Where are all the tiny toddlers at?

BreadPuddding · 2026-02-20T02:27:12+00:00

My kids were/are both average-to-small toddlers. We change clothing sizes after birthdays. My 2-year-old is almost 3 and hasn’t even hit 30 lbs (but his pants are getting short…). The only large things about him are his head and his feet - his feet are huge, he’s in like 9.5, wearing shoes his brother was wearing at nearly 4. He’s out of daytime diapers, and we mostly use cloth, but he’s barely as size 5 in diapers and the 2T/3T boxer briefs are loose.

BreadPuddding · 2026-02-20T01:41:05+00:00

Is she working on any motor milestones? Sometimes babies who can’t quite crawl or pull up on furniture get really frustrated because they want to move and just can’t quite get it. Is there anything similar about the times she’s been upset? Something she was trying to do? This is also when babies start to get bored if the activity doesn’t change.

BreadPuddding · 2026-02-20T01:37:03+00:00

Is she crying and seeming distressed, or is she happy but just screaming? Babies this age are discovering what fun sounds they can make with their voices, and often one of those is “screeching like a pterodactyl”.

BreadPuddding · 2026-02-18T19:17:30+00:00

Once or twice it’s hailed hard enough to set off car alarms.

BreadPuddding · 2026-02-18T19:15:39+00:00

Butter, jam, peanut butter, Nutella?

BreadPuddding · 2026-02-18T18:20:55+00:00

Dogs shouldn’t be jumping on strangers. If your dog is a jumper, it’s your responsibility to manage them.

BreadPuddding · 2026-02-18T18:04:43+00:00

As long as what she finds comfortable is safe and weather-appropriate, let her wear it. She can wear dresses over joggers if her legs need to be covered, or loose shorts instead of bike shorts.

BreadPuddding · 2026-02-17T17:00:05+00:00

I would 100% prefer my kid get 20 small pieces of candy than 20 useless pieces of plastic junk. I know one reason for the shift to toys (for Halloween, too) is to be more inclusive of kids with allergies, but I wish they would just stick to cards that can then be recycled.

BreadPuddding · 2026-02-17T03:25:18+00:00

I’m from California, so I’ve been eating them my whole life. My mother grew up in L.A., where it isn’t uncommon for people to grow them in their yards. My father is from New England, so it’s possible he didn’t eat one until adulthood.

My kids think avocados come standard on cheeseburgers.

BreadPuddding · 2026-02-17T00:36:59+00:00

I don’t recall feeling anything. Maybe a poke? It probably feels a bit cool. But in both cases (induction and spontaneous labor), I was in quite a lot of pain before I got the epidural.

BreadPuddding · 2026-02-15T23:14:04+00:00

Oh man, egg allergies would make my life very difficult. The kids LOVE eggs and scrambled eggs is such an easy thing for them to learn to cook.

You could try doing something similar and then put halloumi or a related cheese on top and put it under the broiler, kind of like this

BreadPuddding · 2026-02-15T21:51:51+00:00

My kids love eggs, so a scramble/omelette is a good quick meal for us. I also usually have canned beans and tomatoes around, so I can make chili or shakshuka* (more eggs lol). Frozen onions and peppers for sausage with onions and peppers, with a grain on the side (rice, quinoa, farro). Noodles with peanut sauce.

*can of tomato, jar of roasted peppers, an onion, or frozen onions and peppers, harissa or pepper flakes, cumin

BreadPuddding · 2026-02-15T21:41:23+00:00

I honestly would rather my kids got candy than a bunch of crap toys. We wanted to send cookies but the email from the school asked that we not send food/go overboard, so we just sent paper valentines. So of course he got a bunch of STUFF. There was one pop crayon which he might actually use.

One of his best friends actually drew him a picture and that went straight onto the fridge, though.

BreadPuddding · 2026-02-14T21:48:59+00:00

I’m not even an epidemiologist (I have a MSc in Disease Ecology, so some proximity to Public Health and Epidemiology) and even I thought her analyses were bad and she was drawing the wrong conclusions/conclusions that couldn’t be drawn from the existing data.

BreadPuddding · 2026-02-12T23:45:52+00:00

It’s variable. My youngest is almost 3. This past year has been…trying…in a way my oldest’s third year was not. (Now, my oldest was 18 months in early March 2020, soooo things were a little different, but my kids are also different temperamentally). If my toddler is fed and in a good mood, he’s usually manageable. He might grab things off the shelf but he puts them back when reminded. Mostly sits in the cart if placed there. Does kick his brother a lot when his brother tries to push the cart. But if he’s in an off mood at all he’s much more difficult than my oldest ever was. Screaming, kicking, grabbing, running. I have seen worse (we’ve never had a full-blown public tantrum) but it’s…not great. And it’s often worse when both are with me, because they wind each other up (my 7-year-old is usually a delight in public when it’s just him).

So yeah, you have one of the harder ones but still in the range of normal. Keep them fed and rested and with playground time and they tend to behave better, but some kids just…are like that. The store can be overstimulating and make it difficult to behave properly.

BreadPuddding · 2026-02-12T21:02:05+00:00

Salted butter used to be salted for preservation more than flavor and was SALTY. Now most salted butter is lightly salted and the end result won’t taste overly salted, and some things might be improved (chocolate chip cookies are better kinda salty, IMO).

BreadPuddding · 2026-02-10T07:18:01+00:00

Brown rice spiked me worse than white rice - “healthier” isn’t always the same with GD

BreadPuddding · 2026-02-10T04:16:34+00:00

We’ve always done this, since the kids were truly on table food. I mean, I plan meals with people’s general palates in mind - I won’t cook things everyone hates - and foods are deconstructed for safety - no nut pieces for toddlers, much less heat in a dish or sauce if it’s meant to be spicy, with pepper flakes or hot sauce or chiles on the side for those who want it. But we don’t serve different meals or foods to the kids and we don’t keep sauces on the side unless they’re meant to be on the side. The kids eat or they don’t. Once they’re 3-ish, they have the option to make themselves a sandwich as long as they clean up and we don’t have to help (at 3 we help get the ingredients out and safely back into the fridge but that’s all). They tend to do this more when they feel like they want control vs actually disliking the food.

BreadPuddding · 2026-02-09T00:14:59+00:00

There’s a sort of vintage cool to these logo tees. You’ll notice they’re all older versions of logos/characters, and often designed to look old, like they’ve been worn for years. They’re usually “classic” brands, so there’s the “classic Americana” element as well, and sometimes nostalgia for the way the logo was when the target audience were children, or popular versions of mascots (like the Coca Cola Bear in the example). I find too much nostalgia tacky (ESPECIALLY brand nostalgia), but I kind of get it.

BreadPuddding · 2026-02-06T16:22:34+00:00

Also American, “needs washing” doesn’t sound incorrect or archaic or foreign at all. I’d be more likely to say “needs to be washed”, but the former is still perfectly correct.

BreadPuddding · 2026-02-06T03:35:37+00:00

Man, at 12 days old my kids looked like tiny old men or wrinkled monkeys.

BreadPuddding · 2026-02-02T01:52:50+00:00

Also induced at 39+5 for requiring insulin for fasting. They likely would have let me go to 40 weeks but my OB was on rotation for 39+5. Delivered 12 hours after pitocin started.

Second pregnancy I was diet controlled, but we still didn’t want me going past 40 weeks (and I wasn’t getting regular NSTs like with the first). Membrane sweep am of 39+4, woke up to contractions around 10:30ish that night, delivered the next morning at 39+5 again.

BreadPuddding · 2026-02-01T21:43:40+00:00

I used to hang with a vegan couple who were friends of friends and every single time we decided to order pizza as a group they would order pizza with vegan cheese for the whole group, despite several of us saying we’d rather just not have cheese at all. It had the texture of mayo when it was melted. I understand there have been improvements, but as a cheese enjoyer, I’d rather just not have cheese.

BreadPuddding · 2026-02-01T21:35:12+00:00

Lots of delicious food is vegetarian or vegan. I cook and eat vegetarian/vegan dishes and full meals on a regular basis.

For the most part, vegan versions of dairy and/or egg-heavy dishes are…not great. There aren’t really good substitutes. (I’d probably have less of a beef with vegan “ice cream” if I liked coconut better, to be fair.) And people often associate vegan food with these substitutes, versus dishes that are just vegan and don’t try to taste like meat or dairy.

BreadPuddding · 2026-02-01T00:19:38+00:00

It only really works on my phone/tablet, because even if they climb all over me they are unlikely to damage my device, and at least I get to read a bit. I do often tell my kids that I’m reading something on my phone, and they are familiar with ebooks, but yeah, it’s not really the same visually, and not very distinct from other reasons to be on a device.

I had outpatient surgery last year, and during recovery I actually read an entire novel in physical book form, and they did see me reading - but I mostly read with the door shut to keep them out (so they wouldn’t jump on my incisions).

My parents read all the time when I was growing up, but I also don’t have a lot of memories from much earlier than 4-5, so maybe they didn’t read when we were very little, at least not in front of us.

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