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06
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Feb
03
This is for those dads and moms wondering if there is an end to all the messes. Cheer up Stephanie, this is right up your alley!
It’s in this Stay at Home Dads opinion that when its time to pee and poop on the big person toilet on their own they will do it naturally when its time, something tells them when its time. Timing, it seems to me that when there was a Tootsie Roll (sorry) in his Pull Up during the day or diaper at night on a consistent basis instead of pudding (again sorry) it was time for the toilet, kind of the bodies way of saying it’s time for the big flush.
Also pull ups can give the sense of something is happening down there that they’ve never felt before and if they do it in a Pull Up enough, it will be something they want to avoid and at least try and splash in the big person potty. Pull Ups give them a sense of your trying to prove and show them something as well as give you a sense of progress, one you are all too ready for! So I give a Yea to Pull Ups!
In our case it took a major event on moms and my part for my son to show initiative to do what’s right. On a Saturday in December of 05 we had the unpleasant task of attending a funeral two hours away and Grandma and Grandpa paid a visit to watch the kid. Not even a mile away on our way out, my cell chimed in from my home number and I thought “oh great separation problems” but lo and be hold, it was my son calling me and telling me he went in the big boy potty ! After a little dad son communication in a distant but familiar language he put my mom on. She said the whole process was of his own volition, from feeling the urge, to taking his pants down and mounting the thrown to dispense of his urge. She was impressed as was I!
Life has been pretty sweet since that day, sure mistakes happen from the front side but that comes mostly from stubbornness from not wanting to squirt before bed or not wanting to put the Hot Wheels down and take care of business. It has now been 16 months and it’s only getting better. After one Lincoln Log in the shorts and they learn not to mess with that end once they show they can go like a big person. This peek back in my life was brought to you by,
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Jan
26
See it on our CBS4Denver Next will it be cell usage while driving as an accessory to the crime? Possibly a weapon?
Have a great day!
Is est a sapiens abbas ut teneo suus own parvulus.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
I Want My Mommy!
Those four words, do they haunt you, or do you rejoice when you hear them?
During the many battles of the day during my work week those four words come from my kid’s mouth when he doesn’t get his way.
Does this happen to you? How does it make you feel?
From Friday night to Monday morning I can’t do anything for him and he raises, well you know what if I do.
Does this happen to you? How does it make you feel and how’s it make mom feel?
In my house mom is ready for Monday morning by Saturday night and is growling my name in vain! I go to assist, but no, I can’t help her or you know who raises Cain. 95% of the time during the week while mom is gone we harmonize and get along, even work with each other to gain the desired results. Then Friday night rolls around and my son’s personality changes because he knows mom will be home and he will get his way; dad and his way of doing things gets pushed to the side because he knows mom is a pushover.
Does this happen to you? How do you deal with it?
-<a href=”http://www.milehidad.com” mce_href=”http://www.milehidad.com”>MileHiDad</a>
The Toughest Job You’ll Ever Love!
Jan
23
But who’s counting us?
According to my favorite weather chick Jennifer Zeppelin at KCNC, Denver has had snow on the ground 33 days and counting, now ranked at no. 8 on her list of top 10. And it’s looking like we can make it to the no. 5 position easy unless we have a severe heat spell.
But what about here in the new high plain regions ofDouglas County, where are we positioned? Is this normal weather compared to historical averages? I am not a position to make a normal call in what seems to be a zany year in local weather. As a kid born and raised in
Boulder I remember big snows, but all that is relative because every snow seems huge when you’re young! Then years later it was off to my ski career in Summit County where I lived for in Frisco for17 years and worked in 10 months of snow every year where my job was at 12,000 feet.
Is there such a thing as a “normal weather year” anymore; was there ever an abnormal weather year”?
THE NUMBERS:
63 DAYS………………………………November 26 1983 – January 27 1984
60 DAYS………………………………December 1 1913 – January 29 1914
48 DAYS………………………………December 24 1982 – February 9 1983
43 DAYS………………………………December 19 1973 – January 30 1974
39 DAYS………………………………November 21 1992 – December 29 1992
38 DAYS………………………………December 24 1987 – January 30 1988
35 DAYS……………………………..January 2 1949 – February 5 1949
*33 DAYS AND COUNTING……December 21 2006 – January 22 2007
33 DAYS………………………………December 17 1918 – January 18 1919
27 DAYS……………………………..January 28 1989 – February 23 1989
Have a great day!
Is est a sapiens abbas ut teneo suus own parvulus.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Jan
22
This Stay at Home Dad Blogged about how my (at that time, new 3 YO) was constantly sick from a mere sniffle at preschool and how after talking to his teacher at the time, Ms Carrie, said hold on it’s going to be a year of sniffles and sickness, so be a good dad and be ready. Sure enough, the merest of sniffles brought on a week of cough, hack and crummy feelings which brought my son and me toour knees some day’s and I thought that time would never end.
Well it has now been a year plus, and we are (my now 4 YO is) feeling great, knock on wood. Those sniffles, coughs and hacks which were the bane of mine and his existence last year have been passed on to the class rookies and we are not even fazed by them now, knock on wood.
So if you are now being assailed by all those toddler ailments, hold on it gets better!
I cannot exude enough about the social skills, both good and bad learned at preschool, note, I did not say daycare.
Ms. Janine is most excellent with pre K kids!
Have a great day!
Is est a sapiens abbas ut teneo suus own parvulus.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Jan
21
Yea, I know it’s still snowing, what’s this, the fifth weekend in a row? Skiing must be awesome! We haven’t seen bare ground since the middle of December let alone not feel like you are riding on a slot car track through all the deep holes in the ice while driving through the neighborhood. I ventured out to walk up to our annual HOA meeting and was bummed and just a little concerned about the lack of shoveled sidewalks for all the kids to negotiate on the hike to school, the only clear slots to walk were made by vehicles.
Kids and cars don’t mix, and when they need to walk to school and the majority of sidewalks to the north heading to Rock Ridge aren’t shoveled an accident is just asking to happen.
So please do our kids and your heart a favor and get out there and shovel!
Have a great day!
Is est a sapiens abbas ut teneo suus own parvulus.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
I Want My Mommy!
Those four words, do they haunt you, or do you rejoice when you hear them?
During the many battles of the day during my work week those four words come from my kid’s mouth when he doesn’t get his way.
Does this happen to you? How does it make you feel?
From Friday night to Monday morning I can’t do anything for him and he raises, well you know what if I do.
Does this happen to you? How does it make you feel and how’s it make mom feel?
In my house mom is ready for Monday morning by Saturday night and is growling my name in vain! I go to assist, but no, I can’t help her or you know who raises Cain. 95% of the time during the week while mom is gone we harmonize and get along, even work with each other to gain the desired results. Then Friday night rolls around and my son’s personality changes because he knows mom will be home and he will get his way; dad and his way of doing things gets pushed to the side because he knows mom is a pushover.
Does this happen to you? How do you deal with it?
-<a href=”http://www.milehidad.com” mce_href=”http://www.milehidad.com”>MileHiDad</a>
The Toughest Job You’ll Ever Love!
Jan
18
I thought so, me either because all those dogs barking here on’da Butte (my name) has had a negative effect on my selective level of hearing. If it’s not my son, I tend to selectively not hear it because the orchestration of the non harmonizing barks is rather annoying, which leads me to think:
- The owner has ear plugs in or the stereo cranked and just doesn’t care.
- The offending neighbors went to work and left their precious Fluffy, Biff or Champ outside for the day thinking everybody works because wthey work, no one is at home during the day and they just don’t care.
- That the offenders think that their Fluffy, Biff or Champ can’t possibly bark because they are so precious when we are home and again they just don’t care.
- Or as it comes down bare, they just don’t care, PERIOD!
I am NOT talking about my immediate neighbors on all four sides (so please don’t yell at me) because maybe it comes from the house two doors down, the end of the street or two streets away and so on, it only takes one dog to start the non-easy on the ear resonance of doggy lyrics to begin, and once started they vocalize all day long. I am not talking about one or two offenders here or there, but there are seven or eight identifiable howls going on along with a scads of faceless accompanied howling. If a fire truck happens to be responding to a 911 somewhere its a UGLY sound as ten to hundreds of dogs try to harmonize.
What about your neighborhood?
Are these cases of animal neglect?
I know when Hobie my dog, bless her sweet soul, was still alive, it distrubed me with her occasional low level guttural growl/bark.
What’s a person to do?
You would think that with the number of houses always for sale here on’da Butte that those real estate agents would find fault with this noise because it surely hurts sales and in effect their bottom line. Or don’t they care because this drives houses to be on the market? It has to hurt the resale value here at ‘da Butte.
Have a great day!
Is est a sapiens abbas ut teneo suus own parvulus.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Jan
14
Yes I can, with all the recent snow fall it’s been a joy to shovel. I got the Driveway cleared yet again and a trench through 3.5 feet of snow to the mailbox. Next up, the sidewalk in front of our house so at least a little bit of sidewalk in the middle of our block can be used. It’s comforting to know the town is jammed on its snow removal and our meager slot track of a street won’t see snow removal equipment that’s not Tonka anytime soon to doze snow back onto all my hand carved snow removal patterns. Every time I go to HomeDepot those snow blowers lined up in front of the customer service desk catch my eye as I dream maybe someday, when the wife says it’s OK.
Until then, I keep thinking it won’t snow big again as the couple inches we get every night or so slowly builds up the wall of snow I have to toss the full shovel over. I am not feeling at all guilty not doing my daily workout regime when it snows because I know I will be humping digs of snow up over and out of the concrete areas, my son is there with his bulldozers but Tonka deep barely covers the heel of my shoe.Have a great day!
Is est a sapiens abbas ut teneo suus own parvulus.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Jan
14
I am talking about kitchen wrap here… Don’t you just love it when you’ve got leftovers, all the Tupperware type plastic containers are used and you are forced to use a premium plastic stretch wrap?
Better know as a Saran Wrap, Stretch Tite, Kroger Clear Plastic Wrap, Glad/Cling Press N Seal and Reynolds Clear Plastic Wrap, to name a few.
This stuff is a joy to work with, I think there should be PSA help on TV about the best way to dispense and tear it don’t you think?
What do you do once you’ve been able to unroll the desired quantity off the tube; doing this without pulling the whole roll out of the flimsy cardboard cutting container is no joy in itself. Do you:
- 1. Unwrapping the desired amount while pulling to tear it starting at the furthest away corner of the cutting surface?
- 2. Unwrapping the desired amount while pulling to tear it starting at the nearest edge, while giving it a backhanded inverted type pull. Every try this?
Method one rarely works for me while method two at times gives an effortless free cut, other times the wrap just stretches, tears and snaps into a useless heap. When was the last time you saw an ad on the tube? If you happened to be fortunate enough to see one, did the model/actor/actress actually pull some out and successfully tear it? How many takes do you think it took to get the person with a pleasant look on their face successfully wrap say, leftover meatloaf?
Personally I have found the Kroger brand wraps to tear the easiest and doesn’t become a stick together snarled mess so easily, but by no means is it effortless.
Do the execs at these companies go home at night chucking to them that American households accept the thrash their products causes without ever demanding better? Are we suckers? Anybody not thrash with this product? If not, please pass along insider tips. The only thing I can think of that compares is, having a roll of Scotch Tape on a plastic dispenser not stick to the cutting edge and only to go back and stick to itself, no you have to find the clear end on a clear roll and pick it apart, good luck! In the mean time…
Have a great day!
Is est a sapiens abbas ut teneo suus own parvulus.
