Post by 2curlydogs on Aug 18, 2017 11:01:19 GMT -5
This is my baby's last full week at daycare. S starts Pre-K next Thursday.
I may or may not be a complete wreck next week. We've been at this daycare since 2011 and I went back to work after B was born. I just teared up deleting our goddamned auto payment. FFS.
Anyway, any ideas on what we can give our center director? She's been there since I think 2012 and we all absolutely adore her. She has an extra-special bond with S. Every day at drop off he looks for her and at pickup we can't leave until he gives her a hug.
First day of first grade on Monday. So ready for him to be out of the house consistently again.
We went to the school last night for a lemonade social and met with his new teacher, who has the "pre-identified" GT kids in his class (they identify in first grade). We're in store for a fall with a good amount of testing and spending time with the GT specialist every week, and after the first couple weeks they'll continue the same thing as last year and sending him up a grade for reading. We also registered him for all his after-school activities (hooray for an extra hour of billable time each day!) and... if he inherits his parents' lack of game, his hip-hop dance class should be fairly entertaining.
DS is both the cutest and the worst. Getting him to stop playing after bedtime and go the eff to sleep is slowly killing me, but look at his little face! I really can't get too mad.
DD is dying to go back to school. I'm taking her with me to put together welcome packets at school on Tues, and she's full of plans to try to peek at class lists in the packets, or sneak into the principal's office if necessary to find out who her teacher is.
DS1 had his drama camp performance today. He had the largest speaking part (it was a couple scenes from Alice in Wonderland and he was the White Rabbit) and was adorable. Broke character once to mouth "watch this part Mommy" and it wasn't even a part that involved him.
And this is a confession: I've never read / seen Alice in Wonderland.
my oldest started K this week so my emotions have been on a roller coaster for the last 3 weeks. Today I am feeling good and enjoying the quiet in my house while the baby sleeps. My friends are crying about how much they miss their kids but my feelings over it all were mostly anxiety about how she'd handle the transition (she's done great) and anxiety about not knowing how things work at the elementary school (neighbors are helping fill in the blanks for me as the school isn't much help).
5 year olds are hard and being around mine all summer with minimal breaks was a challenge. I'm going to have so much more time for myself now that she's in school all day and I am so happy about it. Plus I get tons of one on one time with the baby, just like I had with her big sister when she was that age. One perk of a large age gap.
Post by StrawberryBlondie on Aug 18, 2017 11:45:46 GMT -5
My baby started transitioning to the "older" preschool room. Im really happy because while her current teacher is a lovely woman, she's not particularly nurturing... Like, she seems to have a temperament better for elementary school age kids. I love the older preschool teacher.
Plus, new teacher also updated the app with pictures throughout the day. Currently teacher does maybe 1.
simpsongal what is your daughter's birth date again? I know ours are really close. Mine is crawling as of like 2 weeks ago. No pulling up or walking yet. I'm not really in a rush though.
My kids have been at home alone all week, doing pretty much nothing but watching tv. I feel terrible, but they don't start until Wednesday, even though we've been back since Tuesday.
DD (9 weeks) has been SO fussy this morning. She won't relax or stop crying unless she's being held and has a pacifier. I was able to calm her down and get her to go to sleep in her crib, but she was only out for about 20 minutes before she started up again.
She had her 2-month shots on Tuesday so I thought that might have been it, but she's also gassy ... and so are MH and I, so I think we're all being affected by the pizza we had for lunch yesterday. I've already been cutting back on dairy. It seems like the most I can do is a little half and half in my morning coffee without her getting upset. Goodbye, cheese and ice cream
oh also the baby (10.5 months) has been up middle of the night every night this week. I think it is teething related (canines) but motrin is not helping with the wake ups. I just want to STTN again, uggh.
she is easy in MOTN though. Just chuggs an 8oz bottle, diaper change, and then put her down and she'll go right to sleep. I wish I could just leave a bottle in there and she could do this routine herself, lol.
simpsongal what is your daughter's birth date again? I know ours are really close. Mine is crawling as of like 2 weeks ago. No pulling up or walking yet. I'm not really in a rush though.
Oct 10th - she could stand really early (e.g., 7 months), it was odd. Like she'd just stand for like 5 minutes.
Is your LO sleeping? We're in a rough patch w/sleep...need to let her CIO. [ETA: just saw your follow up...I need to try motrin]
simpsongal she had been STTN since like 10 weeks with very rare MOTN wake ups. I think this may be a combo of canines plus wonder week. We are in leap 7, stormy weeks.
Post by pierogigirl on Aug 18, 2017 17:25:58 GMT -5
Fuck. My kids have discovered Legos.
We had a few of the mini sets over the years and they never showed any interest. I thought we had avoided the Lego craze. Then DS1 got 4 sets for his 8th birthday and both DS1 and DS2 (5) have been working on them.