Anonymous wrote:Avery, Violet and Vivienne.

Anonymous wrote:When Victoria and Alexander’s mother was little she had a pink gabled doll house with real working lights, and would spend hours rearranging furniture in the drawing room. She’s always been drawn to the classical and elegant. Now at 38, she’s a pearl necklace kind of woman with a white kitchen and well kept house, as well as a rewarding part-time career at an arts foundation. The children (never “kids”) are taken to the museums often, but have never been to a county fair. Dad has strong feelings about children’s enrichment activities, and always brings the children special biscuits (bought at the airport) back from his business trips to London, and appreciates the DW keeps herself and his family well coiffed, but otherwise is not overly involved.

Anonymous wrote:Maximillian and Magdeline

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Anonymous wrote:Ivy and Tessa

Ivy and Tessa's parents met through mutual friends. The friends were in grad school for International Relations and had a cool row house. They had a party one night and these two lovebirds found each other and have been inseparable since. They waited until their careers took off before they married so they are somewhat older parents, but very fit and healthy, so its not a big deal. She grows herbs, he bikes on Sundays in a big "bike pack" group.

Ivy and Tessa are close in age and they both have long waterfall curls; but Ivy is dark haired and Tessa a dirty blonde. Ivy is currently obsessed with reading. She loves Nancy Drew and Encyclopedia Brown. She's totally old school. She really wants a tree house and dad has promised to take her to the local library to research building one. (Again, totally old school).
Tess, as her favorite teacher nicknamed her recently, is all about socializing. She likes having friends over and is planning a Roxaboxen party just like her favorite picyure book by the same name.

The girls love the family tradition of going to see the Nutcracker ballet at Christmas time.

Anonymous wrote:Ivy and Tessa

Anonymous wrote:Aaron
Sarah
Rachel
Hannah
Daniel

Anonymous wrote:Tenleigh’s mom was 42 when she gave birth, which is a good thing, because experience is really a godsend in making sure she gets this whole ‘motherhood’ thing right. After a very successful career that involved deal-making on 4 continents, it feels very good to be able to fully concentrate on Tenleigh’s development. She was still in a rear-facing car seat at age 3, you would not dare to feed her popcorn until 6, and kept yourself busy in those early years researching bilingual preschools. She’s now a precocious 2nd grader, into horses and Girl Scouts, though you’re pushing hard to get her more interested in STEAM and worried she won’t make it into the gifted program.

Tenleigh’s dad (#mybestfriend) has ramped up at work since you quit when the baby came. You always expected he’d be a more involved father, but it was clear early on that he wasn’t as invested in learning the right way to sooth her and couldn’t be counted on to make sure she wasn’t introduced to new foods too quickly, so you find yourself doing 95% of the work. Still, they have a little routine where they go out together Saturday mornings while you sleep in, which is nice.

Anonymous wrote:These threads only work for people with generic Anglo names. If I posted my kids’ names here I’d be outed in a second! But... we get complimented on their ethnic names all the time.