Comments on: Bests and worsts, one year

By: rachel

rachel — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:56:43 +0000

it’s like you’re in my head!!! ;)

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:32:18 +0000

I absolutely love this post. Normally I’m just a quiet stalker :) but this post was so cute and funny I had to say something. My son is now 8 and I miss all the funny stuff he did when he was that little.

By: Valerie

Valerie — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:09:59 +0000

Oh my gosh you are too funny!!! I just found your blog and Im definitely subscribing!!! I read half of this page to my husband, who laughed too!!! Our kids are 5 and 8, so we’ve been there, done that… And are trying not to throw them out the window almost everyday!!!

By: sylvia

sylvia — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:44:38 +0000

OMG,
I don’t have kids but I read your blog every day because you make me laugh so hard I start to cry.
Never stop writing, I haven’t laughed that hard in a long time.

By: Christina

Christina — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:21:59 +0000

Two of my favorite shoes when my son was Dylan’s age:

Pedipeds
Robeez Treadz

By: michelle

michelle — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:40:23 +0000

Linda I am right there with you! Still getting up twice a night with my ten month old daughter. Hubby is in the Air Force and went through anti terrorist/prisoner of war training years ago. Guess what they played insanely loud over the loudspeakers while they were in their mock cells in order to get them to talk. Whining screaming babies, on an endless loop. They said it is the only thing they found next to headbanger music that will get people to talk after they haven’t had sleep in 24hrs. So don’t feel bad.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:34:14 +0000

I think I like you the most when you use Gob Bluth every chance you get. Love it.

By: Shutter Bitch

Shutter Bitch — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:37:28 +0000

See, you have in the past bemoaned not having a second floor to which you can escape should there be a zombie infestation. And yet, you are lucky in that a 12 month old (or 13 month old, in my case) will DEFY YOU to stop them climbing the stairs, which will result in both your heart and your eyes exploding in fear and you’ll blindly grapple at them in an effort to rescue them from the impending doom, and they tempt fate by CRAWLING UPWARD FASTER like it’s a goddamned game! It’s the Tag Where You Fall Backwards and Sustain Brain Damage game! Like Dodgeball with wrenches.

And Graco, Safety 1st, Evenflo, Playtex, Random Baby Gear Maker? I ask you: is it possible to make a baby gate that will stop the child’s progress up said stairs that does not 1.) screw into the wall, leaving a gaping hole and requiring actual man-tools to install, and then the baby decides to eat the resulting drywall dust and 2.) will take into account that there are things called stair rails and bannisters that may in fact not be a perfectly flat surface against which to affix said gate? We found ONE model that has netting as the deterrant part, that attaches to rods at top and bottom which are much like shower curtain rods and can be adjusted in length accordingly, depending on the width of the door/stairwell it blocks, regardless of if those widths differ along different heights up the wall/bannister. And the thing was eleventy one million bucks, and it broke when our dog crashed through it.

The best thing? In the early morning, when she’s having a bottle and she’s drank enough to stop glugging long enough to sit up and scooch her tiny dimpled diaper covered butt close to me and voluntarily lay in my lap and gaze up at me, fluttering her fingers against my shirt like the world’s most content butterfly. Then she realizes her brother is sleeping peacefully next to us and she lets out a warcry and launches at him, only to snuggle with him, too. He wakes up every morning when his sister snuggles him awake. And then I die from sheer happiness.

By: Becky

Becky — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:24:42 +0000

I had one of those non-sleeping-baby types, too. I remember when he was about 1 year old, and everyone else I knew with young children said their babies slept through the night at around 6 weeks and I thought I was going to be still getting up a couple of times a night with mine when he was in high school.

But then I read somewhere – where, I don’t remember – that there are a couple of “sweet spots” where babies are a lot more likely to start sleeping through the night. One of those ages was 15 months old. And you know what – mine started sleeping through the night at almost 15 months old exactly! You’re not too far away from that, so maybe Dylan will “sleeping like a baby” soon, too.

By: Red

Red — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:48:36 +0000

Oh. My. God. Dylan and my son are the SAME PERSON. Clones maybe? You and I must have been impregnated by the same alien sadist. The night wakings. The cough barf. The diaper rage. Totally been there.
Bad news: mine is 18mo and STILL DOING THIS. We got the bad parent smackdown at the Peds office the other day and have been ordered to eliminate the night feed asap and get tough on the food variety (he eats what amounts to 6 things and about 30-40oz of milk!). She suggested quitting everything cold turkey in one weekend. I didn’t say but thought “over my dead body” and I think we’ll just try slowly reducing the amount in the night bottle over the period of two weeks and see where it gets us on that front. As for foods, well, my little dude is about to get very hungry. He may be stubborn, but I am stubborner, damn it.

And yes, baby butt wiggle dances are the best! The happies are what keep me going.