Morning all. This is the first year we haven't made it until midnight. I was down around 11 and DH was out around 10:30.
I feel so bad I gave DH a scare yesterday. I had cut my leg shaving and grabbed some toilet paper to stop the bleeding and I guess I threw it in the toilet not thinking. A half hour later DH comes out and asks if I've used the master bathroom. When I say I did he gets a really strained voice and tells me there is blood on the toilet paper in there. I felt so bad. He obviously thought something was wrong so I quickly reassured him I cut myself in the shower and it was nothing more.
I need to get on taking down the Christmas tree today but I'm totally not feeling it.
I went to bed around 11 with an ice pack because I had a headache. Woke up around 6:30 with a fever and diarrhea. Not exactly how I wanted to start the year. We're hoping our year goes up from here! The tylenol has brought me down to 98.8, but my head keeps hurting on and off. It's almost time for another dose of tylenol and another ice pack.
My plan today was to finish washing and storing all the free clothes we got (I'm starting with the bigger toddler sizes), but that will depend on how I feel as the day goes on.
We each took a short nap after our horrendous football game and woke up just in time to see the ball drop. We headed to bed about 12:30. C slept pretty well last night and took a great morning nap. Once he got up we went to lunch and the grocery store and now he's down for his afternoon nap. Just plan on resting the rest of the afternoon.
My baby is napping properly for the first time in weeks. I think she's officially down to 1 nap a day.
Does anyone have any good ideas for cupcakes for her birthday party next week? She doesn't officially turn 1 for a couple more weeks, but I wanted to do a little something while H is here. I feel like I should put more effort into planning this, but we JUST had Christmas and my MIL just left. Poor January baby is getting the shaft...
For those of you with girl babies who don't want to go the overly girlie route, how do you stop your family using terms like 'princess'? This is H's family, not mine. I sort of laughed it off and kept saying "oh no, she's more of a warrior princess or a queen". I realise this is probably futile and I really have no control over it.
Jetlag is kicking Z's butt and therefore mine as well. We are on night 2 of him just screaming and screaming until 11pm and then sleeping in super later in the morning. I'm going to have to just wake him up at his usual time tomorrow because I'm drained from listening to screaming and going in to soothe.
loira, we celebrated Z birthday a few days after he hit 10 months, just so my H could be a part of the celebration before deploying. I felt weird about doing it so early, but in the end it was more about doing it as a family and we were limited in our time together. I can't help with the cake thing though, Z has gluten issues so we avoided it and did ice cream instead for him.
Post by Chrysanthemum on Jan 1, 2017 18:06:38 GMT -5
Thanks for thinking of me thoseareradishes! I feel ready. The last few days have just been killing time; it's so weird to know exactly when the baby will come. H and I had a nice NYE date last night and spent some quality time together today, too. We'll be up bright and early tomorrow because the surgery is scheduled early in the day. Such a weird feeling for this day to finally be here! I wrote a letter to the baby this morning and got a little teary-eyed.
Sorry you're not feeling good grover. Happy birthday to A loira!
loira, I can imagine that the princess shit gets old QUICK. I hate that and hope it is something we do not have to deal with. Also, I vote for chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting because yum.
I am so anxious and overwhelmed over here. 11 weeks tomorrow. I have had cramping since Friday. Sometimes it feels like period cramping and is really bad, other times it is just this awareness that something is different, you know? It makes me so worried. Google tells me this is normal, but I cannot help but let my mind move to miscarriage again.
loira, I can imagine that the princess shit gets old QUICK. I hate that and hope it is something we do not have to deal with. Also, I vote for chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting because yum.
I am so anxious and overwhelmed over here. 11 weeks tomorrow. I have had cramping since Friday. Sometimes it feels like period cramping and is really bad, other times it is just this awareness that something is different, you know? It makes me so worried. Google tells me this is normal, but I cannot help but let my mind move to miscarriage again.
Yes, and I know there's a chance she might get into it herself when she's older. I'm not going to stop her (and I don't begrudge other people going the princess route), but I just don't want to encourage it, especially so young.
I don't know what comfort I can offer on the pgal front. I wish there were guarantees in life. All I can say is that every pregnancy truly is different. Did you ever have testing done with your previous loss? What kind of testing are you getting this time? No need to answer if you'd rather not, but I hope whatever it is, the results give you comfort and confidence going into 2nd tri.
Thanks loira, my baby is ONE!! We are having a party next weekend but I did a little thing on his actual bday that would be nice for your H! I ordered cupcakes from the local grocery store ($4 for 6 cupcakes! Just white with white icing). I bought some fun sprinkles to put on top, got a 1 candle, a little hat for him, and some balloons. We had pizza and cupcakes and it was very low key and simple. As you can see, he loved it. T can walk across a room but still prefers crawling. He's had a verbal explosion the past 2 weeks -- he now says Mama, Woof, Dada, Nana, off, truck, Earth, and sometimes orange. He calls all dogs Woof, and he'll crawl around the house going "Woof! Woof!" looking for our dog. The Earth one cracks me up because he uses it appropriately. We have a solar system book and as soon as we turn the Earth page he's all "Earf! Earf!" and when you says "we live on a planet called..." (the line in the book) he'll respond "Earf!" SO FUNNY. He also started sleeping in much later in the morning -- a beginning sign of the one nap transition! Not looking forward to that. Here's another favorite pic from his bday.
loira , I can imagine that the princess shit gets old QUICK. I hate that and hope it is something we do not have to deal with. Also, I vote for chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting because yum.
I am so anxious and overwhelmed over here. 11 weeks tomorrow. I have had cramping since Friday. Sometimes it feels like period cramping and is really bad, other times it is just this awareness that something is different, you know? It makes me so worried. Google tells me this is normal, but I cannot help but let my mind move to miscarriage again.
Yes, and I know there's a chance she might get into it herself when she's older. I'm not going to stop her (and I don't begrudge other people going the princess route), but I just don't want to encourage it, especially so young.
I don't know what comfort I can offer on the pgal front. I wish there were guarantees in life. All I can say is that every pregnancy truly is different. Did you ever have testing done with your previous loss? What kind of testing are you getting this time? No need to answer if you'd rather not, but I hope whatever it is, the results give you comfort and confidence going into 2nd tri.
I hear you 100%; of course you do not want to stop her from doing what she wants, but she is already bombarded by society's message that little girls are princesses, so why not counter that at home? Give her more options so she doesn't have to fit into a particular "mold." Makes perfect sense and I agree.
We did not opt to do any testing or autopsy with the last pregnancy. We did do free cell DNA testing this time to test for chromosomal abnormalities that we will get back this week.
boiler717, he is such a cutie! You must be relieved about all those new words. I know you were a bit worried there. Come to think of it, 'explosion' is the right way to describe it. A hasn't had any new words in a couple of weeks, but (after the initial 'mama') I felt like all her words came at once. I figure she's either gearing up for more, or concentrating on the physical stuff. She crawls like a boss now, and is starting to pull up a bit.
Baby awick seems to be getting the hang of breastfeeding so much more now. (I guess I have a fast let down and I am way overproducing which is making it harder for her) So hopefully this means that things will be a little easier from here.
A woman DH was friends with in high school, (His prom date actually) contacted DH through Facebook yesterday. She told him she saw my post about us having a daughter and she wanted to pass on some girls clothing if we wanted any. He said sure so we met up with her today. (She was given all the clothing from friends when she was pregnant and has stores it for 2 years as she actually had a boy.) Well it turns out that the little bit of clothing is 7 Costco sized diaper boxes. 😳 I went through the boxes tonight and we have enough clothing to make it to at least 9 months without buying another piece of clothing. There was also 30+ bibs, 10 pairs of shoes, 25+ socks and such in there. We were both shocked with her generosity, considering she's not someone he speaks to really.
That's awesome awick14! H's cousins wife did something similar for us when we found Z was a boy. She said I've got some boy clothes for you to look through, and it turned out to be like 8 trash bags full! I was overwhelmed and grateful for that because we had very little for Z at the time. I hope breastfeeding starts getting easier, the first month is rough but it got better for us after that. I smile when I see your pictures of of your LO on IG, I'm so happy for you!
boiler717, he is such a cutie! You must be relieved about all those new words. I know you were a bit worried there. Come to think of it, 'explosion' is the right way to describe it. A hasn't had any new words in a couple of weeks, but (after the initial 'mama') I felt like all her words came at once. I figure she's either gearing up for more, or concentrating on the physical stuff. She crawls like a boss now, and is starting to pull up a bit.
Yes I am so relieved!! That's crazy she's moving around so much!
Post by thoseareradishes on Jan 3, 2017 8:49:20 GMT -5
Oh wow awick14, that was really nice of her. Glad you guys are doing well
I went to yoga last night, it was a new class for me called Svaroopa yoga. It was...interesting. A lot of meditation then some poses aimed at releasing tension in the back. It was relaxing, but I think I'm more of a Vinyasa person.
Post by cactuscookie on Jan 3, 2017 11:25:25 GMT -5
loira, my MIL is really into the princess stuff too. She saw a crate of hand-me-down toys my sister (who has three boys) was giving us, and even though the toys were all gender-neutral, decided H needed some some girl toys. So she went to the "pink aisle" of the store and bought a set of Disney princesses. When we asked for bath toys for Christmas, she commented on how hard it was to find pink bath toys. I don't understand why bath toys need to be pink. It's so weird to me, but I try to remind myself that my MIL's influence in this is relatively small.
loira- my MIL is very girls should be pink and frilly. I am not a girly girl by any means and will not hot our of my way to get DD all the pink girly things.
I was quite content just using all the neutral colored clothing we have for DD because I don't want to buy too much more clothing for her. Now that we have all this girly stuff MIL is so excited.
boiler717 , he is such a cutie! You must be relieved about all those new words. I know you were a bit worried there. Come to think of it, 'explosion' is the right way to describe it. A hasn't had any new words in a couple of weeks, but (after the initial 'mama') I felt like all her words came at once. I figure she's either gearing up for more, or concentrating on the physical stuff. She crawls like a boss now, and is starting to pull up a bit.
Despite many conversations like this:
Me: Can you say mama? H: Papa. Me: Papa's at work. Can you say mama? H: Papa. Me: Mmmmammmma. H: Papa.
I think I'm officially calling H's first word "ball". (She says papa and dada, but they're just sounds with no relationship to DH.) She also said 'bird' and 'bye-bye' over the weekend, but I'm not sure she knows how to use them. And 'ball' is more like 'beh', while 'bird' is something like 'beu'. She hasn't figured out how to make consonants at the end of a word.
So still not much of a talker, but she's standing independently for longer and longer and taking the occasional step to get from one cruising surface to another.
FWIW, my first name is very similar to a popular princess, so I got called "Princess ****" all the time growing up. I was never super into princesses or anything because of it, it was just a nickname, used most often probably by my dad.
After a few good weeks, my migraine is back. I'm home from work today, miserable on the couch.
boiler717 , he is such a cutie! You must be relieved about all those new words. I know you were a bit worried there. Come to think of it, 'explosion' is the right way to describe it. A hasn't had any new words in a couple of weeks, but (after the initial 'mama') I felt like all her words came at once. I figure she's either gearing up for more, or concentrating on the physical stuff. She crawls like a boss now, and is starting to pull up a bit.
Despite many conversations like this:
Me: Can you say mama? H: Papa. Me: Papa's at work. Can you say mama? H: Papa. Me: Mmmmammmma. H: Papa.
I think I'm officially calling H's first word "ball". (She says papa and dada, but they're just sounds with no relationship to DH.) She also said 'bird' and 'bye-bye' over the weekend, but I'm not sure she knows how to use them. And 'ball' is more like 'beh', while 'bird' is something like 'beu'. She hasn't figured out how to make consonants at the end of a word.
So still not much of a talker, but she's standing independently for longer and longer and taking the occasional step to get from one cruising surface to another.
Oh, definitely call it! A's words are not pronounced perfectly at all. She also has trouble with consonants at the end of words. 'Cat' is just 'ca'. I call it a word if it sounds similar enough and she uses it consistently-ish. Funny that you mention 'papa'. I've been trying to get A to say it for ages, hoping she'd do it by the time DH leaves, but so far no luck.
That is awesome that H can stand independently! A's got a bit to go before she stands, I think. She's amusing herself these days by ordering us around. She figured out pointing a little while ago, and for a bit it was just in a 'look at that' kind of way. But now she's figured out that we give her things she points to. And now she'll point to what she wants and pat the surface in front of her, as if to say 'peasant, bring that to me!'
Me: Can you say mama? H: Papa. Me: Papa's at work. Can you say mama? H: Papa. Me: Mmmmammmma. H: Papa.
I think I'm officially calling H's first word "ball". (She says papa and dada, but they're just sounds with no relationship to DH.) She also said 'bird' and 'bye-bye' over the weekend, but I'm not sure she knows how to use them. And 'ball' is more like 'beh', while 'bird' is something like 'beu'. She hasn't figured out how to make consonants at the end of a word.
So still not much of a talker, but she's standing independently for longer and longer and taking the occasional step to get from one cruising surface to another.
She's amusing herself these days by ordering us around. She figured out pointing a little while ago, and for a bit it was just in a 'look at that' kind of way. But now she's figured out that we give her things she points to. And now she'll point to what she wants and pat the surface in front of her, as if to say 'peasant, bring that to me!'
That's hilarious! I forgot that I was going to work on pointing with H. My BIL thought she might have been directing him where to go when he was carrying her, but I'm not sure.
FWIW, my first name is very similar to a popular princess, so I got called "Princess ****" all the time growing up. I was never super into princesses or anything because of it, it was just a nickname, used most often probably by my dad.
After a few good weeks, my migraine is back. I'm home from work today, miserable on the couch.
I had a feeling your real name was Rapunzel!
awick14 and cactuscookie, I object to the princess thing slightly less than I object to the Barbie thing. I never had Barbies as a kid, though I had plenty of friends who did and they grew up to be awesome feminists. So obviously it's not like it ruins children, but it's still not something I'd buy A myself. MIL brought a bunch of toys with her, mainly books, and did bring an 'Anna' (from Frozen) doll, which I thought was sweet although A's pretty young for it right now. Cactuscookie, you're right that her influence is really minimal - that's why I didn't bother giving a big speech about the princess language etc. Although my DH took a hard stance on it, but it's his mum so he can feel free to correct her all he wants. We did once receive a onesie from her that was neon pink with something like "making all the boys crazy" written on it. It went straight in the giveaway pile.
I feel slightly guilty about it but... A looks amazing in pale pink. So I do tend to dress her in it more than I might have if her colouring had been different.
loira- I haven't said much about it to MIL yet and I don't think DH will right now either. We are living with MIL currently but next fall when we move away we won't see her as much so as baby wick gets older she won't be that close or have that much influence.
FYI I just added a bunch of you on instagram, including G22 , cactuscookie and maybe King26 ? 2 beers and this is what happens. If you see a blonde creeper, that's me.
ETA: You can blame Awick because I was going through her follow list.
FYI I just added a bunch of you on instagram, including G22 , cactuscookie and maybe King26 ? 2 beers and this is what happens. If you see a blonde creeper, that's me.
ETA: You can blame Awick because I was going through her follow list.
Yay! That explains the blonde creeper!
H looks great in pink too.
DH bought her Barbie-sized Jyn Erso and Rey dolls, which I fully support.
For Christmas, I asked for board books with female main characters, and ended up with a book about Minnie Mouse and her friend shopping. Oops! Not quite what I had in mind.
Omg, I slipped on the stairs today while carrying the baby and he fell and hit his head. He bumped it on the banister and made a little dent. Which quickly faded to just a red mark. Thank goodness he only fell the height of a couple stairs as I managed to hang on to him most of the way. We have a health hotline we can call and speak to a nurse who advises you whether to go to the hospital or what else to do. She said not to go to the hospital because of the short distance he fell and since he didn't lose consciousness or get a goose egg. So I just had to watch him for any sign of odd behavior, and rouse him gently every hour for the next six, if he napped or went to bed. He was almost instantly back to his normal self and I did rouse him and everything seems ok. But oh, that was scary!