TFAS 7/26

[cheezee]

This check-in is for those of us who are trying for a sibling, or will be trying for a sibling soon.



Age of LO(s):



Cycle/Month:



CD/DPO:



RRCS:



GTKY: Share your latest parenting win and fail! 

[ourcrazynavylife]

Good morning cheezee thanks for starting

Age of LO(s): almost 19 months

Cycle/Month: 6/8

CD/DPO: 21

RRCS: Just waiting on O

GTKY: Share your latest parenting win and fail!
Mommy fail: We were at her 18 month appt yesterday and I punched her fingers between the chair arms in the office. Felt like the biggest jerk ever.
Mommy win:
I managed to take her to the grocery store by myself Sunday morning without losing my marbles. (She likes to act like a crazy pants whenever I try the grocery store alone. Idk why).

[sleepymonkey]

Age of LO(s): 2 1/2


Cycle/Month: 15/14


CD/DPO: 25/9


RRCS: None. Just waiting to see if CD1 holds off long enough for me to test this weekend. I was feeling a lot more hopeful yesterday.


GTKY: Share your latest parenting win and fail!
Win: I managed to take DD in to Target and have her sit in the shopping cart the whole time without having to give her my phone to watch something on YouTube. I may have had to get her a cake pop at Starbucks first but it was still a win in my book.
Fail: I feel like we're failing at disciplining. We haven't done much disciplining before because she was so young and wouldn't really understand. But now that she's getting to an age where she's getting sassy and a bit defiant, we need to lay down the law. But we are finding it so hard to just pick a discipline strategy (we are definitely not in to any kind of physical punishment.) We know she needs it so she doesn't turn in to a little brat so we need to do something.

[ThankfulSnail]

Age of LO(s): 2 1/2


Cycle/Month: 1/1


CD/DPO: CD 14


RRCS: I charted for 3 months before getting pregnant with DD and 2 cycles before this one, and so far this cycle is the one with the clearest fertility signs ever. Gives me a lot of hope that maybe I won't be quite as stressed this time around.

GTKY: Share your latest parenting win and fail!
Win: DH has been working overtime for the last few weeks and so I've been managing to get myself dressed, ready, fed, and getting DD dressed, hair done, out the door and dropped off at daycare all by myself every day. I've been on time to work every day, too. Winning!
Fail: ILs were having everybody over on Saturday and wanted everyone to come at 2 PM which is right in the middle of DD's 1-3 PM naptime. Since the kids always stay up late at ILs house, we decided we'd try to hold her off until we got there and let her take a late nap. We went out for a late lunch and DD was a bit of a tired mess but we made it. I put Netflix on my phone for her while we drove to ILs so she made it all the way there without napping. I went to check on her 30 minutes after I laid her down and she was wide awake and SO EXCITED to play with her cousins, I couldn't get her to take a nap at all. She was a hot mess the rest of the afternoon/most of the next day. We tried!

[BabyStandish]

Age of LO(s): 18.76 months.

Cycle/Month: 4/5

CD/DPO: 4

RRCS: my body ovulated way earlier this last cycle so who knows what will happen this cycle. DH is all "we just need to have all the sex this next month". I'm tired just thinking about it.

GTKY: Share your latest parenting win and fail!
Win: we've realized that LO will eat solids a lot better when we are out of the house so we always give him a food pouch when we are at the store and he sucks it down. He won't do that at home.
Fail: definitely sucking at discipline as well. He just thinks it's funny. I also cut one of his finger nails too short the other week and it bled so now I'm scared to do it again.

[sleepymonkey]

ThankfulSnail, I can totally commiserate on the being too excited to nap. We can't even tell her when we're going to see her cousins or going down to see her other grandparents because she will get so excited and not nap and then we're left to deal with a beast from @ 4pm until bedtime.

[ThankfulSnail]

Jul 26, 2016 12:07:11 GMT -5 sleepymonkey said:

ThankfulSnail , I can totally commiserate on the being too excited to nap. We can't even tell her when we're going to see her cousins or going down to see her other grandparents because she will get so excited and not nap and then we're left to deal with a beast from @ 4pm until bedtime.

These kids and their grandparents! I asked DD this morning if she was excited to go to daycare and she said, "I wanna go... hmmmm.... Gwamma house." Like, this is not a multiple choice question, kid, I'm not driving across the metro area to take you to MIL's house on a whim. Nice try, though.

[agm04]

Age of LO(s): 17 months

Cycle/Month: 2/2

CD/DPO: 8

RRCS: Nothing interesting here.

GTKY: Win: I also tend to note the fails more than the wins, but DD is such a happy kid - can that be an ongoing win?
Fail: DD sits down to eat for a max of like 10 minutes. Then she gets down, walks around, comes by for a bite, walks around...surely it's normal, but I feel like I should care more that she sits and eats. It never seems like it's worth the battle/tears in the moment.

[jlincoln]

Age of LO(s): 19 months

Cycle/Month: 1/1 (after MC in early June), after lo 9/9

CD/DPO: 23/8

RRCS: Only did OPK's this month. Will probably do an IUI next month.

GTKY: Share your latest parenting win and fail! Having my 19 month old smack me hard on the face in front of everyone watching at the pool. She's into hitting when she's overly tired. That was fun.

[jax1182014]

Hi everyone! I'll tag later.
Age of LO: 20 months
Cycle/month: 9
CD: 7
RRCS: nothing

GTKY
Mom win: My daughter loves her bedtime routine.

Mom fail: I hate cutting her nails so I don't. She grows little daggers on her fingers until my husband says it's time to try to cut them. It's so hard!

[ThankfulSnail]

Jul 26, 2016 14:40:18 GMT -5 jax1182014 said:

Hi everyone! I'll tag later.
Age of LO: 20 months
Cycle/month: 9
CD: 7
RRCS: nothing

GTKY
Mom win: My daughter loves her bedtime routine.

Mom fail: I hate cutting her nails so I don't. She grows little daggers on her fingers until my husband says it's time to try to cut them. It's so hard!

FFTC but I also don't cut DD's nails hardly ever. She's 2.5. Until they're looking like they might hurt her other toes or are hurting me I leave them.

[cheezee]

caitost21 good luck at your RE appointment!
sleepymonkey disciplining is so hard. We totally suck at that too.
ThankfulSnail Your DD sounds just like mine. A big case of FOMO! All that excitement ain't nobody got time for a nap!
BabyStandish I get tired just thinking about a few times during the FW. Luckily DH is starting to feel the same!

Age of LO(s): 4

Cycle/Month: 14/15

CD/DPO: 4dpo

RRCS: Just impatiently waiting on our RE appointment.

GTKY: Share your latest parenting win and fail! Win - we discovered she likes pickles. Something other than carbs or cheese. I'm in shock. Fail - She's been up past 10pm a lot lately this summer. She gets many "pool baths" too. I guess that is what summer is about, right?!

[charliefox]

Age of LO(s): DS is 10 months

Cycle/Month: TTA

CD/DPO: n/a

RRCS: Just getting nervous to actually TTC. H is OOT next month and then in Sept DS turns 1, then the serious conversations begin.

GTKY: Share your latest parenting win and fail! Oh geez...I feel my days are blurs of ups and downs and I can't really think of anything! Most recent win? Finally got DS down for an afternoon nap at 2pm after being awake since 9am! Poor overtired baby.

[charliefox]

Jul 26, 2016 14:40:18 GMT -5 jax1182014 said:

Hi everyone! I'll tag later.
Age of LO: 20 months
Cycle/month: 9
CD: 7
RRCS: nothing

GTKY
Mom win: My daughter loves her bedtime routine.

Mom fail: I hate cutting her nails so I don't. She grows little daggers on her fingers until my husband says it's time to try to cut them. It's so hard!

I have all these random cuts on my legs and hands and I couldn't figure out where they were from...oh yeah, from DS's razor blades taht I always put off cutting because he hates it and I can only do like 2 or 3 at a time. 

cheezee, we do so many 'pool baths'. Often playing outside in the water is the only thing that gets us happily from about 4:30pm to bedtime, I figure a little hose down is almost as good. 

[jax1182014]

@cheeze and charliefox.. Nothing wrong with a little hose down in the evening