What made you a weird kid? All kids do weird things and they always make for a funny story. So on this boring Wednesday afternoon, share a story of what weird thing you liked to do as a kid. Or if you have kids already, what makes them weird?
Son: Jackson, 11/02/06, stillborn due to PPROM and IUGR. Over the next ten years we had 9 miscarriages from 8-14 weeks. On May 18, 2016 my daughter, Ridley, was born. We're OADNBC.
When I was a year old my brother and I used to like running around in the freshly tilled garden before my mom started planting anything. Apparently I decided that shoving warm dirt down my diaper was a great idea and fell in love, because my mom would find me out there shoving warm dirt down my diaper/underwear until I was almost 4.
Son: Jackson, 11/02/06, stillborn due to PPROM and IUGR. Over the next ten years we had 9 miscarriages from 8-14 weeks. On May 18, 2016 my daughter, Ridley, was born. We're OADNBC.
I grew up in the mountains and we always played in the woods. One day around 10 years old, one of my best friends (to this day) and I were playing "having a baby" in the woods. Around that time, my sister was pregnant and my friend and I became infatuated with pregnant ladies and babies. I was the nurse and she was sitting on the ground doing lamaze type breathing while I was yelling "puuuush!" Anyway, we had no idea these young, newlywed neighbors were in their driveway across from us listening to the whole "delivery". After my friend had her "baby", they started clapping & one of them yelled "congratulations!" Ohhhh, we were soooo embarrassed. I don't think we ever looked at them again.
hahaha. That is amazing. ha.
Son: Jackson, 11/02/06, stillborn due to PPROM and IUGR. Over the next ten years we had 9 miscarriages from 8-14 weeks. On May 18, 2016 my daughter, Ridley, was born. We're OADNBC.
I used to fall asleep on the toilet. I would prop my legs up on the tub and just take a nap. I also used to make "beds" out of laundry baskets and blankets and then promptly go to sleep in/on them. And I fell asleep behind the recliner one time; my mom couldn't find me and was panicking. I apparently really, really liked nap time when I was little
I have a 17 year old SS who is awesome but does really weird shit sometimes.
Whenever he complains about being too hot, he says he feels it the most in his feet and it drives him crazy. So occasionally, he will disappear and after searching for him in the house, we find him sitting on the back patio with his feet in a bucket of water. He usually just has this look of relief on his face too! He's weird I tell ya!
I sleep with ice packs. I feel for him. I have erythromelalgia and if I get warm it's killer. When my feet get too hot I just can't even function.
Son: Jackson, 11/02/06, stillborn due to PPROM and IUGR. Over the next ten years we had 9 miscarriages from 8-14 weeks. On May 18, 2016 my daughter, Ridley, was born. We're OADNBC.
When I was a kid, I didn't like the feel of wet hair on my shoulders so my hair was always wrapped up in a "Chiquita Banana" woman style wrap as soon as I was out of the tub. This also happened at the beach. A lot.
I also used to organize my stuffed animals in the perfect (memorized) formation around my head before I would go to sleep. I wish my parents had taken a photo of this--there had to have been 30 animals on that bed with me.
I'm a bit obsessive compulsive, I think.
Son 4/27/12, Son 10/15/14, Daughter 9/29/16....Baby #4 due 10/09/19! Apparently we get really bored in January
When I was a kid, I didn't like the feel of wet hair on my shoulders so my hair was always wrapped up in a "Chiquita Banana" woman style wrap as soon as I was out of the tub. This also happened at the beach. A lot.
I also used to organize my stuffed animals in the perfect (memorized) formation around my head before I would go to sleep. I wish my parents had taken a photo of this--there had to have been 30 animals on that bed with me.
I'm a bit obsessive compulsive, I think.
That's impressive!
Son: Jackson, 11/02/06, stillborn due to PPROM and IUGR. Over the next ten years we had 9 miscarriages from 8-14 weeks. On May 18, 2016 my daughter, Ridley, was born. We're OADNBC.
I grew up in the mountains and we always played in the woods. One day around 10 years old, one of my best friends (to this day) and I were playing "having a baby" in the woods. Around that time, my sister was pregnant and my friend and I became infatuated with pregnant ladies and babies. I was the nurse and she was sitting on the ground doing lamaze type breathing while I was yelling "puuuush!" Anyway, we had no idea these young, newlywed neighbors were in their driveway across from us listening to the whole "delivery". After my friend had her "baby", they started clapping & one of them yelled "congratulations!" Ohhhh, we were soooo embarrassed. I don't think we ever looked at them again.
This is the funniest thing I have ever read! Awesome.
Son 4/27/12, Son 10/15/14, Daughter 9/29/16....Baby #4 due 10/09/19! Apparently we get really bored in January
I used to have a horrid speech impediment. There was a KFC commercial that had a chicken doing a funny dance and singing, "Funky funky chickennnnn!"
My brother (who was five years older, mind you) would wait until we were in a big crowd at walmart shopping and be like, "Alli... sing it." I brighten up and start singing at the top of my lungs. And trust me, EVERYONE would turn around to hear me sing, "FUCKIN FUCKIN CHICKENNNNNNN!" and do a chicken dance.
I would get an instant backhand by my mom and everyone would laugh. I never understood why she was the only person that didn't like my singing! :-?
Apparently I liked telling people when I had to poop. Mom told me that one time at a Chinese place, I was standing in the booth, turned toward the people behind us and yelled "MOM! I'VE GOTTA GO POOP!" Right in the guy's ear. Mom said he didn't turn and look, he just simply set his fork down on his plate slowly. And I'd have no reserves about screaming down the hall when I was done pooping "MOM! COME WIPE MY BUTT!"
I was pretty classy.
I used to wrap blankets around my legs and slide across the wooden floor like Ariel. I was a Little Mermaid fanatic as a kid.
Lol... I used to have a rock out in the pasture that was shaped like the one Ariel would get on and sing after saving Eric. Oh yeah, I'd hop up there and renact the whole thing. :-\"
I used to fall asleep on the toilet. I would prop my legs up on the tub and just take a nap. I also used to make "beds" out of laundry baskets and blankets and then promptly go to sleep in/on them. And I fell asleep behind the recliner one time; my mom couldn't find me and was panicking. I apparently really, really liked nap time when I was little
I would sleep in weird places too, but mostly on trips when I wasn't comfortable with my new surroundings. I slept on an empty suitcase for a week and on the same trip, sleep-walked up 2 stories and fell asleep face down and ass-up under my aunt's dining room table (where my parents found me and took LOTS of pictures).
Also, thought that if I used the toilet in the middle of the night that a vampire would come out of the toilet and bite my butt. )
When I was being potty trained I supposedly refused to poop unless I was given a snack. I would stand in the bathroom and throw a tantrum until I was brought one and then proceed to eat it while doing my business. Ew.
When I was in kindergarten, my mom used to let me dress myself (actually, I had four sibling, she didn't have time to care what I was wearing). I used to wear Barbie clothes as bracelets and anklets. And in general, my fashion sense was questional, at best- even for the 80s.
I decided around age 8 or so my name was going to be Maxine and that is all I would respond to. Then one day my friend said "oh, maxi like maxi pad" that ended that rebellion pretty quickly.
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I decided around age 8 or so my name was going to be Maxine and that is all I would respond to. Then one day my friend said "oh, maxi like maxi pad" that ended that rebellion pretty quickly.
haha, My little brother did this! I had completely forgotten about it. He decided his name was going to be Scott. ha. Now I feel the need to remind him of this. lol
Son: Jackson, 11/02/06, stillborn due to PPROM and IUGR. Over the next ten years we had 9 miscarriages from 8-14 weeks. On May 18, 2016 my daughter, Ridley, was born. We're OADNBC.
When I was young (but old enough to know better) I accidentally caught a scene from the movie "Species" when the alien rips the spine out of a woman on the toilet. I irrationally figured that it was only a matter of time before my spine was ripped out while I was going to the bathroom. It took an inappropriate amount of time to stop "speed peeing" to save my spine.
A few of my best friends and I would pretend we were the Spice Girls (I was always Ginger) and we would pretend we were each dating a member of Nsync.
On numerous occasions we would "make out" with them (french kissing air). Get pregnant with their babies - complete with bouncy balls stuffed in our shirts. And fake dump them to date the Backstreet Boys group members instead.
In fifth grade I would spend all my recess time in the library making sure the books were shelved in the proper order. The books were so much more worthy of my attention than my asshat classmates. I was an angry nerd.
In fifth grade I would spend all my recess time in the library making sure the books were shelved in the proper order. The books were so much more worthy of my attention than my asshat classmates. I was an angry nerd.
That's the best kind. :x
Son: Jackson, 11/02/06, stillborn due to PPROM and IUGR. Over the next ten years we had 9 miscarriages from 8-14 weeks. On May 18, 2016 my daughter, Ridley, was born. We're OADNBC.
I collected snails in kindergarten and brought my big fish tank of snails in to show and tell. All the kids thought it was gross and made fun of me and made me cry.
When I was little my mom would take my temperature and I would be furious when she said I was normal. I don't know what I thought normal meant but apparently I was terrified of being "normal"- my mom now says jokingly that I got my wish.
My best friend and I used to act out the fight scene of the lion king with our hands ( pretending they were lions walking around) at the lunch table every day in third grade. We knew every move and every word, and did this probably hundreds of times. We also had animal cracker fights, we would both have aninal crackers packed in our lunch and we would each pick one to "battle" against the other. We would then proceed to smash the crackers into each other and the one that was the least demolished was the champion.
When I was a kid, I didn't like the feel of wet hair on my shoulders so my hair was always wrapped up in a "Chiquita Banana" woman style wrap as soon as I was out of the tub. This also happened at the beach. A lot.
I also used to organize my stuffed To:
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That's impressive!
When I was a kid, I didn't like the feel of wet hair on my shoulders so my hair was always wrapped up in a "Chiquita Banana" woman style wrap as soon as I was out of the tub. This also happened at the beach. A lot.
I also used to organize my stuffed animals in the perfect (memorized) formation around my head before I would go to sleep. I wish my parents had taken a photo of this--there had to have been 30 animals on that bed with me.
I'm a bit obsessive compulsive, I think.
That's impressive!
Gah, it's the truth--I still remember a lot of their names! I am weird.
Son 4/27/12, Son 10/15/14, Daughter 9/29/16....Baby #4 due 10/09/19! Apparently we get really bored in January
My best friends mom babysat me while my mom worked. My babysitter worked nights cleaning the local hospital, so she slept while I kept her daughter company; and my mom paid $1 an hour. Win win. I'm a year older than my friend, so was clearly thought I was in charge. I have so many stories but my favorite was when we had a competition launching ourselves off the swing to see who could land further away. I went first, and flew face first to the ground. I then convinced Alex to reenact, so I could "see how I looked". Her first try wasn't good enough, I convinced her to do it a second time. We're still friends...
baby teeth normally get loose and start falling out about age 5 only mine didn't. i had to go to the dentist and have them pulled 2 - 4 at a time to make room for the other teeth coming in (this went on until about age 10). i kept all my pulled teeth, roots and all, in a little box. one day, when i was 8 or 9, i decided to take all the teeth and glue them, in order, in the mouth of this picture i drew of my own head and give it to my friend's mom as a 'thank-you' for letting me spend the night. at the time i couldn't understand why she wouldn't let me give her the picture but now i realize she was mortified!
baby teeth normally get loose and start falling out about age 5 only mine didn't. i had to go to the dentist and have them pulled 2 - 4 at a time to make room for the other teeth coming in (this went on until about age 10). i kept all my pulled teeth, roots and all, in a little box. one day, when i was 8 or 9, i decided to take all the teeth and glue them, in order, in the mouth of this picture i drew of my own head and give it to my friend's mom as a 'thank-you' for letting me spend the night. at the time i couldn't understand why she wouldn't let me give her the picture but now i realize she was mortified!
That must have been one creepy looking picture. haha
Son: Jackson, 11/02/06, stillborn due to PPROM and IUGR. Over the next ten years we had 9 miscarriages from 8-14 weeks. On May 18, 2016 my daughter, Ridley, was born. We're OADNBC.
i kept the picture for a long time and eventually popped the teeth off and put them back in their box with bits of glue and construction paper still stuck to them. i finally tossed them becuase they got very brittle and started breaking into pieces. don't ask if i still have my wisdom teeth in a box somewhere
A few of my best friends and I would pretend we were the Spice Girls (I was always Ginger) and we would pretend we were each dating a member of Nsync.
On numerous occasions we would "make out" with them (french kissing air). Get pregnant with their babies - complete with bouncy balls stuffed in our shirts. And fake dump them to date the Backstreet Boys group members instead.
Oh man, me and my friends were OBSESSED with the Spice Girls. I was always Baby Spice. I remember we all wanted to go as the Spice Girls for Halloween but our parents wouldn't let us. We were PISSED and begged for days but they wouldn't give in! Looking back they definitely made the right choice, we would have looked like a group of 10 year old strippers.
My mom tells me that I was into 40 year old men when I was between 2 and 3 years old. She said she would take me to the store and she would get these super strange looks from men. Finally she looked down and saw me obnoxiously batting my eyes and blowing kisses at them. Yeah... X)
Around 4th or 5th grade a couple of my friends started getting braces. The rest of us thought they were so cool so we started taking paper clips and bending them to fit around our teeth to make it look like we had braces too. We'd try to make them more realistic by wrapping small pieces of tin foil around them. I'm sure we looked like idiots.
I was completely obsessed with stirrup pants. I had a pair in almost every color of the rainbow.
I was also obsessed with The Monkees. I had about 20 VHS tapes of their shows and every album they ever made. The drummer Mickey Dolenz was my first crush and I had pictures of him all over my room.
In fifth grade I would spend all my recess time in the library making sure the books were shelved in the proper order. The books were so much more worthy of my attention than my asshat classmates. I was an angry nerd.
This was me!
My love for the Dewey Decimal system knows no bounds.
It's probably also the reason why I got fat in 5th grade (skipping recess). Either that or the homemade cow print dresses that my Mom made me.
We had started raising and showing heifers. My nickname was "Beifer." Oh how embarrassing when I look back! I was a heifer.
PG#1 - 3rd cycle BFP. Team Green. HELLP syndrome @ 34 weeks. Later diagnosed with Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, possible link to HELLP.
PG#2 M/C 3/14 - Surprise BFP 2/13. Beta's doubled every 52 hours from 3w5d-5w5d Viable pregnancy scan at 5w5d; 2nd u/s showed 2 days of growth in 7 but a HB of 120 3rd u/s on 3/10/14 had no HB and baby had only grown 7 days over 14 D&C 3/17/14 - complications - DX Retroflexed uterus, multiple tears to cervix
I was obsessed with apple sauce and would put it on foods that now gross me out. Macaroni and cheese with apple sauce. Grilled cheese with apples sauce. Hot dogs with apple sauce.
When I would eat hot dogs (cut up on a plate), I would have a pile of ketchup on one side and a pile of apple sauce on the other. I'd eat the hot dog pieces and dip them into either the ketchup or apple sauce. Then when I was done with the hot dog, I would mix the apple sauce and ketchup together and eat that.
I still eat applesauce with mac and cheese. When I was around 7 I was obsessed with the "olden days" and I had some big dress up skirts and bonnets that I would wear all the time. I also would tie strings to my bike handle bars so I could pretend it was a horse. My mom had a heart attack every time I rode my bike in a skirt and holding onto the string. I did learn how to ride hands free that way though!
Little House on the Prairie was the shit.
PG#1 - 3rd cycle BFP. Team Green. HELLP syndrome @ 34 weeks. Later diagnosed with Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, possible link to HELLP.
PG#2 M/C 3/14 - Surprise BFP 2/13. Beta's doubled every 52 hours from 3w5d-5w5d Viable pregnancy scan at 5w5d; 2nd u/s showed 2 days of growth in 7 but a HB of 120 3rd u/s on 3/10/14 had no HB and baby had only grown 7 days over 14 D&C 3/17/14 - complications - DX Retroflexed uterus, multiple tears to cervix
I was completely obsessed with stirrup pants. I had a pair in almost every color of the rainbow.
I was also obsessed with The Monkees. I had about 20 VHS tapes of their shows and every album they ever made. The drummer Mickey Dolenz was my first crush and I had pictures of him all over my room.
First music album I ever bought was a Monkees record. Love them too!
Oh geez... I can't even remember all their names! I couldn't have been more than 5 yrs old. I do remember dancing around my Grandma's house singing "Hey hey, we're the Monkees...people say we monkey around!"
I had 3 imaginary friends that I would play cards with a lot when I was around 6 or 7. I know I probably looked strange with 4 piles of cards sitting by myself and talking to myself lol. It's even stranger because I had 2 siblings that I could play with lol.
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I also used to organize my stuffed animals in the perfect (memorized) formation around my head before I would go to sleep. I wish my parents had taken a photo of this--there had to have been 30 animals on that bed with me.
I'm a bit obsessive compulsive, I think.
Son 4/27/12, Son 10/15/14, Daughter 9/29/16....Baby #4 due 10/09/19! Apparently we get really bored in January
Son 4/27/12, Son 10/15/14, Daughter 9/29/16....Baby #4 due 10/09/19! Apparently we get really bored in January
I used to have a horrid speech impediment. There was a KFC commercial that had a chicken doing a funny dance and singing, "Funky funky chickennnnn!"
My brother (who was five years older, mind you) would wait until we were in a big crowd at walmart shopping and be like, "Alli... sing it." I brighten up and start singing at the top of my lungs. And trust me, EVERYONE would turn around to hear me sing, "FUCKIN FUCKIN CHICKENNNNNNN!" and do a chicken dance.
I would get an instant backhand by my mom and everyone would laugh. I never understood why she was the only person that didn't like my singing! :-?
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Soon to be San Diego Mommy!
Also, thought that if I used the toilet in the middle of the night that a vampire would come out of the toilet and bite my butt. )
haha, My little brother did this! I had completely forgotten about it. He decided his name was going to be Scott. ha. Now I feel the need to remind him of this. lol
On numerous occasions we would "make out" with them (french kissing air). Get pregnant with their babies - complete with bouncy balls stuffed in our shirts. And fake dump them to date the Backstreet Boys group members instead.
My Ovulation Chart Simple Link: My Ovulation Chart
BFP #1 Chemical Pregnancy
BFP #2 DS Bennett
BFP #3 Missed Miscarriage 8wks
BFP #4 Miscarriage 6 wks
BFP #5 Due August 10, 2015
My best friend and I used to act out the fight scene of the lion king with our hands ( pretending they were lions walking around) at the lunch table every day in third grade. We knew every move and every word, and did this probably hundreds of times. We also had animal cracker fights, we would both have aninal crackers packed in our lunch and we would each pick one to "battle" against the other. We would then proceed to smash the crackers into each other and the one that was the least demolished was the champion.
Where do kids come up with this shit?
Son 4/27/12, Son 10/15/14, Daughter 9/29/16....Baby #4 due 10/09/19! Apparently we get really bored in January
baby teeth normally get loose and start falling out about age 5 only mine didn't. i had to go to the dentist and have them pulled 2 - 4 at a time to make room for the other teeth coming in (this went on until about age 10). i kept all my pulled teeth, roots and all, in a little box. one day, when i was 8 or 9, i decided to take all the teeth and glue them, in order, in the mouth of this picture i drew of my own head and give it to my friend's mom as a 'thank-you' for letting me spend the night. at the time i couldn't understand why she wouldn't let me give her the picture but now i realize she was mortified!
i kept the picture for a long time and eventually popped the teeth off and put them back in their box with bits of glue and construction paper still stuck to them. i finally tossed them becuase they got very brittle and started breaking into pieces. don't ask if i still have my wisdom teeth in a box somewhere
DS2 8/21/12
DD 9/26/14
Baby #4 edd 2/11/19
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DS2 8/21/12
DD 9/26/14
Baby #4 edd 2/11/19
My love for the Dewey Decimal system knows no bounds.
It's probably also the reason why I got fat in 5th grade (skipping recess). Either that or the homemade cow print dresses that my Mom made me.
We had started raising and showing heifers. My nickname was "Beifer." Oh how embarrassing when I look back! I was a heifer.
PG#1 - 3rd cycle BFP. Team Green. HELLP syndrome @ 34 weeks.
Later diagnosed with Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, possible link to HELLP.
PG#2 M/C 3/14 - Surprise BFP 2/13. Beta's doubled every 52 hours from 3w5d-5w5d
Viable pregnancy scan at 5w5d; 2nd u/s showed 2 days of growth in 7 but a HB of 120
3rd u/s on 3/10/14 had no HB and baby had only grown 7 days over 14
D&C 3/17/14 - complications - DX Retroflexed uterus, multiple tears to cervix
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Little House on the Prairie was the shit.
PG#1 - 3rd cycle BFP. Team Green. HELLP syndrome @ 34 weeks.
Later diagnosed with Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, possible link to HELLP.
PG#2 M/C 3/14 - Surprise BFP 2/13. Beta's doubled every 52 hours from 3w5d-5w5d
Viable pregnancy scan at 5w5d; 2nd u/s showed 2 days of growth in 7 but a HB of 120
3rd u/s on 3/10/14 had no HB and baby had only grown 7 days over 14
D&C 3/17/14 - complications - DX Retroflexed uterus, multiple tears to cervix
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DS: 10-9-14
MC: 9-4-16
DS: 10-9-14
MC: 9-4-16