Parent Thread

Took one of my girls to the mall last month. On our way out, walking to the car, we were talking about JoJo bows and if she was a real person. Daughter said she is, I said no way. Creeper white guy walking past us chimes in that she is real, she was on Dance Moms or some shit.

Looked her up google when we got into the car, yep she’s real. “See Daddy, I told youuuuuuuu.”

One of my twins stayed home from school today for a cold. Later in the day she tells me she’s dizzy. We start talking about it and she goes on to tell me that she feels like she’s taller than everyone, and everything like buildings. Started when kindergarten began last year. Before that she felt smaller than everyone. Never goes away it’s always like that. Hearing voices, tasting things when not eating or drinking, feeling she’s being touched while laying down for bed.

Brain scan incoming. Fucking hell.

Our sensory special girl had a low grade fever at school, picked her up from the nurses office and she was okay. Took her to urgent care later because she was saying she had trouble breathing. Oxygen saturation was 100% so her breathing wasn't actually a problem, lungs/heart sounded clear and normal, other vitals were normal, blood work normal except slightly elevated lymphocytes (she has a cold). Dr said to get her seen by psych, could have anxiety/panic attack issues. They gave her some zofran for nausea and iv fluids, both which helped her a bunch, no longer feeling dizzy after the zofran and headache diminished by the iv fluids. Even after we left she said she was having trouble breathing. Went out to eat at a Pho place after and when we left there she said she felt fine. Had her stay home from school the next day (dr even wrote her a note beforehand), we went to ihop for breakfast..she couldn't eat as she had a severe headache (uncommon to my knowledge, idiot wife says "yeah she's been having headaches a lot"). Could be migraines, urgent care dr said nah, but we will see. Neuro appt sometime soon.

The one year old is having ear tubes put in because of so many ear infections. She had her blood drawn and didn't even cry, threw more of a fit when I tried to show her how the Finding Nemo sticker that she got could peel apart from the backing. She is so damn good though, not even 14 months old and she sat in a laboratory waiting room chair for a good 20 minutes, holding her med barcode sticker thing the entire time. She stood up on the chair a few times, turning around to watch people by the elevator, but of course I had my hands/arms in place to keep her from falling. She's still too little to know any better.

There's been some discussion in the marriage thread about kids in daycare. Our fraternal twin girls were at home the first 3 years with an au pair that lived with us; the next 3 years at daycare. That worked out great for us and them; last month sensory girl got kindergarten student of the month. They've always been well behaved, people have been telling us that since they were very little. The one year old has been at that same daycare since she was 2 months old. Other than knowing how fake cry like an expert, she is always smiling and is generally happy, unless you stand up like you're going to walk out of the room.

She's a smart girl and has rather good dexterity for her age, able to throw a ball for the past few months, loves making a mess of her giant lego blocks, also loves cleaning them up and putting them back in the container. When she finds something on the floor that she shouldn't have, if we ask her for it she will bring it over and try to spit it out (because you know, at that age, every fucking thing goes in the mouth). When we or the twins put music on, she does this funny dance shit where she steps in place and throws her hands in the air, sometimes steps in a circle. Sometimes when I pick her up and ask her for a hug she puts her head on my shoulder or touches her forehead to mine, it's the sweetest thing ever.

Wife started taking them to christian church for some reason (guy she's seeing is a church going christian to my knowledge...), so the twins have been parroting stuff about church, "God is everything," etc. It's interesting trying to let them formulate their own opinions (which are still largely what other people tell them), vs trying to have them them think for their selves ("Well sweety, no one really knows what God is or if God exists, they just say things that they can't prove is true.") It feels kinda bad to one day have to tell them the truth about Santa, the Easter Bunny, and most recently the goddamn rich ass Tooth Fairy.... Kinda hilarious though, I pulled a tooth out last night for one of them, she wakes up and rushes to tell me she got $4 and a bubble gum. It's fun concocting stories about already made up shit; told her that the tooth fairy gave her candy so her other teeth would fall out quicker and that the tooth fairy sells the teeth for a lot of money but only gives a little bit to the kids. Important life lessons start early.