Thursday Randoms....

[karlamo]

What's on your mind?

[karlamo]

It's raining..... Again. I'm over it. My ugly crab grass is just getting greener not nicer. Today we're headed to the Children's Musuem. I like to be there right at 9 when it opens. I'm thinking of stopping at WF because they have vegan scones that R loves but do I want to drag both kids into the store???

My Fitbit tells me I put in 10 miles of yoga ball bouncing. Seems accurate. Lol.

[wittyandwaiting]

O slept for two back to back 4 hour stretches last night...for the second night in a row!

I feel like this:

[kh826]

William had a ROUGH afternoon yesterday. He had been up since 6am (very early for him) since we had an early ortho appointment for Lu. He then refused to nap in the afternoon for unknown reasons. He played really hard throughout the day and was totally exhausted by 4pm. There was a lot of ugly crying and just moments where you could tell he just didn't know what to do with himself. I hate when he gets like that b/c I feel so badly that he is upset and there is little anyone can do to comfort him. He went to bed 30 mins early last night and slept for about 11 hours, so I am hopeful today will be a new day.

William also tried to climb out of his crib yesterday during his nap fail. J saw his put his leg over the crib rail on the monitor and ran upstairs (I was at work). Apparently he just looked at her with a guilty look on his face and said "Get down. Not happy, William" HAHA... THIS KID!!!

Needless to say, we put his crib mattress on the floor (lowest setting in the crib, which is essentially on the floor but the crib is still around it and there are no gaps (if that makes sense) before bed time. Once we move to the new house and get settled we will likely start to transition to the toddler bed. I am definitely not emotionally ready for that though... oh man!

I have been SOOOO cold all the time lately. I think the weather is a big part of it. It is so cold, dreary and damp. I wish I had a blanket to wrap up in at my desk...

[mahler5]

I am just starting to really wake up after being up for almost 3 hours. The 3/4 Benadryl I took last night is much stronger than the 1/2 I usually take. I was able to go to bed after my second wake up at least! Lately if I wake up after 4 I can't go back to sleep my bladder is so tiny right now!

C pooped in potty today!! She is much better about peeing but rarely poops in it. I was feeling risky this morning and have let her run around in just undies (no pull up). So thank god she pooped in it already! She has done so well at school this week peeing in potty so I want to help her keep it up.

I need to get off the couch and outside with C soon! It will happen!!

[mahler5]

kh826-- sorry to hear William is trying to crawl out of the crib. C started doing that around 20 months. We went ahead and transitioned her and luckily it wasn't as bad as I thought. If I thought she would stay in I would have held out longer but she wouldn't listen to us. Hope he stays in there for you!

[2brides]

G started scaling his crib about that time, but he did it safely and only at nap time when he was trying not to nap. we had a gate at the top of the stairs and a monitor. Once the novelty wore off, he stopped doing it and they stayed in cribs till 3.5!

I am so annoyed. I am looking to book stuff for our summer vacation. A rental car from Sat-Sat is cheaper than Sat-Wed (we will be staying in the city Wed-Sa.) However, we'd need to pay for parking Wed-Sat so then it is a wash.

Too bad we can't fit into a compact car, they are much cheaper than SUVs. But it is hard to get 4-5 suitcases into a regular trunk.

[karlamo]

I put the fear of God in R when he tries to climb out. He knows he can do it, we know he can do it, but Don't Do It! I'm mostly don't want to transition because of baby proofing. We'd have to baby proof all over again. Stuff that isn't an issue now will be. Did you all hear about those toddler deaths from tipped over IKEA furniture? It happened when the parents thought the kid was napping but they weren't and got out of bed and climbed onto stuff.

This scares me.

[kh826]

May 5, 2016 11:08:21 GMT -5 karlamo said:

I put the fear of God in R when he tries to climb out. He knows he can do it, we know he can do it, but Don't Do It! I'm mostly don't want to transition because of baby proofing. We'd have to baby proof all over again. Stuff that isn't an issue now will be. Did you all hear about those toddler deaths from tipped over IKEA furniture? It happened when the parents thought the kid was napping but they weren't and got out of bed and climbed onto stuff.

This scares me.

YES - THIS!!!!

This is why we basically put the mattress on the floor but still within the crib. He absolutely CANNOT get out now. Until he is about 4 ft tall HAHA. We also watch the monitor like hawks during naptime. Ideally I would like to keep him in the crib for a long time more, but we shall see how it goes. It is REALLY hard to baby proof well upstairs in our current 200 yr old house. I plan to be SUPER baby proofed in the new house, but it is totally true that things that are not an issue now, will be in the future. It is so hard to comprehensively kid proof.

The furniture tipping thing is one of my biggest fears.

But I have a lot of biggest fears.

I am that worrier Mom that just can't chill out. Or sleep.  

[karlamo]

We have a two story entranceway with a balcony that overlooks it. It beautiful but R is intrigued with it. I have trained him to not go near the balcony but that's when I'm around who knows if I'm not there what he'd do.

Plus we haven't decided how we'll keep him in his room at night. Door locked from outside? Baby gate up? Nothing?

[mahler5]

May 5, 2016 12:41:28 GMT -5 karlamo said:

We have a two story entranceway with a balcony that overlooks it. It beautiful but R is intrigued with it. I have trained him to not go near the balcony but that's when I'm around who knows if I'm not there what he'd do.

Plus we haven't decided how we'll keep him in his room at night. Door locked from outside? Baby gate up? Nothing?

[Jus

Just FYI karlamo and kh826

What we do currently is we have one of those plastic things over the door knob so C cannot open her door. I feel sort of bad for doing it. As some people say you should never lock their door in case of emergency but it was the only way I felt comfortable transitioning her. And having her in a crib pretty much traps her in room in case of emergency so I don't see A difference. There is a baby gate at top of stairs so I think eventually I may unlock her door but it's hard, because I'm afraid she will figure out how to climb over that too.

I have her dresser bolted to wall and child proof locks on dresser drawers. Then a mattress on floor. I just bought a tiny bookcase from IKEA. Like one foot by two feet. And I will put it on its side in her room, so even if she managed to tip it over its smaller than her. There is no other furniture. Just her books all over floor. I keep all her toys downstairs.

With C I was more worried she would fall out of her crib and hurt herself. And she had no fear, and wouldn't mind me at time.

[cetcar]

wittyandwaiting you have the best pictures!

Stroller strides wore M out. She has been loving to stay awake the whole class and just look around and watch people exercise. She loves squats in front of the stroller. It's like peek a boo.

I signed CET and M up for a swimming lesson on Saturday! They are free for 4 months and under and this is the last weekend that we will be here while M is under 4 months. Depending on how she likes it, we may try to squeeze another one in next week.

Side note- I'm pretty sure I repeat myself. Sorry if I've already shared things before. Sometimes I forget who I've told what.

[JustJudy]

House officially went on the market this morning and we have 4 showings scheduled and the first group through is writing an offer. Fenway and I are sitting at a local restaurant with a patio so I can do a little bit of work, then maybe we'll hit the dog park, and at some point we'll be allowed to go home.

[cetcar]

This article reminded me of a conversation we had a while ago about digital footprints and sharing pictures on social media-
mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/well/2016/03/08/dont-post-about-me-on-social-media-children-say/?_r=0&referer=http://disqus.com/embed/comments/?base=default&version=3451144d0aa529e7c0f3cdd223d47134&f=neverhomemaker&t_u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.neverhomemaker.com%2F2016%2F05%2Fsome-changes.html&t_d=%7Bnever%7D%20homemaker%3A%20Some%20Changes&t_t=%7Bnever%7D%20homemaker%3A%20Some%20Changes&s_o=default

[JustJudy]

That's very interesting cetcar!

[kona]

We just booked a mini 'last family of 3' trip. We have only gone away once with O and the car ride nearly killed me. But we really wanted to do one more trip before #2 comes. We are going to Great Wolf Lodge. I hope O loves it. I was hoping my sister and her wife could meet us but that doesn't look like it will happen. As a bonus the dog gets some play time at the awesome kennel.

[karlamo]

May 5, 2016 20:24:00 GMT -5 kona said:

We just booked a mini 'last family of 3' trip. We have only gone away once with O and the car ride nearly killed me. But we really wanted to do one more trip before #2 comes. We are going to Great Wolf Lodge. I hope O loves it. I was hoping my sister and her wife could meet us but that doesn't look like it will happen. As a bonus the dog gets some play time at the awesome kennel.

Let me know how it goes. I've been debating going with our family but so freakin' expensive! She's going to love the water!

[Deleted]

Like the Great Wolf Lodge in Wisconsin? That's 40 minutes from us. We did it as a part of our Xmas present because there were some killer on line deals. And had a great time, but it was January, so being inside was not much bother.