Yeah he did a great job. I usually go to a Great Clips / Super Cuts type place but I think I'll try the place we took the kid out next time. Came recommended by a TMBer of course.
My wife and two kids all picked up hand foot and mouth disease at a birthday party a few weeks back. Kept them all in my room and I slept in my daughters room so I didn’t catch that shit. They get better and I pick up a nasty little head cold and fever so we keep the quarantine going. So my head is all stuffed up at 3am, I’m blowing my nose until I think brain matter might come out. I get up to go use the bathroom. I see flashing lights all around me. “Oh no! I’ve blown my nose so hard I’ve detached a retina!” I thought. Turns out my daughters Disney princess blanket flashes and lights all up when you accidentally touch a crown. Scared the shit out of me.
Got my four year old one of those battery powered riding front end loaders. Bonus that is can also be remote operated, gonna drive it into the living room while he's opening shit. Will wreck him into walls later too
I got my daughter that big princess carriage they've advertised from walmart, got it because its 24v. Should be able to ride it around outside no problem.
I loved Christmas as a kid but I realize not as much as I do now that I see how much my 4 year old daughter does. Merry Christmas to all!
we just got home from the cowboys game with all the brother in laws wife was passed out, so i just got done playing santa all by myself except the stockings, she has nothing but a bag full of shit that she can sort out early in the morning
Built the kid a lego table with Santa’s own two hands, and he’s currently fighting with $8 oversized Avengers action figures. Kids.
Had a shitty situation today. My sister called last night around 1 am asking if she could bring her best friend and her best friend's kids (5 year old twins and 16 month old girl) over to our house for Xmas. No questions asked, if friends or family need a place for Xmas they are always invited. Turns out her husband who is a firefighter left the family just a few days ago. He had a bad call a while back and was performing CPR on a baby and the baby didn't make it. He has suffered from PTSD ever since and then abruptly bailed on the family right before Xmas a few days ago. We immediately said bring them and then last night I started having anxiety because we didn't have any presents for the three kids. On Xmas day we have round 1 in the am with presents from me and my wife and Santa. Then family comes over midday and we do round 2 of presents. Thats what I was picturing in my mind...Round 2 of presents and those 3 kids will be the only ones without gifts (nor a dad) on Xmas. Everything was closed so we couldn't go buy any presents. We decided to turn it into a teaching moment for my kids and asked them to donate presents to the 3 kids coming over. I have 3 girls so getting gifts for girls turned into almost no problem at all. The 5 year old boy on the other hand was very difficult. My son is only 1 so we didn't have much of anything. Luckily I got ambitious and bought my son a cool nerf gun for Xmas, something he would have trouble loading and firing (lets be honest, it was more a gift for dad). I packaged that but it was just one present whereas the other two girls had multiple gifts, but there was nothing we could do, we had nothing else to gift the 5 year old boy. Sure enough when everyone came over and we started opening presents the boy immediately noticed that he only had one present where as everyone else had a pile and even his sisters had multiple presents. He started asking his mom why he only had one and she was trying to talk to him but he started crying. I about died. Xmas is the one day where as a kid you're not supposed to get screwed. I had a backup plan where if things fell through I was going to have him turn on the front yard lights (I have an elaborate setup initiated by Alexa and it includes an inflatable santa helicopter). That distracted him for a brief moment but he soon ran back in crying. I felt shitty all around. My wife and family were telling me not to feel bad because of what I tried to do, but none of that means anything to the kid who doesn't understand why dad is gone and he only got 1 present when all the other kids got a bunch. Just a crappy situation all around.
That’s horrible. Puts things in perspective. My kid ran into a wall and hurt his wrist around 2....was so excited that we finished building his new Lego Coast Guard Rescue Helicopter that he was running to get mommy to see. Tripped as he was entering our room and caught the wall. Might have broken it, going to get an X Ray tomorrow. Got to Christmas an hour late. He seemed fine, played and had fun. Then he threw up all over his grandma right as we were getting ready to leave. My mother in law took it pretty well. #thisisChristmas2017
Props to you lechnerd. 2017 has been the roughest year for me and my wife in our lives. Not between us, just situations that we've had to deal with this year. We can't wait for 2018. It's really put things into perspective of just trying to be happy.
He is still in town. He switched to a desk job with the fire dept. they are trying to get him help, he has been very refractory thus far however.
Our 7mo's head is so big that it's off the curve now in percentile so now we get to make an appointment with a neurologist to see if she has hydrocephalus or something else. Lovely.
Went skiing with boys (ages 5 and 3)in Santa Fe for their first time. This sums up their two personalities.... And
Smart money is on Benign familial macrocephaly or benign external hydrocephalus. Does your family have a history of big heads? Vast majority of these cases are benign and there is nothing to do except monitor. See the specialist, likely get a scan of her head and likely get good news. Wait until there is something to worry about. Good luck.
Yeah my head is kind of big. She had a big head since her first pediatrician appointment, I believe in the 96 percentile. She seems normal, but I'm hoping we didn't give her some head trauma in some way that led to a hemorrhage or something.
just realized that this was probably the last xmas where we (Santa) can get off cheap when it comes to gifts. All these kids got champagne tastes and Mommy and Daddy have Microbrewery wallets.
Only spent $200 on Christmas this year which is unheard of low for me. Two kids. And it went amazingly well. Best Christmas in a long time.
This isn't a new revelation but doing Christmas with your in-laws makes me understand how different peoples Christmas traditions are. My wife's father is passed away and my MIL doesn't have a ton of money but they always had huge Christmas. My MIL bought probably ~20 gifts across my wife, me and my son. Nothing crazy expensive but more money than she should spend on her budget. But again, that is how they have always done Christmas. I came from a more conservative spending family where we spend $50-100 and maybe get 2-3 gifts each. I saw this because we did Christmas at my MIL and my son got 10+ gifts from her and we fly to my parents tonight to do a belated Christmas with my parents tomorrow where they'll probably have a couple gifts for him.
where would one find this blanket? the only thing my 3 yr old likes more than daniel tiger is disney princesses
My daughter is just under 2.5yrs old. She has always been 95-99% head size at her checkups. I don't believe our doc has said anything about it.
Size of the head isn’t as important as much as trend. Those wavy lines on the growth charts represent %iles. When your child crosses two growth curves your pediatrician should investigate the cause. Sometimes the child is finding a new baseline but other times something more sinister is going on and warrants a deeper dive. Again the absolute percentage isn’t nearly as important as the trend.
TMB dads, with young kids using computers, what kind of "parental control software" have you installed? Any recommendations?
We just restrict / monitor use. Meaning they only use the computer when it’s in the view of an adult. My oldest is 9.5 so I assume we are in the early stages and will have to figure out something else soon. There are restrictions you can set at the router level, softwares you can use etc , but to be realistic, once they are a certain age and smart enough, there isn’t much you can do.
I hear you on that. I grew up with not a lot of money and didn't get a ton for Christmas. My wife told my in-laws this when we started dating for the last 12 years they spend way too much on me. I actually had a conversation with my FIL about it after last Christmas but that did no good.
How do you guys handle new years with let's say 4ish old kids? My daughter wants to stay up on Sunday night. I'm not really sold on the idea as Monday she will be a nightmare.
Week 39 check up yesterday. Lil Bishop is in no rush to come out. Most likely going to miss the 1/2/18 due date. Which I am happy about. Would like his birthday pushed back as far away from New Years as possible.
I remember seeing that netflix or some streaming service does a 'kids' nye special that you can stream basically whenever you want the day of
Options? There is just Santa Fe. I had never been to anyplace in New Mexico before, we always skied Colorado growing up. It was a great ski school for them. Super organized and well run. They never made it out of the kid area, but we only skied two days. There were only 10 runs open bc of snow, so the skiing for the adults wasn’t great. However, for the kids, it was perfect.
just searched kids nye on Netflix and there is atleast a dozen different ones gunna have to try some of them out
Fuck fireworks. 21 month old slept right through them, but the 6 week old was tossing and turning all night. Damn I’ve gotten old.
Started on the 30th for me. Then it was non stop last night from 6:30PM to 1:00AM. I hate them and wish bad things on those that set them off.
So wife went back to work today and we had our nanny start. Now I'm sitting at the office wishing I could see what is going on at the house. Is it crazy for me to install "nanny" cameras or just general security cameras?
Santa brought one of these for the 4 year old and its a huge hit had him hauling wood for the fireplace yesterday, it would roll with quite a lot of wood in it
I'm sure some the TMB crowd would love her but she's nothing special. Ended up going the Arlo route and am just starting off with one. My downstairs is set up so that one camera should be able to cover 85%+ of it, that's where the nanny and the baby will be almost anytime she's not napping. Another reason I wanted to get it is the nanny has a 16 month of her own that she is bringing with her. I want to make sure that she is handling the two kids well.