5AF Parenting Thread

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Fri Aug 10, 2018 7:00 pm

1) My 10 and 12 year old daughters basically spent all of July and the first week of August away at camp, grandma and grandpa's, and my sister's. It is really weird having them in the house.

2) At the first practice of fall baseball for the 7 year old.

Postby **count2infinity** » Sat Aug 11, 2018 8:34 am

Kiddo did some growing the past two months...

2 month --> 4 month appointment:
Head size: 50th percentile --> 65th percentile
Weight: 85th percentile --> 78th percentile
Height: 60th percentile --> 80th percentile

Gonna be tall like dad.

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Sat Aug 11, 2018 8:38 am

Both of my boy's are in the 90th percentile.

Dad was more like 40% percentile. They'll probably be taller than me by 7th grade.

Postby **count2infinity** » Sat Aug 11, 2018 8:39 am

I was taller than my dad right about then. It's so weird. My mom: 5'2" My dad: 5'8" My five siblings: 5'5"-5'9" Me: 6'5"

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Sat Aug 11, 2018 8:47 am

My dad is 6'2" and his brothers are 6'4", grandpa was 6'3".

I'm 5'6" on a good day.

I had size 11 shoes in 8th grade and was 4'8". I only grew 8 more inches. I must have eaten a lot of paint chips or something around that time.

Postby **count2infinity** » Sat Aug 11, 2018 8:50 am

That explains other things too...

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Sat Aug 11, 2018 8:54 am

No lie there

Postby **meow** » Sat Aug 11, 2018 9:03 am

I have lollipop kids. They are both in the teens for height and weight, but their heads are in the 70s

Postby **Viva la Ben** » Sat Aug 11, 2018 10:20 am

I’m 5’9” and my twins are slightly taller than me. They star 7th grade in two weeks

Postby **shafnutz05** » Sat Aug 11, 2018 2:58 pm

Both of my boy's are in the 90th percentile.

Dad was more like 40% percentile. They'll probably be taller than me by 7th grade.

Nice...our daughter was in the 99th percentile in height around that time...right now, she is taller than malkintent's daughter, who is a full year older than her. No idea where she gets it from.

Postby **robbiestoupe** » Sun Aug 12, 2018 11:33 am

I have lollipop kids. They are both in the teens for height and weight, but their heads are in the 70s

I immediately thought of this when you said lollipop kids

Postby **NTP66** » Sun Aug 12, 2018 12:03 pm

My daughter moves up to the next level at swim class today. It's amazing to see the progress with her, because I still find it hard to imagine that she's able to swim [at all], given where she was just 4 months ago.

Postby **robbiestoupe** » Mon Aug 13, 2018 8:20 am

Had the scare of my life yesterday. I'm in the kitchen making pizza while my mom is in the back yard playing with our two kids. I hear my oldest start freaking out like he does when he sees a bee (think bloody murder). Then I hear my mom screaming "nooooooo!!" and my oldest start screaming my youngest son's name.

There's a chance I was floating on air I ran so fast. Turns out my youngest had run out into the street. We live on a cul-de-sac, but it's up a hill so many people fly by our house in their car. Thankfully nobody was coming up the street at that time but I was visibly shaken for a bit.

Postby **Morkle** » Mon Aug 13, 2018 8:44 am

I was taller than my dad right about then. It's so weird. My mom: 5'2" My dad: 5'8" My five siblings: 5'5"-5'9" Me: 6'5"

Same (6'4"). My brother is 6 feet but we're both taller than my parents. Also, the more pictures you post on FB, the more I see your actual face in your child. It is wild.

Postby **count2infinity** » Mon Aug 13, 2018 10:58 am

Haha... people tell me "She's adorable... and she looks so much like you!" I always think "Only one of those things can be true."

Postby **shafnutz05** » Mon Aug 13, 2018 1:30 pm

Your kid definitely is all you bruh.

Postby **meow** » Wed Aug 15, 2018 3:30 pm

mini meow has his first karate class tonight

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Wed Aug 15, 2018 5:47 pm

Where is mini meow going?

My #2 daughter is a green belt in shotokan karate and we have not been able to find a place around here that isn't a midlife crisis MMA studio.

Postby **meow** » Wed Aug 15, 2018 5:52 pm

FTF on E Hudson. Seems like a good place. We were the only people in there at 4:30

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Wed Aug 15, 2018 5:56 pm

Thanks. Will look into it.

Postby **meow** » Wed Aug 15, 2018 5:58 pm

The thing I didn’t like was their pricing structure. It’s a membership system and their shortest duration is 6 months at $109 a month, but you can go to unlimited classes

Locking a 4 year old into a 6 month contract is dumb, but he did great so we might have to bit the bullet

Postby **count2infinity** » Thu Aug 16, 2018 9:26 am

Started giving the kiddo food. Man is this fun. The first thing we did was oatmeal, and she was so confused on what was going on, but by the third time we did it she had it down, was getting more in her belly than on her belly and she was really enjoying it. The excited hand shaking between bites is the best. Then we switched to green beans... my oh my. That initial look of utter betrayal cracked me up. Luckily it didn't last long and she went back to her munching ways. I think we're gonna have an eater on our hands, and I can't wait to make her all sorts of good stuff.

Postby **Silentom** » Thu Aug 16, 2018 9:29 am

Green beans are good, IMO.

Postby **NTP66** » Thu Aug 16, 2018 9:31 am

Green beans are good, IMO.

Postby **Silentom** » Thu Aug 16, 2018 9:33 am

Don't lie, it's unbecoming.