Fine Infant Clothing

I am buying some clothes online at oldnavy.com for my one year old baby girl. She is very lean, wears a sz 12 months. I was wondering if anyone knew how sizes are at old navy? They have size 6-12 months or 12-18 months. She is very petite 18lb 8oz. Hardto buy online because of that. She received some clothes from pumpkin patch and they r size 6-12 which fit her just fine. But again, different brands run different. So does anyone know about old navy? Does it run small, big, true to size? Thanks

I think they run pretty true to size....my son is pretty evenly proportioned, and the waist isn't too huge like some brands.

2009-07-03 06:09:24 by Luna's Mommy

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I buy 6-12 month size for 7 month old and the length is fine but it looks like it is digging into her stomach. Why do they make it so tight? Sometimes it affects her when she is sitting up because I guess it is making her uncomfortable in the stomach area. It's not like she is overweight, she is only 16 lbs (50 percentile). Don't the clothing companies do research or test the clothing on babies? If they made it a little looser it's not like it will fall off of them for goodness sake!

I had the same problem and then a friend of mine turned me onto Gymboree clothing. It fit my son SO much better (their waists are a little bit larger)! Wal-Mart brand clothing has also worked better for my son. You can also make your own clothing. Simplicity makes adorable patterns for little boys and girls.

2007-05-09 10:21:58 by rooney

Super soft and front pocket
Toffee Moon baby boys pants
Periwinkle and silver colour
Cotton-knit fine striped pattern
100% cotton and is machine washable

I am an intern in a infant room in a dayvare and need to come up with 4 lesson plans. I came up with using whip cream as the first one. They be in their heightchairs and spread it around on their trays. Its edible so I wouldnt have to worry about them eating it. I was thinking of putting food coloring in it to brighten it up. I need thoughts on that idea would it stain clothes if it was already mixed in??? Also what is the goal of this activity? Like Promoting fine motor skills? What are you thoughts on this any input is appreciated!

They did this at my daughter's daycare. Thet stripped the kids down to their diapers and put bibs on them. So that solved the clothing problem.

2009-11-17 19:06:41 by Alyssa B

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I would abolish the department of education because it's a local and state level responsibility.

I support the right to bear arms, concealed weapons licenses, hunting, stand your ground laws, etc.

I support a 2 strikes and your out drunk driving law.

I support a his body his choice law banning infant circumcision unless it is to treat a legitimate medical condition.

I support the decriminalizing of marijuana because it is less harmful than alcohol.

I think the drinking age should be 18 to match the age of adulthood.

I think it is of the highest urgency to become and stay energy independent.

I support nuclear power and increasing the number of nuclear power plants across America.

I would push the auto makers to make electric cars available for drivers who want them.

I would set and push for goals of energy independence, curing cancer, and paying down the nation debt.

I oppose the endangered species act because it has failed to protect one species and has only given government control of people's land.

I would raise the levels of fines on employers hiring illegal aliens.

Homeland security should only be used as an anti-terror agency and criminal law enforcement should be handled by other agencies.

I don't believe there is such thing as a gay marriage and think we should give them the same privileges that comes with marriage but call it something else.

I think capitalism is the greatest antipoverty tool the world has ever seen and encourage the economy, not put outrageous taxes on it.

I don't believe humans are warming up the Earth but I think we need to clean up some of the messes we are making such as air quality.

I believe in a small federal government. I don't think the general public should even notice the federal government unless they visit their local military recruiter or post office.

No more ethanol, it causes higher grocery bills and less MPG.

I support Boone's plan.

I support the rights of nudists to live their lifestyle on their privately owned property without the government telling them they must put clothes on.

I am a Christian but don't think it's the government's job to push morality, I think morality must come from the people up. Not the government down.

I support net neutrality, and oppose bandwidth caps.

I would revert our copyright laws back to that of the Webster and Benjamin Franklin years: An item can be copyrighted for 14 years, renewable once, then falls into public domain.

We allow men to go out in public shirtless. I support amending the law allowing both genders to do the same. One gender shirtless is discrimination. I support women's rights to breast feed in public. That is the function of the breast. I don't think anyone has ever been harmed for seeing a breast.

I think smokers should be required to pay their own way when they get cancer and heart disease. Not get public money to fight a self imposed condition.

I would allow people to own their social security accounts and allow them to invest in a Roth IRA within their social security account so the people may build a nest egg to retire on. Each person will own their account and congress may never dip into it.

I would make it illegal for credit card companies to raise interest rates, at will, with no delinquent activity: banning universal default.

Absolutely, no more national debt. No more borrowing.

I believe terminally ill patients should be allowed to take experimental drugs that have yet to receive FDA approval.

Lets get rid of the IRS, replace tax system with flat tax or national sales tax. The IRS and current tax code only exists to control people.

I oppose taxes on broadband internet access, sales tax on in items bought online, and regulation of online content.

I don't believe our government is up to the task of providing national heath care and it's much better off left in the hands of the private sector.

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well im not sure what to call it, but
I agree with 80% of that.

2008-11-08 11:28:50 by anonymous asker

The Story of Moonlight Bells, Can Man Fool Nature?

A Short Story By Warren Domke
With Cultural Assistance from Yang Fan, Shenyang, China

Long ago, under a dynasty few remember, and which history barely records, there was a village in a valley surrounded by mountains. On a hillside overlooking the village there was a temple, whose priests greeted each evening with the saying of prayers and the ringing of temple bells.

On another hillside nearer the town stood a small house, whose windows opened to the heavens. This was the home of the village’s astrologer and seer. He dwelt alone in the house, his gaze and attention directed to the heavens.

Nobody knew exactly when Xian Zhi acquired his ability to read the stars and foretell the future, but it must have been many years before he came to the village in the valley to become its Seer and fortuneteller.

He lived in a house on a hill overlooking the community of several thousand souls, and he lived alone—for it was his lot to live only in the company of the stars and sky. His house was filled with charts and tables to help him track the movement of the constellations and other heavenly bodies.

While still a boy he learned of his gift and was apprenticed to an old seer who taught him to trace the paths the stars and planets took through the heavens and to learn how the interaction of these bodies affected the lives of mortals. He learned quickly and soon became wise and all-seeing.

The people of the village learned to come to him for advice and to help them name their babies. He chose names that help assure good fortune in their lives ahead—it is even today the tradition of these valley people.

Many evenings he would climb the neighboring hills and mountains, to better observe the heavenly bodies whose movements predicted future and fortunes. Xian Zhi knew his trade well, and the village prospered as a result of his skills. But sometimes he wished he knew the company and love of a woman.

On a still night he could hear the temple bells in the distance, and he could see the activities of the men, women and children of the village. It was this way for many years, and Xian Zhi was much beloved of the people of the valley town. Each year the rice harvest was plentiful, and the townspeople traded for meats and poultry and the other items they wished to have—cloth, tools and the many things the village needed.

She was born in the spring, a fortunate baby. Her father was a seller of jade and other precious items, whose business prospered as the village enjoyed the bounty of its crops. She was a lovely baby, delicately formed and alert.

The girl was born in the Year of the Serpent under a near full moon. A beautiful infant, but her parents frowned at her gender and beauty; for her father had wanted a boy, and her mother was equally disappointed at her failure to produce a son for her husband.

But still the mother and father carried the newborn child to the home of the Seer so that she might be properly named. It was early evening and the temple bells sang their distant song.

The mother and father entered his home and presented the baby to him. “Who is this?” he whispered at her tiny face.

“That is for you to tell us,” said the mother. “Choose a name that will bring her and us good fortune, and you will be amply rewarded.”

Xian Zhi gazed upon the baby girl and consulted his charts and tables before choosing as her name “Yue Ling,” which means “Moonlight Bells.” Wistfully he gazed at her. She had captured his heart. But he knew he must keep this love a secret. The parents agreed to the name and paid him in gold. He put the money in a small chest he kept in his room.

When the family had gone Xian Zhi sighed heavily. Again he felt the loneliness of his life and the solitude of his existence. That night he walked up the road toward the mountain pass above the valley and took a trail to a nearby mountaintop. He vowed to be true to his heart and true to his calling, and to keep his love a secret. He prayed to the gods for guidance and help, and they seemed to understand.

“I ask for the ability to make time stand still for me and to speed it up for her,” he prayed. “I pray for a meeting time and place.” If the gods had an answer for him they did not share it.

Time passed slowly, and yet in some ways quickly, for such is the way of China, where opposites often travel together. Yin and yang. The gods understood this ancient principle of life.

And Xian Zhi was blessed in every way, as was his village. In the years ahead the village prospered with plenty of rice and traded for duck and chicken and other meats. The people were happy. They wore fine clothes and built their fine houses.

Sometimes Xian Zhi, the Seer, would walk down the street as people greeted him happily. They clearly appreciated his wisdom and the good fortune he continued to bring the village and its people. For now they
Sometimes Xian Zhi, the Seer, would walk down the street as people greeted him happily. They clearly appreciated his wisdom and the good fortune he continued to bring the village and its people. For now they also venerated him for his growing age as well as for his wisdom and the clarity of his visions for the future.

Yue Ling grew to girlhood, laughing and playing, now loved by her parents. The old man would see her and smile. She still owned his heart. As a young girl she had long dark hair and deep brown eyes and a quick smile and an easy musical laugh that reminded Xian Zhi of the bells she was named after.

Seasons came and left. He aged and so did she. Now a very old man, now still a young woman, and love began to grow between them. She would sometimes visit him at the house on the hill and he would tell her of the stars and planets and the constellations that ruled the heavens and also ruled the fortunes of mortal humans.
Seasons came and left. He aged and so did she. Now a very old man, now still a young woman, and love began to grow between them. She would sometimes visit him at the house on the hill and he would tell her of the stars and planets and the constellations that ruled the heavens and also ruled the fortunes of mortal humans.

She listened only as one who was fascinated could. And she began to develop her own gifts of prophecy. She also began to love the heart and soul of Xian Zhi.

“This is the cruelest of jokes,” she told Xian Zhi. “You are my true love and you are older than my parents. Is there no mercy in the heavens that we cannot find a better way?”

He could not but agree. “I trust the gods,” he told her. “They have never betrayed me and I have trusted them all my life. This love could not be if we had no way to continue it.”
In her presence he too felt renewed and uplifted. His body became as that of a much younger man, and he grew in his love for her, as she grew in her love for him. It was spring, and many flowers bloomed along the streets and roads of the village in the valley.

It is illogical, he reasoned. Yue Ling has many years to live, he only a decade or perhaps two. They could not love each other, because he must leave before their love could be fulfilled.

But together they began to devise a plan to be together for a lifetime. If they were to die together they could come back together and their love could grow. They could be babies together, then children, and then young people, and adults, an eventually an aged couple who would grow old together. And they would be together in this life and the next. It seemed the perfect plan.
Xian Zhi remembered the mountain pass and a high cliff that plunged to a rocky riverbed below. The pair of them considered their options and their desires. “It is not fair to you,” he argued. “You are hardly more than a child.”

“If the gods did not approve,” Yue Ling argued. “Would they reveal such a perfect plan to us?”

So one starry moonless night they made their pact. They left the village and walked up the winding road to the mountain pass. They reached the cliff, and kissed for a long time before making the fateful leap—holding hands. “It won’t hurt much and not for long,” he whispered in her beautiful and delicate ear.

“I know,” she whispered back before they jumped. And so Xian Zhi, the Seer, and his beloved Moonlight Bells died together and went on to join the gods in heaven.
But fate was to prove unkind. Yue Ling was reborn, but it was in a mountain village many days travel from the village in the valley. There were no familiar faces and no Xian Zhi for her to see and love. She wept when she realized this.

The Seer, meanwhile, was reborn in the valley—fifty years after the rebirth of his beloved Yue Ling. The village had changed. The people he had known were now gone. Stories of the leap of the lovers were told, but many believed them mere legend. And his Moonlight Bells was nowhere to be found.

It was a cruel fate.

The Seer was reborn with his gifts of prophecy and his visions of good fortune and the future. It is not difficult for such a man to find a role in a society so dependent on luck and good fortune. He soon completed an apprenticeship and again lived in a home on a hill above a village, and told the fortunes of the people, and was again loved. And again prosperity fell on the people whose lives he guided.
But Moonlight Bells was now an old woman. Frail, in the twilight of her years, but the sparkle in her eye remained. Something of the lovely girl he loved refused to fade away, and would not die.

Love is powerful. If there is a thread to be found, the lovers will find it. If there is a tiny light in a corner they will see it. Love would not be denied.

They will see each other—secretly love each other. The families they knew before are now long gone, replaced by new families. It is a new world. But now their ages are the opposite of what they were: She is old and he is young.

A tiny flame remains and flickers and refuses to die. They are no longer Xian Zhi and Yue Ling. But their souls go on through eternity, still the Seer and still Moonlight Bells. He cannot give her up and she refuses to be parted from him.

The gods will have their last laugh. They always do.
Ernie, this type of story isn't for everyone. It's rather like mythology, and it has a certain audience. Clearly you are not part of that audience.

The appeal of this story is the suggeston that live can bridge time and ages. It also suggests that we can be given another chance at life through reincarnation. I don't necessarily believe these things.

If you read Shakespeare you may have to assume ghosts are real or that people can predict the future. If you read Homer you may have to accept the notion that multiple gods guide our lives and destinies. This is just for the purpose of getting through the story and understanding what it's about.

We never have to accept these premises as guides to our own lives. The Euro-centered concept of time as linear would probably be an obstacle to many readers of a story like "Midnight Bells" which asks us to see time as circular and to accept predestination and reincarnation.

Thank you for reading this and for your feedback.
Ernie, this type of story isn't for everyone. It's rather like mythology, and it has a certain audience. Clearly you are not part of that audience.

The appeal of this story is the suggeston that love can bridge time and ages. It also suggests that we can be given another chance at life through reincarnation. I don't necessarily believe these things.

If you read Shakespeare you may have to assume ghosts are real or that people can predict the future. If you read Homer you may have to accept the notion that multiple gods guide our lives and destinies. This is just for the purpose of getting through the story and understanding what it's about.

We never have to accept these premises as guides to our own lives. The Euro-centered concept of time as linear would probably be an obstacle to many readers of a story like "Midnight Bells" which asks us to see time as circular and to accept predestination and reincarnation.

Thank you for reading this and for your feedback.
For Aspen Dreamer--the double reply to Ernie was due to a typo that I tried to correct and instead got a double entry.

This short story is a work in progress. The original was a nice story but too short to do much with. I expanded it and am still looking at wording and details. This could be published, but I realize it will need some fine tuning before that happens.

One thing I like about the revised version is that I was able to inject a little more optimism in the ending, while keeping the ironic twist.

It isn't finished yet. I am looking for feedback and I do appreciate yours.

A very interesting story. To me it needs more development, more mystery added to the tale. What you have penned is a great start and a large undertaking. I commend you. I made notes throughout the story with ( ) to highlight. If I just high lighted with no explanation, it means I feel it should be deleted. This is worth the effort to really make it shine. Greatness...is in the details!

The Story of Moonlight Bells, Can Man Fool Nature?

A Short Story By Warren Domke
With Cultural Assistance from Yang Fan, Shenyang, China

Long ago, under a dynasty few remember, and which history barely records, there was a village in a valley surrounded by mountains. On a hillside overlooking the village (there) was a temple, (whose) priests greeted each evening with (the saying of) prayers and the ringing of temple bells.

(On another hillside nearer the town stood a small house, whose windows opened to the heavens. This was the home of the village’s astrologer and seer. He dwelt alone in the house, his gaze and attention directed to the heavens.

Nobody knew exactly when Xian Zhi acquired his ability to read the stars and foretell the future, but it must have been many years before he came to the village in the valley to become its Seer and fortuneteller.)(could use better development)

He lived in a house on a hill overlooking the community of several thousand souls, (and he lived) alone—for it was his lot to live only in the company of the stars and sky. His house was filled with charts and tables (to help him)(better phrase) track the movement of the constellations and (other) heavenly bodies.

While still a boy he learned (of his)(he had a?) gift and was apprenticed to an old seer who taught him to trace the paths the stars and planets took through the heavens and to learn (how) the interaction of these bodies(?) affected the lives of mortals. (He learned quickly and soon became wise and all-seeing.)(He proved gifted, quickly becoming a wise and all-seeing one.?)

The people of the village learned to come to him for advice and to help them name their babies. He chose names that help assure good fortune in their lives ahead—(it is even today the tradition of these valley people.)(weak)

Many evenings he would climb the neighboring hills and mountains, to better observe the heavenly bodies (whose movements predicted future and fortunes.)(why include?) Xian Zhi knew his trade well, and the village prospered as a result of his skills. (But sometimes he wished he knew the company and love of a woman.) (weak, develop more)

On a still night he could hear the temple bells in the distance, and (he could) see the activities of the men, women and children (of)(in?) the village. It was this way for many years, and Xian Zhi was much beloved of the people (of the valley town.)(delete) Each year the rice harvest was plentiful, and the townspeople traded for meats and poultry and (the other items )they wished to have—cloth, tools and the (many things)(weak) the village needed.

(She was born in the spring, a fortunate baby. Her father was a seller of jade and other precious items, whose business prospered as the village enjoyed the bounty of its crops. She was a lovely baby, delicately formed and alert.)(where’s the setup to this?)

The girl was born in the Year of the Serpent under a near full moon. A beautiful infant, but her parents frowned at her gender and beauty; for her father had wanted a boy, and her mother was equally disappointed at her failure to produce a son for her husband.

But still the mother and father carried the newborn child to the home of the Seer (so that) she (might) be properly named. It was early evening and the temple bells sang (their)(its) distant song.

The mother and father entered his home and presented the baby( to him.) “Who is this?” he whispered at her tiny face.

“That is for you to tell us,” said the mother. “Choose a name that will bring her and us good fortune, and you will be amply rewarded.”

Xian Zhi gazed upon the baby girl and consulted his charts and tables before choosing as her name “Yue Ling,” which means “Moonlight Bells.” Wistfully he gazed at her. She had captured his heart. But he knew he must keep this love a secret. The parents agreed to the name and paid him in gold. (He put the money in a small chest he kept in his room.)(unless later reference, not needed)

When the family had gone Xian Zhi sighed heavily. Again he felt the loneliness of his life and the solitude of his existence. That night he walked (up) the road toward the mountain pass (above the valley) and took a trail to a nearby mountaintop. He vowed to be true to his heart and true to his calling, and to keep his love a secret. He prayed to the gods for guidance and help, and they seemed to understand.

“I ask for the ability to make time stand still for me and to speed it up for her,” he prayed. “I pray for a meeting time and place.” If the gods had an answer for him t

2008-08-26 05:12:15 by Warren D