I'm starting this early because it already feels like it's been a long day! My DD normally sleeps from like 9PM to 7 or 8AM (not straight through, lol) but yesterday she was up at 5:30 and today she was up at 4:55. UGH. I don't mind her having a later bedtime if it means she's not up at the crack of dawn, but this is some bullshit. 5AM to 9PM is TOO LONG OF A DAY with an infant. Hoping it's just a fluke!
On the plus side, we are headed out to my H's office for a lunch date today, so that will be fun.
I've been awake since 3:30am. So tired. I plan to nap this afternoon while ds naps.
Zoo this morning. Then we're taking ds to an airshow later this afternoon. They have helicopters and whatnot set up too that kids can explore. Ds is going to lose his mind!
I'm not sure if looking forward to a nap and an airshow will be Murphys law enough to induce labour. But I'm OK either way today goes!
Post by teatimefor2 on Aug 20, 2014 6:25:35 GMT -5
I've just put Sesame Street on, and we never watch TV in the morning. I'm just so exhausted. H was up at 7:00 am and still isn't napping. Plus I'm super sore from all the yard work, which I hope to finish today.
I am praying that he naps today. I need a nap.
We have some many errands to run lately I feel bad for H. Hopefully I'll be able to finish them today.
We are going to the pool soon, although it looks like it might rain. M is ridiculously upset today. He has been following me around, and yelling at me.
DH got the promotion!!!!! Promoted from technical lead to technical manager at a software engineering company. niq knows what that is. Big promotion!!! We're beyond excited. 8% raise!!!!!
DH quipped last night "I can never take things slow, can I? I have to change everything about my life at once." Very true DH. Within the last 30 days, we have:
-unsuccessfully tried to sell our house in the suburbs, rented it out instead -BOUGHT a new house, we move ON MONDAY -got pregnant, saw the heartbeat day before yesterday! -took over his grandmother's affairs b/c his father abandoned her -got promoted, BIG PROMOTION
I got an email from my mil stating they won't be able to make our son's soccer games because they are at the same time as OSU football games. She also said not to plan our other son's bday around their schedule because they "see them enough." Ok then.
My DS2 told me he wished he had a different mom this morning. What makes it worse is that he kept saying he didn't want to tell me something because it was going to hurt my feelings. I told him to go ahead and tell me. Why did I do that?
My husband and I had a little argument/fight this morning over the phone. It basically breaks down to him not having enough time to drop of two kids off in the morning at two different locations since his job site will be moving in the winter and will include a longer commute. He just decides to spring this on me that I need to look at DC closer to my work AFTER I have already narrowed down DCs that are close to our house because that was the plan. So here I am 35 weeks pregnant and looking for daycares in a completely different town. RAGE.
It wouldn't have been bad if we could communicate better- we suck at it.
After all that talk about bike commuting (which I will do if I take a job within biking distance), I'm thinking about driving to work as long as I stay in my current job. I found a route from work to daycare that doesn't come to a total stop; the trip home was about 55 minutes instead of 70-90 on the bus. The route home would probably be about the same. A parking spot costs $300/month, plus gas and insurance changes. I'd save about 30-45 minutes every day.
I haven't driven to work regularly in over a decade and idonwanna start now. But it's probably worth doing
Yesterday included skipping naptime to hang out with my friend at her parent's non-baby/kid-proofed house. So that was relaxing /sarcasm.
Then! I took them all to get haircuts by myself at rush hour and sat in horrendous traffic on the way home. Also, my aunt does our hair and I found out that her DH, my uncle who competes in iron mans and finished Boston in under 3.5 hours this year at the age of 57, had a stent put in this weekend because he was at 90% blockage. Zero family history, perfect labs, and obviously in amazing physical shape. Only went to the doctor because he was feeling off when running 6 minute miles. Super, super scary.
I wrapped it up with not only getting my baaaaaby's haircut for the first time, officially making him seem all grown up, but also having our last nursing session last night before bed. Wtf was I thinking doing all that emotional heart string pulling stuff in one day?
I'm so glad DS has such a great relationship with my parents. He loves them so much. We just got dressed and ready to go downstairs. He's playing in my room with his barn. I said "let me know when you're ready to go downstairs and have a snack." He ran over and said expectantly "Grammy play today?!?" I said "no, sorry baby. Not today." He frowned and said "ok. Grammy play now?" LOL
I love coming home to our house after being away for a while and smelling our house's "scent," kwim? It bothered me a bit when we first moved in but now I love it. It smells like home to me. I wonder what it is. The dust and the wood and our cleaning products somehow mixed together?
holly116 zomfg look at your bayyyyybeeeeee! He is so damn cute. AJ wants to know if he will share some of that hair, because my poor kid is still pretty damn bald.
Speaking of AJ, he randomly woke up around 545 and fussed intermittently for 45 minutes. Just in time for me to get up for work at 630. And then didn't hear another peep out of him the whole time I was getting ready for work, giving the dog his pills, and eating breakfast. Thanks, buddy.
Daycare has decided that cookies are the official afternoon snack. It used to be goldfish, chex mix, nutri grain bar, apple slices, etc - so not fabulous necessarily and some days better than others, but overally acceptable to me (I mean no kale but what can you do).
A friend of mine noticed one day that her daughter got a rice krispie treat for a snack - at like 11 months. I told her it was probably a special treat because the snacks were usually fine. Fast forward another month or two and DS gets cookies EVERY.SINGLE.DAY. for his afternoon snack.
Validate me MMM. This is unacceptable, yes? I need to say something to the director. WTF. The AM snacks are good, the breakfasts and lunches are good, there's always sliced fruit or veggies at both breakfast and lunch. So if the cookies were even once a week (like on Fridays)I'd be okay. But every day? I don't know what's going on.
Post by MadamePresident on Aug 20, 2014 8:32:33 GMT -5
We have a friend spending the night tomorrow, so today I need to work on getting the house clean. The kitchen is a mess from my husband making his dinner last night. Nods had nursed twice. Can I just skip feeding her real food, so I have time to get things clean?
My friend had a baby the same age as mine. We were taking last night and she was saying how she tries to set her baby down add much as possible. I'm the opposite and try to set my baby down as little as possible. I wonder how our different approaches will Pam out as our kids get older.
The freezer at the daycare crapped out and my back-up milk defrosted. I am pissed.
For the record, they asked me to bring it in. They said I could bring formula or frozen milk and because she's EBF, naturally, I wanted to provide milk. You'd think they could at least provide a working freezer.
I know it's nobody's fault but it's so frustrating.
DS is starting pre-school this sept and i was sooooo looking forward to buying school supplies! we get his letter yesterday and they need to bring about NOTHING!!!!! a backpack, tissues and clorox wipes! its so funny but i'm sad, since i have all of it in my house already!
C's newborn pictures are this afternoon. I actually showered and dried my hair and am willing to take a family picture. This is huge for me because I hated my postpartum body with M, but have accepted it this time around.