ILX Parenting 5: I'm a big kid now

the poor guy, he hasn't wanted to take a shit in two days because it hurts too much

I still can't believe strep butt is a thing

Let's lIve in denial, DJP.

one of my singing friends was complaining to me that one of his sons spent so much time picking his ass that he gave himself strep butt, which seemed to raise more questions than I actually wanted answered

lol

i'm just grateful he's been doing toilet training and has been wearing very few diapers, which made me figure there was something else going on than just a typical rash. otherwise i probably would've figured this was a regular diaper rash and continue to slather on butt paste for weeks with no effect

strep ... butt

yea dude it is intense

cephalexin is clearing it up pretty quickly though

Well, you learn something new every day.

Yeah, it's a good thing to know about. I'm sorry the little dude had to deal with it! I'm glad antibiotics are clearing it up.

STREP ASS OMG

who knew?

also i've only been a parent for 2.5 years but the number of times i've had to GIS various types of butt rashes is too many, honestly even once is too much

reading about "Perianal Streptococcal Dermatitis" aka strep butt reveals so many horror stories of misdiagnosis and kids doing regular zinc oxide or antifungal creams to no avail and symptoms persisting for months, so grateful we nailed this right away and our doctor requested a culture

So glad I'd never heard of strep butt until yesterday.

wow @ all of this

butt culture

gah awesome thread u guys

Guess what??? Daycare just called and Ivy fell and busted her mouth. :( but she did that while walking by herself!!! And apparently falling on her face has not deterred her solo walking efforts.

She's been so close for so long and I was afraid she wasn't going to get there before 18 months but she made it, just under the wire! I can't wait to see her tootling around like a little Rory Calhoun.

aw WOW aw

Yesterday I stood J up behind a walker toy and let him walk back and forth across the living room floor. I then called in my mom and my wife so he could show off for them, at which point my wife freaked out and shouted "HE'S NEVER DONE THAT BEFORE"

I was like "what are you talking about, of course he has..." and then realized I had taken every instance of D trying to walk and distributed them across both boys and this really was the first time J had used the walker to move himself around

in summation, I need to pay more attention

Go J! I love seeing little diaper butts waddle around. Off the charts cuteness.

Cuteness ranking:

1. Sleeping baby face
2. Waddling diaper butts
3. Crazy nap hair

I'd put a crawling butt in there too, without a doubt.

In fact, crawling while wearing a onesie is my all-time fave. We're moving out of that phase too - F took six steps at the weekend - and I'm going to miss it sooooooooo much.

Go J! I love seeing little diaper butts waddle around. Off the charts cuteness.

― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, April 28, 2015 2:47 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha otm. we do cloth diapers so J's nighttime diaper needs to be HUGE and bulky as fuck to avoid leaks, it is adorable seeing that bulky butt running around

realized I had taken every instance of D trying to walk and distributed them across both boys and this really was the first time J had used the walker to move himself around

in summation, I need to pay more attention

― DJP, Tuesday, April 28, 2015 2:36 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha i don't even have twins and i do this. while waiting for F's umbilical stump to fall off and heal i kept thinking i also needed to be super gentle playing with my 2.5 year old J's belly too

Crawling butts, too, yes. Baby butts in general are pretty fantastic, crawling, waddling, diapered, nekkid, strep. Okay maybe not that last one.

they're all on the move!

Ours is getting so close to crawling, he can lunge and roll over decent distances and seeing the look of frustration and determination on his face and hearing him grunt in a surly manner while trying to get to a toy on the floor is the best.

yeah mine just wants to stand up and bounce but he can't even sit up yet! My favourite cute thing other than sleeping face is naked baby when you turn him over sideways and his little baby butt is like
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/2lYUKeTWSKg/hqdefault.jpg

I know that sounds weird but I don't see his little butt that often and it's cute

baby butts are cute!!! also the little folds around elbows & knees

It's not weird! I have a coworker with two kids and we often talk about how cute baby butts are.

PODGY WRISTS

y'all are ruining "Baby Got Back"

I rarely see baby butts as leaving it exposed means I'm within five minutes of getting pissed on.

podgy wrists otm i love the wrists

also toilet training years are prime for having toddler butts running around freely

Yeah, I'm not exactly sure when it stopped being cute but I can tell you that today, if my 11 year old runs streaking though the living room for some reason it's a thing of horror.

I'm guessing there's a strong inverse correlation between a child's grasp of spoken language and how adorable it is to see their exposed butt

That makes sense. By that metric, Ivy's at peak butt cuteness - toddling, talking but not too much, not so incontinent that diaperlessness will inevitably result in terrible accidents.

Speaking of talking, that is blowing my mind every day. Ivy has so many words now. She's not always great at applying them (like, she can say "more" and "milk" but if she wants some milk, she just points at her cup and whines/screeches until we figure out what she wants and hand it to her). But she's saying things that I didn't teach her, like suddenly she calls her baby dolls "ba ba" and we thought she was saying "apple" but it turns out she was saying the name of another baby at daycare, Annabel (comes out like "Ahh-bell).

J has started saying "goodgoodgoodgoodgoodgoodgood" over and over and it's super cute

Last night after dinner, he started coughing and said very clearly "Agua!" My wife and I looked at each other, I put some water in a sippy cup and handed it to him and he beamed and started drinking.

D, otoh, mostly shrieks unintelligible things unless he's really upset, at which point he'll yell "DADDY", which is simultaneously adorable and terrifying

That's flattering!

how old are yours now, DJP?

https://instagram.com/p/2CR5rEwZFU/

:D :D :D :D

14 months on Sunday!

So my kid's been sick with diarrhea for a while. Doctors don't really know what's wrong with him. They think he had a virus and his intestines aren't bouncing back quite like they should or something. He's been managing through life but just constantly has the shits. Anyhow, we brought home a collection kit from the doctor's yesterday and we collected a sample. Wife texts me from home just now and somehow they've misplaced it. Just a lonely little diarrhea sample lurking in our house somewhere.

oh no

Just a lonely little diarrhea sample lurking in our house somewhere.

looool

hope you aren't big into cocoa