It's the weekend!

[iwantbacon]

@kitchen I gave in and tried Tylenol after the third wake up before 9pm. I'm not sure it helped, or maybe the sleep regression is just really strong with this one. So many wake ups last night.

This morning, he's happy as a clam. Or as happy as I'd be if I got sleep.

[vavavictoria]

I'm on team no sleep as well this weekend. Between the dogs wanting to go out at 3am and the baby getting up all night and then being up for the day at 645 I'm tired. How is it I have to wake this kid up at 7 to go to daycare during the week but on the weekend it's party time?

[Deleted]

DD slept fine last night, but as per usual DS was up and down 85 million times.

Solo day went fine yesterday. I even made the boys supper.

It's snowing here today and we're expecting ~25cm (10 inches) so I think our plans for the day are cancelled. We were going to start taking DS to open swim on Sunday mornings. Had also planned to go give the dog a bath and have dinner with my parents. Cozy day at home it is!

[sanibel21]

britta I curr bout your kid. It's so hard to know what's going on with him. Could definitely be a coincidental virus, could be ear not resolving, could be strep not resolving. You know they always start with the easiest antibiotics. There's like a line of 4 antibiotics for resistant ears and a line of 3 for resistant strep. The line my office draws in the sand is see again if fever persists more than 48 hours on antibiotics. I hate dragging my kid to the doctors, but you have a better chance of knowing for sure what's going on having him seen.

[erien22846]

britta. I appreciate you sharing your sick kiddo woes. I'd be freaking out if my child had such a persistent fever. Glad to know it can just be a normal course of cold and flu season illnesses. I truly hope he can fight it off soon. He's going to have a super immune system as an adult!

[britta]

Feb 12, 2017 9:03:11 GMT -5 @holachica said:

Yeah sleep has sucked. DS2 was great (max of 2 wakeups a night) up to mid January, then 2 weeks of shitty 4-5 wakeups... then last week for two nights he slept 12 hrs sraight through the night! Now we're back to 3-4 wakeups. The back and forth is what's killing me. I can't predict how he'll sleep or how I'll sleep!

This is where we're at. He'll go 4-5 days sleeping 8-9 hours and then do a couple where's he's up 2-3x/night. I just want some sort of routine here.

[sanibel21]

Sleep is so variable each night here too. Sometimes one wake up, sometimes 2-3. All over the map on times too. I do not want to get into reverse cycling. Many hugs to you hikingmama222. That's exactly what happened with DD1. I'm gonna try hard to offer nursing more frequently. I'm gonna try formula again and see if the rash gets worse.
I had 2 days of completely thinking and feeling differently, in a good way. I was so happy it seemed like the zoloft was really helping me and was the solution. But I've been feeling pretty squirrelly again. I'm hoping it's either normal or just means a dose increase would help maintain it. It's so hard to explain but I feel like I have had a cloak of frantic thinking on and then two days it was just gone. It was amazing. I had such perspective on how I was feeling and thinking and how it had changed. Gah.
I'm going to coffee with a friend this am to get away. We are getting more snow and it's supposed to be so cold all week. As always... I can't wait for spring.

[britta]

sanibel21 YGPM

[hikingmama222]

@sanible21 Thanks, yesterday was better. I tried to feed him in rooms where no one else was to keep him from getting distracted. Last night was better.

Sorry you are still struggling. I feel you on needing spring to get here!

[adouces06]

sanibel21 not excited about this snow we are supposed to be getting. Hoping I get another snow day tomorrow!

[penguin129]

We're getting ready to leave for church. After church I want to go see Mr. P's photos in the Art Gallery and see my friends at the children's consignment shop in town. It is a sad day because they are packing up their items to send to a store in Naples because no one bought them out.

[britta]

MH is eating a shit ton of crackers for me this weekend. If he doesn't put his GD phone down and either do something or interact with the kids so I can do something, I might....idk what. 😤😤😤

[erien22846]

Yesterday DH took DS1 and DD to get their haircut and survived. DS2 and I went winter clearance consignment shopping. Scored some great deals and thinking about going back for round 2 today. There were just too many clothes to go through at once when looking for 3 kids. DD is rocking the potty training. No accidents at school Friday!

[hikingmama222]

@kitchen where are you? Why do people feel the need to comment on family size? STFU.

[britta]

What the fresh hell? I'm confused as to why 3 is some kind of crazy huge number of children. I mean, BIL has 6 with 5 under the age of 7, so they get a lot of comments, which I suppose I would expect. But 3?? Come on. But really, why anyone needs to comment on family size is beyond me.

[britta]

So this is happening outside our house right now. No one seems very alarmed and hoses haven't been brought out yet, so I'm not sure what's happening. But my 3 year old does not want to nap, obviously. PDQ.
*poof*

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This is what's happening at my house...still coming down

[erien22846]

Feb 12, 2017 12:22:49 GMT -5 @kitchen said:

Sorry about all of the sleep and sickness stuff. Spring will be better.

+1 for distracted nursing here.

Also, I just got another comment "whoa! 3 kids! Was that planned?!"

Dafuq?

[sanibel21]

@@kitchen that's ridiculous someone felt a need to comment on your family size and that they thought it would be funny to use your fertility as part of the comment. People are so clueless.
britta hope the night or hood situation ended up ok. YGPM.
Coffee with my friend was great. So good to get away. And I did solo food shopping too.
We gave LO formula today again. Now we wait to see what happens with the rash. I'd rather it be like viral or random obviously. But between formula or zoloft, I don't know what I'd prefer. She's so damn happy and cute though. She's kind of sitting up on her on our laps the past couple days. I think her Buddha belly holds her up.
DD1 is continuing to be a toddler today . She's cute too I guess.

[britta]

So I guess the neighbors had a small chimney fire, way up at the top of their chimney. 😳 I figured today would be a good day to take over the fire extinguisher we bought for them to replace the one they brought us when MH's smoker caught on fire...back in July. We are so the worst. They laughed.

It's very windy here this afternoon, but the sun is peaking out. Seeing the sun does wonders for my mood.

[adouces06]

Still snowing here too

[smallpotato]

We've had a day. N was horrible for me and threw several awful tantrums. I even took video to show the doctor tomorrow. It was really bad. He didn't nap until 4 and then asked to go to bed at 6:30. I'm pretty sure he's asleep. Time will tell if letting him go in early will be a mistake. The good news is I can watch the Grammys without complaints. It snowed again and then turned to rain so we did not leave the house.

@kitchen people need to mind their own business when it comes to other people's families. So rude.

[fem]

You guys can keep all that show. We've had an oddly mild winter with little snow and I'm loving it.

[sanibel21]

@smallpotato so sorry to hear about DS1. Best of luck tomorrow.

[britta]

Feb 12, 2017 20:59:42 GMT -5 fem said:

You guys can keep all that show. We've had an oddly mild winter with little snow and I'm loving it.

Same. We had more snow in December than we had all winter last year, but since then? We've had a couple inches here and there, but then it warms into the 30/40s and melts away. Right now we have none. But I will say, I'd rather have snow and cold with the sun out than mild and rainy and gray, which is the direction the weather has been heading the last couple weeks. This weeks forecasr looks better though.