ILX Parenting 5: I'm a big kid now

oh man, that is horrible and I apologize for the snorting laughter I'm stifling in my cubicle

Update from the DJP household: both boys are now eating rice cereal at their evening feeding; J has been at it three days, D two. The one constant between the two of them (on different days, fortunately) was repeated crying while the spoon was not in their mouths, followed by contemplative swallowing and contentment when there was actual food in their mouths. It was this hilarious pattern of "I HATE THIS I HATE THIS I HATE THIS I Mmmmmm mmmmm.... mmmmm mmmmmmmMMM HATE THIS I HATE THIS"

Last night, D was stuck in this loop, partially because he has a tongue thrust and kept pushing the food out of his mouth while trying to swallow it, while J was basically an old pro, sucking down spoonfuls of food and, at one point, stopping me and wiping his mouth off with his bib. Babies are amazing, y'all.

oh man, that is horrible and I apologize for the snorting laughter I'm stifling in my cubicle

^ this except I'm working from home and didn't stifle anything

dying

since i didn't actually contribute anything last week: i got hand, foot and mouth from work. shit is naaaaasty. skin on my hands and feet is peeling off. spent a week sleeping on the couch and avoiding my 3.5 yr old and the 3 month old. neither got it but it feels so good to hold/hug them again.

Where do you work?

I'm glad you're feeling better.

just an office. a coworker had dinner with a friend whose kids had it, but he told her 'adults can't get it.'

DJP: How many months are they now?

Rule of thumb: Adults can pretty much get anything from kids, it's dogs that you can't get anything from.

On Wednesday they will by 6 months!

Awwwww, well on their way!

People keep telling me what a great age six months is, and they're right! The developmental changes that have happened to F recently mean he's doing all kinds of great stuff - turning pages of books at the right place, getting excited about views from windows, laughing at simple jokes - and I keep wanting to burst into tears at the awesomeness of it all. If only he could work out how to roll front-to-back because I'm reeeeeally sick of flipping him over, only for him to roll back onto his tummy seconds later and start struggling like an upside-down turtle. BABIES.

Kids these days!

So tickled for alla y'all. My daughter made dinner tonight, "just wanted to play with my food" so she made chicken cordon bleu. Asked me how to fix a sauce that had broken. Kids, gotta love 'em, full of beans at all ages. (PS Ive had some beer.)

hey y'all I am a grandfather! I guess this is the thread to hang out in for now. 9 lbs 2 oz at birth, she is just over 3 weeks now. we live about 6 hours from the parents (my wife's oldest son & his wife) and they came to visit w/baby last weekend, I got to look deep into her little eyes and hold her while she struggled to poop, it was like a whole body effort. I have experience w/kids from past relationships, but not babies, it's gonna be super cool to see her grow.

Congratulations!!!

As I said in the comments, this was recorded at normal speed.

awesome

Hehe, that's super.

I got to look deep into her little eyes and hold her while she struggled to poop

there is nothing as strange as the deep, intent, searching gaze of an infant attempting to achieve this mt. everest of bodily functions

yea it's amazing. also kind of crazy but J (now almost 2) likes privacy when he poops. he goes into his bedroom behind a chair. we talk about poop a lot and i definitely don't think we are sending any kind of shaming message about poop, but he just wants to be free from distractions i think

I think that's fairly common, no?

yes i think it is? i mean i certainly need privacy. i think it's kind of embedded into humanity - you are vulnerable when you shit so you need to be in a secure spot where you can be without interruption. just crazy to see a 23-month old kid already have that in him

pre-potty training Veronica would totally go in a corner or behind a tree or whatever. Judah, oddly, will only poop at home. Like he will literally hold his shit in until he is inside our house, at which point he will run to the nearest counter/table/shelf, grab onto it with both hands, and do his dirty sinful business

Well...there was an incident a week or so ago where it slithered out of her in the tub. Again, hysterics. Mine and hers. I think she probably thought it was a toot but it became a poo. Potty training has brought August into the open about her poo's. It use to be this silent struggle and if we saw her we'd run up and hold her because it looked like a struggle that needed a hug or physical support.

BTW, my hysterics were silent and manifested as quick thinking, working fast. So afraid of making her weird about her stray poo's. Later though, when telling the Papi....

We still haven't had a code brown in the bath, but I'm sure it will happen one day. Hopefully when his pops are a bit more solid and easy to fish out - they're still like breastmilk korma and the thought of him swimming in pungent soup horrifies me.

We've never given our girl baths, only showers. And in her earlier days when she was both more likely to slip in the tub and poop in the tub, we would put a towel down on the tub floor. This would a.) keep her safe from slipping by giving her some traction and b.) make it real easy to clean up if a poop slipped out while she was crouching down playing with her toys.

Breast milk korma... good god.

Wait showers even when she was an infant?

No, when she was an infant we just bathed her in the sink. Sorry.

But she did take showers with her mom from a pretty early age.

Aw hell, I really miss the days when we'd just stick her in the sink. She loved that.

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Cute!

never had a code brown really. altho I do recall the first time (when she was an infant) that Veronica saw poop coming out of her body and she freaked the fuck out. which makes a kind of sense, "hey part of my body just is no longer part of my body!" you can see how that would be traumatic if you had no concept of what was going on. like if all of a sudden their foot fell off or something.

Sooooooo sweet! I miss sink days.

Οὖτις, :Makes sense!

Re: adoption

Time wise it is actually kind of a mixed blessing and it will happen sometime in the next 12 months, hopefully.

― joygoat, Monday, April 7, 2014 10:14 PM (4 months ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWa0dZMHYeE

Last time it was a sketchy situation, last minute, birth mom backed out and was never serious in the first place. We've met with a new one (and her girlfriend, long story) three times now including them coming 75 miles to see our house and the crib we just bought and bringing us baby clothes as a gift so this one feels legit. Feels really surreal right now.

Oh my gosh I am so excited for you.

A+++ hooray

Oh, best of luck!

^

good luck dudes

Crossing everything for you!

People keep telling me what a great age six months is, and they're right!

our girl is now at two weeks and i am praying for this day to come asap.

Don't wish it away! We grieve for that tiny baboo curled up like a little frog snoozing on your chest.

there is no snoozing. there is only screaming.

Yeah, I am having a blast with Ivy now and she is super awesome but I see little tiny babyloafs and get a little pang when remembering that age, too, just because it's gone for good. I even forgot, until I was thinking about it last night, that she went through a phase where she wouldn't sleep at all, day or night, unless someone was holding her.

xp yes something like that, although not that bad.

we had those issues for like a week, and then I remembered that I could swaddle them

ya, that works for all of 10 seconds.

Have you tried Dr Karp's 5 S's?

http://www.babycenter.com/0_harvey-karps-happiest-baby-method-for-baby-sleep-and-soothin_10373838.bc

Scarily, shockingly effective; the whole idea is that you're simulating what it was like inside the womb

my son was like why are you trying to shove me back into a womb I just busted out of one of those LIKE SO