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devmd01 posted:Well, this will certainly last us until next year….and beyond. All three are at a good age that I could just walk the dog while they went up to the doors. They were good about saying thank you without prompting, which was nice to see. Even though it was cold as hell they hung in there and did the entire neighborhood by foot. Ooooh! You got the good gummy bears! Nothing wrong with Haribo but Albanese is so good!
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The local Dairy Queen handed out free soft serve and the local Pizza Hut (which is luckily a good Pizza Hut) handed out coupons for free pizza so yesterday was a pretty big win all around even aside from the usual haul (my three year old is weird and doesn’t like chocolate so my wife and I get to split that).
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Nov 1, 2023 21:32
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Speaking of not liking chocolate, my daughter is super disappointed she got way more chocolate candy than fruity candy. She loves fruity candy. I've never seen anyone eat a Snickers with such resignation before.
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Nov 1, 2023 22:32
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topenga posted:Ooooh! You got the good gummy bears! Nothing wrong with Haribo but Albanese is so good! I beg to disagree. Haribo is a fairly unchewable crap, while Albanese is a Platonic ideal.
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Nov 1, 2023 23:30
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topenga posted:Ooooh! You got the good gummy bears! Nothing wrong with Haribo but Albanese is so good! If you go to the Albanese factory outlet you can get a 3lb bag of gummy goof-ups for like $8. It doesn’t last long.
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Nov 1, 2023 23:55
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My son went as a vampire this year, super adorable! He lasted longer trick or treating than the 4 and 5 year old we went along with. He just loves Halloween. We even did a little haunted house together at his insistence! I had to carry him through it but he was so proud of finishing. Bedtime was a loving disaster otoh, oh well
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Nov 2, 2023 00:10
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My wife admitted she may be suffering from depression and needs help. Between the last two months before birth being difficult, the boy being born with a slower heart then the norm due to her heart medication (looks like it passed), and her mom getting diagnosed with cancer, I honestly can’t say if it is PPD or we’re just exhausted or one leading to the other. She’s a clinical psychologist herself, and I think she was a bit reluctant to self-diagnose. We’ll see if her supervising psychologist will want to take this on. To add on to that, I’m having a rough time too - inadequacy, horrible work stress driven by impostor syndrome, coming up slowly to the age when my dad passed away from a heart attack. I’m powering through, because, well, no other way about it, but boy am I exhausted on every level. I can’t burden my partner now, it’s too much for her. BUT! At 18 weeks, what a bundle of joy and love this boy is becoming. He’s evolving into an actual person, learning new things every day and just being the cutest and best smelling thing in our lives.
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Nov 2, 2023 00:13
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The wife is away for a few days on a business trip. It would seem our daughter stored up a few days of poops just for me, she's 5. Thanks kiddo that was really stinky.
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Nov 2, 2023 00:48
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My kid is still too young for candy (almost 1.5 years), but his still fit in his jack-o-lantern costume so we did take him out to a little Halloween block party to look at the costumes and he also had a Halloween party all day at day care. Plus I was really amused when we were watching It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, and he went over to the edge of the playpen to watch it for a surprisingly long stretch of time. Something about the slow pace and jazz music must have intrigued him.
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Mokotow posted:My wife admitted she may be suffering from depression and needs help. Between the last two months before birth being difficult, the boy being born with a slower heart then the norm due to her heart medication (looks like it passed), and her mom getting diagnosed with cancer, I honestly can’t say if it is PPD or we’re just exhausted or one leading to the other. She’s a clinical psychologist herself, and I think she was a bit reluctant to self-diagnose. We’ll see if her supervising psychologist will want to take this on. I was in a similar spot a couple years ago. You got this brother 
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Mokotow posted:To add on to that, I’m having a rough time too - Depends on your job but you might look at your benefits package, a lot of places offer a third party, confidential advice line and they might be able to offer you advice on doing short term paid leave to get things sorted. Stress from new baby is a lot and can push everyone to their limits at some point or another. Most companies have some kind of paid leave insurance that pays out 55-75% of your regular salary for up to 90 days or whatever
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devmd01 posted:If you go to the Albanese factory outlet you can get a 3lb bag of gummy goof-ups for like $8. It doesn’t last long. I once bought a 5 pound bag of the blue raspberry flavor and shamelessly ate nearly the entire thing myself. No regrets.
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Slaan posted:I was in a similar spot a couple years ago. You got this brother Thanks bud, this helps! Hadlock posted:Depends on your job but you might look at your benefits package, a lot of places offer a third party, confidential advice line and they might be able to offer you advice on doing short term paid leave to get things sorted. Stress from new baby is a lot and can push everyone to their limits at some point or another. Most companies have some kind of paid leave insurance that pays out 55-75% of your regular salary for up to 90 days or whatever Part of the problem, unfortunately- this part of the year is crucial for business and my legal/international situation makes this so complicated it’s best to just put my head down and make it to January. My company is very helpful but ultimately it is what it is! This place helps.
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Nov 2, 2023 11:00
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The funniest thing is when the kid's just laying there completely still but their eyes are open, and you're like "close your eyes" and they do and immediately fall deep asleep
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Brawnfire posted:The funniest thing is when the kid's just laying there completely still but their eyes are open, and you're like "close your eyes" and they do and immediately fall deep asleep This is literally every single night with my daughter. I have to say “no more talking, sleepy time” about a dozen times until she stops verbalizing her constant stream of consciousness, then it takes several “close your eyes” until they stay closed.
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Nov 2, 2023 20:46
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My 2 year old has decided she can change her clothes all by herself. She can't. God help us.
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The dentist recommended that it is time to take away the binky  I am filled with dread. My son is almost 3 and only uses it at night, but he’s still very much attached to it and the little stuffed llama. I bought him a new stuffy…hoping that is an acceptable replacement. Fingers crossed.
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Nov 3, 2023 01:17
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remigious posted:The dentist recommended that it is time to take away the binky Hoping it works out, we got lucky with ours that he never cared for the paci. He's a blanket boy now at 13 months though. Fine by me, it calms him down at night and knocks out, then I go and remove it from the crib once he's out.
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Nov 3, 2023 01:19
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remigious posted:The dentist recommended that it is time to take away the binky We snipped the tip off so that he couldn't get suction and then gradually made the tip smaller and smaller until one day he said he wasn't going to use it anymore because he's a big boy (and it wasn't very satisfying anymore)
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Jose Valasquez posted:We snipped the tip off so that he couldn't get suction and then gradually made the tip smaller and smaller until one day he said he wasn't going to use it anymore because he's a big boy (and it wasn't very satisfying anymore) This is a great idea!
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Nov 3, 2023 02:42
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remigious posted:This is a great idea! Just keep an eye on it and swap them out if it starts to get too worn. Our son started chewing on them around the same time and we ended up going through several pacifiers over the ~month it took to ween him
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Spoggerific posted:My 2 year old has decided she can change her clothes all by herself. My son likes to go through his drawers, take several shirts out (along with throwing out everything else), and wear them on his neck like huge scarf.
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Nov 3, 2023 03:04
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Oh god Sunday is 5am wake up day noooooooo
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GoutPatrol posted:My son likes to go through his drawers, take several shirts out (along with throwing out everything else), and wear them on his neck like huge scarf. Oh good, it's not just our toddler doing that. There's just a permanent scattering of clothes on her floor because as soon as I put things back they're out again. It's not like she'll wear anything other than bluey shirts anyway.
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I've been doing occasional shifts at a daycare after my parental leave ended and gotta say, wrangling eleven 3-year-olds and trying to stop them from hurling themselves down a rocky hill with plastic mopeds has given me new appreciation for being a parent to just one baby.
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nachos posted:Oh god Sunday is 5am wake up day noooooooo 5am, I wish
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Halloween was pretty good here (Australia) - weather was perfect and the sun was still up after 5. We met up with a group of school parents and followed the kids from house to house with beers in hand and the toddlers tagging along with excitement. Only downside was one of my kid's school friends being a jerk, hammering on doors yelling OPEN THE DOOR OPEN THE DOOR, complaining about what people were giving out and then bragging that she got more than anyone else. Her parents had preloaded her up with a massive fishing tackle box that they'd already thrown full packets of lollies in.
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Driving 2 hours on Sunday to attend a wedding, the same day DST hits! My 1.5yr old son is gonna love it! He’s gonna love the same 2 hour drive back even more!
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Academician Nomad posted:5am, I wish Big same
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My wife said something last night about sleeping in this morning(!!!) I practically ran at her to hush her but it was too late, the cursed words were free and the demons heard them. Both kids were up saying insane nonsense before the sun.
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Nov 4, 2023 14:02
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If you run and hide when I ask if you pooped yourself, I immediately stop suspecting you. After all, only someone who hadn't pooped themself would run like wild at the mention of pooping oneself. Otherwise it would be super suspicious!
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"let's have a birthday party at the park. It'll be easier that way" 1) stage a bunch of poo poo for weeks before the party in the house 2) clean the trunk so we can fit everything in the car 3) move the staged poo poo to the trunk 4) drive an hour early to the park to setup 5) haul all the poo poo from the parking lot a quarter mile to the reserved area 6) set everything up 7) everyone arrives 8) actual party  9) throw away half the food 10) pack everything 11) haul it back to the car 12 ) drive home 13) have a party at the house anyways until almost 9pm because everyone wanted to hang out more  Never, ever doing a party at the park again
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Hmm, random fever after this cold was supposed to be over. Oh, why does it look like he has pimples on his chin? sigh we go back to the doctor tomorrow anyway, gently caress
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One silver lining to changing the clock is that when you hear the baby rustling and the toddler coughing at 1:15 and then, after falling back asleep, you wake up again at 1:16, an hour elapsed. Boy does your tracker really not want things to happen between 1 and 2 though.
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Good morning parents! What time were you woken up this morning? I’ll start! 4:35am
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Like 530. He's good about coloring in his room, but he bangs the door like an angry teenager, which woke up his sister (and me). He also insists on turning on the hallway light the minute he's awake. jfc
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Nov 5, 2023 13:41
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6ish for the first? And that was mostly to get help turning off the humidifier in her room because it was loud. She then went back to bed for another 45min.
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Ugh I gotta get humidifiers set up. 6am literally screaming with hunger. Gee kid wonder if you should've eaten more at dinner.
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1am, 4 am, 5 am, 6am, but that's not the kid's fault. Our dog has been a turbo rear end in a top hat lately barking at who the hell knows what. Kiddo was still sleeping when I got her up at 9am.
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GoutPatrol posted:Hmm, random fever after this cold was supposed to be over. Why would you go to the doctor over HFM?  Just give them something for the fever and let them rest. Hippie Hedgehog fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Nov 5, 2023 |
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