@Week of 11/5

[luv2rn4fun]

How are all the kiddos doing, especially with daylight savings? Mamas, pregnant mamas, etc?

[luv2rn4fun]

C is sick again. He had done really well Monday night (and has had this cold since Sat) so we had our friends boys over yesterday so their parents could work. Everyone did great but it was too much for C. I doubt he is going to preschool today because he coughed quite a bit last night. I also heard L coughing so here we go with breathing treatments again. My throat is sore but so far I am holding up ok.

L has been really difficult with sleep. He keeps waking up and screaming for water. Usually around 5 so it’s the perfect time where if I wake up I am not getting any more sleep for the day.

[estrellita]

It snowed overnight and E was SUPER excited this morning, lol. I grabbed his winter stuff but I'm pretty sure it's all too small for him. Oops. I need to get him another set! Winter always sneaks up on me for some reason..

A stood up on her own in the middle of the floor this weekend. She promptly fell on her butt, but it was still surprising! She's also saying uh oh and hi like crazy. She's getting so big so fast!

[suzv]

I've been so so tired the last few weeks. J has been waking SO early lately and that coupled with some pregnancy insomnia has me exhausted. I'd love to take a mental health day from work, but I'm trying to save my sick days for my maternity leave.

[estrellita]

*hugs* suzv Parenting a toddler while pregnant is horribly exhausting!

[estrellita]

I'm still a little worried about what they've been feeding A. I asked one of the teachers last night about alternative milk for her since she won't be able to have cow's milk like the other kids. "Umm, we have skim milk.." THAT'S STILL MILK. Really? I had to explain several times that no, she can't have ANY milk, I don't care what the fat content is. The director was heading out while we were getting the kids in the car and she said they already get soy milk for a couple other kids so we could do that. So at least she gets it. I still also don't believe they aren't serving her stuff with garlic sometimes but.. I don't know. I wish there was a better way to know for sure without asking them over and over. Of course, I shouldn't have to. Blah. Stupid allergies. She hasn't had any reactions and they have both Benadryl and a low dose Epipen if needed so I try not to get too worried but still.

[HoneySpider]

DH had his vasectomy consult this morning and scheduled the procedure for Dec.

I know that we are done and this is logical but there is still an itty bitty part of me that is somewhat irrationally sad.

(And as soon as both of them are crying/screaming at the same time and driving me crazy I won't be sad anymore lol)

[HoneySpider]

We pretty much never call T by his name, usually TJ or his nickname, Goose. I ordered his stocking last night and put his actual name on it and it felt so weird. I was like, did I spell this right? (I was so tired)

[bk1]

C had never been a milk drinker. She would take a sip and want nothing else to do with it. Suddenly this week she keeps asking for milk. It's so weird.

[krystee]

I have started ordering first birthday supplies. How did this happen?!

HoneySpider I am in the same boat. DH needs to get a vasectomy, but I haven't reminded him in awhile because the thought of the door being permanently closed is kind of sad. But I know we are done, so I don't know why this is difficult!

Daylight Savinngs Time has never really affected my kids negatively, thank goodness. J is now going to bed at 8:15 instead of 8:45 and it is great! I don't feel so rushed squeezing in work and a little downtime for myself at night.

[grover]

UGH. Halfway done!! with this pregnancy, and still no closer to deciding on names. With A we had her name around 9 weeks and it was even before we knew it was a girl. Couldn't agree and/or Brad refused to talk boys names til the test came back, and then it was just dropped. So this time I gave him a list of the old names I liked with A and new names, and he crossed half out as "lame" or "too trendy" and of course, has no suggestions and doesn't love any of the names on the list. GRR.

[estrellita]

grover We didn't have either name picked until after they were born.. technically, lol. They were both names I've always liked. He actually vetoed E's name originally but in the last week or so it started to grow on him. It wasn't even on our "final" list! A's name was always on our narrowed down list and we were between a few others at the hospital until we settled on it. So don't worry if you don't have it narrowed down yet!

That said, what kind of names do you like? Need suggestions? Our list with E was Nolan (was our top pick, I can't picture it now!), Logan and Blake (his middle name). If we had a second boy I would have added Adrian to the list

[grover]

estrellita, I know we still have time, but I bonded with A sooner being able to refer to her by name while pregnant. At some point, when I have some extra time, I'll post the lists he crossed off and the lists he hasn't crossed off on FB.

[estrellita]

grover Ah gotcha, that makes sense Hopefully you can find names you both love soon!

[luv2rn4fun]

((Hugs)) HoneySpider! I would definitely have feelings about that (I am 99.9% we are done mainly because DH has been so adamantly done since before L was even born). I have mostly accepted this but also deep down know I will likely be open to a 3rd for a few more years. DH is free to get a vasectomy anytime he wants though, not going to stop him since he feels so strongly about it.

bk1- C is like that and still goes through phases. I think L would either drink milk or nurse for all of his food if I would let him (he’s going to be horrible to wean 😢).

grover- your pregnancy has gone by fast! Good luck deciding on names!! We had our boy and girl name picked before even being pregnant with C. It took a lot longer with L and there was a lot of back and forth before we committed to his name (mainly after we found out his name was a finalist on our friends list after their son was born...once they went with a different name we pretty much decided we were going with L. I think all of that made us realize how much we wanted that to be his name...we would have gone with a different name had they decided to use his name for their son).

[pooh8402]

grover, we're over halfway done by now (22 weeks today!), have known we were having a boy for the last 11 weeks, and we still don't have a name. We have a short list and one is a frontrunner, at least in my mind, but nothing is decided yet.

HoneySpider and luv2rn4fun, my H was so done with 2 before we even got pregnant with this one! He actually would have been fine with just one. I'm totally open for a 3rd and a 4th later on but not him. I doubt he'll go through the process of a vasectomy again since it has already been determined that it is impossible for us to get pregnant on our own. I'm not planning on BC either.

[estrellita]

Speaking of being done with kids.. my dad's cousin just announced she's pregnant. I can't remember her age but I think mid 40s. Their 2 kids are in high school, the youngest is a freshman. Definitely not planned according to her post, lol. I couldn't imagine starting over like that!

[pooh8402]

Nov 8, 2018 13:50:38 GMT -5 estrellita said:

Speaking of being done with kids.. my dad's cousin just announced she's pregnant. I can't remember her age but I think mid 40s. Their 2 kids are in high school, the youngest is a freshman. Definitely not planned according to her post, lol. I couldn't imagine starting over like that!

a friend of mine, her 2 kids are 20 years apart. the first was not planned (she got pregnant sophomore year of college) the second was, with her second husband (they were NTNP for years). she's 10 years older than me and our kids are like 7 months apart in age.

[estrellita]

Nov 8, 2018 13:54:26 GMT -5 pooh8402 said:

Nov 8, 2018 13:50:38 GMT -5 estrellita said:

Speaking of being done with kids.. my dad's cousin just announced she's pregnant. I can't remember her age but I think mid 40s. Their 2 kids are in high school, the youngest is a freshman. Definitely not planned according to her post, lol. I couldn't imagine starting over like that!

a friend of mine, her 2 kids are 20 years apart. the first was not planned (she got pregnant sophomore year of college) the second was, with her second husband (they were NTNP for years). she's 10 years older than me and our kids are like 7 months apart in age.

My sister and I have a big gap but definitely not that big (8.5 years)! I could see this happening though with old classmates.. a couple already have high schoolers and their kids are almost the same age now as their parents were when they were born! So if they were to have more kids, they'd be far apart. But yeah.. no matter the situation it's gotta be hard to raise kids to almost adulthood and then go back to having a little baby and doing it all over again! Exciting, but definitely difficult!

[luv2rn4fun]

Nov 8, 2018 16:34:27 GMT -5 estrellita said:

Nov 8, 2018 13:54:26 GMT -5 pooh8402 said:

a friend of mine, her 2 kids are 20 years apart. the first was not planned (she got pregnant sophomore year of college) the second was, with her second husband (they were NTNP for years). she's 10 years older than me and our kids are like 7 months apart in age.

My sister and I have a big gap but definitely not that big (8.5 years)! I could see this happening though with old classmates.. a couple already have high schoolers and their kids are almost the same age now as their parents were when they were born! So if they were to have more kids, they'd be far apart. But yeah.. no matter the situation it's gotta be hard to raise kids to almost adulthood and then go back to having a little baby and doing it all over again! Exciting, but definitely difficult!

My neighbor has 5 kids...a junior in college, senior in high school, freshman in high school, 7 year old, and 4 year old. She can’t wait for everyone to be grown and out of the house LOL. I can’t imagine raising kids for so long (the oldest 3 are from her first marriage and two youngest from current marriage).

[luv2rn4fun]

Boys are both coughing, snotty messes. L was coughing a lot last night so that was rough on everyone.

We went to my dads to walk their dog and grocery shop for my grandma. Took the boys and dog for an hour walk with some gorgeous ocean views! Got to see Grandma too, which was a nice treat (even though she refused to let me take her to lunch). We stopped at In N Out on the way home!

I listed a bunch of stuff on FB Marketplace yesterday (and more today)! Sold a few things and hoping to sell a bunch more! Using the money towards our zoo passes since i overspent on DH’s bday (worth it but more than I had planned and I would like to get our passes again).

[Blue Moon]

estrellita at one point my parents had me in college, brother 1 in high school, brother 2 in middle school, brother 3 in elementary school, and brother 4 was 1 year old at home. They planned big age gaps on purpose, except the baby was a whoops. That 1 year old is now a senior in high school and my parents have been full on parenting for 34 years. I can’t imagine.

[HoneySpider]

krystee luv2rn4fun pooh8402 DH is 1000% done and I realistically don't want another, it's just hard to say 100% so I'm at like, 99.99% But when DH had his appt the doctor asked him who made the appt me or him and she was surprised when he said he did since she said it's usually the wives who do it. Nope, I did not have to ask him twice on this, he is ready.

[suzv]

There's a 14 year age gap between my oldest sister and my younger sister. My oldest sister was an oops when my parents were 17. They got married at 17 and had her right when they turned 18 and were seniors in high school. I'm pretty sure my other older sister was an oops too, they had her at 23, when both were still in college. They had me at 30 and my younger sister at 32. It's almost like they had 2 sets of 2 kids. Even though I have 3 siblings, it never really felt that big to me since my oldest sister moved away to college when I was 6 and never really moved back home after that.

[estrellita]

Any ideas in getting E to move faster when getting ready? He's so slow in the morning and at night. A snail could run marathons faster. We've tried timers to earn stories/movies, "racing" him, bribing, encouragement when he goes faster, etc. Nothing seems to work. If I don't nag him, he'll just stand in the bathroom staring at nothing or getting distracted. If I do nag him, he does the same thing plus whining. He's also pretty helpless sometimes, constantly asking for help with things we know he can do just fine on his own (and we want him to do things on his own so he can be more independent and confident). Help?

[Blue Moon]

I was sooo looking forward to having a few days to myself. I am off work yesterday and today and planned to send the kids to daycare and tackle my to-do list. So of course my 18 month old got a fever yesterday. I have gotten zero done and have a toddler glued to me. This seriously happens every single time I have off with daycare open, for going on 4 years now. It’s almost comical. Also, this is the third round of fever he has had in the past 6 weeks so I’m a little worried about how often he’s been getting sick. We have a well visit Friday so I plan to discuss it then, unless we need to go sooner.

[estrellita]

Ugh, I'm sorry Blue Moon! I hope he feels better soon