Morning lovelies. It's Monday.

[byjove]

I know we have a bunch of ladies back at work after the summer off. Lots of coffee and sharpened pencils to you!

How is everyone? It's been too quiet!

[HelgaHuffle]

Hello! Not much going on here. Just the usual morning cleaning. :/ I've been chasing R everywhere. He thinks it's fun to crawl as fast as he can down the hallway now. He's pretty fast! I need to get a gate with a door so F can still get to his room.

My parents moved the guineas to a new big enclosure because they've gotten huge! They went and got chicks yesterday since the coop is empty. They are so cute! We're going to visit them later. F loves them.

[gdaisy09]

Morning! I woke up with a stiff neck and H was less than sympathetic.

now I'm listening to show tunes on pandora trying to buckle down and get some work done.

[geners]

Good morning! Why is there a Monday every darn week.

I'm at work, not super busy which I guess is nice, but boring. I'm online looking for potential new nannies...

I had a little mini meltdown yesterday because I just could not get C to nap. It's been that way so often for me. He sleeps well for MH and apparently (if she is to be believed) amazingly well for the nanny, and I often can only get like 25 min out of him. It's so so frustrating. And we have no routine whatsoever during the daytime, especially with different people being with C on different days. I want to get some sort of order back into our lives (as much as you can with a baby, lol). Every day is such a crapshoot, we can't plan anything and I am sure that it's not ideal for C, either, never knowing what to expect and having no reliable internal clock. Anyway - MH and I both downloaded and are reading No-Cry Sleep Solution as a starting point, looking for some help implementing some sort of routine and better naps. Fx.

[HelgaHuffle]

R is 'saying' so many new things! My favorite is: WaBaWaBaWaBa etc etc. I guess I need to start saying mama more often.

[byjove]

I had a dream last night that Margs wasn't able to start at Clara's preschool on time because she wasn't able to eat enough solid food

[cnf2013]

No work for me yet. Kiddos don't go back to school in NY until after labor day.

Just hanging around home today. Waiting for H to get ahold of our lawyer so I can go pick up certified checks and we can finally close up our land and house deal.

[byjove]

cnf2013, I'm so excited for you!

[cnf2013]

Aug 8, 2016 11:18:45 GMT -5 byjove said:

cnf2013, I'm so excited for you!

Thanks! We're really excited, just tired of being on everyone else's time schedule.

[cnf2013]

When do the nightmares subside? We're having multiple a night and it's killing me.

[byjove]

Aug 8, 2016 12:37:48 GMT -5 cnf2013 said:

When do the nightmares subside? We're having multiple a night and it's killing me.

I think the WW app says they are common during leap 6.

[cnf2013]

Aug 8, 2016 12:52:56 GMT -5 byjove said:

Aug 8, 2016 12:37:48 GMT -5 cnf2013 said:

When do the nightmares subside? We're having multiple a night and it's killing me.

I think the WW app says they are common during leap 6.

Hopefully that means they'll end soon. It's the only thing keeping her from sleeping well it seems.

[expatmama11]

The last day has been rough. I think I got food poisoning from the airplane so I have been a mess. Starting to feel better now so hopefully it is almost out of my system. H has a terrible cold too so we are a mess. I can't even tell you that last time we were sick so this is crazy.

Baby proofing company just left. We decided to hire someone to get this house ready because we didn't want to mess with it. Our one set of stairs had to have something special made to make the gate work so I'm glad we had them do it. We also have to get them to cover the cabling on our banisters. They anchored a few pieces of furniture to the walls too. I really liked the guys who came out.

They really weren't trying to sell us on anything and even told us certain things didn't need to be done. One big safety tip they told us about is the plastic pieces on the doorstops. They said to be sure to check them all because they are one of the most common choking hazards.

It is so hot I'm Houston right now so not really going out to do anything.

[byjove]

expatmama11, brutal! Sorry to hear you guys are under the weather

[obscurereference]

expatmama11 Hope you all feel better soon!

[obscurereference]

Well we had a glorious weekend. Babies are so easy lol. (Sorry.) We got a TON of stuff done around the house on Saturday. Lots of little things that had piled up and were so much easier to get done with 2/3 kids gone.

Sunday we went school supply shopping, out to lunch, and then shopped at a nice consignment store. We ended up basically furnishing our entire family area downstairs: new couch, dining table with 4 chairs, and 3 counter height bar stools. I am so excited. We got really good deals and I won't go crazy trying to keep the kids from ruining them.

Also have someone coming out soon to deep clean all of our tile and steam the carpets and rugs. We are way past due. So exciting.

[obscurereference]

Oh. And the baby has all of a sudden decided she wants to MOVE. She has not shown any interest until the last couple days and now she's up on knees rocking, pushing herself backwards across the floor, and trying, very unsuccessfully, to pull up to stand. Well ok then.

[HelgaHuffle]

Nursing moms, can any of you express milk from your Montgomery glands? I just discovered that milk comes out of mine today. How weird! I looked it up and apparently it happens but it's not super common.

[byjove]

HelgaHuffle yes, when I hand express sometimes milk will shoot out of them, or I'll just notice little spots of milk around my areola. I don't remember having this with DD1. I even had a clogged/swollen Montgomery gland when M was a newborn.

[HelgaHuffle]

Aug 8, 2016 17:48:47 GMT -5 byjove said:

HelgaHuffle yes, when I hand express sometimes milk will shoot out of them, or I'll just notice little spots of milk around my areola. I don't remember having this with DD1. I even had a clogged/swollen Montgomery gland when M was a newborn.

I don't think I had it with F either. I remember noticing beads of milk on them when R was tiny. I don't ever remember that with F. I'm glad I'm not the only one!

[byjove]

Aug 8, 2016 17:56:22 GMT -5 HelgaHuffle said:

Aug 8, 2016 17:48:47 GMT -5 byjove said:

HelgaHuffle yes, when I hand express sometimes milk will shoot out of them, or I'll just notice little spots of milk around my areola. I don't remember having this with DD1. I even had a clogged/swollen Montgomery gland when M was a newborn.

I don't think I had it with F either. I remember noticing beads of milk on them when R was tiny. I don't ever remember that with F. I'm glad I'm not the only one!

Boobs are weird!

[HelgaHuffle]

Aug 8, 2016 18:00:43 GMT -5 byjove said:

Aug 8, 2016 17:56:22 GMT -5 HelgaHuffle said:

I don't think I had it with F either. I remember noticing beads of milk on them when R was tiny. I don't ever remember that with F. I'm glad I'm not the only one!

Boobs are weird!

I agree!