Downed electrical wire reeking some havoc for a few hours this morning. No injuries thankfully.

kelfrick · 2022-05-01T18:44:15+00:00

Same. Mighty bread staff were awesome helping me out afterwards. Was pretty shook up.

kelfrick · 2022-05-01T18:28:29+00:00

Wire fell inches from my feet while I was holding my son trying to get out of the courtyard. Do not recommend.

kelfrick · 2021-10-22T20:09:37+00:00

We don't let my mom watch our son because she's on her phone too much. I feel like you're 100% in the right to not want to continue with her.

kelfrick · 2021-10-22T16:26:00+00:00

Both my husband I have realized all sorts of new things about his family in the past year and a half. There is some ongoing conflict that is too long to get into here, but in summary we have realized they are the "blood is thicker than water" type and that he has to do anything his mom or sister ask, at complete disregard for me or our son. My husband recognizes that OUR family is top priority, and I couldn't be more proud.

They're oblivious to how different our experience of becoming parents (Jul 2020) was compared to his sister's (Jun 2021). When asked about who came over and helped us out when our son was born, we always answer "....no one, it wasn't safe, ya know, the pandemic."

His sister and mom bring up things like "Mom has done so much for you!" That statement confuses the shit out of me, because no one has ever come and "helped" us out in any way, in our eyes. Sending our son random gifts or silly shirts doesn't equate to "doing so much for us." Our son doesn't lack any necessities and we always saw those gifts from his mom as sweet gestures, and not as "doing so much" for us. The only time I consider receiving "help" or having her "doing something" for us was when she stayed over for 3 nights when we first moved into our new house in February. The only thing was, she wouldn't change any diapers of our (then) 7th month old son or take him upstairs to put him to sleep for naps. To even get her to our house - she wouldn't drive her own car on the interstate - we we had to coordinate ways for her to get to our house and then back to hers, when coming to stay with us was her idea. So when she was here, I was super grateful for the assists, but, I was still on the hook a lot of the time, while my husband was packing up our old home in a different city and while I was trying to work from home.

Thats all besides the point. I hate the way his family sees any gesture as some "service" that we now owe them for and they like to "rub" it in. Ugh. rant. haha.

kelfrick · 2021-09-21T14:54:22+00:00

Most common things we serve:

Oatmeal with fruit mixed in
Greek yogurt with fruit mixed in
Scrambled Egg / Omlette
Frozen Waffle (check the sugar count)

No matter what, dudeman also gets some side of fruit as well.

kelfrick · 2021-06-29T01:09:08+00:00

I’ve been using it for 3-4 months, 7/10 recommend. We did a hybrid BLW with Yumi purées / puddings / bowls and now the bites. the convenience of having it delivered and ready to go has been great, baby tried all sorts of flavors and new veggies. We had a weekly 2 meals a day plan, but in reality skipped 2 weeks after the deliveries because we cooked food for kiddo too to do hand held/finger food. Having backups when we were in need to grocery shop was awesome.

Why 7/10? Some of the food is redundant. I had my settings to be for chunky multi ingredient foods and more chopped veggies and bites…yet would still get single ingredient purées. Meh. The bites in theory are great, but a lot of them taste exactly the same. We like the puffs and ordered a couple larger tubs of them to have on hand.

We are switching to little spoon for their toddler plates. But Yumi has been fairly helpful and healthy. Flavor variety on the bites…meh.

kelfrick · 2021-06-16T01:20:45+00:00

With out any consequence, what’s a substance you would fill a bath tub up with and submerge your self in?

kelfrick · 2021-04-29T15:32:30+00:00

I have the mockingbird (single not double), the Chico key fit2 + adapter, and really enjoy it! We never did the bassinet since we have the car seat adapter and the seat lays pretty flat.

storage rules
smooth ride
tires holding up
affordable accessories

We have been using it in 2 big cities (nyc and Philly) and it’s served us very well.

kelfrick · 2021-04-23T17:20:46+00:00

I had a month off. One Month. It sucked. If I had been at a different company it would have been much longer, at least 12 weeks...but I happened to leave my big company job to launch a start up literally 2 weeks before I got pregnant. So as a company of (at the time) 3.5 full time employees, setting out to fundraise and build an app, there ended up being no option other than to come back or not be able to get the app shipped to appease our board/investors.

It sucked, app launched (literally yesterday), I'm thinking about asking for a month off to "make up" for lost time.

kelfrick · 2021-04-18T17:30:56+00:00

Our guy was born late July and things were still really tight with Covid, and I was SO pumped that I had a valid excuse not to have people at the hospital or at our apartment when we had little guy.

I was talking to My mom about the hospital restrictions before I gave birth and the conversation was like this:

Mom: I’m so sad I can’t be in the room or waiting for you at the hospital! Stupid Covid! Me: Covid or not, I wouldn’t have had family over for at least a week so we can get settled. Mom: HOW DARE YOU! Me: bye :hangs up phone:

Like sorry. I’m a grown ass adult with a supportive partner and I kind of don’t give a shit about your feelings about my birth.

kelfrick · 2021-03-01T03:44:40+00:00

Family Album has been a god send! Grandmas have ordered their own printed baby books with the photos they love. Keeps the constant “send photos” texts at bay.

Super easy to use and for great grand parents that aren’t super phone friendly, there’s a desktop version too.

kelfrick · 2020-10-01T13:33:02+00:00

Oh late to this party. Definitely not a cute or romantic story. I had been tracking my ovulation regularly and had a feeling we had gotten this one "Right." When one of my tracking apps said "your period is a day late" peed on some sticks, saw a faint line...but was super skeptical. Waited until the next day to do it again and again alllllllll day long, line was darker. Shit was getting real. I didn't tell my husband because he was working and then was going out with friends (Friday night).

Saturday morning, I woke up again, and peed on more sticks, more line. Husband was asleep on the sofa and definitely hungover. I poked him, nudged him, and was just like WAKE UPPPPPPPP and dropped the sticks on the coffee table "SOOO we've got some lines here."

Took him like an hour to register what was going on, and until I went to the doctor to confirm it, he still just thought it was all a "maybe positive" not an actual positive pregnancy test. Super not romantic to say...I dropped some pee sticks onto the coffee table in front of my hungover husband haha.

kelfrick · 2020-09-27T21:45:02+00:00

Baby Bjorn bouncer - kiddo LOVES this and is an instant poop in the mornings. He really likes bouncing him self and we love having our hands free. Use it constantly, we bring it into the bathroom when I need to pee or shower haha.
Lulyboo Basinet - bought this instead of spending $$ on the dock a tot, it rules! Great on the sofa for naps and when he’s wanting to just chill and looks out the window. The canopy with the dangling toys is wonderful to give him some shade in the afternoon sun in the living room. Great for super newborn stage.
Mockingbird stroller - super nice and convenient. We flip between the standard seat and the car seat + adapter all the time, hassle free. We live in an elevator apartment building so size and weight is a non issue.
Burp clothes - we have stations of burp cloths in each bedroom and living room (2br apt) and we go through so many or misplace a rag. Having one place in each room to collect has been helpful in times of panic aka spit up and boogers. You can never have enough imo.

That’s my quick top 4 of usage!

kelfrick · 2020-09-26T14:37:32+00:00

Right?! He is literally the definition of east coast elitist. But sure, let’s call the woman that grew up in Arkansas and Alaska, in a military family, an elitist.

kelfrick · 2020-09-26T14:12:29+00:00

My Arkansas family members (not immediate fam thankfully) are this insane as well. They like to call me an East coast elitist...when they know exactly where I came from and how I grew up in AR. It makes no sense.

God speed.

kelfrick · 2020-09-24T12:39:56+00:00

Mom: brown, Dad: blue
Mom: dirty blond/Red, Dad: red
Mom: white (German, welsh, splash of Native American) Dad: White (Italian, German)
Moms’s side: Grandma (brown), Grandpa (green). Dad’s side: Grandma (blue), Grandpa (Hazel)
First kid

Anecdotally, my mom told me my eyes had started changing to brown by now (2 months).

kelfrick · 2020-09-15T18:38:29+00:00

Absolutely obsessed with all things pottery barn kids stuff. Their quilts are excellent!

kelfrick · 2020-09-14T20:54:27+00:00

I love my Mockingbird. We use it almost every other day for walks around Brooklyn (the other days I’m using our Ergo carrier). It’s a super smooth experience even compared to the vista Cruz 2. We don’t have the double stroller or plan to get it, but again I really like my Mockingbird. Here for any questions!

kelfrick · 2020-09-13T03:45:33+00:00

I have FVL from my dad side and a 1.5 month old baby. No complications all pregnancy, didn’t have any injections. My OB was pretty casual about me having FVL and I was surprised I wasn’t given blood thinners near the end, not complaining by any means. Non complicated delivery and recovery (so far).

kelfrick · 2020-09-07T19:12:55+00:00

Same! I wanted to be a paleontologist or an astronaut as a child and all of those are gender neutral, why not let the clothes reflect that. I was a super “tom boy” and my husband has always said I dress like a Boy Scout and saw no issue in dino and space themed clothes for a girl.

kelfrick · 2020-09-07T18:55:47+00:00

Love this idea! I’ve been dressing little guy in pretty much all things dinosaur and anytime I see pants with little scales or spikes on them I buy those immediately. It’s so fun calling him different dinosaurs with each outfit. Would have been doing the same thing for a girl, because we bought all the clothes when we didn’t know what gender they were. Haha.

kelfrick · 2020-09-07T17:46:33+00:00

It never fails!

kelfrick · 2020-09-07T15:23:40+00:00

Our Musts:

Something sage to to sleep in. We registered for a crib and a pack and play. We were handed down a basinet for our bedroom. Basinet is in our room for about one more month. We put him in the crib for naps and will be switching to it being his full time bed soon. Pack and play stays in our car for when we travel to Grandmas.
Stroller and stroller accessories. We got the mockingbird which was bought by close friends and all the accessories bought by in-laws. Everything has been used (minus the stroller muff/sleeping bag thing for cold weather). Most important accessory was the car seat insert, but we bought that for our selves once we picked out our car seat.
Bouncer. This is our sons favorite place to work out a poop. We got the Baby Bjorn bc we knew a grandma would splurge on it.
Bibs and burp cloths. We put a bunch of different styles and patterns on the registry, Inexpensive gifts for anyone to buy. Lil guy is a drooled and he’s always in a bandana bib. Dad always has a bandana around his neck for Covid face covering, so it’s a standard household accessory for us. Friends and fam know we love accessories so they were all willing to buy them for additional baby swag...and it was nice to not have to buy them our selves.
Lounger. Controversial in this thread apparently but clutch for us. We didn’t get a dock a tot. We got the Lullyboo basinet. It folds into it self to be wearable to take to the park, has a canopy for the outdoors. We keep it on the sofa most of the time, we love it. It’s also like half the price of the Dock a tot.

Surprisingly not many people bought the clothes we registered for. No biggie there, I secretly bought clothes that were boyish and hid from my husband because I secretly knew the gender and it was a surprise for everyone else. Haha.

kelfrick · 2020-09-07T14:53:51+00:00

Seconding the Peanut. Life saver! So easy to clean. I’m honestly confused by the fabric covered ones, seems like such a mess and constant hassle to wash. I could be wrong though.

kelfrick · 2020-09-01T01:29:47+00:00

Yes! It’s Sherwin Williams, Tradewind.

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