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Hey I guess I just graduated from the other thread to this one. Got a 4 month old baba here who's currently regretting ever owning gums.
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Mokotow posted:Hmm 4 months is a bit early for teething unless it’s smth else? I dunno he's been showing all the signs, red cheeks, drooling, chewing. a little bit grumpy. He ended up having a full on freakout tonight which is out of character, but once we got some gel on his gums he calmed down and slept. Unless that's just coincidence.
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chadbear posted:My partner refuses to do sleep training, so here we are carrying the 13mo to sleep every night, during the night at least once, in the morning after he wakes up at 4am, to his first half of the midday nap and to his second half of the midday nap I'm dying We thankfully have an amazing sleeper of a baby (I'm legit jealous of his ability to seemingly go "Im fuckin bored, I'm OUT zzzzzzz") but my wife is resisting the idea of getting him off the 4am feed. We both suspect she has postpartum OCD which we're trying to work around but she absolutely cannot deal with any deviation from our schedule now that it's established. I don't wanna push it too hard yet, seeing as he's only just about 4 months and luckily I have the luxury of a sleepy baby who will zonk out after the 4am feed but I wouldn't mind sleeping midnight to 7am again. His gums calmed down again btw, he's been in great form all week. We discovered he really loves it when you tell him he's in trouble? So now I do a whole bad cop interrogation routine with him while he loses his poo poo. So far he hasn't cracked but I'll get that baby bastard to confess
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:We were worried about getting off the overnight feed because KG3 (5 mos) is a lean rear end baby and he needs all the calories he can get, but it went fine. First day off it he woke up at the usual time and fussed a bit off and on for ~20 mins, and then just went back to sleep. If the kid weighs more than 12 or 13 lbs they can make it through the night. Oh yeah he's that weight all right. My sister hates me because the two things she couldn't get my niece to do was sleep and eat and this fucker is filling up and passing out like a slug. We've a few opportunities to maybe dry run a whole nighter coming up, I should hop on them. Her identifying that something is up has been helpful because we've been able to talk a few things over and thankfully as well she trusts me as a dad to be flexible when she can't. I know at least when his schedule changes she'll go with it but getting her to make the first move is gonna take some talking over.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:It helps to have some kind of trigger phrase or something just as you are putting them down. It will help them stay calm and soothed. Something simple and sort of repetitive, I usually say "good night baby KG3, it's time to go to sleep, good night, mommy and daddy love you, good night!" She would regularly fail to finish a bottle of formula before it went bad, it was rough. She was much happier off the bottle and with solids and made up for it but the nurses were furious with them for a while
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Had a pretty rough Thursday with vaccine stuff. Poor guy's temperature spiked just after I'd handed him off to his mom to grab a bite and had to come back in and take over again to get it down. He spent most of Friday ok but quiet and then just before bed last night perked up and started laughing and gooing again. Also I used the fact we kinda didnt want to wake him to let him suffer to change up his nap/drink schedule and now he has a big stretch of sleep at night and I think it will help my wife a lot, she's been crippled with anxiety this week and somehow I managed to suggest we switch things up without adding to it. 
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We had a super hot day on Monday and I ended up dragging the baby in his bouncer to the exact middle of the house because it was coolest there
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My dad just made me use the urinal  of course I've also been piss shy since my tweens so maybe that's related?Unrelated, but this week my little guy discovered how much fun yelling is, almost as much fun as hearing someone yell. He is all about volume (I'll get this boy into metal asap) but also he has discovered that he can gurgle... softly. He's also noticed the other baby in the mirror 
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space uncle posted:Last day of paternity leave and the wife decided to snipe at me Lol my wife threatened to leave me for using the last thick kitchen cloth to clean up the protein shake goop she destroyed the kitchen with (she lifted the blender jug out without the bottom on). I was pretty calm about getting new ones during the week but she needed them for Saturday you see a whole 4 days from now. Post-partum depression is amazing. Actually while I'm on the subject, our baby is about to hit 6 months next week. Which means time for his new bed and for mushy food which I'm looking forward to so much, I can't wait to see him try food. This has not been especially great for her anxiety and ocd but it's not as bad as when I was trying to get her to give up all the night feeds. I've been working super hard with both of them, in a good way I mean. But as it turns out keeping a baby happy and healthy is ay easier than keeping someone's psychological makeup healthy. She's still waaaaay better though. I'm glad(???) we've both had mental health issues before because its really let us talk properly about how we're both dealing with it.
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Been getting my son onto (semi)solid food. My wife was uh.. a little hesitant, any kind of change is massive for her atm with post-partum so I had to ease her into it as well by letting him sit in with me while I cooked in his new big chair. Someone had advised me to just blast ahead with it without her input but I knew she'd be gutted if she missed his first bite of food so I was like "hey I've a bit of yogurt here, you wanna come in and see if he likes it?" and eased them both into it. The yogurt was perhaps a mistake, it took him about a week and a half to get used to it but now he'll feed himself with the spoon, which is cute as hell. You hold a spoon out and his mouth snaps open. But now I'm introducing fruit and veg into the mix and maaannn he loving hates it, he's only a full week on the veg and I have to sneak it in in between bites of other stuff. I'll get him into it, I swear! His mood has improved a lot too since he's started eating, he's always been pretty chill but for about a week before I started him on the food he was yelling a little during the day and refusing to finish bottles and stuff. Oh and those teeth that started to come the other month finally popped out, they're sharp as hell
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I ended up settling on 2 small spoonfuls of yoghurt and then, when he's comfy a massive spoon of veg. He was pretty ok with that.
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My lad is 6 months as well and is with one parent in the mornings and one in the evening (shift work!) and he has a single, you are in your bed and you are having a nap nap, right after being fed at 8:20ish which he always takes and is incredibly lucky because everyone gets to eat and shower. When he's with his mom he used to take one bed nap around 2 and it would help his mood a lot but now he gets his lunch then. Now he just takes them whenever he's tired, which is sometimes like 20 minutes before he has to eat but whatever E: more to the point he's also not sleep trained and sleeps well at night. His scheduled naps are all in a dark room with a noise machine going and a full stomach, which is the exact same environment as his big sleep. Which I suspect has a hand in it Shoehead fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Sep 7, 2024 |
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Sep 7, 2024 17:36
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Sorry that should have been "He's not sleep trained and sleeps well at night"
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Oh yeah that reminds me I should save up for that..
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C-Euro posted:Vibe check from folks ITT who have been pregnant: Mrs Euro is currently in her first trimester with #2 while we are deep in potty training with #1. One of the fun side effects of early pregnancy for her (on this kid and the older one) is developing an incredibly powerful sense of smell for bad odors. This means that she has foisted 95% of the actual work of spotting the kid on the toilet, including all poop stuff, onto me, and our slow pace of progress has been demoralizing because I feel like it's all on me. Has anyone else experienced symptoms like this when pregnant, and are they really bad enough that I shouldn't be trying to strong-arm my wife into taking a few more potty shifts? My wife threw up almost every day after the first or second month, we got I think about 4 or so days as a puke free streak and somedays she'd just like.. permapuke. Anyway part of it and also an unfortunate trigger was strong smells of any kind. I've a pretty poor sense of smell due to sinus issues and when mine clear up I feel like Wolverine by comparison. For her, she WAS Wolverine, she could tell if I'd eaten something from across a room. Anyway yeah it was all triggering and the worst was my brother's quorn sitting in the fridge. At the height of her senses I was cooking for her instead (we both cook normally but separately from back when we were both single) So yeah its really real. It all went away the second our son arrived, but she can get a wiff of something that actually went the whole way and made her puke and she'll get hit with a wave of nausea
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On the opposite end of things my 7MO has had his first few nights of uninterrupted sleep which is lovely and he wakes up in a great mood and usually sings himself back to sleep but if you put his bib on or stick him in his high chair he suddenly gets so hangry that he would kill a man. This morning he was so upset he didn't notice he was being fed at all and dribbled everything out haha. Feeding him in the high chair has been great because he's totally ok atm with letting me make breakfast or cook a little lunch, as long as he gets to watch and is fed first
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CarForumPoster posted:Question for thread: do you all try to limit the content of music for very little babies? My baby has been listening to all but the heaviest metal I listen to. The sludgey stuff I try to keep off around him because... I dunno I worried that if he listened to really messy stuff it might be weird and disorienting? Now that I'm typing that that seems silly. He doesn't seem to mind if vocals are clean or not either, but again this was a baby who slept so well in a ward of desperately screaming hungry babies that we were worried he was deaf, so harsh sounds arent something he's too bothered by. As for lyrical content I don't think there's a song written that would be as bad for him as listening to my side of the family talk, we are blue as gently caress, we curse like sailors remigious posted:I am a power metal enthusiast and when my son starts headbanging it’s basically the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. Oh god I hope and pray I get to see my little guy headbang. He was at a funeral yesterday and they played the coffin out to Highway to Hell and the little guy got a wiggle in him and made a few bereaved smile (including me). His cousin by comparison is bet into the dancing fruit and by god if I can avoid that I will. I was raised on Hard Rock LPs and the radio (apparently I was left alone next to one for protracted periods of the day and they would come back to me chatting back to the dj which.. uh explains a few things).
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We had daylight savings the weekend before Halloween and he was pretty happy to wake up an hour later for food. Lucky for us he sleeps in if its dull out, but we were worried he'd flip having to wait longer for food when a delay of about 10 minutes is enough to make him cry. He's recently been really taken with the mirror in the dining room. There's another boy in there he really likes to see and if he notices him from the other room he'll start shouting at him. It's so strange his whole tone changes and everything, just everything goes up an octave. He has to be brought in to see him then, it's adorable. He's nearly 9 months now so there's no way he recognises himself but he's met a few other babies recently and I think he's finally realised that he can be social with his reflection too.
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Sundae posted:Next time we go to the in-laws, I am setting some better ground rules up front. Give me a 2 hr period on the 24th to take the kid to church, do not start arguing with me (I mean adults, not the kid) when I say it’s her bedtime, and if I say we’re done with snacks and candy, don’t go sneaking her more without daddy knowing. The last would be okay if it was just one, but I found her with a whole plate of cookies courtesy of grandmother who told her she could have them AFTER I said no more. Jesus do I feel this atm. I was getting little hints of this happening with my inlaws for ages, stuff like my father-in-law suggesting that he'll be taking my son out for drinks later (both me and my wife are sober and have had issues with drink and dont find that funny or cute) and a couple of things about his "grandmother" and "cousins", but thankfully we only see that part of the family sporadically. Unfortunately I was so worried about it that I didn't expect my dad to suddenly be dumb as gently caress about him and had to deal with him somehow not hearing me asking him loudly to please NOT put a plastic bag over my 10 month old's head over and over again. I was looking around the room at everyone going "hey someone get that bag outta dad's hands" while being ignored, I felt like I was 8 again, it sucked rear end. There's also my brother's odd obsession with weather or not any of the babies in the family have dirty nappies, or his assumption that our kids are always awake and screaming. It's really weird and we only just noticed it when I was talking to my sister and discovered he's just always walking into rooms with babies and assuming they need a nappy change or are acting up, even if they are fine. He nearly caught a slap at my niece's baptism off my brother in law for insisting she needed to be changed over and over. He was telling anyone who would listen on Christmas day that my son never naps or something when he still sleeps something like 15 hours a day and my wife had to correct him a few times. My side of the family is normally super chill too, like we didn't see any of this coming. In actual cool news my son just suddenly decided to start dancing on Christmas eve and does a really weird like side headbang now when music is on, and just before figured out finally how to walk around in his walker and he's loooving it
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My kid's sick for the first time ever. I'm holding up ok but his mom is kinda lost, her mom was very passive when it came to sick or injured kids whereas mine was super active and I just... copy what she did for me and my siblings or ask her. I got pretty upset last night though when he just grabbed me and buried his face into my chest, he's so tired. I also haven't slept since Thursday night and have worked all weekend so this is going great. He's being very brave. He keeps trying to show me that he can clap and dance instead of resting.. E: just pulled off a picture perfect cuddle-til-deep-sleep-then-transfer-to-cot maneuver hell yeah Shoehead fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Jan 12, 2025 |
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Ey my baby's fever broke over night and now he's a happy little guy again. He spent all day today eating, drinking, sleeping and rolling on the floor. Making up for lost time for sure, he didn't want to go to bed in the end
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My baby started hanging out in my parents dining room instead of our cramped office now that he can crawl. Lotta corners in that office that made me nervous. Anyway the knock off rhoomba with no pathfinding that my brother got my parents lives in there and he's spend all week hanging out with it. It's more effective as a baby toy than it is as something for cleaning the floors. He's also learned that it's really fun to open and close doors especially if someone is on the other side and now sits and does that for upwards of 40 minutes before he... finds another door to do it with. He's 1 today!
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Red Oktober posted:We were watching Sesame Street today and they had a full on Twilight parody, “breaking cookie”, featuring Shortbredward and Belly. Monsterpiece Theatre is such a good bit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82EWGPqSiLM
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Baby has his first proper illness, strep throat and a rash, he's being very good and taking his antibiotics and everything but his sleep is very shallow atm, everything wakes him up and he's not too happy about it. Other than that he's in very good spirits. He's no fever or anything, if it wasn't for the rash we'd never have noticed.
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It would have taken more willpower than I currently have not to yell "The gently caress did you just say?!" in that sandpit scenario, but yeah I also have been throttled by other kid's parents for one thing or another as a child. Hell one day a mother came into the school yard while we were out playing and grabbed one of the kids and swung him around the place for beating up her son earlier, I'll never forget it. Not that I'd ever do that, I was beaten quite a bit as a child and I'm pretty happy to let that kind of punishment die forever e: Our own experience so far is that a lot of kids just blank my 18 month old entirely, and he just stands there waving at them like a happy puppy. That's sad but they are all other babies, we can't force them to interact but it's breaking my wife's heart to see. He'll be getting some limited government assisted daycare in about 6 months so I'm hoping he meets a lot of other babies then. Until then he's still living in our family home until we finish buying our place so he gets to see his grandparents every day and his uncle and his aunt brings his cousin over regularly, who is no longer insanely jealous and is very happy to have him to play with
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CloFan posted:Had to yell at the boy next door frequently for being a destructive dumbass. I'm so glad they moved away, my kid was learning some very bad habits from them The last kid I yelled at was a kid from another building who would wander over to ours to try and tear the handle off the front door. The noise it made was incredible, you'd think some fully grown psycho was trying to force his way in and then you'd look out the window at this six year old goin hog wild on the door. He was upside down one time. He'd go for a full half hour if you didn't yell. We were WFH at the time, he was one of those lockdown kids who's parents flung out on the road to annoy someone else while they also were WFH so he'd pull this poo poo out of earshot of them. And uh.. a fascination must have developed because he'd do it every week until we left. Our development was built on an old school campus so we literally had a football field sized green area, multiple green areas and some wooded spots and the entire child population would be in our car park instead. Which led to me and my wife overhearing some really funny kid talk. But the amount of times I'd be making food in our kitchen and I'd see a kid Max Payne bullet dodge in front of a car bumper during chasing was way too high. (No injuries!)
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With our setup I would have actually have been in a good spot to look after my son if he had have been around then, it probably would have been pretty nice, though where I live I got a pretty ok social welfare payment, at least for lockdown 1 and 2. Ironically I wouldn't have even seen him when the lockdowns were over because I'd have to go back to the shop and demand was through the roof (and then my boss screwed up the paperwork and I had to pay it all back yaay). There were families around me that didn't cope too well or went full summer latch key mode which seemed counterproductive in a not catching the virus sense. It was like a reverse vampires situation out there, but nothing was quite as stupid as the kid with the door obsession. Some idiot did rent a bouncy castle the second summer during a spike and invited all the neighbourhood kids to come play, very smart
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Apparently my mom got me to stop biting by chomping me on the arm when I was around 2 1/2 I definitely don't recommend it
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Elissimpark posted:The 4yo came into the bathroom while I was showering this morning and was intrigued by my body hair (I'm not super hairy, but hairy enough). Hell yeah, kid has the heart of a Storyteller
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Illusive gently caress Man posted:Our 19 month old bit five kids at day care today :/ That kid is like Riki Oh
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Redirect is the right word for it for sure, my son is 19 months and the concept of a punishment, even cause and effect just isn't there yet. Putting him somewhere else is just him being somewhere else rather than "you are here for being a jerk who threw a glass". If you are moving him it's to show him some new stuff to check out in this other room and hoping his lack of object permanence overrides how pissed he is you've taken whatever thing it is off of him. If he's acting out for no reason it's usually because he's bored so even then its like "come over here and check this out" or hey just enjoy a big hug. The hardest it gets is when his grandparents are doing some bullshit in the main house and he can't go say hi for whatever reason but can still hear them. It drives him nuts. I'm still in my parent's house atm and the amount of times there's just a knife on the table or a heap of batteries. My wife found him with a plastic baggie full of nails a few weeks ago. They just kind of get up and walk off and leave whatever weird poo poo they had down. I've just gotten used to doing a sweep of the house when he wanders out of our granny flat
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Oh I could fill a book with stupid poo poo my parents have done during the pregnancy and the first 19 months of this kiddo's life. It's inescapable. Or well ok they are on holiday atm and I've been taking advantage of the extra space to clear out the living room of danger and let him run loose during the day and he's loving loving it. We're hoping to move before Halloween but our keys keep getting delayed. I'm 100% ready to go, just for him
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Lol I thought I had it bad with my dad letting my son play witha plastic sheet over his head at Christmas, I hadn't even thought that someone would have the same stupid attitude to guns. I'm from somewhere without a gun culture though so having a loaded gun out on a shelf is about as alien as having a bucket of lava on it.
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My son was in the 9th percentile the last time he was weighed and is still wearing 6 mo clothes at 19 months, which is kind of handy cos he's really gettin good wear out of everything he's already got but buying him new stuff is a crapshoot. Even if we get him clothes for his age group he'll either fit in perfectly or drown in it
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Count Roland posted:My wife's scheduled c-section is coming up in a few days. Any advice for the father for while I'm at the hospital? I will be supportive of my wife and learn how to change diapers and the like while she's bed ridden. I'm not sure if I want to look behind the curtain. Other than that, I don't really know what to expect. Bring snacks. You're not gonna want to leave. My stomach was in bits that whole week because once I arrived during visiting hours, I wouldnt eat til I got home after they threw me out at 8pm. If you've any baby furniture to assemble do it now maybe. It's nuts knowing your baby is coming in x days, instead of just kind of waiting around for them to decide it's time to arrive. Of course at 1am the morning my wife was scheduled she went into labour anyway and she got to have her section like a hour earlier. Uh what else, you're gonna be doing a lot of stuff as the non-sliced open parent. Like thats probably a given with a vaginal birth too? But yeah, it took my wife only a few weeks to recover but my sister took around 6 months to get right. I think she walked to the end of her road and turned back at the end of month 1. This week for me is a lovely combo of sick sniffly baby and injured wife who's fully crashing out over it. Still taking advantage of the extra space in the house while my parents are away but their imminent return is adding pressure. The baba is mega miserable and is clingy as all hell, he has this awful habit of trying to climb up my leg (and only mine) by hooking one of his legs around mine like he was trying to do a takedown and it freaks me the gently caress out because I know if he hooks it right he's going head first into a desk or a cabinet. So my work has been abandoned for the morning, while we both chill with Ms. Rachel. Between the pair of them I've missed meals and everything this week, havent slept a wink.
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Nocheez posted:That's one thing you don't learn until you've been through it, is that you can say "no" to almost everything. And you do have to be an advocate for yourself and your spouse. Most of the things they want to do are completely normal and they have your best interests at heart, but push back if you aren't getting good vibes. My wife had to say no to an external version 3 times before they would leave her alone, we had to say no about breastfeeding once but to about a zillion different people before the kid was born. Couple of things with family members wanting him to travel super young or to come and crowd us or stick an oar in, all sorts. You don't even have to make an excuse, just hit em with the big fat "no".
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We were freaking out at every consultation before and after over all the signs warning fathers if they became violent the police would be calledNocheez posted:I wonder how the divide on dads/moms is on older kids/babies. I did not enjoy the baby or toddler phases nearly as much as I do coaching baseball or going for bike rides. I've been a dad for about 20 months and I've loved all of it so far. We ended up with a very chill, cooperative baby so maybe I just got away with doing easy mode. The more and more of a person he becomes the more I like it though as well, I think I might end up liking being an older kid's dad way more. There's just more of him to enjoy the older he gets. His mom talks about how she wishes he was still a 5 month old, but he was super squishy and cute then, I think she wanted another few months of that. She only realized he'd had baby fat back then when he'd turned 1 and got all lean
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Yeah when someone is injured and the baby is sick it suuuucks. It's like the stars aligned on me last week. My son is doing way better this week but he ends up in coughing fits that get real real bad when he's upset. He got pretty upset earler after spending a whole week is now confined again to our office because my parents are painting the living room. It couldn't wait til we moved out apparently???
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Living with baby and grandparents update, baby not allowed outside of the office because they decided to powersand the banisters on the stairs and it took them 5 hours and covered the house in dust. They sanded through his naptime but he is dead to the world, thankfully, while napping unless my phone rings or something, sanded through his lunch and he had to eat it on our office couch. The dust also immediately gave me a migraine. Thanks granny and granddad! They were too tired to prime/paint em so it's turning into a 2 day thing. Which is pairing well with them doing pretty much the same thing last week. Hooray I can't wait to close on the apt, lads. You have no idea
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