Post by RiseAndWine on Mar 26, 2015 7:59:31 GMT -5
Hi everyone! So sorry I missed the post yesterday. E is sick and it has been chaotic at work and home. Let's have a free week - how's everything in working mom world?
Both my boys are sick, but it's the 6' tall one giving me the issues. My H really, really needs to stay home today but he has an important project at a critical stage so he's all hopped up on drugs, hiding in his office and trying to function.
I'm trying to take steps to do things to make me feel better about myself, so I've finally gone to the dermatologist about my rosacea, I'm trying to eat more fruit, and now that the weather is nicer I'm trying to get out and walk with Bud. And I'm spring cleaning the house, one room at a time. It's taking awhile, so the house will be a mess by the time I'm done, but it'll be a cleaner mess if that makes sense.
I just realized what day it is and that the check-in was supposed to be yesterday! I don't even have an excuse, it has been super slow lately! (although I don't say that outloud, lest all hell break loose!)
LO had her first day in the "discovery preschool" aka 2 year old room at daycare yesterday! They said she did great. I noticed that they change diapers/try potty like every two hours over there. Is it wishful thinking to hope that LO will succumb to peer pressure and they'll potty train her there?
We're heading to my parents' house again this weekend. For Christmas I gave my mom a groupon for a "Paint Nite" so the girls are going to do that while the guys stay home with the kids. Wine + kid-free evening + LO gets to spend time with her cousins = priceless! I'm excited.
LO is doing great, shocking us every day with what comes out of her mouth. It's awesome to see her processing everything. I am really loving this age. She's better at communicating so the tantrums have definitely lessened. DH has gotten really enthusiastic about applying for a MPH program which I think is great even though it means he will basically be a full-time student for 2 years. He had really been lost in terms of what direction to go in career-wise so this would be really good for him.
RiseAndWine, I hope your LO is feeling better soon!
allydncr, I am also hoping daycare will potty train my LO!
I'm late, too! Work was pretty quiet this week. Last week was busy and I felt productive, so it was a little let down to have it so quiet this week. But nothing major is brewing.
Home is fine, too. A is using more and more words. She's doing great in her new-ish class at school. And I think we've finally gotten through the awful sleep regression she was in. Holly cow, that was a rough couple of weeks.
sudokufan, I've decided that after this pregnancy, I'm going to try to get to eating better and generally taking better care of myself. I'm 40 now, and I've been warned about the metabolism crash. I'm pretty sure that I have GD with this pregnancy, and though I'm not overweight, I should eat better and exercise more to try to feel better, inside and out. It's hard though to take the long view on these things.
mamamd, I have an MPH. It's a really flexible degree. Your DH is an MD as well, right? Does he have an area he wants to concentrate in (Health Promotion/Disease Prevention, Epi, Health Policy/Management?)
missk0411,He's thinking health policy/management. He's mostly interested in the economic side of things. And yes, he is a MD too. He left clinical medicine several years ago for the non-clinical side. Since then he's basically figured out that it's possible to get a non-clinical JOB but that to have a non-clinical CAREER often requires further training like a MPH or MBA. He was really resistant to getting another degree at first but has come around to it. We are "old" too, he'll be 40 in a few months so going back to school will be a major change for him!
things are ok, I was away last week for two days. During that period LO got a stomach bug, started biting his nails, dropped two bottles, started hitting and had a language explosion!
Seriously all that seemed to happen when I was gone. I decided to let him self wean on the bottles, so I am happy to see he is dropping it on his own. H and I were both nail biters, so that part isn't surprising.
The hitting kills me. He seems to hit mostly in the face and it is very deliberate. He is not in daycare so wouldn't learn it from other kids and he doesn't watch tv at all save a few select educational programs so I don;t know where he picked it up. Do toddlers sometimes do this even it is not something they learned or witnessed? I have gotten a little paranoid now about my nanny now. My gut says no she would never hit him, but we are keeping an eye on it, because of course now I have a seed of doubt because of LO's behavior.
things are ok, I was away last week for two days. During that period LO got a stomach bug, started biting his nails, dropped two bottles, started hitting and had a language explosion!
Seriously all that seemed to happen when I was gone. I decided to let him self wean on the bottles, so I am happy to see he is dropping it on his own. H and I were both nail biters, so that part isn't surprising.
The hitting kills me. He seems to hit mostly in the face and it is very deliberate. He is not in daycare so wouldn't learn it from other kids and he doesn't watch tv at all save a few select educational programs so I don;t know where he picked it up. Do toddlers sometimes do this even it is not something they learned or witnessed? I have gotten a little paranoid now about my nanny now. My gut says no she would never hit him, but we are keeping an eye on it, because of course now I have a seed of doubt because of LO's behavior.
Ugh. Any one else dealing with this?
Oh yes. It's a stage, as much as biting is. They're trying out all the different ways of interacting with the world, and it isn't necessarily to hurt. Bud has occasionally hit me in the face when I do a fish lips face at him. He laughs and hits my mouth, has done since he was about 18 months. For awhile, I just stopped making the face, but now I do it knowing he may hit me, and then I do "Ow, that hurt, why did you hit Mommy? hands aren't for hitting" and it seems to be getting through. Now that he's older, he's been known to hit me or his Dad when he wants to stop us from changing his diaper - since that is more intentional and not playful, it gets the "Ow" spiel plus a time out if he doesn't stop and "apologize". The frequency of hitting has decreased a lot, so I'm hoping it's working. Or the stage is passing. Whatever, don't care as long as he stops hitting.
missk0411, I turn 40 this year, and had GD with Bud, so that is definitely a catalyst for me. I want to be healthier and feel better in my own skin, and be able to keep up with Bud!
things are ok, I was away last week for two days. During that period LO got a stomach bug, started biting his nails, dropped two bottles, started hitting and had a language explosion!
Seriously all that seemed to happen when I was gone. I decided to let him self wean on the bottles, so I am happy to see he is dropping it on his own. H and I were both nail biters, so that part isn't surprising.
The hitting kills me. He seems to hit mostly in the face and it is very deliberate. He is not in daycare so wouldn't learn it from other kids and he doesn't watch tv at all save a few select educational programs so I don;t know where he picked it up. Do toddlers sometimes do this even it is not something they learned or witnessed? I have gotten a little paranoid now about my nanny now. My gut says no she would never hit him, but we are keeping an eye on it, because of course now I have a seed of doubt because of LO's behavior.
Ugh. Any one else dealing with this?
Yes, I agree that it's a stage around this age. LO was more a biter than a hitter, but she hits occasionally. At daycare, she was doing it (I think) for attention. She was jealous when the teachers would hold other younger kids, and so would hit so they would pay attention to her. We talk to her a lot about being gentle, and really encourage her good behavior. There is also a book called "Hands are not for hitting" that she loves (it goes along good with "Teeth are not for Biting"!)
thank you , @alldncr and @sudokofan - I think you are right that it is a phase. My imagination is running away with me, and I probably need to keep my paranoia about the nanny in check. I never would have thought my LO would hit me but life showed me. I was doing time outs but that seemed to make it worse temporarily and then we found a book called "hands are for," which describes how we don't hit but we can do other fun stuff with our hands. Just holding him back from hitting, and asking him to say sorry and telling him what hands are for seems to be working ok. We'll see how it goes.
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