Happy New Year everyone!! Anyone have plans for today?
I've been MIA all weekend with two sick kids. H and I had a black tie wedding last night and we made it to midnight! We didn't know anyone but we had a lot of fun. We left the boys with my parents, and I slept at their house after the wedding. B had a great night and only up twice. It was glorious. H got a full, uninterrupted 7 hours of sleep at home last night...so I will be taking a guilt free nap today.
I'm also having a lot of feelings about my big kid turning 3 this month. I'm so proud of how great of a big brother he is, and how much he loves Benjamin.
We're heading to my aunt's house in a while to have a Christmas celebration with that side of the family.
My one evening per month job starts next week. We're working on getting R to take bottles... we haven't bothered since she was a newborn. Oops. She refused last night but H got her to take 2oz this morning. She seems to just want to play with and chew on the bottle. He figured out it helped to hold her hands away from it (so she won't play with it) and squirt a little into her mouth so she knows what's in there. Is there anything else we can do?
I can't believe its 2017 and I have a 5.5 month old baby. Being a mom of 2 has been harder than I anticipated but I'm so happy to have her. At this time last year we made the decision to sell our house, and I remember looking around the old house after Christmas dreading all the work that was ahead. Now we have a family of 4 in our new house and it feels so good compared to last year.
It's rubbing me the wrong way to see all the "2016 was the worst year ever!" posts on FB. In spite of everything that's not great in the world right now, it's one of the best years of my life because my sweet baby was born
Post by housecarder on Jan 1, 2017 11:18:22 GMT -5
katelou, 2016 was definitely back and forth, but I feel that some people will only focus on the negative, just like some people focus on the positive so I will hide consistently negative people from my feed.
I feel like we can't catch a break with the kids right now. They had that awful cold for months and then a stomach bug that hit everyone but MH and Evie, and now that everyone is finally feeling human the babies have realized they can pull up in bed to sit up and are so hard to get to sleep because of that and teething.
Post by housecarder on Jan 1, 2017 11:19:52 GMT -5
melody330, I feel you on the bigger kids getting bigger. I'm having all the feels. DD turned 7 in Nov. and DS will be 5 in Feb. It seems so much older than 6 and 4.
Post by littlesthobo on Jan 1, 2017 12:03:26 GMT -5
Happy New Year! I'm pretty sure DS1 was up from 3am to 6:30am... after being up with him from 3-3:50 I got him calm and went back to bed, but it was apparent that he played for a long time. Then he slept 'til 10!
H is at a hockey game today, L is asleep right now and DS1 and I made smoothies with my new blender. They were a hit! I will have to get some more stuff for smoothies this week. I've also hit 12,000 steps on my Fitbit four days in a row, so here's to a healthier 2017!
katelou a trick that always worked for DS1 was to run the nipple under hot water right before offering the bottle. Obviously make sure it's not too hot for her mouth, but this always did the trick. DS1 was king of bottle refusing.
Post by sarcaztic10 on Jan 1, 2017 12:23:37 GMT -5
We are celebrating L's birthday a couple days early. I made vegan cupcakes that I can eat too and they actually taste good! We will do presents later today. I can't believe L will be 7 in just another day. It seems like July st yesterday I was bawling my eyes out because he was overdue and I just wanted to see and hold him.
I have mixed feelings about 2016 and therefore chose not to say anything on social media. When I think back on the year I see S being born and that makes my heart so full but I also flash back to being pulled out of my car by strangers I couldn't see (because of the glass in my eyes) after my accident and just crying and saying Silas's name over and over again praying he was ok. Being rushed to the hospital and then spending weeks in fear that he wouldn't make it. I am hoping that 2017 brings us good things and sees us through happy and healthy at the end of it.
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