Who's Your Daddy?

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by Japher
That's kewl. I was hoping to have last weekend, but I also wanted the baby out.

My wife is upset that it's taking longer because her family is getting impatient...gotta love the in-laws.

[Japher]

Her mom made airline reservation a month ago and came out last Friday hoping that the baby would be here... they got their wish

[Caligastia]

My in-laws have reservations for the week after next.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by shawnmmcc


Flubber - actually it went from one to five hours daily, and the increase was rougly 10% per hour. Note that is on a daily basis. The video in the car wouldn't count.

Why wouldn't it count?

If it doesn't count our little guy probably sees less than an hour a day of tv-- FIVE hours?:? WOW-- I can't imagine our son seeing 5 hours on any single day ever at his age but to average that ??? Thats a lot of TV

Originally posted by shawnmmcc
My wife travels at night with our little girl when visiting her parents, that way our toddler can sleep the whole way.

Good plan for longer trips but a lot of our car trips are to and from on the same day. Our guy does get his naps often while riding but not always and thats where the video comes in.

Originally posted by shawnmmcc
Our little girl has excellent manners, very few temper tantrums, is pretty good about directions (and pushing limits, it's part of the job description - toddler ).

Sounds just like my son. I particularly like when he doesn't want to go somewhere and he stands there with his arms crossed -- but he is very good on his please and thankyous.

Originally posted by shawnmmcc
. She is learning how to help daddy remove and reinstall screws in his computer case. I am still debating if that is such a good idea.

Bad idea bad idea-- once she knows how to do something she will decide to do it when Daddy is away. Next she will decide to reformat your hard drive in interesting ways

How old is your little one-- my guy is 27 months??

[Mr. Harley]

She was born in March so she is, let's see take off shoes - 29 months, almost 30. She loves to go out, so we don't have that problem, it's instead taking what is permitted, and then seeing what activity she can shoehorn from that onto the approved list. Like being in the kitchen helping daddy stir-fry, can we get that red Jalapeno deliberately left in grabby range and taste it? After daddy warned her it's a really bad idea. My wife and I subscribe to the doctrine of natural consequences as long as it does no permanent damage.

She is already very good at holding things for daddy and watching very intently what daddy is doing. It's funny, she is actually very good about the computers, though she finds the back panels fascinating. She is getting pretty good at understanding clockwise and counter-clockwise - reference computer screws, that is.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by shawnmmcc
She loves to go out, so we don't have that problem,

our problem is getting him to go out-- the "somewhere" he doesn't want to go is usually back inside

Thankfully he cannot access the back of the computer but he does know how most electronics work. He frequently puts a cd into his little boom box and then hits the buttons to get to the song he want

[Mr. Harley]

We don't let her handle CD's yet. Her problem is that she REALLY wants to poke around the innards of anything she can get her little hands in - and because they ARE little hands, that includes alot. Plus, she has discovered poking - as in get something long and thin and poke it into holes. So far I think I have her attention over wall sockets - and I have them covered just in case with those plastic thingies. I don't believe a CD or tape player would survive very long.

I typically have at least one machine off network, so to speak, and our house is small enough that we have a joint family/computer room. I don't mind her examining the back panel, but the utter fascination she has with it I find both reassuring - and a concern. As the parent of a toddler, I suspect you understand.

[JohnT]

Sorry about being so late... but congratulations, Japher!

Little girls are special. You'll appreciate yours like you've appreciated nobody else in your life.

[Japher]

Knew you'd show up eventually JohnT, especially if I'm posting pics of lil' girls...

uh, that didn't sound right

[MrFun]

I didn't see this thread until today (Oct. 13).

Congratulations -- almost two months late.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by MrFun
I didn't see this thread until today (Oct. 13).

Congratulations -- almost two months late.

Amazing since it was topped for quite a while IIRC

Oh and Japher-- how about an update? How is the little one doing? Does she sleep well etc etc?

My son is now 2 yrs 5 months and alternately cute and defiant. The language development is amazing. Try to enjoy this first year when they are pretty immobile since from my experience you spend the next year at least chasing them around.

[Sirotnikov]

Congratulations!

Happy Fatherhood

[Lul Thyme]

Originally posted by MrFun
I didn't see this thread until today (Oct. 13).

Congratulations -- almost two months late.

Same here.
I probably missed it because it was topped (I usually don't notice topped threads it's weird).

Congratulations Japher..

[Japher]

Oh and Japher-- how about an update? How is the little one doing? Does she sleep well etc etc?

She's good, I'll post more pics when I get home.

She can hold her head up for a while without it flopping it over. She makes a lot of noises that are cute, and sucks on her hand.

It's hard to keep her temp normal, she seems to like the onsie, mittens, and socks, and nothing else. We had an ultra sound on her hips the other day because the doc heard popping, it was nothing. She has a slight fever but sleeps and eats well, and we have a stock pile of Children's Tylenol from when I use to work for J&J.

She started sleeping in her crib a few days ago. Wifey cried that night, I have no idea why. She has a monitor and some pad that detects their heart beat and alarms if the heart beat stops. Whatever, I sleep much better with her out of the room.

All in all, she's awesome.

[JohnT]

"Normal" temperature is what feels best to the child. If she doesn't like a lot of clothes, it might be because she doesn't need a lot of clothes.

Wifey cried because wifey missed her baby. You're now #2 in her life - accept it, hell, be glad about it.

We had the child monitor, where you could hear her breathing. And burping. And farting. We finally realized it wasn't there in case she died, it was to be used for the purpose of picking up on her cries - and blessedly turned the thing down.

Is there any actual worry about her heart, or is this something your wife thinks is a good idea?