It's Monday spam time

[aggiebug]

Woot!

[aggiebug]

Morning. DD at is again changing her routine. I think she is trying to sleep in longer (Wahoo!). She still wakes up happy at 5, but if I leave her she falls back asleep for another hour. I am cool with this, but of course she chooses the week we have to be at church by 9 for vbs to start changing things. I am sorry kind nursery workers I don't know what her routine is this week.

[miniwheat]

DS started rolling onto his face in his crib. Sigh... STTN was awesome while it lasted! This morning he was stuck in a corner working really hard to figure out how to get out of his predicament. He is so cute. Now he is fed and having fun in his excersaucer while I wait for big sis to wake up and have breakfast.

I have no idea what to do today. Beach? Groceries?

[pitdigger]

Still waking up every two hours. I'm ready for the regression to stop.

I'm going to make dinner reservations for our anniversary. We'll be in Petoskey, so it's fun.

Also, we could use some rain.

[mrsclark731]

Morning!

[mmarie]

Had a huge storm last night so I, along with everyone else in the house, slept terrible. And today I start my new job. I'm excited and sad all at the same time. So many feels right now....

[osumegs]

pitdigger we will gladly send some of our rain your way.

mmarie Good luck at your new job!

[toadandbuggie]

pitdigger, Happy anniversary!
mmarie, GL at your new job.

[toadandbuggie]

aggiebug, Sorry I nver responded when I inquired about the book club. I would actually like to be apart of it if you are doing a read along!

[toadandbuggie]

LO is *still* sick. It's breaking my heart. It's been two weeks now he's had on and off cold symptoms. On Friday he woke up from his nap with heavily crusted eyes that were red so I took him to the doctor and they said it's not pinkeye but gave me drops as a precaution. I just feel so bad for my little guy! He's up coughing a ton and every morning wakes up with a fat crusty nose! I just want him to shake this thing already.

[flyster]

Back to work for me. Ugh. That is all

[flyster]

toadandbuggie, that is the worst LO has had one really bad cold and lots of little colds. The one bad one got into his lungs and he was making the saddest coughs for a few weeks. They can't give them anything at this age, we just have to watch them work it out Can you try a humidifier/steam thing? We also nose freda at night and the morning when he is sick.

[WittyLittle]

Jul 13, 2015 6:04:24 GMT -5 miniwheat said:

DS started rolling onto his face in his crib. Sigh... STTN was awesome while it lasted! This morning he was stuck in a corner working really hard to figure out how to get out of his predicament. He is so cute. Now he is fed and having fun in his excersaucer while I wait for big sis to wake up and have breakfast.

I have no idea what to do today. Beach? Groceries?

my condolences to your sleep... at least he's trying to get out of his predicament! :-P Jake's given up and just shouts half heartedly until I come free him Hopefully you only have a few days of this until he learns to roll the other way! Fingers crossed for you  

[WittyLittle]

mmarie lovetit for the first day! I hope it goes well!

[miniwheat]

mmarie, Good luck today!

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aggiebug Babies are crazy!

pitdigger Happy anniversary!

mmarie GL at the new job! You'll kick ass, I'm sure

[toadandbuggie]

flyster, I have been using saline spray and the nose freida so often to get all of his snot out that now he absolutely hates the thing and barely lets me near him. He also hates me cleaning his nose at all so it's a struggle! Besides the obvious symptoms, he hasn't had a fever at all and is generally happy. I was going a little crazy last night listening to him cough though and was all "omg what if it's whooping cough" and googled whooping cough sounds just to freak myself out.

I just want him to shake it! I hate listening to his sniffles and coughs at night!

[mands1125]

miniwheat- DD is doing the same thing!

pitdigger- Happy Anni!

mmarie - good luck!

My spam for today is that DH is sick. He is so incredibly annoying when he is sick. Like the biggest baby ever. I feel like a horrible wife for not running out to make him chicken soup and rub his feet but the babying he requires when he is sick is exhausting at times.

[junebugjam]

My LO's left eye has been red all day yesterday and still this morning so I'm making a pedi appointment when they open at 9. Hoping it's nothing serious since it's just the skin around his eye and not his actual eye. We'll see I guess.

aggiebug I meant to ask about the book club also. Did you say they already selected books for July and August? What books are they? I would love to do a book club in theory but then I'd have to find time to read. I think I've been reading the same book since before LO was born. Almost done though!

I can't believe it's the middle of July already. Slow down summer! I have no desire to go back to work.

[dmorgendorffer]

mmarie, Good luck today! Hope it goes by fast for you.

We made some big sleep changes over the weekend to try to get out of the rut we've been in. E moved to her own room and started sleeping with both arms out unswaddled. We are kind of loosely following Sleep Sense but I know some of the things I'm doing are "wrong" like I still pretty much let her nurse to sleep. Friday and Saturday nights were pretty rough but last night she went 8-3am which is the longest stretch we've had in a while. Unfortunately she did not want to go back to sleep after she ate at 3 so we were up until 5am only to have to get up at 6 to get ready for work. Monday and I'm already sleepy... going to be a long day.

[dmorgendorffer]

Question - I know some of your have been taking your babies swimming and I'm looking to get a swim suit for DD for a beach vacation in August. Do you have any recommendations for brands or styles? I was looking for one of the rash guard style suits to keep her covered up without having to use too much sunscreen but they look they might be a pain to get on and off / do diaper changes.

[misshart00]

I know I complain about DS not sleeping through the night and I realize I mean to my satisfaction. He's a great sleeper. I just hate home getting up at 5:30. But then it occurred to me that he went to bed at 6:30. He's going 11 hours. And at least 9 consistently. So maybe I just need to stop going to bed at midnight. But u like husband time so much!

Pathetic complainer, party of me.

[mands1125]

dmorgendorffer - I do an iPlay swim diaper and then just a little Old Navy swimsuit. I have one of those ones you described but I am going to return it. She has done well with sunscreen (Ped said it was okay if I tested it on her skin first) and we don't keep her out in the sun for long. She fell asleep in my arms in the pool yesterday and as much as I wanted to just let her sleep since we were both relaxed, I took her out and of course she woke up. lol


Edited to add: We are in SouthEastern PA if that matters. It does get hot and sunny here in the summer.

[WittyLittle]

dmorgendorffer, we also started this weekend with a loose interpretation of sleep sense so I feel your pain/simultaneous triumph. We're dealing with a paci addiction so taking things one step at a time. Kuddos for moving her to her own room AND de-swaddling at the same time. I think also not nursing her to sleep would have been a lot to deal with at teh same time. Did you try to leave her to self soothe at 3? I've found nights so difficult to do! Keep it up, change is around the corner

[emilyz320]

Jul 13, 2015 8:00:53 GMT -5 dmorgendorffer said:

Question - I know some of your have been taking your babies swimming and I'm looking to get a swim suit for DD for a beach vacation in August. Do you have any recommendations for brands or styles? I was looking for one of the rash guard style suits to keep her covered up without having to use too much sunscreen but they look they might be a pain to get on and off / do diaper changes.

We also just use an iplay swim diaper and she has a carters swim suit and a target swim suit. But they had rash guards and swim suits on clearance at carters over the weekend.

[WittyLittle]

Jul 13, 2015 8:02:10 GMT -5 misshart00 said:

I know I complain about DS not sleeping through the night and I realize I mean to my satisfaction. He's a great sleeper. I just hate home getting up at 5:30. But then it occurred to me that he went to bed at 6:30. He's going 11 hours. And at least 9 consistently. So maybe I just need to stop going to bed at midnight. But u like husband time so much!

Pathetic complainer, party of me.

I know what you mean. I love those hours with DH even if we're just crashed on the couch, it's quality time and i feel like we need it to keep our relationship going sometimes. But then i realise how grumpy i am without sleep and how we probably wouldn't need so many hours of quality time if we didn't need half an hour to coordinate 'pass the popcorn' :-P 

[lilyelayne]

mumomma13 happy anniversary!
pitdigger happy anniversary!
mmarie have a great first day at your new job!
toadandbuggie hope your LO kicks the virus soon!

[emilyz320]

Sorry to all the sleepy mamas today! @holachica I feel the same. I can't complain about dd's sleep, she goes to bed at 6:30-7 and sleeps straight through until 4 or 5, then goes right back down until 6:30 or 7:30. Unswaddling went really well, we just use a sleep sack now. But I still feel so exhausted! I think it's the sleep deprivation adding up over time. I didn't sleep well for the last couple months of pregnancy so I haven't gotten a full night of rest since maybe December. So pity party of 2.

We had a major poopsplosion this am. We gave dd 2oz of prune juice yesterday to help with her constipation. Holy poop. Disgusting!

I am heading to macy's today to exchange some tank tops we got as a gift. This girl is growing like a weed!! mrsclark731 I might be looking for that kitty romper... So cute.

[michelle142]

Sick baby = tired Mommy.

I think I got maybe 1 solid hour of sleep between 9:30 and 5am. DD was up constantly. This stuffy nose can go away anytime now. I caved and put her in the RNP at about 4am because she can't breathe laying flat in her crib. Hopefully I didn't mess up her crib sleeping.

We better all be healthy by the weekend when we leave for our vacation. We had to cancel our plans last summer due to illness. Fingers crossed that's NOT the case this year!

[emilyz320]

Jul 13, 2015 6:52:09 GMT -5 toadandbuggie said:

LO is *still* sick. It's breaking my heart. It's been two weeks now he's had on and off cold symptoms. On Friday he woke up from his nap with heavily crusted eyes that were red so I took him to the doctor and they said it's not pinkeye but gave me drops as a precaution. I just feel so bad for my little guy! He's up coughing a ton and every morning wakes up with a fat crusty nose! I just want him to shake this thing already.

I hope he feels better soon!