...and Grandma will be 725 months in June.

If you use a lunar calendar you can use months forever.

A. 2

B.arghh..yes.

C. ignore, hee..gus usually gets the answer out before i do.

D. you're so not lame!

Hm... in another month, or six weeks, you can switch to "Almost two!"  After that, it's two, almost two-and-a-half, two-and-a-half, almost three, etc.  That gets you through a few more years, and the kids usually let you know when it's time to stop adding the half-years.

D. Month birthdays are totally important through age two.  They don't change quite as fast after that.  Am I lame for having such definite answers to these questions?

When Mamie turned 2, I stopped the month thing.  But with that said, there are so many variations to the age of 2 --- 2 years and 2 months is diff. from 2 years and 8 months.  But, I'm stickin' to 2.  

A) 2yrs

B) Completely and totally obnoxious.

C) I usually do whatever is easiest

D) I think 21 Months is still acceptable.  But after 24, just say he's 2

I don't have kids yet, but with nieces and nephews and cousins and friends' kids, I typically round up. I usually spend several days a week with my nieces and with one of my friend's kids and with both, I round into years once they're about 18 months or so. This might be because I don't have kids, or it might be because I don't like math, but I think most of it is because I just don't see why it cares how many months they are at that point. Once they're about 6 weeks, I start counting in months, and 18 months just seems like a good number to start counting in years.

Besides, I have a friend whose oldest son is "59 months, will be 60 months in 2 weeks" and that just bothers me. Why can't she just say the kid's turning 5?!

1. 2

2. I HATE this. What I want to say...Well maybe I will start saying is "Really? I'll be 426 months next month! Wow!"

3. Matters who's asking!

4. I say at two. BUT... It's a big thing at out house at 1/2 birthdays. It's a kids thing to say I'm 5 1/2 not 5. For some reason it makes them feel older. Whatever... they think it's cool. Oh yeah, I'll be 35 1/2 next month! : )

OMG - I'm 451 months old (sorry, just did the math).  Anyhoo...

(1) 2 for sure

(2) Completely annoying - they don't have anything better to do except keep track because I'm having a dickens of a time remembering how many months old B is right now

(3) IG-NORE

(4) Not lame, I post about the months just so I can show her when she's older.  I think the month stuff ends at 2 but at the rec centre where we do gymnastics they actually do everything by months.  So I had to sit down and figure out what 84 months was because the age range for our new class is 18 - 84 months and I didn't want B doing gymnastics with geriatrics.  She'd break someone's hip fer sure.

We stopped using months somewhere between 18-21 months. We used halves until she was two and a half. Now it's either "she's 4" or "she'll be 5 in August" (once August nears).

I only really have an answer to the first part. After  2 - although I can tell you how many months K is, and she'll be four next month, as well as B, who is 7 1/2. We did the math lately because B wanted to know.

I have a friend is constantly bothered by the fact that I will say one little girl I watch is 18 months ("why don't you just say she's one!") but the changes between 1-2 are so great that its worth it to count.

You made David Brooks's column in the NY Times...

"There's a column by L.A.'s Rebecca Woolf, a sort of Silver Lake Erma Bombeck. 'Who says becoming a mom means succumbing to laser tattoo removal and moving to the suburbs?')"

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/opinion/25brooks.html

I think the month-by-month wound down for my guys when they were about Archer's age, in part because I kept losing track.  (I'm too tired these days to count past 20.)  They were 19 mo, 20 mo, 21 mo, then "almost two", "2", and now they're "almost 2 1/2".

Plus, they know to say "two" when someone says "How old are you?"  (They also say "two" if you ask "How are you?")

1. Who cares.......?

2. Who cares.......?

3. Who cares.......?

4.  YES!!!!!! VERY LAME

For a chick who seems above all things motherhood you sure spend a lot of time dwelling on the details.

Really 1 1/2 is when I stopped telling people how many months my kids were.

Anything over 24 months makes the parent look goofy. (In my opinion).

Really 1 1/2 is when I stopped telling people how many months my kids were.

Anything over 24 months makes the parent look goofy. (In my opinion).

ok. i would say after a year it starts going like this [[in my opinion anyway this is what i am going to start saying]]

he is one.

then he is 1 and a half

then after the three months after one and a half it goes he will be 2 in ----then say what ever month he turns two.

in your case i would say "Archer is almost two." and then add a little "yay".

A little girl I babysit (she's 4), her mom has decided to add decimals to the kid's age cuz she'd get too impatient for her birthday, and it never seemed like she was getting older.

This way she can say "I'm 4.6 years old!" and sound REALLY smart.

The month thing annoys me anyway. I think after they near 2, it's time to give it up.

I used to 'not get it' until I had my own baby, then I totally got it - why we talk in weeks, and months. And I think it's totally normal and if fact, necessary, to do that - at least until they are 2 years old. Then it seems to stop... my son will be 19 months old next week! And congrats on your little guy turning 21 months! The first two years, so many firsts happen (like all of our firsts in high school, you know?) so I think it's okay to talk in terms of months. But yeah, I would start getting confused after 24 months. I suck at math!

oh that is funny stuff b/c just last week, I got the "how old is steven?" question and since i couldn't really remember, i blurted out 22 months. then the mom (who must have been a math major) was like "oh an april birthday..."

so im like "oh no did i say 22 months? i meant 21 months b/c his birthday is may 11th." now im a bad mom b/c i dont know how old my son is. HA.

so i was like screw this - im switching to almost 2. i like that almost.

I think you can totally use months until age 2 if you want to... BUT if you don't want to, no one is going to care if you're like "almost two" or "one and a half" or "one and three quarters" or "who the hell cares, would you LOOK at that adorable face!!!"  or should I say that no one SHOULD care... because probably someone will.  but whatever.  age ain't nothin' but a number baby...

Oh gosh - It was so long ago, I can't remember!

It's ultimately up to you. How much do you feel like explaining to strangers? If it is someone that really matters, they should know how old your child is. So other parents gloat or feel like crap about their kid, they should realize that the guidelines out there are just generalizations. All kids develop at their own rates.

I don't think it makes you lame at all if you do it. Drop the month/day/hour/minute/second/milisecond thing when you're ready.

Well definitely at least till 2 .. my son is 22 months and I use it because at this stage each month makes a world of difference between a baby who is sitting, standing, rolling over, teething, blah blah...

also, its so weird to count in years when you have only one year and something to count... at least after two years its a plural..

and i think its a mommy thing. no one else cares exactly how many months my son is, but i do and that is why i do it.

just like i may not care for something that a non-parent has to say but will hear it out politely because obviously its important to them even if i dont understand it!!!

Before this thread is completely toast, let me just say....

Happy 21 month birthday, Archer!  

I agree with most of the previous posters ... stop announcing months when you're comfortable saying "almost 2."  Until then, they really do change so fast!

I stopped using months after my son turned 1. Because really, after he is 1 years old, he isnt "so many" months, IMO. You are NOT alone in that annoying thing that people do. Just tell me that the kid will be 3 in June or 2 in April or WHATEVER. If you give me the number of months the kid is, I will give you a blank stare. That blank stare means I am trying desperately in my head to calculate how old your kid actually is. Math is NOT my forte.

And you are NOT lame and your kid is adorable at 21 months.

I have always been terrible at remembering (or really even caring about) numbers. I was fine telling people how many months old my son was until just a little after 12 months. After that I just rounded up or down to 1, 1.5, 2....

I never really found it annoying when people asked my sons age. I know that when i ask people how old their baby is, its because its cute to remember back to when my son was small and what he was like at about that age. Or, when my son was a baby, I would ask people because I was excited to see what my son might be able to do when he became a certain age. It was never to judge the other person's kid. My kid is brillian (!) but he didn't say anything beyond mommy and daddy until he was 3 (and then he was talking in complex sentances); so believe me, I know that kids develope differently!

One funny story: when my son was really young and we were still counting in weeks, I had to scheduel a doctor's appointment. The nurse asked how many weeks old Nico was and I said I wasn't sure but he was 3 months old. There was silence and then the nurse said in disbelief: You don't know the age of your own baby?

I was so pissed!

jeez - i misspelled brilliant. !!!!

That nurse probably didn't know how many weeks old SHE was, either.

-- Peter, 1685 weeks old, give or take.

I was THRILLED when my son finally turned 2 years old so that I could drop the month thing.  I'll probably do the 2 1/2 years old thing when appropriate, but I'm done with the counting of the months!

Hahaha! Great story, Ty! You guys rock!

Every day Archer and I take a shower together. It's one of my favorite times of the day. We read bath books and I sing terribly loud while building us hair mohawks out of shampoo suds. And sometimes, when it's late, Archer falls asleep on my chest as

Guess what time it is? Happy hour! And by happy hour I mean "happiness hour" (I'm done with drinking for a while). Last night my husband and I had "the talk"... The talk that all stressed-out, unhappy couples have when they are at the end of their rope

David