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Anon says
are magnatiles and picasso tiles interchangeable? and what about brio trains with melissa & doug or learning resources trains?
anon says
Yes for magnatiles and Picasso tiles, and also yes for brio and M&D. I’m not sure about learning resources but it looks compatible. With these kinds of things, I find you get what you pay for – the more expensive items will be better quality (the tracks might be double sided, wooden connectors instead of plastics, the magnets on the trains will be reversible), but if your kids are like mine and need a thousand train tracks to build over the entire living room, the cheapo ones are fine :). I culled the better ones to save when my kids outgrew them, but we had a ton of target brand tracks.
Anonymous says
I would say that YES they all connect, but not as seamlessly as you might like. The little battery powered Thomas gets derailed at the junctions between brio / Melissa and Doug.
Spirograph says
+1 that they work but aren’t seamless. Melissa & Doug bridges aren’t as high, so our Thomas can’t fit under them. Or maybe that’s the IKEA tracks? Anyway, we have a few types and they all work together well enough. My kids solve it with, “and then Thomas teleports over here and the rest of the train zooms under to meet him” and don’t bat an eye.
Katala says
Yep, our IKEA bridges aren’t tall enough for the Thomas trains, or most of them. The kids figure it out.
Anon says
Train tracks are pretty compatible – IKEA and Kidkraft, too. But our cheaper ones are all breaking. I’m a fan of building out a collection slowly with quality items (it’s also less overwhelming for the kid to play with and clean up). I tossed our broken pieces and my kids are each getting four brio track pieces in their stocking.
Anonymous says
What’s your travel sleeping arrangements for toddlers after they outgrow the PNP? Headed to a vacation rental house soon and not sure what to do with my almost 3 year old. The house has a child’s room with bunk beds but I’m not sure she could safely sleep in a regular bed. At home she sleeps in a crib converted to a toddler bed, so it’s very low to the ground if she falls out (which she has a few times). Do I have to buy an inflatable toddler mattress? Can I just bring her regular crib mattress and put it in the floor or is that too bare bones?
Anon says
We usually put kiddo in a regular bed if available (but she sleeps in one at home) or use the aero bed kids inflatable mattress on the floor, which fits a twin size sheet and has bumpers all around.
Anon says
I tried an inflatable toddler mattress and it was an ajbect failure. I then put him in a regular bed and just kind of built a pillow wall around him so he wouldn’t fall out. Seemed to work?
AnotherAnon says
My 3.5 y/o sleeps in adult beds when we travel. But he sleeps in an adult bed at home and has never fallen out. I’d also vote bunk bed with pillow bolster around, but I don’t like packing extra stuff.
Anon says
Take the cushions off the couches in the vacation rental and put them around the bed – no need to bring extra pillows
anon says
Rolled towels under the fitted sheet, but yes, you can just bring her mattress and put it on the floor – it will be fine.
Redux says
Yes, this is what I recommend, too. Feels more secure to me than the pillow fort which somehow always ended up on the floor whenever we tried it.
Anonymous says
Twin bed or lower bunk on bunkbed. Use extra towels rolled tightly lengthwise and secured with hair elastics, or pool noodles. Place under the fitted sheet to create a mini rail, put a couple pillows on the floor in case they migrated over the pool noodle.
Anonymous says
I would try the first night in the bunk bed (lower bunk). if she falls out pull the mattress to the floor for the next night so you don’t have to pack anything else.
DLC says
We often do the mattress on the floor option. or if the couch cushions are big enough, we use those.
octagon says
We had a Regalo travel cot that was our trusty companion for about a year. It was very similar to what they used at preschool for naptimes so made bedtime easy.
Louisa says
We had this too and got a ton of use out of it!
Anonymous says
Us too! And it was super cheap!
anne-on says
We bought an inflatable toddler rail (basically a long water wing that you put under the fitted sheet) and that worked really well.
Anonymous says
We have the Millard foldable toddler bed which is big but my DD wouldn’t sleep in a PNP. It seems to fit tall 5yos because my niece has slept in it too. But I’d go with a regular bed and rolled up towels under the sheet.
Anon says
Could you get one of those cheapie mesh toddler guardrails and bring it with you? No experience, but they seem easy enough to attach and detach from standard bed frames.
anon says
After my kids were sleeping in a “toddler bed” (aka their crib with one side taken off but no rail added) at home, which was around 2.75, we just put them in regular beds when we traveled. I think one kid fell out once on a vacation, but generally it’s been fine. If they’re in a twin bed there’s a lot more leeway to wiggle around without getting too close to the edge compared to a toddler bed.
For places that there aren’t spare beds (aka Gramma’s house) we’ve used the regalo cots mentioned above. We’ve also just put them in sleeping bags on carpeted floors and they’ve never complained.
Sf says
We bought a blow up bed- it never worked for us although his friends have loved it. We do plush blanket/comforter with a toddler sleeping bag on top on the ground. I think it depends on how much your kiddo moves in their sleep.
Louisa says
Hi mom internet friends! I’m just writing with a short update – I am the commentator who found out she was surprised pregnant last March as locked down had started. And I was 41 with an 8-year-old. I had concerns about going forward with pregnancy at this age and also covid. I appreciated all the support I got about each decision being okay. I also appreciated the folks who noticed that I did seem excited about a baby. Well, I didn’t anticipate how much my 8-year-old would relish being a big brother and how much my husband and I would enjoy doing this again. She just turned two weeks and she’s great! I definitely have some weepiness that is partial hormones and partially being frustrated about spending my maternity leave in lock down and not seeing grandparents for now. But our little family unit is doing great and I’m so glad she’s here.
octagon says
What a lovely update. Congratulations!
Katy says
This made my day. Thank you.
Anonymous says
Aw, thank you for sharing this wonderful update, and congratulations!
(Also, it just blew my mind a little that this pandemic craziness has been going on long enough that you gestated an entire human, and we’re still not on the other side of it.)
Boston Legal Eagle says
Congratulations!! Enjoy the holidays with your new family of 4.
Internet Mom Friend says
Wow, just remembering this now – what a wonderful update. I am so happy for your happiness!! Sounds like this will be a very magical holiday season for your family. Hope you are getting some rest!
Anon says
congratulations! you are most certainly have permission from this internet stranger to fell all the weepiness you need, but i am glad to hear you are enjoying the baby snuggles and that big bro is enjoying his new role!
anon says
Awww, this is wonderful! Congratulations.
Realist says
This is just lovely. Congratulations!
Anon says
Congrats!! What a lovely update. It’s also wild to me that a woman who found out she was pregnant at the beginning of the pandemic has already had her baby but I guess it tracks. Time is so weird this year.
Boston Legal Eagle says
Kat and Kate – could we get these posts up earlier? It took until around 11:30 today for the moms site to have a new post, whereas the main site had 100+ comments already. I think a lot of us tend to check more earlier anyway, and the afternoon slows down so would appreciate an early start. Thanks for all your work!
anon says
+1 This community has become a big part of my day (especially while WFH) and we’d appreciate the early start
anon says
Yeah, it was exceptionally late today!
anon says
Yes please! This is where I like to post my questions at the beginning of the day :)
anon says
Guessing that with April’s departure, they may be doing double duty.
Anon says
It was unusually late today, usually it’s up more like 9-9:30 eastern.
Anonymous says
I just found out I didn’t get promoted. Again. But my work is “fantastic,” as both a manager and a contributor. Ugh. I didn’t do enough outside my world at the firm (not law) for it. So annoyed and unmotivated.
One of the ways it was suggested I better position myself was to volunteer for a truly thankless role that basically means I’m an investment banker hours for 2 years with no change to pay. During a pandemic, with early elementary age kids who are in virtual school.
I hate corporate America. And I’m so brainwashed that I know I’m supposed to be thankful I’m employed. I’m too old for this crap.
I can’t vent anywhere else …
anon says
I’m sorry, this stinks. I think it’s fine to wallow for a while before coming up with a plan. And maybe that plan does not include putting yourself on a thankless two-year path that may or may not get you want you want. I know that is a tough pill to swallow, and yes, the working world is freaking terrible sometimes.
anne-on says
I’m sorry. That stinks, truly. And I’d also encourage you to network, hard. I was repeatedly passed over/underpaid at an old role that I stayed in for way too long. It’s hard to make a move, but people will be looking to hire, and the pandemic will end at some point (I clearly recall the MASSIVE amounts of job changes in my LinkedIn as we came out of the financial crisis and all the people who were fed up with how badly they’d been treated during the downturn left en masse). In the meantime you have this internet strangers permission to be totally ‘fine’ at your job, lean out, get through this time, and put your “extra” (ha, I know) energy into networking and job seeking.
Oof says
Ugh, I’m sorry. For what it’s worth, you are clearly a rockstar if you’re being described so glowingly during a pandemic while parenting early elementary kids! And agreed, I don’t know that they deserve you.
I’d have a really hard time volunteering for a thankless role. Forget that – find an appreciated role!
Anonymous says
I feel you so hard. and i just don’t understand how to find the energy to network. good luck. wishing you a large glass of wine and no work post bedtime tonight.