But the hair itself screams PEACOCK! GREENY-GOLD IRIDESCENT PEACOCK! Fortunately I have situated myself in the most visually unexciting corner of my whole house, so that you are not blinded by the funkehness of the hair, the badassery of the tattoo (damn right it say number thirteen, Ollie! High five!) and the sweet cherubicity of the tiny girl in the motorcycle t-shirt. You can't see the motorcycle, but I assure you, it's there.
I guess you don't really get the full-on glory of the tattoo, but you get the CRAZY TODDLER-NURSIN' FREAK LADY. Too bad that one site that made (nasty yet unimaginative) fun of everybody took its Thomas the Tank Engine and went home. I bet my site traffic would've been through the roof.
And furthermore: can we just give it up for the over-the-shirt nursing style? I love it so much. I love how convenient it is (and usually more discreet than what you see above), I love it when Kateri rocks it, and I love it most of all when this otherwise very proper woman at LLL busts it out.
In a final note on this floofiest of posts: I have been doing this (and by this I mean inappropriately exposing that which I ought to keep private, via photos or richly evocative prose) for THREE years now. Yes. Three. No, no, please get up off your knees, you're embarrassing both of us. Just, if you're lurkening, post a quick WORD UP or something, or maybe a link to another site (blog or otherwise) that you like. Rock.
WORD UP.
We'll be three years of boobie juicing this March and I don't see any end in sight. Better still, she shares with her baby brother. Blogging with two wee'uns on the boobers is harder than you might think.
Posted by: Northwoods Baby | Monday, January 15, 2007 at 09:58 PM
Hmm. I just tried to take a picture of my son nursing but he is so NUTS about the camera that he wouldn't have anything to do with the boob. Seriously, my eight-month-old likes having his picture taken more than he likes milk. (If only there were some way to take his picture all night so I could get some sleep.)
Posted by: Annika | Monday, January 15, 2007 at 10:04 PM
Word up, yo.
De-lurking, just cuz ya asked.
Posted by: Karly | Monday, January 15, 2007 at 10:11 PM
It's inspiring to hear of someone doing "extended nursing" or whatever it's being called these days. I'm starting to get funny looks and comments from the peanut gallery and my Manling is only 15 months old. I love your blog, and I also love your hair.
Posted by: Anne | Monday, January 15, 2007 at 10:25 PM
You look awesome. You're inspiring breast-feeding moms everywhere. Never was it more cool to nurse than with blue hair and a tattoo. Congrats on the anniversary.
Posted by: Colleen | Monday, January 15, 2007 at 10:27 PM
Love the hair, love the tat, and love the cutie pie attached to it all! Kudos to you for extended nursing.
Posted by: Kristin | Monday, January 15, 2007 at 10:40 PM
Word UP. I have a great place that removes tattoos, but alas it is located in San Diego.
Posted by: Sam | Monday, January 15, 2007 at 11:59 PM
are you serious? how on earth did she get to be three?
love the hair!
Posted by: Meramoo | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 12:02 AM
I think Jo means that she's been blogging for three years, not nursing. Unless she started lactating and wet-nursing long before Sophia was born.
But I could be wrong. It's been known to happen.
HEY, so, what I intended to say was this: LOVE the hair. So much so that I'm wondering if I could get away with it even though I have to stand up in front of a room full of college freshmen three times a week for the next 16 weeks.
Posted by: the boxing octopus | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 12:09 AM
Whoa, the hair kicks some ass! You'll have to let me know how well the color holds up... I've been wanting to go more intense, but am afraid of it leaching out.
I love extended nursing pics! Big kids are so much more expressive than little grub-like kiddos. Now that you've thrown down the gauntlet, here's my twenty-one month-old visiting Boob City, USA (with his Blackberry, of course).
Posted by: Jul | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 12:21 AM
Awesome haircut, great rack!
Posted by: zhanae | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 12:46 AM
Been reading you nearly the whole time! My son is almost 2 now and I started reading right around the time he was conceived. Love to read you! Congrats on 3 years!
Posted by: J | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 12:51 AM
Technically, I`m not a lurker, because I have commented before, but I think it was before Sophia was born. If lurking is like virginity, I think that`s long enough to re-grow my lurking hymen and require de-lurking again. Okay, that was kind of gross and dumb, and I should have just remained silent.
I once had a hair mishap in which I expected pinky-auburn and got HOT PINK-FUCHSIA instead.
Posted by: L. | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 02:31 AM
Loving the picture, though you've robbed us of the high-res macro on the tattoo, and that is just wrong.
3 years? Damn, I'm feeling old.
Posted by: Boulder | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 02:56 AM
My sister also toddler nursed 'til they decided to stop. two years a couple of months, if memory serves. Pregnant again, and will be interesting to see what the niece thinks about it when babe latches on. She'll be six.
and oh yeah. Word to the boob.
Posted by: kayley | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 06:58 AM
Great pic! I've commented before, but mostly lurk. I love to see toddlers nursing, my mom nursed us all for 3+ years. Hope to be doing it myself (nursing a toddler) in a couple years. And, just in case you're bored or something, you could check out this (relatively) new blog: http://lesbianfamily.org Those gals rock, or you could read my blog for fun hightlights of my IVF.
Posted by: jenny | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 07:56 AM
Word! Not only do I lurk, but I mostly do so thru Bloglines. Am still haunted by your series of plastics posts...
Posted by: mc | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 08:23 AM
yep, boxing octopus, three years of bloggening. the s-mouse is only 16 months...
Posted by: Jo | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 08:29 AM
De-lurkening :-P
Bravo for the toddler nursing. I pumped for my little guy til he was almost 12 months old, then he went to whole cow's milk per the pediatrician's suggestion. He never nursed very well, or we might very well still be nursing.
Have you on my google reader list, so I'll slink back to lurk-dom.
Posted by: KLynn | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 08:30 AM
Nursed mine until they were toddlers too -but I never had a cool blue haircut. Great picture - Olivia's gotten so big!
Posted by: leslie | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 09:00 AM
You rock my socks! I love the hair and WORD to the over-the-shirt nursing style. It's my fave!
Posted by: Bethiclaus | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 09:23 AM
The writing still rocks after 3 years...way to go!
Posted by: Jen | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 09:29 AM
Bah to you over-the-shirt nursers, I say! Bah! You think you're all cool because you wear hip, stylish clothes that allow you to pop your tits out on a moments notice.
What about the rest of us, huh? What about those of us whose wardrobes consist of the same ratty t-shirts we wore in high school and the zip-up sweaters our grandmothers bought us for Christmas. How are we supposed to nurse subversively? Think about that before you go pushing your over-the-shirt propaganda.
That being said, I thank you for your three years of blogular service. And you certainly do rock the peacock green.
Posted by: Casey | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 09:37 AM
I'm very jealous of the hair, and isn't jealousy truly the most sincere form of flattery?
Posted by: Summer | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 09:42 AM
De-lurking to say hi there.
Is the tatoo an arrow? Like "Look up, ya jerk?" Because if so, that's fabulous.
Posted by: Jenny Scientist | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 10:15 AM