The Parenting Thread

[BigTransformerTrev]

Why..... Why...... WHY does my 2 1/2 year old insist on getting up at 6am (at the latest) on weekends!

[Trent]

Why..... Why...... WHY does my 2 1/2 year old insist on getting up at 6am (at the latest) on weekends!

Wow! 6am! I wish. Arty doesn't sleep past 4:30am. We got to 6:15am this morning because he's sick with a cold and was up heaps last night. (But yes, I feel your pain Trev)

Add this to the fact that he is only averaging 3 hours between night feeds at the moment and you have 2 very sleep deprived parents

Also, yesterday, before we realised he was sick, we went out for lunch at a cafe. Upon getting back to the car we realised that he had done a poo, so we decide to change him in the boot (we have a hatchback that works really well for that sort of thing) so I pick him up to get ready and feel all wet. I look down to literally see shit _EVERYWHERE_. He had had a poo explosion the likes of which the world had never previously seen. It had leaked through all his clothes, onto his pram and of course, onto me. So we start to change him and of course all he wants to do is put his hands wherever there is poo. And then he tries to put his hands in his mouth . So we clean the poor waif up, change him, get him in the car and the poor kid still smells like poo. Have to race home and bath him and I then put him down for a sleep while wifey has to wash poo out of everyone's clothes.

Fast forward to today. He has a cold and I have a stupidly sore back from leaning over the boot at an awkward angle trying to change his nappy. Plus did I mention he hardly slept last night?

Parenthood is fun!!!! Seriously you people that go back for more than one kid need your head checked.

[Bartrim]

I have tears running down my face, you poor bastard Trent LMAO

I was quite lucky one night when Marcus was about 3 months. Laura had woken up to feed him and she asked me to get her a glass of water. I walk to the kitchen get a glass of water, walk back to the bedroom and discover that the little guy had exploded all over my pillow, right where my head would of been had my wife not asked for a drink.

[GoktimusPrime]

Trent: The poo smell is currently not so bad for you. Just wait until he starts eating proper solids. You will soon discover newfound motivation to want to quickly toilet train your child!

Yuki's been sick with a bacterial chest infection all week. She only went to school for one day and will have to take tomorrow off. Gargh. And I still went to her Japanese school yesterday even though she didn't, because I volunteered to help sell tea and coffee as part of the school's ongoing fundraising (it helps to keep school fees down); I took the cash float and account book back with me from the previous week, so I felt obliged to go. There's actually 3 parents rostered onto tea/coffee duty in case one is away, but one other parent has been absent for the last 2 weeks, so if I hadn't turned up, it would've only been that one poor parent doing all the work.

On a lighter note, Yuki's Japanese school teacher told me that she's getting a lot more expressive/talkative in class now, frequently putting her hand up to say something -- which is a big step for her as she's normally quite shy. As the previous week was Mother's Day, the teacher told me that Yuki had told the entire class that:
「お母さんのためのプレゼントはお父さんのトランスフォーマーの部屋に隠した。お母さんはあの部屋に全然入 らないから。」("I've hidden mummy's presents in daddy's Transformers room because mummy never goes in there.")
We were laughing, and then her teacher goes, 「本当にトランスフォーマーの部屋があるの？」("Do you really have a Transformers room?")
I just grinned.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Wow! 6am! I wish. Arty doesn't sleep past 4:30am. We got to 6:15am this morning because he's sick with a cold and was up heaps last night. (But yes, I feel your pain Trev)

Add this to the fact that he is only averaging 3 hours between night feeds at the moment and you have 2 very sleep deprived parents

Also, yesterday, before we realised he was sick, we went out for lunch at a cafe. Upon getting back to the car we realised that he had done a poo, so we decide to change him in the boot (we have a hatchback that works really well for that sort of thing) so I pick him up to get ready and feel all wet. I look down to literally see shit _EVERYWHERE_. He had had a poo explosion the likes of which the world had never previously seen. It had leaked through all his clothes, onto his pram and of course, onto me. So we start to change him and of course all he wants to do is put his hands wherever there is poo. And then he tries to put his hands in his mouth . So we clean the poor waif up, change him, get him in the car and the poor kid still smells like poo. Have to race home and bath him and I then put him down for a sleep while wifey has to wash poo out of everyone's clothes.

Fast forward to today. He has a cold and I have a stupidly sore back from leaning over the boot at an awkward angle trying to change his nappy. Plus did I mention he hardly slept last night?

Parenthood is fun!!!! Seriously you people that go back for more than one kid need your head checked.

Struth ya poor bugger!

When Orion was 3 weeks old he did one of those fecal floods and rushing him to get changed I bumped his head and it was bleeding so we rushed him to the emergency ward. It wasn't until we got in to see the doctor that I realised the poo had gone everywhere so much that some of it was matted in his hair Was so sure they were going to call child protective services on us

[Skullcruncher]

Oh my goodness, we have a had a couple of code browns with our little guy - hes nearly 5 months - but nothing like you poor guys! At least its a good laugh now.

[M-bot]

At our place, we refer to "poo explosions" as "number 3's". Am I making anyone here jealous if I mention we've never had any >ahem< "finger painting" from our kids?

(you watch, now I've said it, it'll happen ths week)

[GoktimusPrime]

hahaha, we also called them "number 3s" too. Also never had faecal finger painting. Didn't even know that was a thing. Eeewww!

[Bartrim]

My boys are at the age where it's getting increasingly difficult to tell if they are fighting or playing. Lol.

[jazzcomp]

Comparing kids to their friends versus when we were kids or kids in my home country is very difficult.