Friday June 24

[Bluedaisy]

erbear, I'm jealous that you have a friend who does balloons. They are ridiculously expensive to order from party city here, especially since you just throw them away eventually.

[Bluedaisy]

budders Happy last day!

[erbear]

Bluedaisy party city is crazy expensive. My mom bought some "fun to be one" balloons there and they won't even fill those up, wtf? Thankfully my friend is going to fill them for us. They're the best!

[purple]

Happy birthday O, jessila, and S, alayne926!

[tiffbot]

So crazy! Joolschweets, and purple I'm definitely too uneducated to really have solid opinions but I was still shocked watching along and seeing what happened! I have a friend here from the UK who posted last night that she's happy she's here. It just seems to weird, scary.

alayne926 and jessila happy birthday LOs!

Happy last day budders!

[tiffbot]

So this little fart.

I took this on Wednesday because I was like, holy she's getting close to pulling up to the second rung. But she couldn't figure it out.

Yesterday when we went outside she went 'running' to the slide as soon as I set her down, and climbed right up to the top and sat there waiting for me to hold her hand to slide down. Like stairs are one thing but pulling herself up a ladder and getting her feet in the right place to sit down at the top was a little surprising to me!

[mcp6286]

budders that is infuriating! So many paras are utterly useless. Had one of those myself this year!

[Bluedaisy]

budders I would have been beyond passed. That makes me feel so lucky about the paras I work with. Yesterday the one had brought her daughter in to volunteer and the daughter basically drained my eighty gallon fish tank for me using an ice cream pail....I'm bringing her chocolate today.

[tiffbot]

Jun 24, 2016 9:09:07 GMT -5 michyme123 said:

Canadian ladies, I haven't logged into Pampers points in awhile so this may be old news.

But heads up 1200 pts gets you $10 Amazon.ca money for p&g products (so more diapers, etc)

Oh man, I've got 7800 points I haven't decided what to do with. Maybe I should be getting a couple or so boxes of diapers with that!

[veggiemo]

TGIF! Kids were up early as balls this morning because somehow the monitor got turned off and I didn't hear LO until he was wide awake and had woken up DS in the process. Damn it.

So my friend's son (2.5 years old) broke his leg yesterday in tumbling class! Isn't that scary? I told DS what happened and showed him a picture of the cast. DS said "he can't play with me anymore?" and I said "well not really, not right now" and DS responded "Don't worry, he will be better in no time!" I don't know where he got that phrase but I thought it was cute of him to say. Man though, a 2.5 year old in a full leg cast? That's gonna be a tough one.

[Bluedaisy]

budders glad you got it resolved. I worked with one once who called me every name in the book including the c-word because I didn't give her a perfect evaluation when she was late literally every day!

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DS1 IS ON A PLANE CROSSING THE ATLANTIC RIGHT NOW AND WILL BE ON US SOIL AGAIN IN TWO AND A HALF HOURS. I PICK HIM UP TONIGHT!!!

[Widget123]

So happy for you @jimbobcooter! We are itching to see a pic of the family reunion!

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Jun 24, 2016 9:40:58 GMT -5 Widget123 said:

So happy for you @jimbobcooter ! We are itching to see a pic of the family reunion!

He doesn't get in until 8:20 pm so P will stay home with DH.  By the time I pick them up,  drop XH off, and get home it will be close to 10.  We haven't decided yet if we will let DS1 see P this evening (assuming P wakes up like he sometimes does around that time) of if they will have to wait until tomorrow, but I'm going to try to get P's reaction on video.

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purple what are the odds that Scotland will vote again on whether to stay part of the UK or not after the Brexit outcome? I'm really interested in getting your perspective on this.

[jillywilly]

Happy birthday, O and S!!! alayne926 and jessila

[prettymama36]

Happy birthday O jessila and S alayne926!
Enjoy your last day budders! I hope V is feeling better today.

[veggiemo]

Jun 24, 2016 9:31:14 GMT -5 michyme123 said:

veggiemo oh no! And of all times to get one, at the start of summer/swimming season. That sucks

I knowwww. And they live on a lake, too.

I just found out he wasn't even doing anything when it happened, he was just running and he collapsed to the floor. At first his mom thought it was something neurological because he just randomly fell over. But nope, fractured fibula.

[kemdupuis]

@jimbobcooter so happy for you guys! What a sweet reunion it will be! I am sure DS1 will have some good stories, too!

[belle0720]

Jun 24, 2016 6:32:22 GMT -5 jillywilly said:

Jun 24, 2016 5:47:26 GMT -5 carrots said:

This Brexit news feels like a bad premonition of Trump getting elected. I'm getting lots of feels on this and the market impacts are stressing me out.

This is my initial worry. If there is one positive, I hope that like Joolschweets said, it serves as a wake-up for Americans with trump. My sanders-supporting husband was going to vote third party in November, but now he finally told me he will vote Clinton for fear of Trump somehow winning.

So much this. I'm extremely surprised about the Brexit vote. I really hope people wake up and see that Trump being elected our President is a real threat and that their vote does matter. It honestly infuriates me that Sanders is running Independent and taking away votes for the Democratic party. My stomach feels sick over it all.

[3dimesdown]

I know nothing about Brexit pro/cons but I do know all my stock is down this morning...

In other news, my brother got MM this yesterday. Nice timing, bro.

[tjanca22]

Happy birthday O jessila and to S alayne926!

Yay @jimbobcooter!! Please post pictures of the reunion!

Happy to announce that we had our AS this morning. Baby looks great and measuring right where she should be. And yes that's right, I said SHE!! We're having a little girl! It feels so weird to actually know what we're having since we were team green last time. I can't wait to tell E that he's going to have a little sis! My heart is just so happy right now!

[tjanca22]

3dimesdown, being from Wisconsin, I totally approve of MM's new bow!

[billyhorrible]

For those of you heavily invested in my crusade, you will be happy to know I have found the elusive cotton candy grapes. And have gone through 2 bags in 2 weeks.

[belle0720]

billyhorrible Cotton Candy Grapes are the best!! They were my go-to snack last summer after G was born I just bought 2 bags at Sprouts last weekend too, sooo good!

[holliberry28]

Yay! Congrats tjanca22!! I'm so happy for you.

[tiffbot]

Congratulations tjanca22!!

veggiemo that's so sad my friends 18 month old that fell down our stairs a couple years ago broke her femur. Like even the nurses told them it could have happened 1000 times and only happened once. So that was a full leg cast too (one that had to like, wrap around her stomach since she was so young)

[Widget123]

Congrats tjanca22! So happy for you!

[purple]

Jun 24, 2016 9:48:06 GMT -5 @jimbobcooter said:

purple what are the odds that Scotland will vote again on whether to stay part of the UK or not after the Brexit outcome? I'm really interested in getting your perspective on this.

Well, a lot of people voted No to independence because they thought that guaranteed a future in Europe. And as you've probably seen, the whole of Scotland voted Remain. So on the face of it it looks fairly cut and dried, and it still might be. However, the whole of the EU will change as a result of this vote, so who knows.

I've lived in Wales, England and Scotland and each country has a distinctive culture. It's very easy for people who have always lived in England to think that their dominant culture is UK-wide. It really isn't.

It's also not set in stone that the UK will actually end up leaving the EU. It's extremely complicated, but briefly, even though there's been a referendum, we can't leave without an Act of Parliament. And MPs might not vote to leave.

So, briefly, the only certainty right now is an awful lot of uncertainty. And a lot of hurt on both sides.

[erbear]

Congrats, tjanca22!!