ceresWhen the last moon is cast over the last star of morningAnd the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderatormod
Niko: I spy with my little eye... Something... bath!
Me: Is it the bath?
Niko: Yes! I spy with my little eye... something... toilet!
My son did that one. Also hide and seek: mommy let's play hide and seek, I'll hide under the table and you count
me:...
Ours would let you go first and then hide in the exact place that he found you. It was guaranteed to be a good place because it took him ages to find us.
The one about the fucking space hairdresser and the cowboy. He's got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin
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When we first started playing hide and seek, Kees only had one hiding place. We'd hide all over the place, but every time he'd go back and hide in the same place as always.
Javi and Kees now play the game together. Javi loves it! He plays mostly by his own rules, which involve mostly counting and chasing, with very little hiding. So long as he gets to count, and play with his big brother, he's couldn't care less, so he just laughs and giggles and runs as happy as a songbird.
The downside is that he appears to be under the impression that the numbers thaqt come after 1-10 are "ready", "not", "here", "I come".
I definitely don't know enough songs. I sing my son to sleep with Twinkle Twinkle, or a never ending, terribly unrhyming version of Hush Little Baby. Hmm, maybe it's time to incorporate... "I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map..."
The family finger song..
I was at a birthday party with my daughter for one of her friends. They started singing it, and I'm like.. I have never even heard the song before. But everybody was singing it like it was a common kids song. I haven't really heard it since, so I don't know where everybody had heard it before.
And apparently there's a "Everybody clean up" song. I think it may be from Barney? I was too old to ever watch that show, so I'm not too sure.. I know a little of the melody, since it helps get my kids in the mood to clean, so I just sing "Every body clean up, clean up" in what I think may be the melody (I am copying my kids, and they are not the most faithful interpreters of music)
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The other day around 8:30pm I was the only one awake. I had just put Abigail down and she was out like a light. The wife was asleep on the couch behind me, exhausted from a long day at work and baby creation. Looking down, I even saw Daisy asleep at my feet, obviously worn out from a long day of napping.
I took a long, deep breath and exhaled slowly letting the quiet of the house fill my ears. I then spent the next three hours playing the fuck out of some video games. It was glorious!
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I am grateful that none of these songs are triggering memories right now. I don't even know what the finger song is, and unless the gummi bear is the cartoon theme song, I don't know that one either.
However, as a result of my wife listening to Greatest Showman on repeat for about two weeks, it's been on repeat through my kids for the past six.
Kate watches Baby's First channel and they play a ton of songs, including the finger song. I've also caught the song in a few other videos.
Dammit!!!! Just typing this much has the song in my head. Daddy finger, daddy finger, where are you ? Here I am, here I am humming this fucking song at work?
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Miles is no longer allowed to browse youtube in part because of that song. Signing Time has some great songs, and the kids can watch that freely.
I went through a number of different songs to sing to my daughter at night. She never really seemed into them and while it seemed to help sometimes, nothing was reliable. Finally I found one that worked, and now I sing La Vie En Rose to her every night and she loves it and falls asleep really fast after I'm done, and it's great.
And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
My wife's entire methodology for naming the boys was based off pretty songs she wanted to sing them to sleep with (Danny Boy, Sweet Baby James, Gabriel and Me)
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I just randomly had Banana Phone come into my head so that's my week I guess
There's some drama over on the family thread about it, but in a nutshell, my mother backed out of a childcare agreement we'd been working on for months three weeks away from the end of maternity leave, partially because she needed better health care, and partially because... don't really know, don't care, we're going on a soft estrangement after this.
So trying to find daycare in less than 3 weeks in an expensive area (Seattle) has been a nightmare, just a crazy-pants nightmare. My husband collapsed sick from the stress of it all during the first week, I signed up (paid!) for care.com, joined nanny share groups, worked personal connections, cold-called about 20 daycares - both in-home and regular - and visited 6 different places, half of them on a bus as I don't have a car, all of them in places with bad bus service, carrying my little boy with me in the carrier and walking on roads without sidewalks. My mother-in-law took half a day off to drive me to the rest of them (bless her).
It turned out that none of the places I visited were as I expected from their websites or their attitudes on the phone... all the in-home care places I went to were run by immigrants, mostly Muslim immigrants, and bless them too, because even the run-of-the-mill regular daycares would have cut into our food budget. All had certifications from the state. I bonded with one lady from Morocco, put a deposit down, then we had to spin on a dime because the REALLY inexpensive daycare (hundreds of dollars less a month!) I'd assumed would be awful wasn't, it was actually pretty great, and the staff had more experience, he'd be the only baby, paperwork stuff/references were in order, and they teach all their (cheerful and friendly!) kids some Chinese too. I think they've just been puttering along in their suburb and haven't noticed the extreme cost increases for everything yet? So then I had to break it off with the Moroccan lady which broke my heart. But after I posted that my search was done on Facebook--trying not to cry--two of my Facebook friends were like "WHERE DID YOU FIND CARE" so I passed along her info, and one has already scheduled a tour, so at least she will almost certainly get a client. (I didn't screw anyone over during the madness, yay!)
And of course during the whole thing I am furious at my mother, and bonding then breaking it off with people right and left (one great place filled two spots in between when I called them and when I managed to get out to them on the bus...), and struggling to grasp that my little one is going to be in care and away from me for 10 hours a day soon, and praying I've made the right choice for him, and even with the inexpensive place our finances are tight, no more restaurants or non-essential purchases for years to come, and in summary this whole thing was nuts nuts nuts NUTS. That is all.
/barbaric yawp... I hope you guys had less stress. And uh, if you have friends who are looking for daycares in north Seattle, I've got the deets on which ones have open spots, so I could send them info if needed? ^^;;
I’ve gone old-school for the kids’ fave songs. We sing The Gasman Cometh a lot, and we also listen to Ill Wind (which led to listening to the original Mozart horn concertos for a few nights), followed by other similar songs.
@kijunshi yaaaayyyy for daycare! Also we’re almost neighbors now (we just moved to Washington).
Niko is 3 tomorrow... Alex and Anya are just making dash out to the store because we realized he has NO presents to open, oops!
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I just looked this up, and I swear they just stole that shark dance from general cultural knowledge circa my childhood. I think it was Daddy Jaws instead of Daddy shark though.
I think I actually miss the songs aimed at the much younger kids. When my daughter picked up the Frozen soundtrack it was mostly okay. Then there was this weird Disney princess soundtrack thing that was tolerable. But the soundtracks to those Descendants movies make me want to crank up my own stereo in response. I find them abysmal. I am getting a case of the "olds" when it comes to my daughter's music.
At least in my wife's car she'll want to listen to the Spa channel (new age) or the Met Opera channel. That's more tolerable. Although Spa makes me want to nap.
Your kids being wounded or in mortal danger are the absolute worst, fuck-your-piece-of-mind-for-the-next-24-hours nightmares possible. I had nearly an entire month's worth of them in the lead up to Baby Gabe being born
Worst one was me arriving to a party at my house and someone hands me my baby for the first time, but it is *clearly* the baby from Eraserhead, except I'm the only one who notices something is wrong, everyone else is having a just fantastic time at this party. And I find my giddy wife and try to explain to her the baby shouldn't be like this, we need to get to a hospital or something, and she cheerily goes, "That's ok, if he dies, we'll just get another one!" (Cue horror movie violin screech)
My son has become terrified of baths/showers. I have no idea what happened, we figured he was just being a jerk about not wanting to take one, but last night putting him in he was shaking and screaming like a banshee. So those are off for the foreseable future.
Oddly enough he wants my wife to constantly put her druid in water. I'm at a crazy loss.
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My son has become terrified of baths/showers. I have no idea what happened, we figured he was just being a jerk about not wanting to take one, but last night putting him in he was shaking and screaming like a banshee. So those are off for the foreseable future.
Oddly enough he wants my wife to constantly put her druid in water. I'm at a crazy loss.
Autocorrect strikes again. Unless druid is slang for something that I don't know about?
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Its a World of Warcraft class, he wants her to take her WoW character and go into the nearest body of water and just sit there. Nothing else just sit in water.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Its a World of Warcraft class, he wants her to take her WoW character and go into the nearest body of water and just sit there. Nothing else just sit in water.
Druids are the only class that can swim?
Either way it is indeed a strange thing for a toddler to request
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Its a World of Warcraft class, he wants her to take her WoW character and go into the nearest body of water and just sit there. Nothing else just sit in water.
Druids are the only class that can swim?
Either way it is indeed a strange thing for a toddler to request
Druids have an aquatic form. When I played it was a seal, but I remember reading that those forms were diversified at some point.
I am so glad that mine is old enough that I can leave him to it at soft play centres. Putting your knee in something moist or worse, seeing something dripping down the slide is not something I miss
The one about the fucking space hairdresser and the cowboy. He's got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin
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I am so glad that mine is old enough that I can leave him to it at soft play centres. Putting your knee in something moist or worse, seeing something dripping down the slide is not something I miss
I've only been to soft play places a few times but so far I've avoided any of the horrors of sick/wee/shit in ball pools. Everybody tells me it'll happen eventually
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My son did that one. Also hide and seek: mommy let's play hide and seek, I'll hide under the table and you count
me:...
Ours would let you go first and then hide in the exact place that he found you. It was guaranteed to be a good place because it took him ages to find us.
Javi and Kees now play the game together. Javi loves it! He plays mostly by his own rules, which involve mostly counting and chasing, with very little hiding. So long as he gets to count, and play with his big brother, he's couldn't care less, so he just laughs and giggles and runs as happy as a songbird.
The downside is that he appears to be under the impression that the numbers thaqt come after 1-10 are "ready", "not", "here", "I come".
Twinkle twinkle little star... NOOOOOOOO
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So much this. Yesterday my wife had to stop me from singing this Gummi Bear song. It's not even good, just drilled into my brain from repetition.
Also, until I had kids, I had no idea this family finger song existed. My life was better before knowing it was a thing.
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I was at a birthday party with my daughter for one of her friends. They started singing it, and I'm like.. I have never even heard the song before. But everybody was singing it like it was a common kids song. I haven't really heard it since, so I don't know where everybody had heard it before.
And apparently there's a "Everybody clean up" song. I think it may be from Barney? I was too old to ever watch that show, so I'm not too sure.. I know a little of the melody, since it helps get my kids in the mood to clean, so I just sing "Every body clean up, clean up" in what I think may be the melody (I am copying my kids, and they are not the most faithful interpreters of music)
I took a long, deep breath and exhaled slowly letting the quiet of the house fill my ears. I then spent the next three hours playing the fuck out of some video games. It was glorious!
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I am pretty sure whoever posted this video paid a lot of money to youtube to put that song up to the right of every kids video ever.
I haven't even clicked on the link and I know EXACTLY what gummy bear song that is.
*shudders*
However, as a result of my wife listening to Greatest Showman on repeat for about two weeks, it's been on repeat through my kids for the past six.
Dammit!!!! Just typing this much has the song in my head. Daddy finger, daddy finger, where are you ? Here I am, here I am humming this fucking song at work?
I went through a number of different songs to sing to my daughter at night. She never really seemed into them and while it seemed to help sometimes, nothing was reliable. Finally I found one that worked, and now I sing La Vie En Rose to her every night and she loves it and falls asleep really fast after I'm done, and it's great.
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Now they just tell Alexa to play Kidz Bop and I guess thats an improvement.
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There's some drama over on the family thread about it, but in a nutshell, my mother backed out of a childcare agreement we'd been working on for months three weeks away from the end of maternity leave, partially because she needed better health care, and partially because... don't really know, don't care, we're going on a soft estrangement after this.
So trying to find daycare in less than 3 weeks in an expensive area (Seattle) has been a nightmare, just a crazy-pants nightmare. My husband collapsed sick from the stress of it all during the first week, I signed up (paid!) for care.com, joined nanny share groups, worked personal connections, cold-called about 20 daycares - both in-home and regular - and visited 6 different places, half of them on a bus as I don't have a car, all of them in places with bad bus service, carrying my little boy with me in the carrier and walking on roads without sidewalks. My mother-in-law took half a day off to drive me to the rest of them (bless her).
It turned out that none of the places I visited were as I expected from their websites or their attitudes on the phone... all the in-home care places I went to were run by immigrants, mostly Muslim immigrants, and bless them too, because even the run-of-the-mill regular daycares would have cut into our food budget. All had certifications from the state. I bonded with one lady from Morocco, put a deposit down, then we had to spin on a dime because the REALLY inexpensive daycare (hundreds of dollars less a month!) I'd assumed would be awful wasn't, it was actually pretty great, and the staff had more experience, he'd be the only baby, paperwork stuff/references were in order, and they teach all their (cheerful and friendly!) kids some Chinese too. I think they've just been puttering along in their suburb and haven't noticed the extreme cost increases for everything yet? So then I had to break it off with the Moroccan lady which broke my heart. But after I posted that my search was done on Facebook--trying not to cry--two of my Facebook friends were like "WHERE DID YOU FIND CARE" so I passed along her info, and one has already scheduled a tour, so at least she will almost certainly get a client. (I didn't screw anyone over during the madness, yay!)
And of course during the whole thing I am furious at my mother, and bonding then breaking it off with people right and left (one great place filled two spots in between when I called them and when I managed to get out to them on the bus...), and struggling to grasp that my little one is going to be in care and away from me for 10 hours a day soon, and praying I've made the right choice for him, and even with the inexpensive place our finances are tight, no more restaurants or non-essential purchases for years to come, and in summary this whole thing was nuts nuts nuts NUTS. That is all.
/barbaric yawp... I hope you guys had less stress. And uh, if you have friends who are looking for daycares in north Seattle, I've got the deets on which ones have open spots, so I could send them info if needed? ^^;;
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I have this in my head all the time and my sister's baby isn't even born yet, its so catchy!
@kijunshi yaaaayyyy for daycare! Also we’re almost neighbors now (we just moved to Washington).
Niko is 3 tomorrow... Alex and Anya are just making dash out to the store because we realized he has NO presents to open, oops!
Ellie had recently discovered that her hands and arms will fit into the toilet paper tubes.
So of course she comes into the toilet with me, sticks her hands into two rolls, and then starts to sing Baby Shark.
While doing the chomping motions with the toilet rolls.
I haven't laughed that hard in a long time.
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Did you know there are Baby Shark plushies that sing the song?
The whole song. Start to finish. We have one.
.....
Help.
Do do do do do. Quack quack.
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At least in my wife's car she'll want to listen to the Spa channel (new age) or the Met Opera channel. That's more tolerable. Although Spa makes me want to nap.
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Worst one was me arriving to a party at my house and someone hands me my baby for the first time, but it is *clearly* the baby from Eraserhead, except I'm the only one who notices something is wrong, everyone else is having a just fantastic time at this party. And I find my giddy wife and try to explain to her the baby shouldn't be like this, we need to get to a hospital or something, and she cheerily goes, "That's ok, if he dies, we'll just get another one!" (Cue horror movie violin screech)
Oddly enough he wants my wife to constantly put her druid in water. I'm at a crazy loss.
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Autocorrect strikes again. Unless druid is slang for something that I don't know about?
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This morning she has a runny nose. Insert shocked face here.
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Yeah my son has a runny nose. Which is fine my brother is coming over and he can spread his germs to someone I don't like...
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Druids are the only class that can swim?
Either way it is indeed a strange thing for a toddler to request
Druids have an aquatic form. When I played it was a seal, but I remember reading that those forms were diversified at some point.
I've only been to soft play places a few times but so far I've avoided any of the horrors of sick/wee/shit in ball pools. Everybody tells me it'll happen eventually