but, yknow childbaby.
She can be extremely annoying at times. She is willful. Questions everything. Often won't listen. Often gets herself in trouble despite me trying to do everything to avoid that...the lessons we learn I suppose.
She's also an awesome kid. She's funny. She trolls. She kind of makes jokes. Pulls faces. Tries to scare mummy.
She's thoughtful, and actually worries and sympathises and tries to help people when they're sick or hurt.
Overall, I like the person that she is...she can be a complete clown, but also has this depth of character that I really wouldn't have expected at her age.

As I tell her (at times of peace) I'm proud of my beautiful girl.

She's so cute! Reminds me of my niece.

Wow, four and a half! Time sure has flown!

I've said it before, she's got the eyes of an old soul. Beautiful.

She's adorable.

So cute! ::smile::