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[lauren9317]

How's your week going so far? What's going on with your family?

I'm waiting for my dentist appt right now. After my appt, I'm probably going to the citrus park mall to see if I can get more jeans. (My dentist is way far from my house, it's in citrus park :/ )

My parents are coming tomorrow through Friday to see us and the babies. They were in Israel for the first part of this month so they'll tell us all about that. I generally like for them to visit but I don't like how my mom takes over the house and brings a million things she thinks I need. Then again, she has been bringing us lots of salmon, meat and chicken from Fresh Market lately so I can't complain about that. Haven't had to buy meat for a long time!

So now when I leave the house by myself and leave the babies with Jason for a few hours, I never completely enjoy my time away. I'm always anticipating what I'll have to do when I get home. And my babies aren't even that difficult (yet?) so there's not even THAT much to do. I guess I will always feel like this? Lol.

[amellis2]

We are well. I started a 30 day challenge with some other vegan moms and dads to try to get more fit and keep each accountable.

Kids are good. Abby is allergic to something. She coughs HARD when she wakes up and falls asleep. That is the only time she coughs. Quiet all day, quiet all night. No runny/stuffy nose. Nothing. Has to be allergies. We reserved a community center for their birthday. Their will be about 6-8 little kids there (or at least invited) and I have a large extended family. We are going with Mickey Mouse Clubhouse theme. My mom bought everything except for the food.

Luis hates his boss. I hate her too. He already works 55 hours a week, add in commute and it is close to 65 hours and now she had 2 meetings last weekend. One the weekend before that. And now another possibly this weekend. You know what one of the meetings was about this last weekend? SHE HEARD RUMORS ABOUT HERSELF! Really? REALLY??? You have to take him away from us for an additional 4 hours because people are talking about what a crap manager you are? And it's not like he gets paid for it either. Luis breaks draw every single period, so he gets his commission, not his hourly pay. RIDIC. We are so ready to come back to Tampa. They girls will be ready for VPK. Luis' old boss in the Tampa district is BEGGING for him to come back and offering him a promotion in the process. I'm going to enroll in my masters at USF (I can't imagine that Library Science is a competitive M.S. program, so I doubt I will have any trouble being accepted.)

[babybchbum]

Mar 25, 2014 12:42:12 GMT -5 amellis2 said:

We are well. I started a 30 day challenge with some other vegan moms and dads to try to get more fit and keep each accountable.

Kids are good. Abby is allergic to something. She coughs HARD when she wakes up and falls asleep. That is the only time she coughs. Quiet all day, quiet all night. No runny/stuffy nose. Nothing. Has to be allergies. We reserved a community center for their birthday. Their will be about 6-8 little kids there (or at least invited) and I have a large extended family. We are going with Mickey Mouse Clubhouse theme. My mom bought everything except for the food.

Luis hates his boss. I hate her too. He already works 55 hours a week, add in commute and it is close to 65 hours and now she had 2 meetings last weekend. One the weekend before that. And now another possibly this weekend. You know what one of the meetings was about this last weekend? SHE HEARD RUMORS ABOUT HERSELF! Really? REALLY??? You have to take him away from us for an additional 4 hours because people are talking about what a crap manager you are? And it's not like he gets paid for it either. Luis breaks draw every single period, so he gets his commission, not his hourly pay. RIDIC. We are so ready to come back to Tampa. They girls will be ready for VPK. Luis' old boss in the Tampa district is BEGGING for him to come back and offering him a promotion in the process. I'm going to enroll in my masters at USF (I can't imagine that Library Science is a competitive M.S. program, so I doubt I will have any trouble being accepted.)

Come back like now! Glad to know he is wanted over here (not that you don't want him ;-) )

[babybchbum]

Owen is taking 2 and 3 steps as he sees for. He is clearly capable of taking more just chooses not to.

Triston is busting out new words. He will randomly say "right,nine, ten, and knows it follows 5 6 7 when I say them.

My heart explodes hearing him talk

[lauren9317]

Lauren, that's so cute
Marissa- what is Luis's job?

[aegis2005]

I've been back at work for about three weeks and Shane is starting to do ok at daycare. We're still figuring out routines and such, but we're getting there. He walks around with his little walker all the time, and figured out how to climb upstairs last week. He's always getting into something and keeping me on my toes.

[lauren9317]

Heather, what is your new job?

[amellis2]

Mar 25, 2014 19:42:58 GMT -5 lauren9317 said:

Lauren, that's so cute
Marissa- what is Luis's job?

He is currently and assistant store manager for Mattress Firm. 

[sara76]

H has been gone for 8 days today. It's really hard doing this without him. I need so much help and don't know how to ask for it. I'm independent to a fault, but somehow I've always been comfortable asking H for help, long before we ever even dated. Being away from him is making it easier to leave, for sure, I'm counting down the days until we get on the plane.

Kids are good. Amelia is so smart. She recognizes almost every letter in the alphabet. Ben is so happy. I started him on oatmeal and he looooves it. He seriously likes to eat. I'm excited to try carrots or sweet potato with him next.

Yesterday the painters came to do a final coat and collect their money so I walked around and found out they did a shitty bullshit job. I am NOT picky, demanding or even particular, but there were bubbles an inch off the wall. There was flaking and cracking all over. He should have been embarrassed but just made up fast talking excuses that contradicted himself. Ugh. They're fixing it today.

[alzi]

We are sick yet again. I'm getting sick of this revolving cold.

Alex is great. Starting to walk with her walker. Has 8 teeth that I can see. Just a fun kid:)

[kimandross]

Things here are ok. Hudson's naps have been good, he started scooting backwards this morning, and he loves food. He goes to bed easily, but is still up 2-4 times a night, which is getting exhausting. I live in a constant state of extreme tiredness. We need to work on that, but he's still so small, so I worry about not feeding him at night. I'm also kind of bummed because the annual girl's beach weekend I go on is this weekend and I can't go for any of it. A good friend I haven't seen since she moved to TX is coming in for it and I can't see her at all. But he's such a boob monster and will not take a bottle, so I'm kind of stuck. I'm hoping he takes to milk when he turns 1. I don't plan on weaning him completely, but it would be nice to get away for a while.

[sara76]

Kim I feel you on the boob monster.
Sorry you're missing your friend.
I'm going to NC Sunday for our house hunt and I was going to leave both kids with MIL but ultimately decided that's no good. My boy hadn't taken a single ounce from a bottle yet and eats at the very least every 3 hours. He's got to come with me. I'm sad because I was looking forward to some sleep and maybe even a little lovin, but that's just weird while in the same room as the energizer baby. Maybe the company will get us a suite.
But anyway, myself, Ben, and the dog. That's going to be a super fun flight.

[mrsmew]

Oh, Sara! I'm sorry you're having a rough time (I feel you on the not knowing how to ask for help thing), and I literally cringed at the thought of flying by myself with a baby and my dog. You are awesome and you have all my well wishes!

We're doing pretty well. Ellie is turning 2 on Saturday, which is blowing my mind a little bit, but she's the coolest kid. She's so smart and goofy and sweet and she talks my ear off. Her new "thing" is pretending to be various characters/things - everything from Disney princesses to Sesame Street characters to miscellaneous animals (like a rhino) to inanimate objects (she was a lawn mower for like 3 hours yesterday). She doesn't really do much to act out these things, she just refers to herself as the person/object in question all day. Sometimes she doubles up and she'll pretend to be, for example, Goofy pretending to be a cat, so now we're doing some Inception-type pretending. It's pretend within pretend! It can be hard to keep up but she cracks me up.

I'm 26 weeks pregnant now and I'm scared the rest is going to go so fast. I'm not at ALL ready.

Also, we just got back from spring break down in St. Pete, which was nice. We had Ellie's birthday party (Sesame Street theme!) which was awesome, and then we ditched her with my mom for a weekend and had a little babymoon at Innisbrook/the beach. Heavenly.

[kimandross]

The ironic part is, my friend who is coming is a lactation consultant, so I can totally blame her for convincing me to BF. J/K, but it is funny I can't see her because of BFing.

[lauren9317]

Love all the updates. Kim and Sara, that sucks that you're not able to get away that is frustrating. Sort of along those lines, it was occurring to me that I guess I'll never get to sleep in ever again until the kids are... I don't even know what age. Maybe MH will actually get up early with them on my birthday or something. Wouldn't that be nice.

[alzi]

Mar 28, 2014 7:20:30 GMT -5 lauren9317 said:

Love all the updates. Kim and Sara, that sucks that you're not able to get away that is frustrating. Sort of along those lines, it was occurring to me that I guess I'll never get to sleep in ever again until the kids are... I don't even know what age. Maybe MH will actually get up early with them on my birthday or something. Wouldn't that be nice.

Last Saturday Alex randomly slept till 9. Maybe you'll get lucky!! Eventually!

[etteyam]

Mar 28, 2014 7:20:30 GMT -5 lauren9317 said:

Love all the updates. Kim and Sara, that sucks that you're not able to get away that is frustrating. Sort of along those lines, it was occurring to me that I guess I'll never get to sleep in ever again until the kids are... I don't even know what age. Maybe MH will actually get up early with them on my birthday or something. Wouldn't that be nice.

I have not slept in since having kids I'd be lucky if I can get to sleep til 6am, even on weekends. My girls are early risers (5:30ish) and ever since I went back to work after having DS, I've been getting up at 4:30/4:45 am. It gives me enough time to shower, nurse him then get breakfast ready for my DDs and be at work by 6.

[lauren9317]

Oh man. Well, there's always the teenage years where the kids will want to sleep in all day. Ha. Just 14ish more years!