Baby Milestones
Parenting 101
Keeping Mama Happy
Vacays with Baby!
Baby Items/Gear
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This important milestone usually occurs around 3 months of age and is a good indicator of the vestibular health of the infant.

What is rolling over?

100

Baby begins screaming uncontrollably which often drives first-time parents wild, with father tearing his hair out and mother crying, what is it child, what is it?

What is teething?

100

Shower these upon new-time mama.  She has worked hard for 40 weeks and deserves reassurance that her body will return to normal and she will feel like a beauty queen again.

What are compliments, flowers, pedicures, manicures, and anything else pampering?

100

With a kingdom for almost everything, this vacation destination captures the hearts and imaginations of the entire family.

What is Disney World?

100

By far one of the greatest inventions on record for all of history.

What is a disposable diaper?

200

Mealtime becomes messy when this milestone is reached, usually around 10 months.

What is finger-feeding?

200

Where baby learns to go when mama says "no."

Who is dad?

200

Along with stories of walking uphill both ways, this family member will engage little ones for hours with games, stories, and favorite toys, so that mom and dad can go on a date night.

Who is grandpa?

200

The best vacation spot for a built-in babysitter who loves little baby as no one else can.

What is grandma's house?

200

Two of the first versions of this baby gear item were named the TotGuard and the LoveSeat for Toddlers, and it was not until 1985 that all states required that this baby gear item be mandatory.

What is a carseat?

300

Necessary for later mobility this milestone usually occurs between 5 and 7 months. 

What is sitting-up?

300

Usually, families encourage children to always eat these; however if neither father nor mother like them, a child usually goes their entire growing-up without having tasted them.

What are vegetables?

300

Mom soon learns that when baby does this, she needs to do it also. (At the same time.)

What is naptime?

300

The modern-day solution to "Are we there yet?"

What are car DVD players?

300

An absolute necessity for mom and dad's sanity once baby becomes mobile (even a little bit.)

What is a crib, or portable crib?

400

Getting ready to go somewhere now takes at least twice as long, because baby is helping! This milestone usually happens around 22 months.

What is getting dressed-by-yourself?

400

Its a bird, its a plane, and the subject of great debate, usually resulting in lack of sleep.

What is it like sleeping with baby?

400

One of the best things that a new father can do for the new mama in their life.

What is weekly date night?

400

Squashed like sardines---mom encourages the kids to play the Alphabet Game, and dad ignores the bickering in the back seat.

What are road-trips?

400

An item manufactured to imitate the soothing, gentle, rocking motion that cradled baby in-utero.

What is a baby-sling or baby-swing?

500

When baby reaches this milestone, life---everyone's life---changes permanently.  There's no going back, baby!

What is walking?

500

Firstborn children receive millions of these, though they are too young to know, and younger siblings often ask, wait where are mine?

What is a baby photo?

500

Destressing is often at the top of a new mama's list, and when baby is finally asleep this is what we all wish for (usually behind a locked door where there are no interruptions.)

What is a long, hot bath? 

500

Name four of the places in Colorado that made the top 10 vacation destinations in Colorado according to Family Destinations Guide in March of 2021?

What are Aspen/Snowmass (#1), Telluride #2, Beaver Creek #3, Ouray #4, Breckenridge #5, Crested Butte #6, Boulder #7, Estes PArk #8, Colorado Springs #9, and Glenwood Springs #10.

500

Babies everywhere are programmed with one great need and this piece of baby gear attempts to satisfy that need, although it sometimes becomes a torpedo.

What is a pacifier?

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