We had to remove DD1 from dinner for only the second time ever. She was completely melt downing down, calming down when we walked her out of the restaurant, and then melting down again. This hasn't happened in so long.
But a cuter DD1 story- she was playing in a playhouse with a friend and yelled at me to come over. I did and she said "Here is your large latte with an extra shot Mommy." Apparently my 3 year old can order my coffee for me.
DH has been "yeah sure fine whatever" about minivan shopping, so I finally got the ball rolling myself. We test drove both the Sienna and Odyssey and decided we like the Sienna. I found a few I like at a dealer an hour away and arranged childcare for DS in order to go see them Monday afternoon. I made an appointment to get my current car detailed this weekend so it doesn't look like frat boys drive it. Hopefully we'll eek out a bit more trade-in value that way. I'm excited! Fingers crossed the dealer works with us on price when we get there.
We read a couple books before bed. We read Guess how much I love you, Spot loves sports, and then J brought me over P is for Passover. I LOLed. It's actually really cute and it will be helpful when he can understand our religion.
We tried to go out to dinner tonight for maybe the second time ever (we usually do lunch out). But the Caribbean restaurant had a 25 minute wait at 5 pm! Da fuq? There went my tropical rum drink.
Post by bananapancakes on May 29, 2015 19:00:54 GMT -5
After approximately 7 months of me signing "more" to L about 20 times at every meal, he made the sign by himself tonight for the first time. Hooray!
We finished dinner a bit early tonight so all 3 of us went tor a walk and to the park after dinner. L walked all the way home from the park all by himself and only fell 3 or 4 times. He's such a good little walker now.
Post by undecidedowl on May 29, 2015 19:02:11 GMT -5
I almost had to murder DH tonight. I agreed to stop at BIL's house on the way home from vacation as long as we left in time to be home before the kids bedtime since we are all exhausted and the baby tends to scream rather than sleep in the car. Well, he offered to go out and pick up dinner for them which would make us late but I didn't want to be mean and retract the offer. On the way out, he checked my phone which I thought was weird. About 10 minutes into the drive I ask for my phone and he can't find it until he remembers that he had set it ON TOP OF THE CAR. The baby was screaming his head off and we had to turn around to look for it. Luckily, we found it off the side of the road because otherwise bad things would have happened.
Post by yellowbrkrd on May 29, 2015 19:02:43 GMT -5
I am hoping M does not have pink eye, but I fear he does. He's had pretty bad allergy symptoms for the last few weeks, so maybe it's just allergies, but daycare called me today to tell me he woke up from nap with a puffy and goopy eye. It doesn't appear to be pink, but he also has a bunch of blotches on his face.
I guess we'll see how he is when he wakes up in the morning.
I'm not crafty at all but I've been working on redoing these letters that I had done for the first two and doing a set for the baby and I think they're actually going to turn out. Note, whatever I initially paid on etsy was worth it, this repapering them to match their current rooms has taken me days. But at least they look nice.
We've been working out in the backyard all evening and I'm about to bathe the kids and get them down. Yawn.
I met with patbutcher today and Hannah was a devil child. I was so embarrassed. I met with a friend for dinner afterwards and ended up having to leave early because she was so terrible.
Honestly I thought she was the sweetest little thing, so excited to explore everywhere. The customs guy was like" why were you in the USA for two hours? I was all, oh, just went for coffee with a friend lol. Who crosses international borders for a coffee date?
I met with patbutcher today and Hannah was a devil child. I was so embarrassed. I met with a friend for dinner afterwards and ended up having to leave early because she was so terrible.
Honestly I thought she was the sweetest little thing, so excited to explore everywhere. The customs guy was like" why were you in the USA for two hours? I was all, oh, just went for coffee with a friend lol. Who crosses international borders for a coffee date?
I'm feeling like a bad mom today. E throws some epic tantrums complete with head banging that I know are partly due to lack of communication skills which goes back to the whole ei issue and feeling like I should have done something sooner.
Then the dentist commented on their lip ties today which again brought up all my feelings about j. His lip tie is 1000x worse than theirs and I'm confident now that's what caused him to have slow weight gain which made his hypotonia worse, nurse alllll night long, Etc. I'm so pissed thst with all the lcs I paid for no one found it and we are talking VERY obvious.
I think I need a therapist. I am a serious type a perfectionist and have a tendency to perserverate on thinks gone wrong in the past. I've been able to manage it but now with kids it's becoming all conSuming. Fucking up myself is one thing but the idea of failing my kids in some way is unbearable for me.
Was looking forward to going out to dinner with DH all day but just got in a fight over which window to put an a new air conditioner in for my mom's dog. Now I am eating frozen gluten free pizza by myself.
Post by turtlegirl on May 29, 2015 19:16:42 GMT -5
I finished sanding our back deck during naptime. Rested for a bit then made dinner. So now we are just in chillin in the front yard waiting for DH to get home.
After dinner he's going to clean up the deck and hopefully we can start staining tomorrow.
I'm feeling like a bad mom today. E throws some epic tantrums complete with head banging that I know are partly due to lack of communication skills which goes back to the whole ei issue and feeling like I should have done something sooner.
Then the dentist commented on their lip ties today which again brought up all my feelings about j. His lip tie is 1000x worse than theirs and I'm confident now that's what caused him to have slow weight gain which made his hypotonia worse, nurse alllll night long, Etc. I'm so pissed thst with all the lcs I paid for no one found it and we are talking VERY obvious.
I think I need a therapist. I am a serious type a perfectionist and have a tendency to perserverate on thinks gone wrong in the past. I've been able to manage it but now with kids it's becoming all conSuming. Fucking up myself is one thing but the idea of failing my kids in some way is unbearable for me.
Honestly I thought she was the sweetest little thing, so excited to explore everywhere. The customs guy was like" why were you in the USA for two hours? I was all, oh, just went for coffee with a friend lol. Who crosses international borders for a coffee date?
No Target trip?
We met at Target! I'd spent over $100 before she even showed up lol! But we have no allowance with less than 24hr trips so couldn't confess.
I decided to leave work at 1pm today bc I can. Then came home and napped for 3 hours
I literally generated roughly $20k worth of new work/clients in 3 days and I'm treating myself to a new MacBook this weekend to celebrate! Plus I have gift cards and it's my bday so my OOP cost will be like $200
Wooooop!
Congrats! And omg I can't believe you are only just buying your MacBook now. I feel like your post on mm about getting one was a year ago.
Post by humpforfree on May 29, 2015 19:27:02 GMT -5
We pulled the carfax on my car today and double checked KBB values and we should make a decent amount more than we were expecting on it. H agreed to set the surplus aside so when 2.0 is a year and a half or so, we can go on an all inclusive trip sans kids. OMG I AM SO EXCITED. This is totally going to be my light at the end of the newborn tunnel.
Post by longtimenopost on May 29, 2015 19:29:18 GMT -5
Hugs @awinter. You are the best mom they could have! But it is annoying when you can't trust professionals to do their jobs.
I'm pretty happy my drs office didn't call yet with the results of yesterday's glucose test. I most likely failed and will have to do the 3 hr, but at least now I have one more weekend of freedom!
I feel like I talk about.my weight often on here but I don't talk about it or weight watchers IRL so you guys are my only outlet.
I'm finally getting back to the point where I don't hate how I look in every picture. I've lost 20 pounds in the past year. Most of that was from starting weight watchers this past January. I always take end of the year pictures with my students and while looking at them I could tell a difference from last year (left) and this year (right). I still would like to lose 15-20 more but with TTC around the corner that will have to wait.
DH and I went together to pick up DS from school, and then went to our local awesome toy store, planning to order a learning tower for DS. I had a 20% off coupon, but they had a promotion (that I didn't know about) where you get a $25 gift card for every $100 spent. Awesome!! They couldn't order the tower bc it was after business hours to call it in, but they'll call me Monday to take care of it. So we still have the 20% off, which we are going to tell DH's parents we can use to have them buy DS a micro scooter for his bday. (They were asking for ideas). I'm excited!!