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Brawnfire posted:My daughter really seems to think she can argue her way around kicking her brother in the head being his fault. Can’t hurt to try right?
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Potty training day 1 is over. went ok I think? She peed on the floor in a bunch, went in the potty once during the day, and then like 4 times in a row before bed time. We don’t know if she was just excited she did it and wanted to sit on it over and over again or was trying to delay bedtime or what. Hopefully tomorrow shows more improvement!
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May 29, 2023 01:33
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Potty training here has been awful. 2 days, absolutely nothing in the potty, 3 pees on the floor. I can tell he is holding it in 
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May 29, 2023 06:14
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My wife is away in work for 3 weeks. We've made it through one week, including the last day of school, and I had fun plans for the long weekend, it was going to be great. But (of course this didn't work out) school decided to send one last gift home with the kids! One of them has been rocking a fever for the last 24 hours (it goes down with medicine), and then the other two got it. I had planned to get them out of the house, having fun dad time. Now we're all inside, all the of them are cranky, and I'm losing my mind. I'm just waiting for my fever to start... So I'm laying here at 1:30 am, having given ibuprofen, waiting for their temp to drop so maybe I can get some sleep, instead of anxiety keeping me awake.
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May 29, 2023 07:26
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I feel you. My wife just jetted out for a week and mine is crusty boogers, I saw that anime snot bubble thing for the first time in real life today. Thoughts and prayers
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May 29, 2023 07:49
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So I bought these roughly last year https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B089R6HWTF A set of flash cards At 2.5 she will grab the deck out of your hand and play "let's review colors and shapes" - direct quote. She knows all of them. She struggles with counting* and the word cylinder* but otherwise she gets them all - even robot and rocket Looking for the next step up. Do we go to alphabet and words? We were at the hardware store and in the aisle with stick on letters and numbers (separate) "what are these?" "Those are numbers" "what are these?" "Those are letters". That was almost a month ago. Clearly she's catching on Ok so she knows the difference, uh, what next. I thought this would be an age 4 thing What do you advise next? Start with letters and then go to words? *Although she can count to ten in English and Spanish, but that's probably memorization
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May 29, 2023 08:35
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^^ that happened with lil bee at roughly the same age. She just really got a kick out of them, I guess. We just kept using more complex flash cards and eventually she started pointing at random words on signs outside and being able to read them aloud. We used ones like this with the word and the picture: https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Tod...2dDbGljaz10cnVl bee fucked around with this message at 09:05 on May 29, 2023 |
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May 29, 2023 09:02
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My 2.5 year old can count to ten too. She’s started holding up the correct number of fingers when counting to five. And the other day she brought me her numbered duplo blocks and correctly told me what numbers they were most of the time. She knows a bunch of letters too, so I’m trying to teach her to read by looking at street signs, since she’ll point to the stop sign a lot and say, “Top!” Currently her favourite thing to spell is Blippi. “B O I B B I, Bippi! Good job! See you amorrow!”
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May 29, 2023 16:39
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Welp, wife is a week overdue so today we head in to begin prep for induction, with planned induction tomorrow! Our first is almost 4 so it seems like the infant days are so long ago, but hoping for some smooth sailing and that it mostly comes back quickly. Looking forward to posting again from the 4/8/12/16 month sleep regressions zones!!!
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May 29, 2023 16:40
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Crazyweasel posted:Welp, wife is a week overdue so today we head in to begin prep for induction, with planned induction tomorrow! Good luck! Our little one did not want to come out despite increasingly powerful attempts to induce labour so in the end it had to be a caesarian instead. Born at 42+1 technically!
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May 29, 2023 22:03
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killer crane posted:My wife is away in work for 3 weeks. At 8AM I started throwing up, and puked every hour for 6 hours. Youngest daughter still has fever... Fml.
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May 30, 2023 00:21
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Our 2 year old threw up 3 times last night, we were running out of blankets and were on 4th string stuffed animals. Not sure what we would have done if there had been a 4th incident 
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May 30, 2023 00:35
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It's fascinating that they always develop that stuffie hierarchy
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May 30, 2023 00:52
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Jose Valasquez posted:Our 2 year old threw up 3 times last night, we were running out of blankets and were on 4th string stuffed animals. Not sure what we would have done if there had been a 4th incident Honey this is your new best friend, Vomit The Bear.
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May 30, 2023 01:38
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We just buy multiple copies of first stringers
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May 30, 2023 02:15
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nachos posted:We just buy multiple copies of first stringers We did this once, and then my oldest decided she's rather have a hand-me-down stuffy that's been discontinued by the manufacturer as her favorite. All 3 of them choose a hand-me-down, or garage sale stuffy as their first stinger. Kids always find a way to ruin plans like that.
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May 30, 2023 02:33
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killer crane posted:At 8AM I started throwing up, and puked every hour for 6 hours. Youngest daughter still has fever... Fml. God bless my mom. She came to visit around lunch time, and let me take a huge nap. I still feel like dookie, but my mother is a saint for dealing with all three kids while I puked and slept.
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May 30, 2023 02:36
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Kids came home after two and a half days with their dad, we were playing in the back yard and my daughter screamed “LOOK AT THAT STUPID loving SQUIRREL!” She’s never said the F word before. I told her it wasn’t a nice word, but later she told me to “let go of the loving swing.” I am so very, very tired of doing damage control after every visit with their dad.
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May 30, 2023 03:11
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nachos posted:We just buy multiple copies of first stringers My son started with a stuffed bunny blanket that is no longer made, my wife found a similar elephant blanket to keep as an emergency backup, but he saw it and so then he had Bunny and Ellie. My wife bought a second Ellie to keep as a backup and he saw it, so now he has Bunny and Ellie and Second Ellie. He has played us for fools
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May 30, 2023 03:19
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My kids mainly have plastic toys and blankets in their beds right now so fortunately we can just wipe them down pretty good or throw the blankets in the washer when they puke on them.
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May 30, 2023 03:36
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Ours has Bear. He has no knowledge that daycare bear and Montessori bear and home bear and travel bear are all discrete individuals. It's wonderful.
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May 30, 2023 03:42
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Some of the most athletic moments of my life involved scrambling to distract my then 18 month old before she opened the secret hiding spot for backup first string elephants. Mother lifting car to save child energy
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May 30, 2023 05:50
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My almost-3-year-old has had a brace on for a fractured wrist for about a week now. The first week was smooth but the novelty has worn off and now he's back to trying to climb poo poo while asking to take the brace off. Yesterday he saw a younger kid climbing a ladder and fuckin lost it when I said he couldn't do the same
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May 30, 2023 14:10
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Our 2.5 year old definitely had too much fun and too much sun this weekend. Lesson learned, she is wiped out and we should absolutely have paced ourselves a bit better. Birthday into carnival into parade into splash pad over the last few days. It’s definitely a little frustrating that I am always the one trying to caution for sticking to a schedule or otherwise being responsible about activity levels, while my wife is protective of her family time, and the time our daughter gets to spend with her cousins.
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May 30, 2023 14:27
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Progress update on potty training: She went the whole weekend using underwear. No accidents. She’s still withholding pooping until she gets into her pull-ups for night-time (looks like a comfort thing) even though she was eager to use the potty when she had some tummy troubles a couple of weeks ago. Shipping her of to preschool with backup clothes and being grateful for teachers there that are more than willing to enforce the potty training protocol. Fingers crossed. We might actually pull it off.
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May 30, 2023 15:06
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Yesterday (I typed this 4 days ago, it was in my drafts) we were able to catch the toddler prepoop and carry him over the toilet before the nugget dropped. It was delayed, but once he realized that's what we were trying to do all these months it clicked for him. He shouted "I did it!". Still... Whole weekend was not a potty weekend. In-laws came in so that slice of time got stuffed for Kite flying and brunch.SixFigureSandwich posted:Good luck! Our little one did not want to come out despite increasingly powerful attempts to induce labour so in the end it had to be a caesarian instead. Born at 42+1 technically! Similar, regular nurse couldn't get the petosin in. Other nurse couldn't get the petosin in. They had to go out to the hallway and get the strong nurse on shift, fuckin 6'3" viking lady had to pry open my wife's hoohaa because we were 48 hours into the induction and made no progress in loosening up. Best of luck on induction, bring two cellphone chargers and the long cords.
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space uncle posted:At least it will never happen again now that the child is here. A self correcting mistake. The sores appeared during the 5th inning of the baseball game. Jesus Christ. Fortunately he seems to have a mild case and they aren’t really bothering him. He ate a whole hotdog and loved the 7th inning stretch and the home runs. Unfortunately now my wife is getting sick too so this vacation is rapidly turning into watching TV on the couch while ordering Instacart. Which to be honest is what we would have done at home, so I think the original decision to come was mostly sound. Made it to the Lincoln Park Zoo at least. We’re trying to stay in outdoor areas and not become superspreaders.
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May 30, 2023 16:14
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Stolen from the schadenfreude thread:Ornamental Dingbat posted:https://twitter.com/Figensport/status/1663508050379157505?t=FJhjtDeMvEgvLpE0tLn9xA&s=19
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May 30, 2023 17:24
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May 30, 2023 18:59
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lol that video The Perfect Stroller is basically my white whale of kid gear. We use our stroller(s) a ton, way more than our car, and there is nothing perfect on the market, despite what the sponsored content momblogs say.
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May 30, 2023 19:35
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The V2 UPPAbaby strollers are pretty fantastic, hydroformed aluminum frame, oversize wheels, extra wide track. What don't you like about them? We got the Vista while my buddy who lives in Colombia got the Cruz as they have pretty narrow sidewalks and it's quite a lot more narrow
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May 30, 2023 19:52
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UPPABaby Minu V2 here. I love it, though we have't used it in almost a year now. I think I got the suggestion from here: https://www.youtube.com/@BarnevognverkstedNo https://www.patreon.com/thestrollerworkshop I subscribed for a month to get their review/comparison PDF. It was the only place where I could find really comprehensive reviews. We needed something that will work on rougher terrain, will fit me as I'm over 6ft tall, and folds small to ease air travel. One of the best spent $5 ever.
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May 30, 2023 20:07
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Hadlock posted:The V2 UPPAbaby strollers are pretty fantastic, hydroformed aluminum frame, oversize wheels, extra wide track. What don't you like about them? We got the Vista while my buddy who lives in Colombia got the Cruz as they have pretty narrow sidewalks and it's quite a lot more narrow The UPPAbaby was otherwise great but conflicted with one major personal constraint- whenever we use the stroller we have to carry it down 7 steps. The used UPPAbaby Vista we tried (and eventually resold at cost!) was very difficult for me to carry safely down the stairs- large and no good crossbar to carry it by. We used it through the bassinet stage but it was too unwieldy for a daily. We did end up putting a ton of miles on a Bugaboo Lynx (plus toddler board). It recently went into storage because it took up an ungodly amount of room and the kids don’t need as much Stroller, but it was a workhorse similar to the Vista and Cruz. The footprint and folding mechanism sucked though.
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I have the uppababy cruz and it's been fine except the rubber on the wheels seems to erode in no time. I've replaced the set once already and it's looking like I'll need to do it once more before kiddo has outgrown it
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Ooh- before we had our second, we used a Colugo Compact most of the time. It was really good 90% of the time and folded up ~so small~, but the harness buckle was The Worst and could not be reliably fastened on a mad toddler. I looked at the Minu V2 and it probably would have been a better choice than the Colugo. It’s too bad you can’t pop a UB boogie board onto them.
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Ah yeah I've only used it with roll in roll out operation. My mother in law's house has a single step Edit: I've never heard of this rubber problem before. Do you store it outside in the sun or something Hadlock fucked around with this message at 20:24 on May 30, 2023 |
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We got the Nuna Triv Next and it's pretty nice, but the baby is only 1 month old so I guess we'll see how I feel in a year. Takes me about 30 seconds to get the stroller out, unfold it, and move the seat from the car to the stroller. We considered the Trvl but it felt kinda flimsy, and we just plain didn't like the Tavo.
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Hadlock posted:Edit: I've never heard of this rubber problem before. Do you store it outside in the sun or something nope, lives in the hallway at home and we live city center so it's only pushed around on paved surfaces and the grass at the park. the wheels were replaced free first time round, their customer service said 'shimmying(?)' was a known issue on some of the V1 types which can cause uneven wear. I also managed to break the little plastic clip that holds it closed when stowed on day 1 so it never stayed shut unless you laid it down
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We got the Joovy Qool, that thing is a tank. Not a compact fold AT ALL, but manages to fit in the back of a mid-size sedan nevertheless. Vista was a no-go as the toddler seat only goes to 35lbs, and the then-2.5yo was already north of 30 when baby bro was born.
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Potty training is coming up soon for us and I am dreading it. We're going to take the "devote a full weekend with no diapers and lots of toilet time" approach I guess. Not looking forward to cleaning up a lot of pee and poop off the floor. But we've been doing cloth diapers for a while that you have to spray anyway so maybe my poop tolerance is high enough to handle it.
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