Natalie has the flu. Have a call in to my OB to see if she wants to start me on Tamiflu. Her pedi said that it seems to be less severe in kids with the vaccine. Cross you fingers that it holds true for us.
Last night we drove through the local park all lit up for Christmas. We ate Jack in the Box in the car waiting in line. When A was done, he wanted our french fries. I told him they were all gone.
"You guys ate them all! You guys need to share!" We distract him with Christmas lights, he gets excited about Santa. Us: "Hey, bud, what are those letters over there?" A: "I don't remember" Us: "You don't remember?" A: "Yeah, 'cause you guys no share with me"
Post by 2curlydogs on Dec 18, 2014 12:36:21 GMT -5
Yesterday daycare forgot to give S his third bottle. And then said he seemed really sensitive that afternoon so they couldn't get him down for a nap.
Gee, ya fucking think?
Guess who slept like shit last night?
I'm hella pissed. I chewed out the teachers, and then when she was like "I'll make a note on his sheet today", I went to yell at the assistant director and director when I dropped him off today. Because she shouldn't have to make a fucking note on his fucking sheet to remember to fucking GIVE HIM A BOTTLE. He got a snack, so it wasn't like they just didn't feed him at all, but still.
Natalie has the flu. Have a call in to my OB to see if she wants to start me on Tamiflu. Her pedi said that it seems to be less severe in kids with the vaccine. Cross you fingers that it holds true for us.
Post by meshaliuknits on Dec 18, 2014 12:43:57 GMT -5
Speaking of sleeping like crap, BoyLiu has taken to waking up around 3am and sobbing in his crib. I get up and comfort him and CANNOT get him to lay back down by himself. Rather than sleeping on the cold, hard floor with him, I bring him to my bed. Where he taps H on the shoulder and says "hi" in the most freaking sweetest voice possible (to avoid murder, I imagine) until he gets a response and proceeds to roll around until he falls asleep. Which happens right before the cats come to bed and want me to move over and I'm that little bear that falls out of bed.
I hope it's less severe for N, KA, and that holds true.
My random:
Today is class Christmas party day in both kids' classes. Jackson's was this morning and SO many things went wrong. His teacher wanted to do pancakes/breakfast, and in the past, I've just picked up IHOP and it's super easy. Except there was a big wreck near the IHOP and the guy who takes the orders and stuff was caught in the traffic so he didn't make it in. So the order wasn't ready when I went to pick it up on the way to school. Fine, I let the teacher know I'd be 10-15m late while they got the order together. Then as Jackson and I are walking into the classroom, we realize one of the syrup containers had gotten open and it was ALL OVER HIM. ALL OVER HIM. Down his pants, his shoes, EVERYWHERE. MH had come to the party too since it was first thing in the AM, so he ran home to get him new pants/shoes. And because that fuck up wasn't enough, I forgot to throw my glue gun and/or craft glue in my bag for the reindeer antler things and I only had glue dots with me (For another activity) and regular glue, which was NOT doing the job. I need a drink, because I'm still not over this. Also, how the fuck am I supposed to get SYRUP out of his shoes? sigh.
Scarlett's class party is this afternoon, but I didn't plan it, I'm just helping. Hopefully it isn't cursed by my bad luck this morning.
Post by StrawberryBlondie on Dec 18, 2014 15:42:24 GMT -5
I need to know if I'm being unreasonable. I'm open to the idea that I might be.
Our daycare combines infant/toddler rooms in the evening after kids and some teachers have started going home (still within the 4:1 ratio, though). Tuesday when we got there to pick her up, we could hear her screaming from down the hall.
She's going through a separation anxiety phase right now but all it really takes is to distract her quickly. Anyway, her teacher, when it was time for her to leave for the night, brought her over to the other infant room and left. Cue my kid screaming bloody murder. We saw her teacher walking out to her car so it wasn't for a long time before we got there. But when we walked in, she'd crawled behind a chair and was absolutely screaming and no one was paying a lick of attention to her. And its not that everyone else was dealing with other screaming babies. One woman (a floating teacher) was sitting in said chair and dealing with no children whatsoever explained that her teacher had just left. And then didn't move so I could easily pick up my screaming child to comfort her.
I truly understand that my kid isn't a special snowflake that gets all the attention but it really bothers me that they seemingly just ignored her entirely while this happened.
I'm hoping this won't happen again but if it does I'm thinking about bringing it up to the director.
I need to know if I'm being unreasonable. I'm open to the idea that I might be.
Our daycare combines infant/toddler rooms in the evening after kids and some teachers have started going home (still within the 4:1 ratio, though). Tuesday when we got there to pick her up, we could hear her screaming from down the hall.
She's going through a separation anxiety phase right now but all it really takes is to distract her quickly. Anyway, her teacher, when it was time for her to leave for the night, brought her over to the other infant room and left. Cue my kid screaming bloody murder. We saw her teacher walking out to her car so it wasn't for a long time before we got there. But when we walked in, she'd crawled behind a chair and was absolutely screaming and no one was paying a lick of attention to her. And its not that everyone else was dealing with other screaming babies. One woman (a floating teacher) was sitting in said chair and dealing with no children whatsoever explained that her teacher had just left. And then didn't move so I could easily pick up my screaming child to comfort her.
I truly understand that my kid isn't a special snowflake that gets all the attention but it really bothers me that they seemingly just ignored her entirely while this happened.
I'm hoping this won't happen again but if it does I'm thinking about bringing it up to the director.
I'd bring it up the bolded part, absolutely. I mean, if you walked in while she was going to pick her up, or if she was dealing with another crying child, I'd have let it go. The situation you described is not acceptable.
I wonder whether it's wrong that I am counting down the days to my hysterectomy. Not because I have pain or issues, not because I'm fearful of developing a tumor in my uterus or that the "something" in there now might BE a tumor. No, I'm looking forward to 2 glorious weeks off, with the house to myself and netflix.
I wonder whether it's wrong that I am counting down the days to my hysterectomy. Not because I have pain or issues, not because I'm fearful of developing a tumor in my uterus or that the "something" in there now might BE a tumor. No, I'm looking forward to 2 glorious weeks off, with the house to myself and netflix.
So we're home, dinner is done, and C decides he wants a short bath. Teeth get brushed and he calls daddy up to say good night. DH comes up the stairs and says "hey, isn't it early?"
So we're home, dinner is done, and C decides he wants a short bath. Teeth get brushed and he calls daddy up to say good night. DH comes up the stairs and says "hey, isn't it early?"
Kid and sickness WWYD: I'm supposed to go to a cookie exchange tonight. One of the attendees - her kids go to daycare with the host - just bowed out because she thinks she has the flu. And then this morning, after drop-off, their DCP decided she was too sick to be working and everybody went and picked their kids back up. So far nobody who is actually planning to be AT the party has any symptoms, but several of them have been exposed to people who are sick. With something that may or may not be the flu.
Both Shorti and I have gotten our shots, but with the crappy match this year and everything that doesn't give me great confidence. Also it might be some other random virus instead of the flu.
I do not have much of a bank of PTO to spare if I get sick, and there's that whole KTFU while sick thing that I'd like to avoid.
Would you go or skip it? The host is my BFF, Shorti loves her kids and, and my cookies are already baked. And this is historically a very fun event. Their house is perfectly set up for letting the kids play with minimal supervision so we can sit and chat and eat too many cookies.
Hey! Somebody needs to make my decisions for me! My initial reaction was....uhhhhh, I ain't going anywhere near your plague house! And MH was like, "maybe sit this one out" but the second he said that I changed my mind and now I want to go.
Clearly I'm just feeling contrary so I need somebody to tell me what is actually the right decision.
I'd probably go and grab some cookies and bow out early. And not touch anyone.
I can not touch people. But shorti will be there. Touching the kids who were at daycare with the sick DCP. And obvs. the not quite 2 year old is gonna be all over her little BFF's.
I'm waiting to pick Mar up from school (early release). Surprising her with a trip to the American Girl Store/lunch. Poor Natalie is home sick with Daddy.