I have 36 cousins. I loved growing up with a huge family and it makes me kind of sad that C won't have the same experience.
I have 26 cousins and I feel the same way. Most of my extended family lived in my hometown growing up so there was always someone to play with. We used to have Sunday lunch with the whole family at my grandparents until they passed away. These are some of my fondest memories.
I have one nephew who lives in Colorado. I'm not sure if my brother or H's sister will have kids. It makes me sad that my boys won't have the same experience.
kleigh M doesn't fit in the bumbo, so AB might not for long. We have the sit me up and she loves it/I have no issue getting her in and out.
Honestly it's one of my favorite things. It's the only way I can work out besides the Tula.
I was considering if the legs wouldn't fit in the bum I so good to know. Does the sit me up come all the way up the back? Or to the neck? I realize that depends on torso but just trying to gauge approximately.
Oooh that looks fun waitwhat !!! We are about to store away both RnPs (which neither of my kids really cared for past a month or so) so that will free up some space. I should also just take down the PnP we have downstairs bc who am I fooling we used the bassinets in it for about the first week and then never again.
PW today... But hormones made me cry the other day thinking about the early days with AV and AB. Esp thinking about how AV and I used to wake up at 4am and she'd go in the RnP while I did bottle prep for the day. I can't look at the RnPs and not cry. Or A&A Muslim swaddle blankets. Or their preemie shirts. Or really anything. Because damn time is going too fast and I hate it
They need head control and that's about it because it comes all the up the back. The area where their hiney sits is a sling instead of a molded area so she can still move her legs and her hips are in a more natural position.
PW today... But hormones made me cry the other day thinking about the early days with AV and AB. Esp thinking about how AV and I used to wake up at 4am and she'd go in the RnP while I did bottle prep for the day. I can't look at the RnPs and not cry. Or A&A Muslim swaddle blankets. Or their preemie shirts. Or really anything. Because damn time is going too fast and I hate it
Right?! It was so so so hard. But I'd go back in a heartbeat to relive it over and over. We stored the RnPs two weekends ago and there was a lot of heartache. I waited so long for this girl and time is just going too fast.
Post by goldenlove3 on Feb 16, 2017 16:11:04 GMT -5
kleigh If you include my family, there's 41 of us total. And now there's 8 kids (is that second cousins?) My dad has 3 brothers and 4 sisters. My mom has 3 of each.
And +whatever to the sit me up. C loves that thing! We have a jumper but I'm waiting on that.
I haven't put the RnP away yet but we hardly use it anymore. Definitely another level of sad when they outgrow the gear.
I've also never been to Disney world but I have gone to Disneyland.
I have 36 cousins. I loved growing up with a huge family and it makes me kind of sad that C won't have the same experience.
I have 26 cousins and I feel the same way. Most of my extended family lived in my hometown growing up so there was always someone to play with. We used to have Sunday lunch with the whole family at my grandparents until they passed away. These are some of my fondest memories.
I have one nephew who lives in Colorado. I'm not sure if my brother or H's sister will have kids. It makes me sad that my boys won't have the same experience.
My family was all in the same area too so we hung out all the time. It was seriously the best. My cousins were my best friends growing up.
1. I hate peas and green beans. If you have made me a casserole with peas, I will eat around them. This is because the ONLY vegetables my mom fed us when we were kids were canned peas and green beans. And I hated them. My mom is not June cleaver or Betty Crocker
2. I've been sky diving one time and would NOT do it again. My mom is the one who convinced me to go with her and my sisters.
3. I've qualified for and run the Boston Marathon more than once.
1) most interesting places I have NIP: in the stands at Fenway Park; on the T; standing in line waiting to buy Pats championship shirts; in a judge's lobby.
2) furthest place I have traveled to: Vietnam.
3) randomest/coolest place I have DTD: inside of an office at Gilette Stadium (oh and I have also nursed in one lol).
1) I slept through a hurricane while working on a tugboat.
2) I took a gap year before going to college, I don't know if I would have met/ married DH because he got left back in kindergarten (when it was more of a social class)
hangry I have weird food aversions from childhood too. Steak. Almost never eat it bc growing up there were so man of us kids/grandkids that my mom and grandma bought the lowest grade cuts and they were always chewy/fatty and I'd have to hide as much meat in my mouth as I could (haha) until I could go to the bathroom, spit it out, and flush. I was like 6-10, not eating disorder-ish, just couldn't take the taste and would get in trouble bc I wasn't eating. Also, Boston Marathon?! Very cool and impressive!!!
Post by sophiegrace on Feb 16, 2017 19:42:10 GMT -5
I can always tell when it's bedtime when we go from laughing to crying to smiling on repeat a dozen times within a minute. Poor thing gets to a point where she just can't anymore.
danib, sorry about the rough day, both or those things suck, especially your H being delayed. Hugs friend!
kleigh, I used my sisters bimbo for DS and wasn't that impressed. The leg holes are on the small side so any chunk on a babe and you won't get much use out of it. No personal experience with the sit me up, but I've heard good things. Does your high chair have an insert? You might be able to jump to that right away and use a towel/blanket for extra padding if needed. One less thing to buy?
tjanca22 I don't even have high chairs yet! Are there any specific ones that might be better for this dual purpose (i.e. a standalone one or the kind that sits on a chair) ?
tjanca22 I don't even have high chairs yet! Are there any specific ones that might be better for this dual purpose (i.e. a standalone one or the kind that sits on a chair) ?
I think it depends on your situation. If you have the space for a standalone, I personally like it because you can move it into a living room and pop the kid in front of the tv to watch Paw Patrol and eat blueberry waffles while you enjoy hot coffee in the morning. I may or may not know that from personal experience every Friday - Sunday.
If your tight on space the space saver ones are just as nice and might last you longer because you can just pull the kid up to the table to eat.
I realize this isn't much help. We have a standalone and a travel one that folds up and stays in the car for when we're visiting someone's house.
Ughh so in a week's time we've gone from D fighting naps like hell but once asleep able to just be asleep wherever, to not fighting naps and doing awesome napping in her crib in the Merlin. I think though that somewhere in there she lost the ability to be flexible at all and she now loses her damn mind if her schedule is slightly interrupted.
Case in point: tonight my friend was bringing her toddler over to play with DS and have dinner together at 5:30. This was also around the time I knew D would be getting sleepy so I put her in her swing and she fell asleep just before they arrived. But then she only slept for 20 minutes and was a total crab the rest of the time.
At DS's bedtime I tried to get her to nap again but she fought hard. I finally put her in her crib and left her there so I could tend to him. After a few minutes of screaming she fell asleep. Again for 20 minutes.
So I did her whole bedtime routine about 40 minutes ago and she fell asleep, but then woke up as soon as I put her down. I have tried going back in there, giving her the pacifier, etc., and nothing is working. So now she's just in there crying because idk what else to do.
Really didn't think we'd be on to CIO at 3 months old 😫
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