<p>Your example is so much clearer, swimcatsmom. Thanks.</p>
<p>mimk6: it took me ages even with that link to figure it out. Now I feel just like one of the cool kids.</p>
<p>And I must admit, I really really want a few of the octuplets!</p>
<p>^^ alh-
It would be great to have a few of the babies if they could come without the media circus attached.</p>
<p>Not me. I only want (in a few years) the grandbaby type that you can give back when you have had enough!</p>
<p>jym626: If they were mine there would be no media circus. And I think most of it could have been avoided. I look pretty harmless till someone gets in my kids’ faces with a camera and I doubt anyone would have tried twice.</p>
<p>swimcatsmom: I am pretty worried that if I am fortunate enough to be a grandmama, I’ll aggravate my kids-in-law to bits by being way too over involved and overwhelming. Though I have heard through the grapevine that the future perfect daughter-in-law expects the grandmamas to provide substantial child care – and I AM IN!!</p>
<p>How would you handle the helicopters, alh? can one buy bazookas over the counter??? ;)</p>
<p>I currently dog-sit occasionally on weekends for neighbors when they go away. It seems to fill my “dog fix” kinda like that grandma fix. Love on 'em for a few days, spoil 'em a bit, and return them to their rightful owner :)</p>
<p>^^Don’t laugh but I already have a helicopter prevention plan in place! Even if I couldn’t get a gun from over on the election forum. I figure with preemies they really don’t have to go out except to the doctor so if they are inside they aren’t exposed to ariel (sp??) photographers. And I bet a doctor (or at least a home health care nurse) would come to you under those circumstances. After the first uncooperative year, I imagine the media would lose interest.</p>
<p>H and I are debating the puppy. We finally have no kids at home and nice furniture so he’s not real enthusiastic.</p>
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<p>okay, well that didn’t work:( I need to go back to kindergarten.</p>
<p>You forgot the / before the 2nd quote</p>
<p>mimk6…I am no techie, believe me…</p>
<p>But…the problem in your attempt is this:</p>
<p>First, you have a space after the first set of brackets before the word “Now” and there should be NO SPACE at all. </p>
<p>Second, at the end where you have “quote” in brackets…you need to put a slash “/” before the word, “quote”…like this but do not use ANY spaces when you do it:</p>
<p>[ / quote]</p>
<p>Lastly, you are allowed to have spaces between the words inside your quote!!! The actual quote should not be one gigantic word! :D</p>
<p>alh…you cracked me up about borrowing a gun from the political thread! LOL</p>
<p>^^Well I was seriously considering acquiring a gun for the upcoming apocalypse until reading a few days on that thread and deciding I’d probably only be using it on myself - in self-defense!</p>
<p>I just watched the first two babies on ET and thought the cameras WEREN’T going to be allowed in the home as part of the Angels deal??? I am really worried about infections. Oh dear Oh dear</p>
<p>I don’t know the physical health of the babies, but unless the babies are putting the camera equipment in their mouths they aren’t going to pick up anything directly-
however- noise=stress, and a stressful environment can negatively impact the immune system and slow down normal development.</p>
<p>I still can’t get over this whole scenario- if someone had made a movie of this mess ( the idea,- not the kids), no one would think it was believable- because * no one* would ever be crazy enough to have six kids right after the other- by in vitro fertilization, when they did not have a spouse or a job and then have eight more and then… angle for their own reality tv show. Freaky.</p>
<p>^^I’m not worried about the cameras but the camera operators and the anchor/interviewer holding the baby, etc. The more people they are exposed to the greater the potential germ pool, right? I assume with the Angels, they will take precautions: will wash hands well, not come to work obviously ill and so on. I understand it will be difficult to limit their contact with the older children, though I might try for a while (that is a difficult one!) but the rest of the outside world is neither necessary nor desirable. And I am worried about them getting sick unnecessarily.</p>
<p>What do you think emeraldkity? Didn’t you have preemies?</p>
<p>ahhhhhhhh. The ET reporter was all over that infant. She had a microphone and a baby and a bottle in her hands all at once. I did not expect to see the ET reporter feeding that premie. They are NOT DOLLS. I think the cameras in the house and the reporters and the cameramen should keep their distance. Guess ET paid big bucks to have not just inside access but literally hands on baby access. Great. </p>
<p>No wonder there was true bedlam outside that house. Freaky that the reporters were climbing all over the car every time it stopped at a stop light on the way home from the hospital. That must have been scary. And trying to get through the cul-de-sac and into the garage. The paparazzi were maniacs. Maybe Nadya learned something today on her ride home.</p>
<p>^^this is where DHS needs to step in in my opinion. It jeopardizes the infants’ health, doesn’t it?</p>
<p>I don’t understand the legalities of this. But can there be a court appointed guardian for the babies to oversee this sort of thing and put a stop to it? I have a lawyer friend who gets appointed guardian by the state for people who can’t take care of themselves.</p>
<p>As for the reporters being all over her and the babies, this would not still be going on if the general public would lose interest in this case. If people had not gotten in a tizy over the story from the get go then this none of those reporters would be there right now (at least this is my opinion).</p>
<p>mimk6-
I guess I need to hone my instructional skills!! LOL. You have it right except (a)there should be spaces between the words (type normally), and (b) the ending bracket should have
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. You had the beginnng bracket right. I just double-spaced because thats a way to show what the brackets should look like --but if we type them as they should appear, we’d get a quote block instead of the demonstration for you. Does that make sense?</p>
<p>Agreed that security should have been much tighter to keep the paparrazi at a distance. That was lunacy. That said, the calling of the police from the car had a “staged” feel to it. It is sad that Nadya seems to be financing her living expenses by selling tv/video rights. Agree that it isnt directly best for these babies (the babies were reportedly startled and cried during the paparrazi frenzy and chaos) but if she thinks that is the only way she can make enough money to care for them… it is a lousy choice amongst limited lousy choices she has left herself.</p>
<p>^^it makes jon&kate look low-key</p>