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He's developed yet another chesty cough which makes him like or just lie there for an hour coughing loudly.
It's never fucking ends!
I'm so tired.
I'm sorry, that sounds awful.
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8.
That number always seems wrong. I hadn't even reconciled to having a 7 year old yet, and now that's been a whole damn year of that already and we're going on to the next one?!
Also, local sports team is about to win their sportsball game, which means a bunch of fireworks, which Sapling is terrified of, so I'm going to have to go back and console her because it's bed time.
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It's a huge relief when your kids chosen friends have parents that you can also respect.
We all got together today at s park for a BBQ thing for labor Day weekend. And of course there was talk about the upcoming us election, but also our election.
It's just so very satisfying knowing that your soon to be family friends all share roughly your same values. From what it sounded, we all voted for the same people. We're all ecstatic at the LGBTQ+ representation in parliament. And we were all talking about how to teach the kids not only that there's no such thing as "girl colours" or "boy colours", but also how to have the conversations around correct pronouns, and bodily consent, and how to be mindful of it.
About how we're doing Halloween at our house as our big "family" gathering because every childhood deserves one of those big fun decorate the house, but Christmas isn't an option and Hanukkah just isn't that type of holiday.
It was so very refreshing to not need to edit myself in talking about these things. I'm even now kind of blown away.
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I worked with Kate with the cross your arms method. I think we tried a few others. Basically it all boiled down to, her trying, Daddy helping a bit, and doing it every night before bed time. Then one day she’s running around the house shirtless because she’s hot. And that’s how I found out she finally learned how to take her shirt off.
He's still not eating solid food per se, but he's learned what "having seconds" means as a concept so now we're stuck on varieties of applesauce and some whey protein. It's working while we're trying somewhat blended food. He likes strawberry, that much I think is settled. He even tried strawberry yogurt and though he didn't really like it, he also didn't reject the taste he had, and he didn't shudder in revulsion. Which is a lot for him and yogurt. Basically, if he does a literal full body shudder after eating something, even if it goes down, I'm taking that as a warning sign because it almost assuredly means that more of that same thing is going to trigger everything coming back up, always has.
My oldest turns 12 today
12!!!!!
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"Daddy, I did the thing"
"Toby, if you need help you need to let us know." I say, as I have many times before. I want to encourage him to talk more, after all.
The fridge door opens, I can picture him staring up at the jar of applesauce on the highest shelf.
From the kitchen, a little voice squeaks, "Hep. Hep? Hep."
Yes, buddy, that's what I needed to hear. "I'll be right there, little dude." I say.
When I get there, he smiles and holds his hands in the air in a clear bid to be picked up. If he had a step-ladder or a sufficiently high chair, he'd not even ask for my help. He instantly reaches for the jar the moment he's up in my arms and, having obtained it, holds it in both hands like some priceless treasure and smiles at me.
It's good to be a dad.
In the UK applesauce is something served with roast pork
I think I've been a parent for far too long, since I thought that story was going to end with him dropping the jar. :biggrin:
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Applesauce.
Which that one is made of "Apples, Water, Apple Juice concentrate, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C)."
So yes, it's the former as far as I can tell? Cooked down apples. It's got a bit of texture, but it's not specifically "chunky" in most cases. It's kind of a step up from what our kid used to eat which was baby puree. It seems to be related to the texture? Regardless, I think your mental picture should probably be the first one, I think. We just aren't cooking down the apples themselves? Hoping this helps.
Good by itself, or with chicken nuggets or pork dipped in it.
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Or used as an egg substitute for baking.
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Edit: like this!!!
Edit edit: fuck pinterest. It's a vintage potato ricer.
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so every year we make apple sauce. bushels of apples to peel and slice, into a big pot with just a little water. and then you cook them. forever.
if you want the sauce to have some body to it, you leave the skins on, as they give off some pectin. but then you need to put the sauce through a food mill to get the sauce away from the peels. sauce. funny word now.
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Might have to redo that with Squad Cat the movie.
But they've been otherwise excellent.
just chiming in here at 4am to say fuck breastfeeding none of this is any kind of sane or fair
just lets stress out because milk isn't coming fast enough, the kid can't seem to get it even if it's there, my wife is already in enough pain but here's some bonus pain for you, and the little I can do to help seems nowhere near enough
so tired and I've never wanted to see poop and pee filled diapers so badly
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
There's not much we can say but if you haven't got any lanolin, get some lanolin.
France loves adding sugar to baby purées. It's so weird. In the UK everything is, reported as, 100% fruit and vegetables
I don't know if this is a more general difference or one that's specific to my situation at the time, but when I went to pastry school (a school owned and run by French pastry chefs) apple compote was not the same thing as applesauce. Typical jarred applesauce in the US has a much higher water content. The apple compote that would be used in some recipes was much thicker and more flavorful. If you were making something at home and didn't have proper apple compote or the time or inclination to make some, then the general guideline was to take some applesauce, add cinnamon, and reduce it down by 50% or more.
But yeah, wouldn't have even made it as far as I did without lanolin. It gets... rather painful
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Yup same here
Except my wife kept pumping for four months and barely managed to get it flowing by the end of that, and was miserable the whole time. She says that it's gonna be bottles from the start of we have a second kid.
I do want to give a quick shout down to the "breast is best" guilt that gets pumped into expecting moms because sure, breast is best, but the level of guilt and failure my wife felt about not being able to breastfeed my daughter was crushing for her and heartbreaking for me and it still makes me angry to think about.
Also, mazel Tov, @Aioua !!! Welcome to the madness! We're going to love having you here. Feel no shame at all in asking questions, venting frustration, or just screaming into the void. We've all been there, we can help, or just listen, whatever you need.
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good thing she's so gosh darn cute
And yeah we decided we're gonna at least pick some formula up for now while we're still working on feeding.
We at least have no problems with her enthusiasm when it comes to trying to latch, so we're not worried about her deciding breasts are boring. She'll chomp down on basically anything you put into her mouth.
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
Also omg what a cutie.
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Morgan was in the NICU for 12 days and was bottle fed in there so we just kept going with it but her breast milk dried up relatively quickly.
Owen was breast fed the longest.
So in 15 years or so I’ll let you know how the three different outcomes work out.
My second definitely preferred breast, and over time started refusing formula.
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