Infant Check-In 3/16

[disneykate]

This check in is for all SAIFers with an infant 4-12 months. If you’re new to SAIF or the check in, just join right in and please tag disneykate so I can add you!

daydreamsam – Girl, C, 03/21/16 - Happy Birthday to C on Tuesday!!

supermorena – Boy, 04/08/16
shananagins – Boy, 04/13/16
westiemom – Girl, 04/20/16

wanderlust – Girl, L, 05/31/16

@diordra – Girl, HQ, 06/18/16
madamewaffles – Boy, 06/21/16
tumbleweed – Boy, 06/16

oceanhutt – Girl, Madeline, 07/04/16
tikoberry99 – Boy, M, 07/11/16
disneykate – Girl, Emma, 07/19/16

bocaburger – B/G twins, M & G, 08/10/16
remylove1011 – Girl, 08/25/16
blueinred – Boy, N, 08/28/16

eponine1007 – Girl, Sally, 09/21/16
wibblywobbly – Boy, 09/25/16

murrt – Girl, Baby Irish, 10/03/16
mg0202 – Boy, 10/06/16
peaseblossom55 – Girl, E, 10/25/16

calindi – Girl, Charlie, 11/14/16

Check in:

1. Age this week?

2. Achievements/happy moments from the week?

3. Challenges?

4. How are the adults doing?

5. Got a cute pic from this week to share?

QOTW: In honor of St. Patrick's Day tomorrow, do you and/or your city do anything special to celebrate?

[mg0202]

5 months 1 week.

We have started solids and he is doing well with them. He definitely has favorites (apples and carrots) and things he does not like ( plums and green beans). Its funny to me that he can express he likes and dislikes at such a young age. The faces he makes are hilarious.

We are doing ok. DH has been working a lot. Life is just hectic trying to get everything done.

QOTW: we will wear green, that's about it. Pre kids DH and I would go to a music festival every year, but it is not kid friendly.

[disneykate]

1. Age this week? 8 months on Sunday

2. Achievements/happy moments from the week? She is getting close to crawling now. She will get in position and start rocking but then she'll let her foot slide out from under her.

3. Challenges? It's been hard to feed Emma this week. We are at DH's aunt's house and don't have a high chair. We have been putting her in a little seat that folds up like a camp chair but she doesn't like it as much and has been fussing more during meal times.

4. How are the adults doing? We are enjoying a week off from work and visiting with family. We got slightly less snow by coming to Plattsburgh this week instead of staying in Binghamton, NY (28 inches vs. over 3 feet at home). I am so glad I wasn't scheduled to work this week because I would have had to try to get through all the snow since I am an essential employee at the hospital.

5. Got a cute pic from this week to share? Not a happy camper eating her chicken last night


QOTW: In honor of St. Patrick's Day tomorrow, do you and/or your city do anything special to celebrate? Our city does a St. Patrick's Day Parade two weeks beforehand (it's the same company that does the parade in NYC). On St. Patrick's Day, I will wear a green shirt and I got a green shirt with a clover on it for Emma. DH tries to make corned beef and cabbage too.

[madamewaffles]

]Check in:

1. Age this week? 8.75 months

2. Achievements/happy moments from the week? I've got a sick little muffin here. It came on like whoa. He was pretty normal in the morning Tuesday but by the afternoon he was crying inconsolably, wincing with swallows, coughing, and had an outrageous temperature of 103 so I called in to triage. They saw him that day. Fluid in ears and very red throat. Chalked it to virus for now. He's doing "better" mood wise but he is struggling with coughing and throwing up mucus so that's been fun.

3. Challenges? See #2

4. How are the adults doing? See #2 lol

5. Got a cute pic from this week to share?

QOTW: In honor of St. Patrick's Day tomorrow, do you and/or your city do anything special to celebrate? I come from a predominately Protestant Northern European community so there isn't much celebration outside of bars. I might make some Irish stew tomorrow though.

[tikoberry99]

M is 8 months!!!

He pulled himself all the way up to a standing position yesterday!!! Slow down little one. He's getting so big and I got all teary eyed last night missing my little newborn!

Dh is gone 12 hrs a day and will be working a contract biologist job this weekend so I'm solo parenting! Bring out the wine!!



Qotw. Nothing going on here. I never went to bars on st Patrick's day bc they were too crowded.

[tikoberry99]

disneykate we have the same camping chair thing and M hates it! I put it under his portable high chair to catch toys M throws on the ground lol!

[peaseblossom55]

1. Age this week? 20 weeks

2. Achievements/happy moments from the week? She is cooing and babbling more

3. Challenges? I wish she had longer stretches of sleep at night. Still searching for a nanny.

4. How are the adults doing? Doing ok

5. Got a cute pic from this week to share? On my phone.

QOTW: In honor of St. Patrick's Day tomorrow, do you and/or your city do anything special to celebrate?
We are usually in the Bahamas with the IL's so no plans.

[supermorena]

Check-in day means it's almost the weekend, right? Yay!

1. LO is 11 months 1 week. What?!?

2. We have a crawler now!!! He's been working so hard for a few months now and it finally clicked. Now he's on a mission to explore everything. Baby-proofing 2.0 is in effect. Lol.

3. This has been a pretty brutal week. I was incredibly sick last week and then LO had a scary high fever for 3 days. Between that, teething, learning to crawl, and the time change I didn't think I was gonna make it for a few days there.

4. Adults? We're good. My birthday is this weekend and I'm feeling old though. Sigh.

5. Always on mobile, so no pic. Sorry!

QOTW: Leprechaun traps with my students. Maybe LO and I will wear green? That's about it. Not a big holiday for me.

[westiemom]

1. 11 months on Monday. I can't believe it! I feel so many feels.

2. She is just getting more and more mobile. She's a very happy and very busy girl lately!

3. She got sick for the first time. She has a sinus infection and is on antibiotics. She has been feeling cruddy and is so snotty this week!

4. We are good though I'm irritated with him for wanting to watch a lot of basketball and not helping me much. Darn March Madness. 😜

5. Our busy girl!

QOTW: we just wear green!

[blueinred]

DS is 61/2 months of pure joy (most of the time).

He has started to crawl and is so pleased with his new found mobility. He also lives being upright. He loves going in his door bouncer and squeals with delight.

Given how much he loves to move diaper changes are a real challenge. Sometimes DD needs to distract or sing to him when I change him. I can't imagine a minimum of 1 1/2 years of changing struggles.

The adults are doing fine given the challenges of DH's travel. We had a wonderful date night yesterday, enjoying dinner and live music.

It's after St Patrick's Day now but we are not Irish and didn't observe the day except I listened to the Dropkick Murphys on Youtube. I have not so fond memories of St Patty's Day in Chicago seeing green beer morphed into green puke.