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RE: Baby Chat 6! - 11/16/2009 9:22:28 PM
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Krislynx
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I have a question about something that happened at the library today. We went for the drop in play time but I forgot it was canceled so we went to the regular kid's play area by the picture books. It has a train table, duplos, a fake log to crawl through and they put out an extra basket of toys because the play time was not going on. So Josh is having a grand time playing and chatting and just being very social. He kept going up to this one little girl and playing with her - balls, blocks, shape board, you name it. Now I did notice an awful lot of adults following her around and I though it was odd, but to each their own. Well after about a half hour or bit longer the one woman stops playing with the kid and starts filling out a form - it was a developmental assessment. No big deal except that as she is going over it with the mom (about 5 feet from where I am sitting so there is no way I'm not going to hear some of it) she says "it was hard to evaluate x,y and z" because Josh was there. We'll have to reschedule in a couple of weeks." So it seemed like she was saying Josh messed up the test to some extent - not ruined necessarily but made it harder. But is this something that would typically be done in a place like the library? Wouldn't the kid's home or an office be a better setting? I can see it if the focus was to see how she interacted with other kids but I'm pretty sure that was not the point - they basically tried to keep her focused on them and not just playing with the other kids. I just thought they were "hover parenting" and figured that if Josh was bugging them they would say something. It is a public play space after all. Anyway, just wondering if this is a typical thing.
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RE: Baby Chat 6! - 11/16/2009 9:30:33 PM
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It depends on the evaluator and the family circumstances, I guess. They try to evaluate in the most normal setting as possible, for most that is the home. But if the family had something going on where evaluating in the home wasn't possible then maybe the library was the next best thing?
I wouldn't worry about it messing anything up. Even with Gabby being evaluated in our home there were still things that they couldn't evaluate as well as they would have liked. It's hard with new people asking a kid to do 50 million things in an hour.
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RE: Baby Chat 6! - 11/16/2009 9:40:33 PM
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Krislynx
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I'm not really worried. It was their choice to use the library and even if I had known what they were doing I don't think I could have kept him away the whole time. Although I would have made an effort. We should be in the actual play time the next time this particular little girl is there so that should prevent Josh from being a factor but if they are still there when play time is over I'll see if he wants to do puzzles or something. Honestly, I was kind of annoyed they mentioned him by name so that I could hear it. I don't know if it was on purpose or not, but it kind of seemed like a hint.
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RE: Baby Chat 6! - 11/16/2009 10:10:07 PM
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Ruth, I hope you and the kiddos had a better day. It is just terrible when they are both sick. I am looking forward to the holidays as well. Although, I am not sure how I will keep Hannah out of the tree. She loves pretty things so I think I am going to be picking up alot of ornaments. It has also really had me thinking about our traditions and what we should do. I love the idea of creating our own family traditions.
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RE: Baby Chat 6! - 11/17/2009 7:37:14 AM
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We've been cheating the last two years. As much as I love a full-sized, real tree, I just didn't want to bother when Nathan was walking by Christmas time. We purchased a smallish, fake tree that sits on top of a high, sturdy end table - mostly out of kids' reach. Now, Nathan can get to whatever he wants these days, but with Beth putting everything in her mouth still, we'll once more year of the puny tree.
We've never gone hog wild on decorations, but Beth will limit those as well. I'm thinking of changing around our interior decorations anyways. In the past I did like them, but they looked a little college-dormish.
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RE: Baby Chat 6! - 11/17/2009 8:08:13 AM
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I am not sure what we are going to do. When we were first married we bought all new decorations. I have a gorgeous, well I think so, Victorian tree in deep garnet and gold. There are so many choking/breaking hazards. I never thought, hey what will this be like with kids? So now I am dealing with that. We will do something. I love having a tree too much.
Cosleeping is going well other than I have to go out and get my little man much lighter sleepers. He is just too hot. The only other thing is we really want to start him off in his bed and then move to ours if/when he wakes up. He is a bit resistant to that idea. We are brain storming solutions. I am pretty sure if I just put him to bed with me, he would sleep through most of the night.
This morning, Hannah woke up the house at 5am. I could hear her saying. "Here have a bite of apple. Good apple. No! No! No! Baby. You can't have apple. Wait for me. Come back apple."
I have no idea what was going on. I can't even get Miss Picky to eat an apple.
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RE: Baby Chat 6! - 11/17/2009 10:22:06 AM
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I am not sure what we are going to do. When we were first married we bought all new decorations. I have a gorgeous, well I think so, Victorian tree in deep garnet and gold. There are so many choking/breaking hazards. I never thought, hey what will this be like with kids? So now I am dealing with that. We will do something. I love having a tree too much.
We had a 6ft artificial tree from when our children were babies onwards and never had any problems at all.
We taught Jonathan not to touch the tree, telling him that the lights were "hot" (which is what we told him for *all* electrical stuff). The smaller ornaments went near the top of the tree, the bigger ones halfway down or nearer the bottom.
We also taught him to *blow* on the tinsel and watch it move. Told him it was better and more fun to do that than to touch it.
We made sure too that the tree was tucked away in a corner of the room.
In addition, he was rarely if ever on his own in the room with the tree, so any venturings he might have made towards the tree could be watched and monitored. If I went out of the room, I took him with me.
What choking/breaking hazards do you have with your tree, Karen? It sounds lovely!!
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RE: Baby Chat 6! - 11/17/2009 4:27:41 PM
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I have high hopes for our tree this year. We normally have one and we sort of have a color scheme - mostly blue and silver with punches of color thrown in. No santas or reindeer but lots of snowmen, birds etc. White lights. Two years ago (Josh's first) we were all set to take some nice family pics (casual but nice clothes) and the lights on the tree died. We were at my parent's on Christmas day so we got pics there, but not the same thing. Their tree is very "busy", but my Mom likes it. Last year, no tree - no money, time etc. So hopefully the tree will go well this year. We are planning to do the lights and most of the ornaments while Josh is asleep and then let him do some nonbreakable ones. I have to go get some, nearly everything we own is either glass or ceramic. Except for the beach trip souvenir shells and a couple from when I was a kid. We made some fake stained glass type - I'd love to do them with my kids in a few years. You buy a kit with metal frames and fill them with different color plastic bits and bake them in the oven. Then hang them in front of the lights and you get a really nice little ornament.
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RE: Baby Chat 6! - 11/17/2009 9:27:35 PM
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All of this talk about Christmas trees is making me want to put ours up now. I can't wait to see how Derrek reacts to all the lights.
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RE: Baby Chat 6! - 11/18/2009 12:40:21 PM
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Cosleeping has worked off and on for us too, Karen. Gabby typically spends most of the night in her own bed but we have nights like last night where she comes and snuggles with one of us for a little while before we put her back in her crib. When she was an infant it never really worked(well, after she was 12 weeks) unless she was sick. I was kind of bummed about it since I thought we would cosleep more but in reality I am not a good cosleeper after the infant age. I can't handle feet in my ribs all night long.
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RE: Baby Chat 6! - 11/18/2009 12:57:48 PM
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Ryanne, I would have said I couldn't cosleep but after 6 weeks of maybe 5 very broken hours of sleep a night, I have found I can manage. Logan really loves it. He is even a happier baby since we started.
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RE: Baby Chat 6! - 11/18/2009 5:26:32 PM
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Kris- I was an evaluator in my previous life- they should have said something to you first, not just let it go- it's ALL on them- should have been a more private setting, especially giving results!
Not sure what I'm doing about decorations- we have a small kid tree (about 30 inches, pencil tree) with all kid safe ornaments that they can decorate, undecorate, repeat, repeat, repeat, did I mention repeat? Grace is not going to get it that she can't touch and I"m not sure I'm up for the battle- hubby doesn't think it will be a big deal...but he's not here all day...
Sharon- yea for you two!
Co-sleeping has been different for all 3- 1, only as a last resort (she must sleep in her own bed you know!  2, was a cosleeper most of every night until she was almost 2- a classic high needs child and it was the only way to keep us sane, 3 was a great co-sleeper until she got wiggly, now when she wakes, I just nurse and put her back to bed after a couple minutes
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RE: Baby Chat 6! - 11/18/2009 7:04:27 PM
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Gotta give props to Sarah (Peculiar Lady), she called it right that Nathan might be both klutzy and cranky due to an ear infection. I thought he was getting better today, we even went out to shop around a bit, when.... yes were in a coffee shop... he started complaining that his ear hurt. I didn't react to much at first, but within 20 minutes he was really, really upset, so I called Kaiser and they had me seeing someone in an hour.
I'm grateful he could use words to tell me what was wrong, and that my doctors could see me at 5pm, then I went across the hall to pick up antibiotics.
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RE: Baby Chat 6! - 11/18/2009 7:15:10 PM
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Good call, Sarah...and Ruth! Glad they could get you in and hope he's feeling well quickly! I wonder if that had anything to do with his puking??
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Does he nap in his bed? I gradually moved into starting the nights in their beds, but first worked on getting them used to sleeping there during the day. That way all the patting backs and effort involved in getting them to stay in bed happily wasn't happening when I was dead tired and very cranky at the end of the day.
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