Post by lyssbobiss, Command, B613 on Aug 20, 2014 12:05:59 GMT -5
@majorwife, how did it go this morning? You holding up?
Babycakes keeps volunteering info about his day, which is huge and awesome. I also got reports from his teachers today that he's actually interacting with the kids, which is amazing because usually he is completely in his own world. So I guess so far kindergarten is a success?
Not a success: the children's hospital. I am THISCLOSE to smacking someone there. I've gotten bounced around to three different departments about his GI issues (we know they're behavioral, the GI specialist said they're behavioral, but the developmental psychology dept keeps telling me to adjust his miralax. Or take a class I've already taken.) The next time I get a call from these clowns I'm not discussing anything until they've actually READ his chart.
"This prick is asking for someone here to bring him to task Somebody give me some dirt on this vacuous mass so we can at last unmask him I'll pull the trigger on it, someone load the gun and cock it While we were all watching, he got Washington in his pocket."
Post by mominatrix on Aug 20, 2014 12:11:37 GMT -5
Yesterday was ALL AMERICAN GIRL ALL THE TIME day.
DD had finally saved up enough money to buy her doll.... and it's hers! We hauled azz up to the AG store (it's about 45 minutes without traffic, well over an hour in the traffic we caught on the way home). She got Caroline. I was more tickled with the AG store bathrooms, which feature holders for the dolls in the stalls and around the sinks... because you wouldn't want your doll to get the bathroom ick:
I cried picking UP my kid from her first day of preschool. They were outside riding bikes and she was helping another little girl take off her helmet and put her bike away.
Ugh, coordinating care sucks, I'm sorry. (Related: I got to waterboard my toddler again this morning for his cradle crap, yay!)
How are stickers so magical? I totally thought there must be some method to sticker charts, like you have to earn a prize or something. Nope, he just wants stickers on the paper. Moved from one paper to another, to be precise. I'm not complaining that it works, but I don't understand.
C came home from daycare with a splinter in his left palm. You would have thought we were trying to murder him by bringing out the tweezers; tape and soaking didn't work either last night. He was ok with putting on a trucks bandaid this morning. But he has to wash his hands when he gets to his daycare classroom, and horror of horrors all they had to replace the soggy trucks bandaid was a plain one. It was a pretty ugly sight for DH and me to wrestle him down just to get a bloody bandaid on his hand. I got more supplies, and tonight we'll see if elmer's glue or epsom salt soaking will work. And I bought a TMNT coloring book as a bribe if we get the splinter out. Otherwise a mother-effing bloody splinter will be the death of us all.
Ugh, coordinating care sucks, I'm sorry. (Related: I got to waterboard my toddler again this morning for his cradle crap, yay!)
How are stickers so magical? I totally thought there must be some method to sticker charts, like you have to earn a prize or something. Nope, he just wants stickers on the paper. Moved from one paper to another, to be precise. I'm not complaining that it works, but I don't understand.
Same! She is the same way with a sticker chart. No reward other than a sticker on the chart needed!!
Post by redheadbaker on Aug 20, 2014 12:18:34 GMT -5
DS' daycare emailed out rosters for the upcoming school year. DS is moving up to the transitional preschool room. His best buddy's name isn't on the roster. I don't know if his parents are enrolling him in a separate preschool or what.
C's hair is cut low in part because I can't deal with the idea. I've never had it, and don't know anyone close that has gone through it. So I'd have no idea what to do, and I'd Freak Out because like such a major, expensive PITA to eradicate.
THIS SHIT IS NOT OKAY. If I were that OTHER mom, I'd be shaving everyone's head. Who the hell does that sort of thing? It's not a fucking cold, it's LICE. Gross. I'm itchy just reading this.
"This prick is asking for someone here to bring him to task Somebody give me some dirt on this vacuous mass so we can at last unmask him I'll pull the trigger on it, someone load the gun and cock it While we were all watching, he got Washington in his pocket."
Ugh, coordinating care sucks, I'm sorry. (Related: I got to waterboard my toddler again this morning for his cradle crap, yay!)
How are stickers so magical? I totally thought there must be some method to sticker charts, like you have to earn a prize or something. Nope, he just wants stickers on the paper. Moved from one paper to another, to be precise. I'm not complaining that it works, but I don't understand.
Same! She is the same way with a sticker chart. No reward other than a sticker on the chart needed!!
It's insane!
Bonus AW: he wanted to hold onto it while watching cartoons
Except you can't...not to a 9 year old. Lice fucking SUCK. We went through two rounds last school year. The older one STILL had dead nits in her hair this summer - 8 months later. Those fuckers do NOT come off. I had to order a comb from England and it finally worked.
And can I just AW as well? A junior in high school? How did this happen??!
Bella now says she "has to have that one!", so it's replacing her desire for the Doc McStuffins one from the Disney store we were going to go get her this afternoon.
Bella now says she "has to have that one!", so it's replacing her desire for the Doc McStuffins one from the Disney store we were going to go get her this afternoon.
OF COURSE it's not in stock at my local Target. OF COURSE IT"S NOT.
they'll have to pry her Planet Box out of my cold, dead, hands.
X is going full days one day a week and I'm trying to convince H we should buy him a Planetbox. He wants to wait till he starts kindy, but I'm all "why bother buying a $10 lunchbox now that he'll only use one year, when we can buy the PB NAO?!?!!?"
Post by omgzombies on Aug 20, 2014 13:12:31 GMT -5
DD is very interested in skin color right now. So we've been doing a lot of "some people have brown skin, and some people have pink skin" discussions. I'm totally ok with this conversation at home, at the mall with her pointing... I start to get very self conscious very quickly.
Please DD stop pointing at the very nice man with brown skin and yelling "Mommy, he has beautiful brown skin!"
mominatrix if you ever need any help with that Caroline hair, I'm your girl. I took our Caroline hair back from the brink of doom a month or so ago.
@majorwife - um, NO. You need to go get that teenager from school and get back your LB. WHEN DID SHE GROW UP TO BE THAT OLD?
We had our Wed dance class/lunch date today, and one of the other moms (whose daughter is also in Scarlett's preK class) has 4 kids. I really want to convince my husband we should have a third, but then I see her with her 4 (and she's great with them) and I'm like, "I'd go insane. I would never survive it."
And if any of you EVER send your kids to MY HOUSE with lice? You will die. And I will even haunt you in the afterlife somehow. NO SIR.
mominatrix if you ever need any help with that Caroline hair, I'm your girl. I took our Caroline hair back from the brink of doom a month or so ago.
after ONE DAY it took me 45 minutes to get it back to nice - - spray with water, brush with AG brush, twirl to curl.
I had a serious convo with her about taking good care of the hair.
Any way to make it not turn into a frizzy mess in the first place?
Not that I know of, unfortunately, but if you stay on top of it with spraying it with water, brush and twirl, it should be good. I had let ours get really bad out of laziness. I also either always stand her up or lay her face down. I tell Scarlett she likes to sleep on her stomach, lol.
Post by 2curlydogs on Aug 20, 2014 13:43:09 GMT -5
Up at 11, 2 and then from 4-5:30 with S. H tried to take him but he screamed and screamed for me, waking B up each time in the process. We were doubled up on ibuprofen and acetaminophen but he was just utterly miserable.
We have our new parent orientation tonight for pre-K. I'm hoping it's worth my time going and not yet another hand-holding or meet-n-greet session because it's from 6-7. So I'm going solo while H stays home to get a dinner and bath done for B.
If someone added lice on top of all of this, I would cut them.
Kindergarten started today! DS has been calm about it, but then last night he could not fall asleep for anything, I think we finally got to bed around 11pm. He did really well with drop off. I don't know why I'm so nervous about it all. I thought I would be breezy about this stuff.