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Here a Kid, There a Kid, Everywhere there's a [Kids] Thread
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Call me Ahava ~~She/Her~~Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
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Welcome to the Parenting, kids, and pregnancy thread!
Share your stories, photos, anxieties, questions, and everything in between!
Be kind to each other!
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Also, my baby girl is expert at lounging
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"For milk, formula, stew and cocoa."
Guys, I think I am raising The Governor. I don't know how to feel about this. (And no she has never seen any part of The Walking Dead.)
These poops should be classified as war crimes
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Much more awake time, so much more alert and responsive. She's following lights and shadow, holding her head up for longer, and just being closeer to "baby' than "infant". She's amazing.
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When my younger daughter was about 1, probably a little older, we had the stairs gated off to keep her downstairs with us and she crawled up the first one and pushed the gate over and said "gate down, haha."
We learned he's better off shopping in the men's/young men's section at the smallest sizes than kids now though - things just don't fit him well in the kids section (especially in pants). That made me feel slightly old!
Two of the pairs of pants they bought have to be returned because they didn't listen to us on what size to buy, but otherwise I was shocked that he bought pretty nice stuff. He was also super impressed with having good quality sneakers, we figured his feet have stayed the same size for a few months so we'd let him buy some nice ones
While they shopped, my wife got a massage and I bought Mortal Kombat XL, Darth Vader sneakers, and browsed the comic store. Also, at the end there was frozen yogurt involved, that's always a sign of a successful day. I'll have to try to snap a pic of one of his new outfits to share.
We were at a department store in canada yesterday with my 18month old and we saw they had these nice toddler style Levis Jeans on sale. We basically plopped him on a table, took his pants off, tried those ones on real quick, then bought them. (also they were crazy price reduced, normally 28 on sale for 12 somehow so we bought 1 pair a size up as well)
good times
edit - you know what, we actually took of picture of them
Looks at those god damn levi's jeans! so cute
This ya only going to get more challenging as she gets older, right?
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The lion and elephant appear to be reacting appropriately
The urge to kill themselves remains pretty constant through teenagehood, from what I can tell.
Of course, when they're more mobile it becomes a ton more challenging (Hello Mr. Light socket! So THAT's how you open a baby gate! So THAT's what pointy things taste like!), and after a while it evolves to include an urge to kill you as well!
For reference: My daughter's favorite thing has been to launch herself into either myself or my wife for a while now, usually at high speed and when we're not expecting it. This used to be cute, but now that a) she's 40 pounds and b) often launching herself at us from behind and c) sometimes off the top of the stairs, it tends to not be so cute anymore. :?
Yeah, we're only at 18 months and my son will be sitting on me while I'm lying down and just throw himself at or away from me and it's up to me to pick up the slack. We've strategically let him fall off of certain things so he learns there are some consequences (first step of the stairs etc.), but the kid just loves danger.
Good thing his middle name is Hazard, it's scarily accurate.
I really don't handle the 6-18 month period, when they're getting super mobile (and strong!) but can't yet communicate well, very well. And diaper changes right now, yeeeesh.
before bed he deposited a load at the depot. My wife affectionately called it "hell diaper" and I had to remove it from our house asap.
They do. It's been interesting. The second is definitely easier in a lot of ways and also harder. My wife had a C-section delivery since the first time ended up going that way also. But taking care of a 20 month old toddler and a newborn is exhausting. The baby is at least sleeping 3-4 hours at a time so we're not spread too thin. And there's been a lot of annoying family drama with my mother in law.
But the little girl is doing good. And I'm not sure whose baby has more hair. Yours or ours.
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Ugh, family bullshit. I already told my mother straight to her face that if she starts any shit with my partner when we have kids, she will get cut the fuck off, quick as a flash. My Mum is fantastic (Amy even thinks so!) so it is very unlikely that she would cause a ruckus, and we're probably years away from kids yet, but she knows already anyway. I very strongly suspect that she will be the kind of Grandma that spoils the kids rotten every time they visit and always takes their side when they get in trouble, so they'll be fine.
I was at a friend's house at the weekend when his three month old started making a noise that can only be described as oinking. This worried both parents as he had not done it before.
Shortly after came such a feotid stench that I temporarily lost my sight. The baby was removed to the next room for changing and through the wall we could hear muffled screams to the extent that the mum had to go and see what was up.
She came back pallid and silent. A changed woman.
I presume the father died in there.
Wheeeeeeee.
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I feel like Niko totally screwed me out of the cute newborn period.
Eep, good luck!
@Janson and @Moriveth you should be so proud.
Anyways, he didn't tell me. I see the water in the bowl is a bit dirty and flush it. Oh boy, overflow!
Two bath towls and a roll of paper towls later and he tells the story.
It's so cute I couldn't even be a little mad
what up dad? just chillin over here
And this is how I eat breakfast nowadays.
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Depending on how strict our Social Security office is, we have the docs needed to get his card. We could have resolved it yesterday, except that apparently our Social Security office closes at noon on Wednesdays for no real reason.
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just be glad you're doing this in the states. it's much more complicated over here to get an ssn organized. let alone her passport and citizenship.
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...right before he was like this for three hours. Nothing placated him, so I figured he probably wasn't feeling too well. He ate a huge dinner, though! I ended up giving him ibuprofen and that seemed to help.
True, but down the line there's dual citizenship to look forward to, in case living out Mad Max is a fantasy of hers.
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In other kid news, my niece turned 3 yesterday! I can hardly believe it! She's still blonde and blue eyed - can hardly believe that too!
I nearly commented on her hair color on your Facebook post, but decided that might've come across as creepy considering I've only known of her through you, but yes, it's so rare to retain that blondeness after toddlerhood, and so cool!
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Now:
Thanks again!
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