TGIF!

[adouces06]

What's everyone got going on today?? Any FFFC?!

[iwantbacon]

Working from home today with the boys since my car is an a-hole and my H's car won't fit the infant seat. Time for at least one of us to get a new car.

[erien22846]

Work. Chili cook off at lunch to celebrate the super bowl. I made African fire stew but added a can of tomato paste and diced the ingredients to make it more chili like. It has strong spices like nutmeg, cinnamon, and all spice, in addition to the peppers and fresh ginger. So it's got a lot of flavors going on. If they don't like it, all the more for me! I don't like traditional chili so this is my way of having something I like.

[erien22846]

Feb 3, 2017 7:39:48 GMT -5 iwantbacon said:

Working from home today with the boys since my car is an a-hole and my H's car won't fit the infant seat. Time for at least one of us to get a new car.

We still haven't strategize a way to get all three kids in DH's car. So far it's worked out fine but you have a good example of why we should figure it out sooner rather than later.

Hope the repair isn't too costly.

[adouces06]

WFH today for a bit. My goal today is to get my laundry put away. I have like 4 baskets of clean clothes in my room. Going to try to attempt that when DS goes down for his nap this afternoon.

[britta]

We're hanging out at home today. While DS2 has slept awesome the last two nights (8-8:30-4), I still don't feel caught up. I swear I fantasize about sleep.

I've already washed bottles and folded laundry, still need to do the boys' laundry and probably clean the bathrooms. I have a hair appt with my hairdresser back at home tomorrow, so the boys and I are going to go spend the night at my parents'. DH is on night call tomorrow and Sunday, so it works out. He'll be able to get some stuff done tomorrow without all of us here and get a good nap before going in to work.

FFFC: I often brush my teeth in the shower (confession #1) and yesterday I forgot to take my toothbrush in with me. My routine was all off, so I'm preeetty sure I never did. The first time I brushed my teeth was before bed. 😳

[hikingmama222]

iwantbacon Hope your car gets fixed soon and doesn't cost much!

Need to run out and pick up a few groceries. DD has preschool this afternoon and DH and I have a meeting at the bank. We've got a few big projects to do this summer (new roof on our house and building a garage at our rental property). Looking at financing options.

We're back in a deep freeze with lots of expected snow. I'm so ready for spring!

[hikingmama222]

I thought of an FFFC yesterday but can't remember it today...

britta I can't tell you the number of times in the last 4 months I haven't been able to remember if I brushed my teeth or not. Definitely left the house a few times without.

[britta]

OH!!

DS1 had parent teacher conferences yesterday. Remember last summer we debated hard about putting him into the preschool room early? Turns out we didn't make a terrible decision. His teacher said he's well above where a just turned 3 year old should be in terms of educational development (recognizing letters and numbers, cardinality, patterns, etc), so we were pleased with that. She said that the biggest thing they're working on with him is whining (🙄). That's an issue at home too, so we were able to share tactics that we use here and also what they do at school. She said he seems to have found his niche in the classroom after a little adjustment period moving up with the bigger kids, which is good. At first he had some listening problems and some agreesion with his classmates, which is something we've seen a history of each time he transitions and is the youngest kid. It's almost like he's trying to establish dominance? It's weird. Anyway, that's all worked out. Always proud of my little guy.

[becole]

I really need to get my ass moving.

[fem]

adouces06 my clean laundry mountain is huge right now too.

britta that's great about your son's transition. I had to laugh at your description though because having the academics down but being extra whiny sounds EXACTLY like mine that just turned 3.

They recommended I stay home with O today since she will have some swelling/pain from the procedure and already isn't good with bottles. We're having a slow morning but I'm still going to take DD1 to daycare and just snuggle my baby all day. Feeling guilty about missing work when I'm only there three days a week though, and there were kids I said I would talk to today.

[britta]

Another confession: I'm secretly in competition with MH over sleep. Ok, maybe that's not the best way to describe it....I purposely get up when he does during the week and rarely nap when I'm home alone or with the boys so that when the weekend comes and he wants to whine about not being able to sleep in or take a nap, I can be like, "Hey, I've gotten just as much sleep as you and I'm dealing. NO NAPS." MH is a huge procrastinator and would be happy to spend all of his time away from work sitting around or doing just "fun" things. If we're ever going to get this house ready to sell by spring, I've gotta keep a fire lit under him. This is one way of doing it.

[becole]

Feb 3, 2017 8:30:17 GMT -5 fem said:

adouces06 my clean laundry mountain is huge right now too.

britta that's great about your son's transition. I had to laugh at your description though because having the academics down but being extra whiny sounds EXACTLY like mine that just turned 3.

They recommended I stay home with O today since she will have some swelling/pain from the procedure and already isn't good with bottles. We're having a slow morning but I'm still going to take DD1 to daycare and just snuggle my baby all day. Feeling guilty about missing work when I'm only there three days a week though, and there were kids I said I would talk to today.

Did I miss what the doctor said? Were you going to an LC or an ENT? I noticed that babies latch immediately improved but babies try to slip back into old habits (nursing shallow on the breast) and the LC told me to pull babies chin down and gently pull him to me to get him deeper. The stretches are important to do as well. I wasn't as good about doing those and his TT looks great but his LT grew back a little.

[vavavictoria]

I am SO HAPPY that today is Friday and my day off. Work just is not letting up. I feel the same level of stress I felt when I first started in my position. Bleh. I'm going to finish some work tasks that are time sensitive that I couldn't get to with all the meetings this week, clean out a few cabinets in my kitchen and chill. The girls are at daycare. It's so nice and quiet in my house.

[becole]

Feb 3, 2017 8:41:35 GMT -5 britta said:

Another confession: I'm secretly in competition with MH over sleep. Ok, maybe that's not the best way to describe it....I purposely get up when he does during the week and rarely nap when I'm home alone or with the boys so that when the weekend comes and he wants to whine about not being able to sleep in or take a nap, I can be like, "Hey, I've gotten just as much sleep as you and I'm dealing. NO NAPS." MH is a huge procrastinator and would be happy to spend all of his time away from work sitting around or doing just "fun" things. If we're ever going to get this house ready to sell by spring, I've gotta keep a fire lit under him. This is one way of doing it.

I rarely say nice things about H because he's really good at eating crackers for me when the babies are little. BUT. I get up with the baby, he gets up with the big. Every weekend since we've had kids, he gets up with the big and I sleep in both days. He's never even tried to say it's not fair or that he should sleep in. Even on maternity leave. He does occasionally nap when the big is napping but if it doesn't affect my sleep, I don't care.

[fem]

Feb 3, 2017 8:55:25 GMT -5 becole said:

Feb 3, 2017 8:30:17 GMT -5 fem said:

adouces06 my clean laundry mountain is huge right now too.

britta that's great about your son's transition. I had to laugh at your description though because having the academics down but being extra whiny sounds EXACTLY like mine that just turned 3.

They recommended I stay home with O today since she will have some swelling/pain from the procedure and already isn't good with bottles. We're having a slow morning but I'm still going to take DD1 to daycare and just snuggle my baby all day. Feeling guilty about missing work when I'm only there three days a week though, and there were kids I said I would talk to today.

Did I miss what the doctor said? Were you going to an LC or an ENT? I noticed that babies latch immediately improved but babies try to slip back into old habits (nursing shallow on the breast) and the LC told me to pull babies chin down and gently pull him to me to get him deeper. The stretches are important to do as well. I wasn't as good about doing those and his TT looks great but his LT grew back a little.

I mentioned quick yesterday they did both the tongue tie and lip tie. I'm having trouble with the tongue stretches because she's old enough to really turn her head and fight that one. They recommended we follow up with a chiropractor, did you do that?


ETA: It was a pediatric dentist that specializes in lig and tongue ties.  She also had a LC on staff and after watching me nurse they made the decision together to do both of them.

[Deleted]

I'm a total mombie today. DS didn't fall asleep util after midnight. I wanted to do a couple of loads of laundry and go to bed early last night. That didn't happen. Then of course I couldnt sleep. I crawled out of DS's room at 3am, went to sleep in my own bed (!!) and the baby woke up at 430. Woke DH up to feed her and I fell asleep. Woke up 25 minutes laters to a squiggly baby and DS curled in beside me. DH was on the couch. I'm running on less than 2 hours of sleep. Safe to say we are not doing much today. DS is too cranky for playgroup so we're not going.

As for solids, we likely won't start until 6 months. I did purees with ds that I made myself. I dont know a ton about BLW but I'm not opposed to one way over the other. I've got time to look into it.

[saraml13]

Feb 3, 2017 9:09:25 GMT -5 htle07 said:

Speaking of food...we're all going to start baby on solids soon. What are your plans? Will you do purées or baby led weaning?

I didn't do BLW with #1. The whole concept was new to me, and I was a super paranoid parent (about everything!). Still am, but I'm more open to trying it this time around.

I'm not 100% committed yet, so I'm not sure this is the route. I need to do some more research on this AND if I do decide on this, the biggest obstacle that I foresee is getting my husband on the bandwagon bc I do not want us to bicker over this. 😳 He's just as paranoid as I am.

I think we'll do a similar approach as with DS1. We started him on solids when he was sitting up well, grabbing/grasping things well, and seeming interested in what we were eating. About 5.5 months with DS1, I think.  We primarily did BLW at home.  I wasn't super hard core about it, but it was so much easier to just put some food on his plate and let him do his thing, versus sitting there spoon feeding. Especially with a toddler now, I just want a few minutes of peace to eat my own food.  Daycare wasn't really into BLW, so I did send some purees for them to feed during the day. We skipped rice cereal completely.

[becole]

Feb 3, 2017 9:18:28 GMT -5 fem said:

Feb 3, 2017 8:55:25 GMT -5 becole said:

Did I miss what the doctor said? Were you going to an LC or an ENT? I noticed that babies latch immediately improved but babies try to slip back into old habits (nursing shallow on the breast) and the LC told me to pull babies chin down and gently pull him to me to get him deeper. The stretches are important to do as well. I wasn't as good about doing those and his TT looks great but his LT grew back a little.

I mentioned quick yesterday they did both the tongue tie and lip tie. I'm having trouble with the tongue stretches because she's old enough to really turn her head and fight that one. They recommended we follow up with a chiropractor, did you do that?

Yes. The chiro that I went to while pregnant adjusts infants free for their first month of life so I had the infant go for the first month. He had a really tight chin and jaw and was preferring looking one way- she got all that straightened out.
Tummy time also stretches the tongue and the ties if you can get babe to look up at you.

[smallpotato]

I'm convinced that G is the President Snow of sleep, organizing his own version of the Hunger Games to see which one of us he can break first. Last night he would not settle down for anything. MH and I were both basically up all night and were snapping at each other at 5:00AM. The lack of sleep is taking a toll on both of us, and he pointed out that we both seem angry all the time and have no time just the two of us. I think I may need to call my mom and see if she would be willing to come down and watch the boys so we can do something just the two of us. We desperately need it.

My coworker and I are twins today; we're both wearing white sweaters, red pants, and black shoes. Also, my sister asked me last night to be my older nephew's godmother. I'm pretty excited about that.

We got the okay for solids with N at 4 months, and it sounds like that will happen again with G. We did not start N on solids until 5 months. I gave him oatmeal, and he wasn't crazy about it. We made all of our own purees for him. I will probably hold off with G as well, since we're still trying to get into a routine with daycare.

[britta]

becole MH is pretty good about letting me sleep when I need it, but we're pretty 50/50 on dealing with nighttime get ups from either kid. So really, as long as I'm not napping or getting extra sleep after he goes off to work, we get the same amount of sleep.

I'll also admit this theory is probably all in my head because MH will regularly say to me that he thinks I *should* nap and/or go back to sleep after he he gets up. I just feel like if I do that, I have no leg to stand on when he's trying to be lazy on the weekend. KWIM? It makes perfect sense in my head.

[becole]

The daycare called to say the baby has had two loose bms about 10 minutes apart after he ate and there's a diahrea bug in that classroom and if he's gets one more I'll have to pick him up.
I gave her a diatribe on the differences in consistency and color in BF babies poop and that blowouts are a regular normal non virus occurrence- that happens all the time. I am not picking him up for loose poop.
I told her to take a picture of it because if it's within his range of normal, I'm not picking him up. He's happy and smiling and not even gassy. So, yea. Hell no.
I swear I am always trying to be nice to these daycare folks but lol no. Let me introduce myself.

[britta]

becole (sorry I'm tagging you again) I dealt with the same thing from our daycare with DS1. Every time he'd transition classes I'd get calls the first week or so about his "diarrhea." Ok. A) there's a difference between "loose" stools and diarrhea. Learn it. B) If my child has solid poop of any kind, he's constipated. This is norm. Learn it. Embrace it. Do not call me again.

[becole]

Feb 3, 2017 10:22:30 GMT -5 britta said:

becole (sorry I'm tagging you again) I dealt with the same thing from our daycare with DS1. Every time he'd transition classes I'd get calls the first week or so about his "diarrhea." Ok. A) there's a difference between "loose" stools and diarrhea. Learn it. B) If my child has solid poop of any kind, he's constipated. This is norm. Learn it. Embrace it. Do not call me again.

I'm looking up pictures to print and internet info about BF poop to take to her with a "bless your heart."

[becole]

Also 2 bms 10 minutes apart is the same BM in my book. It takes several grunts and tries to get out the same poop at this age.

[britta]

Feb 3, 2017 10:27:46 GMT -5 becole said:

Also 2 bms 10 minutes apart is the same BM in my book. It takes several grunts and tries to get out the same poop at this age.

Agreed. My LO is not BF, but if you don't give him 15-20 minutes before changing him he will poop on your or in clean diaper. Fact.

[britta]

Re: starting solids....

We started cereal and purees with DS1 around 4.5-5 months. Plan to do the same with this one. With DS1 we didn't have to do purees long before he was eating table food. Kid had a full set of teeth before he turned 1.

[danizee]

Drinking my coffee and watching baby complain. She learned to roll onto her tummy from her back but isn't very good at rolling back 😁
Today we might go to children's discovery center, but I'm feeling really lazy and don't really want to go

[smallpotato]

MH sent me a video of G laughing. It's the first time he's really laughed out loud. I'm having all the feels right now, especially after the night we had.

[iwantbacon]

My car should be ready tonight and it will cost less than $500! I mean, I'd prefer not to have to pay for it, but $500 is nothing compared to what I feared it would be.