What happens when Charlotte is old enough to figure out all the words Mommy and Daddy spell when they talk?
Did Anthony from The Wiggles get a nose job and does Murray wear a wig?
Since they’re off the bottle, are my kids getting enough calcium?
If Charlotte asks me to get a babysitter, are her parents boring?
How long will it take Thomas to bust a hole in his new blow-up jumper?
Posted under Baby Thomas: Month 24
This post was written by tthomas on July 30, 2010
My daughter wants to know, if her son wants to make a fort out of the big cupboard that she stores the dog food in, should she let him? He wants to sleep in it too!!
Just one night he says …:)
Answer: Time will tell
way coooooool! they are lucky 2 have you as a Mom.
I love the inflatable jumper they’re in! Do they make those for adults?! That’d be a nice stress reliever at the end of my day! The “forts” I’d like to make for my little guy are called card table playhouses. “Miss Pretty” on Etsy sells them, but I will be making my own!! They’re just like a fabric tablecloth made to look like houses, pirate ships, schools, that fit over a regular card table. They won’t pop,break, and you can throw ‘em in the washing machine
My sister and I used to make forts all the time in our living room, bedroom out of blankets and couch cushions.
Kari Jo – what a neat idea!
Go to your nearest appliance store and get a big cardboard box. Help with cutting out some windows and a door, give them some markers for decorating it and presto a play house they will love and get hours of fun out of it.
Cool blow up jumper, I bet they are having a blast with it.
What I always noticed about kid’s toys was how much space they occupied in a room. You could no longer walk around.
I grew up as the youngest of 5 kids (5 in 5 1/2 years time). We were very inventive–forts out of card tables or the picnic table with blankets covering them, Fox and Geese in a mowed path through the back yard, percussion instruments with wooden spoons and pots and pans, and emptying the cupboards and crawling in. Many people wondered how my mother could stand all the noise. Her reply–”It’s when the noise stops that you should become worried.” There’s something to be said for growing up before all the gadgets.
Sue–I so agree with you….some of the best times we had were the games we “made up” for ourselves. When I was in 6th grade we moved to a house that had a huge upstairs with hardwood floors and big windows. We’d turn off all the lights and play glow-ball tag with a glow-in-the-dark superball. How we never fell down the stairs, got major slivers in our feet, or broke one of those big windows is still a mystery but we had an absolute blast! My parents must have wondered what the noise we were causing was all about but like Sue’s mom, they only investigated once the noise stopped…. Ah, the good old days!
My children probably had more toys than they ever needed and that was in the late 70′s and early 80′s. They were never bored though and spent more time outside, either in the barn, a little old shed that became a playhouse, in a tree or and wading in the creek, they kept themselves occupied and made up their own games. Had I known then what I know now……they would have had fewer toys and the $$$ would have been put in a savings account. Children don’t need nearly as many toys as they think they do.
I do however think that Thomas’ jumper is one of the neatest things I’ve ever seen…..