IT'S FRIDAY! (Randoms)

[erbear]

Good morning! We all had a rough night, but I had a lot of fun wth my friends last night and we do have lunch with our mom's group today. I think LO and I are going to a splash pad, too.

We have a super busy weekend on tap and it's supposed to be super hot and humid. Boo.

[tiffbot]

Hi!

I have a meeting for one of the community boards I'm on tonight. There's also a football game to be watched so I'll be doing that when I get home.

I can definitely now see and feel the tops of DD's bottom canines! So I guess she's officially cut everything but her 2 year molars.

It's Friday!

[tiffbot]

Aug 26, 2016 8:34:24 GMT -5 michyme123 said:

Aug 26, 2016 8:32:55 GMT -5 tiffbot said:

Hi!

I have a meeting for one of the community boards I'm on tonight. There's also a football game to be watched so I'll be doing that when I get home.

I can definitely now see and feel the tops of DD's bottom eye teeth! So I guess she's officially cut everything but her 2 year molars.

It's Friday!

it's almost the banjo bowl! As usual I'm sure you guys will win lol

The next two weekends after this one are my favourite time of the season!! Can't wait!

[mrsmonogrammed]

Have fun carrots! It's on my bucket list to go to a drive in theater:)

Phone interview in approx 10 min and then leaving for the Dells. I'm excited to see how C likes interacting with the 2 boys from the other family we're going with:)

[sabrinaml]

Morning!
Doing some business stuff for DH this morning. (Phone calls and errands, so not too time consuming!)
Also going to attempt to plan a cousins gathering for DHs side. I'm thinking an escape room somewhere. Now to find one that is pretty even distance to all of us.
Also working on Christmas/bday lists for the family. As I come up with different ideas I need to actually jot them down so I don't forget. (Mostly thinking of things for C right now. I know MIL will be asking soon.)
And hopefully while C naps I can get some housework done and work on planning a baby shower for my brothers fiancé. It will be his 4th kid (1st boy) and her 1st kid. Going with a snoopy theme- so if anyone has cute ideas, please pass them on!

[sabrinaml]

Good luck with the interview today mrsmonogrammed!!

[Widget123]

Good luck with the interview mrsmonogrammed!

Quiet Friday at work; hopefully it stays that way. I am mostly caught up on emails from when I was out on vacation. H took DD to a Nats game last night and they got home really late, so I am hoping we can all go to bed early tonight because I am exhausted. The house is really a wreck-- still have suitcases, bins, etc. full of vacation stuff-- so hopefully H and I can work on getting the house back to normal this weekend.

[stinybean]

@mrsmongrammed I hope the interview is going well!

I'm feeling whiney today, so I'm curbing my complaining because it's stupid... tomorrow my two (hopefully three) friends are coming over. We're going to get dinner at Blaze pizza & then they'll probably come back to play with J.

[sugarkissed]

tiffbot, Eye teeth have made an appearance here too! Looking forward to a break from teething, until the 2 year molars!

We are camping this weekend. It's a lot of work and it's starting to get pretty cool in the evenings, so I'm not sure how excited I am, but the girls will have a lot of fun regardless!

[purple]

Good luck with the interview, mrsmonogrammed!

erbear, @stcyt, rough night here too. Hopefully they will all sleep tonight!

We went to a fabulous new-to-us playgroup this morning. They have a bouncy castle every week! An older boy (his mum says he's three) fell for L in a big way. He kept running over to give her cuddles and pat her cheek, whilst she tried to kick his feet out from under him. At one point she and another child her age got into a tussle over a toy, and before the other mum or I could intervene, her admirer had distracted her with a book. He told his mum that L is very pretty and lovely and he wants to take her home.

I thought this was going to be a quieter weekend, but we're having friends to lunch tomorrow, and in the evening Mum's babysitting so H and I are going out. On Sunday H is playing in church, and then we're putting L's big girl bed together. We can't put her in her cot (crib to you) until she's fast asleep, so we're making this big change to try and help her put herself to sleep. So it'll still be a pretty busy weekend!

Happy Friday, everyone :-)

[shahoi]

GL with your interview mrsmonogrammed!!

I'm so glad it's Friday, because that means it's my day off! I'm in nap jail right now, but getting ready to put her down so I can take a shower and get ready. I think we will surprise H at work and go to lunch. Hopefully the zoo will be on our agenda this weekend, too. I think O will really enjoy it.

[tiffbot]

Aug 26, 2016 9:37:50 GMT -5 sugarkissed said:

tiffbot, Eye teeth have made an appearance here too! Looking forward to a break from teething, until the 2 year molars!

We are camping this weekend. It's a lot of work and it's starting to get pretty cool in the evenings, so I'm not sure how excited I am, but the girls will have a lot of fun regardless!

It's such a relief getting eye teeth over with! I'm a little nervous about how much of a break she'll get before her next round of molars since everything else came so early. But then we'll be done I guess! She got her first teeth a month after DS got his last one so it feels like it's been a long time since a teething break lol!

[holliberry28]

Good luck mrsmonogrammed on the interview today.

My mom's surgical biopsy went well yesterday and she sounds/is having a good recovery. Results will be ready on Monday.

10 day countdown til H leaves. I printed out a calender so I can mark off the days til he returns. I should probably also fill the days with shows/movies to be watched in his absense lol.

Just when I think M is doing so well and doing new things, my sister texted me again that she's worried about his development. She compared me to a doctor who ignores their own cancer, and made the comparison of her letting me know she is concerned with M is in the same line as me telling my mother to get the surgical biopsy instead of a regular needle one for accuracy.

Sign. I will be scheduling an EI eval, I just haven't decided if I'll do it before or after his 15 month appointment at the end of September.

This is why I've tried to be silent all week.

[beersandweirs]

Slow Friday here as well, which is great because I am super tired from waking up early. Fun weekend ahead, party at my parents' place and a couple of my cousins that I haven't seen for a year are going to be there and I am going to stay at their hotel with them Saturday night.

I feel like there are a few people we haven't heard from in a while. 3dimesdown, billyhorrible, gigi3126 where you at ladies?

[gigi3126]

Aug 26, 2016 10:09:36 GMT -5 beersandweirs said:

Slow Friday here as well, which is great because I am super tired from waking up early. Fun weekend ahead, party at my parents' place and a couple of my cousins that I haven't seen for a year are going to be there and I am going to stay at their hotel with them Saturday night.

I feel like there are a few people we haven't heard from in a while. 3dimesdown, billyhorrible, gigi3126 where you at ladies?

Ugh...I'm running myself ragged at work. First week back is kicking my ass. And Jude has been a crank monster. I miss being able to check in here though, so thanks for remembering me! Hopefully, things will settle down and I'll get into a routine and be back more frequently. I guess not pumping at work is really killing my online social life...lol! Here's a pic of the maniac as my sorry for being MIA.

[beersandweirs]

gigi3126 totally understandable, just wanted to see what you were up to!

[3dimesdown]

Aug 26, 2016 10:09:36 GMT -5 beersandweirs said:

Slow Friday here as well, which is great because I am super tired from waking up early. Fun weekend ahead, party at my parents' place and a couple of my cousins that I haven't seen for a year are going to be there and I am going to stay at their hotel with them Saturday night.

I feel like there are a few people we haven't heard from in a while. 3dimesdown , billyhorrible , gigi3126 where you at ladies?

I've been popping in and out here. My big project is finally wrapping up so I've been in the field all week doing final walk throughs and sweating my ass off. My down time after work has been taken up by job search stuff. I mentioned on the private board that I thought I'd get an offer, and I just received it. It's what I expected, which is to say, it was not enough to make me leave this job. So the hunt continues...

[holliberry28]

Aug 26, 2016 10:20:36 GMT -5 budders said:

We're wrapping up our mini-trip and heading home. We had fun, but I have been super sick so it's been exhausting.

Crossing my fingers that our sink is in working order when we get home!

Hope your kitchen is all set when you return and you feel better soon.

To answer your question, she said she held a meeting for a 15 month old girl the other day who got an ASD diagnosis and she said M wasn't doing any of the things on the assessment/checklist that was provided.  She said he doesn't babble, which he does, and doesn't imitate bye (which he doesn't).  She couldn't elaborate any further than that.

He's obsessed with FIL and when he's around he only wants to be with him and noone else.  FIL carries him a lot (despite our protests) but he's not with him all too often so I don't see it a big deal.  He cries a lot with change, new people, new places.

I had made it known to her that I would schedule an eval in the next upcoming months if I had continued concerns, but now I can't think of anything else.  I think I honestly have to completely cut her out of my life.  And not because she may or may not be right, but because she has no boundaries and cannot use any sort of discretion in expressing her opinions when it comes to the development of my child. 

I'm so sorry for the rant.  I apparently can't be 'light' on here right now.

[Widget123]

holliberry28, could you wait until the 15 month appointment, say something to the pedi about your sister's concerns, and then if the pedi thinks she is crazy, tell her your pedi thinks an eval is unnecessary? Would that shut her up? If the answer is no, then I guess going ahead and scheduling the eval makes sense to give you both peace of mind.

[holliberry28]

Aug 26, 2016 10:26:13 GMT -5 carrots said:

holliberry28 I hope an evaluation will get your sister to quiet down. I'm so annoyed for you but think after all the anxiety she's been causing maybe you will feel better once you have someone else's input.

Also, how long will your H be gone? Was it 10 weeks? Hope you guys can enjoy the days until he leaves.

I have totally lost any sense of self as an SLP because the thought of something being wrong developmentally makes me spiral.

10 weeks is bootcamp.  I may or may not see him in November before he has to start the 8 week job training.  I may or may not see him for Thanksgiving, but he will definitely be home for a week and half for Christmas and New Years.  Officially done toward the third-ish week of January.

[holliberry28]

Aug 26, 2016 10:39:32 GMT -5 Widget123 said:

holliberry28 , could you wait until the 15 month appointment, say something to the pedi about your sister's concerns, and then if the pedi thinks she is crazy, tell her your pedi thinks an eval is unnecessary? Would that shut her up? If the answer is no, then I guess going ahead and scheduling the eval makes sense to give you both peace of mind.

The reason why I'm debating if it's even worth it to wait til the appointment is because for his 12 month he cried the whole time in fear.  If we have a repeat crying episode, she won't be able to tell anything and it'll all be based on parent report.

[pghtruelove]

holliberry28 I hope the eval goes well and your sister will stop bothering you.

[holliberry28]

As a thank you for listening to my rants, here's a pic. Missed bedtime last night bc went to visit my mom in the hospital but got this txt from H.

Poof

[Widget123]

Aug 26, 2016 10:41:34 GMT -5 holliberry28 said:

Aug 26, 2016 10:39:32 GMT -5 Widget123 said:

holliberry28 , could you wait until the 15 month appointment, say something to the pedi about your sister's concerns, and then if the pedi thinks she is crazy, tell her your pedi thinks an eval is unnecessary? Would that shut her up? If the answer is no, then I guess going ahead and scheduling the eval makes sense to give you both peace of mind.

The reason why I'm debating if it's even worth it to wait til the appointment is because for his 12 month he cried the whole time in fear.  If we have a repeat crying episode, she won't be able to tell anything and it'll all be based on parent report.

Yeah I get where you are coming from. The last two pedi appts my DD would not cooperate at all, so we just reported the answers to the pedi's questions ourselves and said we weren't concerned.  However, in her case, she was laughing nonstop, not crying, so that is obviously a lot more pleasant.

[jillywilly]

Hello! DS and I had a good morning together, and I've gotten a ton accomplished so far while he's been napping. Hoping he gives me another hour-ish so I can clean our bathroom and relax a bit more. This weekend looks to be pretty low-key for us, but tomorrow is date night, so I'm super excited for that!

[purple]

holliberry28, I'm so sorry you have so much on your plate. There is no need at all to feel you need to be "light" on here. If there was, most of us would need to spend time away at one time or another.

Honestly, when you talk about M he sounds completely normal, but shy. If your sister can't shut up I think you do need to stop seeing her. The time from now until Christmas is going to be hard work without all her negativity.

beersandweirs, thanks for asking after those ladies! I've been wondering about billyhorrible, gigi3126 and 3dimesdown too, but I wasn't sure if I'd just been missing their posts.

I just managed to have a look in L's mouth (by dint of turning her upside down) and she has two upper molars coming in. Since she only has four teeth on top and just two isolated ones on the bottom, she's clearly going for teeth in a random order. Well, since it's molars that have been causing so much trouble this time, hopefully the next round of teething won't be so bad!

[mrsmonogrammed]

Totally already texted Target to get the 10% off coupon for Sunday! H isnt going to be thrilled, but I'll just leave him to paint the downstairs and take DD to target "to get out of his hair"

[holliberry28]

Aug 26, 2016 12:54:28 GMT -5 @jemomma said:

holliberry28 I'm gonna be real and please don't take it the wrong way. If this is a point of anxiety for you then just get him evaluated. If there is even a thought in your mind that something might possibly be not quite right, get him evaluated. I'm not saying something is wrong, because really how the eff would I know that? I don't want to tell you that I'm sure he's fine and normal, because I think ultimately that's not helping anyone. Perhaps your sister sees something that maybe you are not able to see because of your bond with M. Sometimes we wear blinders when it comes to our children. Bottom line is: it can't hurt to have an evaluation. And if, God forbid, something does need to be done, at least you know early.

Of course I wouldn't take it the wrong way.  Thanks for your honest response. I'm at the point where I think he may have a two or three month delay in acquiring milestones, so I probably will go forth with the evaluations because at this point, my worrying and getting upset by her comments aren't helping anyone.  And, you're right, it doesn't hurt to have an evaluation.  She says I'm defensive, but I think my anger comes from not having the respect in me as a parent to know that I will do something when I reach a point and feel like it's necessary and the right thing/time to do so.  This is just pushing me to do it a few months sooner that I had wanted. 

[Bluedaisy]

holliberry28 I have no advice but am sorry you are dealing with this.

[Bluedaisy]

I haven't been around much lately because we've been busy with back to school and daycare, etc. but I have been lurking. Hope everyone is doing well.