Post by ugotstarbucked on May 30, 2016 11:35:55 GMT -5
We had a fun night. Princess woke up at midnight thirty and was screaming her head off. I went in, laid her back down, shushed, and hair patted before I left. She took 20 minutes to go back to sleep. Of course, I took longer. Up at 4:30 to eat, then 5:45 and in bed with me, then 6:45. So I passed her to DH (he slept in the guest room last night) and slept in until 8:30.
Debating whether to go to the pool this afternoon or not. We did some concrete repair on the front walkway and I'm tired.
Oh my gosh, I just can't with the whining and crying anymore. I swear it's DS1's reaction to everything. I'm about to lock him in his room until he's driving.
Oh my gosh, I just can't with the whining and crying anymore. I swear it's DS1's reaction to everything. I'm about to lock him in his room until he's driving.
My baby hates chilling outside. We put him in the shades on his blanket with toys and a little bench to stand up and all he does is cry and whine. As soon as we go inside he's back to his happy whistling climbing self.
I have definitely relaxed on grandparent rules as Ben has gotten older, but I think he can understand now how some things are special grandparent treats. I don't think I want to know how much juice he consumed this weekend. The ILs can't wait to give him soda, which I just don't get. But he knows when he's home juice is a very, very special treat. Babies don't need to be spoiled by food. They don't even understand.
This reminds me. We recently watched home videos of my mom and her siblings when they were little. My grandmother gave my uncle (maybe 5-6 months old) a Pepsi straight from the can.
Like....what?!
And feel like i remember my dad giving me a taste of beer what I was like 4 or 5, max.
My dad took me to the bar all the time when I was little. When I was 6 my brother was born, he brought me to his regular pub. To celebrate I got to taste my first shot. So yea..
This reminds me. We recently watched home videos of my mom and her siblings when they were little. My grandmother gave my uncle (maybe 5-6 months old) a Pepsi straight from the can.
Like....what?!
And feel like i remember my dad giving me a taste of beer what I was like 4 or 5, max.
Yup. I think I was about 5? I asked if I could taste his beer and he let me. I thought it was gross and didn't drink anymore until high school. I'd probably do the same to my kids honestly but with my luck they'd like it ?
+whatever to early wake ups. I have two sets of blackout curtains and it still gets light, but his room faces the sun. He has been waking up exactly at 5, no matter when we put him down. The only way he will keep sleeping is if Mh takes him downstairs on the couch with him. My best friend told me she is moving to another state. I've been so sad about it. Our babies are 9 months apart and just barely getting to the age where they can play. I've known her since she was born, and I really want my kids to have friends that they know since they were born. But her husband needs to get out of his job at Goldman because they ruin entry level workers lives with their hours and work/life balance.
Post by MrsEmuTavi on May 30, 2016 13:12:18 GMT -5
Trying to get some stuff done today. Saturday was H's day to get stuff done, yesterday was mostly a family hang out day, and I was hoping today would be a day where I get things done. Woke up to big black ants in my kitchen, battled them for 30 minutes, cleaned up C's toys from yesterday, wrote out my grocery list for our First Froday celebration at work, and then C woke up and H decided he was going to work out instead of hanging out with C so I could get shtuff done. Just got back from grocery shopping and C wants boob, H is giving me crap for forgetting to pick up fruit for lunches, and I am hungry & dehydrated. Once in a great while I miss the lazy weekends of my past... And then C does something hilarious/cute/new and I'm reminded that the past was boring.
Z took forever to go down for his first nap, but still slept for 2 hours. So he probably won't get another nap because he woke up at 1:30 and we'll head to my parents for dinner soon.
Well that was the plan except when Z woke up H decided we should get stuff done so he told me he was taking the dog outside and is doing work outside. Ok thanks for the heads up. Not that we need to do cleaning inside where we actually spend our time. Floors need cleaning, bathroom needs cleaning. And I need to do laundry. So I guess that's not happening. He better not bitch when he has no clean shirts for work. But yes, let's rake the flower beds that no one sees on the side of the house. ::eye roll::
Hope everyone is having a nice MDW. It's a bank holiday here too! Go figure. Also half term so all the kids are out of school. The mall was a madhouse but also lots of sales. The weather is gorgeous, sunny, 65-70 degrees, no rain for most of the remainder of our time here. The kids are being good. Just trying to get them to bed soon so we can head out for drinks with DH's old friends.
Naps have become such a battle around here, I hate it. She's both exhausted and exhausting all at the same time. I can feel the patience getting sucked from my body. I hate hate hate hate hate hate it. Just take a stupid nap and we will both be so much happier.
Post by andtheheartbreakers on May 30, 2016 14:20:53 GMT -5
I managed to do so much cleaning today. It looked like a bomb exploded in my house from all the wedding prep over the weekend. So nice to have a clean house again.
On grandparents and food:
My mom used to tell me when I was pregnant about how my nana (her MIL) used to give my brother all kinds of food and how much it pissed her off. Then once Layla started eating it was like she forgot all that and her and my dad will feed Layla little tastes of whatever they have. I think they gave her a lot of treats last night at the wedding, because by 10am today she had pooped 3 times and it was all diarrhea-isn. I think cupcakes were the culprit.
I decided though to just let it slide. They only ever feed her one or two bites of something, and her reactions are adorable so oh well. They don't mean any harm by it and if I told them to stop I know they 100% would. I'm choosing my battles wisely though and that just didn't seem like one of them for me.
Post by charliefox on May 30, 2016 14:42:52 GMT -5
My grandmother, on the recommendation of her doctor, put my mom on canned milk at 3 months. Not like she fed her canned milk, like that was her main source of food. Oh how times change.
My grandmother had 4 kids close together (the last two were whoopsies and then she made my grandpa get a vasectomy), and at one point the oldest was in school and the youngest was a baby so my grandma would wait until the baby fell asleep and then take the other two kids to the grocery store because she couldn't handle 3 littles with only one pram. Now, is that worse or better than leaving your kid in the car?
We drove over to another one of our builder's developments today and walked through one of "our house" that was all finished and built. I hate that this has turned into such an ordeal because we really love the house so, so much.
My grandmother, on the recommendation of her doctor, put my mom on canned milk at 3 months. Not like she fed her canned milk, like that was her main source of food. Oh how times change.
My grandmother had 4 kids close together (the last two were whoopsies and then she made my grandpa get a vasectomy), and at one point the oldest was in school and the youngest was a baby so my grandma would wait until the baby fell asleep and then take the other two kids to the grocery store because she couldn't handle 3 littles with only one pram. Now, is that worse or better than leaving your kid in the car?
Ha this is awesome. Admittedly I've wished I could do this. Especially when I've had to wake DD2 up just to pick up DD1 from preschool which is 5 min away
Post by minionkeeper on May 30, 2016 16:22:37 GMT -5
We just got home from camping and so dirty and exhausted but we all for the most part had fun. Dominic did great which was surprising. Time to clean up and rest.
C is finally starting to like riding in the stroller. DH and I took her on a jog to our favorite restaurant, ate lunch, then ran back. She was so good, and fell asleep on the way back. We even beat the rain. Boy am I going to be sore tomorrow. This is the first real run of any significant distance I've done since before I was pregnant. And, running home was a little rough with a belly full of Mexican food and margaritas. So worth it though!
My grandmother, on the recommendation of her doctor, put my mom on canned milk at 3 months. Not like she fed her canned milk, like that was her main source of food. Oh how times change.
My grandmother had 4 kids close together (the last two were whoopsies and then she made my grandpa get a vasectomy), and at one point the oldest was in school and the youngest was a baby so my grandma would wait until the baby fell asleep and then take the other two kids to the grocery store because she couldn't handle 3 littles with only one pram. Now, is that worse or better than leaving your kid in the car?
Wait so she would leave the baby at home?? What happened if they woke up?!
This is why I believe older generations don't remember how poorly their babies slept. They unconsciously did CIO from a young age.
We drove over to another one of our builder's developments today and walked through one of "our house" that was all finished and built. I hate that this has turned into such an ordeal because we really love the house so, so much.
Maybe I missed something but did you make any progress on a short term rental, or a discount from the builder or something?
We drove over to another one of our builder's developments today and walked through one of "our house" that was all finished and built. I hate that this has turned into such an ordeal because we really love the house so, so much.
Maybe I missed something but did you make any progress on a short term rental, or a discount from the builder or something?
No, not at all. Our house is getting photographed and listed this week and we're just winging it at this point. Best case scenario, someone buys our house, doesn't need to move in right away, and can rent it back to us until October. Worst case? They need a 30 day closing, and we have to find an apartment that will take us and Ranger for 3 months. We may be homeless.
The last thing I heard from our sales agent on the new house was her saying, "I'm sorry you blame me" and a bunch of excuses trying to say why I'm wrong for being upset.
Here is a terrible collage of some pictures from the house we looked at today. The one we're building has some upgrades that this one didn't (taller upper cabinets, double oven, iron railing spindles, etc), but you get the idea. Our colors are also grays, and not the beiges/browns here. I'm in love with all the archways and tray/stepped ceilings.
Post by eliza040502 on May 30, 2016 19:58:02 GMT -5
London - if you figure out anything that works let me know (re early wake ups). J has always been an early riser. I could deal with six. Lately though it's been before 5. I'm buying black out curtains tomorrow. I already have black out shades. Old house means uneven windows.
emejay - I don't get why people (it always seems to be ILs) seem to think they can do whatever they want. While I understand they raised kids, it doesn't mean that they know everything.
We bought one of those blow up ducks for the bath to get him used to the big bathtub tub. He freaked out. Like screaming. And he was shaking he was so upset. Took him downstairs and out him in the sink tub and he was grinning. The water wasn't hot in the duck. I have no idea why he freaked.
My grandmother, on the recommendation of her doctor, put my mom on canned milk at 3 months. Not like she fed her canned milk, like that was her main source of food. Oh how times change.
My grandmother had 4 kids close together (the last two were whoopsies and then she made my grandpa get a vasectomy), and at one point the oldest was in school and the youngest was a baby so my grandma would wait until the baby fell asleep and then take the other two kids to the grocery store because she couldn't handle 3 littles with only one pram. Now, is that worse or better than leaving your kid in the car?
Wait so she would leave the baby at home?? What happened if they woke up?!
This is why I believe older generations don't remember how poorly their babies slept. They unconsciously did CIO from a young age.
My grandmother used to put my dad on the porch (rain / shine) in his stroller and wait until she saw it moving (indicating he woke up) to go get him.
Wait so she would leave the baby at home?? What happened if they woke up?!
This is why I believe older generations don't remember how poorly their babies slept. They unconsciously did CIO from a young age.
My grandmother used to put my dad on the porch (rain / shine) in his stroller and wait until she saw it moving (indicating he woke up) to go get him.
Have you guys ever watched Call the Midwife? Granted it's a fictional show but they just leave the babies outside in their prams!! I'm terrified every time I see it because all it takes is one kid pulling up to take a header out of the pram. I'm assuming people actually did this back in the 50s
Re: parents, my mom and MIL are pretty good about asking. My mom's partner said something about giving DS1 root beer when he was like 18mos and I seriously freaked and lectured him and I think sacred him enough he now knows to ask :-). He is the one that got my child hooked on ketchup (aka tomato sugar) tho...
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