Friday Roll Call

[sstwinklinglites]

Who's here today? How was your week? What are you looking forward to this weekend?

[sstwinklinglites]

::Raises Hand:: Present.

My week was... meh. I'm remembering all the parts about my job that I didn't like. I think the mess they've stuck me with is just making me frustrated. However, I haven't had any of those moments where I call DH telling him I can't stand it and I'm quitting (no representation of the people I work with; just the demands and stress levels of the job). I feel very disorganized right now.

I'm looking forward to mani / pedi's tomorrow. My goodness, I need that so badly. My nails are hideous. Plus, it's just nice to be pampered a little.

Oh, DH thoroughly cleaned the inside and outside of my car yesterday. Didn't have to pay anyone to do it for me, so that's a bonus. And he installed the convertible car seat, but I feel like it's SUPER lose, so I want to take it to get inspected.

[mrscatfarmer13]

Present!!

I failed to adult this week, no cleaning or laudry has been done, other than dishes. Working for the weekend today.

I was looking foward to the St. Paddy day parade, but it's supposed to rain tomorrow morning. Now I'm just dreading having to clean up Winter's Poopapalooza in my backyard. Nothing says spring like thawed dog poop.

[sstwinklinglites]

mrscatfarmer13 - +1 for no adulting this week. If it wasn't for DH, not a damn thing would have been done. He's been doing the dishes every night. He did all the laundry yesterday. He picked up the house, including moving the furniture around in the living room. And he's bathed DS almost every night.

[becole]

Mar 13, 2015 7:44:48 GMT -5 sstwinklinglites said:

::Raises Hand:: Present.

My week was... meh. I'm remembering all the parts about my job that I didn't like. I think the mess they've stuck me with is just making me frustrated. However, I haven't had any of those moments where I call DH telling him I can't stand it and I'm quitting (no representation of the people I work with; just the demands and stress levels of the job). I feel very disorganized right now.

I'm looking forward to mani / pedi's tomorrow. My goodness, I need that so badly. My nails are hideous. Plus, it's just nice to be pampered a little.

Oh, DH thoroughly cleaned the inside and outside of my car yesterday. Didn't have to pay anyone to do it for me, so that's a bonus. And he installed the convertible car seat, but I feel like it's SUPER lose, so I want to take it to get inspected.

I googled and my car seat had videos online. You might check there to see if it's tighter in the video.

[becole]

Also, we have to go to my Mils house this weekend and spend he night Saturday. She had her hip replaced. My rant: she hasn't seen DS since Christmas and has not driven down to see us since then (2 hour drive). But my DH thinks we have to go help her after her surgery and take DS. I wanted to stay home and keep him with me since his sleep sucks when we travel and we are just now getting better sleep out of him. I'm pissed on a lot of levels. Then DH tells me how I'm heartless, and always complain about MIL and I don't want to be helpful, etc... So I told him, fine. You take all the night time wake ups while we are there, im sleeping in the basement. He refused to agree to that.

[vlagroupie]

sstwinklinglites I would take it to get checked. Convertible car seat install looks like a bitch. I'm planning to get a Chicco Nextfit bc the install looks really simple. Anyone has experience with the next fit?

[mom2boxers]

sstwinklinglites - Regarding the car seat. To get the one tight in DH's truck (had to use the seat belt install to put it in the middle position), I actually had to put a knee in the seat and press down as I pulled the slack out of the belt and closed the lock-off for the belt path. When I didn't do that, I had too much movement side-to-side.

[becole]

I have the next fit. You can't mess it up since it has the bubbles for rear and forward. If the bubble is level, you're good to go. It's one of the reasons it's so highly ranked- because it makes sure that install is dumb proof. And install is the most important part of making a car seat safe.

[mom2boxers]

Mar 13, 2015 8:00:08 GMT -5 vlagroupie said:

sstwinklinglites I would take it to get checked. Convertible car seat install looks like a bitch. I'm planning to get a Chicco Nextfit bc the install looks really simple. Anyone has experience with the next fit?

We have Nextfits. The latch install is really easy. For DH's truck I had to use the seat belt for the middle position and I had to do some extra pushing down and removing slack from the belt to get a tight install, but it wasn't bad.

[vlagroupie]

I'm here! This week has actually gone fast, having the warm weather has been a nice change of pace.

Looking forward to pedi tomorrow!

Not looking forward to road trip starting Monday to NOLA. I have a work convention and was somehow compelled to take DD and MIL with me. Any advice on traveling over 10+ hrs in the car with a squirmy 11 month old?

[vlagroupie]

becole, mom2boxers thanks! We have the key fit and really like it, so they next fit seems like an obvious next step.

[mom2boxers]

vlagroupie - Hopefully the car ride won't be too bad. LO always sleeps when we travel. I would make sure to have a towel and a changing pad to lay in your back seat/ front seat if you have to change LO in your car just in case wherever you stop doesn't have a changing table or it's not the cleanest in the world.

[mrscatfarmer13]

sstwinklinglites What kind of convertible seat do you have?

[babylove518]

becole it seems like it would make much more sense for you and ds to just stay home?? What was his reasoning for shutting that down?

My week has been Ok. If anything, I'm just happy about the weather. I've been kinda annoyed with DH lately and Idk if it's from hormones, us only being in mommy/daddy mode and not so much husband/wife mode, or what. We just seem to be getting under each others skin lately. Like this morning, he didn't have to leave for work til 740ish, which is later for him, so I was trying to take advantage of that and get ready for work myself while he watched DD. It was 730 and he tried to hand her to me and I asked if I could do my hair real quick (meaning put mousse in it and scrunch it) and he said he had to leave. Really, it would have taken 3min tops. Just bugged me. He also sarcastically says "Gosh, you make me do everything" or "do you want me to feed her too?" whenever I ask for help. Why yes, it would be lovely if you could plop a boob full of milk out and feed her! I know he's just joking, but it's definitely getting annoying.
Rant over. Sorry I didn't realize my post would turn into that lol

[babylove518]

Mar 13, 2015 8:01:11 GMT -5 becole said:

I have the next fit. You can't mess it up since it has the bubbles for rear and forward. If the bubble is level, you're good to go. It's one of the reasons it's so highly ranked- because it makes sure that install is dumb proof. And install is the most important part of making a car seat safe.

We have the next fit too, and I'm already itching to get her into it. I'm trying to hold off until she is sitting up so its easier to put her in a cart or stroller when we go places.

[sstwinklinglites]

becole - I will say this: I am a heartless bitch. Maybe not heartless, but I can be extremely cold. DH is well aware of my feelings about many people, a lot of those people are in his family. I don't try to be nice, or not say what I think of them and their actions. That way, when something like your situation comes up, he knows not to expect anything from me.

Re: the carseat: we used the latch. Honestly, I didn't check it for side to side movement. But it moves backward and forward like it's not even installed. I'm going to go ahead and Google a video for it, but I would feel better taking it to the fire dept.

mrscatfarmer13 - We have an Eddie Bauer seat. It was gifted to us at the shower. I wish I would have exchanged it for something more reputable though. Now it's what we've got. It's brand new, so I don't want to just go buy something else either. I think we probably just installed it wrong.

EDIT: To Tag

[mrscatfarmer13]

babylove518 stay in the infant seat as long as you can. Getting sleeping LO's out of a convertible seat, without waking, them isn't an easy task.

[JoBub]

Mar 13, 2015 8:02:57 GMT -5 vlagroupie said:

I'm here! This week has actually gone fast, having the warm weather has been a nice change of pace.

Looking forward to pedi tomorrow!

Not looking forward to road trip starting Monday to NOLA. I have a work convention and was somehow compelled to take DD and MIL with me. Any advice on traveling over 10+ hrs in the car with a squirmy 11 month old?

Love's gas station/truck stops always have clean bathrooms! We've never traveled more than 6 hours, but my advice is just plan on stopping every couple hours, and build it into your timeline so it's not as frustrating when it happens. Nothing worse than being angry with your baby thinking "well my 6 hour trip just turned into 6.5" and then "make that 7 hours!."

[sstwinklinglites]

So apparently Cosco / Safety 1st / Eddie Bauer are all the same car seat.

Looks like we did install it correctly, just probably didn't tighten the latch belt enough. I may try to install with the seat belt and see how that goes.

[JoBub]

Oops, I forgot this was a roll call. I'm here (obviously)!

My week was pretty good. I'm so happy the weather is warming up. It's the end of the quarter at work, though, so that has been stressful. I have a busy weekend to look forward to. We were going to try to go downtown for the St. Patrick's Day parade tomorrow and to pick up my race packet for Sunday, but it looks like rain, so now I'm looking forward to getting out of the house without LO for the consignment sale and pedicures tomorrow! Then on Sunday I'm running a 5K. I guess you could say I'm looking forward to that. I hope the weather is nice for it so DH and DS can hang out downtown while I run.

ETA: Oh, and it's Pi Day! The best one of the century! 3.14.15. Who's excited?!?

[hbrockman01]

I'm Here!! DD has been antsy to get out and play this week, and when we do and try to come in I deal with a total meltdown (love the terrible twos)... hubby has worked until almost 8p every night this week, and I exhausted! 3 day weekend can't come soon enough!

[mrscatfarmer13]

Mar 13, 2015 8:30:44 GMT -5 sstwinklinglites said:

So apparently Cosco / Safety 1st / Eddie Bauer are all the same car seat.

Looks like we did install it correctly, just probably didn't tighten the latch belt enough. I may try to install with the seat belt and see how that goes.

I was going to say that Dorel makes carseats for Safety1st and Cosco, but you obviously already know that. I would try the seatbelt and possibly another position in the back seat. Play around and see what combination  get's the tightest fit. 

[bazingaa]

I'm here! Night one of MIL visiting went well. She is now babysitting DS while DH and I try to work....which means one of us is getting up every 15mins to go help since she appears to be somewhat clueless on how to keep him happy. No firm plans for the weekend yet, though MIL did offer to watch DS for an evening so DH and I could go on a date. Waiting to see how today turns out before deciding whether or not to take her up on the offer.

[mom2boxers]

JoBub - It's the 13th today. Sorry for being a downer.

But I like pie, so I can celebrate early.

[mom2boxers]

bazingaa - I would just go on your date. She'll figure it out. I think it's like riding a bike, it all starts coming back. Her and LO probably just need to get used to one another.

[jmebormann]

I'm here, I'm here!
This week has been busy doing lots of stuff with DD classes, outings etc. I can't complain. Again, I swear it's the bananas I'm eating:)

So, we're going to Chicago to visit with friends this weekend and I'm a complete freak about staying in hotels.
Bed bugs do not discriminate! Every time DH comes back from travel I check his stuff. That said, I used to think oh as long as we're staying in a really nice place, we'll be safe. No. I checked the DoubleTree, Mariot Hyatt and all have had reports of bed bugs in Chicago. I finally found one that didn't and we booked it at the Westin. But that doesn't mean anything. I will be checking under the mattress, headboard, couch etc with my flashlight before we get cozy. You just can't take chances....once you bring those bitches home, they don't leave. I've never had them but know ppl who have! Scares me to death.
I hope everyone has a great weekend!!!

[bazingaa]

mom2boxers, I'm very tempted and likely will. I would just feel more comfortable if we could make it longer than 30mins without full blown screaming. DS is a very happy kid, so the screaming is unlike him. Oh, and the minor detail that she forgets about the whole changing his diaper thing. I could set an alarm for that part!

[mrscatfarmer13]

jmebormann, Checking beds dressers and any books in a hotel room for bed bugs is the first thing I do. I have enough critters around my house, I don't need more that feed on me.

[ladytiffany24]

I'm here! Barely...but I'm here. Work has been so insane and I don't like that it gets in the way of my fun time on here.

This week has been meh. Work is just so busy. And my only real down time here is when I pump. So I welcome that time. Although several times this week, I've worked while pumping. Gah.

Looking forward to date night tonight with DH. We still haven't figured out where we're going though. It'll just be nice to be in husband/wife mode instead of mom/dad mode (babylove518 --I totally get how you're feeling in regards to that!).

Also, hoping I find some good stuff at the sale tomorrow morning! Crossing my fingers for a few bigger things and lots and lots of baby clothes. Nugget has pretty much outgrown most of what she's got.

Also looking forward to just relaxing and spending some time on the front porch on Sunday. I think that's the only day this weekend without rain. I just want to be outside!