Wednesday happenings

[healz413]

What's on your mind today?

[healz413]

This weekend is Pride in Toronto. Friday is our holiday in Canada so we have a long weekend that's the reverse of the US long weekend.
I'm really looking forward to pride . Saturday is the Dyke March and Sunday is the pride parade. The dyke March is awesome and community driven. I love it and usually try to go to that and skip the parade. On Sunday a friend is having a midday (pre-parade) party, so we will go to that. And Friday afternoon our friends are having a pride family picnic in one of the parks where pride stuff happens.

[southernpeach89]

healz413, Have fun! It sounds like it's going to be a great weekend!

I'm so tired this morning. Callie had a good day yesterday but it was busy so by the end of the day she was overly tired and screamed the whole way home from the BBQ we went to last night. I felt really bad and probably should have made her day a little less busy after her doctor's appt. She was her usual self this morning though which is good.

Ugh work is so crazy right now with quarter end. I want to virtually punch people who send me stupid emails. 4 more months until I leave this place. That's what I keep telling myself.

[britbratjf]

We leave for FL tomorrow afternoon! My Mom & stepdad are in the process of moving down there so we are flying down to stay at their place. I'm looking forward to it but it should be interesting spending 4 whole days with them...

[emejay]

healz413 Seems like an awesome weekend ahead Pride in MTL is in August (it's actually a week long festival) and the outdoor events are always fun!

Arthur is teething like crazy (4 teeth breaking at the same time) so it's ... interesting.

[sandj918]

Have fun healz413!

I hope you have an easy flight britbratjf!

We have a second AC company coming out to give us another quote for a new AC and installation and I have the lab technician coming out to re draw my blood after yesterday's fiasco (in Tuesday's random). H has his friends coming over tonight for a cigar get together on our patio after the baby goes down and I'm excited to snuggle down with myself, some Cherry Garcia and a good Netflix.

ETA: Fixed the tag for healz. I've stopped noticing the #s at the end of names.

[obie1680]

I'm feeling so tired. I'm hoping to work out a schedule with H next week where we alternate getting up with the kids on his vacation. I'm sure he will be fine with it. It's so dead at his work this week, he wishes he could just stay home this week too. His whole shop closes next week & they just had one guy quit. This guy was supposed to leave for an early vacation today so they booked the shop light this week since they would be a man down. H is hoping no work on Friday because of this.

We are also trying to plan some day trips ahead of time. We want to take the kids to Edaville railroad so DS can go to Thomas the Train Land. Also we want to try to go to the Mystic Seaport Aquarium, I haven't been in years & I like this aquarium so much better than the New England Aquarium in Boston. It's a longer ride for us to Connecticut but I think the kids will enjoy it!

Another grey day here today. Maybe taking DS for a haircut.

[cowplanet]

healz413, have fun! I was about to ask how that works with Pride and the 4th ... and then realized Canada. I can't believe the whole world doesn't celebrate!

H is being on super good behavior. Last night I could have taken it so far as to make him iron my clothes (he loathes ironing and used to pay me to iron his clothes, but it wasn't worth it because he's so picky). This morning he made me breakfast! I know it's not going to last, but apparently he took my proposal that we get marriage counseling as a divorce threat. Not the same thing, but at least he realizes the seriousness of things? He even was gung-ho about canceling a happy hour with a former boss (trying to rekindle that friendship), but I firmly told him he should keep the meetup.

And A slept through the night again! And I have to use this GIF, because apparently my daughter dances like POTUS:

[nomnom]

Miss G was up 3:30-4:30. Then we had an hour-long nap before Master R woke us up for the day. I'm really sleepy and slightly nauseated. I'm also planning a midday trip to a nearby grocery store to stock up on work snacks and food. Chicken fingers and honey FTW!

[London]

Avery has a cold. Apparently she gets man colds. Still, I feel for her, she is so gooey and sad

[txshep]

On Friday my office closes at 2. Dani needs to be picked up by 1. My office and her school are 10 minutes from each other. Everyone is always on my case about how I never bring her to visit. So, I assumed this would be perfect, and I could pick her up and bring her back to the office for the last hour of our short day... because nothing gets done that last hour anyway. My one coworker was like "That would be a major distraction for me." Oh okay. So now I'm just leaving early to pick her up, and then going home. I'm 100% fine with that, but loosen the fuck up. We all know that no work is going to be done that last hour on a short day before a holiday weekend.

[swbrigadoon]

Sounds fun healz413!
Safe travels britbratjf!

sandj918 Relaxing with some Cherry Garcia and Netflix sounds amazing.

obie1680 DS loved edaville! Have a great time!

cowplanet glad you're getting the royal treatment, you deserve it! I hope things continue to be better from here on out.

I have been so MIA lately, it's so busy around here. Between starting work at 6am because the of time zone difference and keeping up with the two kids and three dogs while living out of suitcases at my parent's house, I'm exhausted. House hunting is stressful, prices are crazy and inventory is super low.

Fun news R started crawling yesterday!

[cowplanet]

txshep, is this your coworker?

[estakis]

I think C technically STTN! We are doing 3 dreamfeeds. At the last dreamfeed she opened her eyes and fussed at me a little when I transferred her to her crib. But, I count this as a win!! Next step - reducing dreamfeeds! Woohoo!!!!!

[andtheheartbreakers]

MH decided that the job in Nunavut wasn't worth the wage, so he turned down that offer. The evening position doesn't actually start for 8 weeks, so that doesn't help us now. He hasn't heard back from anyone else, so we're still in limbo waiting to see if I'm going back to work, or if he'll have a job. This sucks.

Discovered two more top teeth, so Layla now has 6. I can't believe she used to be a sweet cuddly sleepy baby.

[canadiansciencegeek]

DD2 slept in DD1's room for the first time last night. I had all the feels. It was really nice to have our bedroom back, and surprisingly not that annoying to get up and out of bed for her 2 dream feeds, but I missed having my baby so close. DH and I laughed when he tried to turn on the lamp on his night stand so he could read and discovered that it's not plugged in. Because we haven't been able to use it for 9 months anyway!

Bedtime last night was a gong show. We lowered the crib mattress because DD2 can sit up on her own. She crawled around her crib/sat/pulled up on the crib bars crying for 15 minutes. All I could do was laugh while DH did bedtime - it was so sterotypical. Thankfully she didn't do it MOTN when it wouldn't have been so funny.

[London]

I am sad not to be in Ottawa today, the Mexican president and Obama are in town. There's so much pomp. I love pomp.

[txshep]

Coworker changed her mind. Baby will be joining me at work for an hour on Friday. I hope she's not too disruptive sitting in my lap eating snacks.

[lilylove31]

We had Owen's follow up with the infectious disease doctor today, and we got the all clear! (but were told to continue to wear gloves for diaper changes for a couple weeks to be safe) He gained back 2lbs since last week and is back to his normal smiley ornery self. His appetite is also back to being a bottomless pit.

[ladymary11]

Jun 29, 2016 11:22:52 GMT -5 London said:

I am sad not to be in Ottawa today, the Mexican president and Obama are in town. There's so much pomp. I love pomp.

Did you see that picture of them jogging accross the Alexandra bridge in super short shorts? Amazingness

[ugotstarbucked]

Remember how the seller refused to make repairs and we terminated the contract?

Last night our agent forwards us an email from her saying she made all the repairs we asked for.

Bitch, it's too late now! Contract has been terminated. That means we are not buying your house.

I'm so sick of being jerked around.

[ugotstarbucked]

Jun 29, 2016 13:24:47 GMT -5 lilylove31 said:

We had Owen's follow up with the infectious disease doctor today, and we got the all clear! (but were told to continue to wear gloves for diaper changes for a couple weeks to be safe) He gained back 2lbs since last week and is back to his normal smiley ornery self. His appetite is also back to being a bottomless pit.

Holy moly, he lost two lbs? Poor O. I'm glad he's doing better.

[uclameghan]

Jun 29, 2016 13:26:30 GMT -5 ugotstarbucked said:

Remember how the seller refused to make repairs and we terminated the contract?

Last night our agent forwards us an email from her saying she made all the repairs we asked for.

Bitch, it's too late now! Contract has been terminated. That means we are not buying your house.

I'm so sick of being jerked around.

Don't let her lure you back in. I think this one's fishy as fuck.

[crystaleyes138]

ugotstarbucked, I agree with uclameghan. Why would she say no and then go do the repairs? I don't trust this.

lilylove31, 2 lbs gained back is great! I can't believe he lost so much weight being sick. Poor guy.

healz413, Pride weekend in Toronto sounds awesome!

cowplanet, glad YH is being better! Are you still going to do the counseling?

AFM, back from vacation in MD! Jacob saw his great grandmother and other family we've never really met (DH's side). Then we headed to OCMD. It was beautiful there, perfect weather. Jacob loved being on vacation as much as us. He was happy and excited to go out and do things. He even was great at dinner when he was getting tired. Naptime and bedtime were a little trickier and DH saw & heard first hand how hard getting him to sleep is sometimes. Jacob was crying for ~15min on Sunday night and DH kept asking me, "should we check on him," "what if something is wrong". LOL I assured him this was normal and he'd fall asleep. He did right in time for GOT!

[hovenb]

lilylove31 poor Owen! Glad he is gaining weight back.

ugotstarbucked that email should just confirm that your gut feeling was it was fishy..and getting fishier.

I feel like I have a brand new child. He is babbling consonants constantly (I swear he is saying dog and dad), SO close to crawling and is pulling up on everything, and suddenly wants to try all food. He is also not sleeping again. Like I'll nurse him extra but he still can't fall asleep and seems super frustrated. Everything I read tells me this is the 9 month sleep regression, but I feel like I'm just clinging onto hope that this is temporary. After 2 hours, MH held him the rest of the night.
Also, MH is superman lately. Works all day, comes home and does yard work or other projects until 930, then stays up with F if he is having trouble sleeping. I don't know how he is doing it.

[London]

Jun 29, 2016 13:25:23 GMT -5 ladymary11 said:

Jun 29, 2016 11:22:52 GMT -5 London said:

I am sad not to be in Ottawa today, the Mexican president and Obama are in town. There's so much pomp. I love pomp.

Did you see that picture of them jogging accross the Alexandra bridge in super short shorts? Amazingness

Who wears short shorts?

Justin wears short shorts.

[ugotstarbucked]

Jun 29, 2016 13:38:36 GMT -5 uclameghan said:

Jun 29, 2016 13:26:30 GMT -5 ugotstarbucked said:

Remember how the seller refused to make repairs and we terminated the contract?

Last night our agent forwards us an email from her saying she made all the repairs we asked for.

Bitch, it's too late now! Contract has been terminated. That means we are not buying your house.

I'm so sick of being jerked around.

Don't let her lure you back in. I think this one's fishy as fuck.

Oh for sure we are done with her. It's just shady all around. I just wish it hadn't gotten to this point because now it's emotional.

[obie1680]

DS had his first slip in the pool. Val was strapped in her stroller. DS & I were playing catch with a soaker ball he slipped on the second step. It's not over his head but he fell & his head went under water. He couldn't get himself up I think he froze. I was in an arms reach away from him and picked him up. He was crying, oddly enough he didn't want to get out of the pool. He told me he swallowed some water. So after that we took a break and came back into the house. He is fine, he wants ice cream. God it felt like everything happened in slow motion thank god I was right there.

I explained to him that this is why we want him to wear his swim vest until he learns how to swim. I told him the pool is fun but it can be dangerous & that's why you always need to swim with an adult. I hope this gets him to want to wear his swim vest since he is such a pain about putting it on.

H will probably lose his shit about it, he is the super paranoid parent. He freaks out about the kids so easily.

[nomnom]

I forgot to mention my lab results from yesterday: HCG >29,000, P 16, E314. Progesterone went down despite the increase from 1.5mL to 1.8mL injection. We increased it to 2.0mL last night and will get new labs drawn next Tuesday.

[sandj918]

Jun 29, 2016 13:26:30 GMT -5 ugotstarbucked said:

Remember how the seller refused to make repairs and we terminated the contract?

Last night our agent forwards us an email from her saying she made all the repairs we asked for.

Bitch, it's too late now! Contract has been terminated. That means we are not buying your house.

I'm so sick of being jerked around.

Also, I wouldn't believe her. That was a lot of repairs and I wouldn't trust that she did it well.