Family Friday: Take-Apart Toy Airplane
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My daughter got this fun airplane a few years ago and loved taking it apart and rebuilding it. Now my toddler son is completely obsessed with the drill (hopefully the plane will be next).
This colorful toy airplane comes with 25 pieces, including a drill and three drill bits. The chunky pieces are easy to grab, and with a little adult help, even little kids can put the parts together. Once assembled, you can take the plane for a spin around the room, since the wheels actually work. I can also personally attest to its durability since it’s survived one kid and is on its second.
Battat’s Take-Apart Airplane is $17 on Amazon.
Sales of note for 9.10.24
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; up to 50% off everything else
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off wear-to-work styles; extra 30% off sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40-60% off everything; extra 60% off clearance
- Lands’ End – 30% off full-price styles
- Loft – Extra 40% off sale styles
- Talbots – BOGO 50% everything, includes markdowns
- Target – Car-seat trade-in event through 9/28 — bring in an old car seat to get a 20% discount on other baby/toddler stuff.
- Zappos – 26,000+ women’s sale items! (check out these reader-favorite workwear brands on sale, and some of our favorite kids’ shoe brands on sale)
Kid/Family Sales
- Carter’s – Birthday sale, 40-50% off & extra 20% off select styles
- Hanna Andersson – Up to 50% off all baby; up to 40% off all Halloween
- J.Crew Crewcuts – Extra 30% off sale styles
- Old Navy – 40% off everything
- Target – BOGO 25% off select haircare, up to 25% off floor care items; up to 30% off indoor furniture up to 20% off TVs
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- How can I change my thinking to better recognize some of my husband’s contributions as important, like organizing the shed?
- What are your tips to having a good weekend with kids, especially with little kids? Do you have a set routine or plan?
Hi there. Long-time reader, first-time poster here. I’m a doctor in training (husband also doctor in training) who just had our first kid 6 months ago. We are planning to have more, but live in a space-limited setting – and also money is pretty tight (trying to aggressively save for retirement – 10% of our income, also student loans, own-occ disability insurance, etc etc). I’m wondering if you all hang on to items exclusively related to baby-hood (like: bouncers, breastfeeding pillows, bassinets, playmats etc etc) until you have your next kid, or if you sell them? It took us 2 years to conceive this one, and while I want another child eventually I’m not sure when that will be and hanging on to a lot of this bulky stuff for possibly 3 years seems like a burden that I’m not interested in, but re-buying it in less than two years also seems silly. Just wondering what other people have done and what’s made sense.
I’ve posted here before about adopting three elementary school aged kids. (We leave to get them in a week!) My colleagues just reached out and said they want to do a “Zoom shower” of sorts to meet the children later this year and asked what we needed. They mentioned toys and clothes. Friends and family have long since met all our needs for that (cousin hand-me-downs FTW).
Honestly, the thing that would be the absolutely most useful would be 529 contributions. We’re getting three kids and will have missed out on years of compound earnings! (And we won’t have cash ourselves to start saving for them because adoption is $$$$$ and we are tapped out financially and will be for months to come.) It would be such a mental relief to have a little nest egg started for them. Is it beyond rude to ask for that instead? I know it’s not the same as having children unwrap a toy in front of you. Thanks for your thoughts!
ATTN: QUARANTINE from yesterday.
My long list of stuff never posted! Tried to re-create it below:
-We did a Halloween egg hunt in our neighborhood in 2020. I put tiny glow sticks in plastic eggs with a piece of candy, a sticker, a stamper, etc. Could you do something like that with your kids since they can’t Trick or Treat? Also decorating sugar cookies is a hit with my kids (don’t make them, now isn’t the time to create dirty dishes for yourself! Buy one of those packs of dough already made and cut into squares you just drop on the tray!)
-One of those cardboard playhouses or rocketships you build and color could buy you a few hours (just make sure you have WASHABLE markers if you’ll try to get work done!)
-A large play-doh order and a bucket of monster parts they can stick into play-doh creations to design monsters was a huge hit for both of my kids (my kids are 8 years apart, so that’s always difficult!)
-A game both of my kids will play together is Gas Out. I’ll let you look it up, but they just draw a card and press the toy that number of times and if it makes a noise on your turn you lose (my kids play that they win if it does, though!) My youngest is 3 and can play it without frustration.
-A long roll of white paper went a long way for us. The kids could line up toy animals and trace their shadows, I could trace them and have them color in their clothes, they could paint on it, etc.
-a bit of separation is key when you’re all trapped in the house together. If your 3 yo naps, I’d bribe 7 yo to spend some “quiet time” in their room, too. It just gives everyone a bit of a mental break. If 3yo doesn’t nap, I’d still push for “quiet time.” for each kid in their room, even if it involves a show on a TV or tablet or an audio book.
I don’t remember the rest, but I hope something in here buys you a few hours of peace! Fingers crossed you all continue to feel OK!
My almost 4 year old loves going to school and chats non-stop to us about the kids in her class and what they’re doing (for example, over the weekend she told us what every kid was going to be for Halloween). But from the (admittedly limited) interactions I’ve seen with her classmates, I’m kind of concerned. This morning a classmate came running up to her, addressing her by name and asking her questions about her Halloween costume and she ignored him and pretended to balk like a chicken (nothing to do with her costume). Then when we got into the classroom two girls asked her to come join a pretend game and she ignored them and went to find a teacher’s lap to sit in. She’s the youngest in the classroom and 12-18 months younger than many of these kids, which I know could be a factor but I feel like most 3.5-4 year olds are more interested in engaging with their peers than she is. Is this something we should be worried about? I’ve asked our ped before if we should potentially have her evaluated for autism or other differences (in addition to this issue, she has extremely intense meltdowns – although things seem better on that front recently – and has a lot of fears and anxieties) and the ped was very dismissive and said not to worry because she’s plenty verbal, extremely affectionate and loves pretend play. But I know there is more to autism than that, particularly in girls. Are there ways to work on this at home without other kids around? I do sometimes try to gently talk through situations I’ve observed and give her ideas about how she could have responded, but I don’t know if that is helpful or what else I should be doing.
Am I wrong to send my toddler to daycare with a runny nose, occasional cough, but no fever? It’s been wet and cold here the past week. I’ve been checking his temp morning and night and they check it at daycare each day. Their policy is if he’s running a fever he can’t come.
We have no reason to suspect any covid exposure.
Another one of those “I feel like I should know the answer by this far into the panini” questions… but I got my second Moderna shot a little over six months ago. I live in a red state in a county that currently has an overall ~50% vaccination rate. I am back to the office 100% of the time, and no one wears masks at work. I could go out and easily get a booster tomorrow if I wanted, because people just aren’t chomping at the bit to get vaccinated here. I don’t have any underlying health issues, so I’m not sure I “qualify”… would you get a booster if you were in my shoes? I was thinking about getting it done in the next few days so I beat the initial rush (or as much of a rush as there’s going to be) of younger kids getting vaccinated when that (probably) starts happening in the next couple of weeks. Thoughts?
Have any of you had kids with speech delays? My nephew was evaluated and appears to be delayed – he is not speaking any words at all and is not really babbling at almost 15 months. I don’t want to speculate with his parents because I think it would be stressful (and I follow their lead), but I’m curious how common this is. He makes eye contact, responds to his name most of the time, and seems to understand some other simple sentences, but isn’t speaking at all or engaging in any gestures like pointing or waving. They have a plan for intervention, but are understandably worried about autism.
Does anyone have a Kia Soul who could comment on the fit of a rear facing convertible car seat (particularly the Graco 4ever)? We’re looking at new cars, and wanting something that will fit in our very small garage but still leave space for my husband in the front passenger seat.
Anyone know why they’re not doing boosters for kids/have any insight into whether boosters will happen relatively soon for under 18s? There are 16 year olds who were fully vaccinated over six months ago, and it’s coming up on six months soon for the 12-15 group. I get that even without a booster, protection against death and hospitalization remains high, but severe acute illness was never really the issue for kids anyway. We’ve been basically locked down until our kids can get vaccinated, but since kids apparently may not be boosted and protection against infection wanes relatively quickly, I’m starting to feel like that was all a waste. Just curious what other people think.
Warning, vent ahead: As some may know, my ex was formerly an elementary school principal. Shortly after the divorce, he left/was fired (never been able to get the full story there) and went to work as a grocery store clerk. When he was working in the schools, his schedule was entirely inflexible and kid appointments were accommodating to his schedule, if he could attend at all. We have been divorced 2 years and the kids are with me 94% of the time. Their dad does not attend doctor’s appointments – routine or otherwise, sporting events unless they are solely within his 6% of the time, or school events (again unless solely within his time. He left in the middle of band night because his time was up). My son had his parent-teacher conference last night, which was led by my son. I asked the ex if he wanted to attend, and he was adamant that he attend. So the conference was scheduled over zoom for a time convenient for the ex. He didn’t show up to the zoom (20 minutes) because he “got stuck on a register and couldn’t get away. sorry.” Then, he asked for a full run-down of what he missed. My son knew that his Dad was supposed to attend, and it was a glowing review of how my son is doing. I am heart-broken for my son and just so frustrated. I’m working my tail off to support my kids and be the parent that they need. The ex works evenings so he can golf in the morning. I do realize that this stuff is a huge reason we divorced, and I am so glad for that. I just need support in my frustration.
What would you wear to a night out to meet the other preschool parents? It’s drinks and apps at a restaurant, in their outdoor space. We’re in the northeast and it’s outdoors there will be heaters.
Sometimes I really don’t think my partner is a kind person. If he was nice, he wouldn’t just say such snide things (e.g. “Fine, do whatever you want”, “Why is everything always so complicated”) when we’re just having a normal back and forth on where to put something in the fridge.