Sorry I missed it yesterday fellas. Little man jumped off the diving board for the first time yesterday.
Sometimes if the little one isn't happy I turn on Baby Einstein on the iPad and let her watch that. She stops crying right away so it's a win/win. For 10 months I have given her the iPad, she hits buttons, I start the video back up. Repeat x500. I just learned about the guided access feature on the iPads and iPhones. Turn on guided access and the iPhone or iPad won't respond to touch. Life just got a million times easier. What the hell have I been doing.
Guided access is awesome. My girl loves nothing more than playing on my phone. She doesn't know the passcode (she's barely 1 yr) so it's awesome when I find her with it giggling while my phone is now locked for 15 minutes
We just had a yard sale last weekend. I had no idea we had so much stuff. Garbage bags full of clothes sorted by age. A full bag of baby shoes. Surprisingly we made like $500 off of stuff that we would have probably just given away. My wife was pretty emotional going through stuff and I admit I was too. That kind of money helped ease the pain.
We went ahead and got this monitor this weekend. Had gift cards to baby r us from a shower so, eh, we will see how it works...
Had to come home early today from working out of town this week. Wife got food poisoning and was throwing up all night and the little cub is sick also. It's like clockwork, I go out of town to work and someone gets sick. I always feel so helpless when that happens. Probably going to have to take both of them to the doctor tomorrow. We're going on vacation next week so I just know it'll be my turn to get sick then and not be able to do anything.
1 hr in to sitting next to my 2 yr old waiting for her to fall asleep. Kid has ninja senses. Every time I think she's asleep and I get up to leave, she wakes up. This sucks
It's amazing how the first couple months you don't sleep for shit- you kind of get used to it, they get on a schedule and you sleep better, but not nearly as good...then they have a bad night, or bad stretch of nights and it's crazy how tired you get
I feel your pain on the sleep. My son will be 3 in September and he has never had any real issues with sleeping. The last week something has changed and he begs us to sleep in his room and when we leave after putting him to bed he immediately gets up and runs out of his room screaming and won't stay in bed unless one of us stays in there until he falls asleep. Unfortunately it doesn't end with that. He wakes up in the middle of the night and runs to our room screaming and opens the door and gets in bed with us. I don't remember him being this bad as a baby. Didn't think we would be regressing at this point since he has always done so well. Hopefully it's a stage he will grow out of quickly.
Gets more fun at least, last night we discovered a new game with our daughter, me and my wife would hurry up and try to stack some blocks about 6 high and she would godzilla slap and kick them down and all around and laugh like it was the greatest thing ever. She had an ear infection and didn't sleep for shit the night before which sucked- but being able to play with them is nice
Sleep gets easier until they can get out of bed on their own Newborn age kinda sucks as a dad cause there isn't much we do besides hold and change them. Once they start crawling it gets more and more fun imo
I know all kids are different but what age is good to start taking kids to movies. We have a 2.5 year old and she will watch movies at home. I just don't know how she would do in the theater.
My wife is bizarrely into reading Jewish/Israeli blogs, especially parenting and family blogs from more conservative Jews. We're not Jewish, and we're also not fundamentalist Christian, so it is pretty inexplicable why she's into it, but whatever. I told her recently that I read on TMB about an Israeli snack food we could use to hopefully condition our kid so that he won't develop a peanut allergy, and she was like "oh yeah, Bamba, I was already going to make sure we got some of that when the baby starts eating solids." So there you go.
We took my son to Planes last year when he was almost 2, and he did really well. I took him out once and we got some popcorn, but I am not sure how much longer he could have lasted. I also have question, when should swim lessons start? My son is almost 3.
We started swim lessons last summer when my son had just turned two, and we signed him up again this year. The instruction progressively changed for his age (last year he was taught to blow bubbles in the water if his mouth got near the water, and this year he was taught to hold his breath).
Daughter was about 1.5 years when she took 6 lessons. Very basic stuff but she was kicking around the pool on vacation with floaties not too long after that. Signing her up again in a few days.
My wife brought our 1 year old to water babbies- and it was all very simple stuff, I think they told her don't really waste any money on classes until they are closer to 3. Lil hippo loves the pool though, so I guess we'll just see how it progresses
My sister is watching my 2 kids today (3 yr old and 2 month old). She was playing outside with 3 yr old and she said lets go inside and get some water I m sweating. He said "why were you watching cops"
2.5 year old is absolutely in love with Space Jam for the last, like, 4 months. Everything is basketball. He signs the songs, knows the lines. When he's not watching the movie, he's playing basketball in our living room. It's fantastic.
Saw this, and immediately thought, "yup, that guy always expects his kid to do the absolutely worst thing possible in all situations, and has become prepared by it."
Find out the sex on Thursday so that is exciting. Since my mom was sad she wouldn't see our kid as much as she wants, they learned about and downloaded Skype last week. Since then, I've turned them down twice to video chat as the last thing I wanted to do after work or hung over this Sunday was video chat with my parents but still makes me feel bad as a son. Anyway, I think my mom is both super excited and sad because she won't the baby as much as likes since she practically raised my sisters first kid.
I live 900 miles from my folks. I just had my first kid this year. My mom has been down three times in 5 months (and is actually staying for the week now). I've never FaceTimed, texted pictures, etc so much in my life. While I love her to death, she's a 68 year old Type A woman with off the charts passive aggressiveness that has been magnified since my son was born. I can't fix the distance between us and the frequency of her visits just because she's sad/unhappy about not seeing my son enough. She's extremely involved with my sister's kids so that just makes it worse with the comments and 'advice'. Yay stupid family stuff.
Pink Eye on Sunday night turned in to a 102.9 temp at daycare on Tuesday. Fortunately(?) it was only a double ear infection. Good bye sleep.
My Daughter did one of those too. Thank you for: "My doggy, and watching Peppa Pig with me." I love it when you: "Cook us dinner" I love you more than: "Mama, a hotel, and my kite." ( ) I think you're funny when: "You watch basketball" I love it when you "Give me my Frozen vitamin in the morning" I love it when you tell me: "A secret" ( I always say "I've got secret to tell you" and then tell her I love her in her ear.)
On the ride home from Branson my son says "Hey dad I'm done with my gatorade, here's the bottle in case you need a spitter." He's 6.
I hate to muddy this thread up with this news but it seemed the most appropriate. As some of you may recall my wife and I had twin boys in December. The smaller of the two didn't make it out of the delivery room. My little man fought hard for 6 longgggg months and was about 2-3 weeks from coming home when he got sick. Pneumonia took my sons life after his long hard fight. Hug your little ones one more time tonight.
thats terrible, so sorry for your loss. I cant even imagine what you are going through. I was going to complain about teething and diaper rash keeping me up last night, but that certainly puts everything into perspective. :(
My heart goes out to you and your wife, osuagr. In more trivial dad news, we just completed the first leg of our flight from Bham to FtLauderdale with our 17mo old. I downloaded two episodes of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse onto my iPad last night and that got us through the one hour flight to Tampa with hardly a peep. I think she actually liked flying. Hammed it up with the people around us and watched her show. Hoping for similar good luck on the short flight to FLL.
We're about to bring the little one on her first flight, 13 months. I'm nervous, but she should be alright. Flying first leg to Atlanta, then few hours down to the keys...will still have her in bed at her normal bed time, so that part should be ok.
Yeah, like I said, I downloaded MMC onto my pad (instead of the cloud--good thing since flight didn't have wifi), brought goldfish snacks, a few pouches, and a water and she did just fine. iPad was definitely key.