Family Friday: Spiralin’ Seas Waterpark Play Table
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I’ve seen my son play with a few different water tables, and this one seems to keep his attention the longest. I think it’s the combination of the middle piece to throw balls into along with the crank on the side that looks like a little ferris wheel. Water tables in general are a great way to entertain a toddler on a hot day when you don’t want to stray too far from the house. I’ve even seen my niece and nephew play with this table when there’s no water in it. So far it’s lasted through all three cousins and is still going strong! It’s $34.99 at Amazon (eligible for Prime). Spiralin’ Seas Waterpark Play Table
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I know I’m a late response but dying to hear who the company is!
Has anyone bought a play set for the backyard? I’m thinking of getting one and don’t know what budget to expect or even what companies/options there are. This would be for a 5-year-old, so not just the plastic fisher price slide; an actual wood climbing structure with a slide and swings, preferably.
This won’t thread correctly but for shorts above I am 7 weeks PP from a c section and had good luck with target universal thread elastic waist shorts.
Just looking for some empathy. On “vacation” this week. By that I mean, I drove to my parents with our toddler for the first half of the week and then toddler and I met hubby at his parents for the second half of the week for hubby’s annual golf tournament in our hometown. I’m working half time, which generally isn’t difficult if I work during naptime and after bedtime. I don’t really miss out on anything then. Well, kiddo came down with strep throat on Monday. She was actually really sweet – cuddly and sleepy. But all I’ve done on “vacation” is sit in a rocking chair (again not really complaining about lots of cuddles now that she would rather be running around instead of sitting on my lap when she is healthy) and work. I can’t help but feel disappointed. I’m not telling hubby he can’t golf (and I know some posters on this site will think I should) since this is his once a year big deal with his friends. So I’m a little resentful that he’s still having fun when I haven’t been able to. (Although he has been on strict orders that he doesn’t get to hang out for drinks after and stuff, but play is slow, so it’s still a long time away from us.)
Also, my in-laws don’t believe in AC. Which is kind of rough on a kiddo who is coming down from a 104 degree fever.
My husband gets 3 weeks, and is the limiting factor for our vacations. We usually do a week at Christmas, and my parents come up for at least part of that. Then we go on vacation with his parents for another week – not to their house, but to an actual vacation destination. If the cost is more than minimal, we pay for them, because we can afford it and they can’t. The last week varies. Last year, we went away for a week as a family. This year we are dropping the kids with my parents and going on an adults-only vacation, which I am looking forward to immensely.
Note that none of these involve going and visiting family at their houses. If we’re going to be hanging around the suburbs somewhere, I want to be in my own home, where my kids sleep well.
And I also have a college BFF that I consider a sister. Luckily, she’s just a 2 hour train ride away, so while we visit each other several times a year, we usually do so over long weekends and don’t burn vacation for it.
Can we talk about how you allocate vacation time between visiting relatives and doing family vacations? I feel like I’m fairly lucky, in that I have 4 weeks/year and no one gets upset if I use it all. I also have generous sick leave, so I never have to burn vacation to stay home with sick kids or take them to the doctor. That said, we’re still feeling pinched, because both of our families are a plane flight away, DH has an adult sister who lives in a different city than his parents, and I’d like to regularly visit my best friend from college, who is like a sister to me (and I’m an only child, so maintaining a very close relationship with her and her kids is more important to me than it might otherwise be). Growing up, my family took just-us-three vacations at least annually, and I’d love for my own kids to have the same experience, but visiting all the relatives and friends hasn’t been leaving much time for it. I guess this is why people move to be closer to family…
Speaking of names… we’re keeping it a secret until our baby girl is going to be Dorothy.
And yes, I’m already ISO ruby red baby moccasins.
Feels good to do a name reveal to ya’ll!
We have recently found ourselves in this situation quite suddenly (we think there’s some legitimate mental health or dementia issues on the in-law side contributing) and I agree it is my husband’s relationship to manage. I will say the one boundary I am firmly setting is that there will be NO drama in front of my children (she has shown up crying/refusing to speak to us before in front of the kids… which, why come over if you’re in that state?). If everyone can’t handle civil smalltalk for the sake of the kids, then there can’t be a relationship in my book.
I am also scaling back what was previously a very close relationship between our oldest and the grandparents due to sudden “we’re never going to speak to you all again because of (X comment that no one actually even said)”. I can’t have people going in and out of my children’s lives like that, it’s too confusing to them and I don’t think it models how unconditional love of family should work.
For a million reasons I do not wish to get into, my husband and I are having big issues with my mother and father in law. Good chance that our relationship won’t go beyond very basic small talk in the future – not that it’s been much more lately, but it will be worse. I’m not looking to completely cut them out – they live fairly close and I have a 10 month old. Fortunately, the majority of my other in laws are great and supportive, so large family parties are bearable.
Can anyone relate and tell their story? How do you deal with facing them all the time?
I need shorts. I currently own 0 pairs of shorts but I am on maternity leave and it is 500 degrees out and I need to run after my other kids. I have a completely average 30-year-old mom bod but my C-section scar is still healing so I need something that won’t irritate. Suggestions?
Hayley here! Most of the time people spell it “Haley” and honestly it does bother me. But I think “Hayley” is the prettiest spelling and makes it clearer how to pronounce it. I pronounce it “hey Lee” as opposed to “hail E”. People constantly spell it wrong in emails but it tells me more about them and their carelessness (especially when my name is in my email address, or they’re responding to me) than anything else. And I ended up giving my first daughter a name with a million spellings and am about to do the same with number 2.
I have this water table for my daughter, and she loves it (in case anyone is looking for one!).
DH and I are expecting our first and are considering the name Hayley if it’s a girl and Max if it’s a boy. Then it occurred to me that there are many ways to spell Hayley: Hailey, Haley, Haylee etc. is it bad to give your kid a name with multiple spellings? DH and I both have names with only one real spelling so I don’t know how annoying it is to always have to spell your name for people. I guess a lot of names have more than one way to spell them: Sara/Sarah, Riley/Rylee, Katelyn/Kaitlin/Caitlin, Brian/Bryan etc but then there are names that don’t like Max or Emma or Adam. Am I over thinking this? Thoughts?
My five-year-old grinds his teeth in his sleep. For now, they’re all baby teeth. Has anyone experienced this with kids? I asked the dentist and she said there’s not much to be done at this age in terms of mouthguards and what not.
I would caution you against saying anything to her along the lines of “did you do something to them to provoke it?” (since you mention that you’re “sure she’s not innocent in all of this either”). I have distinct memories of my mom not really taking my side when I was a kid and assuming I had done something to provoke the other kid. On the one hand, I think it’s good to create self-awareness and empathy in your kid and to not just blindly believe what they say, but they should also feel like you think they are a good person and that you believe them when they say someone was mean.