friday randoms

[nerdalert]

Hey everyone. I'm awake and LO is happily playing on the floor, yelling "MAMAMAMA!" and waving at everything. It would probably be way cuter if it were daytime. I guess she's been sleeping so horribly because her brain is going through some major growth? She's been doing A LOT of new things lately, so I'm blaming it on that.

But it's really bad timing! Today is moving day, and I've only been able to sleep for an hour so far... and we've had crappy sleep all week long. This is going to suck. Moving is enough work even on a good night's sleep. 

I just needed to whine a little bit. I think LO may tolerate being nursed to sleep now. We'll see... I hope all of your nights are going better than mine.

[gldnbearz]

Putting LO to bed this week has been no easy feat. She's constantly on her knees, looking out of the PNP. Or rolling around it. Or twisting and turning in bed with us. Fx that this passes quickly.

[MsNicole06]

I'm trying to figure how LO can be comfortable with the way she sleeps. It looks like she was kneeling and then bent over to see if she could get her forehead to touch the mattress. She sticks her butt up and squishes her face into the mattress. I wish I could get a picture of this because it's just so odd. She always starts on her back too.

[singingmama10]

nerdalert, Ugh! Moving and no sleep= Not fun at all! I hope it goes ok and that the adrenaline kicks in.
MsNicole06, My son does the same thing except he's not on his knees. He sits with his feet in front of him and puts his head between his legs.... so weird! I don't know how he can sleep like that

So Levi's crawl is more of push with his feet and flop on his belly kind of crawl. Well now he has blisters on the top of his feet and a couple of them have even opened up . I tried to put socks on him but then he slipped and went face first onto the wood floor . They don't seem to be bothering him but the look awful! Poor guy!

[nerdalert]

MsNicole06 It is so weird how babies can be comfortable in the strangest positions!

singingmama10 I think the adrenaline has kicked in! Also Mountain Dew. I finally got her to bed around 3:00, and then got a solid 3.5 hours of sleep.

I'm nursing LO now, and when she's finished it's time to go crazy getting everything done!

[nerdalert]

singingmama10 Could you try some of those really soft shoes? The kind with elastic around the back of the ankle? Target sells them. Maybe he would keep those on his feet better than socks.

[gldnbearz]

@msn06 LO is the same here. Butt in the air is especially cute if she is wearing one of those Carter's PJs with the decal on the butt.

[gldnbearz]

LO woke up for reasons unknown around 4am or so. H got up for a diaper change and a bottle. It looks like she ate a whole 5 oz bottle. Compared to last weekend when she wanted nothing to do with the bottle. What are babies thinking??

[sjp03]

DH came home last night and started complaining about how hot it is in the house. He checks the thermostat. It says it's set at 71 but the indoor temp was 76. Had a repairman come out today. We can either spend a small fortune to fix the current system or spend a slightly larger amount of money to replace the entire thing. Home ownership sucks on days like this...

[sjp03]

nerdalert - good luck with the move today.
gldnbearz - my LO has also been a challenge to put to sleep all week. He has been going do an 1-1.5 hours later than normal all week.
MsNicole06 - LO sleeps the same way a lot of the time.
singingmama10 - aw poor Levi! Try soft shoes? Like what nerdalert recommends.

[pixie523]

singingmama10, do you have any aquafor to rub on the blisters to stop chafing on rugs/floors? poor buddy!

Trying to come up with something fun to do this weekend. H is traveling starting Sunday night. It's straight up hot here. I was thinking maybe we'd go over to the big splash pad between naps tomorrow? Have a nice lunch somewhere? All our baby friends are busy this weekend. Weekends with baby, pre travel, can get real restless.

[spiraltheory]

nerdalert - bring on the caffeine and sugar! Moving is so hard. I hope you have some help.
Just in case you were wondering, my dining room chairs DO fall over when M pulls himself up on them. I've been moving him all week away from the chairs because I thought they might fall on him. Today I wasn't fast enough. Does this mean I have to put away all the chairs? Wth?

Today is my anniversary. My sister said she'd watch Myles while we go out. I want to see Trainwreck. That's romantic, right? . Have any of you seen it?

Happy Friday, ladies!

[MsNicole06]

sjp03 I hate when things break

nerdalert good luck with the move.

spiraltheory scary mommy just had a post about how you can't have chairs (& other things) when you have small children. Also Happy Anniversary! Enjoy your time out.

DD is like a tornado. I think every 10 minutes she moves to a different area to throw things around. I feel like I have piles of toys, socks, Tupperware etc. constantly.

[kfaye]

MsNicole06 I feel like my house is like that and my lo doesn't even crawl yet! I can only imagine how bad it will be when she can actually get in to stuff
spiraltheory I was wondering about our chairs too, I guess we rarely sit at our table anyway but still sucks to think we may need to put them away. Happy anniversary!! I haven't seen that movie but it looks hilarious
pixie523 I too am trying to think of things to do tomorrow to stay out of the heat. I've decided to go to baby story time at the library and then to lunch. Hope you guys can stay cool!
sjp03 oh lord, home repair stuff is always so stupid expensive! Our sprinkler system broke and we have no $ to fix it so our lawn is just burning up and looks terrible. Unfortunately the air conditioning is something that's really hard to be without, sorry girl!
gldnbearz my lo is doing the whole rolling around, getting up on her hands and knees thing in bed too. I figured she's learning all these new things and it's hard to turn off and sleep
singingmama10 poor baby! We have all hard wood floors too and I was wondering if it would hurt her little knees and feet.
nerdalert at least you got a mama early this morning/last night! But jeeze, I feel like they always time out bad sleep nights for when you have something that requires extra energy the next day. Good luck moving today, hope you can just move a few boxes and get off the hook because, well someone has to take care of the baby!

Lo slept in her crib last night for the second night in a row. Now don't read that as she slept through the night, she was up about 4 times but I put her back in bed each time. I think she likes it because the matress is so much softer than the pnp and it's bigger if she rolls over she's not running in to the side. I'm sad to not have her right next to me but I do think I'm sleeping a bit better, my constant watching of the monitor and her only being about 10 steps away helps too.

[jjh1119]

Jul 31, 2015 10:24:30 GMT -5 sjp03 said:

DH came home last night and started complaining about how hot it is in the house. He checks the thermostat. It says it's set at 71 but the indoor temp was 76. Had a repairman come out today. We can either spend a small fortune to fix the current system or spend a slightly larger amount of money to replace the entire thing. Home ownership sucks on days like this...

Ha. Ha. Ha. My downstairs has been registering between 81 and 85 degrees in this god awful heat

[jjh1119]

I'm at work, hello! No time to tag.

H finished last night around 7 and decided he wanted to come home instead of waiting for the morning. So he drove all the way home last night from PA. I guess he does love us.

[briannea]

Jul 31, 2015 10:24:30 GMT -5 sjp03 said:

DH came home last night and started complaining about how hot it is in the house. He checks the thermostat. It says it's set at 71 but the indoor temp was 76. Had a repairman come out today. We can either spend a small fortune to fix the current system or spend a slightly larger amount of money to replace the entire thing. Home ownership sucks on days like this...

We had to get ours fixed this week. It's only five years old so I'm pretty annoyed. $2600 is not chump change. And I had to try to work from home while they were here.

[sjp03]

Jul 31, 2015 12:43:47 GMT -5 briannea said:

Jul 31, 2015 10:24:30 GMT -5 sjp03 said:

DH came home last night and started complaining about how hot it is in the house. He checks the thermostat. It says it's set at 71 but the indoor temp was 76. Had a repairman come out today. We can either spend a small fortune to fix the current system or spend a slightly larger amount of money to replace the entire thing. Home ownership sucks on days like this...

We had to get ours fixed this week. It's only five years old so I'm pretty annoyed. $2600 is not chump change. And I had to try to work from home while they were here.

I would also be pretty annoyed to spend that much money to repair an HVAC system that is so new. We opted to replace. We knew our HVAC system was aging so we have been saving. I was just hoping that we wouldn't have to worry until next spring. We also need to replace our roof in 2-3 years. Always something to spend money on!

[singingmama10]

spiraltheory, Happy Anniversary!!! Enjoy today
sjp03, briannea, Home ownership does suck sometimes. H and I built a house 2 years ago. Naively, we thought that we would have a good few years before repairs would need to happen but it seems that no matter what there is always something to do in a house.
jjh1119, AWWW that is so sweet of your H!

So I went out and bought some of those shoes hopefully it will help. I had already put some aquafor on his feet. It's right on the bottom of his big toe knuckle. He keeps rubbing it off, but I don't want it to get infected (bandaids were useless). Hopefully the shoes will help with that too. Thanks for the advice ladies

[zengal]

Mostly drive-by post: Happy anniversary spiraltheory! It's my folks' anniversary today too!
I'm sympathizing with those of you in the heat. We're at a family function in an old church and it's sweaty hot; all the kids' faces are red and everyone has drippy foreheads. Baby is a champ though. One brief nap today but still happy as a clam!

[songbirdsinging55]

Drive by posting today, I have a vacation day today. We took Isaac to the local Aquarium and lake center. He had an absolute blast. He fell in love with the fishes. We even got him a stuffed large mouth bass. Lol. Here are some pics of our day







He loved touching the bear fur too. I had a good long nap after. Morning sickness is the worst right now. I don't remember ever being this sick last time. I can only stomach sesame bagels with cream cheese and pickles. Ginger ale too.

I hope everyone has a good day today. Rest for those who need it.

[songbirdsinging55]

nerdalert -aww! I bet it was a mental leap.
gldnbearz - sounds like she will start crawling soon. Hopefully she can rest a little better for you.
MsNicole06 -That sounds very uncomfortable and adorable.
singingmama10 - Poor LO, hope it heals up soon.
sjp03- that is frustrating. Hopefully it is not too expensive.
pixie523- that sounds like fun! We brought Isaac to the aquarium and he had such a fun time. I want to do more with him on weekends too. Lately I feel like I have not been as educational and entertaining as usual.
spiraltheory - yay for date night and Happy Anniversary! I heard it was hilarious.
kfaye- that's great that she loves the mattress.
jjh1119- major brownie points for your H :-)
zengal - I cannot stand the heat. I have never been a summer person. Spring and Fall are my favorites.

[gldnbearz]

spiraltheory Happy anniversary.
songbirdsinging55 LO is already crawling all about.

[wildflower810]

I've been trying to spend less time on the interwebz and more time working around the house and playing with my baby. He knows when I'm ignoring him and he doesn't like it. M is crawling!! We set up a baby gate around H's computer/bookshelf area because there are sooo many things that he's been getting into. It really dresses up the living room and looks super classy... not.

[MsNicole06]

wildflowers I understand the classing up the living room. This remains up in my living room because I can set LO down in it and get other things down. I always feel classy when I mention I have a pool in the living room.

[wildflower810]

Ventish... H did nothing for Mother's Day. z.e.r.o. Not even a card. I kinda went all out for Father's Day. Our anniversary is next week and I've planned a trip, booked the hotel, bought a card, and ordered a gift tonight. I dropped a "hint" that he should get a card "oh yeah" was the response. If he screws up our anniversary I'm going to be really ticked.