Toddler thread

[KevinLoveFan]

Mine is supposed to be in the climbing on and off couch stage, but he's not quite there yet, and that was the one area (gross motor) where he was slightly behind/in the gray in the ASQ3 assessment for 16 month olds. He's made a tiny bit of progress this week -- he can sometimes get off the couch by himself, but not always. He can also pull himself to the top of the couch when he's seated on it. But he still has no idea how to get from ground level to the couch seat. He will just slap at the couch. I've been trying to show him how to grab onto it, pull his legs up, etc. Still a work in progress.

I'm sure I'll soon be at the stage where I'm worried much more about couch injuries than I am about him getting on it.

 

[Randolphkeys]

Throwback to when my eldest son was in first grade and my youngest was just able to walk... and we won Halloween:



Unfortunately my youngest son had a birthday four days later. We were exhausted and didn't plan anything for his birthday. So, we never made Halloween costumes again. Too much work!

 

[Kouki]

This is some freaky shit, I was catching up on this thread, saw the pic I posted of my dogs, and was thinking to myself, "Where would be a good place to put this story?", and then you post that.

Let dogs outside Friday, went to take a shower. My back yard is now a fortress that is unescapable...unless you leave the gate open. Sure enough, I did just that and dogs were gone. Drove around the neighborhood, got my dad to help. Get back to my house, and the husky is across the street, soaking wet. I corral her, put her inside. Neighbors were outside where I found her. Turns out she went for a swim in their pool - they actually found her whimpering while floating on a not-safety cover. Like, she could have easily drowned.

So that's one dog...that actually made me MORE concerned, because they are always together.

So I go out and circle the neighborhood some more...come back to my house to see a police officer in my driveway. Heart drops. I'm expecting the worst.

"Hi sir, first off, your dog is OK, he's in our cruiser. The bad news is, your dogs escaped and went to town on a neighbor's chicken coop. They have it on video. Technically this is an arrest and I need to write you a citation."

Oh geez...I tell the officer, sure, write me the ticket, whatever, I want to make good with the neighbor though, whatever they need. Can you call them to see if I can contact them to make amends? Officer calls them, since I demonstrated I wanted to make things right, they drop the charges.

I call neighbors after the police are gone, thinking I can give them a hundo to replace chickens and offer to repair any property damage. The only thing they want is for me to take care of the chickens. He thought they needed put down. So I'm thinking, OK, I've got a shovel. But then he's talking about emergency vet clinics, whatever the official word for a chicken euthanizer is, not sure if they NEED put down, etc. I call around and find a place a half hour away. I go to the neighbors, pick up his birds - again, they were super cool about the whole thing and I felt obligated to concede to their wishes - and drive the chickens to the vet.

Turns out they needed to be put down. And it's $205 a chicken. And they had to call the owners of the chickens to confirm he wanted them put down, and had to call to confirm they indeed did put them down. Oh, and a $75 per bird cremation fee.

With taxes and fees I paid $562 to have two chickens euthanized via injection, and cremated.

I dare anyone to find ANY sucker who has paid $281 dollars to dispose of a chicken.

But, they were nice enough to throw in some complimentary chicken foot imprints, with their names on them.

 

[The Oi]

This is some freaky shit, I was catching up on this thread, saw the pic I posted of my dogs, and was thinking to myself, "Where would be a good place to put this story?", and then you post that.

Let dogs outside Friday, went to take a shower. My back yard is now a fortress that is unescapable...unless you leave the gate open. Sure enough, I did just that and dogs were gone. Drove around the neighborhood, got my dad to help. Get back to my house, and the husky is across the street, soaking wet. I corral her, put her inside. Neighbors were outside where I found her. Turns out she went for a swim in their pool - they actually found her whimpering while floating on a not-safety cover. Like, she could have easily drowned.

So that's one dog...that actually made me MORE concerned, because they are always together.

So I go out and circle the neighborhood some more...come back to my house to see a police officer in my driveway. Heart drops. I'm expecting the worst.

"Hi sir, first off, your dog is OK, he's in our cruiser. The bad news is, your dogs escaped and went to town on a neighbor's chicken coop. They have it on video. Technically this is an arrest and I need to write you a citation."

Oh geez...I tell the officer, sure, write me the ticket, whatever, I want to make good with the neighbor though, whatever they need. Can you call them to see if I can contact them to make amends? Officer calls them, since I demonstrated I wanted to make things right, they drop the charges.

I call neighbors after the police are gone, thinking I can give them a hundo to replace chickens and offer to repair any property damage. The only thing they want is for me to take care of the chickens. He thought they needed put down. So I'm thinking, OK, I've got a shovel. But then he's talking about emergency vet clinics, whatever the official word for a chicken euthanizer is, not sure if they NEED put down, etc. I call around and find a place a half hour away. I go to the neighbors, pick up his birds - again, they were super cool about the whole thing and I felt obligated to concede to their wishes - and drive the chickens to the vet.

Turns out they needed to be put down. And it's $205 a chicken. And they had to call the owners of the chickens to confirm he wanted them put down, and had to call to confirm they indeed did put them down. Oh, and a $75 per bird cremation fee.

With taxes and fees I paid $562 to have two chickens euthanized via injection, and cremated.

I dare anyone to find ANY sucker who has paid $281 dollars to dispose of a chicken.

But, they were nice enough to throw in some complimentary chicken foot imprints, with their names on them.

Chickens have names?

 

[Hurl Bruce]

This popped up on my history today. My daughter is the 5th horseman of Apocolypse.

 

[The Oi]

chickens @bushwick_bill

 

[Huber.]

This is some freaky shit, I was catching up on this thread, saw the pic I posted of my dogs, and was thinking to myself, "Where would be a good place to put this story?", and then you post that.

Let dogs outside Friday, went to take a shower. My back yard is now a fortress that is unescapable...unless you leave the gate open. Sure enough, I did just that and dogs were gone. Drove around the neighborhood, got my dad to help. Get back to my house, and the husky is across the street, soaking wet. I corral her, put her inside. Neighbors were outside where I found her. Turns out she went for a swim in their pool - they actually found her whimpering while floating on a not-safety cover. Like, she could have easily drowned.

So that's one dog...that actually made me MORE concerned, because they are always together.

So I go out and circle the neighborhood some more...come back to my house to see a police officer in my driveway. Heart drops. I'm expecting the worst.

"Hi sir, first off, your dog is OK, he's in our cruiser. The bad news is, your dogs escaped and went to town on a neighbor's chicken coop. They have it on video. Technically this is an arrest and I need to write you a citation."

Oh geez...I tell the officer, sure, write me the ticket, whatever, I want to make good with the neighbor though, whatever they need. Can you call them to see if I can contact them to make amends? Officer calls them, since I demonstrated I wanted to make things right, they drop the charges.

I call neighbors after the police are gone, thinking I can give them a hundo to replace chickens and offer to repair any property damage. The only thing they want is for me to take care of the chickens. He thought they needed put down. So I'm thinking, OK, I've got a shovel. But then he's talking about emergency vet clinics, whatever the official word for a chicken euthanizer is, not sure if they NEED put down, etc. I call around and find a place a half hour away. I go to the neighbors, pick up his birds - again, they were super cool about the whole thing and I felt obligated to concede to their wishes - and drive the chickens to the vet.

Turns out they needed to be put down. And it's $205 a chicken. And they had to call the owners of the chickens to confirm he wanted them put down, and had to call to confirm they indeed did put them down. Oh, and a $75 per bird cremation fee.

With taxes and fees I paid $562 to have two chickens euthanized via injection, and cremated.

I dare anyone to find ANY sucker who has paid $281 dollars to dispose of a chicken.

But, they were nice enough to throw in some complimentary chicken foot imprints, with their names on them.

You couldn't find a buddy to act as a vet? Have him say he's euthenzing them, butcher the birds, fry em up with a nice honey batter then start a camp fire and toss the bones in?

 

[bushwick_bill]

chickens @bushwick_bill

Sea Chickens?

 

[The Oi]

My back yard is now a fortress that is unescapable...

Interested in hearing more about this, assuming it’s also impenetrable. Inescapable doesn’t do anything for me. Impenetrable is interesting as I prepare for the upcoming AI apocalypse.

 

[Out of the Rafters at the Q]

Interested in hearing more about this, assuming it’s also impenetrable. Inescapable doesn’t do anything for me. Impenetrable is interesting as I prepare for the upcoming AI apocalypse.

@Kouki clearly knows about being unescapable, but as you point out, impenetrable is something different entirely.

You might want to ask @letgocavs about impenetrable. Based on his other thread, it appears every woman he comes across is impenetrable after the first date.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

Interested in hearing more about this, assuming it’s also impenetrable. Inescapable doesn’t do anything for me. Impenetrable is interesting as I prepare for the upcoming AI apocalypse.

You fool. The AI is already in your house.

There is no escape.

 

[The Oi]

You fool. The AI is already in your house.

There is no escape.

Worse.

It’s in my head.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

@Kouki

I think you got ripped off. It's supposed to be by the pound:

 

[DeeThree]

Man, reading through this thread, seeing how someone's toddler is behind on motor skills...just gives me nightmares and makes me scared to have kids.

 

[macbdog]

Chickens have names?

One of my old clinical instructors back in nursing school told us she used the stipend to buy chickens for her coop. She said she named one of the chickens after each of us. I said, 'Oh, so you can think of us someday when ringing their necks for dinner?'. You should have seen the look I got. I've only used sarcasm scarsely on the job ever since.