I have a name/nickname question but I can't really ask it without giving up the baby's name and I feel like I'll probably get negative responses to the nickname I want to use and then be butthurt. So I probably shouldn't ask it.
DS tried asparagus last night! He didn't actually eat any but he did taste it multiple times. There is hope for my picky eater.
I am off until I start the new job in January but I sent DS to daycare today. I'm finishing my Christmas shopping. He's going again tomorrow and MH & I are having a date day! Wahoo!
you guys DH is on my bad side today. All weekend he was like "We need to encourage our toddler to be independent!" which we already do in most situations but he decided to let her pick out her clothes on Saturday and Sunday.
so getting her dressed was a huge PITA for me this morning because she wanted to go through her dresser and look at every option before choosing. I ended up just choosing for her and she flipped of course. I had to explain to DH it makes it much easier if he just shows her 2 options and lets her pick, as opposed to letting her contemplate all 50 options in her closet.
DD has been sleeping really well lately, but we messed with her by taking her to two holiday parties over the weekend. She is officially past the stage where she will sleep anywhere.
Last night I did a pacifier replace at 3AM, then she was up at 4AM. Fed her, brought her into our bed, fed her some more, etc. She just wanted to play in our bed, but eventually fell asleep right in time for my alarm at 5:20. Yawn.
We are done having babies. I am 41, we live in a two bedroom house, and my husband had a vasectomy, yet the pregnancy pact post, and the are you pregnant posts are making me a little sad. I loved being pregnant, and my babies are so big. M yells at me and tells me he is not a baby, every time I sing him a lullaby that has the word baby in it.
I have a name/nickname question but I can't really ask it without giving up the baby's name and I feel like I'll probably get negative responses to the nickname I want to use and then be butthurt. So I probably shouldn't ask it.
ASK. Is it a matter of the actual nickname itself or is it more like how it sounds with your last name etc
Actual name. Both sound fine with our LN.
PDQ: first name will be Patrick, I want to call him Paddy. H likes it too but it's kind of "weirder" than our usual tastes. Will probably alternate between calling him by his full name and nickname like we do with C.
I've got a cold. It's just annoying. At least H and DD went through it last week so it's not all three of us are sick. But I am tired of someone being sick!=
I met a post office worker yesterday who gave birth to twins when her oldest was 18 months (ie B's age) and I wanted to cry for her. I also thought of @awinter. They're 18 and 20 now but omg.
My mom gave birth to me and my brother (twins) when my older brother was 14 months old. And then she had an oops pregnancy with my little brother, who was born 16 months later. Ahhhhhhh! I honestly don't know how she did it.
I don't know how she did that! I give her major credit!
We are done having babies. I am 41, we live in a two bedroom house, and my husband had a vasectomy, yet the pregnancy pact post, and the are you pregnant posts are making me a little sad. I loved being pregnant, and my babies are so big. M yells at me and tells me he is not a baby, every time I sing him a lullaby that has the word baby in it.
I am 33, have 3 kids 21 mos apart (see above), live in a small 3 bedroom house, my husband had a vasectomy, AND I had a horrible 3td trimester with the twins including a week in the hopsital after a ptl scare followed by bedrest and yet, I loved being pregnant and have somehow glamorized the idea of another baby and am jealous of the pregnancy pact. I think you are normal, I on the other hand may need mental help.
In my next life I'm not working in finance. Year end sucks.
I'm getting all these out of office replies from everyone that will be coming back in January. Our company closes Christmas - New Years, but accounting still has to be here. This is my 5th year end here (although I was on ML last year), so this is nothing new. But damn if it doesn't piss me off each year.
Yes, company. You are so kind to close the company for your employees. But if you don't extend the year end deadlines, then.... it's not really that helpful.
Brie not the point, but I had no idea you guys call C by his full name sometimes!
Re your point, we have been pretty successful with using a nontraditional nickname but B is still young, so it's easy for us to just tell people what to call him.
H does more than I do, but I like having the flexibility of full name vs. nickname so he knows when I'm mad.
pugz, that's why you only give her two options like you said and you make sure the options are cute. That's what I do with j. You can choose kid, but mommy gets to choose first!
In my next life I'm not working in finance. Year end sucks.
I'm getting all these out of office replies from everyone that will be coming back in January. Our company closes Christmas - New Years, but accounting still has to be here. This is my 5th year end here (although I was on ML last year), so this is nothing new. But damn if it doesn't piss me off each year.
Yes, company. You are so kind to close the company for your employees. But if you don't extend the year end deadlines, then.... it's not really that helpful.
Preach, dude.
HA - I almost tagged you in my post. You feel my pain!
Brie, I *love* the name, obviously since it's DS1's MN(lobbied hard for FN but DH didn't like it). I am not fond of the NN but if you and your H love it, go for it!
I will now AW that NYE is my two year work anniversary and my 401k here has over $43k!
Can I be someone's BEC now?
I will nominate you as my BEC only if that figure does not include a match.
And Brie I love it but is that a different name than the one you shared for like a minute a few months ago? I only remember because the latter is on my name list.
matildasun the pregnancy pact post is making me sad too and I'm already pregnant. I get sad thinking of no #3 even though it's probably the best choice. Mothering is hard!
@starry we can't be friends. It's taken me 5 years to get my retirement account to that amount! (wilted)
No one here is actually doing work today. And at 1130, our potluck holiday party starts so that will run until 1300.
We're having a Yankee swap, and everyone was complaining about having to shop and wrap gifts. So I shopped and wrapped for them because shopping and wrapping are two of my favorite things. Win win, right? And now I know which gifts to avoid, lol.
And Brie I love it but is that a different name than the one you shared for like a minute a few months ago? I only remember because the latter is on my name list.
Nope, we've had this picked out since early second tri. I think I shared a top five or something at one point, maybe it was that?
And Brie I love it but is that a different name than the one you shared for like a minute a few months ago? I only remember because the latter is on my name list.
Nope, we've had this picked out since early second tri. I think I shared a top five or something at one point, maybe it was that?
Oh weird. I thought it was Oliver and I remember thinking "well now if we use Oliver everyone is going to think I copied her." It's okay because DH doesn't share my love.
AmyRI the government is there for you though! The free market is all I have!
Hah. I don't count on my pension any more than I count on social security... and pensions are so small now that they do the TSP. I'll treat myself to Sbux once a month if I ever see that money!
Nope, we've had this picked out since early second tri. I think I shared a top five or something at one point, maybe it was that?
Oh weird. I thought it was Oliver and I remember thinking "well now if we use Oliver everyone is going to think I copied her." It's okay because DH doesn't share my love.
(I can delete this btw.)
Ha! No, it's fine.
I think at one point I asked if Charlie and Ollie sounded too close to each other to be siblings, because I really like that name. But we ultimately agreed it was too rhymey for us.
C had gunk in his eyes this morning, but they weren't pink and he didn't seem bothered by them at all. Am I a horrible person for still sending him to daycare? (Please say no, please say no, please say no...)
We're not going anywhere but the grocery store until chtristmas. I cant risk another illness.
This is EXACTLY where I'm at. I thought about going to the gym, but nope. I can't risk the kids picking something up in childcare. I'm feeling super lucky that all we've had is 2/3 with double ear infections lately.
My kids are breakfast food junkies. They go days subsisting on nothing but air and then have a few days of complete binging at breakfast time.
I know. DD wanted to go to the Playland at McDs. I was all ready to take her because it's been a long dreary weekend and then I was uhh...no...not germs 3 days before Christmas. I then thought, hey we could go to the speciality grocery store an hour away and hit the mall..she loves that...no again.
She's at daycare today so let's hope that's safe (It usually is. DCP is a Clorox queen. It's the same kids all the time and she needs to do SOMETHING!).