BrodyThe WatchThe First ShoreRegistered Userregular
I kind of posted this in the pi thread, but Sapling has been having a hard time recently with anxiety about time, and things seeming to sneak up on her no matter how many times we warn her. I think a large part of it is just the age she's at (4 almost 5), but I wanted to find a way to make a big-ish visual reference to the time left before something happens. I was thinking about trying to make something with a raspberry pi and some color changing LED's? Sort of a color clock maybe?
But I'm not sure how to make it? Or what sort of lights to get? Or if the Pi I have can make it run? Has anyone tried to do anything similar? Or just bought something that does something similar?
Separately, her Kindergarten orientation was on Wednesday, and that was a lot of feels. Sapling is usually super shy around new people, especially adults. But they framed the whole thing as something she was doing, and she was invited to bring us with her. So when we showed up the person letting us in addressed her instead of us, and she responded super well, she was still shy but answered all the questions to get checked in, then when we went in the teachers got her talking so easy. And then halfway through, the teachers took all the kids back to the classroom to play while some of the administrators talked to us about a bunch of boring adult stuff, and she was gone in an instant, didn't even look back.
"I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."
I kind of posted this in the pi thread, but Sapling has been having a hard time recently with anxiety about time, and things seeming to sneak up on her no matter how many times we warn her. I think a large part of it is just the age she's at (4 almost 5), but I wanted to find a way to make a big-ish visual reference to the time left before something happens. I was thinking about trying to make something with a raspberry pi and some color changing LED's? Sort of a color clock maybe?
But I'm not sure how to make it? Or what sort of lights to get? Or if the Pi I have can make it run? Has anyone tried to do anything similar? Or just bought something that does something similar?
Depending on the timeframes you're working with, how about some hourglasses you could flip for her? (I'm assuming you can get them in different sizes like 30/10/5 minutes or something).
I kind of posted this in the pi thread, but Sapling has been having a hard time recently with anxiety about time, and things seeming to sneak up on her no matter how many times we warn her. I think a large part of it is just the age she's at (4 almost 5), but I wanted to find a way to make a big-ish visual reference to the time left before something happens. I was thinking about trying to make something with a raspberry pi and some color changing LED's? Sort of a color clock maybe?
But I'm not sure how to make it? Or what sort of lights to get? Or if the Pi I have can make it run? Has anyone tried to do anything similar? Or just bought something that does something similar?
Depending on the timeframes you're working with, how about some hourglasses you could flip for her? (I'm assuming you can get them in different sizes like 30/10/5 minutes or something).
Yeah. We've considered something small like that, but I was hoping to create something more environmental, if that makes sense?
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Ugg I think we’ve gone backwards. Due to a sickness in the family, baby girl spent a month with wife/MiL while wife helped her family member. Wife/MiL are night owls, so baby got trained to a late bedtime.
Break to now that all of that is over, and she’s waking at 3-4 AM expecting a bottle. We feed when she says she’s hungry during the day. Going to be a fun few months while I get her trained back. She was going to bed at 8:30 and waking at 7:30 the next morning.
Of course as I finished typing the above she took a big ol poop.
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Ugg I think we’ve gone backwards. Due to a sickness in the family, baby girl spent a month with wife/MiL while wife helped her family member. Wife/MiL are night owls, so baby got trained to a late bedtime.
Break to now that all of that is over, and she’s waking at 3-4 AM expecting a bottle. We feed when she says she’s hungry during the day. Going to be a fun few months while I get her trained back. She was going to bed at 8:30 and waking at 7:30 the next morning.
Of course as I finished typing the above she took a big ol poop.
I take that last sentence back, she just farted as loudly as possible.
Then 45 minutes later she proceeded to fill every void in her diaper with green poop (we are feeding her green vegetables right now) and blow it out one side of the new diaper into her sleeper.
I just gave up and hosed her off in the bathtub.
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I do not miss the blow out diapers. My oldest was the queen of destroying her outfit on the way to wherever we were going. Those damn car seats were the perfect angle to having it go everywhere.
The first months of having a new baby is often about helping them learn to walk and talk. The next decade is about trying to get them to sit down and be quiet...
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Our little 2 month old got prescribed omeprazole (prilosec) for reflux and it worked great for all of 2 days. Now he's all refluxy again and pissier than ever. Sigh.
Can't seem to figure out why it worked so well for 2 blissful days then suddenly stopped working.
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The first months of having a new baby is often about helping them learn to walk and talk. The next decade is about trying to get them to sit down and be quiet...
We were food shopping yesterday, as it was a long weekend here, and the store was suitably busy.
My darling wonderful effervescent child was dancing to whatever song was in her head, twirling and leaping and doing something between Gaga and Baryshnikov, with a little Astaire thrown in.
If she hadn't been in the smack dab center of the walkway while doing so, it would have been great. Cute even.
But oyyyyy the way she just happens to constantly be in the way of everybody around her and just seems oblivious to that gets to me.
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Come, dance over here. You can dance on the side of the aisle. That's fine. But what you're doing is just being obtrusive to others and not courteous.
Our little 2 month old got prescribed omeprazole (prilosec) for reflux and it worked great for all of 2 days. Now he's all refluxy again and pissier than ever. Sigh.
Can't seem to figure out why it worked so well for 2 blissful days then suddenly stopped working.
We had a similar issue, ended up getting a foam wedge from the hospital so Sapling could sleep elevated, and had to wait like an hour(ish) after she ate to help control it. Granted, we were also dealing with a cleft palate at the same time, so we had support and challenges that might not be the norm. I'm sorry it's been something you've been struggling with, it definitely sucks.
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Sorry for the double post, but I know in the past people have mentioned a book that helped navigate the "where do babies come from" conversation, and Sapling is very insistent that we explain it to her.
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I hope you're feeling better since I'm seeing this days late
When my kid gave it to me she never got symptoms, I actually got as far as work trying to figure out why my hands were hurting, I sat down in my cube, boss came over for a good morning, I mentioned something, --
"Okay, get up from your chair, turn around, open the door with your foot and walk back to your car and go home."
Some days Blue wonders why anyone ever bothered making numbers so small; other days she supposes even infinity needs to start somewhere.
Sorry for the double post, but I know in the past people have mentioned a book that helped navigate the "where do babies come from" conversation, and Sapling is very insistent that we explain it to her.
It's Not the Stork is highly recommended by most people I know. I haven't read it myself, but that's the current go-to.
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If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
Sorry for the double post, but I know in the past people have mentioned a book that helped navigate the "where do babies come from" conversation, and Sapling is very insistent that we explain it to her.
We eventually explained the real details. Our son was like "ew" and moved on.
Sorry for the double post, but I know in the past people have mentioned a book that helped navigate the "where do babies come from" conversation, and Sapling is very insistent that we explain it to her.
My plan is to start from the ground up, go over how DNA works then the stages of development from zygote to embryo to blastocyst to..perhaps a 3 month old if they're that young. Literally how babies are made from a pair of cells.
I think until they are a little older, I'd remind them about how their younger sibling can't count/read and how they didn't use to be able to ride a bike and still can't grow a beard and be "it's something that's hard to explain in words, but when you're older it just comes naturally and it'll make sense then".
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Baby has a fever, I don't remember Lore being sick until much older on account of quarantine from COVID. What am I allowed to give a three month old medicine wise?
Baby has a fever, I don't remember Lore being sick until much older on account of quarantine from COVID. What am I allowed to give a three month old medicine wise?
3 months is right on the edge of when you can give infant Tylenol without a doctor consult. It's mainly based on weight thought, dosages start when they're 11-12ish pounds.
Baby has a fever, I don't remember Lore being sick until much older on account of quarantine from COVID. What am I allowed to give a three month old medicine wise?
When ours were that young we called the pediatrician, but we had (have) tiny kids.
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Baby has a fever, I don't remember Lore being sick until much older on account of quarantine from COVID. What am I allowed to give a three month old medicine wise?
3 months is right on the edge of when you can give infant Tylenol without a doctor consult. It's mainly based on weight thought, dosages start when they're 11-12ish pounds.
He was 14 pounds a month ago so no issues there. We called the nurses line for our pediatrician and she said we could give a tiny amount of acetaminophen and to monitor to make sure his temp didn't go much higher. He seems in decent spirits otherwise fortunately.
Thanks to the tax levy we passed in my school district last year I won’t have to buy four different lists of school supplies as the triplets head into Kindergarten.
Thanks to the tax levy we passed in my school district last year I won’t have to buy four different lists of school supplies as the triplets head into Kindergarten.
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Fuck they’re going to be in Kindergarten.
Triplets?
One is running me ragged, I couldn’t imagine what 3 would do.
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It's been a full week and my youngest has pooped on the toilet every day. I'm so thankful that out of nowhere she decided it was finally time to stop going in her pants.
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Thanks to the tax levy we passed in my school district last year I won’t have to buy four different lists of school supplies as the triplets head into Kindergarten.
…
Fuck they’re going to be in Kindergarten.
Triplets?
One is running me ragged, I couldn’t imagine what 3 would do.
I wonder if Taramoor still has the photo of one of them climbing on the fireplace mantle?
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I think Matt might have a problem.
You think that's bad, you should check out his house!
But I'm not sure how to make it? Or what sort of lights to get? Or if the Pi I have can make it run? Has anyone tried to do anything similar? Or just bought something that does something similar?
Separately, her Kindergarten orientation was on Wednesday, and that was a lot of feels. Sapling is usually super shy around new people, especially adults. But they framed the whole thing as something she was doing, and she was invited to bring us with her. So when we showed up the person letting us in addressed her instead of us, and she responded super well, she was still shy but answered all the questions to get checked in, then when we went in the teachers got her talking so easy. And then halfway through, the teachers took all the kids back to the classroom to play while some of the administrators talked to us about a bunch of boring adult stuff, and she was gone in an instant, didn't even look back.
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And the past 3 days she woke up with a dry pull up. Better than the 7 year old.
Yeah. We've considered something small like that, but I was hoping to create something more environmental, if that makes sense?
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Break to now that all of that is over, and she’s waking at 3-4 AM expecting a bottle. We feed when she says she’s hungry during the day. Going to be a fun few months while I get her trained back. She was going to bed at 8:30 and waking at 7:30 the next morning.
Of course as I finished typing the above she took a big ol poop.
I take that last sentence back, she just farted as loudly as possible.
Then 45 minutes later she proceeded to fill every void in her diaper with green poop (we are feeding her green vegetables right now) and blow it out one side of the new diaper into her sleeper.
I just gave up and hosed her off in the bathtub.
The first months of having a new baby is often about helping them learn to walk and talk. The next decade is about trying to get them to sit down and be quiet...
My 14-year-old's mumbled responses to me have been really grating on my nerves lately.
"What was that buddy, I didn't..."
Jesus, that level of cuteness should be illegal.
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What I want to know is why don't they sell dinosaur tshirts and hoodies in my size?
This is kind of similar.
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Can't seem to figure out why it worked so well for 2 blissful days then suddenly stopped working.
it's hand, foot, and mouth time
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
We were food shopping yesterday, as it was a long weekend here, and the store was suitably busy.
My darling wonderful effervescent child was dancing to whatever song was in her head, twirling and leaping and doing something between Gaga and Baryshnikov, with a little Astaire thrown in.
If she hadn't been in the smack dab center of the walkway while doing so, it would have been great. Cute even.
But oyyyyy the way she just happens to constantly be in the way of everybody around her and just seems oblivious to that gets to me.
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I had a coworker for a while who had a lot of dinosaur print button down shirts.
We had a similar issue, ended up getting a foam wedge from the hospital so Sapling could sleep elevated, and had to wait like an hour(ish) after she ate to help control it. Granted, we were also dealing with a cleft palate at the same time, so we had support and challenges that might not be the norm. I'm sorry it's been something you've been struggling with, it definitely sucks.
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I hope you're feeling better since I'm seeing this days late
When my kid gave it to me she never got symptoms, I actually got as far as work trying to figure out why my hands were hurting, I sat down in my cube, boss came over for a good morning, I mentioned something, --
"Okay, get up from your chair, turn around, open the door with your foot and walk back to your car and go home."
But rather than enjoy the event, I was constantly in my own head looking at high windows and doorways where a shooter could possibly emerge from.
FUCK!
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"I'm bored."
Uh oh.
Her mobility is exponentially increasing.
I’m screwed.
I hope you replied "Hi Bored, I'm Dad"
I do that all the time and my daughter hates it....which just encourages me to do it more.
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There was a video someone posted of teaching their kid how to walk, and the top response was, "Yeah, but now they know how to walk."
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We eventually explained the real details. Our son was like "ew" and moved on.
My plan is to start from the ground up, go over how DNA works then the stages of development from zygote to embryo to blastocyst to..perhaps a 3 month old if they're that young. Literally how babies are made from a pair of cells.
I think until they are a little older, I'd remind them about how their younger sibling can't count/read and how they didn't use to be able to ride a bike and still can't grow a beard and be "it's something that's hard to explain in words, but when you're older it just comes naturally and it'll make sense then".
3 months is right on the edge of when you can give infant Tylenol without a doctor consult. It's mainly based on weight thought, dosages start when they're 11-12ish pounds.
When ours were that young we called the pediatrician, but we had (have) tiny kids.
He was 14 pounds a month ago so no issues there. We called the nurses line for our pediatrician and she said we could give a tiny amount of acetaminophen and to monitor to make sure his temp didn't go much higher. He seems in decent spirits otherwise fortunately.
Thanks to the tax levy we passed in my school district last year I won’t have to buy four different lists of school supplies as the triplets head into Kindergarten.
…
Fuck they’re going to be in Kindergarten.
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Triplets?
One is running me ragged, I couldn’t imagine what 3 would do.
I wonder if Taramoor still has the photo of one of them climbing on the fireplace mantle?
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