Kindergarten applications are coming up soon for my youngest.
My eldest went to K in Colorado, and the choices were neighborhood school or charter school. I went with neighborhood school.
My second kid is much younger and going to school in NYC. And the school application process in NYC is *intense*. I did it all- G&T testing, testing for the Special Music School, testing for Hunter, looked into the magnet schools, looked into charters, figured out how the lottery worked. Ended up going to the school she did Pre-K at, which worked out well for us. Not G&T (did well enough for the district school but not city-wide school on that test), but a magnet outward bound dual-language Spanish school. We liked their teaching philosophy better than our zoned school.
Youngest kid just gets to go to his sister's school. Not going to bother with testing (not even sure how they even plan on doing that with ~~everything~~, and they haven't released plans yet). In the back of my mind, I have another school that I may want to try with him if his learning issues get worse (it has a special program that one of my daughter's friends goes to that is for kids with ASD. He's not formally diagnosed, but he does have an IEP and is getting help.) But we're really hoping they can just stay together for the next few years. He's already going to Pre-K there.
If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
Awww yeah where my midnight feeding baby won't sleep rockers out there.
Missed this part of fatherhood something fierce!
Heyo.
I've got the 'I'm hungry but also mad so I'm going to screamcry into this bottle while I'm drinking it and then cough a bunch" thing going on.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Slay the Spire is a must for babies that only sleep when you hold them at 2am. You can play it with mouse only and no sound!
Big agree here. I put in a ton of hours in StS during baby sleep time, which in turn kept me sane.
I have a friend who found StS on Switch was her sanity saver for breastfeeding. Slightly different activity, but the same basic concept in that you're stuck in one place and restricted into doing not much, so if you can get some entertainment out of just popping something down on the bed or sofa next to you without disrupting what's going on, you're golden.
My son is 18 months old is being really fussy with food.
He's refused to eat at nursery for two days now and isn't eating normally at home.
Don't think it's teething because previously teething hasn't changed his eating habits.
Is this just a phase?
I did eventually find one of the vanilla bottles he'd stolen. Best posted it through one the circular holes in his activity cube where he usually pushes shapes through.
Long answer: his taste is developing rapidly, so things that tasted fine before might now taste like crap to him and vice versa. This will keep happening again and again. The standard advice is to introduce and reintroduce food to him as he keeps growing. That way he can discover that certain things he didn't like before are great now.
Example: my kid usually eats whatever his grandma is cooking, regardless of what it is. He always had the same yogurt as dessert, but last time he was there he took a big spoonful and when he tasted it he just spat it out and started crying. His palette had changed and now he can't stand yogurt. Maybe in a few months time he will love it again and something else will take a fall from grace for a while.
Yeah, their tastes can change dramatically. Once our kiddo was old enough to understand me explaining that, she got to pay attention and notice the change herself.
Which actually made it muuuuuuuch easier to get her to keep trying things after that.
Long answer: his taste is developing rapidly, so things that tasted fine before might now taste like crap to him and vice versa. This will keep happening again and again. The standard advice is to introduce and reintroduce food to him as he keeps growing. That way he can discover that certain things he didn't like before are great now.
Example: my kid usually eats whatever his grandma is cooking, regardless of what it is. He always had the same yogurt as dessert, but last time he was there he took a big spoonful and when he tasted it he just spat it out and started crying. His palette had changed and now he can't stand yogurt. Maybe in a few months time he will love it again and something else will take a fall from grace for a while.
It's wild.
Food is weird. Daughter currently likes cinnamon as a side for all kinds of food. Used to like sucking on lemons. Ranch is still a constant.
Spices are always good to try since you can just have a little on the side and they're calorie-free.
I'm making my appointment as soon as humanly possible. I cannot wait.
I had a virtual consult with my primary care dr last week, who referred me to the urologist. Had a virtual consult with him 2 days ago. He said he’d put the other in and scheduling would be in touch with me. Took matters into my own hands and called scheduling a few hours later. They were like “how does this Saturday sound?”
Very surprised at how quickly everything was able to be scheduled, and then how smoothly it was all performed.
Also, what may be the best part; the Dr’s name was... Dr. Butcher.
I'm making my appointment as soon as humanly possible. I cannot wait.
I had a virtual consult with my primary care dr last week, who referred me to the urologist. Had a virtual consult with him 2 days ago. He said he’d put the other in and scheduling would be in touch with me. Took matters into my own hands and called scheduling a few hours later. They were like “how does this Saturday sound?”
Very surprised at how quickly everything was able to be scheduled, and then how smoothly it was all performed.
Also, what may be the best part; the Dr’s name was... Dr. Butcher.
Can't say I didn't get a bit concerned at this part.
I’m so happy that my child is starting to converse and understand things and I have been so happy to have a third “team member” in the family
I rue that this new cognitive ability is paired with a pathological need to do the opposite of whatever mom and I ask/tell her, accompanied by shrieks of defiance (“no, daddy!” Or “give it back!!!!” are quite popular this week)
The three year old decided she wanted to watch Charlotte's Web and holy shit I've never seen this before, this is dark as hell!
Do not watch the movie with the cute rabbits called Watership Down
Or Bambi, or Old Yeller...
Or Dumbo. Or Pinnochio.
Yeah look all those movies are sad and stuff but none of them really compare to actual nightmare fuel that is Watership Down.
Velveteen Rabbit was one for me.
And Land Before Time.
Having read Velveteen Rabbit was very terrifying when I caught Scarlet Fever. I guess it was also pretty scary to my parents, although it's not nearly as big of deal these days.
"I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."
The baby has reached the stage where she'll just stare, fascinated at her first for like 20 minutes at a time and it is incredibly cute
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
The three year old decided she wanted to watch Charlotte's Web and holy shit I've never seen this before, this is dark as hell!
Do not watch the movie with the cute rabbits called Watership Down
Or Bambi, or Old Yeller...
Or Dumbo. Or Pinnochio.
Yeah look all those movies are sad and stuff but none of them really compare to actual nightmare fuel that is Watership Down.
Velveteen Rabbit was one for me.
And Land Before Time.
Having read Velveteen Rabbit was very terrifying when I caught Scarlet Fever. I guess it was also pretty scary to my parents, although it's not nearly as big of deal these days.
How does Animal Farm sit on the list of Trauma Inducing Animated Animal flicks?
Our tiny idiot choked on his formula, then coughed the whitish liquid up in a scene reminiscent of Ash’s demise in Alien. Followed by an intense screaming/crying fit.
I have not had a scarier ten seconds in my life.
He has since had a nap, a change, and is chatting away to his mum as we speak. Still, neither one of us has quite got over it yet.
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My eldest went to K in Colorado, and the choices were neighborhood school or charter school. I went with neighborhood school.
My second kid is much younger and going to school in NYC. And the school application process in NYC is *intense*. I did it all- G&T testing, testing for the Special Music School, testing for Hunter, looked into the magnet schools, looked into charters, figured out how the lottery worked. Ended up going to the school she did Pre-K at, which worked out well for us. Not G&T (did well enough for the district school but not city-wide school on that test), but a magnet outward bound dual-language Spanish school. We liked their teaching philosophy better than our zoned school.
Youngest kid just gets to go to his sister's school. Not going to bother with testing (not even sure how they even plan on doing that with ~~everything~~, and they haven't released plans yet). In the back of my mind, I have another school that I may want to try with him if his learning issues get worse (it has a special program that one of my daughter's friends goes to that is for kids with ASD. He's not formally diagnosed, but he does have an IEP and is getting help.) But we're really hoping they can just stay together for the next few years. He's already going to Pre-K there.
Missed this part of fatherhood something fierce!
Big agree here. I put in a ton of hours in StS during baby sleep time, which in turn kept me sane.
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Heyo.
I've got the 'I'm hungry but also mad so I'm going to screamcry into this bottle while I'm drinking it and then cough a bunch" thing going on.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Woo! This is the best shit right here. Dumb little idiot babies can't even drink right.
I played some Slay the Spire on Steam, how was the iPad version? Hauling baby down to the PC might not be an option.
I have a friend who found StS on Switch was her sanity saver for breastfeeding. Slightly different activity, but the same basic concept in that you're stuck in one place and restricted into doing not much, so if you can get some entertainment out of just popping something down on the bed or sofa next to you without disrupting what's going on, you're golden.
I put hundreds of hours into Fire Emblem, Dragon Quest and Stardew Valley thanks to breastfeeding
And congratulations @MegaMan001 ! That is one gorgeous little squish you have there!
He's refused to eat at nursery for two days now and isn't eating normally at home.
Don't think it's teething because previously teething hasn't changed his eating habits.
Is this just a phase?
I did eventually find one of the vanilla bottles he'd stolen. Best posted it through one the circular holes in his activity cube where he usually pushes shapes through.
Long answer: his taste is developing rapidly, so things that tasted fine before might now taste like crap to him and vice versa. This will keep happening again and again. The standard advice is to introduce and reintroduce food to him as he keeps growing. That way he can discover that certain things he didn't like before are great now.
Example: my kid usually eats whatever his grandma is cooking, regardless of what it is. He always had the same yogurt as dessert, but last time he was there he took a big spoonful and when he tasted it he just spat it out and started crying. His palette had changed and now he can't stand yogurt. Maybe in a few months time he will love it again and something else will take a fall from grace for a while.
It's wild.
Which actually made it muuuuuuuch easier to get her to keep trying things after that.
Food is weird. Daughter currently likes cinnamon as a side for all kinds of food. Used to like sucking on lemons. Ranch is still a constant.
Spices are always good to try since you can just have a little on the side and they're calorie-free.
Heh heh heh
Do not watch the movie with the cute rabbits called Watership Down
Or Bambi, or Old Yeller...
Or Dumbo. Or Pinnochio.
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Or Secret of NIMH with the cute rats.
I'm making my appointment as soon as humanly possible. I cannot wait.
I had a virtual consult with my primary care dr last week, who referred me to the urologist. Had a virtual consult with him 2 days ago. He said he’d put the other in and scheduling would be in touch with me. Took matters into my own hands and called scheduling a few hours later. They were like “how does this Saturday sound?”
Very surprised at how quickly everything was able to be scheduled, and then how smoothly it was all performed.
Also, what may be the best part; the Dr’s name was... Dr. Butcher.
Can't say I didn't get a bit concerned at this part.
Oh, you made the cut?
Sure.
But I already learned those lessons and so do not need to be tortured by then again.
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I rue that this new cognitive ability is paired with a pathological need to do the opposite of whatever mom and I ask/tell her, accompanied by shrieks of defiance (“no, daddy!” Or “give it back!!!!” are quite popular this week)
Who am I to argue with the Mayor of Whoville though
Edit: I hate this dumb iOS photo bug
Yeah look all those movies are sad and stuff but none of them really compare to actual nightmare fuel that is Watership Down.
Velveteen Rabbit was one for me.
And Land Before Time.
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I'm not sure I was ever old enough to see the podling get its soul sucked out.
Having read Velveteen Rabbit was very terrifying when I caught Scarlet Fever. I guess it was also pretty scary to my parents, although it's not nearly as big of deal these days.
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fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
How does Animal Farm sit on the list of Trauma Inducing Animated Animal flicks?
I have not had a scarier ten seconds in my life.
He has since had a nap, a change, and is chatting away to his mum as we speak. Still, neither one of us has quite got over it yet.
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