Good morning. I'm back at work today. Barely functioning as I got zero sleep last night. I have so much work to catch up on its not even funny. I just want to go back to bed! Hope everyone has a good day!
Back to reality today H is off to work. Poor S has another cold with awful congestion and cough. The cough had her up from 12-2:30 last night so she woke up cranky. And Mr C was also restless last night.
I have started thinking about S's birthday, it's hard to believe it's in 3 weeks! We don't do a party so it's really just thinking about her cupcakes and I am pondering making her a shirt. She is really into Minnie Mouse so I am thinking of doing Minnie cupcakes and making an applique shirt.
thanks aggiebug! It's really hard so far ugh. Hope S feels better soon! It's rough when they are sick. Currently we all have colds which most likely contributed to the lack of sleep last night.
As far as birthdays go I'm thinking just something small at the house with immediate family. Maybe just a cake or cupcakes. I don't want to go to crazy as the parties will only get bigger as she gets older ya know?
We did a Mini Mouse theme for her first birthday party and it turned out really cute!
mena that is adorable! Did you do that or outsource? I think I can do the cupcakes in the background so I am going to attempt I think. It will just be the 4 of us for her birthday no parties here either. H is go-to take off work, it's on a Wednesday, and we are going to the aquarium. At least that's the plan .
I wish I was that crafty aggiebug! My step sister in law has a hobby of doing cakes so she did them. I'll try to find a better picture of the cupcakes. I think they I found them on Pinterest.
The aquarium sounds like a great idea! I may have to steal it as a new one just opened by us. Thanks!
aggiebug we are going to Disney pretty close to A's birthday but on her actual day we will probably just go out for dinner with immediate family. Not sure about what dessert I'll make yet.
mena i missed your intro but hi!! sorry you're tired today. me too. i couldn't sleep last night, then DH felt the need to wake me up at 5:15 today.
aggiebug i've been thinking about DD's bday, but can't decide what i want to do. we'll do a party for family at a minimum, and i just can't decide if i want to invite some friends/kids too, or keep it simple. i'll see how i'm feeling in a couple weeks and make a call. we'll do mickey mouse clubhouse theme, and i'll make her a cool cake no matter what. there are some SUPER cute pinterest "oh two-dles" themed things out there, but we'll see if i'm up for that.
we were SO BUSY this weekend. idk if it's early nesting or what, but i HAD to clean and organize our house, i was losing it. tore our room apart, reorganized everything. next up is the office (converting to guest room), new playroom organization furniture, and eventually the baby's room.
other big news - it seems that we are done with the pacifier. we've been talking about taking it away, and decided a good first step would be to unclip it from her sleep sack. she's only been using it at night/naps for the last several months, and we had it on one of those paci clips attached to the sleep sack. sat night i unclipped it and offered her one without a clip, and she protested a little and asked for the normal kind. i told her we didn't have any of those, and she asked me to put the regular one away. i was like...okay...you want to get in your crib without one? and she said yes, and went right to sleep. and slept all night despite our neighbors setting off fireworks for 20 mins. i was shocked! she didn't use it at nap yesterday, and last night was night three without it! she did wake up early this morning and talked to herself for almost 2 hours before going back to sleep, but overall i can't believe how well it has gone. (and now i have jinxed myself.)
I'm hoping to nail down a birthday theme in the next two weeks and order invites. We do mostly a family party but even just family is 20 people. Last year I did bookworm theme & we had cake, light appetizers, and rented a bounce house for the kids.
I'm torn on when to have the party. G usually naps 2-4 so do I want to have it in the morning or at noon & serve lunch? Or just have it in the afternoon and skip the nap?
G's birthday isn't until march but we'll be in NoLa most of the week before so I want to get everything done early.
Hi agm04 and congrats! when are you due? That's amazing to hear about the pacifier! Hope it continues for you! DD quit her's on her own cold turkey when we first did sleep training. Now her "blankie" on the other hand she is extremely attached.
Post by dmorgendorffer on Jan 3, 2017 13:06:55 GMT -5
Hey everyone! I'm back to work and regular life today. We spent some time visiting the IL's for the holidays - DD got strep throat and we ended up spending a large chunk for Christmas day sitting in CVS waiting for her to be seen at the minute clinic. We flew back home Christmas night but I spent most of last week solo parenting / "working remotely" so it was pretty hectic.
We let DD sleep with us a few times while she was sick and now she keeps asking to come out of her crib in and sleep in our bed, then having huge tantrums if we don't oblige her. But she also doesn't want to sleep once she gets into our bed, she just flops around like a fish and tries to talk to us.
I don't know that we'll do a party this year either - we're not close to family geographically which makes it tough and to be honest I just don't want all the junk she'd get for presents - she has enough toys cluttering the house. She is OBSESSED with Finding Dory so I might look at doing something small Dory themed just for us.
Back at work today. I'm actually really motivated by my plans to find a new internal job this year when I can change jobs.
I got really cute animal invites at papyrus this summer to use for an "animal fair" themed party (like the song "I went to the animal fair"). But DS is super into his dinosaur books, so I think I'll do a Dinosaur Zoom theme. Right now it's just family and some of our friends, but we don't hang out with people with kids DS's age. And I don't really want to invite all the kids from daycare.
I was just looking at the birthday thread from last year, but since my due date is right around V's birthday, I told DH we aren't doing a party this year. I think we'll take him down to the aquarium or down to one of the kids museums in the city instead, someplace new and fun.
I am home today and was going to go into work tomorrow but I forgot DH is working OT already so I may not. I'm about to start working on the nursery while V is napping.
Post by dmorgendorffer on Jan 3, 2017 15:54:49 GMT -5
kartish thanks for the awesome idea! I bet E would love going to the aquarium since she's been making up watch Finding Dory daily for the past 3 weeks. I think that may be our birthday plan now!
seamonster we went to our first kids party that we were invited to from daycare at a local kids gym two weeks ago and it was more fun than I expected and the kids were adorable playing together but at the same time I don't have any interest in spending the money to do that just yet. I was pretty surprised when we got the invite since we didn't know the parents.
agm04 congrats on the pacifier victory! dmorgendorffer sorry about the strep! I had a few family members with is so it must be going around.
Today was back to normal. N kept thinking she was in a new year of totschool bc of the two week break and I keep thinking it's Monday...oh well. Hopefully I will feel motivated to work out tonight to get that started again. I'm eating too much left over candy today but I don't have the heart to throw it away (I'm bohemian - we are very cheap/thrifty).
kartish thanks for the awesome idea! I bet E would love going to the aquarium since she's been making up watch Finding Dory daily for the past 3 weeks. I think that may be our birthday plan now!
seamonster we went to our first kids party that we were invited to from daycare at a local kids gym two weeks ago and it was more fun than I expected and the kids were adorable playing together but at the same time I don't have any interest in spending the money to do that just yet. I was pretty surprised when we got the invite since we didn't know the parents.
I only know the parents of one kid, have talked to a couple other moms (but don't know their names, just their kids names), and H hasn't talked to the dad of one of DS's classmates despite sitting 3 desks away. We haven't gotten invites to any parties either.
When DS is 3 or 4 and we hopefully know people, I'd love to do his party at a local park that has a train you can ride.
mena how about an intro? Tell us about yourself! How'd you find this board?
Sorry didn't see this till now. I've been swamped at work and errands after so I'm just settling in at home.
Pretty much I'm a full time working mommy to DD. It's looking like we will be OAD as it took a while to conceive DD and I'm getting up there in age. Plus DD is very high needs and I can't imagine adding another one to the mix. She is very stubborn and strong willed - or basically a toddler.
I work at a group home for mentally ill adults so that is very challenging and emotionally draining at times. Me and MH have been together 12 years married for 8. He is a financial advisor. We are currently looking for a new house but are not having much luck as we live in a high cost of living area.
My co-worker had mentioned this message board thing so I decided to check it out. Hoping to get to know you all and hopefully contribute myself.
Took care of the party situation this weekend! I booked a play center for a double bday celebration since the girls bdays are 7 days apart. I figured it would be cheaper than hosting two separate parties with food and booze.
LO has her pre-opt apt this week for her surgery next week. So far no crazy cold or cough. I was just thinking how it's amazing that my kids are not runny nosed snot faces like most daycare kids in the winter! I'll knock on some wood now.
I am the only one up at the moment, the house is quiet except for the cat reminding me that he hasn't yet been fed. As if I could ever forget to feed them their dinner.
I was thinking about doing a party at a local kids gym this year, before I decided no way. It would probably be better if we knew more kids though, it would be just him and his cousins, I doubt they are enough to book the party.
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