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It’s going to be great when the bottles go away and we get the upper rack of our dishwasher back.
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Nov 30, 2023 03:19
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Democratic Pirate posted:It’s going to be great when the bottles go away and we get the upper rack of our dishwasher back. And the monkey paw curls
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Nov 30, 2023 03:30
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Democratic Pirate posted:It’s going to be great when the bottles go away and we get the upper rack of our dishwasher back. Hand washing bottles that then get sanitized in a microwave was my hell for about a year, now I just have to figure out adding baby plates into the dishwasher. None of the sippy cups are dishwasher safe, so those are hand wash.
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Nov 30, 2023 15:03
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Renegret posted:And the monkey paw curls My dishwasher is actually easier to load today. Because my oldest isn’t eating after woking up with a fever and signs of strep throat, yippee!
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Nov 30, 2023 16:27
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harperdc posted:Hand washing bottles that then get sanitized in a microwave was my hell for about a year, now I just have to figure out adding baby plates into the dishwasher. None of the sippy cups are dishwasher safe, so those are hand wash. We got one of them fancy sanitizer/drying machines that we still use in the cup stage. Served us well. Also the formula mixer. Don’t think we needed em at first, glad we ended up getting them.
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Nov 30, 2023 16:36
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I'm so happy everything that I hand wash is big enough for a sponge now. I disliked the Dr. Brown's for that alone.
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Nov 30, 2023 16:43
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If you're cleaning the dr browns stem pieces you should get something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Munchkin-Bottle-Cleaning-Brush-Piece/dp/B077H46GGB/ Makes cleaning it up way easier. We finally ditched the stem pieces so we just use the dr browns bottles as regular bottles now. The boy doesn't seem to mind so much.
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Nov 30, 2023 17:16
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You know you're a parent when: But also - if you have Bluey in your top spot on your 2023 wrapped there's a special video from Joff Bush, the composer of Bluey, thanking you for listening to the album lmao 
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Nov 30, 2023 17:36
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Yeah, my #2, #3, and #4 songs were all from the Encanto soundtrack.
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Nov 30, 2023 18:04
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Nov 30, 2023 18:13
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We got a special message from Idina Menzel thanking us for liking her music. Jokes on you, that was all from early 2023. Late this year has been Tangled, Encanto, and the Tarzan soundtrack because daddy controls the bathtime music and Phil Collins went way harder than necessary for that movie.
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Nov 30, 2023 18:29
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I didn't get a message because my top artist wasn't Indina Menzel, it was Kristin Bell!
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Nov 30, 2023 18:36
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My wife and my apple music wrap-ups are mostly Raffi songs, with mine heavily including Sesame Street and They Might Be Giants for kids as well.
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Nov 30, 2023 18:50
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I was thinking about it the other day and did it really take Disney like 90 years to put two princesses in a movie? That poo poo's had staying power... put two little girls who weren't even born when it came out in the same room, and the first thing they talk about is who's Elsa and who's Anna. Mistaken Frisbee posted:My wife and my apple music wrap-ups are mostly Raffi songs, with mine heavily including Sesame Street and They Might Be Giants for kids as well. My wife played Sinatra's "Fly Me to the Moon" a lot when the baby was a couple months old, so he's her #1 artist for the year. The kid seemed to like it when we'd play with his feet & hands while the song played.
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Nov 30, 2023 18:51
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Technically, The Little Mermaid has 7 princesses 
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Nov 30, 2023 19:02
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External Organs posted:Technically, The Little Mermaid has 7 princesses Name 3 without looking it up.
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Nov 30, 2023 19:05
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Pham Nuwen posted:Name 3 without looking it up. Adina, Aquatta, Arista...uhh, poo poo! Alanna! Adella?
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Nov 30, 2023 19:23
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we've been experimenting with bottles because babb #2 would not latch to the dr brown ones (which is the only thing oldest baby used -- she was a NICU baby and that's what they had). She did latch onto the Philips Avent natural bottle yesterday but didn't get much out of it. We're going to go up a nipple size and see if that fixes it. NICU babb never figured out breastfeeding and that was super frustrating and sad for my wife; babb 2 is a great breastfeeder but we need to get bottles going for when my wife goes back to work after next week and I'm on paternity leave (and when daycare starts)
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Nov 30, 2023 19:37
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Mistaken Frisbee posted:My wife and my apple music wrap-ups are mostly Raffi songs, with mine heavily including Sesame Street and They Might Be Giants for kids as well. This was me in 2022
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Nov 30, 2023 20:12
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Democratic Pirate posted:My dishwasher is actually easier to load today. Nice For us, the top rack became a tangled mess of strangely shaped kiddie straw cups and bowls that made everything worse.
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Nov 30, 2023 23:13
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My six year old is obsessed with The Tain by The Decemberists. An 18 minute epic that he demands whenever he gets to choose a song. That put The Decemberists in my top spot, and I certainly don't mind.
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Dec 1, 2023 02:10
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Hmm yes I wonder about how ‘Minecraft Style’ was my #4 most played song this year. Definitely can’t be related to putting an echo dot in the 6 year old’s room??? 
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Dec 1, 2023 03:14
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Farquar posted:My six year old is obsessed with The Tain by The Decemberists. An 18 minute epic that he demands whenever he gets to choose a song. That put The Decemberists in my top spot, and I certainly don't mind. Nice. Monolord is my top artist because Empress Rising was the 2yo's pick for naptime music for quite a while.
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Dec 1, 2023 03:21
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Somehow this seems about right... 
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Dec 1, 2023 03:30
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I think if you leave a song on loop until you've lost all sense of reality or self it only counts as a single play. Otherwise Old McDonald Had a Farm would be on top of mine
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Dec 1, 2023 03:41
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If that were the case Baby Shark wouldn't have gotten credit for all those billions of YouTube from probably about 100 toddlers.
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Farquar posted:My six year old is obsessed with The Tain by The Decemberists. An 18 minute epic that he demands whenever he gets to choose a song. That put The Decemberists in my top spot, and I certainly don't mind. Hell yeah. We saw them at a festival when my kid was 2 and years later she still talks about the giant whale that ate everyone on stage. My top song was Sweet Little Lie by Nils Frahm, which, you guessed it, is their sleep soundtrack.
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Emily Spinach posted:If that were the case Baby Shark wouldn't have gotten credit for all those billions of YouTube from probably about 100 toddlers. This can always be fixed by swapping to the Leo Moracchioli version, especially if your kid isn't necessarily a heavy metal fan. They turn away pretty fast, or you end up with one that enjoys it. That aside, at (9 this montj): As we give her private lessons for violin (which is working well) + take her to symphonies, her music tastes are all over. Kids concerts (Lori Berkner & orchestral ones) are absolutely major hits. I'd sum it up as classical + anything after the 1950s. Somehow skipping rap, disliking classic rock and yet loving Macklemore, Cake, Van Canto but still puts bluey & totoro music on repeat and loFi often. She's becoming a total art and music lover, even taking her to nutcracker ballet she was in love with the performance. To balance it with her need for tons of physical activity has been harder. It's fun to celebrate all enrichment for kids, they really grow into their own appreciation 
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Dec 1, 2023 11:13
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Farquar posted:My six year old is obsessed with The Tain by The Decemberists. An 18 minute epic that he demands whenever he gets to choose a song. That put The Decemberists in my top spot, and I certainly don't mind. Oh that’s spectacular, what a random yet excellent thing to get obsessed with.
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Dec 1, 2023 13:24
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"Ok just so you know, at school we don't say people are 'a salty little pisser with a cock in their kisser', got it?"
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Dec 1, 2023 13:38
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I made a playlist of kids music and marked it with "exclude from my taste profile" so it wouldn't wreck my suggestions. I think that also prevented it from showing up in the year end wrapped summary.
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Dec 1, 2023 13:41
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OK kinda stupid question because I don't remember: Youngest is 3.5. Been having a quasi regression for potty training, specifically pooping. Day care has demanded he is in pull ups until it's resolved. We got him back to not having accidents with their help by them throwing him on the potty more frequently. That's great. But now they're saying that when he wipes, he doesn't do a very good job. Either forgets to try, which is obviously a problem, or only does a half job of it. And I guess... yeah? He's 3.5? Should he be doing a great job by now or are they expecting too much from him? Oldest is 6 so I honestly don't remember at what point she was mostly capable of wiping on her own, but day care never gave us any grief about it so I don't know if she was doing better or if this teacher just has different expectations.
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External Organs posted:Adina Ah-ah-ah quote:Aquatta Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah quote:Arista Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah quote:...uhh, poo poo! Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah? quote:Alanna! Ah-ah-ah quote:Adella? Ah-ah-ah And then there is the youngest in her musical debut...
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DaveSauce posted:But now they're saying that when he wipes, he doesn't do a very good job. Either forgets to try, which is obviously a problem, or only does a half job of it. 3.5 and "recently" potty-trained seems unreasonable to expect good wiping. Forgetting entirely is another issue, but I wouldn't expect super clean until 4 or 5. Our 5yo still sometimes does a half-rear end job, and we find skidmarks in his underwear.
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Our daycare would absolutely not expect the kid to wipe themselves at that age. My kid is almost 4 and only recently (a month or so) started using potty to poop. Used it maybe a handful of times to poop at the school. The teachers are super supportive and even calculate in the accidents period when transition is happening. Reading these issues with arbitrary rules different childcare providers enforce makes me sad for all the parents affected. There should be some national standards and baselines, especially at the prices they command. I’m, obviously, talking about the US system, and having intimate experience with 2 other nations’ approach as well, the US version sucks big beach balls.
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Speaking of Disney and Frozen in particular: my last weekend was pretty torrid as my wife was away and I had to take both kids to their suite of (separate) activities both days without any help. We did get to kick back and watch Frozen 2 on Saturday evening though. And yet again I was mocked by my 12-year-old for getting emotional.  "Dad, why do you always cry at films?" "I only cry at happy/positive bits - I can't help it, and Disney and Pixar are really good at manipulating your emotions. It might be an animated film but it's great cinema and I get into it." *Unconvinced, as demonstrated by wry mocking expression*She's been transitioning in to cynical teenager mode for a little while now (a whole post in and of itself really - hugs and kisses are now strictly rationed  ), and when there's an emotional bit in a film I can feel her looking over at me to see if I've teared up at all, so she can laugh at me. It kind of amuses me and I don't particularly mind, though. 
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OK good to know I'm not totally crazy. I seem to recall that our oldest was still not getting fully clean well in to 5, but trying to remember what she was like at his age is drat near impossible. Feels like it was forever ago. The teacher has been kinda condescending about it, so we've been racking our brains trying to figure out if we're way behind on this, or if she's just got a different approach/set of expectations to this. She's a fairly new teacher at our day care so I dunno. I wonder if she's used to older kids or something.
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I cherish the few and random times my sixteen year old will hug me or lean their head on my shoulder when we sit next to each other. it's very sweet.
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My son keeps asking if I want to play with him while I'm playing with him and I'm not really sure what to say "I am" doesn't seem to be a satisfactory answer for some reason
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