ILX Parenting 5: I'm a big kid now

we just got a new kitchen table, and the corners are EXACTLY head-height for boy 2. he has totally CREAMED his head like four times on them, so i went and bought "corner cushions", for time in my life, installed them, he has not hit his head on them since, the cushions then fell off, probably because the heat melted the shitty adhesive they come with; he still hasn't hit his head since.

haha. i thought about getting those but decided against it. our only baby proofing right now are locks on the fridge and pantry so Henry doesn't eat all of the food in one shot and those door handle covers for all doors that lead outside because this boy just goes roaming out of the house and into the street. and by 'roaming' i mean he WAITS until pp and I are distracted then makes his escape.

We have this kind of padded "sash" for our very hard and sharp-edged coffee table. It's black just like the table, so it kind of makes it look like a claes oldenburg.

oh yeah, also a lock on the oven and covers over the gas knobs on the stove. danger boy.

kids dug the feta nachos roll

I've got to say I'm jealous of you parents with broad paletted children. All our kids want is pepperoni pizza, cheese sandwiches and hot dogs. They like all kinds of fruit but, with that exception, offering anything else is a highly frustrating and ultimately futile effort.

Not strictly parenting here, but Euler you better have some explanation about how something can be botha nacho and a roll.

that's nacho business

sunny otm. My kids are lame with pickiness, but I was horribly picky as a kid too, so I suppose this is my punishment.

Sunny, it's a struggle, but some kids don't start eating foods until way later. Or some give up on more adventurous things they USED to eat. My little girl used to eat everything, but especially broccoli. We went though about four months where we were just like "thank you lord". But then she got real stubborn and for thee most part just subsists on chocolate milk.

I recently got back in touch with an old babysitter of mine via facebook and she remembered my precise diet from 30 years ago because it was so fickle and limited.

that's nacho business

― Cap'n Conserv-a-pedia (Hurting 2), Friday, July 19, 2013 4:12 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^ Dadz in dis thread

lmao

it will be so great when K is old enough to grimace at lines like that :)

8lbs 8oz delivered at 5:55AM!

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats, mordy! ^_^

good morning, little'n. congrats, mordy.

yayyyyyyyyyyy mordybaby!

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so awesome

congratulations

Whoohoo!

Well done!

awww mordy congrats <3!!!!

evie is three today. we gave her most of her presents but we're saving the balance bike for after work. and we made pink rice krispie treats to take to school.

Three!!! Happy Birthday, Evie! Pls mail pink rice krispie treat asap.

congratulations mordy!

that's nacho business

― Cap'n Conserv-a-pedia (Hurting 2), Friday, July 19, 2013 4:12 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^ Dadz in dis thread

― pplains, Friday, July 19, 2013 9:26 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

― THAT'S MY NAME, DON'T WEAR IT OUT! (m bison), Friday, July 19, 2013 9:27 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it will be so great when K is old enough to grimace at lines like that :)

― Cap'n Conserv-a-pedia (Hurting 2), Friday, July 19, 2013 9:54 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

loooool one of the many reasons i want to have a daughter next. can't wait to be a super-embarrassing buffoon in front of her and her teenage friends.

ok so approaching the 2 week to due date mark gave me my first semi panic attack today

man, so I went to the gym this morning and didn't do the normal morning routine with K, and, perhaps worst of all, I forgot to say "bye-bye" as I walked out the door. K was PISSED at me when I came back, just would not even look at me. :(

also, last night I accidentally squeezed diaper cream all over my hand while changing K and inadvertently said "shit" under my breath. The scary thing, dear reader, is that she did not repeat "shit," but rather started gleefully exclaiming "fuck! fuck!" which means that she (1) has heard me curse before, and (2) gets that "fuck" is somehow conceptually connected to "shit". In other words, I am a terrible parent.

i have really got to do a better job of not swearing around my baby

K also noticed that I have a "tsee-tsee" (breast) when I was walking around shirtless. Gender innocence or sign that I need to hit the gym more?

life's too short for gyms, u show them tsee-tsee's off

body positivity yo. work it

I should have said "No no, PEC! PEC!"

yea i have to work on the swearing around J thing, too. my wife are pretty liberal about swearing but i'm really worried it's going to come out when J becomes a toddler. yesterday morning i picked him up from the crib and walked into the kitchen to see tupperwares of all the indian food we spent two hours cooking that we forgot to put in the fridge, and i look at the food and yell "FUCKER! FUCKING BULLSHIT!" and J just seemed real quiet, obviously he hears it and knows that daddy's angry

I watched my youngest kid type "fuck" into Scribblenauts the other day & was kinda puzzled about how, or even whether, she knew that word

Just fucking pwned a goddamn car seat installation, feeling pretty good abt things atm.

Also yeah not swearing around the kid is going to be haha tough for k and i

Stroller construction/learning to collapse it otoh was a total fucking nightmare

huh, what stroller?

Chicco something something babyhover strollaround 2000. Lets be fair, it is more my fault than the strollers.

Oh god, for a while after our girl was born, I still didn't get how to collapse the stroller. If my wife wasn't around, I just shoved the whole thing into my trunk and tied it down with bungee cords.

fwiw I had no trouble with stroller but a lot of trouble with the car seat

every one is designed just differently enough to make it completely fucking impossible to use any prior learnings

I'm the worst at controlling my language around the kiddos but its been 6 years now and Ive never heard it repeated back.

I am already having a hard time stopping it and promised myself I'd have it under control once she turned a year. Pushed it to 18 months. I would love to stop, I feel I really cuss too much, I am even starting to feel it is "unlady-like". Noticed a lot of my girlfriends outside of my closest three do not cuss, ever...very positive and holistic of them and seems to match their clean living regimen. Ahhh to get there....

We have this one very "wholesome" friend couple who has two kids, and I mistakenly thought their four year old said something was "stupid" and they shot me this look like how could I even imagine their four year old would say such a bad word.

August copies all I do, I can teach her dances because she really copies me so well. She is still babbling with a few words that come through like "baks" for books, eyes, baby, this...I really don't want her to be a potty mouthed kid. My dad cussed up a storm in English and Spanish when we were growing up but it wasn't until age 12 that I used anything I heard. After that, no stopping me.