Happy Freaking Monday!

[swim]

Ugh Monday. 
My car seems to be feeling it because it won't start. The keys are also locked in the ignition for some reason, and everything is locked up. Kind of unnerving. I was all set to take DD to daycare a few minutes early for once, having enough time to hit up Tim Hortons on my way home before H had to go to work. But that's not happening. The dealership is sending a tow truck. H called out of work for at least the morning. Hopefully it's just a quick fix. 

In other news, I did some quality control on my peanut butter balls. Yummy! Now I'm wondering if I should make sugar cookies to go along with all the balls or something like brownies. 

[apunicorn]

Dec 12, 2016 7:15:09 GMT -5 swim said:

Ugh Monday. 
My car seems to be feeling it because it won't start. The keys are also locked in the ignition for some reason, and everything is locked up. Kind of unnerving. I was all set to take DD to daycare a few minutes early for once, having enough time to hit up Tim Hortons on my way home before H had to go to work. But that's not happening. The dealership is sending a tow truck. H called out of work for at least the morning. Hopefully it's just a quick fix. 

In other news, I did some quality control on my peanut butter balls. Yummy! Now I'm wondering if I should make sugar cookies to go along with all the balls or something like brownies. 

I'm sorry about the car troubles! Hopefully they can figure out the issue (and it won't cost much).

[kellybenelly83]

We woke up to TONS of snow today. Dh got stuck in a bunch of traffic but is at work. Ryan went to daycare for a bit and is now napping. I set up our new entertainment unit, now I need to clean clean clean!
I have my interview tomorrow, dh helped me pick out a killer outfit, I'm prepping with a friend tonight and my mom is coming to help with Magoo while I'm there. All of the nerves!!!!!

[piperhalliwell]

Sorry about the car troubles swim. Hopefully everything will get fixed up soon. You guys need a break!

Good luck with interview prep and the actual interview kellybenelly83!

It is definitely Monday. Two seconds after I set her down at daycare, L fell forward and bashed her face on a hard plastic toy. Cue that terrible tears streaming, no breathing leads to high pitched screaming cry. And I had to rush out the door to make it to a work meeting, so I have much mom guilt over not being able to stay and comfort her myself.

[rivers and roads]

Sorry about the car troubles, swim. I hope it's quick and inexpensive to fix.

Good luck, kellybenelly83! I'll be sending you good thoughts.

I hope L calmed down quickly- she won't remember it by this afternoon. Don't beat yourself up.

Laundry and errands here today. yesterday's fake Christmas was fun. It even snowed like 10 inches so he got to play in that too!

[tkford216]

GL tomorrow kellybenelly83

swim sorry. 2016 just needs to be over for you. Are you feeling any better?

[kellybenelly83]

Dec 12, 2016 9:44:11 GMT -5 piperhalliwell said:

Sorry about the car troubles swim. Hopefully everything will get fixed up soon. You guys need a break!

Good luck with interview prep and the actual interview kellybenelly83!

It is definitely Monday. Two seconds after I set her down at daycare, L fell forward and bashed her face on a hard plastic toy. Cue that terrible tears streaming, no breathing leads to high pitched screaming cry. And I had to rush out the door to make it to a work meeting, so I have much mom guilt over not being able to stay and comfort her myself.

Poor bum, I'm sure it didn't last long.
I had to laugh at Ryan, His daycare told me there is a singing rocking reindeer they have, and he started to drag it around so she told him no, put it back but he must have hit a button and turned it on, scared the bajeesus outta himself. I told her it was funny but not st the same time as I laughed

[swim]

Dec 12, 2016 9:53:55 GMT -5 tkford216 said:

GL tomorrow kellybenelly83

swim sorry. 2016 just needs to be over for you. Are you feeling any better?

Starting to! I still have the cough but its sounding and feeling better.

Totally unrelated, but DD has started referring to Rice Krispies as peanuts/penis? I have NO idea where that came from, as we don't usually buy that cereal. So random.

[morwen]

good luck tomorrow kellybenelly83!

we also got snow, i put ds in his snow suit and he sat and looked around, didn't really try to move explore yet lol

[rivers and roads]

X has his 10 month appointment today. They'll test for anemia (I bet he'll have it) and they'll also run a bunch of food allergies. We've been avoiding all common allergy foods per Dr's recommendation since the cheese reaction, so I'm hoping for some negatives.. Mostly eggs and nuts. We can get around dairy and he'll hopefully outgrow it, but nuts scare me.. and eggs are just in everything.

[trtlcrzy]

Morning! It's freezing out so I don't want to leave the house. I'm waiting to hear back from S's pedi about the next steps and to see if he wants us to come in for an appt today.

[trtlcrzy]

swim if you ever get your keys locked in your ignition again try turning the steering wheel (even a tiny bit, I know it's hard when it's locked). I've run into that predicament before but luckily my dad is a mechanic so he was able to tell me what to do right away. I hope they get your car fixed ASAP.

[kellybenelly83]

Dec 12, 2016 10:17:08 GMT -5 rivers and roads said:

X has his 10 month appointment today. They'll test for anemia (I bet he'll have it) and they'll also run a bunch of food allergies. We've been avoiding all common allergy foods per Dr's recommendation since the cheese reaction, so I'm hoping for some negatives.. Mostly eggs and nuts. We can get around dairy and he'll hopefully outgrow it, but nuts scare me.. and eggs are just in everything.

I feel ya, our allergy test is Wednesday after the peanut reactions. Praying it's not an allergy

[morwen]

After DS yelled for 1.5 hours yesterday when we tried to get him to nap (going in every 5 min) today I'm lying on the floor with my hand in his crib while he screams. 1 hour and no signs of stopping- he's reaching for my leg sitting up.

The last 2 nights he's gone down ok but woken after 4 hours and it's the same, screams unless we hold him or co-sleep

[trtlcrzy]

Poor guy morwen, maybe it's time to see the doctor

[auchick913]

swim, I'm so sorry about your car. I hope you're able to get it fixed soon.

morwen, that sounds awful. Do you think he's sick or he just wants to be held to go sleep? I know sometimes when DS is in a mood, me being in the room makes it 1000x worse. Like he's thinking, "I see you, pick me up, damnit!".

kellybenelly83, rivers and roads, good luck on your allergy tests. I have to bring up the potential chicken and egg allergies (red around the mouth) we have here to our ped next week. I'm not sure what she's going to say.

As for us, DS FINALLY crawled today. Cue mommy tears. Been waiting for this day for a while.

[rivers and roads]

Dec 12, 2016 11:56:27 GMT -5 morwen said:

After DS yelled for 1.5 hours yesterday when we tried to get him to nap (going in every 5 min) today I'm lying on the floor with my hand in his crib while he screams. 1 hour and no signs of stopping- he's reaching for my leg sitting up.

The last 2 nights he's gone down ok but woken after 4 hours and it's the same, screams unless we hold him or co-sleep

That sounds rough, especially with 1st tri exhaustion!

No teething signs? Have you tried giving him Motrin and seeing if that helps, just in case he's in some sort of pain?

I might call and take him in just in case it's something.. Could be a perfect storm of Leap 7 + something else. 

[morwen]

Dec 12, 2016 12:00:57 GMT -5 trtlcrzy said:

Poor guy morwen, maybe it's time to see the doctor

He goes Wednesday for his second flu shot but she's useless at sleep stuff, when he was sleeping in under 3 hour chunks at his 6 month appointment she was like maybe move his bedtime??

He's not feverish and he's happy on his back/side if nursing so it doesn't seem like an EI but I might ask the doc to check his ears just in case. He's been clingier the last week or so so I'm wondering if it's leap 7.

He finally fell asleep after 1.25 hours

[morwen]

Dec 12, 2016 12:15:42 GMT -5 rivers and roads said:

Dec 12, 2016 11:56:27 GMT -5 morwen said:

After DS yelled for 1.5 hours yesterday when we tried to get him to nap (going in every 5 min) today I'm lying on the floor with my hand in his crib while he screams. 1 hour and no signs of stopping- he's reaching for my leg sitting up.

The last 2 nights he's gone down ok but woken after 4 hours and it's the same, screams unless we hold him or co-sleep

That sounds rough, especially with 1st tri exhaustion!

No teething signs? Have you tried giving him Motrin and seeing if that helps, just in case he's in some sort of pain?

I might call and take him in just in case it's something.. Could be a perfect storm of Leap 7 + something else. 

I gave Motrin at night and he woke after 4 hours even though that should cover pain for 6-8 but I'll give it again just in case

Tooth 5 I think is through although he might still be working on cutting part of it, and he has been cutting them in pairs so I image #6 isn't far behind

Thank goodness MH took him over to MIL's (where he was totally happy apparently) yesterday so I could nap!

[swim]

Car is all fixed. Now I'm just waiting for FIL and SMIL to come watch the kids so I can go get my car. They said it was a bad battery, and they fixed it under warranty. So in theory I should only really have to pay for the tow truck, maybe?

I managed to roll over 130 rumballs today. But I ran out of sprinkles around 100, so I'll have to go get more on my way home. And probably chocolate chips because I ran out of those as well when I only had about half of my peanut butter balls dipped.

[tkford216]

I need to get serious and start a diastasis recti program. I bookmarked one online a while ago but never started.

Related.. does anyone else still have that dark line down their stomach? It's faded some but mine is still there. I know it can take a year. My belly button is gone forever I'm pretty sure. Bodies are weird.

[chocolate]

Dec 12, 2016 14:42:06 GMT -5 tkford216 said:

I need to get serious and start a diastasis recti program. I bookmarked one online a while ago but never started.

Related.. does anyone else still have that dark line down their stomach? It's faded some but mine is still there. I know it can take a year. My belly button is gone forever I'm pretty sure. Bodies are weird.

I also bookmarked a good looking one not too long ago. I want to try it and see if it makes a difference.

My line is still there. Was the same with DS, took foreeeeever to go away. And eventually got to the point where I could almost scratch it off, dry skin I suppose.

[chocolate]

Good luck with the interview tomorrow, Kelly!

I'm at work today. My daycare is closed this Thursday so I'm doing Mon-Wed this week, and same for next week and then I'll probably be off until after the New Year.

I really need to get presents wrapped.

Also I'm very munchy today, can't stop eating all the things.

My thoughts are very random today.

[chocolate]

Does anyone watch Flip or Flop? Did you see the news about Tarek and Christina?

[leahks77]

Morning all!
swim ugh sorry about car problems!! I hope it's an easy fix!
Good luck at your interview kellybenelly83!
morwen ughhhhh all the sleep sympathies
We went to play at an indoor play space today and both kids had a blast. DS is napping and I'm running around like a crazy person because tonight is our Santa home visit I'm cleaning. Because Santa is coming. Never thought I'd say that. After he swings by (flies? sleigh and all...) I am going out to dinner with some girl friends. This might actually be the first time I've done this since Lu was born. Wtf. I have no life.

[rivers and roads]

Santa home visits?!? Tell me more.
This sounds vaguely familiar, but remind me about Stars Hollow.

[leahks77]

Dec 12, 2016 15:24:06 GMT -5 rivers and roads said:

Santa home visits?!? Tell me more.
This sounds vaguely familiar, but remind me about Stars Hollow.

Haha Santa is stopping by to say hi it's something the town does (put on by the Newcomer's Club, which yes, I joined, because I need friends). He visits, takes pictures, sings a song with the kids, etc. They don't supply a present (that got expensive) but if you leave one outside he brings it in. C's head is going to pop off his body. I will post pics later.

[rivers and roads]

Dec 12, 2016 15:44:08 GMT -5 leahks77 said:

Dec 12, 2016 15:24:06 GMT -5 rivers and roads said:

Santa home visits?!? Tell me more.
This sounds vaguely familiar, but remind me about Stars Hollow.

Haha Santa is stopping by to say hi it's something the town does (put on by the Newcomer's Club, which yes, I joined, because I need friends). He visits, takes pictures, sings a song with the kids, etc. They don't supply a present (that got expensive) but if you leave one outside he brings it in. C's head is going to pop off his body. I will post pics later.

That is SO SO cool. Video it if you can!!

[trtlcrzy]

Dec 12, 2016 15:03:37 GMT -5 chocolate said:

Does anyone watch Flip or Flop? Did you see the news about Tarek and Christina?

I watch sometimes, what's the news?

[trtlcrzy]

chocolate I've been very munchy the last few days too...and the AF showed up.