Monday Moans & Musings

[lilyelayne]

Someone stage an alliteration intervention.

[lilyelayne]

G woke at 530 when his fever spiked. Got him medicated & back down but it went up again at 7. We got in the bath and his temp went back down. He's much chipper now so I'm hoping that was the worst of it for today.

At least we're home instead of traveling today!

[aggiebug]

Poor kiddo I hope he feels better.

We have already done our grocery run for the week although they didn't have spaghetti squash (not terribly surprising) and that is needed forone of my planned meals. Hmm.

DD is really into coloring these days. She requests the activity multiple times a day. I am thinking ml of getting one of those pads/ markers that only color on that special paper for the airplane. Trying to think of entertainment for a lap child on a 2.5 hr trip. that snacks and mmch should do it right?

[dmorgendorffer]

lilyelayne hope he's feeling better.

aggiebug I think the markers / paper sounds like a good idea. I secretly can't wait for DD to not be a lap child anymore. Not that it will be nice paying for another seat but it is so cramped holding her. DD is pretty entertained by ripping apart whatever magazines we bring to read.

We had a busy weekend, we went to chick fil a for breakfast Saturday and they had some kind of event going on called family breakfast, DD loved the person in the cow costume. Then we went to the zoo and saw the new Africa exhibit they opened this summer. Yesterday we tried finger paints for the first time at home. I know DD has used them at daycare, but she basically enjoyed it for about 30 seconds then looked at her paint covered hands and flipped out, "wash! wash!" Guess we'll put those away and try again in a few months.

[aggiebug]

dmorgendorffer, haha aww poor DD, doesn't like being messy. As much as we currently fly paying for the seat will be hard to swallow, but yes I will be relieved to not have her on my lap. (said as I am about to start that all over again too lol!)

[lilyelayne]

aggiebug that sounds like a good plane plan. DS will be 19 months next time we fly and I expect we'll be rather cramped.
@dmorgemdorffer sorry the finger paints were w bust but the rest of the weekend sounds fun.

[dreemkin]

I hear ya on the $$$ for flights. I like what we have going on right now. 3 seats (which is a lot for a 3.5 hour ticket) and 1 lap child. We get a whole row though and the girls can share a seat or LO can "walk" around the row. Won't last for long though. Then I guess we'll be 2 and 2 in two different rows. That'll be weird.

lilyelayne hopefully G will get back to normal poor guy.
dmorgendorffer sounds like a great weekend!
aggiebug the room sounds cute. I like subtle themes. N's room is owl and yellow/grey themed. It's not in-your-face themed or kiddie. It's like a more mature room. Great for my girl who is 3 going on 30.

[dreemkin]

Grocery shopped today and getting ready for a day trip to my family's lake house in WI. I'm hoping the mosquitoes won't be bad bc on top of worrying about zika, A gets horrible reactions. I guess I'll pack the benadryl and cortisone too...



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Well take heart, the mosquitoes that carry Zika aren't found in WI so those chances are pretty slim. The ones they do have are vicious buggars though. —aggiebug

*didn't mean to edit meant to quote sorry bout that.

[agm04]

aggiebug I got this pad for our flights earlier in the summer and DD LOVES it. Good size too! www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H4SKSJE/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Here's the other stuff we bought, if you want to go full crazy like I did. She was totally entertained though, and we only had to get the ipad out for like 10 mins. I put all of this stuff in her skip hop backpack.

This is the best cheap entertainment EVER (it's a pad with reusable "sticker" faces, if you don't want to click). DD asks to play with it every day. It's kind of big though, and the pages fall out eventually. just a warning. Quite entertaining for me too, and it comes in different versions if you don't want faces. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00I5KTK44/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

These window clings (which I resisted bc I'm cheap but they kept her busy for like 30 minutes and now we use them on our playroom door glass). www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BZWT9FE/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Magnetic farm set. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005C12F/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

These pom poms to move from one tupperware container to the next (entertains her while I cook now) www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NG8K12/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

And this pipe cleaner activity, which wasn't as exciting for her as I expected it to be. handsonaswegrow.com/toddler-activity-pipe-cleaner-sprinkles/

Keeping this stuff a secret until we were on the flight was key. We put it away until the flight home, so it stayed novel.  When is your trip?  Party City has cheap gel clings and free shipping (no minimum) right now.

[agm04]

dreemkin this is probably common knowledge that i just didn't know, but the higher % DEET, the better the spray works. I had this Off Family stuff that was only 7%, and was advised to get the deep woods which is 25%. DD's bites get HUGE right away, it's so sad. Good luck!

Since we cancelled our trip to Grand Cayman and changed our flights to CA, we decided to splurge and get DD her own seat. We justified it bc it was still less for all 3 of us to fly to CA than it would have been to Grand Cayman.

lilyelayne hope G is feeling better soon.

[tortor4]

Just popping in to say hi! I found out this weekend that a good friend of mine is expecting her first baby. I'm so excited for her! Other than that, nothing exciting.

[dreemkin]

agm04, thanks; I did know that. I'm bringing a full Deep Woods! And it is sad; they look awful!

And I'm not sure who said that about zika but I'm thinking it's only a matter of time...
Also it's like my original post was edited (aggiebug lilyelayne). That's so weird...

[lilyelayne]

Huh. That is weird, dreemkin. Maybe aggiebug replied and accidentally hit edit instead of quote...?

[lilyelayne]

G refused to nap and got crankier as the day went on. Total meltdown at dinner. Found a rash on his hands, chin, and groin that wasn't there at his last diaper change. Looks like it's HFM round two over here. I feel like more F15 babies have gotten it twice than once.

[aggiebug]

Aug 22, 2016 18:51:30 GMT -5 lilyelayne said:

Huh. That is weird, dreemkin. Maybe aggiebug replied and accidentally hit edit instead of quote...?

Ahhh yeah that must have been what happened it was me. I swore I pressed quote and the box showed up all strange. I took it for a glitch. Oops.


Sorry dreemkin

[dmorgendorffer]

lilyelayne ugh, sorry for the repeat HFM. It passed much more quickly for DD the second time around so hopefully hes better very soon! Seriously, I thought it was one of those things you only get once...

[dreemkin]

No problem aggiebug
Poor G, lilyelayne

[seamonster]

aggiebug the water wow or magic water coloring pads are great on planes. Our at home. DS has a lot of fun coring on them and they're reusable.

[aggiebug]

Aug 24, 2016 23:57:58 GMT -5 seamonster said:

aggiebug the water wow or magic water coloring pads are great on planes. Our at home. DS has a lot of fun coring on them and they're reusable.

you are the 3rd recommendation! I think I am going to head to Michaels to find them today. They weren't at target.