s/o husbands..

ashonkwiler09

Does anyone here have a husband as clueless as mine? I love the man to death. He's an amazing dad but he asks me the same things over and over again. 7 months later and he still doesn't know where to find things in Brady's dresser. Where is his powder.....burp bloths....blankets......really?!?! Umm the same place they have been the last 7 months.

LVBlvd

Ha!  Sometimes my husband is the way I describe him below.  Mr. know it all.  And sometimes, he is clueless.

The other day, he said,"I need a pacifier for Braley.  Where are the pacifiers?"  

Me:  "In the pacifier bin."

DH:  "Oh." 

cjsbdl

Yep. I hate to tell you but it doesn't get any better.

LCB34

Alex never learned how to swaddle Kate.  I showed him a million times but he still never understood how to do it.  Really, Alex?

He also still does not know that the ruffles go out on her diapers to avoid leaks.  I have lost count on how many times I have reminded him of that.

ALY1981

I came home from work to a 4 month old baby shoved into a newborn onesie. I seriously don't know how he even got the thing to snap shut! Henry was happy as a clam but looked like he was about to burst!

naflmj

DH will still substitute a bottle for a meal for DS if I don't leave everything written down and then will ask when we are getting rid of the bottles...hello, you are the one who gives them to him! I have told him numerous times that this isn't healthy but he is clueless. And as to finding G's things, forget it! We are going on 17 months and I think he's more clueless than day 1 about this simple things.  

fallbride110406

15.5 months in, the man still doesn't know where half their stuff belongs.  He also has no concept of how to put a meal together for them unless I lay everything out in the correct portions.  Doesn't matter how many times I say "fruit, veggie, protein", if he can't get ahold of me and I'm gone, my kids eat a frozen blueberry waffle, some goldfish and maybe a banana if its completely yellow with absolutely no brown.  

Because brown means they're "weird looking and bad" because he doesn't eat bananas.  Oy. 

ela81

My dh is great with dd, he can watch her all day no problem, he know how to do everything....mind you he does not get anything done at all done but, Izzy is happy. That said my DH does not have any idea where any of her things are in her room. He just learned where I keep her towels....they have always been in the same place no matter where we have lived they have always been in the SAME place. If I forget a towel and yell for him to get one he until recently would say, "where do you hide them". Yes, you're right, I hide them, I've been hiding them for the past 2 1/2 years!

crystalgirl

I keep baby #2's stuff in the same places where they were for baby #1. DH still has to ask EVERY time where his jammies are, etc. At least he has learned where DS1's things are in his big boy dresser. I think maybe there's a mental block related to baby stuff...?!?

fallbride110406:

15.5 months in, the man still doesn't know where half their stuff belongs.  He also has no concept of how to put a meal together for them unless I lay everything out in the correct portions.  Doesn't matter how many times I say "fruit, veggie, protein", if he can't get ahold of me and I'm gone, my kids eat a frozen blueberry waffle, some goldfish and maybe a banana if its completely yellow with absolutely no brown.  

Because brown means they're "weird looking and bad" because he doesn't eat bananas.  Oy. 

Dude, I won't eat a banana UNLESS it has brown (speckles)! To me they taste green and under-ripe when they're solid yellow. Too funny that he thinks this and doesn't even eat bananas!!

 

amberleeb

My DH thinks I move things nope I just change out the sizes when they are too small the Pj's are in the same place as they have been for 6 months.  At least he knows where the bottles are

LucyPevensie

I went and got a (RARE) mani-pedi this past Saturday at 11:30am.  When I got home around 1pm - I asked DH, "did Jack eat lunch?"  

The (somewhat defensive) response, "Well, I gave him an ice cream sandwich."

Seriously?  An ICE CREAM SANDWICH?  Like - because it's a "sandwich" that meant it was lunch?

It doesn't get better ladies. 

queenbone

Mine has absolutely no visual memory.  Unfortunately it isn't just with baby things, it is with his things too.  Constantly asking have I seen this or that.  Where do we keep this or that. 

And he thinks that his clean clothes are delivered into his drawers by 'laundry fairies'.  That's kind of cute, but also really obnoxious.  Because of that he can never put away his own clothes, or mine or the children's, and he'll leave clean dishes out on the counter because he doesn't know where they go. Really, we've lived together 9 yrs now?

I have begun to not answer him right away when he asks where something is.  He's just using me as a crutch and if he takes a second to think about it he usually can figure it out by himself.

desabean

My husband definitely needs step by step directions for everything.  Garrison is more task oriented than he is.

Temp893722312503334

Mine has no clue where anything is...baby or not. 

He also ALWAYS forgets something when he packs to go out of town.  He just texted me that he forgot to pack underwear.  He was trying to decide what was worse - wear the same underwear as yesterday even though he is currently running in them or buy some new undies and wear them without washing first.  Gross.

It was b/c I was asleep while he packed.

Mouseygail

LucyPevensie:

I went and got a (RARE) mani-pedi this past Saturday at 11:30am.  When I got home around 1pm - I asked DH, "did Jack eat lunch?"  

The (somewhat defensive) response, "Well, I gave him an ice cream sandwich."

Seriously?  An ICE CREAM SANDWICH?  Like - because it's a "sandwich" that meant it was lunch?

It doesn't get better ladies. 

  HA!!!!!!!!!  love it!

Mrs.LisaP

YES!

about a month ago I was at a girls night out with friends, and DH had to put the baby to sleep (something I always do) i told him to put her down at 7:30. He then called me at 8:30 and asked what time she needed to go to bed- um HELLO an hour ago! Then he said 'so do I just give her a bottle and rock her?' Um HELLLO AGAIN- SHES BEEN OFF THE BOTTLE FOR 6 MONTHS!!! LOL.

Wow.  

 

Dochas

Ugh.  He doesn't know what he eats or when.  He seems to know he naps but cannot build it into our day on the weekends.  The other day he asked me where the watermelon was.  Really?  How many places are there to store cut watermelon?!?

Dochas

Mrs.LisaP:

YES!

about a month ago I was at a girls night out with friends, and DH had to put the baby to sleep (something I always do) i told him to put her down at 7:30. He then called me at 8:30 and asked what time she needed to go to bed- um HELLO an hour ago! Then he said 'so do I just give her a bottle and rock her?' Um HELLLO AGAIN- SHES BEEN OFF THE BOTTLE FOR 6 MONTHS!!! LOL.

Wow.  

Oh, I think you win.  Does he not notice she disappears every night at 7:30?

The most annoying thing is that if I'm not there he'll figure it out.  But if I'm in the house he asks me EVERYTHING.  I am the complete opposite.  I will waste hours trying to figure something out on my own instead of asking.  An equally bad trait but it comes up a lot less often. lol

 

Mouseygail

Dochas:

 Does he not notice she disappears every night at 7:30?

    HAAAAAAAA!!

Smudges*Mom

When my DH came home from Iraq (when LO was 9 months old), I hoped he would take over washing & assembling the bottles (each one had 7 pieces). After a week or two of doing bottles, DH complained. I was SO peeved. I did the math, I had done something like 1200 bottles and he'd done something 60. My head nearly exploded. Now, he still does not put sippy cups together when he unloads the dishwasher, he leaves them on the counter for me to deal with--when he unloads it. Thanks.