I could have sworn that last night when I checked the weather forecast for today it was supposed to be 50 and sunny... I didn't expect to wake up to another dusting of snow.
I have an 8 hour drive with 3 kids today. Solo. Bets on how long it takes me to threaten them. "Don't make me pull over." I'm practicing being zen (aka ignoring the fighting) now. They usually are pretty good on car rides, but I can jump back there to set them straight. They are going to know I'm bluffing today.
Post by bananapancakes on Mar 31, 2015 6:03:51 GMT -5
L slept 6:45-4:00 straight through last night! Too bad he thought 4:00 was a great time to start the day. He dozed off a couple of times but then kept waking up 10 minutes later. I finally gave up at 4:45, called it morning, and nursed him. It was an early start to the day but I'm still super pumped that he slept for over 9 hours in a row!
My maternity leave officially ended today. I got my first call this morning requesting me to work (substitute teach). I didn't think it would happen automatically so it caught me off guard. I quickly went in and marked myself unavailable for this week but I will take jobs for next week. *breathes into paper bag*
After high anxiety with DD's fever, she STTN soundly and woke up a normal kid. Thank goodness. We have a couple things on the agenda today and it's supposed to be beautiful. I'd love to go to the zoo this morning but that might be pushing it.
DH's company has a bunch of German students in town for a field trip of sorts. The chaperones were just going to take them to a local minor league hockey team when DH spoke up that a pro team is only 100 miles away. So guess who got suckered into driving them up there for the game tonight? He'll be home around midnight. One of my besties from college is a teacher, adores my kids, and on spring break so we're hanging out with her this afternoon/evening.
I am having SO MANY Braxton Hicks contractions this pregnancy. It's driving me crazy. I'm constantly trying to decide if they're frequent enough or long enough or consistent enough that I need to call the doctor. Not fun.
I am having SO MANY Braxton Hicks contractions this pregnancy. It's driving me crazy. I'm constantly trying to decide if they're frequent enough or long enough or consistent enough that I need to call the doctor. Not fun.
I have had a ridiculous amount the second time around, and been able to feel them. (And still on Sunday at 39w5d when I had painful contractions for 7 hours and still, NO BABY.) Last time I don't remember feeling a single contraction until after my water broke. It seems like most of my friends have said the same thing.
J was up MOTN coughing and woke up all congested. I think we go a week between head colds
I have to take both dogs to the vet today. I originally planned to have H meet me so we can take J too. He loves dogs. I go to petsmart and we watch dogs getting groomed. He thinks it's the best thing ever.
Post by jeaniebueller on Mar 31, 2015 6:56:58 GMT -5
Reading that post on ML, I was thinking about how my almost 10 month old flips out and does the fake crying thing in the morning once she realizes we are preparing her bottle, and how her small angry mad face makes me laugh when she does that. Before kids, I would have thought that was totes mean. I am a monster!!!
I've caught DS' cold. I'm glad I powered through yesterday at work so I could call in today.... because now I have pink eye, too. Joy!
But, don't feel too badly for me. I am ALONE IN MY HOUSE for the first time in months. I don't even care that I'm sick. It's quiet in my house. I'm off to take the longest shower ever. Then, you know, to the doctors. But for now, I'm alone!
We've been out of half and half for a week and I couldn't take another dose of almond milk, so I finally gave in and made bulletproof coffee. Yes, it is delicious.
Dd1 is going to stay with my parents for 2 nights. I have mixed feelings. I accidentally told my mom the wrong day, which I feel bad about, but the drama she's creating because we aren't going to church Easter morning is causing me to feel too salty to apologize.
Last night sucked! The girls were up shortly around 1030. I nursed them and then we tried to put them back in their cribs for the night. Over an hour of screaming. Doing this with two babies is horrible. One would start to settle and almost go to sleep and then the other would get them going again. watching K reach through the crib for E was heartbreaking. At one point H attempted to put them together but that only made it worse. E finally did sleep from 12 to 4 but k slept/cried on and off the whole time until I got her and nursed her at 2.
I don't know what to do. if this had been one baby they would have been asleep after 20 mins
Post by humpforfree on Mar 31, 2015 7:09:12 GMT -5
My office is so bad at IT stuff. SO BAD. we got a new person and since I'm only in one morning a week, she took my old desk and I got relocated. BUT they didn't move my computer and just let her work on it yesterday. My VPN is connected to THAT computer. I do the rest of my work from home and I would be VPNing in while she is trying to use the computer. I get in earlier than everyone too, so now I am waiting around to confirm that I need to swap computers with this girl. Ugh.
I've caught DS' cold. I'm glad I powered through yesterday at work so I could call in today.... because now I have pink eye, too. Joy!
But, don't feel too badly for me. I am ALONE IN MY HOUSE for the first time in months. I don't even care that I'm sick. It's quiet in my house. I'm off to take the longest shower ever. Then, you know, to the doctors. But for now, I'm alone!
Noooooo..... Daycare just called and DS vomited. No fever, so they're going to keep an eye on him and see if it was just from running around. Wahhhh. My alone day!
Work travel stress comes again. So my travel orders are approved and funded, but not authorized. I leave on Monday. I sent an email to the people asking them to authorize them.
Uggh, I'm sorry @awinter, that's rough. Have you thought any more about trying them in separate rooms?
I don't really know where I could put one.At first I thought the office but I can't have her in my office during the day because I work in here and moving her back and forth I think would just create more disruption. I think I'm going to try again tonight and see what happens. E did seem to settle and get to sleep And slept 4 or 5 hours (it may have been 5 when she woke up lol, I'm not sure honestly). I'm just hoping tonight can go better. I mean if they had periods of settling before starting up again I think that's hopeful and I know that they know how to put themselves to sleep. They do that all the time. I just hate this! But I knew sending H in would result in lots of crying, no way around that unless I want to continue sleeping 3 or 4 broken hours a night
Uggh, I'm sorry @awinter, that's rough. Have you thought any more about trying them in separate rooms?
@awinter, I was going to suggest this maybe as well. I don't have twins but I've always had two kids sharing a room, except when sleep training. I found it impossible, not nearly impossible just flat out impossible, to try and do any sort of CIO without disrupting the other kid to the point where it wasn't worth it.
Uggh, I'm sorry @awinter, that's rough. Have you thought any more about trying them in separate rooms?
@awinter, I was going to suggest this maybe as well. I don't have twins but I've always had two kids sharing a room, except when sleep training. I found it impossible, not nearly impossible just flat out impossible, to try and do any sort of CIO without disrupting the other kid to the point where it wasn't worth it.
Hugs, it sounds like you had a hard night.
I just don't have anywhere to separate them I'm also wondering if it was worse having H in there with them than if he had just left. Ugh, I don't know. After a while he did leave and that seemed to actually be better than him in trying to comfort them like we did with J.
Uggh, I'm sorry @awinter, that's rough. Have you thought any more about trying them in separate rooms?
I don't really know where I could put one.At first I thought the office but I can't have her in my office during the day because I work in here and moving her back and forth I think would just create more disruption. I think I'm going to try again tonight and see what happens. E did seem to settle and get to sleep And slept 4 or 5 hours (it may have been 5 when she woke up lol, I'm not sure honestly). I'm just hoping tonight can go better. I mean if they had periods of settling before starting up again I think that's hopeful and I know that they know how to put themselves to sleep. They do that all the time. I just hate this! But I knew sending H in would result in lots of crying, no way around that unless I want to continue sleeping 3 or 4 broken hours a night
I'm sorry, I don't know how I would handle the lack of sleep for so long. You are doing such an amazing job. You need you're sleep to, so I'm glad you're using your H too, even though it pisses them off. Some things I have read have said to try sleep training twins in the same room so that they get used to the other one crying. Personally, I'd have a hard time with that as I usually feel bad if one starts crying so loudly that they wake up the other one.
vtdiamond, that's exactly my issue! I hated that I could see one settling and then start again when the other did. At around the half hour make both were quiet but one started then the other. But, I do think if they are going to sleep better long term they have to get comfortable with the other crying to some degree. Ugh, having twins is hard!
@awinter, I was going to suggest this maybe as well. I don't have twins but I've always had two kids sharing a room, except when sleep training. I found it impossible, not nearly impossible just flat out impossible, to try and do any sort of CIO without disrupting the other kid to the point where it wasn't worth it.
Hugs, it sounds like you had a hard night.
I just don't have anywhere to separate them I'm also wondering if it was worse having H in there with them than if he had just left. Ugh, I don't know. After a while he did leave and that seemed to actually be better than him in trying to comfort them like we did with J.
I found that really kid dependent. DD and DS1 liked being comforted but going in there with DS2 just ramped him up more. He was by far, my hardest to get on board with sleeping lol. We eventually had to go with extinction and I waited forever because earlier attempts just weren't effective like they were with my first two and I convinced myself he just couldn't be ready yet. He's just really strong willed.
But, once we got through it, it's been great. He's a great sleeper now and goes down without a peep. Hugs again, sleep stuff is so hard.
Post by Velar Fricative on Mar 31, 2015 7:44:43 GMT -5
I have to reschedule my amnio in a few weeks because I forgot that I have to attend a three-day conference around that time. That covers all of his available dates for that week. So it looks like I may have to schedule it for the following Monday, which would be my birthday. Happy Birthday to me, I get a bigass needle in my belly.
My work is having a big panel event with 6 top executive women to talk about their career paths and how they got to the top. My (male) boss asked me specifically if I would go "with him" to the event. I don't know if it's because he really wants me to go or if he doesn't want to go by himself and I'm the only woman in his group that's here today.
After going off intermittently all night (including a 3am visit from the fire department) our smoke detectors have now been beeping for 10min. Not even cutting power to the whole house isn't working fireman said it was the prewired security system and ADT won't come out but says its not their problem since we aren't members.