I've got a blank space baby, and I'll write your SPAM

megaroo64

@riansmommie‌ - do the rules change if the tights have ruffles on the butt? Girl clothes are hard

needanustart

I wonder if the whole rose colored glasses for grandmas is truly how the perceived the time or just blocking the traumatic parts out. Because I can already see myself blocking some of this harder stuff out, so I can only imagine what I will conveniently "forget" in 20 or so years.  

riansmommie

@megaroo64‌ def skip the bloomers if the tights have a ruffle butt, because who doesn't love a ruffle butt

needanustart

So G saw a TMNT toy over the weekend and started asking me questions about it. I had to go to Wikipedia to answer who wore what color, and when I read the premise of the series I realized how effing crazy it sounds. What were the writers thinking?!

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (often shortened to TMNT or Ninja Turtles) are a fictional team of four teenage talking turtles, named after four Renaissance artists, who were trained by their anthropomorphic rat sensei in the art of ninjutsu. From their home in the storm sewers of New York City, they battle petty criminals, evil overlords, mutated animals, and alien invaders while attempting to remain isolated from society.

ETA: maybe not what were they thinking, but what were they smoking?

ASmallWonder

@calikat80 you didn't have brothers, I take it? :-p  I did and I am solid on my TMNT and Ghostbuster knowledge lol

needanustart

ASmallWonder said:

@calikat80 you didn't have brothers, I take it? :-p  I did and I am solid on my TMNT and Ghostbuster knowledge lol

Nope, 3 sisters! My younger sister was very into them, but I just couldn't get orange and blue right between Leonardo and Michaelangelo.

And God knows with my kid you have to answer correctly and consistently or he will question your knowledge for the rest of eternity!

ilovemarfa

@calikat80‌ believe me, your boys probably have nothing on my two. My oldest is so wild. On his first day of pre k his teacher confronted me after class and asked if he had any behavioral problems as he was so distracted. I guess all of the other kids were perfect angels. Needless to say I pulled him out of the school and enrolled him somewhere else and he's doing great there. My parents always tell me that my boys are wild and my mom says that they tire her out after just a few hours of watching them. I've always been told that raising boys is harder when they are younger but much easier when they get older! Don't worry about what your mother in law says.

momofcatan

@megaroo64 I always skipped the bloomers when there were tights. Who wants an extra thing to get back on after a diaper change? Also I always try to have a onesie on under the dress otherwise I feel like the tights are going to pull down the diaper.

GraceInCA

WasNotWas said:

And good job on keeping it rhyming!

I tried! I wanted to do a Sam Smith song, but couldn't think of anything creative

Sam Smith? Oh won't you Spam with me...'cause you're all I need?

I feel shameful posting in a thread that relates to Taylor Swift, unless it's because I'm slagging on her.

WasNotWas

sctiger said:

The more I talk to people with young children the more I realize how difficult A was as a baby. She was not the kind of baby you could just take anywhere. I was so reluctant to leave the house or go to events because of how stressful it would be. She's still very high energy but has mellowed out a bit. One of her daycare teachers said that Miss A is one of their "busier friends."

my mom reminds me all the time of how difficult Bradley was as an infant. Ty was a sweet baby angel in comparison, but I didn't know any better at the time!

bumpuser7846882

Hopefully the last update in the B's ER trip fiasco. The conclusion is that he's SUPER allergic to penicillin-type drugs, so his list of safe antibiotics is seriously limited. He started swelling up again at the ped's office so they gave him more steroid, and he'll be on that for the rest of the week. He also has some gross looking mucous, which made the nurse nervous but we decided to wait until this reaction totally clears up before giving him another antibiotic.

He's been in his crib for almost an hour now, not napping. Now he's making farting noises and laughing.

riansmommie

@vitafelix‌ so sorry that B is allergic to penicillin type meds. I am too and it sucks sometimes. Hope he starts feeling better soon though.

bumpuser7846882

I wish I could've gotten a video of what just happened. He has a doll in his crib, and he was just kissing it and doing a Michael Jackson impersonation (holding it over the railing). Then he threw it overboard.

GraceInCA

calikat80 said:

Thanks @asmallwonder. That honestly got me a little teary. I think the last year with Graham's escape artist tendencies, climbing instincts and general "cleverness" mixed with Lo's clinginess and lack of napping has worn me down emotionally. They keep me hopping and I feel like I am getting a harder deal than some other moms kid wise, and then that makes me feel like it has to be either my kids are way tougher than most kids or I am way weaker than most moms. So either way it feels like it comes from me somehow. I'm guessing everyone has their moments of this feeling, I've just been having a lot of those moments lately.   

I think I mentioned before that I used to think something was wrong with my son. He was just WILD.  Like unrestrained, restless, active during 100% of awake hours, wild. Sometimes I used to take it very personally and I used to think he was being mean.  It doesn't last, I promise. They grow up and mellow out.  Also, looking back I realize I had a decent kid, he was just active.  He didn't do anything malicious but when you're in the tornado, you don't realize it.

He woke up this morning, got showered and dressed, poured himself a bowl of cereal, and sat on the floor playing with his baby sister so I could take a shower. He even shared his food with her, and gave her a sippy cup refill. If you had told me 7 or 8 years ago that this would be my child in the future, I would have called you a liar.

GraceInCA

kari5186 said:

If Isla is pretty consistently tell us she has to poop before it happens, should I start thinking about potty training? Or is this normal and I don't know any better?

That is a sign of readiness. I would do it in a low stress way, see if she's interested.  We kind of passively potty trained my son. We just put the potty out in a common area, and let him go on it when he felt like it, and then rewarded him when he did. It worked much faster than I expected.

needanustart

sctiger said:

WasNotWas said:

sctiger said:

The more I talk to people with young children the more I realize how difficult A was as a baby. She was not the kind of baby you could just take anywhere. I was so reluctant to leave the house or go to events because of how stressful it would be. She's still very high energy but has mellowed out a bit. One of her daycare teachers said that Miss A is one of their "busier friends."

my mom reminds me all the time of how difficult Bradley was as an infant. Ty was a sweet baby angel in comparison, but I didn't know any better at the time!

So there's hope that our second will be super easy?

I went with the "second has to be easier" theory. This did not work out for me. But like I said, I wouldn't change a thing!

nikel13

megaroo64 said:

Ok- moms of girls- can you help me out??? Up until now, Nora has only been wearing the girl equivalent of boy clothes (pants and onsies), or she's been wearing straight up boys clothes. But for Christmas, she is wearing an adorable skirt! So excited. Here's my problem. The skirt comes with one of those diaper covers (side note- are those called bloomers??). But Nora will also be wearing tights. Do you skip the diaper cover if they are wearing tights? Or do you wear it under the tights? Or over? How does that work? Ps- I feel so stupid even asking this! B was way easier to dress!!

I just skip the bloomers.  Too much hassle at diaper change.  The tights do the job, unless the dress is a little on the short side.  We don't do short, so then the bloomers go on.  You can put the bloomers on over the tights if you really want her to wear, but I warn you that the tights and the bloomer are a pain when changing the diaper.

needanustart

WorkinIt said:

What in the world is a bloomer?

Like puffy, baggy undies. Diaper cover-ish.  

nikel13

@Workinit Thanks for the sticking the kid in the diaper bag trick.  I may need that later.  Lily is a bit of a handful.

All of you make me feel better.  I'm pretty sure seeing Lily run about and generally terrorize (she's not mean, but very active and very curious) makes pregnant women regret the decision to have a kid.  I see the look of terror in their eyes.  I love her, but she makes me tired.

nikel13

calikat80 said:

sctiger said:

The more I talk to people with young children the more I realize how difficult A was as a baby. She was not the kind of baby you could just take anywhere. I was so reluctant to leave the house or go to events because of how stressful it would be. She's still very high energy but has mellowed out a bit. One of her daycare teachers said that Miss A is one of their "busier friends."

my mom reminds me all the time of how difficult Bradley was as an infant. Ty was a sweet baby angel in comparison, but I didn't know any better at the time!

So there's hope that our second will be super easy?

I went with the "second has to be easier" theory. This did not work out for me. But like I said, I wouldn't change a thing!

I just told H this the other day.  He asked if I was sure that I wanted another one like Lily.  I said the second one will be calmer.

needanustart

WorkinIt said:

@calikat80‌ I'm not going to be ready for potty training ever!!!!! D will probably train himself and I will have to suck it up!

I was the worst about encouraging potty training. G was poop trained by 2, only because he insisted on it. He didn't like to sit in poop and would tell us he needed to go, or hold it until we could find a potty. I was so lazy though and pregnant that I didn't really do much besides getting a potty seat (on the toilet only. No way I was cleaning a separate bowl out) and I figured he would regress once Lo was born. I remember being a week overdue and him saying he had to go potty at an outdoor festival and I begged him to just go in his diaper. MOTY. And yeah Lo is already showing those same signs. I think it's the cloth diapers and how they feel heavier and wet when they are full.

daffy2k

Man, a lot of words to catch up on after a play date! @vitafelix I really hope your trips to the ER are over and B is on the mend! @megaroo64‌ , I think others have said, but we do bloomers over tights unless the tights are cute (print all the way up the bum or ruffle bum) then I skip the bloomers all together. I do use them all the time in the summer though, unless her cloth diaper matches her dress. Hugs, wine or chocolate to everyone else who needs it! It's only Monday and I don't think I have a hole of keeping up with this thread!

Cricket81

I'm in trouble. I'm trying to teach LO to keep his crayons with the coloring book so that he's not wandering around with them. Today he started trying to sneak away with them behind his back! How can he be sneaky already?!?

Cricket81

In other news, my Latt is finally painted and put together. I like how it turned out. My paint needs a few touch ups, but considering I've had it in pieces in my kitchen for like a month, I just had to get it effing together.

needanustart

Cricket81 said:

I'm in trouble. I'm trying to teach LO to keep his crayons with the coloring book so that he's not wandering around with them. Today he started trying to sneak away with them behind his back! How can he be sneaky already?!?

OMG Lo put his hands behind his back full of crayons today too! He totally knew what he was up to, he gave his little smirk and tried to run away. It was really flipping cute.

WasNotWas

Meeting a work bff for dinner and she's running late, so I'm getting a pedicure, natch

ASmallWonder

Last night DH asked me why a whole bunch of his boxers were in the trash.  Custodial Quinn strikes again!  Later I realized we're missing an entire box of sandwich bags.  I'm going to have to put the barrel on lock down.

ASmallWonder

Some of you DON'T avoid restaurants?  Minus McDs I can probably count on two hands the number of times Aiden has eaten at a restaurant and he's 4.5.  Quinn?  I remember a trip to Friendlys when he was a couple weeks old.  The (young, so young) waitress brought him crayons and asked what he wanted to drink.  I died.

ASmallWonder

CL8badB said:

Meeting a work bff for dinner and she's running late, so I'm getting a pedicure, natch

I read natch as "snatch".... I was confused. Lol

Oddly random but related.  On the Florida's Natural OJ commercial I hate the way the woman pronounces it.  It totally sounds like Florida Snatchurals.

needanustart

I hated eating out from July 5th 2013 until just about 2 months ago. It's still stressful, but we manage it better. It certainly wasn't for lack of practice, we kept trying and refused to be "those people" who would let the kids dictate our entire lifestyle. But it was no fun and I really never get to eat my food.

ilovemarfa

ASmallWonder said:

Some of you DON'T avoid restaurants?  Minus McDs I can probably count on two hands the number of times Aiden has eaten at a restaurant and he's 4.5.  Quinn?  I remember a trip to Friendlys when he was a couple weeks old.  The (young, so young) waitress brought him crayons and asked what he wanted to drink.  I died.

We don't do restaurants unless we go to panera's or another fast food place. Even then it is not an enjoyable experience. Ds1 is almost 4 and eating out with him is still stressful. We did character dining one day at disney this past March and it was a nightmare.

bumpuser7846882

FFMC: We go out to eat at least once/week. It's hardly ever just the 3 of us, though. We either have dinner with ILs or childless friends, so there are enough people to entertain B if he gets antsy and still give me a chance to eat. Honestly, though, he's really cooperative about eating out. 

@Cricket81 - B also tries to sneak around with crayons. Also the plastic knife for cutting his velcro vegetables, which is somewhat creepy. 

GraceInCA

I will make a poll.

We go out to eat about twice a week, sometimes more.  We've done it all. Casual, quasi-casual, fancy.  We have had dinner at Lucille's BBQ, brunch at Trois Mec, and everything in between. We eat out so often that after a few dinners at home, the older kid starts to get antsy and asks when we are eating out again.

needanustart

I think there is a HUGE difference in going out to eat with one kid versus two. We went out all the time with just G. The one on one adult child ratio is what makes it stressful!
I am just a ball of good news for pregnant J13s today!

itsStackie

Anybody have a good chili recipe, or know if I can substitute pinto beans for chili beans?

Tomorrow is going to be Too cold for this Floridian to not have chili ready.

needanustart

@ilovemarfa‌ Panera is our family dinner place too. We just went tonight. There is something for everyone in our family and even if we have to leave abruptly we haven't dropped a fortune! I think that's the part that annoys me- when I feel like I spent a lot of money just to pack up my dinner and feel stressed'

ColieAnn31

Grayson and I both took a really late nap today. He slept from about 3 to 6. I see a late night dance party in our distant future!!!

lioness13

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smpeachey said:

I ordered this dress to go to a friends cocktailish birthday party:

Dress

Can I wear my new boots with it?

Boots

I know generally black dress black shoes, but I have seen a lot of pics lately of black dress with brown boots. I think it fits the vibe I am going for but not sure if this dress and these boots work.

What vibe are you going for? I don't think the styles match. IMO The boots are way too casual for the style of that dress. If you want to mix you would need a sleeker boot with that dress. Here are some black/brown looks that work:

needanustart

G may give me a hard time, but then he will go build something like this "rainbow pattern match staircase" (note the exact color sequence please as I missed it the first 3 times!) and I realize he is going to make a lot of money someday so I better be nice to him so he'll take care of us!

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