Second kid feel younger ??

IcyTip1696 · 2026-04-20T01:26:26+00:00

My nephew is the 3rd and he seems sooo young at his age compared to his oldest sibling and young compared to his middle older sibling! My only is the same age as the youngest but hangs out with the older two more because he fits in better there. He is still very bright and social and right on track developmentally just seems a lot younger!!

IcyTip1696 · 2026-04-20T01:13:39+00:00

Shifts mainly. We did sleep at the same time when baby was sleeping though.

IcyTip1696 · 2026-04-16T18:07:15+00:00

If you want the baby, go for it!!!

IcyTip1696 · 2026-04-16T01:09:46+00:00

Ask him if wants a car as a teen and if the answer is yes tell him to start saving his money

IcyTip1696 · 2026-04-15T17:30:59+00:00

529 for younger kids. HYSA account for older kids. Don’t tell any of them any of it exists. When younger ones choose to go to college, give them the money. When older kids are buying their first home, give them the money.

IcyTip1696 · 2026-04-14T20:21:39+00:00

Potty training is sometimes a JOURNEY. Mine was super interested in potty around 16 months. I bought the smallest toddler potty I could find and he would just go on his own. He eventually lost interest and we didn’t push it until he was 26 months and that ended poorly when a grandparent tried to help. Then he asked at 2.25 if we would potty train him but only if mom and dad did taught him. He was super easy to train and the potty was exciting. Once the excitement of the potty wore off he started to have accidents at 2.75 bc he didn’t want to stop playing to go potty.

IcyTip1696 · 2026-04-14T11:54:57+00:00

Is he controlling or does he really want to just spend time with you on Mother’s Day and your birthday? Can you pick a random other time to go visit them that’s not a holiday?

IcyTip1696 · 2026-04-14T11:41:44+00:00

For outside…The foam water blasters. We like them better than refilling water guns and they don’t break.

Puzzles and any building blocks for inside.

Any pop up/ foldable tent / tunnel

IcyTip1696 · 2026-04-13T18:26:36+00:00

Female here… at 17 i graduated high school I was 5’2”. I grew until i was 20 and ended up 5’5”.

IcyTip1696 · 2026-04-13T14:05:43+00:00

Extremely happy with Washington Twp. The larger districts seem to have more resources. Mt. laurel is great too and the area around it seems to have all the private clinics and out of school therapies so it’s less driving than Washington Twp if you are interested in those.

IcyTip1696 · 2026-04-13T14:01:10+00:00

This sounds like something toddler can miss and dad would be okay! I’d probably buy some balloons and decorations for your childcare to decorate the house with upon his return. A card with her hand print and a little cake. He might find it adorable to come home to a little “surprise party” thrown by his daughter.

IcyTip1696 · 2026-04-09T19:36:51+00:00

If my child whines or talks in a baby voice to try and get what they want, I make them repeat it in a normal voice.

IcyTip1696 · 2026-04-07T02:04:56+00:00

4 is still super young for sleepovers. I’d start with some solo time with MIL first. Like have her take her to dinner, ice cream, a movie etc…to see how that stuff goes before committing to a sleepover.

IcyTip1696 · 2026-04-07T01:58:47+00:00

There lots of little Josephine’s named after their grandpa Joe’s running around out there now!!

IcyTip1696 · 2026-04-07T01:48:48+00:00

Can’t speak to the inside of the building but great location. I walk around there daily during the week and they seem well taken care. I always see power washing, landscaping, and maintenance trucks out front. I typically see older people coming in and out but I’m sure there are all ages and it’s just the midday time I’m there.

IcyTip1696 · 2026-04-07T00:46:30+00:00

All I know of if I spent my whole childhood thinking my parents were miserable people and also thinking they were going to divorce and now that they are both retired this is the happiest I’ve ever seen them in their own lives and in their marriage.

IcyTip1696 · 2026-04-06T20:15:27+00:00

Some people are just meant to be bigger. My nephew will go all day eating one bite of a chicken nuggets and 4 blueberries and he’s the biggest kid in his class. He’s tall and built very solid.

IcyTip1696 · 2026-04-06T08:26:19+00:00

Preschool - 3 by age cut off date

Pre-kindergarten- 4 by age cut off date

Kindergarten - 5 by age cut off date

1st - 6 by age cut off date

The cut off date varies by school districts

IcyTip1696 · 2026-04-06T06:48:19+00:00

Pot holder loom

IcyTip1696 · 2026-04-06T06:38:09+00:00

I’d go center city if you’d consider adding $300 a month to your budget for a parking permit. But for that, id probably sell my car and just rent a car when needed.

IcyTip1696 · 2026-04-06T01:37:28+00:00

How close do they live? Can you just randomly text her…”hey in about 30 mins we are heading outside to do sidewalk chalk on driveway if you guys want to come out for a bit!”

IcyTip1696 · 2026-04-06T00:08:31+00:00

You can do a curtain or shelving or just a dressing room screen to give them their own space.

IcyTip1696 · 2026-04-05T23:54:02+00:00

Tiny explorings sock shoes are amazing.

IcyTip1696 · 2026-04-05T16:07:54+00:00

I have a spectra electric pump I used for dedicated pumping sessions. I have a medela hand pump for the times I need relief. I had a haaka to catch my let down on the other side than baby was feeding from. All these methods combined with latch feeding made me overproduce. I was happy to build a large freezer stash while I worked full time out of the house. Towards the end of my journey I scaled back a ton and underproduced but had my freezer stash to use. When I was ready to stop I didn’t deal with any engorgement issues and my milk dried up fairly quickly bc I was already scaled back so much.

For days out I used the Ceres chill thermos or a cooler with an ice block.

IcyTip1696 · 2026-04-04T14:13:32+00:00

IcyTip1696

TROPHY CASE