She has already made ne change my outfit twice this morning by bathing me in spit up. She also decided to try out some cute new sounds and tricks, one of which was rolling from back to belly. Now granted she was at a tiny incline since she was laying in bed with me but still. She'll be crawling after her big brother before we know it.
I wonder if playing the game 'watch me do things as loudly as possible' is a guy thing tgrimes1980. It amazes me on the daily. The other week H thought he could disguise the sounds of him opening a soda can...by coughing as loud as possible. Uhh, wut?
tgrimes1980 LTs for commiseration. MH is the same. Last night I got woken up at 2 a.m. when he finally stumbled (literally) into bed. This was after banging around in his drawers for a minute or two. Why are men incapable of being quiet?? danib oh my goodness, I really hope you get a chance to nap today!
I wonder if playing the game 'watch me do things as loudly as possible' is a guy thing tgrimes1980. It amazes me on the daily. The other week H thought he could disguise the sounds of him opening a soda can...by coughing as loud as possible. Uhh, wut?
We didn't sleep last night. At all. My usual trick of letting him comfort nurse all night didn't even work, so we were having FULL wakeups. Kiddo is tired this morning and went down for his morning nap 45 minutes early and without resisting at all.
Is it his teeth? I think that's our issue over here. And it sucks.
Post by goldenlove3 on Mar 18, 2017 8:12:40 GMT -5
H and I went to bed last night at 11:30 on a Friday night on St Patrick's day. Funny how life changes so much.
C did pretty good last night. He seemed over tired and over stimulated at times but overall was happy. He wouldn't sleep until we got in the car at 10:30 then woke up smiling when we got home but went to bed easy. Only one wakeup overnight that H took care of.
Dinner was delicious and we had a good time. Tonight we're going out with a few friends. I doubt it'll be a late night. I'm too old for that shit lol.
Post by sophiegrace on Mar 18, 2017 8:14:57 GMT -5
I'm tempted to try out ancestry DNA. Didn't someone here get it as a gift at one point? I'm curious, I just don't know if I'm $99 curious. I would be really cool to learn about H's side of the family since he knows next to nothing about his mom's family.
LOL to the loud husbands tgrimes1980 and sophiegrace. I remember purposefully being loud and trying to wake H up a few times in the first weeks when I was annoyed with him. He actually asked why I was doing that when he tries to be quiet for me lol. Oops.
tgrimes1980 Is M old enough to go see the new movie?
Poor H. I hope he gets some relief soon and you can get some sleep danib.
Post by goldenlove3 on Mar 18, 2017 8:28:03 GMT -5
I really want to try that too sophiegrace! My dad can tell me exactly what village they came from but I still think it would interesting to see what it comes up with. We were going to test C to get both sides for the price of one, but I'm not sure it even works that way.
Oh no danib. Can anyone come help you today? I hope you get some rest!
vinolove that is what we do in our house too. I get up all night with the baby because it would just get her more stimulated to not have mommy's smell, mommy's hold, mommy's rocking. And H gets up at 6 with the toddler and then he also obviously works all day too where as I don't. It works for us.
sophiegrace it was me! I got it for H for Christmas and he just did it and sent it off a week or two ago. We are waiting for results now! H doesn't know his father either, so we're curious to see what it says. Of the results and whole package are interesting enough, I may do it too.
I'm feeling accomplished. I just put E down for a nap in the crib while O didn't break anything downstairs. It takes at least a half hour so I have to use tv. But im ok with that.
...Then I decided I was really bored and ran out to the grocery store and the liquor store. Came home and pooped some prosecco. Then we literally did nothing all night. I guess we'll take a seat on the super old and lame couch.
oh! dashook if you don't mind sharing, where on the cape do you usually stay?
Now this sounds interesting. Thank you for sharing!!
goldenlove3 It sounds like you guys had an awesome day!! And night! Very cool... At least someone around here does lol.
hangry Hey, if it works don't fix it. Begs the question, does anyone else's 4-5 month old get mesmerized by the tv? When I'm home with them I leave it off because I noticed they were intently staring at it. But H and the neighbor both watch tv with the kids present and have been like "oh, they love soccer" or "oh they love Mickey Mouse clubhouse" or whatever. Should I be asking them both not to let the kids see it? We just put down an area rug in the living room (previously just hard wood) and we've been laying them there so they can't really see the screen anymore since its above/behind their head - I just get paranoid by the whole "no tv before" whatever "guideline". I feel like they maybe mean just don't use it to plop the kid down in front of for 8 hrs a day or let it be the parent, but who knows, I sure don't.
Post by sophiegrace on Mar 18, 2017 9:32:51 GMT -5
vinolove and hangry just ordered it! H's Mom came from a village without electricity or plumbing and before getting a job on the base where H's dad was stationed, didn't know anyone who could read or write. SO any sort of documentation is completely lacking. There's zero information on the regular ancestry site because of it. So I'm hoping at the very least we can maybe learn more about Thailand. Maybe even what regions to read about. I'm excited!
kleigh when M was still taking her nexium I would turn Disney junior on to distract her. And if H is watching her while I shower or clean and she gets worked up he'll turn it on to deescalate her if necessary. I'm just chalking it up to yet another thing I said I wouldn't do and then failed miserably at. By no means do we just plop her there though.
I really want to try that too sophiegrace! My dad can tell me exactly what village they came from but I still think it would interesting to see what it comes up with. We were going to test C to get both sides for the price of one, but I'm not sure it even works that way.
You mentioned knowing some Arabic growing up, do your parents still speak it at home together? I never even thought to do just M...she's certainly drooling enough to get all the tubes they'd possibly ask for haha!!
LT for commiseration. I thought I wasn't ready to see teeth in her adorable gummy smile, but this week has changed my mind. She's ok during the day, but it's a completely different story as things calm down for the night. I feel terrible for her and the nighttime anxiety has returned because I just know how exhausting it's going to be.
kleigh right now TV is colourful movement, which is interesting. H will stare at it for a few minutes if he notices it, but I'm not worried. I feel those guidelines are more about having them sat in front of the TV watching shows, not them noticing the TV for a moment then moving on to whatever else you are doing with them.
Alec is full on staring not just for a moment! I actually am more concerned with them seeing me on my phone than this for now, and it's not like the content is disturbing or offensive. But I'm glad to know we're not the only household it happens in.
Truthfully some of my fondest memories of childhood are cuddling up with my mom, dad, brothers and sisters and all watching a movie and falling asleep that way. I will definitely be doing that with A and A. And I used to be the biggest couch potato/tv watcher, they literally called me "couch potato"... And ultimately I really don't think it affected me, I socialize well, I'm very active, and I actually watch almost no tv as an adult. Not "all about me" moment, just that I think these guidelines need to be taken with a grain of salt.
I left the house this morning for 1.5 measly hours (15 minutes to drive each way and one hour to work out), the first and only time I have had to myself all week.
I came home to find out that my husband literally almost killed both of our children. He left D on the changing pad and stepped away while DS climbed the dresser (which apparently is still unsecured from 2014 when I was pregnant and first asked for it to be secured), which tipped. The drawers luckily slid out and stopped it from crushing him, and the changing pad broke D's fall. But I am so fucking livid and H is acting rude to me like he's mad that I'm upset.
I'm right to be upset, right?? Also, do I need to take D to the hospital to get checked out? She seems fine except for a tiny bit of blood in her right nostril. I'm so incredibly angry. I can't stop shaking.
Post by jubilantsquirrel on Mar 18, 2017 10:29:58 GMT -5
Re: loud Hs. Mine is actually pretty quiet at night, or at least tries to be. His issue is that he can't seem to get a pot or pan out of the cabinet without throwing them all over the place. They're organized my size so all you have to do is pick up the top ones, grab the you need and then set the others right back down. Instead he does this:
So at 4-5 months they should be having 2 -1.5 hr naps, one in the morning 2 hours after wake up and one early afternoon with a shorter nap around dinner/5 Ish. So 3 total before bedtime.
Are you guys doing this? Are they in the crib? I'm striving for it now, because until now she has mostly been with me for naps after nursing. Which honestly has been fine because it makes me sit down and rest but with MH leaving I'm going to have a whole lot more to do so I can't have a barnacle baby.
Yes, D typically takes 3 naps a day, sometimes 4 depending on how early she woke up for the day. She is almost always in her crib for naps. Occasionally she does one in her carseat though.
I don't really pay attention to time of day; it's more that she needs to sleep every 2-2.5 hours so when the time is right, I bring her to her room and she's lights out.
vinolove Well today aside bc she didn't sleep last night...
They both usually do a 1.5-2hr nap about 2 hours after waking.
Their naps get shorter as the day goes on.
After that long morning nap, they do three 30-40 minute naps. They had been doing a 6-6:30 bedtime but with DST we've starting trying for a 4:30-5:00 nap and then let them wake, eat, routine and bed for 7-7:30.
Holy fucking shit dashook ! He's being rude because he knows he royally, totally screwed up and he feels like shit for it. I've been there. I would take her to be checked perso ally but I also say that coming from a place where my pedi office has an almost 24/7/7 walk in option.
vinolove Forgot the crib part.. Well as you know they aren't in cribs even overnight but we plan to transition them within a couple weeks and we will start with their daytime naps.
That said, we try to mix up where they nap - my thought was I want them to be able to nap of we're out and about, at a friends house, hanging outside in the summer, etc. So I still rock them both to sleep and then Alec gets laid on his tummy (sorry doc, only way he'll sleep for naps except on us) either in the play pen or couch if I'm sitting right next to him with AV. Sometimes on his back in the RnP.
AV is a little more versatile bc I really worked at it - once asleep I can put her down in/on anything and she'll stay asleep for 30 mins (or 1.5 hrs if it's her first nap). PnP, ground with a blanket, RnP, bouncer, bed, boppy, etc etc
Post by jubilantsquirrel on Mar 18, 2017 10:55:43 GMT -5
kleigh, I'm not sure how naps have been going since I've been back at work. But we were doing one around 1-1.5 hours after wake up (so around 10). And then another around 2pm. And a short evening one around 6pm.
I don't think it's the same now, but that's what we had going on when I was on leave.
I really want to try that too sophiegrace! My dad can tell me exactly what village they came from but I still think it would interesting to see what it comes up with. We were going to test C to get both sides for the price of one, but I'm not sure it even works that way.
You mentioned knowing some Arabic growing up, do your parents still speak it at home together? I never even thought to do just M...she's certainly drooling enough to get all the tubes they'd possibly ask for haha!!
Yes, my parents still speak it and so do my grandparents. That was always the worst part about not speaking it well because I can never really have a full conversation with my grandparents.
I don't think they had good documentation where my parents came from either. Actually we found out recently that my dad was born like a month before what we consider his birthday just because it took that long for the documentation to get filed. So crazy!
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