ILX Parenting 5: I'm a big kid now

lol that's ridiculous

Shorts?! My teenage cousin wore some long sleeved skiing shirt under his tees, in the Texas heat, because all the kids in his grade were into cold weather fashions.

lol

it's funny when you get to be an adult and it's like "WTF, how did I sweat this stuff so much back then?"

I think that a lot!!!

Because I sweated the hell out of everything. I hope I don't pass that tendency to this kid.

I never did, so I think we're cool.

yr babby is gonna be chill & rad

most of my dad advice to my kids is "this doesn't matter"

lol

Good advice to anyone IMHO.

I'm just going to teach my daughter to knock people out. Once she does it once no one will fuck with her.

Abby grew out of her baby car seats last night while we were out. She literally fit into the seat when we left the house, but after the first stop we couldn't buckle her back in, even on the highest setting. We dropped everything and drove her - not fully strapped in - to Babies R Us and handed over all of our money for new carseats. It's amazing how fast that happens.

HA! That is amazing!!!

House full of sick humans ughhhhh

that's terrible, poor henry :(

unintentional zing? :)

Oh wait the baby isn't named Henry, I will simply lol along with you

Somewhere, some Henry is sick. So is Michael.

my 4m baby is sick :( she has RSV and is on a nebulizer now. thank god, no hospital visit and the dr today said her oxygen levels were nice and high. it's so sad giving her the nebulizer tho - she struggles and cries until she runs out of energy and then falls asleep in my arms. :(

Poor kid. I'm glad things are under control. RSV is the great bugaboo of the NICU.

sorry to hear that mordy :(

Oh no! Feel better, little girl.

thx guys. i was chatting w/ the pharmacist last night and he was saying that they have definitely seen a marked increase of kids who need to use nebulizers. then today i saw this on patch: http://balacynwyd.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/dep-issues-airquality-alert-for-philadelphia-suburbs-balacynwyd -- and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870732/ -- aka thx climate change

feel better, mordy child!

What kind of Xmas/Hannukah presents are you guys getting your kids? Evie has only requested "ballerina stuff" and "princess things" so I'm struggling trying to think of ideas that are more engaging/creative/activity-focused.

duplo, puzzles, one of those little play kitchen sets

d's aunt got her a dora microphone that just constantly sings dora songs <- what fresh hell is this

I don't think we're getting Ivy anything. We just bought her a shit ton of stuff and I'm not working so no extra money and she's two weeks old and doesn't care.

Maybe I'll get her something to celebrate her supposed-to-have-been due date.

It's frustrating bc she has so many toys that she never ever plays with but she'd throw a fit if we got rid of them. And for her bday we got her a balance bike and she refused to ride it and now it's just in our storage room.

you should see our garage. it's like the kid version of the johnny cash "hurt" video.

LOL

I'm thinking of getting Owen a guitar, since he has expressed interest in playing. Ben seems interested in piano, but we already have one, so I need something else for him.Other than that, they want fucking Skylanders everything.

Reading Beeps a bedtime story she brought home from school called "Santa's Snow Cat". Book's about this cat who falls out of Santa's damn sleigh and into New York City. I guess I may have hesitated a little when I got to the part where Santa lands on the World Trade Center and tries to find the damn cat. "What are you looking at, Daddy?" -- all of a sudden, I'm cast in a really awkward scene of a TV movie on Lifetime or somewhere.

May as well have told her, she's going to think it's "funny" like I crack JFK jokes anyway. Can't blame anyone for that, just like no one can really say anything about the inflatable Titanic bouncy slide they have at JumpZone. It's just weird and makes me feel old to have had such intense feelings about something that's just a chapter in a history book.

Beeps said the buildings looked like a video game (it was a nighttime scene.) Book's ©opyright was 2001, so I'm sure it was a big seller for that year's holiday shopping season.

I'm sure this is not breaking news for anybody on this thread, but wow, babies sure do hate the nasal vacuum bulb.

Yup. I'm not convinced one of those has ever actually been successfully used, but maybe I just had an unusually jerky baby.

We moved to a new place and my daughter is afraid of the ceiling fans. She keeps glaring at them and doesn't want to walk under them. I would just take them out, but we've spent a good amount already this year fixing up the place? Should I just wait for her to adjust to them?

she'll get used to them i imagine. that's funny though, J is MESMERIZED by ceiling fans, they are so fascinating to him. though he's really afraid of this tiny little cow that moos when you squeeze it. kids are funny

When she was a little baby, I had a toy that made this noise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5niRvJBELo

and she was totally scared of it. Would start crying if she even saw it after a while. I kinda want to dig that thing up and see if it still has that effect.

btw, nose bulbs take the patience and concentration of a surgeon, but we used them to great effectiveness when our girl was little. You just really want to be careful not to scrape the inside of their nasal passage because jeez, that has to be uncomfortable. The best alternative for me was to just put mouth to nose and inhale. That's not going to get a booger that's really stuck in there though.

We have one of these - http://www.fridababy.com/shop/nosefrida/ - though we have not used it yet. The hospital also gave us a bulb syringe. How and when to use either is a source of some anxiety for me. I supposed it's too much to hope that she'll just never need it...

I always wanted to try the frida! In the first two years or so, we used the bulb a lot. We bought so many Little Noses Stuffy Nose Kits.

You can rinse them out and sterilize them with alcohol, but they do get nasty after a while.

I don't think there was anything K hated more than the nosefrida. Not even the rectal thermometer.

how's life, are you saying you used to suck the boogers out of your child's nose?

haha yea i didn't want to ask

also J is strangely calmed by the rectal thermometer

The nurse told us not to use a rectal thermometer bc Ivy is so small it would be easy to hurt her. We got an ear therm, but her ears are to small, so we got a forehead one and it's great and I take her temp about 500 times a day bc I'm always afraid she's too cold.

<3

Yes, I used to straight up suck boogers out of my kid's nose. It works.

We only used an armpit thermometer. Nurses and doctors would always scoff at us because they are supposedly inaccurate, but it was reliable enough that you could add a degree to the read-out and get the correct temperature.