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[2curlydogs]

So, in the last 2 months Razor Knees has torn holes in about half his pants. So this morning I went to measure him and he has had ANOTHER growth spurt. A small one, but enough to put him in SIZE 8 PANTS. 

My FIVE year old is in size 8 pants and size 3 shoes. What.The.Fuck.

[chedifuen]

2curlydogs, Our kids are opposite. My 5 year old basically refuses to grow and can still wear his 3T shorts. My older son has grown 4 inches since November though and is rapidly gaining on me. I'm not looking forward to him being taller than me. My husband is 6'5 and I'm 5'4 so I think one kids took after each of us.

[somersault72]

Wow, that's what my soon-to-be 8 year old wears! Slim though. In the waist he could probably wear a 6, he's tall but super thin.

[darnkatz]

I feel your pain. My three year old is going to bust out of her 5T shorts before the summer is over. She is wearing size 6 leggings today and size 10 shoes. WHY. I want my baby back.

Meanwhile, my almost-8 year old is barely in size 8 pants and size 1 shoes.

[rootbeerfloat]

He is bigger than my 9 year-old DS lol.

[KateAggie]

My recovery has been AWFUL. I dobt even have the energy to detail it right now. But worth it!

[summer]

2curlydogs- I hear you. My 8 yr old wears a size 12 and a size 8 (adult) shoe.

So I friend of mine came in from NY and spent the weekend commenting on how kids here (which would be mine and then another friend of ours she stayed with) are so much more immature than kids in the States because the German kids play with simple toys that would bore her children and the television they watch isn't nearly as mature. She didn't mean it as a judgment, but then I couldn't help thinking about it the last 2 days. How slow things are is actually one of the few things I like better about living here, but it still gave me inklings of "am I doing this right?"

[2curlydogs]

KateAggie - I'm sorry. *hugs* But he's so old man squishy baby! I love his wrinkled little forehead in the boppy pic.

[chedifuen]

KateAggie,He is so beautiful! Congratulations on your little baby!!!

I hope you start to feel much better soon.

[ijack]

May 10, 2016 13:19:40 GMT -5 chedifuen said:

2curlydogs , Our kids are opposite. My 5 year old basically refuses to grow and can still wear his 3T shorts. My older son has grown 4 inches since November though and is rapidly gaining on me. I'm not looking forward to him being taller than me. My husband is 6'5 and I'm 5'4 so I think one kids took after each of us.

Yeah, my 8yo wears a since 3t swim bottom

[bexporter]

KateAggie, Obviously I was liking the cute baby pictures, not the tough recovery.

We gave our 8.5 year old Ticket to Ride Europe for his First Communion. We haven't quite mastered or implemented all the rules and scoring, but we're having a great time playing. And I love that he mostly wants to play with me (and corrected my pronunciation of the native language version of a couple of the city names).

[ttt]

May 10, 2016 13:22:54 GMT -5 summer said:

2curlydogs - I hear you. My 8 yr old wears a size 12 and a size 8 (adult) shoe.

So I friend of mine came in from NY and spent the weekend commenting on how kids here (which would be mine and then another friend of ours she stayed with) are so much more immature than kids in the States because the German kids play with simple toys that would bore her children and the television they watch isn't nearly as mature. She didn't mean it as a judgment, but then I couldn't help thinking about it the last 2 days. How slow things are is actually one of the few things I like better about living here, but it still gave me inklings of "am I doing this right?"

Uh, what? I don't know what kids are watching over in Germany, but in what universe are Paw Patrol and Dora the Explorer mature? And if she's referring to shows like Jessie, she can GTFO with that because I hate the stupid, back-talking, disrespectful, obnoxious brats on those show with a passion. 

My random is that I downloaded "Seasons of Love" after all the Rent talk here a few days ago, and I heard SST singing it. She thinks it goes "measurement love" instead of "measure in love" and for some reason that just cracked me up. 

Both kids are sick. SST has been throwing up for four days straight now, BBT for two. I haven't slept a full night in...a while. And H is out of town. 

[twotrue]

KateAggie, that second photo is everything!


The boys have not slept a solid night in about 6 weeks now. At some point in the night, one or both end up sleeping on me. I've given up.

[btdt]

I recently had to buy my 17 year-old daughter new bras. She's now wearing a 34DD. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find 34DD bras?!? She's 120 pounds dripping wet, and sporting 34DDs. Today is Hawaiian Day at school, and the only shirt that is evenly remotely Hawaiian is a button-front shirt that is a couple of years old. Yeah, it has the "button-bulge" familiar to large-busted women everywhere.

[Gato]

KateAggie I hope you feel better soon. My cousin was over with her new baby yesterday. I forgot newborns were so small! Cousin had the stomach flu all last week (one week after birth), so she was in a "fuck everything" mood.

2curlydogs , my 8 year old is still in size 5 pants, so we have the exact opposite issue. My mom bought her age appropriate pants, which she wants to wear because they're new, then she spends the entire day yanking them up every 10 seconds. Drives me nuts.

[summer]

May 10, 2016 13:36:00 GMT -5 twotrue said:

KateAggie , that second photo is everything!


The boys have not slept a solid night in about 6 weeks now. At some point in the night, one or both end up sleeping on me. I've given up.

Omg, SIX weeks? I would be a beast. I'm sorry. 

[summer]

May 10, 2016 13:40:50 GMT -5 btdt said:

I recently had to buy my 17 year-old daughter new bras. She's now wearing a 34DD. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find 34DD bras?!? She's 120 pounds dripping wet, and sporting 34DDs. Today is Hawaiian Day at school, and the only shirt that is evenly remotely Hawaiian is a button-front shirt that is a couple of years old. Yeah, it has the "button-bulge" familiar to large-busted women everywhere.

I'm super flat-chested and I'm not sure what I will do if either of my girls end up a DD. I really wouldn't know how to process it. 

[eponinepontmercy]

I really underestimated what a PITA teeball would be.

[elleblue]

KateAggie - he's beautiful. I'm sorry to hear things have been so rough. I hope things improve for you very soon.

We told both sets of parents about the pregnancy on Sunday and they're all super excited. I'm a little disappointed that it sounds like my in-laws won't visit until possibly March because they're going on a cruise right when I'm due in November and then they'll be in rehearsals for their retirement community dance/talent show. This is likely to be their first and only grandchild and MIL has been hoping we'd have a child for years so I'm sort of confused that their schedules are going to get in the way. Oh well, it is what it is.

[OscarQ]

Any recommendation for destroy-proof shoes?

The 3yo has wrecked two pairs of brand new sneakers in as many weeks. He's dragging his shoes while riding scooters outside at daycare so it's not behavior we see at home and can modify. We're sending the latest pair of wrecked shoes back to school to be worn for scooter time (and maybe when he feels sidewalk against his toes he'll learn to not brake with that part of the shoe) but I need a replacement pair.

[Deleted]

@kateaggie--hope things improve soon. What an adorable little guy!
2curlydogs--my guy is getting rough on pants too. But in his case size 6 pants slide off his butt, but he's approaching size 8 for tops. Pajama sets are pretty hopeless.

I'm feeling so sad about C's summer care plans. We were planning to have him return to the in-home, licensed care person he had at age 2. She's great at doing play-based learning, and it would be a good, casual experience from him after a somewhat rough year in K. However 1--the daycare provider had her license suspended about 3 weeks ago. It's something pretty fixable, and her first violation in over 20 years of being licensed. I would completely trust her with C still, but until the license is restored/appeal completed it's iffy if she could take him. Then 2-11 days ago, the daycare provider's oldest son got into a serious motorcycle accident. He's still in ICU and not making great strides in improvement. So I have no clue how she's holding herself together at this point, let alone dealing with the licensing issue. So DH and I decided last night that we need to move on with booking C in a summer camp, and we really couldn't afford to lose the deposit even if she's in a position to start the daycare again in 5 weeks. It just feels like we'll be kicking her when she's already down, once we have to tell her C is booked someplace else, if by chance she can take kids in again at that point

[summer]

May 10, 2016 13:32:55 GMT -5 ttt said:

May 10, 2016 13:22:54 GMT -5 summer said:

2curlydogs - I hear you. My 8 yr old wears a size 12 and a size 8 (adult) shoe.

So I friend of mine came in from NY and spent the weekend commenting on how kids here (which would be mine and then another friend of ours she stayed with) are so much more immature than kids in the States because the German kids play with simple toys that would bore her children and the television they watch isn't nearly as mature. She didn't mean it as a judgment, but then I couldn't help thinking about it the last 2 days. How slow things are is actually one of the few things I like better about living here, but it still gave me inklings of "am I doing this right?"

Uh, what? I don't know what kids are watching over in Germany, but in what universe are Paw Patrol and Dora the Explorer mature? And if she's referring to shows like Jessie, she can GTFO with that because I hate the stupid, back-talking, disrespectful, obnoxious brats on those show with a passion. 

My random is that I downloaded "Seasons of Love" after all the Rent talk here a few days ago, and I heard SST singing it. She thinks it goes "measurement love" instead of "measure in love" and for some reason that just cracked me up. 

Both kids are sick. SST has been throwing up for four days straight now, BBT for two. I haven't slept a full night in...a while. And H is out of town. 

My 8 year old and her 8 year old friends who came over were watching (and dressing up/playing) Sofia the First, and then they were playing some unicorn/witch game. I figure, they all can read, write, dress themselves and get on at school, so I'm assuming they are fine in the grand scheme of things. But it got into my head.  The toy thing was because her friend's kid was 7 and was fine playing with one wooden toy for hours and that would have bored her children after a second.  It reminded me of my mom who gets annoyed when she wants to give the children some new "in" gift but when I ask them what they want they say stickers, or markers, or a whistle or something. Then she gifts whatever she wanted anyways and it either terrifies them or gets thrown into a corner. 

The funniest was when my mom bought DD a Christmas book where she could record her voice reading each page. When DD opened it and grandma's voice came out of it, she threw it across the room like it was covered in spiders. 

[racegrrl714]

May 10, 2016 13:15:38 GMT -5 2curlydogs said:

So, in the last 2 months Razor Knees has torn holes in about half his pants. So this morning I went to measure him and he has had ANOTHER growth spurt. A small one, but enough to put him in SIZE 8 PANTS. 

My FIVE year old is in size 8 pants and size 3 shoes. What.The.Fuck.

Size 3 shoes?!?!? OMG he's going to have ginormous feet. LOL My 5 y/o (girl)is in size 7/8 clothes but only size 13 1/2 shoes, which I thought were big. LOL

She too has the razor knees. I swear every pair of pants I've bought her only last two weeks.

[darnkatz]

I am not going to survive the teenage years. The attitude my almost 8 year old has is going to fucking kill me.

[darnkatz]

May 10, 2016 13:51:45 GMT -5 OscarQ said:

Any recommendation for destroy-proof shoes?

The 3yo has wrecked two pairs of brand new sneakers in as many weeks. He's dragging his shoes while riding scooters outside at daycare so it's not behavior we see at home and can modify. We're sending the latest pair of wrecked shoes back to school to be worn for scooter time (and maybe when he feels sidewalk against his toes he'll learn to not brake with that part of the shoe) but I need a replacement pair.

DD2 is a total bruiser (and also 3) and destroys the shit out of clothes and shoes. She has had a pair of these for about five months now and they still look new. She rides her scooter and bike every day and drags her feet. So far, so good.

[picksthemusic]

May 10, 2016 13:47:14 GMT -5 eponinepontmercy said:

I really underestimated what a PITA teeball would be.

Please expand on this. I've been thinking of getting DD into teeball since she loves playing 'baseball' in the backyard with me.

[eponinepontmercy]

May 10, 2016 16:00:57 GMT -5 picksthemusic said:

May 10, 2016 13:47:14 GMT -5 eponinepontmercy said:

I really underestimated what a PITA teeball would be.

Please expand on this. I've been thinking of getting DD into teeball since she loves playing 'baseball' in the backyard with me.

I just don't like going to the games, and they are twice a week. I also realized I just don't like most children that I'm not related to. It's not awful, and the kids have fun, but there are lots of things I'd rather do Saturday morning.

[bugandbibs]

May 10, 2016 13:40:50 GMT -5 btdt said:

I recently had to buy my 17 year-old daughter new bras. She's now wearing a 34DD. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find 34DD bras?!? She's 120 pounds dripping wet, and sporting 34DDs. Today is Hawaiian Day at school, and the only shirt that is evenly remotely Hawaiian is a button-front shirt that is a couple of years old. Yeah, it has the "button-bulge" familiar to large-busted women everywhere.

This was me and now I'm a 34 H. Amazon is the way to go- free shipping and returns.

[meshaliuknits]

May 10, 2016 13:19:40 GMT -5 chedifuen said:

2curlydogs , Our kids are opposite. My 5 year old basically refuses to grow and can still wear his 3T shorts. My older son has grown 4 inches since November though and is rapidly gaining on me. I'm not looking forward to him being taller than me. My husband is 6'5 and I'm 5'4 so I think one kids took after each of us.

My almost 6yo is still wearing her 4T pants, they are just now capris. Her swim suit top is a 6 (to accommodate her head), but her bottoms are 4T. I have a bitch of a time finding things that fit her around the waist and hit her ankles.

[racegrrl714]

May 10, 2016 13:22:54 GMT -5 summer said:

2curlydogs - I hear you. My 8 yr old wears a size 12 and a size 8 (adult) shoe.

So I friend of mine came in from NY and spent the weekend commenting on how kids here (which would be mine and then another friend of ours she stayed with) are so much more immature than kids in the States because the German kids play with simple toys that would bore her children and the television they watch isn't nearly as mature. She didn't mean it as a judgment, but then I couldn't help thinking about it the last 2 days. How slow things are is actually one of the few things I like better about living here, but it still gave me inklings of "am I doing this right?"

Let me just say, yes, you are doing it right. Believe me, I wish things were slower... a lot slower... on this side of the pond. My DSD is 12, watches The Walking Dead and plays with nothing but violent video games at her mom's house, has been caught about five times now talking in adult chat rooms with grown @$$ men and this latest time, my H also found some really abhorrent p*rn (sorry, I'm at work. LOL) in her phone's browser history. This ALL happens at her mom's house. We don't have a gaming system and we don't let her have her any access to the internet, she can't even bring her phone to our house. We have plead with her mom on multiple occasions that she doesn't need ANY phone, let alone a fully functional smart phone, tablet and Xbox 360 that they've given her all since this whole thing started. It just falls on deaf ears. My H won't do anything more about it because he's afraid of p*ssing BM off. I'm at my freakin' wits end.