ILX Parenting 5: I'm a big kid now

ah Dan that must be terrifying. thinking good thoughts for you + mrs p

Kid illness sucks soooo hard, especially when one of your kids is making breathing sounds that are reminiscent of a cat fucking up some wax paper.

On the plus side, one of our ER doctors was former ilxor marianna lcl, which was awesome and unexpected.

(Both boys are home and breathing well after some home hits off our spanking new nebulizer btw)

Oh bummer. Sorry you had a trip to the ER. We went through a phase where we ended up going there a few times.

Oh that's so scary. I'm glad they are okay.

Ivy's got some major congestion today (no fever). Apparently she had a little nose bleed from it last night and she was too stuffy to eat today. No amount of saline and Nosefrida-ing could remedy it so we spent about 15 minutes in the latch, pull off, breathe and cry, latch cycle of congested breast feeding which was not fun for anybody. Although she's napping on my lap now and appears to be breathing freely through her nose so maybe we're past the worst of it.

Time to scrub up the humidifier.

I'm the one with the cold in our house. Hope if F gets it, it'll be after I've recovered a bit because dealing with a healthy baby is enough effort for me at the moment. Hope all your babbies feel better soon .

btw we have spent something like 13 hours in the ER over the past two days FUN

My 4 year old came home from school yesterday asking me to download Minecraft.

On the plus side, one of our ER doctors was former ilxor marianna lcl, which was awesome and unexpected.

how on earth did you even figure this out?!

The "FUCK WASHING A HAT" onesies probably gave it away.

lol

haaaa

During the whole visit she was super friendly and we both felt kind of a weird ease; on my end it was a subconscious "I feel like we've interacted before" that I didn't even notice until after the reveal and on her end she was thinking "I feel like I know him, why would I know him?" Near the end of the visit I started singing to on of the boys to calm him down and after she heard me, something clicked and she ran back in the room and asked "are you the DP from ILX?????????" and re-introduced herself and I boggled.

tiny, tiny world

That's crazy. I love that she figured out it was you by the singing.

woah

please print "Fuck Washing a Hat" onesies, will pre-order

I sat my kid down recently and had a heart-to-heart with him about the life cycle of hats, as his prized Domo flatbrim got to looking a little too sweatstained around the edges. I didn't tell him "fuck washing a hat" outright but it informed the spirit of the convo.

http://images.cpcache.com/merchandise/362_460x460_Front_Color-SkyBlue.png?region=%7B%22name%22:%22FrontCenter%22,%22width%22:5,%22height%22:1,%22alignment%22:%22TopCenter%22,%22template%22:%7B%22id%22:84803831,%22params%22:%7B%22yourtexthere%22:%22Fuck%20Washing%20a%20Hat%22%7D%7D%7D

lol

The class hamster is crashing at our place

So I think I posted before about how K is physically behind, has low muscle tone, and gets some light physical therapy. She's 2 and 8 months now and seems to have had a breakthrough. I got home tonight and she was at the playground with her mom -- she actually asked to go, which she never does, and when I got there she was running around like a fireball, climbing, jumping, and even hanging/swinging from bars. Totally confident going up to the tall slide and going down herself too. And completely happy. I'm always extra concerned about that stuff because I had a tough time physically as a little kid, so it made me really happy to see.

Good news!

That's great! Go K!

K called our doorman tonight (apparently the intercom phone is live if you pick it up, didn't realize) and asked if he wanted to come to sesame street

omg <3

K is winning at awesome right now.

Oh man! lol

So adorable!

<3

Hooray to growing independence, boo to this whole "when i get frustrated i smack myself over and over in the head" deal.

"C'mon dad, can't a guy just tear the cable jack out of the wall in peace" *smack smack scream smack*

Oh good it's not just our son. Also he's started hitting us now. We have taught him that we use nice hands.

Ivy is into hitting and eye-gouging. I've found myself using one of my mom's old standby phrases a lot: People are not for hitting. People are for loving.

also virginia

According to the infallible Internet it's super common, particularly in boy children. So another reason that dudes suck, basically

At this rate due to his advanced size and violent tendencies, I am v concerned my son will grow up to play sports.

My kid shows more proclivity towards sports than I ever did. He's often wandering out to the park with a baseball or football, whereas when I was his age it was always bikes and skateboards. We enrolled him in kung fu when he was 4 and that's been the closest thing to an organized sport that he does. However, I could totally see him getting reeled into baseball or lacrosse or something in middle school.

I could deal with baseball or football (though I would greatly prefer skateboarding) but my son getting really into hockey would be my great fear and major test of being a supportive parent

I'm hoping for tennis or basketball since those are two sports I like to watch. Girls ice hockey is very popular around here though so who knows. Or she may end up like me and give up after multiple unsuccessful sports team tryouts and go on to letter in band and drama.

Really whatever she wants except no football because that shit is way too dangerous.

Right now my son is showing a militaristic side (god, I hope it's a phase). He'll say shit that raises my hackles so badly. I'm pressed to come up with any good quotable examples, but you can imagine the kind of horrendous jingoism that can come out of the mouth of a 10 year old.

We live just outside of Annapolis, so there are often midshipmen out on the town in dress whites on the weekends. So if we're walking through Target or Whole Foods and he sees a mid he'll snap to attention and salute them. Also, for a while he would stand up and salute every time this commercial came on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEtZ5r0CIYI

My wife and I have told him to knock it off.

lol

I'm hoping for tennis or basketball since those are two sports I like to watch. Girls ice hockey is very popular around here though so who knows. Or she may end up like me and give up after multiple unsuccessful sports team tryouts and go on to letter in band and drama.

Track also acceptable.

CA: I don't know much about women's football, but I doubt it would be anywhere near as dangerous as men's football since a good amount of the danger is going to come from the higher body mass of boys/men (i.e. greater mass + speed/momentum = harder hits and higher risk of injury). That said, I wouldn't be rushing my daughter into football either. Her chances of being an athlete are probably not high anyway, which is fine, but I guess you never know. She's insanely tall so far, for example, like off-the-charts tall, and if that actually continues she might be basketball material.

Evie asked me the other day if when her dance class is over if she could play football instead.

Yes, track would be great, too. That's super fun to watch. xp

Let's sit our daughters down and make them watch that Frontline episode about brain damage in football.

my son getting really into hockey would be my great fear and major test of being a supportive parent

― joygoat, Wednesday, October 15, 2014 2:53 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol Canada

In the last couple years I've had at least two canadian guys separately find out I'm from upper michigan and immediately ask DO YOU PLAY HOCKEY? They were both trying to get some adult league going and were confused and bummed out when I told them I don't even know how to ice skate.

up here it's just "skating". no need to differentiate from land skating, or the less popular vapor skating.

August's Foofa Halloween costume arrived and she freaked out. So I took her to Savers to see other costumes and she freaked out. Thinking this Halloween might be a bust. I miss the days of dressing my child...I had it for only 18 months, thought it would last five years.

we now have a tentatively walking child. goodbye safety, hopes, dreams, lack of worry