First postpartum workout this morning! Putting J down for a nap now. Hoping to hit the library & the grocery before I pick up G from school but I bet I only get to one. J’s 2 month appt is this afternoon!
Post by dmorgendorffer on Aug 21, 2018 10:26:48 GMT -5
Catching up here. Glad to see everyone is having a good start to the school year!
J has been waking up at 5 for the past 4 mornings and I'm pretty sure I'm getting a cold so I'm feeling pretty exhausted. I have a project that is really in crunch time at work and I wish I could take some time off, definitely starting to feel burnt out. DH and I have been talking about taking a 5 year anniversary trip next year (in March) without the kids but I don't know about leaving them with his parents. J has crazy stranger anxiety and still doesn't even let any of her grandparents hold her so even though its a ways off I could see her struggling being left overnight with them.
dmorgendorffer I'm sorry you are burnt out! Planning a vacation always help me feel better. If you're worried about how the kids will be, could you wait for a bit for a bigger vaca and plan something shorter or closer to home for next year? lilyelayne hope J has a great checkup!
I was able to get a lot of running around done this morning. I can't believe how much extra time we have after dropping N off now. It's weird and also a lot of things aren't open so early... Any ideas beside Target on where to go or what to do around 8am? We are still fighting A on potty training and her orientation to totschool is next week, eek! aggiebug how is S doing with that?
Funny A story: I asked her what we should call her baby cousin (who is due in Oct) since he doesn't have a name yet. And She said, "baby jesus??" I died.
lilyelayne yay for a workout you are awesome momma
dmorgendorffer I am sorry you are getting burnt out that is always such a tough feeling to get through. I hope work lightend up soon and you can take a much deserved break.
How old is J now? C has stranger anxiety and still does frankly. This kid was leery of a George Washington statue refused to touch it last week 😆. We figured out food was key to him warming up in some ways. At 6 weeks I was the only one who could get him calm and asleep, finally H got a few bottles in him and he settled for him, and once he hit a year and anyone could feed him those that he saw more often became ok. I still have to talk him through it in advance, but he is ok with both sets of grandparents and he only sees them 3 or 4 times a year. Can they come over and babysit for date night as a trial run? You prepare J (I go into remarkable detail with C about what will happen) go on a date and come home so J can get used to the normal routines being done by someone else.
dreemkin oh potty training.... We broke out the M&Ms and she has been doing better today. She keeps talking about getting M&Ms and going to preschool and wearing her underwear again so she is quite excited to do well... For the moment.
Post by 2mrsks (mrs&mrsk) on Aug 21, 2018 15:25:31 GMT -5
Hi! We Moved end of June and we are settling in nicely just had a vacation and S. is doing very well getting a couple teeth —overall doing great thanks for asking
Post by dmorgendorffer on Aug 21, 2018 15:27:29 GMT -5
aggiebug she is 15 months. She doesn't see either set of grandparents very often either. Even when we spent a full week on vacation with the ILs back in April she never warmed up to them. It's definitely improved as she is getting more independent but she was still very weary of them when they visited last weekend. We did discover that if they are picking her up out of something like the high chair, or the car seat, or the crib she's much more receptive than if they just try to pick her up and I definitely can not hand her off. They have babysat her twice, once she was fine (they just put her to bed) and the second time we had to turn around and go back and they met us at the door with a screaming baby. We'd also presumably be leaving them at my IL's house in SC so it would be a whole different environment for her, I think if they came up to NJ to stay at our house I'd be more comfortable with the idea but it's a pretty big ask for them to watch the kids at all let alone come do it at our house.
And on the potty training commiseration front - last week E pooped in her underwear while we were at the park. Didn't even tell me she needed to go, just yelled out, "We can't leave! I have poop in my pants!" She seems to be having more accidents where she ends up peeing on the bathroom floor too, like she just waits a little too long to get there.
Post by 2mrsks (mrs&mrsk) on Aug 21, 2018 15:29:23 GMT -5
R is doing well potty training but we wake him up in the middle of the night to go and I got Peed on during vacation then S. Peed on me at the rest area — tough luck
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