Kids

[Pipe Line]

So my daughter is about to be 9 months old here in a few days. She does day care at my brother in law's house, with my mother in law and my nephew, and my wife just sent me a photo of our daughter standing up and holding herself up and playing with my nephew's mini fake bathroom sink and toilet combo deal he got for christmas, and looking back at the camera while my mother in law takes a photo.


Just hit me right in the damn feels at work. Never really bought into it but damn they do grow up fast.

 

[BluesBucksNHuskers]

Man it’s awesome, hold onto that stuff on your phone. There’s nothing better at putting me back in the right headspace when my 8 year olds being a little fuck head than pulling up an old video from when he was the age the only shit talking he was capable of was “Da-da”

 

[Bootleg11]

So my daughter is about to be 9 months old here in a few days. She does day care at my brother in law's house, with my mother in law and my nephew, and my wife just sent me a photo of our daughter standing up and holding herself up and playing with my nephew's mini fake bathroom sink and toilet combo deal he got for christmas, and looking back at the camera while my mother in law takes a photo.


Just hit me right in the damn feels at work. Never really bought into it but damn they do grow up fast.

My wife has an in home daycare. Neat to see the kids grow up right in front of you. Enjoy that stuff man.

 

[Pipe Line]

Man it’s awesome, hold onto that stuff on your phone. There’s nothing better at putting me back in the right headspace when my 8 year olds being a little fuck head than pulling up an old video from when he was the age the only shit talking he was capable of was “Da-da”

I have taken so many more photos than I ever planned on. Was clearing some space on my phone the other day and was deleting duplicates of photos and man the last 8 months have just flown by. She says a pretty solid "ma-ma" now but we're not at "da-da" yet. She definitely knows I'm the fun parent though.

 

[Goskers07]

Every little milestone is amazing. The purity and innocence with which they do everything with at that age is beautiful. Enjoy every second man.

 

[Daddy]

Kids are so much fun. Mines trying to learn how to dribble right now. Loves watching basketball with me, it's great. His grandma got him an Elmo doll and book a few weeks ago and he has become obsessed with Elmo, but had never seen Sesame Street since he mostly watches Curious George if he's watching anything. Sat down with him and watched Sesame Street last week and his mind was blown. It was awesome.

 

[Pipe Line]

Super stoked for the talking phase, or really just saying words phase

 

[Goskers07]

Super stoked for the talking phase, or really just saying words phase

Yeah that parts fun for a day or two

 

[Goskers07]

Something my two year old has started doing lately that I love is saying his thanks during prayers. We've always said thank yous for family and whatnot during prayers but he recently started breaking off and doing it on his own. Saying thanks for mom, dad, friends, etc. It's so awesome.

 

[HCFord1]

Not to hijack the thread or anything but I told my wife last night that I'm starting to worry a bit about our 17 month old. He'll say "hi" sometimes and he's said "dada" and "mama" but usually not when it seems appropriate. He did say "cookie" a few times over Christmas which had me really excited but he hasn't said it since. Just seems like we can't find any words that he reliably will say. He does babble all the time still, and he's expressive and understands some of the sign language stuff, so we'll see what the doctor says at his 18 month checkup in a few weeks.

Anyone else have a kid that didn't start grasping words until later than expected?

 

[Pipe Line]

Anyone have kids that needed ear tubes? My daughter is getting them Monday morning. I'm not worried about it but was curious if anyone had any experience with it?

 

[Bootleg11]

Anyone have kids that needed ear tubes? My daughter is getting them Monday morning. I'm not worried about it but was curious if anyone had any experience with it?

None of mine did. I'd say about 50% of the kids that my wife watches gets them at some point. It's a huge relief for the kids, drains all that fluid off their ear. I think they just fall out on their own eventually. You can always tell when a baby has an ear ache.

 

[Goskers07]

Not to hijack the thread or anything but I told my wife last night that I'm starting to worry a bit about our 17 month old. He'll say "hi" sometimes and he's said "dada" and "mama" but usually not when it seems appropriate. He did say "cookie" a few times over Christmas which had me really excited but he hasn't said it since. Just seems like we can't find any words that he reliably will say. He does babble all the time still, and he's expressive and understands some of the sign language stuff, so we'll see what the doctor says at his 18 month checkup in a few weeks.

Anyone else have a kid that didn't start grasping words until later than expected?

I wouldnt sweat it too much yet. I was always told anywhere from a year to 3 years. 18 months and saying a few words is solid. Just keep working with him on it.

 

[Skerz4Life50]

Anyone have kids that needed ear tubes? My daughter is getting them Monday morning. I'm not worried about it but was curious if anyone had any experience with it?

All 3 of mine have gotten them. My youngest just turned 9 months old a couple of days ago. She got her tubes about a month ago. Simple procedure other than they aren't allowed to eat or drink anything for like 8ish hours before, which for a baby is a very long time. Really helps eliminate the ear infections, and if they do still get an infection (which definitely does still happen), then they just do ear drops which is much easier than trying to force the medicine down their throats.

 

[Pipe Line]

None of mine did. I'd say about 50% of the kids that my wife watches gets them at some point. It's a huge relief for the kids, drains all that fluid off their ear. I think they just fall out on their own eventually. You can always tell when a baby has an ear ache.

Yeah that's about what the specialist said. Not that I was worried before, but she just made it very reassuring that everything would be all good, which was nice. One of my co-worker's daughter got them and he said it's amazing the immediate difference.

 

[Pipe Line]

All 3 of mine have gotten them. My youngest just turned 9 months old a couple of days ago. She got her tubes about a month ago. Simple procedure other than they aren't allowed to eat or drink anything for like 8ish hours before, which for a baby is a very long time. Really helps eliminate the ear infections, and if they do still get an infection (which definitely does still happen), then they just do ear drops which is much easier than trying to force the medicine down their throats.

God my daughter hated the last antibioitic she was on. Can't remember the name now but it was horrible. She would start screaming as soon as we would try to give it to her in the syringe when giving her a bottle. Our surgery is at 7 AM so bottle about midnight and sleep the rest of the night hopefully. Should be smooth for the most part. Did your youngest mainly sleep the rest of the day or are they back to their normal self pretty fast?

 

[jaihawk]

So my daughter is about to be 9 months old here in a few days. She does day care at my brother in law's house, with my mother in law and my nephew, and my wife just sent me a photo of our daughter standing up and holding herself up and playing with my nephew's mini fake bathroom sink and toilet combo deal he got for christmas, and looking back at the camera while my mother in law takes a photo.


Just hit me right in the damn feels at work. Never really bought into it but damn they do grow up fast.

Just remember these moments when they are high schoolers, full of attitude, not respecting anything that you do for them, and being black holes for your money... 🙂

 

[Pipe Line]

Just remember these moments when they are high schoolers, full of attitude, not respecting anything that you do for them, and being black holes for your money... 🙂

I can't even honestly mentally comprehend trying to raise a high school girl right now lol shit I'll be about 45 at the time. That's wild.

 

[Chi7397]

Not to hijack the thread or anything but I told my wife last night that I'm starting to worry a bit about our 17 month old. He'll say "hi" sometimes and he's said "dada" and "mama" but usually not when it seems appropriate. He did say "cookie" a few times over Christmas which had me really excited but he hasn't said it since. Just seems like we can't find any words that he reliably will say. He does babble all the time still, and he's expressive and understands some of the sign language stuff, so we'll see what the doctor says at his 18 month checkup in a few weeks.

Anyone else have a kid that didn't start grasping words until later than expected?

Yep my son was slower on speaking - he understood a lot, but said very few to no words until up until after his 2nd birthday.

The pediatrician recommended speech therapy when he hit 2 (which we did for a couple months and I think helped a little), but he also just naturally started using more words and is now caught up and chatty.

Definitely get the worry - I felt the same way - but I don’t think you necessarily have anything to worry about yet as it seems like there’s a spectrum of what’s normal on this front.

 

[Skerz4Life50]

God my daughter hated the last antibioitic she was on. Can't remember the name now but it was horrible. She would start screaming as soon as we would try to give it to her in the syringe when giving her a bottle. Our surgery is at 7 AM so bottle about midnight and sleep the rest of the night hopefully. Should be smooth for the most part. Did your youngest mainly sleep the rest of the day or are they back to their normal self pretty fast?

The rest of the day they are usually a little groggy. Kinda depends on the kid and how fast the anesthesia wears off. Our oldest, when she got hers (but she was probably 1 and a half to 2) she tried chugging a bottle on the way home because she was so hungry and then threw up everywhere. But, after that she was pretty much back to normal. Our youngest that just got hers, she was sleepy pretty much all day and really didn't start to act more normal until the evening. All 3 had their tubes prior to 9am or so too.