Comments on: Monster babies

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:36:32 +0000

Yes, Monster Babies have two directives: Eat or Destroy.

By: Misty

Misty — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:57:39 +0000

totally off subject, but… I went shopping at a maternity store over the weekend, and got a small gift bag. Inside was some coupons, and one was a booklet style from huggies. low and behold, there was a few pictures on the inside of pregnancy timeline. It looked familiar, and then I realized… it was Riley!! Well, and you too, of course. Just checking to make sure you know ’bout it?

By: amber

amber — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:30:11 +0000

Suicidal silly putty…hehe. That is an AWESOME comparison. My niece’s brain must be made of the same stuff.

By: Jakki

Jakki — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:32:57 +0000

LOL thanks for such wonderful memories and my first actual laugh of the day! the best part of it is seeing things through their eyes and seeing what you missed through your own…

By: Ally

Ally — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:31:18 +0000

I wonder if this is a boy thing, because I have a two year-old daughter and I haven’t experienced this with her. She is way too cautious to do daring things and therefore, thus far (THANK GOD) has not really engaged in behaviors that tend to hurt herself. But I am about to have a boy in a couple of months, and this is making me scared!!

By: MizzM

MizzM — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:28:00 +0000

Just think how BORED you will become when Riley and Dyland can not only tie their own shoes and buckle their own suitbelts, but also DO NOT require you to “help” with homework except for asking for a signature on a worksheet, here and there. (OMG–seriously AWESOME agegroup to have in the household!!!) I sit around all day long trying to think up ways to traumatize and humiliate them during their “Tweendom”…

(I am also grateful, on a daily basis, that they can USE THEIR WORDS to explain themselves. Life is so much simpler–of course, I also realize this is probably the “Calm Before the Storm” that is Teenagerhood…

Somehow I think I’m more prepared to wipe a poopy bottom or deal with a temper tantrum than I am prepared to deal with TEENAGERS!

By: veralynn

veralynn — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:58:06 +0000

> feel like this is one of the hardest ages in terms of connecting with my own child. He’s unpredictable; he’s filled with fleeting, terrifying rages; he requires so much intervention it sometimes feels like all I do is make him upset as I pry him away from various unwanted activities. I often feel at a total loss for how to communicate with him, like I’m trying to talk to someone behind a thick wall of glass. Hello, hello? Am I getting through, here? No way to know. I get kisses one minute, wild kicks the next. He loves me, he loves me not.

Ha! I just love how much of this paragraph resembles what I’ve heard from friends with teenagers about what they’re going through. :)

By: April

April — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:16:12 +0000

My husband and I decided today that my 13 month old and his classmates look like a bunch of little zombies wandering around their classroom… all kind of staggering around with blank looks on their faces.

By: ERin

ERin — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:18:19 +0000

Here’s the thing though – can anyone explain to me why all the monster babies will put ANYTHING (animal, vegetable, mineral) in their mouths – seriously, I caught my son sucking on a *piece of raw garlic he had found of the floor* but they gag, spit, and VOMIT out the food mommy puts in front of them? DS acts like I’m poisoning him on a regular basis, but every rock, dead leaf, or bug is a delicacy. Can we someone make peas look like juenbugs? I guess maybe if we throw the food on the floor eventually he’ll come around to picking it up and eating it.

By: Helen

Helen — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:46:04 +0000

I have 6 kids, 23, 21, 20, 8, 7 and 5. I have a grandbaby of 10 months and today, I am having the baby for 10 hours…is it ridiculous that I am terrified of having him for that long? What am I going to DO with him? What if he screams and I don’t know what to with him? This house is now a death trap for babies with the tiny toys parts and the sharp things and NO GATES…have to say though that they revert to idiot people in their teens and then it gets REALLY scary because they go out on their own with the barely functioning brains and the grunting instead of talking……I have learned to enjoy every second of toddlerhood because the teen years? Shudder.