I don’t get it…
My kids were backwards too. One born a preemie and was rarely sick after about age 2. She did go to full time daycare/pre-school from 18 months on. In K, she got a perfect attendance award. I don’t think she missed 10 days of school in 13 years.
My other was adopted at 2.5, and when she got sick, she got very very sick. She didn’t have natural immunity to American bugs. Even in college she was unlucky enough to get the flu twice (A and B) about 2 months apart. She still refuses to get a flu shot.
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My phone is so small that the words in the thread title are split up, and it looks like this is a thread about renting a grandpa.
Okay, I guess it doesn’t take much to amuse me.
And… the screen shot I tried to add didn’t load, which makes it sound even dumber. Let me see if I can get to it from a pc:
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I’m giving GD a Tonies box for Christmas. I was planning to set it up before wrapping it so it is ready when she opens it (she is 3, and doesn’t know what a Tonies box is - so not very exciting until she can play it!) But looking at the instructions, that seems like a convoluted process. Have any of you grandparents set one up in your home for your grand to open at their house? Wondering if she will be able to use it upon opening - or is the set-up tied to my WiFi network? I do know that I would have to transfer household ownership to my DIL at some point during our stay with them. Any tips or suggestions welcome!
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I am also gifting GD a Tonie box. Am leaving it to D and SIL to set it up!
That’s new one for me. I’ll look it up.
Ack! we have a 2 yo with viral pink eye. I guess that means everyone in the house will have it for Christmas.
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My almost 4 yr old GS LOVES his tonies!! I bought it for them a year or so ago and he now get new characters as things he can earn (I believe). It reads stories and sings. He loves it!
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Anyone/anyone’s kids have one of these things to make homemade baby food? Just ordered one for my cousins daughter. Wondered if anyone had any experience with it.
https://a.co/d/fon9fVt
GD1 never had “baby food.” When she started solid (6 months), D1 just gave her regular food, and she would bite off as much as she could swallow. GD1 always self fed. Yes, it could be messy sometimes (oatmeal), but she learned to eat as much as she wanted. It is a new method of feeding babies, and they have a list of what food and when to introduce it to babies.
It’s called “baby led weaning.”
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Sounds similar to what my s’s did. Hope this isn’t a waste of money. But this relative grows a lot of fresh vegetables so hopefully they’ll purée some of it. it grinds/blends and steams the food. Well, I ordered it from Bloomies. They can always return it (though they live in a remote area far from stores).
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Same here! It is called “baby-led feeding,” apparently. Solid foods in their “natural state.”
The purée machine might still be useful!
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Toto Mini was one of my gifts to Grandson. The kids think it will occupy him on plane ride.
He seems to really like the BombaS slippers I sent. They are socks with grippers n the bottom. I also bought my the BF and myself.
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On a totally different note, the very best present I ever gave my grandchildren is a personalized spiral bound photo board book. Nowdays very few people actually print photos, and I thought the little ones would like to see themselves in print. This type of board book is generally configured with a big square photo on one page, and a few words of text on the other, but due to customization options, I made the text small and would write several sentences. Also I would add pages, so that I had at least one photo per month…. So, first book called “Grandkids first name .first year”. First GS has 4 books, and I have been negligent at keeping up with the two GDs, but I plan to catch up and order soon. They LOVE them, and read them over and over, and it gives them a chronology of all the big things that happened each year. I use Pinhole Press, but I am sure there are other companies out there.
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I had a $10 blender when son was little. That Bloomies thing seems expensive.
I learn a lot here, about the new feeding approach.
My D also did baby led weaning, but she fed her D a wide variety of foods. Some of the fruits and vegetables were pureed at first, so I do think that the blender will come in handy.
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I love this idea! I don’t have GKs yet. Mine aren’t even quite married yet, but I could definitely see me doing this some day. I made the kids a photo book of their first 18 years of life, with lots of written reflections, for their HS graduation. Thanks for the idea!
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Yes, it is pricey, but between a credit I had on my Bloomies account, Rakuten 10% back and Bloomies sale on the item, it was less expensive (by a lot) than getting it on Amazon, and if they don’t want it (and its not too much of a hassle to return it) they can get something else they can use. It blends and steams the food, so makes it ready to serve (I guess??) . Hope its useful…
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Not that brand, but D1 has one and used it with twins and later with their younger brother. As they got older she used it mostly as a steamer to cook whole veggles like frozen peas, corn and edamame the kids ate as finger foods. (vegetarian family so no meats) Works great for hard food like butternut squash.
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My oldest granddaughter (now 5) loved dogs when she was two so I made her a book with pictures of the dogs in our family with her or their owners. I also made her a “concentration” game with different members of the family. Her sister requested a dog book when she was two so I made her one too. They have brought the books to school for “show and tell”.
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