ILX Parenting 5: I'm a big kid now

aw that is so great. neil young is nice to sing, though my daughter requests powderfinger a lot which seems like a weird song to sing to a kid. i think she imagines some dude with powdered sugar for fingers.
awful day as parent for me today. wife is sick, sylvie having fits every five seconds. totally snapped at her while making dinner. feeling like a jerk!

omg she loves powderfinger <3

Well the other day K was on her playmat and I pulled up a chair and my guitar and did the opening bars of "In Dreams" by Roy Orbison, and she went from zero to screaming in 5 seconds.

Note to dad: stick to pete seeger animal songs

Awww bad day over soon, new day approaching.

I was like "wait, how have you already seen Blue Velvet?"

HA!

Aww Jacob when we found out our second child was going to be a boy I started looking into the differences in girl and boy babies. Boys are interested in movement and groups as a whole whereas the big thing for girls is making a individual connection usually through eye contact. So you hit on something there for sure

Also the fastest way we found to get Henry to stop crying and start laughing was for PP to grab his guitar and start singing. Later on it was hulahooping!

Okay, sunny. Let's use our public voice.

i used to sing "ignition (remix)" to L to get him to sleep, it can actually be a very effective lullaby

i sang the clean version obviously

I'm kinda worried at what my kids are gonna think when they realize all the songs I've been singing around the house for years, in my own cleaned-up versions, often nursery-rhymed out, are in their original forms totally explicit.

But loads of Nursery rhymes are about either prostitution or plagues, etc.

It's probably ridiculous to buy a seventy dollar dress for a infant right?
http://www.katequinnorganics.com/brands/plum-bunny/quilted-sacque-sweater-natural/

Unless you are independently wealthy, yes.

Yes, and I will tell you why in one word: leakage.

Even that aside (you can always put some kind of diaper-covering underwear underneath), I find that even high-end-looking baby outfits can often be had for $30 (Remember it's a tiny amount of fabric and sewing compared to an adult garment), and also that they grow out of things much faster than the sizes suggest (our admittedly large three month old is wearing 9 month size). We have beautiful gift items that she either never had the chance to wear or wore once.

I didn't think about leakage, which using cloth, happens more than not. There are lots of other cool cloths on that same site for less, in the 25 to 50 range, which seems reasonable to me.

The stuff on that site is really nice. Will keep it in mind for gifts. Strictly rags for my daughter though.

not a sack, a "sacque"!

(french for sack is "sac", non??)

you could conceivably justify by saying child #2 will also use it. also with a sleep-sack like that it may even last a whole year, or longer

still

Trying to get every newborn outfit we were given on August before she outgrows them. I am really sentimental and appreciative of all her outfits and have them all organized by size. Would like her to be able t wear everything she was given if not at least photographed in it.

"Whoa!" on the 2nd child talk....

Tera is the voice of reason is our house ; )

lol yeah sorry but you know... when you're like "hmm what should we so with these clothes" the question arrives abruptly

how's it going, Hurting?

so it's been about 25 years since i saw as much sesame street as i'm seeing these days. elmo's world is an abomination. and i hate how they're constantly prepping you for it. ("elmo's world is coming right up!" "soon it's time for elmo's world!" "what happens now? elmo's world!")

lol, ok elmo's world, u win today. they just had a groucho marx puppet show up

http://images.wikia.com/puppet/images/e/ed/Groucho_Marx_Muppet.jpg

I saw the Sesame Street or Electric Company DVD set and there was a disclaimer shown on the screen that said the DVD set was not intended for children. They showed kids playing at a construction site in the 70's and a group of 8-12 year old boys and girls skateboarding in the city. There was a little boy using sharp tools to build himself a raft.

I want our little girl to watch the same shows I did, together with whatever is new out there, sans Sponge Bob: Sesame Street, Electric Company, Carrascolendas, Villa Alegre, Banana Splits, The Monkees, Mr Rogers (it's how I was first introduced to jazz), Captain Kangaroo, Rocky and Bullwinkle (how I discovered Beatniks at a young age) and Zoom! Wonder what is available on DVD, hopefully score some bootlegs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7gzHLKT5g4

Had a crush on Joe who is now a child psychologist or something in Boston.

Old PBS children's shows needs it's own thread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwI15oEwA_A&feature=related

thread for children shows in general. i also like putting on Phineas and Ferb for D (found out about its excellence from this new yorker article: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2012/02/13/120213crte_television_nussbaum

That would be cool!

Enjoyed reading the article. How could I forget Sid and Marty Kroft shows?! Need to check out Phineas and Ferb. I haven't watched any Disney films since Escape from Witch Mountain and Bambi. I did watch the three Toy Story's but that was it. I am completely out of touch with what is out there for kids. Would like to see the new Disney film about a baby monkey.

tera, monkees tv series is on DVD, my wife has both seasons
god bless rhino records

my kids LOVE Phineas & Ferb---we only got cable recently & this is p much the only thing (aside from sports) that they care about. I dig watching it too! p creative show.

parenting triumph this long weekend: we put the baby to sleep for the night in an unfamiliar pack n play (the one in my parent's house) and then took her out 4 hours later, took her home, put her back to bed in our apartment, and she went straight to sleep both times.

We found a little trick tonight ourselves, although we'll see if it lasts -- leave the door open and talk softly instead of closing it and trying to be quiet until she falls asleep. I guess she felt lonely in there.

my kids LOVE Phineas & Ferb---we only got cable recently & this is p much the only thing (aside from sports) that they care about. I dig watching it too! p creative show.

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beats loved phineas and ferb for a short time. Problem is still love Phineas and Ferb. Shes all up in Spiderman and My little pony now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoV2adaRBWU

"It's over here!"

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kid has watched too much Phineas & Ferb

I am a strong believer in not making much of an effort to be quiet when babies are sleeping. It's a living, working household which is going to make noise and they are going to have deal with that or else everyone will be driven crazy. I have a not insignificant number of friends who go wildly out of their way to quieten everything in a three-block radius, like if I come over they'll LEAP to the door and open it quietly, beckoning me through like we're commandos or something. I mean, fair enough if the baby has JUST been put down and is not asleep yet or something but sometimes that is the general attitude at all times around sleeping babies and I just don't know how anybody could live like that. I mean when else am I going to do my vacuuming??

leave the door open and talk softly instead of closing it and trying to be quiet until she falls asleep. I guess she felt lonely in there.

Oh my god, if that makes a difference we are all going to kick ourselves. I'm so glad you guys got a nice of peace!! I hope you did something really fun with all that free time, like sleep.

Amber would wake in the night, eventually we realised it was a hunger thing, so fed her more before bed.

Alice would be asleep in arms, but would jump up immediately on contact with the cot. So, we put her on the spare (normal) bed with the cot alongside to prevent falling. And that was alright.

Milestone day, August started smiling, intentionally! Those were the nicest, sweetest, most beautiful smiles EVER!

yeah those are great, and they only get better. Today I got K to repeatedly laugh at my hammy eyebrow raises

I am a strong believer in not making much of an effort to be quiet when babies are sleeping. It's a living, working household which is going to make noise and they are going to have deal with that or else everyone will be driven crazy.

this is so true. babies sleep through wars in other countries.

gotta say that anything before "stranger anxiety" makes my life a lot easier

fwiw that philosophy underwrote a friends attitudes towards ppl crashing on the couch (invited, planned, or otherwise): ppl live here, baby/drunk guy, fuxking deal with it

Do you guys know if or when infants registers that a kiss is a sign of affection?

I think that it would probably be pretty early on! Especially when it's in conjunction with comforting sights/sounds/smells.

"Oh my god, if that makes a difference we are all going to kick ourselves."

I can tell you it did not make much of a difference when we tried it (although it did work smashingly the FIRST team leading us to think we had made a great breakthrough haha.)