Family Friday: Adventures in Coding: The Rocket Cupcake Co. App
This post may contain affiliate links and CorporetteMoms may earn commissions for purchases made through links in this post. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
You’ve probably heard about different ways to teach your kids coding, and how important it is. One of our favorite things we use to learn about coding is the GoldieBlox Rocket Cupcake Co. app. (My little boy is usually very into trucks and construction things, but he likes cupcakes too, of course, so he doesn’t mind the very pink-and-purple interface.) It’s a really fun game — I even enjoy playing it myself — and so if you’re looking for something fun that helps your kids learn to think like a coder (it doesn’t really teach coding itself), I highly recommend this app. It’s $2.99 at the App Store. Adventures in Coding: The Rocket Cupcake Co.
This is the time of year that my staff needs a little extra pick me up. Any cute ideas for gifts to staff members, $10/each or less? I’d like something that isn’t total junk, but it also comes right out of my pocket. No company dollars. Thanks!
Board games or card games yeah. Or old fashioned charades -gets your high energy guy some motion.
Or you could show family pictures on your tv. Pop popcorn or get a pizza. Make mocktails.
Any advice for stuff to do at home in the evening with one super high energy husband and my two nice, polite but low-energy and very religious parents? Parents are visiting and are here for one more night (tonight). We’re OK when the kids are awake, but after the kids are in bed I have NO idea what to do with the parents. They’re pretty easily shocked, so even something like Game of Thrones (which we are watching now) would not be something they enjoy. Usually they both sit on their ipads (dad at the table, mom on the couch) and they don’t seem to want to interact much. It drives my husband irrationally crazy, but we are at a loss. We feel bad just doing our own thing but that’s usually what ends up happening. This really isn’t a big problem, so I’m sure there must be some ideas out there right?
I’m officially done breastfeeding. The first three months were very nearly impossible and endlessly difficult, but we stuck with it and eventually got the hang of it. I pumped until 11 months, then decreased to just bedtime and wakeup feeds around 15 months, and have been phasing those out over the last month or two (at about a year and a half), and now haven’t done it for over a week and kiddo hasn’t seemed to notice.
On one hand I’m sad it wasn’t more dramatic (I didn’t realize the last time I fed him was going to be the last time, it just kind of happened), and that it’s ending, and on the other I’m pretty excited to move on and super glad that weaning has not seemed to affect kiddo. Now it’s time to develop new bedtime routines for him and new workout routines for me. Oh and buy REAL bras. With wires and everything!
Anyone else finishing up soon or recently? Is it going how you expected?
I had one in March and really likes high waisted leggings. I wasn’t bothered by stuff on the incision and I had a vertical abdominal incision (so longer/bigger than the low incision) I would tuck a nursing tank in to the leggings at first. If I was having a summer baby I would get some high waist bike shorts or crops to wear under dresses. Also I think it would be helpful to go around the house and make sure everything heavy is accessible, etc. For example I could have vaccuumed a week out but not carried the vaccum up the stairs, etc. I didn’t take pain meds beyond ibuprofen after the first day but took ibuprofen at home daily for a few weeks. I also liked the belly binder provided by the hospital the first week and next time I will probably by one of the shape-wear like ones you can buy.
Scheduling a c-section for early next week – how can I best prepare this weekend?
I had an emergency c-section with my first, so I am somewhat familiar, but I have forgotten what to pack and generally what to expect because I am hot and exhausted. Help
Please give me your recs for books about women heroes!
Last night my ladies’ beer club had us each talk about a woman (historical, fictional, contemporary) that we admired and say a few sentences about why. I was aghast at how hard it was for me. Eventually I came up with three and made a game-time decision (the three were Barbara Kruger, Edith Wharton, and Kesha) but it just shouldn’t have been so difficult. Anyway, for Kiddo I want to plant those seeds young! Give her lots of women to admire and emulate! So… any great books? (She’s 2.5)
Meant to be a response to Legally Brunette.
I run over lunch, and I have done this every place that I have worked post-law school (clerkships, big law and in house). If there is a gym in the building, it’s pretty easy but even when there isn’t, I liberally use baby wipes and am fine. I get in 3 miles and have time to change and get back to my desk in under an hour. Working out over lunch makes me more productive during the day and is the only way I can consistently get my run in. I honestly get more done on the days I run without working an additional hours.
Has anyone managed to incorporate exercise as part of your regular routine and if so, what exercise are you doing and how are you finding the time to do it? I read an article recently about how we lose muscle mass as we age, and I can definitely see that I’m getting more soft. I walk about 2 miles a day as part of my commute but I would like to do something else as well. I hate my pooch and would love to minimize it.
I was taking Pure Barre classes for a while and while I liked it, I found it hard to wake up at 5:30 am in the morning to go to the 6 am class. But after work doesn’t seem to work either — it’s the frantic schedule doing dinner/bedtime/bath, and then by 8:30 pm I’m exhausted and don’t want to work out.
Am I better off working at home to a video? Any other thoughts?
I appreciate the app recommendation for today. Anyone have tips for other games or activities or apps to start helping lay the foundation for a 3yo to learn coding?
My baby has only been in daycare 1.5 months but I like that the babies are in a 0-6 month room , they also have a 6-12 month and 12+ (although I’m sure ages vary based on movement etc). It’s nice because the whole room is little-baby set- up and they don’t have a schedule- so yes, my baby isn’t taking great naps, but they will let her take 3-4 naps in an 8 hour day if she wants. She comes home smiling and happy :) My friends 5 month old got bit at daycare recently laying on a mat with another baby – this wouldn’t happen at mine because all the babies are little enough that no one is biting yet! I know biting happens but just an example. The teachers can lay a couple babies on the floor playing and turn their backs for a bottle or diaper and no older baby is going to throw things or trample the little ones :)
Try the advil for teething pain and then go for a sleep consultant in your area. Worth it to have someone there to talk you through tough sleeping issues, especially when your friends have babies that aren’t acting like yours and they don’t get what you are going through.
I know that this too shall pass, but my baby is a night demon. He’s almost 8 months old and wakes up 3 or 4 times a night, sometimes crying for a full hour before falling back to sleep. He arches his back, refuses his pacifier, definitely doesn’t want to be held, but rolls around like a maniac when he’s in his crib. I can usually nurse him back to sleep (comfort nursing, he often doesn’t stay awake long enough for the milk to even let down), but I cannot sleep with him latched and he wakes up if I unlatch him. I am so so so tired. Ideas? He has one tooth, does not sit on his own or crawl yet, so it might be teething or a developmental leap, but even knowing that, what can I actually do? Just ride it out? I am so tired I can hardly function at work.
Has anyone used reusable food pouches for yogurt? Any brand or cleaning recommendations? I’m looking for a breakfast option for four-year-olds to eat in the car on the ride to pre-K, but the thought of all that packaging/waste makes buying yogurt pouches for daily use a turn-off.