My pants are getting tighter. I am telling myself it's the dryer. The good thing is they used to be loose and needed a belt. Now they show off my curves.
I am feeling like a terrible mom. I have to bring M to my grandma's for the day so I can go into work. He is so miserable and sick. I wish I could stay with him but I've already missed a ton at work. And of course DH had to drive to the other side of the state this morning. Ugh.
DS was up from 1-4am happy as a lark and wouldn't sleep. I'm running training sessions during 6 of my 8 hours at work today, and I have to be ON for them.
When did your SO get more comfortable soothing a baby? I swear DH doesn't really try and always hands her off to me. So much for not being annoyed with him today.
Uh never, sorry. He always tried one thing for 30 seconds, got frustrated when the crying didn't stop and gave up. The good news is he is much better at toddler playing than I am?
H went in to workout this morning but is coming home to start his four day weekend. I am just hoping the rain holds off today because we're going to a local farm and play area that is outside.
We got an email that our work building is closed Friday, but don't worry! Our new security cards are being programmed by today so we can enter the closed building to work. No. I'm definitely WFH and not feeling the least bit guilty.
Plus, this is the last Friday before Montessori starts! Which also means that any further wfh Fridays will be done without a 2 yr at home!!
Wow what a great night. The trifecta of good sleeping. No call mommy or daddy at bedtime, STTN, AND no get up early! DS slept until 6:50! (Yesterday was 5:40, ugh). I've been praising the hell out of DS this morning.
And my van is ready! It's been at the body shop since Monday for a fender bender (we backed into each other in a parking lot). I had a rental van this week, but I like everything about my van better. I've really missed it, I can't wait to get it back. I will be a better park-er from now on, I swear!
It's my Friday! I'm off tomorrow and planning to take DS to the zoo. Today should be productive work wise because I only have one conference call scheduled, so I should be able to catch up on a lot of work.
When did your SO get more comfortable soothing a baby? I swear DH doesn't really try and always hands her off to me. So much for not being annoyed with him today.
Uh never, sorry. He always tried one thing for 30 seconds, got frustrated when the crying didn't stop and gave up. The good news is he is much better at toddler playing than I am?
Same here milliep. Uh, never unfortunately. He runs the gamut of the 3 things he "knows" (walking around, or the RnP, or playing music), and if DS or DD didn't calm down, he says "nothing works" and hands baby back to me. I'm like, you didn't even really try! And then he says "well all you do is stick a boob in their mouth, I can't do that." Which is true.
He is an AWESOME toddler dad though. So much more energy than me. It's all horseback rides, chasing him around the house, playing Tball. DS thrives on that physical stuff.
I'm in a foul mood. Probably because while the kids were good yesterday, and they had a great time, I didn't really have any fun. In fact, it was probably the least fun Canada day ever for me. Again, it wasn't a bad day, just not the fun camping trip it usually is because I basically had kid duty all day. The most exciting moment was likely when I was changing ds2 in the play yard at the far end of the field (so I was by myself) and he pooped all over himself and at exactly the moment I was trying to figure out how to keep him from crawling through poop ds1 started crying about needing to poop asap. So I had to choose between getting the already poop covered kid clean and thereby limit the spread of poop and hope ds1 didn't poop his pants, or get ds1 his potty out of the car so he could go while letting ds2 smear himself. I chose crossing my fingers that ds1 could hold it. Which thankfully worked out. Anyway yeah, with the day peppered with such moments and no help, not fun. Dh was helping with the community events (something he didn't tell me the extent to which he'd committed) all day and was only a coparent for about 1.5hrs between 10am and 7pm. The ILs just filled ds1 up with bread and candy so he was wired and of course, when he got to be too whiney they'd send him back across the field to wherever ds2 and I were stationed. I literally had about 10mins from wake up to bedtime when I wasn't carrying, caring for, feeding, cleaning, playing with or otherwise parenting. At bedtime I decided I didn't want to camp and just wanted to go home. Took ds2 with me and ds1 stayed with dh. Best part of my day was getting ds2 to sleep in bed and vegging in front of the tv for an hour and I eating a whole bag of chips. So I'm feeling pretty bitter today.
The girls had their first pt appointment yesterday. One hour with her and E is standing independently for longer periods of time and K started actually walking to get places a few times. She did say it's very hard work for E and she can see her really concentrating so we need to keep building up her muscle strength.
I bought a sweater advertised at GUC, but when it came yesterday there are 2 pretty easy to spot stains on the front of the sweater. DH said it was NBD that I can probably get them out, but I'm wondering if I should contact the seller to let them know.
Also major drama with BIL and the kids again. Eeesh DH's family is like Jerry Springer.
My OB said my bleeding is going to get heavier when we get home and I'll probably get a mini period in two weeks. Did this happen to anyone else? My bleeding with Ben was heavier on days I walked around a bunch but it sounds like things are gonna get heavier now either way. Are there special things I should buy to ease things down there?
My OB said my bleeding is going to get heavier when we get home and I'll probably get a mini period in two weeks. Did this happen to anyone else? My bleeding with Ben was heavier on days I walked around a bunch but it sounds like things are gonna get heavier now either way. Are there special things I should buy to ease things down there?
This was not my experience personally. My bleeding tapered off and stopped around 4w, but started again from 6-8w, just lightly.
Post by jeaniebueller on Jul 2, 2015 7:18:09 GMT -5
gibbinator, that stinks. I hope your H takes the kids a bit this weekend so you can get some rest time. Its interesting, because in the midst of our camping trip last weekend, it occurred to me that (at least until my kids are teenagers and more self sufficient) that true relaxing time is basically done, since as parents we are the ones who have to orchestrate the fun for the kids to enjoy.
I was watching Jeopardy last night and the final jeopardy question as asking which retailed closed all of their stores in Canada in 2015 and thanks to this board, I knew the answer was Target.
We're heading down to the obx tomorrow. Unfortunately there have been 7 shark attacks in shallow water off the coast of NC recently. I think the odds of one of us being bitten are slim to none but it's still kind of freaky. Wwyd about this? Avoid the water? Go in anyway? Just go in knee deep? Go in with the idea that you'll get the hell out if you see dolphin fins? Lol
Post by dulcemariamar on Jul 2, 2015 7:20:36 GMT -5
Did anybody get horrible symptoms during the 2WW? I am not pregnant but looking to see if I want to move up possible TTC. I just don't want to deal with morning sickness while on vacation.
We realized last night we have a lot of sex toys. We were cleaning our room because the ILs are staying with DS, so DH collected everything and put it in a bag in the basement in case they opened the nightstand. There is an entire grocery bag full of random things. LOL, I had to share it here because where else can I laugh about it?
We're heading down to the obx tomorrow. Unfortunately there have been 7 shark attacks in shallow water off the coast of NC recently. I think the odds of one of us being bitten are slim to none but it's still kind of freaky. Wwyd about this? Avoid the water? Go in anyway? Just go in knee deep? Go in with the idea that you'll get the hell out if you see dolphin fins? Lol
I would still go in, but just use common sense. I read that several of the shark attacks were near people FISHING for sharks. So just watch out for shark- attracting activities and steer clear.
^ They scare me too! If it was just me and DH I wouldn't care as much and would be more willing to take my chances. But it would be horrible if one of the kids was bit. Otoh we're driving a heck of a long way just to swim in a pool all week. Lol
When did your SO get more comfortable soothing a baby? I swear DH doesn't really try and always hands her off to me. So much for not being annoyed with him today.
When I threw a fit about being too sleep deprived and started sending him to a different room with the baby immediately after nursing with strict instructions that he was not to come back in for at least 3 hours unless something was on fire so I could get a solid block of sleep. I keep a bottle with a couple of ounces of pumped milk in the fridge for him to try if he really can't get DS calmed during that time to see if he's really hungry before bringing him back in early.
I feel terrible, DS was bed sharing and he is so gosh darn restless that I just got to the end of my rope.I told him to calm down a few times and he didn't so I brought him back to his crib. He cried from 435 until almost 6. but I knew if I went in there I'd be going back on my word.
We're heading down to the obx tomorrow. Unfortunately there have been 7 shark attacks in shallow water off the coast of NC recently. I think the odds of one of us being bitten are slim to none but it's still kind of freaky. Wwyd about this? Avoid the water? Go in anyway? Just go in knee deep? Go in with the idea that you'll get the hell out if you see dolphin fins? Lol
We are going in August and I am not going in the water. I never really swim in the ocean anyway, but one of the articles I read said the guy was swimming in knee deep water so that's freaking me out.
I'm still trying to not give in to catching the full blown cold that the kids just got over. DH came down with it yesterday and only lasted 2.5 hours at work before coming home and staying in bed the rest of the day.
I have a big meeting at work today and also have done absolutely no packing for our trip this weekend and we leave tomorrow. So I'm up at 530 am because I woke up having to pee and couldn't fall back asleep.