Saturday-Sunday MOTN and randos

[osulori]

I decided to take a walk on the wild side and not give AJ Motrin before bedtime tonight-I've given him Tylenol or Motrin at bedtime nightly since last Saturday and it looks like his two bottom teeth have fully broken through so I figured it was worth a shot.  He went down awake and I didn't hear a peep out of him after (probably because he didn't nap much today and was poooooped) so we'll see how tonight goes.

J did bathtime and baby bedtime routine tonight...except for putting AJ in his sleepsack.  For that, he handed the baby over to me and hightailed it downstairs.  Why?  Because overtime was about to be over on the Ohio State-Minnesota game.  I was like, are you shitting me?  1.  Putting the baby in his sleepsack and zipping it up takes all of 10 seconds and 2. I highly doubt anything earth shattering is going to happen in the one minute of basketball you would miss by finishing the bedtime routine.  I do bedtime 5-6 nights/week for fuck's sake, fucking basketball can wait!  (FTR-J is generally more than happy to take on all sort of parenting duties on the days we're both off.  I'm more irrationally annoyed by the sleepsack thing than anything else.)

[Brie]

On a whim we went to Cracker Barrel for dinner tonight. I don't think I've been to one in 5 years or so but we were close by, hungry and it sounded good. C was as happy as a pig in shit. H and I finished our meals and he was still going for another 10 minutes or so.

I did a kickboxing DVD this morning while C and H were at swim lessons and my ass hurts already.

Someone on H's news feed is doing a 7 day long gender reveal. They plan to pop a confetti-filled balloon every night between "5-6 pm PST" and best of 7 wins. The hell? I don't mind gender reveals so much but not a week-long affair with no cake.

[yellowbrkrd]

Feb 22, 2014 20:13:58 GMT -5 Brie said:

Someone on H's news feed is doing a 7 day long gender reveal. They plan to pop a confetti-filled balloon every night between "5-6 pm PST" and best of 7 wins. The hell? I don't mind gender reveals so much but not a week-long affair with no cake.

LOL umm what? 

[yellowbrkrd]

M did not nap well today so I hope that means he'll sleep well tonight? I dunno, I'm sure that's wishful thinking.

[Brie]

Feb 22, 2014 20:20:33 GMT -5 yellowbrkrd said:

Feb 22, 2014 20:13:58 GMT -5 Brie said:

Someone on H's news feed is doing a 7 day long gender reveal. They plan to pop a confetti-filled balloon every night between "5-6 pm PST" and best of 7 wins. The hell? I don't mind gender reveals so much but not a week-long affair with no cake.

LOL umm what? 

I'm going to LOL on day 3 when all the balloons are deflated.

[Jalapeñomel]

@brie that's terrible. My friend just did a gender reveal. It was a week long countdown...poof (don't want too much incriminating evidence out there)

[glauren]

A week long gender reveal is really, really dumb. And really, what's the point without cake?

Today my kid rolled from back to belly AND full-on laughed for the first time. It was awesome.

[Velar Fricative]

DD went down easy but I don't know what to expect. I nursed her practically every hour today to see if doing that today and tomorrow helps with pumping output on Monday (and beyond?), but then I think about how my supply is regulated by now so it'll be futile I'm sure. But if she STTN tonight because of all of this nursing then I'm going to feel like I've been starving her at daycare all this time.

[thebreakfastclub]

Fake milestones of the day included buying DS shoes at Target (in advance of his move to the toddler room at DC) and packing up most of his bottles - we are down to one at breakfast. It kind of made me sad for a minute. But just a minute.

[Jalapeñomel]

Feb 22, 2014 21:05:40 GMT -5 tulips said:

A week long gender reveal is weird.

And really annoying.  She also posted a link for all her friends to sign up for days when they will come and do food and cleaning at her house after the birth of her first child, and made sure to let people know that not all the dates had been filled, and she needed people to pick up the rest of the days.

[Jalapeñomel]

Feb 22, 2014 21:29:20 GMT -5 namasteak said:

Feb 22, 2014 21:22:52 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

And really annoying.  She also posted a link for all her friends to sign up for days when they will come and do food and cleaning at her house after the birth of her first child, and made sure to let people know that not all the dates had been filled, and she needed people to pick up the rest of the days.

Is she this out of touch with reality all the time? The gender reveal is AWish but pestering people to sign up for food/cleaning? Crazy!

I don't know. It was just really weird. 

[ssmjlm]

Feb 22, 2014 20:39:09 GMT -5 @this said:

@vicmo How is it going with naps? Are you still trying to get him down to two? DD has been doing ONE at daycare. WTF. She's still good for two on the weekends luckily.

One nap is a good day for my kid. But the infant room is way more fun and social. She naps 2x at home.

Umm so E let go of the coffee table and took 2 steps tonight! DH and I both had the "OMG this is awesome, oh shit my kid just took 2 steps" look on our faces.

[wavepool]

We had some friends over so O exhausted himself playing with and chasing them around. He loooves kids. Went down an hour late, but easily.
I do bedtime every single night. I love that time together, but I am sometimes a little jealous of my h time to himself while I'm doing that.

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[spanikopita]

Feb 22, 2014 21:22:52 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

Feb 22, 2014 21:05:40 GMT -5 tulips said:

A week long gender reveal is weird.

And really annoying.  She also posted a link for all her friends to sign up for days when they will come and do food and cleaning at her house after the birth of her first child, and made sure to let people know that not all the dates had been filled, and she needed people to pick up the rest of the days.

Unfriend! UNFRIEND!!

[Velar Fricative]

Wakeup #1. Today's experiment with nursing her as much as possible already failed as she was inconsolable until I put her on the boob just now. I'm already about to cry and the night is early. I miss my decent sleeper. The end of the 4MW a few weeks ago was such a tease. Now I'm back to wondering if she just hates her crib after all.

[spanikopita]

DD was a basket case by 6:30 so i put her down WAY early. She slept for 30m and then was awake for an hour. Blergh. I just really hope she's down for the night.

[stephm0188]

I have a mommy martyr neighbor in my social circle with no filter. She's super critical and says offensive stuff about other people and their parenting all the time. After three years of just smiling and ignoring and avoiding, I've decided to just say what I think when she judges me from here on out.

[dukesilver]

Horrible, horrible day. DD has been incredibly fussy all day and refusing to nurse. She would latch and suck for a few seconds then start screaming. I pumped a few times and DH fed her. Now she's finally, finally asleep on the breast. I think I'm just going to hold her all night to avoid the possibility of waking her and starting all over.

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[niq]

We are home from our road trip and ending it in style. Chinese food, boozing it up, and Priest. VCB went to bed early. I have just given up hope of getting back to STTN any time soon. At least he is gaining weight.

[dukesilver]

Feb 22, 2014 22:24:46 GMT -5 @this said:

*hugs* dukesilver. Those early weeks were sooo hard.

Thank you. I know that at this age everything is a phase and will go quickly, but it's hard to keep that perspective when you're in it. Especially when my best efforts only seem to yield more screaming, lol.

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[mcfelix]

I'm watching this new show About a Boy on NBC while DH is finishing laundry and putting nice clean sheets on our bed. The previews of this show looked so dumb but I'm actually finding it amusing.

[joolz]

@little_moxie, it's the same. I mean, both based on the Nick Hornby book. No Hugh Grant in the tv version.

[joolz]

I'm on my last night of vacation in Palm Desert. Wah! The week went by too quickly.

[joolz]

Also, (why am I posting three times in a row?) this is now the longest time G has slept in an actual bed and not his crib. He refuses a pack and play (has for months) and sleeps in a regular bed everywhere except home. I'm so curious to see what will happen when we get home.

[Deleted]

I don't normally post here but a lot of the threads here have given me a lot of good ideas and suggestions so I am going to just jump in and post more if that's okay.

DS has thrown up twice today. Like emptied his stomach. First was right before morning nap and the second right before bedtime he was otherwise happy today. I am feeling sick, congested, my head hurts. I am not looking forward to him waking up at 2 because he is starving. DH is staying up late to catch up on work. I hope DS wakes up when DH is still awake.

[dbsk8dance]

We had friends over for cocktails and sushi. There were 3 babies and 2 4 year olds. It was insanity. And pretty awesome.

[osulori]

AJ woke up about 15 mins ago and is fussing but hasn't started crying...yet. I've been watching the monitor-he starts dozing back off but hasn't stayed asleep yet so part of me wants to hold off and.the other wants to go in there bc his teeth could he acting up and I know he hasn't had any Motrin yet tonight.

[Jalapeñomel]

First wake up. Considering he went to bed at 7:30 pm, I'd say it was a pretty long stretch!

[SKP82]

DD (who usually sleeps 8 hours her first stretch) woke up after 4 hours and wouldn't go back to sleep, so we are nursing. After she first rent down, she woke up after 30 mins and an hour and had to be coaxed back to sleep.

Is this the beginning of the 4 MW?

[osulori]

I ended up going in and giving AJ Motrin shortly after my last post. While I was settling him back down he got the hiccups so I nursed him to get them to go away...by the time that happened he was clearly tired again but now he's making intermittent happy noises in his crib. Go back to sleep dude!