@ Tuesday

[pescalita]

I'm sitting here enjoying my coffee and toast and introvert prep for the day. It's a half hour before the toddler alarm clock goes off. Their door opens and this happens. Then I had to share my toast with everyone, including the dog who thought she should help herself to J's bite. My morning is violated.

Also, HOLY FUCK THIS WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN. I was supposed to be able to leave J in the crib longer than A, since he wasn't kicked out by a sibling. Like, another year so we had time to build a bunkbed and feel comfy with A in it.

I guess we just take off the drop side (yes, I put my babies in a death trap) and see how it goes.

I have no idea how he did it. A thinks its secret brother stuff and won't give him up.

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[wawa]

Dude, Pesca, I cannot get over how big J is. That picture you had on FB with the summer dirt, I was all, "oh, they must have a cousin visiting or something." Because those are two KIDS not a kid and a baby. I was legit confused.

I've only recently come to grips with Shorti being a kid rather than a baby (she's nearly two and a half) so clearly J is still a baby. Fix it. HTH, TIA.

[twotrue]

I feel your pain. My boys have been out of a crib for idk +6 months now. But they haven't learned to open the door yet so at least I can still trap them in their room.

Last night BoyB would not sleep. He was wide awake and happy. Happy until I left the room at which point he screamed and cried and became a slobbering mess. I'm cool with letting him cry for a bit but 1) he was not stopping and 2) he was waking the good child, BoyE, who was sleeping. It was 10:30 before I finally got him to lay down and stay down. All I know is this better not become a phase.

[pescalita]

Jun 30, 2015 8:58:26 GMT -5 wawa said:

Dude, Pesca, I cannot get over how big J is. That picture you had on FB with the summer dirt, I was all, "oh, they must have a cousin visiting or something." Because those are two KIDS not a kid and a baby. I was legit confused.

I've only recently come to grips with Shorti being a kid rather than a baby (she's nearly two and a half) so clearly J is still a baby. Fix it. HTH, TIA.

Lol seriously. He's pretty much in 3T all the time now. Which I guess shouldn't surprise me that he can climb out.

The last couple months they've started to look like two little boys vs big boy and baby brother and the shenanigans are ramping up. Which will only get more insane once they can crawl into each other's beds.

[pescalita]

Jun 30, 2015 9:00:38 GMT -5 twotrue said:

I feel your pain. My boys have been out of a crib for idk +6 months now. But they haven't learned to open the door yet so at least I can still trap them in their room.

Lever-style door handles. Big mistake. Huge.

[wawa]

Jun 30, 2015 9:04:04 GMT -5 pescalita said:

Jun 30, 2015 8:58:26 GMT -5 wawa said:

Dude, Pesca, I cannot get over how big J is. That picture you had on FB with the summer dirt, I was all, "oh, they must have a cousin visiting or something." Because those are two KIDS not a kid and a baby. I was legit confused.

I've only recently come to grips with Shorti being a kid rather than a baby (she's nearly two and a half) so clearly J is still a baby. Fix it. HTH, TIA.

Lol seriously. He's pretty much in 3T all the time now. Which I guess shouldn't surprise me that he can climb out.

The last couple months they've started to look like two little boys vs big boy and baby brother and the shenanigans are ramping up. Which will only get more insane once they can crawl into each other's beds.

3T??  *faints*

So I should just be grateful that Shorti leveled out as a slightly tall, but generally averaged sized kid after starting out as a tank?  I guess this is the difference between Carl style giant man genetics and my just normal sized tall dude H's genes.  

[erbear]

Awww. That is sweet.

My older DD is sleeping like a nightmare for the past few weeks. It's taking her forever to fall asleep, she's screaming and crying if we don't come up to check on her (she's 6, not a baby....) and waking up in the middle of the night. I'm considering benedryl or melatonin tonight to try to reset her sleep patterns. Bad idea?

[StrawberryBlondie]

My kid has been an absolute pill for almost a week. She threw a tantrum this morning over putting on shoes. Is 15 months when the terrible twos starts?

[taratru]

The middle one is coming home today after being at grandma's for five days. It's bad that I just want her to stay gone, right? Or maybe grandma could just take #3 for a while? Together they are driving me damn crazy.

[erbear]

Jun 30, 2015 9:18:34 GMT -5 taratru said:

The middle one is coming home today after being at grandma's for five days. It's bad that I just want her to stay gone, right? Or maybe grandma could just take #3 for a while? Together they are driving me damn crazy.

If it's bad, we can be bad moms together. 

My kids were supposed to be in camp this week. They called me on Saturday night to tell me that camp was cancelled for Monday morning. I cried.

[pescalita]

Jun 30, 2015 9:14:33 GMT -5 StrawberryBlondie said:

My kid has been an absolute pill for almost a week. She threw a tantrum this morning over putting on shoes. Is 15 months when the terrible twos starts?

YES. Terrible twos is a misnomer. 1 is bad, 3 is awful. 2 is generally pleasant.

[eponinepontmercy]

DD woke up at some point in the middle of the night and wanted to get in bed with us. Sorry, kid - you snore and you are a pillow hog. Go back to your own bed. DH had to walk her back in and sit there until she was back to sleep.

She's getting a twin bed on Wednesday (ILs had an extra for her). I made the mistake of going down the aisle in Target with all the character stuff first so she picked out Inside Out sheets and a comforter.

It's going to be a rough adjustment for all of us - the glider won't fit in her room with the bigger bed. We've sat and snuggled/read in that chair nearly every night since she was born. I usually sit there while she falls asleep. We're going to have to figure out a whole new routine.

[eponinepontmercy]

Jun 30, 2015 9:32:53 GMT -5 pescalita said:

Jun 30, 2015 9:14:33 GMT -5 StrawberryBlondie said:

My kid has been an absolute pill for almost a week. She threw a tantrum this morning over putting on shoes. Is 15 months when the terrible twos starts?

YES. Terrible twos is a misnomer. 1 is bad, 3 is awful. 2 is generally pleasant.

Truth.  2 was lovely - all of the entertainment but about half of the sass.

Although, every time I complain about an age, someone comes in to say the next year will be worse.  

[wawa]

Jun 30, 2015 9:45:13 GMT -5 eponinepontmercy said:

Jun 30, 2015 9:32:53 GMT -5 pescalita said:

YES. Terrible twos is a misnomer. 1 is bad, 3 is awful. 2 is generally pleasant.

Truth.  2 was lovely - all of the entertainment but about half of the sass.

Although, every time I complain about an age, someone comes in to say the next year will be worse.  

I don't believe it.  4 and on is a steady improvement until puberty.  This is my belief and I'm sticking to it. 

[meshaliuknits]

Jun 30, 2015 9:32:53 GMT -5 pescalita said:

Jun 30, 2015 9:14:33 GMT -5 StrawberryBlondie said:

My kid has been an absolute pill for almost a week. She threw a tantrum this morning over putting on shoes. Is 15 months when the terrible twos starts?

YES. Terrible twos is a misnomer. 1 is bad, 3 is awful. 2 is generally pleasant.

IDK man. BoyLiu had become more & more intolerable the closer he gets to two. We walked by a church the other day & H said "I think they have to take him if we leave him there."

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[laurenpetro]

Jun 30, 2015 9:52:07 GMT -5 wawa said:

Jun 30, 2015 9:45:13 GMT -5 eponinepontmercy said:

Truth.  2 was lovely - all of the entertainment but about half of the sass.

Although, every time I complain about an age, someone comes in to say the next year will be worse.  

I don't believe it.  4 and on is a steady improvement until puberty.  This is my belief and I'm sticking to it. 

5 is when it gets better. 4 is full-on little shit mode.

[2curlydogs]

Jun 30, 2015 10:09:40 GMT -5 laurenpetro said:

Jun 30, 2015 9:52:07 GMT -5 wawa said:

I don't believe it.  4 and on is a steady improvement until puberty.  This is my belief and I'm sticking to it. 

5 is when it gets better. 4 is full-on little shit mode.

Do they get worse before getting better? Because at 4 1/2 I'm about to go hard core channeling my mom With the Lava Soap on my little monster. If he goes "Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah." ONE MORE TIME....

Why does the little one sleep all the way thru, only to wake at 5:30? You can't give me that last half hour? And then he just wants to snuggle in the chair and fall back asleep until 7:30. UGH.

[wawa]

Jun 30, 2015 10:09:40 GMT -5 laurenpetro said:

Jun 30, 2015 9:52:07 GMT -5 wawa said:

I don't believe it.  4 and on is a steady improvement until puberty.  This is my belief and I'm sticking to it. 

5 is when it gets better. 4 is full-on little shit mode.

*sigh*  Ok, I can live with that.

[heyjude]

There's a yolk sac but no heartbeat or much else. But I'm measuring right on point and the doc is optimistic and everything looks great! I go back in a week.

[eclaires]

4yo has been my favorite age with Scarlett. I know some people think it's worse than 3 but with both my kids 3 was the worst.

I think I will be saddest to leave this age actually. We only have one more year before she's off to K.

[jln]

I don't know if I'm going to survive potty-training. DS1 may go to kindergarten in diapers.

[shanbrite2]

DD hung out today with a little girl 3 weeks younger than her. They were so similar that neither her mom nor I could tell their voices apart, and at one point she wore DD's swim suit and I kept thinking she was DD. In other ways they were so different and I got to feel really proud of DD because she knows all her numbers and letters, is starting to "read" and can do a bunch of things this other little girl can't yet (TBF, the other little girl was a phenomenal swimmer, while DD still freaks out if we are not holding her super close in the pool). Very fun and sweet day.