Afternoon Randoms, 'cause I CAN

[jssymom14]

Apr 2, 2013 14:57:31 GMT -5 Kit said:

I'm back from getting hitched and honeymooning,and have been eating a bunch of crap just because I don't have to stuff myself into a wedding dress anymore.

Beautiful picture

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Apr 2, 2013 14:49:33 GMT -5 cjoy said:

I want to pick up that empty toilet paper roll in skipping's bathroom so fucking bad.

I've been thinking this for days but didn't want to be the one to say something :-#

[Kit]

Thanks jssymom14!

[verycontrary247]

My nephew is currently sucking on my wrist like a little toothless vampire.

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this is now a "cville stream of consciousness post."

the secretary who hates me just GASPED loudly, "OH MY GOSH, IT'S ALREADY FOUR O'CLOCK." i actually jumped.

please, help me to keep from killing her.

[textbookcase]

I just made a post about it, but I think I'm getting a stye and it hurts.

My SIL announced her pregnancy yesterday (April Fool's Day) and naturally, everyone thought it was a joke. It wasn't. What a bad day to announce it, though.

[shananagins]

Apr 2, 2013 14:55:23 GMT -5 ninjabridemom said:

Booby, the big thing is they don't say "mama" "dada" discriminately. We're all trying to get on the ball since they're already at a disadvantage for speech stuff just by being twins -- I think all 3 of us are hyperaware. Marc did say ball but he hasn't really since, or he'll say it for anything he likes, lol. I'm not actually worried about that. I'm a little peeved at Jake because he said they're quiet a lot of times, which is sort of true? But not really. They just don't jibber jabber while they're concentrating, lol. I'm also not worried about that at all. My niece had signs when she was 12m and her mom always said she wished she'd just gotten evaluated then, instead of waiting for 18m, because she thinks the extra help would have pushed her up some, so that's in our minds, too.

I DO think they are behind. And I'm glad we're getting evaluated for piece of mind, etc. But I don't think they're behind enough for them to actually get into EI. I think it will be good to have a baseline in case there isn't improvement in the next 6m.

Mine are just starting to say Mama and Dada and occasionally they'll say it to the right person. I'm concerned about it, but at their 12 mo checkup the pedi said it's very typical of twins and she wouldn't be concerned unless they don't improve by 15 mo. I was super concerned that they didn't respond to their names, but that has really improved over the last month. Jo also just started intentionally dropping things and saying Uh oh oh, which is the cutest thing ever, and I say counts as another word.

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Apr 2, 2013 15:04:18 GMT -5 RexManningDay said:

There's been another poster who has posted pictures in the past and I want to just go to her house and clean it for her SO MUCH.

Buuuuuttttt ... I have no idea who it was.

It's probably me, lol.  Our place is so cluttered right now, lol.

[pantsparty]

I am eating a cucumber and tomato salad with feta for lunch. It's so good!

lightbulb's post reminded me that a few days after my brother died his Facebook got hacked, and was sending out messages about diet pills and viagra. It was disturbing but also a little bit funny. He would have appreciated it.

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Edmund is in speech therapy because its part of his cleft lip/palate treatment. His pedi isn't overly concerned and really the evaluator isn't worried about anything but his expressive speech. It's just hard though. I broke down and cried in his little tykes class last week because of how things were going.

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Apr 2, 2013 15:04:18 GMT -5 RexManningDay said:

There's been another poster who has posted pictures in the past and I want to just go to her house and clean it for her SO MUCH.

Buuuuuttttt ... I have no idea who it was.

I bet it was me.

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shananagins that makes sense to me.  I don't think it's like OMG THEY'LL NEVER TALK but I think I just hate that they're at this disadvantage b/c they're twins.  And it's sort of the only one, other than having to deal with a sibling from day 1, lol.  

I also hate that I wasn't at the appointment and had to get all this second hand

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Oh Jesus cjoy, I can't stop laughing at that idiot in your avatar.

I just had a nap time from hell. Went to put her down, turns out she peed through her diaper last night and I apparently didn't notice when we got up this morning. So I stripped the bed, but no, it leaked through the mattress cover and onto the mattress. Great. So i move her to my bedroom. Oh, and she somehow peed all over her bff tiger that she will NOT sleep without. Great. So then she wouldn't nap because she was too busy screaming for her tiger for an hour. She finally calms down, then 2 minutes later I hear "a poop? A poop?" awesome, she pooped herself. Run down to grab a diaper, come back up and she's out of bed digging though dirty laundry to find her tiger. Omg. More screaming "tide! Tide!!" for about 45 minutes. Finally, after requesting for her nose and eyes to be wiped 1000 times, she fell asleep. I wish I had a vodka tonic right now.

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Apr 2, 2013 15:06:07 GMT -5 @sounderschick said:

Edmund is in speech therapy because its part of his cleft lip/palate treatment. His pedi isn't overly concerned and really the evaluator isn't worried about anything but his expressive speech. It's just hard though. I broke down and cried in his little tykes class last week because of how things were going.

((hugs)) I'm sorry.  It's good the experts aren't overly concerned, though!!  They'd be on top of things.

[eb777888]

Apr 2, 2013 14:59:55 GMT -5 Lucy Honeychurch said:

Apr 2, 2013 14:58:36 GMT -5 goaskalice said:

Lol. Thank you for this!

Do they pronounce it differently?  KHC came home from school and told me it was pronounced YOUR-ah-nuss.  I guess they're trying to mitigate the laughter over at John Smith Elementary.  lol.

Ohhhh.... smart. He totally said your-ay-nus. He's speech delayed but URANUS came out clear as day!

[ElizabethBennet]

Apr 2, 2013 14:44:28 GMT -5 ninjabridemom said:

The pedi agreed the boys should be evaluated for their speech, and now I have working mom guilt


Okay, so I still have it a little but literally just this second polka made me feel better, so okay. I don't think Marc will qualify but Gabe might (or it could be a "yeah we're concerned but he's not at the mark yet so check back in X months" thing).

my kid was evaluated for speech therapy at around 15 months I think. I'm a SAHM so you're not allowed to have working mom guilt. She started speech therapy at 18 months and only needed it for a bit before she caught up.

Now she never stops talking. They'll get there .

[lightbulbsun]

Apr 2, 2013 14:51:10 GMT -5 Marle said:

Apr 2, 2013 14:47:40 GMT -5 lightbulbsun said:

Kind of an add-on to my random from this morning, apparently my grandma got an e-mail, too, becuase she sent me a paragraph wondering who would do that, and how much it hurt her, and if it was my mom's gf.

OMG, crazy lady, her account got hacked! It happens all the time! It sucks that it happened to my mom's account, but nobody chose it specifically to make you upset.

She also clicked the link.

This is very wrong of me but I feel no sympathy for her.
She's just as crazy as usual huh?

yup, crazy as usual.  I would be more inclined to listen to her if she hadn't been obnoxious, judgy and guilt-trippy on Easter.

[jssymom14]

I just ate way over my allowed carb limit for snacks on the gd diet and am not really feeling guilty about it. So close to the end of pregnancy and I have been trying for the most part since 24 weeks to follow it carefully, but I am over it and want to be an emotional eater again!

[lightbulbsun]

Apr 2, 2013 14:51:10 GMT -5 Marle said:

dup

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i'm getting all salty and irritable at responses in all of these emotional posts (posts about emotions, i mean) that are like "your emotions are totally wrong and out of whack and i only feel emotion X in situation Y and since you described situation A, you really shouldn't be experiencing emotion X."

wtf? emotions are okay. people have different ones when faced with the exact same situation and stimuli.

sometimes, a little support without evaluation is good. especially when a person is saying "i feel X," not "I'VE KEYED 18 CARS TODAY AND AM GOING TO SET SOMETHING ON FIRE SHORTLY." slow your roll emotion police.

[MrsStark]

Apr 2, 2013 14:40:22 GMT -5 Lucy Honeychurch said:

Thisafternoon in the elevator I got my first eyebrow raise at maternity leave.  Another secretary asked how long I'd be out, and I told her, and she said, "You're taking the entire leave?" and I was like, What?  I didn't go to law school.  Nobody cares if I'm here or not.  It's not like someone else can't answer the goddamn phone.   This is the one time when the expendability of being a secretary can come in handy, and I'm taking full advantage.

I got pressure the other way.

"You're ONLY taking six weeks?"

Yes. Eff off. I'm coming back to work whenever the hell I want.

[nahoku]

The Lumineers are coming here next month and I want to see them but they are playing in the largest, suckiest venue in the TC (The Target Center). Blech.

I'm an iphone picture hoarder. I have over 1700 pictures on my phone right now. I finally saved them all to my computer last night so I can delete them and have room to take more (I ran out of storage a couple of times over the weekend).

[sewf]

I have been watching back seasons of America's Next Top Model and RuPaul's Drag Race on Amazon Instant, and I've already made it through both seasons of Storage Wars that were available. I need to go back to work so that I stop watching TV so much, but I still have three weeks of leave.

My boss told me I can do two weeks of part time at work to ease back into things. I so hope my mom can start baby-sitting a week earlier than planned so that I can do that. It sounds fantastic!

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[mandy0810]

Apr 2, 2013 15:12:23 GMT -5 nahoku said:

I'm an iphone picture hoarder. I have over 1700 pictures on my phone right now. I finally saved them all to my computer last night so I can delete them and have room to take more (I ran out of storage a couple of times over the weekend).

This sounds like me. I had 1500 pics on my phone and my H finally took my phone an uploaded them for me lol. 

My random is I cannot wait to see George Strait in concert this weekend!!!! He is the only "older generation" country singer I have never seen and I am beyond excited!! 

[mrsgoontz]

Apr 2, 2013 14:56:13 GMT -5 cville said:

OMG. i'm so dumb. my flight this week is at 7:30AM. you guyssssssss. i don't even get up until like 6:45 most days, and that's not even when i'm "up", it's when the alarm is going off. I HATE THE MORNING. i needed to be there for a 10am meeting, but i think a later flight might still have done it.

I'M SO DUMB.

WHY GOD, WHY?!?!? why am i so dumb!

I have a 7:15am flight on Thursday. The only plus side is that it's for vacation so I don't have to look presentable when I get off the plane. I will look like death walking through the airport with Starbucks. I feel you.

[verycontrary247]

nahoku I'm an ipone picture hoarder too. I was running out of memory so I took off a bunch of music I haven't listened to in forever instead lol.

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I'm watching land before time 2 on Netflix. I haven't watched this since I was little and I was bummed that they didn't have the first one on streaming.

[textbookcase]

Apr 2, 2013 15:22:31 GMT -5 jillianashley6 said:

Ya'll are making me super anxious again about my 17mo. She doesn't say mama or dada at all, really. She'll babble the syllables, but not at us. She signs a lot, and we have "uh oh" and "Bree" (our dogs name) and occasionally "bye", but thats about it. Some of the babies in my BMB are speaking in sentences. Ugh.

Try not to worry about it..babies all develop differently. Keira really didn't start saying much until she was 2, and she wasn't speaking more complex sentences until she was closer to 3. She's 6 now and has a few articulation issues, but she's smart as hell and has a very robust vocabulary.

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Apr 2, 2013 15:22:31 GMT -5 jillianashley6 said:

Ya'll are making me super anxious again about my 17mo. She doesn't say mama or dada at all, really. She'll babble the syllables, but not at us. She signs a lot, and we have "uh oh" and "Bree" (our dogs name) and occasionally "bye", but thats about it. Some of the babies in my BMB are speaking in sentences. Ugh.

Sofia didn't say anything until around 18 months, then she would only say certain words around us, but not other family members. Now she never shuts up for anything.