Granddaughter’s 7th birthday party at a gym, and what do I gravitate to??
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Our GD (3.5 yrs)and her parents came to visit at our vacation place the week before Labor Day and left right after. We had a few beach days and took GD to the local Whaling Museum, which had a kids section. GD started preschool two weeks earlier and had a cold when she arrived. Of course, H and I both ended up with colds.
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Happy Grandparents Day (apparently) to all of you!! (Hallmark Holiday 
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I didn’t get a present.
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Hum, no gifts around here.
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Our grands are the biggest gift to us! 
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I had no clue that it was Grandparents’ Day, but I did get to see GD today. She came over with her mom & dad to have birthday cake with us (H’s birthday is in a few days). No need for gifts - GD provided plenty of entertainment!
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No clue it was a hallmark holiday today. We had gd’s birthday party, met up with a friend and then we went with the gang to get gd her first pet (a fish). Quite the ordeal with all that went with it!
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We spent yesterday afternoon at D and SIL’s house. I don’t think they knew about Grandparent’s Day, but that’s OK. GD is learning to play soccer (with Dad), enjoying her swimming and gymnastic classes as well as daycare (“school”). Talking up a storm in both English and Spanish.
She has decided she does not want to be in the stroller. But she also does not want to hold an adult’s hand when out walking, so there is some 2 year old drama going on about that.
We are all aware that exactly one year ago, this girl was in the ICU at a Children’s Hospital hooked up to everything imaginable…
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We were with all 5 (6 weeks to 5 years) yesterday to celebrate some family birthdays. The 5 year old scored her first goal Saturday. At the moment the 2 year old (whose parents are very strict) is the wildest.
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One week in preschool and already we’re all sick…
Preschoolers and toddlers are such cute little infection vectors.
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My kids had goldfish and it died. That was an ordeal.
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GD is sick now too after a week in school. I have a feeling the new baby is just going to be sick the first year.
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All of my grandkids seem to get something regularly even the ones who don’t go to preschool.
My granddaughter started preschool/daycare mid August and she has already missed more days than she has gone. She in turn has gotten both her parents sick.
@oldfort my grandson started preschool a month before she had her 2nd. It was fall and the pediatrician was concerned. She stressed that they should have grandson wash his hands first thing when he came in the house from school. Also to teach him to just initially touch the baby on his feet. Kid #2 has gotten a lot of sickness from his older brother and it seems like someone is always sick at their house but the kids seem to recover quicker than the parents.
The beat thing my daughter did on advice of both her OB and pediatrician was to get the RSV vaccine before she gave birth. They feel it worked as older grandson got RSV when the baby was two months old. They were traveling and stuck in an Airbnb in close contact. The older grandson came very close to being hospitalized and the baby stayed healthy.
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It may be that DIL had too many restrictions in her growing up years - and she may come back to more guidelines. DS may be going along with what she wants and is comfortable with.
Fortunately DD wants to raise her children the way her sister and she were raised. I actually just follow her normal routine. When parents are around - they are in charge and I tell the Gkids that. When parents are away, they put Nana in charge.
During Covid when I was their unpaid FT Nanny from Sunday evening through Friday evening, SIL had a few ‘ideas’ for me to follow, and I said “Maybe you want to hire someone…” and he immediately withdrew his ‘ideas’.
For SIL, it helps to talk one-on-one with him on some of the instructive things I do with the kids, and he follows those patterns. Educational advancement is very important to him, so I show him what books I have used and how I have used them for early reading and sounding out things, and also both GSons have some articulation areas to improve. The slow repetition and helping them with tongue placement etc. is helpful for improvement – and the kids respond well to positive reinforcement.
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My grands both had HFM over the summer (almost ruined their camping vacation), so we’re really hoping they can stay healthy through the beginning of the school year. GD may have had two different kinds as she got sick twice. GS tested positive for strep too. That was not a fun few weeks!
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Reminds me when my niece was 2 and walked into my parents’ new house. She looked around, knew several of the adults in the room, and asked ‘Who’s the boss of this place?’ She just wanted to know who would be setting the rules. Of course it was Nana! (very happy grandchild!)
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Haven’t followed this thread yet…but I will now! Thrilled to say I’ve joined the club. Feeling blessed.
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DH and I are dumfounded. DD1 and her husband, both working FT, he will have to work on a Master’s, they have 4 children ages 1 - 6 and now we get sent a picture of the 1-year-old with a shirt ‘Big Sis’. I texted back “is this one of her sister’s shirts or is there a message here” and the baby is expected mid-March 2025.
When we come down for Christmas/New Year’s (they both can’t get off work all the days the older two are out of school) I guess we will see – I anticipate it will just be one more to daycare after they both have their leave time (they each will have 12 weeks paid leave) – which they actually may spread out for SIL to not overlap 100%. I suspect it is a bit of calm before a really busy household.
I once knew a female NASA engineer that called it quits on work after her 6th child. However DD1 is the main breadwinner and SIL has to stay in his career.
For now it seems, it will be kicking the can down the road a bit more with owning their own home - which was going to be some time after his next enlistment (with staying where they are) or his getting a GS position where they are.
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Gd’s fish is a betta fish (beautiful
Blue fish that used to be called a fighting fish). Tank with air filter, heater, light,small
Red rocks on the bottom, special food, etc. they traumatized the poor fish when they transferred him to the tank (I knew how to do it more gently but no one asked me). It cowered on the bottom for a while, but recovered. He was still alive as of when we left yesterday.
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