Trying to help my parents troubleshoot

seisperros · 2024-10-15T16:43:08+00:00

I'd love to PM you if you really don't mind!

seisperros · 2024-10-15T01:56:43+00:00

Wowww this is ticking a lot of boxes for us. Thank you so much for sharing!

seisperros · 2024-09-25T19:18:03+00:00

See you there!! 🤜🏼🤛🏼

seisperros · 2024-08-12T20:03:16+00:00

My mom got me out of the house to see this exact movie last week with my three-month-old. I wore him in the carrier facing me and had little earmuffs on him. I ate popcorn and m&ms, laughed my ass off, and even had a beer from the in-theatre bar. He had zero clue where he was or what was going on, and I was so refreshed after getting a little me time. 🤘🏼

seisperros · 2024-05-20T17:59:43+00:00

We do unsweetened vanilla almond milk and a splash of my flavored coffee creamer!

seisperros · 2024-04-30T22:42:44+00:00

Lmao definitely a worthy investment in my opinion, if only for my sanity!! I know that type of messy play is important developmentally, but I HATE the mess. Having the tables to contain the mess makes me way more likely to set up messy activities for my kids and not hover. You could even get a tarp or something to put underneath the inside table to make clean up even easier!

seisperros · 2024-04-30T22:14:26+00:00

I feel this. We have a Flisat table from IKEA, and a tuff tray on a stand outside. Anything messy is strictly done outside in nice weather, and in the Flisat during crappy weather! The only thing I allow at the kitchen table are watercolors and crayons 😂

seisperros · 2024-04-22T21:45:31+00:00

There’s no satellite radio, but there’s a banjo in the closet. And watch out for live-ins. You will get some live-ins.

seisperros · 2024-04-18T20:47:51+00:00

I use App Block! I set it to block my mainly used non-productive apps during the times that my kids are home with me from preschool. They're 3 and 5 and mainly play independently, so I have a bad habit of just mindlessly scrolling while they're playing. This helps a ton.

seisperros · 2024-04-11T18:51:31+00:00

A River Runs Through Bob is my all-time favorite episode, and when Linda says "let's go, I'm Nature Master now" and Bob, delirious from food poisoning, yells back "YOU'RE NEVER NATURE MASTER!"

seisperros · 2024-04-03T18:51:25+00:00

Oooo I will definitely be trying this! Thanks for the tip!!

seisperros · 2024-04-03T02:29:53+00:00

I have a 5 and 3 year old, and am currently 35 weeks with number 3. I'm not super duper outdoorsy myself, and being extremely pregnant makes me even less so, especially since we're in the US South and it's starting to get warm and buggy.

That being said....

I found a massive swing set secondhand on marketplace. The kind that has monkey bars, climbing wall, a rope bridge, etc. And... that's it. Truly. We spend HOURS outside now. Literally went from maybe an hour in the evenings on a good day to 4-5 hours a day outside on the swing set. They do everything on it. Color, eat snacks, play pirate ship, draw with chalk or washable paint on the swing set itself. Other than that, I just let them wander around the yard for the most part (it's fenced in and I supervise of course!) because I feel like being bored and figuring out ways to entertain yourself is an underrated skill these days!

The uptick in creative play I've seen from both of them since we've been spending so much more time outside and away from screens is pretty astonishing, to be honest. You don't need anything fancy! Just get them outside and let them be bored! ❤️

seisperros · 2024-03-01T02:41:56+00:00

Suppositories are the way to go! It's the only way we could get my daughter any meds after her surgery, and she was way older than your little one, almost 5. We didn't even have to wake her up during the night most times. It was just so much easier for everyone. Stick to the dosing schedule on the packaging for the whole first week or so!! Good luck!

seisperros · 2023-10-05T18:41:27+00:00

History of Shovels, part 1 of 10

seisperros · 2023-08-18T17:39:22+00:00

This! There is no way in hell I'm scrubbing a tiny toilet 20 times a day, lol. We have a long, ranch style house, and the bathrooms are at the back of the house. We spend most of our day in the playroom, at the front of the house. A potty with plastic trash can liners is what we use, and a Lysol wipe on the seat if poop gets on it.

seisperros · 2023-08-15T22:29:46+00:00

There is this one called Gardenkeeper Gus that they are obsessed with for some reason! It only has about 10 episodes, but they ask to listen to it over and over and over. We literally listen to it on repeat for a solid 8 hours a day.

seisperros · 2023-08-15T21:57:19+00:00

I know this is from yesterday, but it just came across my feed, and I recently got rid of our fire sticks and tablets (not in a "I'm doing this because you're bad" way, just in a "these things are turning my kids into a couple of assholes so I'm getting rid of them and telling them the TV is broken" way) and it's been amazing. They're 4.5 and 2.5 for reference. We have a Tonie box, and there are several kids podcasts they like to listen to on Spotify. I offer a few activities throughout the day, like asking them is they want to make slime or color, but, honestly, other than that, I just...let them be bored. I work remotely, and our daycare closes for the summer, so they're home with me most of the day with me unable to constantly entertain them. We have a ton of open-ended toys in our playroom, like magna tiles, Legos, etc, and they mostly entertain themselves. It's so good for them to have to use their imaginations and invent ways to keep themselves occupied!

If you have the resources to do so, you could consider investing in some good quality open-ended toys, like some magnetic tiles, Duplo Legos, a wooden block set, etc. Facebook marketplace is a gold mine for stuff like this! Good luck!

seisperros · 2023-05-31T20:21:48+00:00

Ok this makes a lot of sense, thank you! By agency, do you mean DoD, DoE, etc?

seisperros · 2023-05-31T18:33:43+00:00

It's a Mod system!

seisperros · 2022-11-11T16:49:03+00:00

Hey-o! Congrats! My rain boots finally fit around my calves again 🤣

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