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5 Thing Thursday
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Here we go again
1) Has your house gotten messier since the arrival of your LO or do you and your wife still stay on top of the house cleaning?
2) Do you go to your State Fair? Do you think that will change once LO is old enough to enjoy it? At what age do you think they'd really start enjoying themselves there?
3-5 are you
1) Has your house gotten messier since the arrival of your LO or do you and your wife still stay on top of the house cleaning?
2) Do you go to your State Fair? Do you think that will change once LO is old enough to enjoy it? At what age do you think they'd really start enjoying themselves there?
3-5 are you
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Re: 5 Thing Thursday
My wife and I were hardly clean freaks before... we aren't dirty, but sometimes baskets of laundry don't get put away right away, or the mail may collect on the island. Now, the family room (and kitchen since there is no dividing wall) look like Toys R Us threw up in it. Being Jeffrey was the first grandchild on both sides, and obviously our first as well, he got toys... LOTS of toys. It has gotten worse in the past few weeks because a number of the toys that got "retired" prior have come out from retirement for our youngest to play with so we now have toys ranging from 6 months to 3 years everywhere. We clean the toys up, and try to get him to do it too, but they don't stay clean for long. The rest of the house, other than the dining room table, isn't too bad.
2) Do you go to your State Fair? Do you think that will change once LO is old enough to enjoy it? At what age do you think they'd really start enjoying themselves there?
Yes, we go to our State Fair almost every year. As a kid I went for the rides and animals, then it changed for the food and the tradition. Now, Jeffrey at 2 1/2 is really starting to enjoy it. We just went to ours on Sunday and he had an absolute blast. He pet baby cows, llamas, goats and baby pigs. He ate his first corn dog and part of an elephant ear. Then he got to ride the rides. He went on his first little roller coaster... as someone who has ridden the Beast and Gemini, I would have put this little steel coaster up there as one of the roughest rides I've been on, but he did well for the first half. I would imagine he'd enjoy a smoother ride. I think the turns were just too tight and the car too long. He went down the big slide on the burlap sack with me but the he loved the cars and motorcycles that go around in a circle the most because he thought he was driving.
3) My wife's best friend's baby shower is killing her. I'm not the biggest fan of her (the best friend) in the first place (she basically asked me questions in rapid fire like a cop in a TV show when they try to break the person in our first meeting), so I'm really not thrilled with the situation.
4) I'm ready to completely wash my hands of the baseball season and focus on football. To be honest, this is the least amount of baseball I've paid attention to in quite some time. I knew the Cubs weren't going to be pushing for a playoff spot or anything, so it isn't like this season is a surprise, and I'm hearing some of the prospects could be ready by perhaps the All Star Break next year, but I'm ready for Colts football.
5) I think Jeffrey has entered his full on terrible twos. He doesn't want anything, doesn't like anything and the amount of meltdowns have increased. I hope it is a short phase, but I hear 3 is worse than 2.
The nerves are expected. You are leaving your child with what essentially boils down to complete strangers. Call often, talk to the staff during pick up and drop off to build some faith and trust with them on your end. In the end, it gives your little one an opportunity to gain socialization skills with kids their own age, so it benefits them... despite the fact that your child will likely get sick more frequently because of the exposure to other children... but that helps build their immune system. If you are using a state accredited daycare facility versus a home daycare, they have a programs to help your child learn things. Our oldest went to daycare for 1 day a week (still does) and somehow learned the sign language sign for "more" without us even knowing. He now talks about his friends from daycare when not there.
2) Pretty much no one in California does.
3) Chargers Pre-season ToNIIIIIIGht! Of course, the real starters only play what, one series in first pre-season games?
4) In baseball I'm just happy to see the Yankees sucking it up
5) Is it Friday yet?
2) We are about 2 hours from our State Fair and we went last year when he was one. I am more likely to keep taking him to a County Fair that has the horse pulls for him to watch. It is in the same town that my parents live in and they love watching the horse pulls.
3) Got engineering sign-off rights on drawings since our Senior Engineer will be traveling about 3 times a year to India for 2 to 4 weeks at a time.
4) Now my work load went from ridiculous to ludicrous where I really need to be spending roughly 12 hours of actually working to get close to even.
5) MW and I have a goal of paying off all of our student loans within 4 years (if we don't have major home repairs to do) and our cars will be paid off in this same time frame so we can focus on fixing up our almost 100 year old home.