Ugh this app keeps crashing on me! I finally decided to delete it and wait a while to try it again. This was over a month ago. I'm going to try re-installing it.

:iagree: Legos have always kept my kids entertained for hours; they've had legos since they were toddlers.

Answers above. Cindy

I've weaned three so far, and I am pregnant and nursing my 19 month old son. I worked while nursing my third child. While she was was still an infant, my husband would bring her to me during lunch and for one of my breaks. I would pump during my other break. When she got older, she adjusted to drinking milk during the day and nursing at night and in the morning. I finally weaned her at 30 months when she was old enough to understand that there was no more milk. I wrote all this to say that your son will probably not miss nursing while you are out of sight if he is already okay with taking a cup or bottle. He will figure out a way to fall asleep for nap time. It may take a few days or weeks for him to nap on schedule, but he should be okay. It will be good for him to be able to nurse at night and in the morning. This way, his whole world isn't turned upside down. Now if you are doing this for you, I hear you. I have mixed feelings about my little nursling right now. He has the same nursing schedule as your son. I think if I wasn't pregnant I would be fine with this arrangement. However, I cannot fathom the idea of tandem nursing. So I don't know what I'm going to do. He has fallen asleep two times this week on his own, just cuddling with either DH or me. And he regularly sleeps in his car seat when we are out. IDK how this got so long. I hope you get something out of the words I've just poured out. I didn't mean to ramble on and on. Good luck. Cindy

Thank you all. You have helped me and taught me a lot today. Would you believe this was only the second sentence in the whole article? We will continue tomorrow working on editing this mess-I mean article. It gets much, much worse. Cindy

I need to go back and re-read the sentence to see what you're saying.... Oh, okay. I agree. I believe we re-wrote the sentence to say something along the lines of this: Summer basketball is getting under way, and soccer and volleyball will begin in the fall. Cindy

Underway just doesn't look right to me. I'm glad it was rejected, except for the nautical use of the word, of course. Cindy

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Thank you. The sentences I bolded above are very helpful.

So, would it be redundant then to say, "Basketball is getting underway?" If I were to substitute the meaning it would say, "Basketball is getting [getting started]. I apologize for all my questions. I truly didn't mean to drag this out. And thank you for answering the question;) Cindy

The words "is" and "getting" together are a verb phrase in which "is" is the helping verb, and "getting" is the action verb. Because "getting" is acting as an action verb within the verb phrase, I'm thinking that "underway" or "under way" could describe the verb "getting." Now if any of this is wrong or flawed, please let me know. Cindy

Is anyone able to answer this question?

You and Mrs. Mungo make your cases so well, I'm not sure what to think. Your last example made complete sense to me, as did Mrs. Mungo's. I last studied grammar in 8th grade. I was very good and was even asked to lead the class in lessons at times, though I'm now pretty sure that my teacher had other intentions. Let's just say that he was probably tired of me constantly correcting him in front of the class. I didn't mean to submit; my toddler clicked the button on my notebook. I was going to finish by saying that I sympathize with not doing this in a long time. I am re-learning a lot of this as well. I'm glad I learned grammar in elementary and middle school; I couldn't imagine doing this with my kids with no prior knowledge. Cindy

I did this at first, and that is how I came to determine that under way was an adverb. Then the subject-complement was mentioned. I'm pretty sure it's an adverb. Cindy

Hmm, this also makes sense. My 3rd grader asked me if it's an adverb, what about the verb does it tell (how, when, where, how often, or to what extent). That stumped me as well. Cindy

Thanks, everyone. I'm afraid this assignment may be harder than I anticipated. I was looking over the next few sentences, and the editing necessary might be over my kids' heads. Would you continue, or just leave it to the sentences with the obvious errors? I suppose I could just have them edit for punctuation, and then I could tell them how I would change the sentences so that they better flow together.

In winter, we keep it at 67 during the day, and turn it off at night. We like it cold at night. In the summer, we keep the thermostat between 75-77 during the day, and 72 at night. Cindy

My fifth and last baby will be born in a few months. I will be 31.

I was reading our neighborhood news magazine, and I came across an article with numerous grammatical errors. I decided to use this article as a lesson for my 5th grade DD as well as my 3rd grade DD. My 1st grade DD has been sitting in as well, and surprisingly, she has a thing or two to add. We are pretending that we are editors of this magazine, and this article has been submitted to us for editing. Here is the sentence in question (exactly as it appears in print): Summer Basketball is getting underway and we have Soccer and Volleyball in the Fall. Right away my third grader said that Fall should not be capitalized because it is a season, and seasons are common nouns (thank you FLL/SWB). We are also changing all the sports to lowercase because we all agree that they are common nouns. My 5th grader pointed out that there should be a comma after the word underway because the word and is a conjunction joining two complete thoughts together. I asked them what they thought about the word underway. It didn't look right to me, and they had no idea, so we looked it up in the dictionary. According to Merriam Webster, underway is a word when acting as an adjective. When used as an adverb, it should be under way. At that point, my DH called us in for lunch, we ate, and I put the baby to nap right after. It is quiet time now, and I'm trying to get this straight so we can continue our editing. My opinion is that underway is acting as an adverb, describing the verb, is getting. Therefore it should actually be separated into two words. Agree, disagree? Thanks, Cindy

Thank you for letting us know about this offer. I ordered everything available today, and the offer was still good. I wonder how many days it'll take to get my books. Cindy

I was making lunch when they reconvened, and when I got back to the tv, I asked DH what I'd missed. He said, "Nothing, this guy doesn't know anything apparently." This guy seems cool as a cucumber in the midst of all this questioning.

I want to read more to my son, but he doesn't seem very interested at this age. He'd rather flip the pages until he gets tired, then run away and find something more interesting to do. I have lots of board books with pictures for him to look at, board books with a story included, and regular picture books that I rarely try to read to him for fear that he will rip the pages. Any ideas? Thanks, Cindy

Really good advice. Thank you.

You just summed up my feelings about the whole situation. My issue is not with my daughter; that she likes boys is no big deal. I am really curious as to what my DN's intentions were. They are not super close; they see each other about once a month. DN is much more mature than DD; she's into boys, Twilight, Teen Nick, and gravitates more toward the adults when family gets together. DD plays with Loving Family dolls pretty much daily with her sisters and friends. She also plays with Polly Pocket and Barbies, doesn't watch much TV, except for DVD's and the Wii and prefers to play with the kids when family gets together. Honestly, I don't know her well enough. We moved here to be closer to family a year ago, so I hadn't seen her in 6 years, and I haven't gotten to spend much time with her. I just get to hear about her through her Dad and STB step-mother.

Thank you for your opinions. I think I might be more upset than is necessary because I am putting myself at that age in the situation. The thing I forget is that my relationship with my parents was very different than my DD's relationship with DH and me. I never had that type of relationship with my parents. For example, I never had the talk about sex or menstruation or even relationships. The only thing my mom did was offer to put me on the pill when I was 16. I wasn't even sexually active, and she didn't bother to find out. So at that age, I kept most of that stuff to myself because it was awkward to talk to my mom. So when I think of someone telling something that would have been so personal to me, I get angry. BTW, I edited my OP to say that my DD is almost 12 and my niece is 13. Cindy