Weekend Randoms!!

[kida]

I hope every one is having a good weekend! It's kind of chilly today so I'm thinking of making some homemade soup for dinner.
Have we started sharing any soup recipes yet? Because we can do that here if not

[HelgaHuffle]

I had the most horrifying thought last night. In a few weeks we'll be putting up the Christmas tree. With a 11/12 month old in the house. Hold me!

[evenkeeled]

Oct 29, 2016 9:48:45 GMT -5 HelgaHuffle said:

I had the most horrifying thought last night. In a few weeks we'll be putting up the Christmas tree. With a 11/12 month old in the house. Hold me!

Ye I thought of that a few weeks ago! We normally do two trees, one in the family room and one in the foyer but since Emma is mainly in the family room we are going to scratch that and just have the one tree. Not idea but I think will be better than having to put a baby gate around the tree. Next few years are going to be interesting. 

We have a birthday party to go to today at 2 and Emma went down for her nap a little before 11 so I am eating leftovers for lunch and waiting for H to come home. He just purchased a convertible and bringing it home. I am neutral on the whole idea. Eh. I do know that my one stepson is going to be very happy to see it and then very upset when he realizes he isn't getting it and he still doesn't have his own car. Oh well, life is tough when you are relying on parents for everything.

Tomorrow we have a neighborhood parade and party to go to, that I am helping with, and need to finish the Halloween decorations. I am making a headless scarecrow/man (not sure which) with a jack o lantern for his head seating at his feet. Need some bales of straw to sit him on and trying to think about what to stuff him with that I could potentially store and reuse next year. 

[physiomeg]

HelgaHuffle, I've had the same worry about the Christmas tree! We could put it down in the basement so it's mostly safe from toddler hands, but then I'd never see it. I really love having the Christmas tree in our main room so we can enjoy the lights...looks like I might be investing in a baby gate. Anyone have any recommendations? We have the kind with doors on our doorways, but I'd probably need something different (preferably cheap!) for the tree.

[byjove]

Oh gosh, have not even though about the tree. When Clara was really young, we did a table top tree, but she did fine around my parent's tree. We are hosting Xmas this year. Maybe we'll just anchor it to the wall and only put soft ornaments around the bottom?

[HelgaHuffle]

F was 6 months and 18 months at his first 2 Christmases so it wasn't horrible. I did only put ornaments on the top half for those years. I think R will be relentless about getting into it. I have no way to gate it off. I'm just going to hope for the best lol.

[gdaisy09]

We're going to be listing the house and moving, so we're skipping the tree this year. We'll just have to worry about the tree at grandmas house

[geners]

Hello! C's getting a cold, he is a snotty mess. Would only sleep last night if he was being held. Long night, but MH took him when he woke up and let me sleep an extra hour, which was so nice. Tonight we will run the humidifier, use Vick's and maybe give Tylenol (he woke up with no fever, at last check it was just over 99 and he feels pretty warm to me right now but he's sleeping so I can't check) and hope for more rest for all.

I think we will still do our big fancy tree, decorated in all red, white, silver and gold, in the living room (C doesn't really spend any time there because we haven't baby proofed). And then I want to add a second tree in the basement family room - smaller, multicolored lights & ornaments, more fun - but it will be outside the gated off play area so hopefully that one will be safe from little hands too.

[obscurereference]

We've never had a 1 year old at Christmas but we have been through two other kids, one of which is pretty destructive. The first year we had a toddler, we anchored the tree but it was totally not necessary. We put not-breakable, not-special ornaments on the bottom and it's always fine. I think the needles are pokey enough to be a deterrent (we do real trees). Both of our older kids have actually enjoyed endlessly rearranging the ornaments.

The tree is actually almost the only thing we put out anymore besides pillows. All the fragile stuff will just have to wait! They have access to every room in our house except the master so we just deal.

Oh!! Do NOT put wrapped presents under the tree until you want them to be opened!! We don't put anything out until Christmas Eve. Fancy bows are fair game and too much for a toddler to ignore!

[obscurereference]

So my H and I have been throwing around the idea of moving to a better school district and we decided that we'd start looking and we're in a good position to just wait until we find something that's perfect for us. So I'm thinking, like, a year of looking. Well. We are at my mom's house today and there happened to be an open house right around the corner so we thought sure why not? We really liked it! We talked about it but decided that it's not enough space but now we have a realtor coming to our house to do a market analysis next week. Too fast!!

I'm kind of in shock that I could actually picture us in a new house this quickly. I love our current house!

[byjove]

I'm bummed right now. I was talking with my parents about Christmas plans last night because they said they were coming out here... apparently for 2 days! I'm kinda like why even bother we had been expecting the better part of a week.

[HelgaHuffle]

Sorry byjove

[13liza]

byjove that's really a bummer. How far are they traveling? Are they visiting other family at the same time?

[byjove]

Oct 30, 2016 10:44:56 GMT -5 13liza said:

byjove that's really a bummer. How far are they traveling? Are they visiting other family at the same time?

They are coming from AZ. It is complicated, but I'm annoyed they hadn't mentioned this 6 weeks ago when we decided on the plan for them to visit- it was implied they would be here longer.

[byjove]

Clara has a touch of a fever accompanying her cough and Margs is a grump today. I should be resting but DH took out the girls out for a nap and I'm trying to power clean.

[geners]

byjove, hugs for the crappy news and the sick/grumpy girls

[geners]

I totally forgot to do saline & NoseFrida before this nap and poor C struggled so hard to nurse. He had to keep stopping so he could breathe through his mouth and he was getting so frustrated. Now he's snoring like a lumberjack and sounding so congested. I remembered to turn the humidifier on, at least.

We took him out earlier and got him some new toys. A plastic box with a hinged lid that he will get a kick out of opening & closing, and a big sparkly ball, both from the dollar store. Then we went to BRU and got him a train and some bath toys, plus a few other odds & ends - boogie wipes, straw cup, nursing pads - and because we spent $50 we got a big Mickey Mouse for $5 (was a promotion they are running). He hugged Mickey all the way home

[byjove]

geners awwwww

[RoLoMa]

I was so excited that M slept until almost 8 this morning. That was until I opened his bedroom door and found out why...there was a HUGE pile of barf on the floor outside of his crib and when I picked him up realized he also had diarrhea at some point in the night. Poor baby boy had an awful stomach bug. He needed to be touching me all day and had diarrhea several more times during the day. I'm pretty sure he had a low grade fever too. He was just so miserable all day and I felt so helpless. Plus it was ToT here tonight and we didn't get to dress up and go.

I gave him a bath around 6pm and that really seemed to help. He even ate a few bites of toast and played before bed. Fingers crossed he is over it now. We have his 1 year appt tomorrow morning.

Also, I feel guilty because he was "off" all day at his party yesterday and I kept thinking he was just tired and overwhelmed. I should have taken it more seriously I guess.

[obscurereference]

Purchased the first Christmas presents today! Trying not to do too much shopping before thanksgiving. The first round of colds are tapering out but I'm expecting the littles to be sick over the next couple of days. Why are weekends so short?

[geners]

Poor M, I'm sorry for the rough day for all of you! I'm glad he started to feel better last night. We always give C a bath when he's not feeling well, even if it's not a bath night, and I swear it helps - or maybe it's just that since he enjoys baths so much, it takes his mind off feeling crappy. I hope his appointment goes well today!

ETA tag RoLoMa

[byjove]

RoLoMa poor baby! There was no way to know. I hope he feels better pronto.