#harry le fyz

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Sometimes pregnancy compels you to do weird things, like sew a medieval gown for your unborn daughter.

This is mauve linen in a style similar to that worn by Viking women as well as the basic cote before it got more fitted and fancy; you can see the side skirt panel and underarm gusset with flat felled seams.

Designed and handstitched by me based on primary and secondary sources.

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May I contribute? 🙂

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No vabbè ma io a prova di proiettile la seguivo pure. Ti prego fammi una lista di tutte ste nasty io devo sapere se seguo gente che insulta il mio Louuu (sono l'anon che ti chiese di quello che è successo con Jonnhy 🤣)

Courtesy of @la-paritalienne che in quanto harrie larrie con due coglioni grossi come le chiappe di Nicki Minaj, tiene sott’occhio questa gentaglia meglio di me. Tieni car*. Aggiungi a questa lista assolutamente st*loff, sst*les ed harryst*lesdaily (ex FYZ).

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The way my toddler found a scarf with beads on the fringe in our costume stash and was instantly fascinated and wouldn't stop looking at and touching the beads and made me put the scarf on her so she could wear the beads and hear them rattle which is exactly how humans have been responding to beads for millennia

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I'm always moving books out of our bed. My kids fall asleep on top of books every night despite not being old enough to read yet and I just think that's kind of beautiful?

Also my daughter keeps trying to eat my Latin dictionary which I'm not quite sure how to interpret

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it turns out telling a wailing baby to "have some milk, you little dork" is not as effective a soothing technique as we had hoped

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Harry (1.5 yrs)(wanders into the kitchen moaning like the ghost of Bertram Wooster's less fortunate brother who died in infancy): Tea, tea, tea...

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Bleoberys (6) sets up a baseball diamond in the living room using various toys and books as bases

Harry (1) picks up Second Base to see the illustrations of farm animals

Bleoberys wails

I suggest Bleoberys pick a less interesting Second Base

Bleoberys melts down again because Harry is in the base path, which is where she sat down to read Second Base

I call Harry over to my chair

Bleoberys abandons his baseball game to join us

We all read Second Base together

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One of my favourite jokes rn is when my daughter babbles some nonsense like bababgwa and I repeat it back to her in biblical language.

Verily I say unto you, bababgwa.

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Hi tumblr I'm back and I have company

(posting pics without guilt since newborns aren't exactly distinguishable from week to week anyway)

Her name is Bleoberys. Kidding. It's Harry le Fyz, Bleoberys is her big brother who speaks in Shakespeare quotes, sometimes inappropriate ones.

Did you know braxton hicks aka false labour can last for literal months? I did because I saw my mom and sister deal with it but this was my first time round. Oof.

Did you know actual non-false labour pains can start off at 3.5 minutes apart? I did not. Also, not that they're exactly fun regardless, but they get way less fun when you have to lie on your back with monitors strapped to you for what was probably much less than five hours but did not feel that way, at all.

Harry wasn't feeling it much either, to the point that she had to be surgically removed posthaste. (This was actually part of The Plan, Harry just sidetracked it a bit by deciding to show up early.) They were going to wheel me there but I was all NO THANKS, I'LL WALK because I was very very tired of being Not Upright by then.

Did you know you can actually feel a c-section with a spinal block? It doesn't hurt just sort of feels like people lightly tapping your torso all over and sometimes tugging it. Sometimes tugging so hard it lifts you off the operating table a little bit and your ribs are sore for days after. True story.

Anyway I am now the proud guardian of a daughter and a second surgical scar on top of the one Bleoberys left behind.

Bleoberys cried when he met her because baby sisters are fun to talk about but a little overwhelming in person. That's how we ended up with an excellent family photo which I will not post, where Bleoberys is visibly crying into the shoulder of my visibly drugged up self, while everyone else smiles beatifically from behind with Harry in their midst.

Here's a pic of Harry in a nightgown I made her from an old cotton pillowcase I found in a thrift store because that sort of thing brings me joy.

Now I get to spend a few weeks watching my tissues and displaced organs miraculously knit themselves back into place, and being very grateful I don't live in either the sixth or fifteenth centuries when the success rate for c-sections was considerably lower, or so I hear.

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(planning my son's first Christmas): hat, baby gear, lil cute ornament with his name on it,

(planning my daughter's first Christmas): I'm sorry I CANNOT send this child forth into the world without a SWORD

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babies will discover a new phoneme and just. practice the heck out of it

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it must be so weird to be a baby crawling on the floor and you find a small object and put it in your mouth and sometimes it turns out to be playmobil and someone gasps and snatches it away from you but other times it is a pretzel

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Bleoberys keeps putting this cape on Harry that makes her look like some sort of fledgling superhero

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Having a baby is like. There's this creature. I made it. It's little and squishy and it's in my bed. Sometimes it screams and I'm the only one who can fix it. I'm a disaster but I'm its favourite thing. Listen to it. Look at it. It's driving me crazy. I love it so much.

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Bleoberys is very proud of his ability to quiet Harry when she's sad only he keeps referring to it as "silencing" her which is a bit worrisome