Post by bananapancakes on Jul 24, 2014 7:38:34 GMT -5
For the first time ever, L slept for 6 hours in a row last night! Considering he was up every 2 hours the night before, this is a huge win! He slept 8:15-2:15, was up for about 1/2 hour, slept again 2:45-4:30, then I brought him in bed with me and he slept/nursed off and on til 6:30. He went down for a nap at 8:15 and is currently sleeping while I drink my tea and eat a brownie for breakfast. It's a good day!
Yay for sleep, bananapancakes! Also, brownies for breakfast are the best. I just had a chocolate filled croissant. I should probably start cutting down on calories since I'm only nursing morning and night now...
C was a screamy, crying mess when I left for work this morning. I'm sure he calmed down for H shortly after I drove away, but it sort of makes me feel good that he actually still likes me, because yesterday he was ALL about Daddy. lol
Daycare mentioned that for the last few days, when a particular Mom comes to pick up, DS rushes over to her, tries to climb into the carseat or climb up her legs to go home with her.
They said she looks nothing like me.
Tonight there is a cookout at daycare and I'm dying to see who this person is... I really hope she looks like someone we know (maybe my BFF? SIL?) otherwise I'm a little weirded out my kid wants to be adopted by another family, lol
Also, today is my Friday. I took tomorrow off because DH was supposed to be off too, so we'd get some family time, then I also have DS' 9 month appointment. Now DH has to work. I'm considering sending DS to daycare until his appointment (he doesn't usually go on Fridays, but it's cheaper to pay for the full week vs. 4 days). But I feel guilty.
I know, I know. When anyone else posts this, I'm always 'Woooo! Send the kid to daycare! Have some time for you!!' But now I'm feeling like an asshole because we were going to have a fun family day and now I'm all... off to school kid, mama wants to scrub the bathroom in peace.
DD is very busy eating the tags on her piano mat. I'm taking her to BRU to buy her those Taggies things today. And I should probably feed her some breakfast now.
J tried solid food last night! So adorable! In hindishgt, mashed avocado was probably a little too adventurous. He did this adorable shudder after tasting it (as if he were taking bad medicine). He also drank some water from a straw cup. He was moving his tongue around a lot this morning, probably b/c of the new food experience.
ETA: I didn't get a great pic w/food (got a good video) - but you can see some avo' on his face
I'm packing us up to make the hour trek to DH's office to sign some paperwork. We're borrowing a little from our 401(k) as an emergency fund while we drain our savings to buy the house. Hopefully we won't have to touch the 401(k) money and can put it all back after we close. I know MM would not approve, but it's what we've gotta do.
I am pumping at the table and J is sitting at the table having a snack. He pointed to the bottle and proclaimed "there is milk in there!" Then said "my milk, my milk" I said no your milk is in your cup. So he said "yeah, that milk is mommy's"
H was convinced he was having a heart attack last night because he had some on and off pain in his chest that was not really where his heart is. NO OTHER symptoms, no history of heart disease, just had a check up with clean bill of health. My diagnosis- you have been lifting our 90lb dog in and out of car daily, do you think maybe you could have pulled something?
I am pretty sure while he was lying on the bed pouting he was also thinking was a terrible uncaring wife I was. Dude, laundry isn't going to fold itself and you are a hypochondriac - I know the drill.
I'm jealous of my 2 year olds hair. Despite her fighting me, in less than 20 seconds her hair is in a perfect fancy ponytail that I've never been able to recreate on my own hair despite lots of effort.
I just read a thread on ML about working out. OMG I AM SO LAZY. But my current status quo of eating/drinking everything my heart desires and lounging around like Jabba the Hutt is not sustainable so something needs to give. lol
I will be Jabba with you. We can make Kevin Arnold wear the Leia bikini and serve us mimosas and pastries. LOL
J tried solid food last night! So adorable! In hindishgt, mashed avocado was probably a little too adventurous. He did this adorable shudder after tasting it (as if he were taking bad medicine). He also drank some water from a straw cup. He was moving his tongue around a lot this morning, probably b/c of the new food experience.
I don't know if that face means bad things. DS does that even now, and then yells "I like it!" So who knows ha ha
Post by everafter07 on Jul 24, 2014 8:58:00 GMT -5
Today is the 10 day mark for the MMR vaccine. She's felt a touch clammy and she slept in by an hour. She's rash free and normal/pleasant otherwise. Here's hoping it stays that way.
I'm packing us up to make the hour trek to DH's office to sign some paperwork. We're borrowing a little from our 401(k) as an emergency fund while we drain our savings to buy the house. Hopefully we won't have to touch the 401(k) money and can put it all back after we close. I know MM would not approve, but it's what we've gotta do.
We drained our savings completely to buy current our house, hoping our old house would sell quickly so we could put the equity back in savings. I was 20ish weeks pregnant and we had two mortgages (thankfully only had to pay two for one month). No judgement here on making sure you've got a little cushion!
H took DD to daycare today so I didn't have to. Which is super nice except that I like to get Dunkins instead of k-cup coffee on Mondays and Thursdays so now I'm pouting about my crappy coffee.
I saw 2 college friends last night and it was AWESOME to catch up. We had such a great night having long conversations over dinner.
My one friend is struggling with infertility, though--I think she's been trying for her first since DH and I started trying for L, so what? 3 years at this point? But the doctors won't do any interventions until she gets her BMI below a certain level. Is this a common thing??? I mean, is this just standard operating procedure for all IF treatments?
I was so mad for her. She's like 8 pounds away from that BMI. She's going to be 39 in a couple of months. Will that extra 8 pounds really make or break these interventions? As someone with a far-from-perfect BMI, it just felt like the worst kind of fat shaming--you're too fat to deserve a child, or something. Rage.
I asked her if she was on any message boards, and she said no. I'm thinking of directing her to TTTC here. But I always get a teeny bit nervous when real life people enter GBCN world. jessnpaul excepted
J has his 6 month appt today. I thinking about lying if she asks what time he sleeps because it's usually 10-10. But it is also 12 hours so I don't know if it really matters? I don't need to tell her I've given him tiny bites of ice cream, do I?(MOTY)
I'm not liking all the camo in the little kid fall lens this year. Blech!
C slept until 10am today. She slept until her usual nap time. Is this what transitioning to one nap looks like? Or residual sleepiness from Tuesday's shot? Or just exhausted from last night's concert? I have no idea.
I started reading (well, technically listening to the audiobook) "Overwhelmed: Work, love, and play when no one has the time" and I am not loving it. I just disagree with some of what she's saying - both her definition of leisure and societal pressure to be "busy." Hopefully it gets better.
Also, the narrator on the audiobook is awful. I'm glad I used this for my free trial of Audible, because I do not ever intend to listen to this book again and I would have been sad to pay for it.
Also on a vain note I feel sort of bad when people complain about being my size and I feel fine with it.
Sometimes I feel like I have reverse body dysmorphic whatever. I'll look in the mirror and fawn over myself all "Looking good, this!"
Then I see pictures and I'm like, "Nope nope. That is definitely not the slamming hot woman I saw in the mirror this morning..." lol
This happens to me too. In my brain, I am about a size 8. I saw a picture on Facebook a few months ago and thought WHO IS THAT CHUBBY LADY WITH MY HUSBAND AND DAUGHT...oh, shit.
I am full of randoms today. I got a job offer yesterday and I am so, SO excited!!! I've been wanting to get back to work for months and I really wanted this job. I am also totally floored because I thought I botched the interview. I actually cried on my way home from the interview and told DH immediately that I absolutely wasn't getting the job. Now I'm freaking out about finding a daycare for V. And I'm going to do my best to utilize the search function and not ask 85 million daycare questions here but I am sure I will be asking a few things anyway.
V went from being a terrible napper, to being a perfect napper back to being a horrible one in the span of about a month, and it's driving me crazy. She was taking a 2-2.5 hour morning nap and then about an hour in the afternoon. In the past 5 days, she started doing an hour at each nap time, which was fine. The next day, 40 minutes for each nap. Then an hour in the morning and NO afternoon nap. And the past two days? 20 minutes in the morning and then nothing for the rest of the day . The good news is she's at least in a semi decent mood in spite of the lack of sleep.
I am full of randoms today. I got a job offer yesterday and I am so, SO excited!!! I've been wanting to get back to work for months and I really wanted this job. I am also totally floored because I thought I botched the interview. I actually cried on my way home from the interview and told DH immediately that I absolutely wasn't getting the job. Now I'm freaking out about finding a daycare for V. And I'm going to do my best to utilize the search function and not ask 85 million daycare questions here but I am sure I will be asking a few things anyway.
V went from being a terrible napper, to being a perfect napper back to being a horrible one in the span of about a month, and it's driving me crazy. She was taking a 2-2.5 hour morning nap and then about an hour in the afternoon. In the past 5 days, she started doing an hour at each nap time, which was fine. The next day, 40 minutes for each nap. Then an hour in the morning and NO afternoon nap. And the past two days? 20 minutes in the morning and then nothing for the rest of the day . The good news is she's at least in a semi decent mood in spite of the lack of sleep.
congrats on the job!
The good news on the naps front is that soon it won't be your problem anymore :-)
Daycare is the best!
Thanks! I said the exact same thing to DH this morning about naps not being my problem anymore, lol.