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wizzardstaff posted:My kid mostly only puts on clothes to leave the house, or maybe if she finds a shirt with a cute kitty on it. Pants indoors are pretty much nonexistent. It's funny because our kid refuses to take her shoes and has a fit if you take them off. But nope yesterday gotta be naked.
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There was a beautiful time where the toddler was excited to demonstrate that she understood our requests or questions. Then the novelty wore off and she realized ‘no’ or silence was also a response.
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Oct 28, 2021 12:08
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Eggnogium posted:Yay I love that stage. One of the best parts about reaching this level of communication is you can start bargaining. Haha that never worked with mine. Only now, at approaching three years old, can she take a bargain like that. Unless her mind is already set, of course, then it's still gonna be no, no matter what carrot I offer.
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Oct 28, 2021 12:38
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My three month old laughed for the first time last night. It surprised both him and us (I think he laughed because we were laughing at a joke and he got excited?) and yes, that is definitely one of the best things that has happened to me in my life.
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Oct 28, 2021 15:06
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illcendiary posted:My three month old laughed for the first time last night. It surprised both him and us (I think he laughed because we were laughing at a joke and he got excited?) and yes, that is definitely one of the best things that has happened to me in my life. Baby humor is awesome, once they start laughing at stuff you just keep encouraging it. Our kid started laughing at sneezes for some reason so now we’re always doing fake sneezes at him. He thinks it’s the height of comedy. Lots of tickles and raspberries! We got the dogs groomed and for some reason seeing his buddies go from long hair to short hair just cracked our 10 month old up. He couldn’t stop laughing at these little skinny dogs after their haircut.
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Oct 28, 2021 15:55
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We have a video of our baby, who was probably around 6 months old at the time, just absolutely cracking up at me smacking the top of a plastic tub. It’s one of my all time favorite videos, no idea why he found that funny but it’s amazing.
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Oct 28, 2021 16:30
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rear end in a top hat refused to eat dinner. Woke up screaming hungry like 10 times last night. We loving told him to eat or he would be hungry. So tired.
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Oct 28, 2021 16:42
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My kid officially discovered the root of expectation-based humor when she found it was hilarious to intentionally fit puzzle pieces together wrong.
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Oct 28, 2021 16:55
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My baby loves it when we pretend to snack on him. Nomming on fingers and toes. Baby laughter is really one of the best things ever! He also loves tormenting our elderly pug by ramming her with his walker. Trying to discourage that behavior of course.
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Oct 28, 2021 17:19
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Our youngest thinks the pinnacle of humor is laughing at him. So I'll fake-laugh at him, he'll fake laugh back and before you know it we're both belly laughing at each other. Unless he's being pissy. Then he just makes a displeased noise and looks away and pouts.
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Oct 28, 2021 18:11
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So apparently we missed the boat on birthday parties? Is 4 the "big deal" birthday party thing or something? Or is this just some sort of localized peer pressure thing? Everyone in our daughter's day care class is doing parties. We didn't do one for our daughter's 4th because of covid (though by the time we knew we were supposed to it was late...). We skipped 2 already because of covid, but those were at the local delta variant peak and infection numbers in our area are going down and might be OK for the next 3. What's protocol for these things? I mean, a gift for the kid sure... but for things where it's at a big play place/whatever, is there an expectation to hand cash over to the parents? I have no clue how expensive it is to rent these places out and provide cake/food/whatever... don't want to walk away not contributing. DaveSauce fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Oct 28, 2021 |
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Oct 28, 2021 21:20
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Some of those places are pretty expensive to rent, but I wouldn’t expect anyone to give me cash if I had a birthday party there…just a present should suffice. It’s not like you decided to throw the party there.
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Oct 28, 2021 21:34
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I hear kids love getting NFTs, so there's a quick birthday present option for you.
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DaveSauce posted:So apparently we missed the boat on birthday parties? Is 4 the "big deal" birthday party thing or something? Or is this just some sort of localized peer pressure thing? I have never paid for admission or reimbursement to a bday party. Thatd be weird as poo poo to ask for as a host. We threw a "big" party this year at a minigolf place to sort of make up for last years covid bday and since this is bay area, it was stupid expensive. We still had 0 expectations for guests beyond showing up and letting the kids be party goblins. Just make sure if you RSVP yes that you show up or warn them if something changes because packages tend to charge per kid.
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The one thing parents will try to do is offload their kids on you for the party. Which is OK if they're like 10, less so if they're 5 or 6.
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Oct 29, 2021 03:16
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One of our neighbors recently had a birthday party for their 5yo and it just rubbed me the wrong way. Seemed much more like a kid's birthday was merely an excuse for adults to get torn up. There was a keg.
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Oct 29, 2021 03:49
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Shifty Pony posted:There was a keg.  I had not even imagined the possibility. Parents with a hidden drinking problem, I imagine?
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Oct 29, 2021 13:06
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My kid has some nasty stomach bug from daycare and now so do I. I’ve been covered in vomit for an inordinate amount of time for the past two days. I just want to die.
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Oct 29, 2021 14:29
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living the thread title life, our nicely snuggled baby with pjs and a sleep sack managed to fill both with just ungodly amounts of poo poo this morning, to the point where we had to hose her down in the sink.
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:
Or just from Wisconsin.
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Oct 29, 2021 16:26
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:
One of them definitely has a problem but other guests were hitting it as well. At like 3:30 in the afternoon. We were pretty deeply uncomfortable.  I hope the kid likes the Lego set we got him. i was pretty jealous ngl.
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Shifty Pony posted:One of our neighbors recently had a birthday party for their 5yo and it just rubbed me the wrong way. Seemed much more like a kid's birthday was merely an excuse for adults to get torn up. There was a keg. That’s a new one. How many people? Like a full keg or pony keg? Our bday party was at 10 am so drinking wasn’t even on the radar. However a coworker had a party for his girl the same day in the afternoon and he said a few moms asked for wine and then everyone started drinking wine. I’ve also seen at an indoor jungle gym place around me that they sell wine and beer. I’ve been to one birthday party where they had some coolers of beer to grab a drink. That’s fine. I think a keg is pretty overboard though.
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Oct 29, 2021 18:02
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Oct 29, 2021 18:20
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Benagain posted:living the thread title life, our nicely snuggled baby with pjs and a sleep sack managed to fill both with just ungodly amounts of poo poo this morning, to the point where we had to hose her down in the sink. Seriously, it was like unwrapping the world's worst tamale.
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Oct 29, 2021 19:45
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Our daughter unilaterally decided she was going to wear big girl underwear to bed last night instead of a pull-up. Put some towels under her sheets but over her waterproof pad, impressed on her to use the potty either in the hall or the training one in her room before she fell aslerp. Stockpiled a change of pjs and a pull up in our room for when the inevitable happened, then went to sleep. Woke up at 1.30 to her crying in our room, assumed the worst. But, nope, she was just thirsty and complained about her foot hurting. Dealt with all that, made her use the potty again, she fell asleep in our bed. Woke up to a completely dry bed and a very slerpy 5yo complaining that she didn't have to go potty when i carried her to our toilet, where-upon she pissed like a race horse. I am shocked by how proud i am that she did that.
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Oct 29, 2021 21:23
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My toddler is currently over hyped from too much Halloween excitement and is bouncing off the walls. Pray for bedtime to go ok.
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Benagain posted:living the thread title life, our nicely snuggled baby with pjs and a sleep sack managed to fill both with just ungodly amounts of poo poo this morning, to the point where we had to hose her down in the sink. Read this post to my wife last night and, in our hubris, we laughed because we had not had to deal with something like this with our son. This morning...this morning was horrible to behold
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illcendiary posted:My three month old laughed for the first time last night. It surprised both him and us (I think he laughed because we were laughing at a joke and he got excited?) and yes, that is definitely one of the best things that has happened to me in my life. we just got the first "shrieking with happiness" laugh from just holding his hands. It is much more fun than the shrieking of sadness, which happened in the tub an hour before.
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Oct 30, 2021 16:38
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I didn’t sleep well last night and it’s a miserable rainy day out. So I took our toddler to the local science museum. She had a blast until it was time to leave. Then she did a full body shrieking tantrum. Had to just put her under my arm and cart her out. It was pretty embarrassing. I’m so frustrated and disappointed. When it comes to outings, it feels like no good deed goes unpunished.
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Dobbs_Head posted:I didn’t sleep well last night and it’s a miserable rainy day out. So I took our toddler to the local science museum. She had a blast until it was time to leave. Then she did a full body shrieking tantrum. Everyone there wasn’t judging you, they were recalling the dozen instances where they were the ones with the shrieking child and were praying that it didn’t happen when they tried to leave. There’s solidarity among the bomb squad.
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Oct 30, 2021 17:07
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The full body shrieking tantrum is the end of every park outing for us. Car rides home are real fun!
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Oct 30, 2021 17:36
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Yeah I stopped being embarrassed on the 60th time where just getting off an escalator triggered total meltdown.
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Oct 30, 2021 18:20
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The 17mo just cleaned off the end table. Now he's pouring water out onto it then wiping it up because he ran out of messes to clean. 
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Oct 30, 2021 18:28
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I think my most "Hoping the ground opens up under me" meltdown was the one time I got to deal with security at a store because I had to haul my son out bodily while he just full on lost it. He was about 9 or 10 at the time and apparently it looked like I was kidnapping him, so that was fun.
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Oct 30, 2021 19:40
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We try to tell our son to be happy it happened and not sad it's over but um yeah so far hes not been very philosophical about it.
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Oct 30, 2021 20:52
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Our son had a growth spurt over night. We realized this when he banged his head on a thing that a day or so ago he just barely could walk under. So now we're having to relearn the new forbidden zones on the counters and table because his noodly arms can reach further.
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Took the baby to an outdoor safari and pumpkin patch and he got to pet a kangaroo. He also got to pet a sloth but he was a little too overwhelmed and hid his face instead. Very happy guy during the tour, lots of crying on the drive back home.
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Oct 30, 2021 21:42
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Kid’s stomach bug officially hit all of us over the weekend. Taking care of a sick kid while both parents are also sick sure is something. At least the vomiting has been staggered between the three of us.
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Oct 30, 2021 22:52
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Took my kids to a Halloween thing at the zoo, my daughter enthusiastically yelling TRICK OR TREAT and bouncing around every single time was the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. She had her very first sucker and it was the greatest thing that ever happened in her whole life. MAMA YOU HAVE TO TRY THIS IT’S SOOOOO DELICIOUS!!! Baby slept the whole time which was great.
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nachos posted:Kid’s stomach bug officially hit all of us over the weekend. Taking care of a sick kid while both parents are also sick sure is something. At least the vomiting has been staggered between the three of us. Same here this weekend. We had driven to the in-laws to do an all cousin Halloween event, but last night my wife and I got sick. Our daughter is fine, though, so I'm really thankful that the grandparents stepped up, because all I could do was my my way to the bathroom every 15 minutes. Not sure how we would have done it with a healthy daughter and sick parents. Probably put on Peppa Pig for the duration of the day.
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