Bean tried to give a kid at preschool a hug on tuesday. His teachers said it was awkward and funny, and the other kid kind of wasn't paying attention and just ran away.
Then today he hugged a different kid, and the other kid HUGGED HIM BACK AND HE RECIEVED THE HUG.
This might seem like nothing to y'all, but before this he either ignores other children, watches them without interacting, or hits/shoves them. That's it. A successful hug is an earthshattering development.
I’m actually tearing up here. This definitely isn’t nothing. It’s AMAZING and soooooo cute omg.
Bean tried to give a kid at preschool a hug on tuesday. His teachers said it was awkward and funny, and the other kid kind of wasn't paying attention and just ran away.
Then today he hugged a different kid, and the other kid HUGGED HIM BACK AND HE RECIEVED THE HUG.
This might seem like nothing to y'all, but before this he either ignores other children, watches them without interacting, or hits/shoves them. That's it. A successful hug is an earthshattering development.
I’m actually tearing up here. This definitely isn’t nothing. It’s AMAZING and soooooo cute omg.
I also very much got tears in my eyes.
My joy in this for you and Bean and K is overwhelming.
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Another good thing today, he and his mum always make pancakes after preschool, and today we didn't have any syrup so he had his pancake with strawberry jam. And after he took a bite, he looked at his mum and said "I Happy!"
- He never makes I statements, if he refers to himself it's always 3rd person
- He never talks about how he's feeling, in fact if we ask him if he's happy or sad or frustrated he usually lashes out and gets mad.
After he said it, his mum said "Did you say you feel happy?" and he said "NO" and ran off.
T moved up a room at daycare this week. Both times so far she has not slept for a full nap… once she got up 30 min in because she was excited to play with her friends. Yesterday she made it 1hr 15min when a pair of little twins she likes very much got all excited when they saw her and woke her up to play.
On the one hand it’s made her grumpier in the evenings, but on the other hand it’s cute af. I’m leaving it alone for now as I’m sure the kids will figure it out, but if it does start heavily impacting the evenings we might have to have a word.
Oh yeah, room change week is a reliable "we're off schedule for this week".
Crap, he liked kickboxing. Guess we're doing this. It's kinda out of the way and parents aren't allowed in the training room, so I can kinda awkwardly watch through a CCTV screen or just wander off for a bit. I'm not as enthusiastic because I have zero interest in the sport, but at the 4 to 8 group it's way more about just stomping buffers and playing tag.
The teachers seemed nice and cool and the class was a mix of boys and girls from all over the world, so that was good. The school was clean and well-maintained, as well, which isn't a given.
So yeah. My sweet Little Prince... kickboxing. I'll need some time getting used to that idea.
Crap, he liked kickboxing. Guess we're doing this. It's kinda out of the way and parents aren't allowed in the training room, so I can kinda awkwardly watch through a CCTV screen or just wander off for a bit. I'm not as enthusiastic because I have zero interest in the sport, but at the 4 to 8 group it's way more about just stomping buffers and playing tag.
The teachers seemed nice and cool and the class was a mix of boys and girls from all over the world, so that was good. The school was clean and well-maintained, as well, which isn't a given.
So yeah. My sweet Little Prince... kickboxing. I'll need some time getting used to that idea.
This is great! An individual sport they can practice solo at home all year? Embrace this.
Get a heavy bag and you're like already there.
Ripley fucking love gymnastics and has asked me to build monkey bars and a balance beam.
Crap, he liked kickboxing. Guess we're doing this. It's kinda out of the way and parents aren't allowed in the training room, so I can kinda awkwardly watch through a CCTV screen or just wander off for a bit. I'm not as enthusiastic because I have zero interest in the sport, but at the 4 to 8 group it's way more about just stomping buffers and playing tag.
The teachers seemed nice and cool and the class was a mix of boys and girls from all over the world, so that was good. The school was clean and well-maintained, as well, which isn't a given.
So yeah. My sweet Little Prince... kickboxing. I'll need some time getting used to that idea.
This is great! An individual sport they can practice solo at home all year? Embrace this.
Get a heavy bag and you're like already there.
Ripley fucking love gymnastics and has asked me to build monkey bars and a balance beam.
That's a silver lining. We live in an apartment complex, the neighbors already complained about our cat jumping down on the floor. We can definitely set something up in the shed.
Crap, he liked kickboxing. Guess we're doing this. It's kinda out of the way and parents aren't allowed in the training room, so I can kinda awkwardly watch through a CCTV screen or just wander off for a bit. I'm not as enthusiastic because I have zero interest in the sport, but at the 4 to 8 group it's way more about just stomping buffers and playing tag.
The teachers seemed nice and cool and the class was a mix of boys and girls from all over the world, so that was good. The school was clean and well-maintained, as well, which isn't a given.
So yeah. My sweet Little Prince... kickboxing. I'll need some time getting used to that idea.
This is great! An individual sport they can practice solo at home all year? Embrace this.
Get a heavy bag and you're like already there.
Ripley fucking love gymnastics and has asked me to build monkey bars and a balance beam.
That's a silver lining. We live in an apartment complex, the neighbors already complained about our cat jumping down on the floor. We can definitely set something up in the shed.
Hilton has been running some new commercials aiming for inclusiveness lately that really speak to me. If any of you have ever wondered, "Gee, I wonder what DC's life is like?" You can look at this commercial and see me and my daughter.
My little guy woke up crying last night around 1am. I went to check up on him and he'd thrown-up all over his bed, pillow, and PJs. I clean him up, get him into new clothes, and put him in my bed.
Fast forward an hour later and I've almost got all the mess cleaned up. Just need to spray down the mattress and get new sheets on. I hear more crying and he comes out of our room, runs into his bathroom, and threw-up into the sink. Fortunately, his body had almost nothing left in it, so the mess was pretty small. He's basically asleep on his feet, so I put him back into my bed.
Once I'm done with his bed, I go to my room. He's smack dab in the middle of my sleep spot and snoring hard. Rather than wake him up, I grab a pillow and blanket, go downstairs and sleep on the couch. It's around 2:30 at this point and I'm awake enough to consider writing my post here.
I managed to find sleep only to get woken up again at 4:30. He's whimpering on the floor of the bathroom having just used the bathroom. I notice he's shivering and is hot to the touch. His temperature is 100.8, so I give him some medicine and put him back to sleep in his bed. I crash out in my bed and am woken up by my daughter at 7:15.
*long exhale..........*
Parenting is tough y'all.
On the plus side, my wife had no idea what happened. I swear she could sleep through a mecha battle outside our window.
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I can relate to that. I sleep with earplugs and the fan on just right and my specific pillow in only one sleeping position having completed a litany of essential rituals, and will wake up several times with a decent chance to not fall back asleep
And meanwhile my wife could fall asleep on the deck of a sinking ship. We like to joke that she could sleep for Canada.
An incident that was in no way foreseeable has occurred wherein playing soccer indoors in the same room as a candle has caused the couch to get waxy (but also smelling terrific).
After Thea goes to bed I gotta run to the store to get an iron to get the remaining wax out.
Our kindergartner started ADHD meds this week. Seems to be going very well, even though I feel queasy about medicating him. Edit: Should say I am not opposed the idea of meds, he's on the same one I'm on, just uneasy.
I think that's probably good, I think if you were casually medicating your kid without thinking about it or having any reservations that would be a problem.
Three nights of sleeping in panties and no accidents!
Athena, I mean.
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Kid staunchly refused to nap in the car for our 3-hour drives to and from camping, even though we deliberately planned the drive so that it’d happen during naptime. Told her many times it’s naptime in the car. Refused. Screamed a lot instead.
Today? Passes out 5 minutes into a 15 minute drive home from lunch, right before naptime. Even tells us that’s what she’s gonna do as we’re strapping her in “T have nap in car”, and we’re like, lol yeah right.
Now I find out he’s been swearing and using some other inappropriate language at after school care care. Can’t say I expected this at 5-6.
your kid is a prodigy
he'll reinvent cussin'
Yeah so what's the context here? Like is he just swearing for exclamation or did he call another kid a bastard?
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My kid called us stupid assholes at daycare when we were picking her up one day. She and a couple kids just fed on each others' bad behavior and got worse. Over time it got better, but took some correcting.
Now she sings "have you checked your butthole" once in a while, but only at home, and she's allowed to swear when something particularly bad happens. Like when she got her allergy shots, she was allowed to say "fuck" because hey, that shot really hurts. The nurses got a kick out of it anyway.
My kid called us stupid assholes at daycare when we were picking her up one day. She and a couple kids just fed on each others' bad behavior and got worse. Over time it got better, but took some correcting.
Now she sings "have you checked your butthole" once in a while, but only at home, and she's allowed to swear when something particularly bad happens. Like when she got her allergy shots, she was allowed to say "fuck" because hey, that shot really hurts. The nurses got a kick out of it anyway.
I remember reading about a study some scientists did that showed 1) swearing provides genuine pain relief, and 2) the less you swear in general, the more powerful the effect.
My kids are allowed to say anything they want in the bathroom. Haven't had much swearing outside the bathroom, but I do mention it's a bathroom word if they do, and they should go into the bathroom to say it. It's been working, but they're still young...
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My kids are a bit too ND to be taught to follow social cues and context just yet. Although I agree in general, yeah. My oldest has noticed I can swear a bit much, and I try to explain the context when she asks.
If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
At that URL was a wordle, tweaked to give a fixed answer:
On the stove is a kettle:
In the kettle was the next riddle:
and a mysterious key:
Answer to the riddle is Ollie's "acid splash" t-shirt (reference to his d&d character's most-frequently-used attack spell), which also contained some pH strips and another puzzle:
After doing the pH tests:
and a couple of tweaks where the math didn't quite work out, the answer is "SHED":
In the shed was an un-labelled map and some darts:
They had to use the darts to pop balloons:
and when they popped each balloon:
inside was a little bit of paper containing a word. Those words were "WHERE IS THE EXTRA TABLE LEAF":
The extra table leaf is tucked away under the main part of the table:
and on there was the other part of the map, which only contained a start and end label (the end label reads "take a picture of the adirondack chair on the wall and bring it home for your next clue, start is obfuscated for privacy's sake)
When you combine the map-with-no-labels with the labels-with-no-map, you get directions to the next location:
That was a Tim Horton's about 10 minutes walk away, so we sent them on their way with a few dollars to get a doughnut each for sustenance. They found the chair we were thinking of, which is part of a mural:
They then got another URL, which led them to a Scratch program that they had to enter "7" into.
That gave them "WHERE DO YOU FIND WORDS DEFINED".
(the tricky part with Scratch is that the entire sourcecode is always visible, so I had to work out a way to make a puzzle where they couldn't just see the answer straight away. In this case, the number they entered was the seed to a random number generator which then picked words at random from a list -- if they entered the right seed, the random numbers will always come out in the same order so I could order the list to give the desired answer, but if you enter 6 instead, you get "IN WROTE COLOURS ON EXPLAINED OVER", which is very different, and without knowing the right starting number there's no sensible way to work out the answer)
You find words defined in a dictionary, and usually it would be this one:
but that dictionary had been hidden away, and instead, they'd find this other dictionary:
which is actually not a dictionary at all, there's a locked box hidden inside:
Remember the mysterious key in the kettle from earlier on? That unlocks this box, which contains one more riddle:
which directs them to the garage, and in there the car:
which they successfully found:
Total time start-to-finish was around 3 hours, which is about par for the course these days.
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Seeing those Easter Egg hunts year after year be so awesome encouraged my wife to do something similar for our kiddo's birthdays. So, I thank you for sharing the awesome hunts, and my daughter thanks you for enabling her to have similar experiences Something fun she gets to look forward to outside of a party, which...was really important these last couple years.
When I read @djmitchella 's Easter posts I imagine it in the voice Batman The Animated Series Ra's Al-Ghul, occasionally referring to the kids as "Detective"
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I’m actually tearing up here. This definitely isn’t nothing. It’s AMAZING and soooooo cute omg.
I also very much got tears in my eyes.
My joy in this for you and Bean and K is overwhelming.
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- He never makes I statements, if he refers to himself it's always 3rd person
- He never talks about how he's feeling, in fact if we ask him if he's happy or sad or frustrated he usually lashes out and gets mad.
After he said it, his mum said "Did you say you feel happy?" and he said "NO" and ran off.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Oh yeah, room change week is a reliable "we're off schedule for this week".
The teachers seemed nice and cool and the class was a mix of boys and girls from all over the world, so that was good. The school was clean and well-maintained, as well, which isn't a given.
So yeah. My sweet Little Prince... kickboxing. I'll need some time getting used to that idea.
This is great! An individual sport they can practice solo at home all year? Embrace this.
Get a heavy bag and you're like already there.
Ripley fucking love gymnastics and has asked me to build monkey bars and a balance beam.
Complained about the cat?
We had loads of plans, meal with my parents a hike and the zoo.
So obviously he starts being ill a few days ago. My wife picked it up this morning and now has tested positive for Covid.
Pretty certain he picked it up from nursery.
Sigh....
Fast forward an hour later and I've almost got all the mess cleaned up. Just need to spray down the mattress and get new sheets on. I hear more crying and he comes out of our room, runs into his bathroom, and threw-up into the sink. Fortunately, his body had almost nothing left in it, so the mess was pretty small. He's basically asleep on his feet, so I put him back into my bed.
Once I'm done with his bed, I go to my room. He's smack dab in the middle of my sleep spot and snoring hard. Rather than wake him up, I grab a pillow and blanket, go downstairs and sleep on the couch. It's around 2:30 at this point and I'm awake enough to consider writing my post here.
I managed to find sleep only to get woken up again at 4:30. He's whimpering on the floor of the bathroom having just used the bathroom. I notice he's shivering and is hot to the touch. His temperature is 100.8, so I give him some medicine and put him back to sleep in his bed. I crash out in my bed and am woken up by my daughter at 7:15.
*long exhale..........*
Parenting is tough y'all.
On the plus side, my wife had no idea what happened. I swear she could sleep through a mecha battle outside our window.
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And meanwhile my wife could fall asleep on the deck of a sinking ship. We like to joke that she could sleep for Canada.
I hope your kiddo feels better.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
After Thea goes to bed I gotta run to the store to get an iron to get the remaining wax out.
Thought he'd started getting better but he's gone downhill a bit today. Had a two hour nap which was a nice break for me.
I'm testing negative so I'm at work on a night shift leaving my wife who has Covid dealing with him and his restlessness overnight.
However he has been a good boy despite us not doing anything all week. He's had a lot of screen time but he's been too tired to play.
If he seems ok tomorrow we're taking him to the train station to watch the fast trains!
@MNC Dover I feel your pain, we've had to strip his bed twice this week due to puke and give the carpets a good scrub.
Why did we get carpets in his room....
Constant puking is something we never considered when we did his room.
Athena, I mean.
Today? Passes out 5 minutes into a 15 minute drive home from lunch, right before naptime. Even tells us that’s what she’s gonna do as we’re strapping her in “T have nap in car”, and we’re like, lol yeah right.
Toddlers, man.
your kid is a prodigy
he'll reinvent cussin'
Yeah so what's the context here? Like is he just swearing for exclamation or did he call another kid a bastard?
Now she sings "have you checked your butthole" once in a while, but only at home, and she's allowed to swear when something particularly bad happens. Like when she got her allergy shots, she was allowed to say "fuck" because hey, that shot really hurts. The nurses got a kick out of it anyway.
I remember reading about a study some scientists did that showed 1) swearing provides genuine pain relief, and 2) the less you swear in general, the more powerful the effect.
So, good job!
Dropping f bombs!
As usual, we made a jigsaw and hid bundles of pieces around the ground floor:
Once the kids had found all the bundles of pieces:
they had to solve the jigsaw:
which wound up as this:
The next step was working out what that was a picture of -- this year, it was the drawer where pens and stuff live:
Hidden under pens at the bottom left was a quiz;
Take the coloured letter from each answer and put them together to get a URL. (answer spoilered in case you want to try and solve it yourself)
answer 1
answer 2
answer 3
answer 4
answer 5
At that URL was a wordle, tweaked to give a fixed answer:
On the stove is a kettle:
In the kettle was the next riddle:
and a mysterious key:
Answer to the riddle is Ollie's "acid splash" t-shirt (reference to his d&d character's most-frequently-used attack spell), which also contained some pH strips and another puzzle:
After doing the pH tests:
and a couple of tweaks where the math didn't quite work out, the answer is "SHED":
In the shed was an un-labelled map and some darts:
They had to use the darts to pop balloons:
and when they popped each balloon:
inside was a little bit of paper containing a word. Those words were "WHERE IS THE EXTRA TABLE LEAF":
The extra table leaf is tucked away under the main part of the table:
and on there was the other part of the map, which only contained a start and end label (the end label reads "take a picture of the adirondack chair on the wall and bring it home for your next clue, start is obfuscated for privacy's sake)
When you combine the map-with-no-labels with the labels-with-no-map, you get directions to the next location:
That was a Tim Horton's about 10 minutes walk away, so we sent them on their way with a few dollars to get a doughnut each for sustenance. They found the chair we were thinking of, which is part of a mural:
They then got another URL, which led them to a Scratch program that they had to enter "7" into.
That gave them "WHERE DO YOU FIND WORDS DEFINED".
(the tricky part with Scratch is that the entire sourcecode is always visible, so I had to work out a way to make a puzzle where they couldn't just see the answer straight away. In this case, the number they entered was the seed to a random number generator which then picked words at random from a list -- if they entered the right seed, the random numbers will always come out in the same order so I could order the list to give the desired answer, but if you enter 6 instead, you get "IN WROTE COLOURS ON EXPLAINED OVER", which is very different, and without knowing the right starting number there's no sensible way to work out the answer)
You find words defined in a dictionary, and usually it would be this one:
but that dictionary had been hidden away, and instead, they'd find this other dictionary:
which is actually not a dictionary at all, there's a locked box hidden inside:
Remember the mysterious key in the kettle from earlier on? That unlocks this box, which contains one more riddle:
which directs them to the garage, and in there the car:
which they successfully found:
Total time start-to-finish was around 3 hours, which is about par for the course these days.
Satans..... hints.....
I didn't even know it was a contest, yet I still lost.
I'll be hiding a few eggs right before she gets home because if I hide them longer the dogs will eat them. It'll be pretty cool.
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