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Jill,
Yep, it's bittersweet to pack away the stuff that doesn't fit any more, isn't it? I go through Taylor's drawers and closet every few months. I keep a clear plastic tote under her crib (hidden by the dust ruffle) and put things that no longer fit her in there. That way I can tuck things in as they are too small, and when it's full, put it up in the closet and put another empty bin under the crib. Things also tend to be stored in like sizes as well, which will make it easier when you have your second. We pulled all of our bins down before Addie came, and I had such a nice time pulling things out, remembering each outfit. And now that I've pulled out all of the 0-3 and 3-6 month stuff and put it in Addie's dresser and closet, I have new empty totes for Taylor 18-24 month stuff! -- Jamie Earth Angels: Taylor Marlys, 1/3/03 Addison Grace, 9/30/04 Check out the family! -- www.MyFamily.com, User ID: Clarkguest1, Password: Guest Become a member for free - go to Add Member to set up your own User ID and Password "Jill" wrote in message om... "Plissken" wrote I have the Healthy Care high chair and honestly I wish I had bought something a little simpler. We rarely adjust it at all and I find the padding to be a PITA. It is too "frilly" and food gets in everywhere and it gets under the padding into the grooves and I can't seem to ever get it out. Eeek, yeah, I can totally see how this is going to happen! We also have the FP Booster Seat that straps to a regular chair, and it is totally plastic and so VERY easy to clean. But Rachel still likes to recline a bit while eating so this is not that easy for her to sit up in yet, plus it seems too "hard" for her also. At least the Healthy Care is more like a Car Seat on a Stand, as my husband says-- more confortable at least. I am going through this weekend and cleaning and putting away some of her stuff already-- I have taken the bassinet and changing pad off the Pack N Play, and we are putting away her first car seat (Graco Snugride) and it's base....plus all those 0-3 months sized clothes and some 3-6 months too. She is still wearing 3-6 months because she's a skinny peanut but she is tall and is going to outgrow this size within a week or two in most of what we have, so she won't be wearing a lot of what we have in that size any more In sleeper outfits with feet, she is too tall already and is in 6-9 months....it's nice but it's sentimental......all those few months of memories of her in these little outfits she won't wear any more. Although realistically, she never did wear many of them more than a few times each! And I couldn't manage to fit her into all of them, I favored certain outfits and never put her in others until it was too late to get wear out of them. I am saving everything.....I still want another one. I still feel the overwhelm sometimes, but it gets easier as Rachel can entertain herself. So yeah, I still do want another one soon! :0 Jill |
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Jamie Clark wrote:
Taylor just learned to use a straw a few weeks ago, at 22 months. I'd never really tried before this, except a few times at a restaurant. She loves to play with straws, and at a certain point in the past few months figured out that you can blow in a straw and make bubbles, but didn't understand the sucking concept with a straw. But, we were at a Gymboree Halloween party, and they gave out apple juice boxes and cookies. I put the straw to her lips while I held the juice box, and she blew a little bit, and let it sit in her mouth. I gently squeezed the box so that juice came out of the straw, and BAM, a light went off in her head, and she sucked on it and it worked. She drank that whole box of juice down in about 10 minutes, leaning in and sucking, backing off and swallowing, leaning back in and sucking. I held the box the whole time, as it seems that kids can't resist the urge to squeeze them! We were so proud! I think the sucking action required for a straw is quite natural for them. All mine took to straws pretty early. I think Genevieve started around 6.5 months. I would never have thought to start so early, but my mother started Adrian early (surprised me! ;-) so after that, I started the others early. It's very convenient for them to be able to drink out of a straw. Sippy cups can be scarce sometimes, but straws are abundant ;-) Best wishes, Ericka |
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Hi Jill!!!
I only have high chair "don'ts." We had a Fisher Price highchair with #1 that was old, wide, and just perfect aside from it having hearts on the vinyl seat Anyway....we decided to get a wooden high chair for the consectutive kiddos. Which, although they look nice, were slippery to sit in (so I had to buy a chair pad and back which made the dork factor increase) and they aren't the most practical to clean. This time we are going to buy a child chair from IKEA and push it to the table because I don't want to buy a highchair and then store it somewhere. Our kitchen is smaller and we don't have the table set up there. What you have sounds just fine and easy to use and clean. Those are biggies in my book. AND, you already have it in the house For sippy cups, two of mine did great with sippy cups and one did better with a thick straw. Also, each child after #1 advanced to cup no lid pretty quickly or to the tupperware cups with the simple lid/spout. Have fun! Kelly #4 2/12/05 "Jill" wrote in message om... Rachel is now 6 months old. We have the Fisher Price Healthy Care Booster but have just bought (but not opened yet!) the Fisher Price Healthy Care High chair because we wanted something that adjusts more, reclines, and plus we need our extra kitchen chair for adults when we have company. I wanted to be able to put her in her own separate high chair and pull her up to the table with us. Haven't opened it yet but in general Fisher Price seems to make some good stuff. I did note that it has a vinyl seat not a cloth one, for easier cleaning. It also seems to be very adjustable. Any opinions on what high chairs are good, and has anyone tried and loved/hated the Fisher Price Healthy Care High Chair? Extra info, Rachel is still not on a gob of solids yet. After 4 months of age I let her try rice cereal and she didn't seem ready. At 5 months I went back again and was mixing her cereal, but this time Gerber Oatmeal with bananas, with a little expressed breast milk. Oatmeal seemed to be too "heavy" for her (she'd eat it fine but 12 hours later spit up curdled oatmealy looking stuff). And for the past few weeks she has really only been nursing exclusively, she watches intensely when we eat, but just seems to only want to nurse. Anything I try to give her, she eats- she has lost most of her tongue-thrust reflex so she eats off a spoon fine. She never did take a bottle. I was drinking a fastfood drink with a straw, and she reached out before I could stop her and snatched the cup out of my hand and put the straw to her lips! She didn't know what to do once it was there, but that led me to try her on a sippy cup of breastmilk. She hates the Sippy cups with the valves, the no-spill kind that require some sucking, but if you sit there and tip the cup toward her and help her, she drinks FINE out of a cup with a lid and spout. She'll spill it of course if you let her have it without help.....but I think this is a riot- she wouldn't take bottles or pacifiers, never did, and hates sippy cups with valves (I tried the Avent Magic Cup, and Playtex First Sipster). But she'll sip from a cup with a lid and a spout, and she will even sip from a regular cup **if you hold it for her, and do the "pouring"**. LOL! But anyway she is 6 months old on Tuesday November 9-- and I figure, it is time to start giving her daily cereal and 1st stage foods and wean her up on them. She really isn't showing any signs of hunger (and, BTW, has not cut her first tooth yet)....she just loves to nurse, nurse, nurse. But I am not willing to go more than another week or two without getting her on regular cereal...we made it the whole 6 months pretty much nursing exclusively, not even much pumped milk for the most part. But I feel she needs to get in some daily foods- she eats fine off a spoon. Actually she grabs the spoon and tries to feed herself! Sometimes she uses the wrong end, and dumps the cereal into her lap, and gums the handle of the spoon! lol. But anyway, she seems to have gained quite a bit of weight, her appointment this week will let me know. She is right where she should be on head control etc so I don;t think we will have anything to worry about developmentally. She rolls over all the time, and can almost crawl but not yet. We have bought a bed rail! (We are still cosleeping.) I never thought 1- I'd still be breastfeeding exclusively at 6 months, with no pacifiers, no bottles.... 2- that I ever would have coslept, much less every single night for 6 months with no plans to stop and 3-that I would actually plan, and it would be possible and goig well, to breastfeed her to her one year birthday- we'll see about this one! She has not been the least bit sick yet. But one factor could be that I am very careful about handwashing, and having her out around people who are coughing etc and it helps a lot that she isn't really around kids yet. So anyway, high chair opinions? Jill |
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We were told to stop any sippy cup with Nathan due to his speech issues.
Luckily he was my straw kiddo, so he rarely ever had a sippy cup-especially the Playtex ones that were nonspill. Straws are good to build mouth muscles and tongue dexterity in speaking. Kelly #4 2/12/05 "Ericka Kammerer" wrote in message ... Jamie Clark wrote: Taylor just learned to use a straw a few weeks ago, at 22 months. I'd never really tried before this, except a few times at a restaurant. She loves to play with straws, and at a certain point in the past few months figured out that you can blow in a straw and make bubbles, but didn't understand the sucking concept with a straw. But, we were at a Gymboree Halloween party, and they gave out apple juice boxes and cookies. I put the straw to her lips while I held the juice box, and she blew a little bit, and let it sit in her mouth. I gently squeezed the box so that juice came out of the straw, and BAM, a light went off in her head, and she sucked on it and it worked. She drank that whole box of juice down in about 10 minutes, leaning in and sucking, backing off and swallowing, leaning back in and sucking. I held the box the whole time, as it seems that kids can't resist the urge to squeeze them! We were so proud! I think the sucking action required for a straw is quite natural for them. All mine took to straws pretty early. I think Genevieve started around 6.5 months. I would never have thought to start so early, but my mother started Adrian early (surprised me! ;-) so after that, I started the others early. It's very convenient for them to be able to drink out of a straw. Sippy cups can be scarce sometimes, but straws are abundant ;-) Best wishes, Ericka |
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