Confess your MOTY Moments

[lindsaymg]

We are driving 2.5 to the beach for Spring Break today. We stopped at a Sonic for a quickie meal on the road. Since we are going to grocery shop when we get there and I didn't expect DD (7.5 months) to stay awake during the drive (her normal nap time) I didn't have any solid food to give her.

She kept staring down her 7yo brother like "well... Are you going to share?" And angrily baby chattering at him. So I gave her a few French fries which she happily devoured.

She takes her solid food seriously. She eats an embarrassing amount of food for someone of her time 18 percentile size.

Please share your recent "Mother of the Year" moments.

[sent]

I fed my kid cake for breakfast. And didn't stop her when she went digging for the chocolate chips on the frosting. My choice, not hers, to eat cake.

At least it was from Whole Foods so yay no preservatives?

[caramia]

Not terrible but I feel weird about it. DD is still in the hospital & multiple nurses have commented on the orange-ish tint to her face. I've noticed it for a couple weeks. After blood tests, her liver is fine...the coloring is from feeding her too much carrot purée :/. She loves carrots & I never even thought of this haha

[bowies]

Our young toddler knows how to turn on our TV.

[preppy]

Mar 13, 2016 15:30:15 GMT -5 gravytrain225 said:

I drove for 45 minutes the other day. When I got home I realized I never strapped the baby in the car seat.

DH did this the other day. We were at ikea and loosened the straps but had the shower cap bunting over it and forgot to retighten when we put her back in the car. Omg I aged 5 years once I realized it.

[lindsaymg]

Mar 13, 2016 15:30:15 GMT -5 gravytrain225 said:

I drove for 45 minutes the other day. When I got home I realized I never strapped the baby in the car seat.

I did this in the bucket a month or so ago. I about had a heart attack. Usually big brother would notice this but he wasn't with us.

[MamaMaui24]

Mar 13, 2016 14:24:46 GMT -5 sent said:

I fed my kid cake for breakfast. And didn't stop her when she went digging for the chocolate chips on the frosting. My choice, not hers, to eat cake.

At least it was from Whole Foods so yay no preservatives?

OMG was it their Chantilly berry cake?! Now I have a craving.

[krystee]

My confession is that I've done at least three of the things already posted. (Fries, TV at six months, and forgot to strap him in once).

[circa1978]

Mar 13, 2016 15:17:46 GMT -5 caramia said:

Not terrible but I feel weird about it. DD is still in the hospital & multiple nurses have commented on the orange-ish tint to her face. I've noticed it for a couple weeks. After blood tests, her liver is fine...the coloring is from feeding her too much carrot purée :/. She loves carrots & I never even thought of this haha

My mom did this to me when I first started solids. I still love carrots! 

[niq]

I left V in the carseat yesterday while I went inside to get a few things. It was well under 60 degrees, he can't unbuckle himself yet.

We let V play "Pirates" which seems to involve thwacking with foam swords or cardboard tubes. There are ground rules (you have to ask, if someone says stop you have to stop, don't thwack the cats, etc.), but this is probably confession worthy on the board.

[missbella]

DS eats hot dogs and beans at least once a week. It's one of the very few forms of protein he will eat. At least I buy the all beef ones, right? Lol. Also, this means that my pregnant self also eats this once a week. Poor DD, she is already getting the shaft and she is still in utero.

[estrellita]

E has eaten fast food and pizza and I don't feel bad about it at all, lol. It's not like we do it every meal so meh. He's also pretty skinny so he could use the extra calories, lol. He also gets Goldfish and other "bad" snacks sometimes. Oh well!

[darnkatz]

I opened DD1's school photos and had to leave the room. I was laughing so fucking hard. I am the worst mother ever. She looks... crazy. She has her crazy eyes and smile on. They cut off one of her feet in the photo. She wore a flower sweater with striped socks and ballet flats. Totally did not realize it was school picture day when she left the house. 

FTR, my H, my MIL, and my sister all burst into laughter when they saw the photos too. IT'S NOT JUST ME. 

[darnkatz]

Mar 13, 2016 14:17:42 GMT -5 lindsaymg said:

We are driving 2.5 to the beach for Spring Break today. We stopped at a Sonic for a quickie meal on the road. Since we are going to grocery shop when we get there and I didn't expect DD (7.5 months) to stay awake during the drive (her normal nap time) I didn't have any solid food to give her.

She kept staring down her 7yo brother like "well... Are you going to share?" And angrily baby chattering at him. So I gave her a few French fries which she happily devoured.

She takes her solid food seriously. She eats an embarrassing amount of food for someone of her time 18 percentile size.

Please share your recent "Mother of the Year" moments.

DD2 had her first taste of McDonald's at 9 months. She was so pissed watching her big sister eat fries and nuggets and wouldn't stop screaming. I finally fed her a fry and she got the biggest smile on her face and couldn't stop giggling. So I fed her more. lol

[caramia]

Mar 13, 2016 16:46:05 GMT -5 circa1978 said:

Mar 13, 2016 15:17:46 GMT -5 caramia said:

Not terrible but I feel weird about it. DD is still in the hospital & multiple nurses have commented on the orange-ish tint to her face. I've noticed it for a couple weeks. After blood tests, her liver is fine...the coloring is from feeding her too much carrot purée :/. She loves carrots & I never even thought of this haha

My mom did this to me when I first started solids. I still love carrots! 

Yeah, I'm just setting her up for a lifetime of healthy eating!

[pooh8402]

I can confess to the infant in front of the TV, and forgotten the car seat straps (and I'm a CPST, for crying out loud!). I'll even purposely put him in front of the TV so he'll be distracted while I clip his nails. I fed him tastes of Fuddruckers cheese at like 4 months old.

[CloudBee]

Mar 13, 2016 15:30:15 GMT -5 gravytrain225 said:

I drove for 45 minutes the other day. When I got home I realized I never strapped the baby in the car seat.

When DS was a newborn, I remember a few times hearing his infant seat click into the base when I stopped suddenly at a light. So... you're not alone.

[VillainV]

My kid has had a McDonalds happy meal for lunch two days in a row. Well, actually, he only ate the go-gurt, a total of maybe one chicken nugget, and maybe 8 fries.

[CloudBee]

We bought giant super soaker water guns for DS and DH to use in the backyard. I'm sure people are out there judging me, but blasting each other with water is SO much fun. (And we don't let him "shoot people" in any other manner.) <--- See the guilt tidbit?

[SallySparrow]

Today has been one big MOTY day. H is sick. I'm sick with strep and some kind of sinus something. A definitely watched about 3 hrs of Daniel Tiger today, had a poptart for breakfast and a corn dog for lunch. No veggies in sight. And she's probably going to ask for cereal for dinner and I'll probably let her have it.

[SallySparrow]

Mar 13, 2016 17:45:11 GMT -5 CloudBee said:

We bought giant super soaker water guns for DS and DH to use in the backyard. I'm sure people are out there judging me, but blasting each other with water is SO much fun. (And we don't let him "shoot people" in any other manner.) <--- See the guilt tidbit?

Uh, super soakers are awesome and I don't even equate them with other forms of playing with toy guns.

I want a super soaker. lol

[CloudBee]

Mar 13, 2016 17:46:00 GMT -5 SallySparrow said:

Today has been one big MOTY day. H is sick. I'm sick with strep and some kind of sinus something. A definitely watched about 3 hrs of Daniel Tiger today, had a poptart for breakfast and a corn dog for lunch. No veggies in sight. And she's probably going to ask for cereal for dinner and I'll probably let her have it.

I guess this would be a good place to confess that about half the time DS refuses to nap, I throw him into bed with the iPad for... 2'ish hrs? Whatever. He won't always read for that long, and he can be a beast if he doesn't physically rest his body. My one rule is: you must lay down if you want the iPad during quiet time. Head on pillow and all. LOL.

[Deleted]

Mar 13, 2016 15:17:46 GMT -5 caramia said:

Not terrible but I feel weird about it. DD is still in the hospital & multiple nurses have commented on the orange-ish tint to her face. I've noticed it for a couple weeks. After blood tests, her liver is fine...the coloring is from feeding her too much carrot purée :/. She loves carrots & I never even thought of this haha

This happened to my sister. My Mom took her to the doctor because she was beginning to get worried.

[mcfelix]

Last weekend while we were eating dinner, DS threw up all over the table and himself. We figured he had gagged on his dinner and weren't too worried. DH took him up get a bath and go to bed. I am washing the dishes and I tell DH that we can't leave his milk thermos next to the sink - we need to dump it out because it curdles and smells awful. DH responds - ohh. DS just drank from that.

So my kid was puking because we let him drink curdled milk. Poor kid.

[darnkatz]

Mar 13, 2016 17:51:23 GMT -5 @hannymarren said:

Mar 13, 2016 15:17:46 GMT -5 caramia said:

Not terrible but I feel weird about it. DD is still in the hospital & multiple nurses have commented on the orange-ish tint to her face. I've noticed it for a couple weeks. After blood tests, her liver is fine...the coloring is from feeding her too much carrot purée :/. She loves carrots & I never even thought of this haha

This happened to my sister. My Mom took her to the doctor because she was beginning to get worried.

This happened to my niece as well. We like to look at her baby photos and laugh because of her orange nose. 

[jeaniebueller]

My DS played Xbox for 2.5 hours today while DD, my H and I all napped. We had a super busy and active day yesterday, so I wasn't worried.

[jeaniebueller]

Also, DS had chips for dinner last night.

[Deleted]

These aren't real confessions, lol.

I've told my kid to STFU before. Recently. As in a few months ago.

Oh, and "stop fucking whining".

I'm not proud.

[carolinagirl831]

Mar 13, 2016 16:22:04 GMT -5 krystee said:

My confession is that I've done at least three of the things already posted. (Fries, TV at six months, and forgot to strap him in once).

Me too

[darnkatz]

Mar 13, 2016 18:22:50 GMT -5 @roseyposey said:

These aren't real confessions, lol.

I've told my kid to STFU before. Recently. As in a few months ago.

Oh, and "stop fucking whining".

I'm not proud.

Oh, I've done both of those before. Multiple times. We keep it classy over here. I've also said, "Suck it up and get over it because I'm not going to listen to one more whiny word out of your mouth." I may have also said, "You need to just shut your mouth right now."