10 Things Tuesday is back!!!

[tatersalad]

1. Yay @jemomma for an awesome GIF filled return of 10 Things Tuesday.
2. Because it's also TMI Tuesday I'll confess I'm typing this on my toilet.
3. Cause multi tasking, yo.
4. My almost 3 year old wore a flotation device all day at the lake yesterday and rode a jet ski for the first time.
4. The wearing of the flotation device is a major achievement.
5. But not as big as baby Baylor's achievement...
6. He has slept 6-7 hours straight at night for the past 4 nights.
7. I'm so happy, rested, and proud.
8. I could burst at the seams.
9. Preschool starts next week and I can barely contain my excitement.
10. Today is babysitter morning and the only thing I care about doing is going to Starbucks and Target, ALONE.

[Bluedaisy]

1. I have to keep reminding myself that I'm not even six weeks postpartum so it's normal for my body to be weird.
2. I LOVE my photo printer
3. Baby is fast asleep on a blanket in the middle of the floor....I probably should move him to the crib but he's sleeping and safe so I'm leaving him alone
4. I found the copy of the Kate and Will wedding newspaper I'd saved and the British Air ad: "There's still one prince girls" still cracks me up.
5. We're binge watching Psych in my house.
6. I think I'm the only person who doesn't swaddle my new baby
7. Formula burp breath is gross...
8. I also LOVE the birth announcements we ordered
9. I can't think of anything else....

[Bluedaisy]

oh number 10. I'm officially trying to see just how long I can go without doing a load of baby laundry.

[alayne926]

1. Yay for 10 things Tuesday!
2. I'm happy to be home alone with baby today.
3. i just wish she'd be in a better mood as well.
4. She's currently sleeping in her swing after screaming like a madwoman for 20ish min for no reason.
5. I'm on my 2nd cup of coffee
6. I am thankful every morning that we kept DS in day care while I was on maternity leave, but I am anxious to go pick him up after nap time every day.
7. My coworker sent me pictures of her beach vacation and all the drinks she had while I was 8 months pregnant, so I've been sending her pictures of myself holding the baby with funny captions like, "Sucks to be at work today, doesn't it?"
8. I only have 3 more weeks at home with DD. I am both happy and sad about it.
9. I am going to use these 3 weeks to start looking for a new job. Apparently the Dr. I work with has been starting to act really weird and my coworker thinks something is up. Not going to go back and be blindsided. Looking at other options just in case.
10. I can't wait to get my first paycheck post maternity leave so I can order prints of DD's newborn pics.

[Deleted]

1. Baby is getting her two month check up today and shots.
2. Heading to the Canadian embassy today to see the process for becoming citizens
3. Have not told MIL yet that we are moving
4. She will freak the f out
5. Starting the process of updating my design portfolio today and resume so I can start looking for a new job

6. Watching wet hot American summer new series on Netflix. Obsessed

[Bluedaisy]

Kristykristyleelee, I LOVE Parenthood and was very sad when it ended. Once you watch it all let me know what you think of the ending.

[musicfrk2002]

1. This kid is so sleepy today. Slept 9 hours, then took a 4 hour nap.
2. I think it's from his shots yesterday, so I better not get used to this.
3. He is now just chilling in his swing, watching...who knows what. I think maybe the arm that is moving with him.
4. H said he rolled from his stomach to his back at one point yesterday. This morning he rolled from his back onto his side but then stopped.
5. Who needs a binky when you can shove your whole hand in your mouth?
6. I should wash his hands more.
7. Finally organized all the doctor bills that have been rolling in. Now to work on getting more paid, and finding out why they aren't covering any of J's bills.
8. Maybe he is just watching the ceiling fan, assuming he can see that far.
9. The weather looks nice today. However, it appeared that way yesterday, then alternated between sun and downpours all day.
10. Our stash of crock pot freezer meals is almost gone. Uh oh.

[sugarkissed]

1. YAY! I love 10 Things Tuesday!
2. Today is my first day home from a week long vacation/roadtrip with my mom and the kids.
3. Both kids did awesome in the car, but LO insisted on being held constantly. I missed my swing so much!
4. DD1 had so much fun at the pool and beach. I wish we could go more often.
5. I'm filling out baby's passport application.
6. Simultaneous kid naps are basically the best thing in the world.
7. I'm renewing my gym membership this week. Excited to get back into the swing of things and maybe start fitting some of my clothing again.
8. DD1 was late to talk, but in the past month she's picked up so many words and now she chats all day long. I'm so proud of her.
9. We bought a king sized bed! It's amazing!
10. Baby is up and hungry!

[carolyngrace]

1. This is my first ever 10TT
2. DB and I went on a walk and did yoga in the park today. Go me!
3. I have energy due to an awesome night sleep last night. Which I feel bad talking about here because I feel so bad for people not getting sleep!
4. I'm getting a NICE haircut tomorrow in preparation for returning to the school I work at. Is it so vein that I want them to think I look awesome after having a kid?
5. I'm both excited and nervous to travel with DB this weekend for the first time.
6. I scored a 5-star hotel in DC for $100/night on Expedia.
7. We're going to the National Zoo for the first time and probably re-visiting some museums while in DC.
8. I may smoke some weed in DC (seeing friends who do regularly). Kinda excited about that.
9. DH isn't into smoking weed. But it's legal there so even that argument can suck it.
10. Can you tell I was a pothead in high school? I'm glad I'm not now, but a couple times a year is good fun.

[ravinraven216]

1. Yay 10 things Tuesday
2. Baby is asleep in his car seat after morning errands. I don't want to wake him, but he needs a diaper change like woah.
3. He can wait until I'm done typing this list up. He's been fine so far. I am the laziest parent.
4. This is my last week before school starts. I'm dreading leaving LO at daycare and stressing over making sure he has everything he needs.
5. I'm not looking forward to work next week. I'm not really digging the bureaucratic nonsense that goes along with teaching in this state. I may start job hunting in the spring depending on how my Resident Educator program goes this year.
6. DH is applying for some first shift/promotion type jobs at work. I need to make sure he follows through. I really want him home in the evening.
7. My housekeeping has been virtually non-existent since J was born. I should do some every day, but I either feel unmotivated or he needs something and I get tied down.
8. On a relat d note, I did learn that I can breastfeed and play Skyrim at the same time.
9. Baby drool is less gross when it's your baby.
10. Now I have to go back to adulting. Lame.

[txngrl31]

1. Holla for ten things!

2. After weeks of making excuses not to go, I checked out a new mom group this morning. I'm really happy I went!

3. All this talk about passports reminds me I need to get DD one.

4. I stay up a little bit longer during the 4and 5 am feedings to finish a Real Housewives episode on our DVR. Not enjoying NYC this year- it's been the Bethenny show.

5. A friend of mine keeps boxed wine for happy hour/ after work drinking. I reluctantly tried it after making fun of her, and I was pleasantly surprised with how good it was hahaha.

6. Having our first fam vacay this weekend!

7. A few more weeks until we fly home!!

8. I hope I don't have to buy everyone around me drinks because DD throws a fit.

9. Actually, I might need that drink..is it ok to drink at 8 am on an airplane? Airplane/ airport time is different, right?

10. Ready for football to start!

[Widget123]

1. Got into a minor accident on the highway with LO on the way to the Verizon store.
2. Clearly it wasnt very bad as LO slept through it.
3. I talked to DH who said that daycare was anxious about me turning in some paperwork so i went there instead.
4. I still dont have a new phone but at least i got all of the old pics downloaded last night.
5. Going now to meet LOs daycare teacher and pick-up DD.
6. I was going to ask DDs teacher about her missing dirty clothes over the last 2 months- several shirts and shorts- but now im not.
7. DH alleges he always took home what was in her cubby.
8. The last parent that caused a stink about missing clothes found out her daughter threw them away, per the video footage.

[thecatsmeow]

1. Also a first 10TT participant!
2. I don't have a passport (yet).
3. I've never left the US (yet).
4. Not even to Canada, despite growing up and currently living in a northern border state.
5. I am trying to visit all 50 states.
6. 34 and DC so far. 16 left.
7. Might get to knock off NM in January.
8. Favorite places have been Hawaii, San Fran, Boston, Maine, and hunting/camping in Colorado.
9. I'd love to visit Europe, especially Germany or the Scandinavian countries.
10. This turned into a travel theme, I didn't intend that when I started.

[wegrowsheep]

1. Round of applause to @jemomma for getting anything done with 3 children!
2. tatersalad I'm so freaking jealous of Starbucks alone time. And sleep.
3. txngrl31 boxed wine is awesome. But not as awesome as the 4th bottle of Moscato in my fridge. I drink about 1 a week, and the empty bottles are still on my counter to prove it.
4. I have 10 lbs of cucumbers to pickle.
5. And pepperoncinis.
6. And beans to freeze.
7. And a garbage bag full of basil to turn into pesto.
8. And I need to arrange a weekend trip to E WA to pick peaches and pears, because CANNING.
9. Someone is buying all my tomatoes today for $1/lb.
10. It isn't much, but it gives me coffee stand money.

[tiffbot]

1. We just got a hitch installed on our van so we can begin the hunt for a used tent trailer to start going camping next summer! I am so excited!

2. We used to tent all the time, and I did growing up, but that didn't seem as fun with two little little ones.

3. Plus the weather here can go from perfect to crazy to wtf is this? In the same day

4. DD got her first round of vaccinations yesterday

5. It made her sleepy so I actually got a good sleep last night too

6. DS is 2 and doing his first set of swimming lessons! He started last week and is doing so awesome and I'm so proud of how confident he's become in the water already.

7. I said I got a good sleep last night, but I'm just realizing how tired I am again. It's only 2:30 here

8. DS has cut 3 of 4 of his 2 year molars since early July. He's being quite the trooper, but I'm still excited for this process to be done!

9. The earrings I'm currently wearing my mom brought me back from a Cuba trip she did this past winter

10. I really need to get my hair trimmed.

[bendherova]

Aug 11, 2015 14:16:45 GMT -5 @bubbs119 said:

Aug 11, 2015 11:37:17 GMT -5 Kristykristyleelee said:

5. I've watched the whole series of parenthood in the past couple of months. I have just the last 2 episodes left - I'm dragging my feet on watching them, I don't want it to end!!

7. I live in philly - the week I go back to work is the week the pope will be here. This is going to be helllll! I will prob have to extend my leave by a couple of days - my office is in a "no drive" zone. No way for any of us to get there unless we walk.

I'm seriously dreading the weekend the Pope is here and I live in the suburbs. It's going to be a hot mess. I've heard people in the city are renting out their houses for thousands of dollars that weekend. Crazy.

My BIL is one of them. He and his GF will spend the week at the Jersey Shore. Their Apartment is 10min from the art museum. I can't believe they are building a fence.

And a month later the Dalai Lama is coming to PHL. yikes.

[shahoi]

1. This is also my first 10TT.
2. Went to my mom's for a few hours before O's pedi appt.
3. She was frying a shit ton of chicken.
4. Her entire house smelled like fried food. (She has a small house that apparently isn't well ventilated)
5. O and I both smell like fried food.
6. It was so bad that I actually took her carseat and diaper bag out to the car so they wouldn't forever reek.
7. I was self conscious about smelling at the pedi office.
8. O got her shots today.
9. She's never cried so hard and turned the color that she did.
10. She's awake and smiling at the moment.

[jessila]

1. Yay 10 things!!!

2. LO has crazy napped all day...2 hrs, 1 1/2 hr, another hr

3. He's been in his crib the last 2 nights and is only getting to 3 hr stretches. Boo.

4. I babysat my mom today after she had cataract surgery.

5. LO had his first huge public blowout at the eye surgeon. It was pretty epic and I had to change him on the sink.

6. He also spit up on me for the first time today. At the eye surgeon.

7. While I was babysitting my mom she watched him while I took a 2 hr nap. It was glorious.

8. I found out today that I'll be teaching on a cart 4 days a week.

9. We're eating our last frozen non-crock pot meal tonight (yay, lasagna!)

10. My mom was in a lot of pain after her cataract surgery today. It was hard to see her uncomfortable and unable to calm down. She was able to get more eye drops and was almost immediately herself again.

[sabrinaml]

1. This is my first 10TT

2. LO and I went on a 4 mile walk/run this morning.

3. I'm doing a Fitbit challenge this week, it's 5:30p and I have 20,000 steps in for the day.

4. I hate packing my house.

5. I have to move in with my ILs until we find a house.

6. Oh and my move in date is the day before my birthday.

7. I have a feeling it won't be a very happy birthday for me this year.

8. Cole has slept through the night for almost a week now.

9. I should probably start getting dinner ready.

10. I had to put Cole in his car seat and drive around for him to take his afternoon nap. We've only had to do that one other time.

[teenybird]

It's not midnight here yet, so I can still do this woot!

1. LO is absolutely mesmerized with our ceiling fan. He will be ready to put up a good fuss, but you just walk toward the dining room and he immediately goes slack-jawed and cranes his neck all ET-style to get a good look at it. If I'd known that the fan would be his favorite "toy," I wouldn't have worried so much about the Baby Einstein.

2. My MIL has been here to help us for the past two weeks since PPD has been kicking my ass and DH is prepping hardcore for a PhD comp exam. I'm super grateful to have her around, but it's been the hardest thing ever to not micro-manage everything. My mommy-sense has finally kicked in full force, and I'm having a hard time keeping it in check. I'm reminding myself that she'll be taking care of baby J until he's six months old and starts going to daycare, so I might as well get on the same page with her about shit. Why is communication so hard, even with someone I actually like and get along with??

3. My LO is on amino-acid based formula because he has milk and soy protein intolerance. I think the formula smells like pancake batter and somehow makes him smell a little like mashed potatoes. I kind of want to eat him, and not just because he's so stinkin' cute...he actually smells kind of like delicious, delicious foody goodness!

4. I am SO stoked that LO looks like he's going to have grey eyes like his mama. My DH has tan skin, almost black hair, and dark brown eyes - so he was convinced baby J would get the "dominant" genes for coloring. News flash dude: DH's older bro, who looks a lot like DH, has two daughters - both of whom have blue eyes and blonde hair. Obvs my genes and SIL's are whooping ass on the baby front!

5. Baby J really loves music, and it makes my heart swell. We play all kinds - folk, jazz, rock, classical, etc., and he gets really smiley and "dances" in his bouncy seat. Lil' dude has rhythm already!

6. My mom got us one of those fancy-schmancy MamaRoo things for LO. The only thing is, LO HATES it. He much prefers the $40 vibrating bouncy seat we got from BRU. I've taken to putting LO in the 'Roo for like two seconds, right under his favorite ceiling fan, just to see if I can get him to smile so I can send pics of him "enjoying" it to my mother. What she doesn't know can't hurt her...right?

7. Baby J can belch and fart to rival the best frat boy. His toots could totally clear a room - and we don't even have a dog to blame them on! I'm oddly kind of proud of him haha. His mama can belch at will, so our house is going to be so very polite when he gets older!

8. LO goes for his two month check-up tomorrow, and I'm super nervous about his vaccines - especially because of his MSPI (some of the vaccines have dairy/soy components, and I think the rotavirus one is oral). I told DH he's going to have to hold baby while I step out of the room. I don't want to be the bigger baby and bawl my eyes out in the exam room. It wouldn't be my first meltdown at the pedi office, so I'd like to avoid "hysterical mother" references in the chart if at all possible, mmk.

9. Less than two weeks into my mat leave, I got notice that my company plans to close in September and the lot of us employees would be laid off. That sucked hardcore. But, I'm happy to say I got me a new job - and a promotion, too! Now I'm having anxiety about when I should give my resignation notice, because I really don't want to go back from my leave. I want the extra two weeks at home with my lil' chunker...but I also don't want to be a douchey employee (even though my company is laying me off haha...me = doormat much?).

10. I have the sudden urge to dye my hair. I haven't messed with my color since before I was pregnant, and I really want to get back to my chameleon ways...debating whether or not I should give in to the whim. I think the only thing really holding me back is fear that LO won't recognize me if I make too drastic a change (even though I know it's a stupid worry).

Bonus 11. This is totally me right now, FTW:

[paintdadanta]

1) I made LO skip his late morning nap to actually make it out of the house for a change.

2) There's this new national group called Hike it Baby that organizes hikes for families with young kids and was so worth the early morning trip.

3) This made me love the Tula even more, he slept the whole trail

4) But I was suppose to write an article on the group and completely got to wrapped in conversation for interviews.

5) Now I have less than 24hrs for interviews and to write a 1000 more words of this cover story.

6) Remind me why I thought working from home would be easy . . .

7) But DH got the new job today so no more counting pennies and family borrowing.

8) All these comments on Parenthood binge watching makes me want to rewatch the series, so sad it isn't returning this fall.

9) Though I also miss Sons of Anarchy, why do the good shows always end at the same time.

10) Now I have to quit procrastinating and wake up the sleeping baby for a diaper change and pray he'll go back to sleep.

[erbear]

1. I haven't done one of these in months.
2. It's now Wednesday, but oh well.
3. I'm watching Gilmore Girls for the first time and I'm obsessed. I'm tempted to put one on now but I'll never sleep.
4. LO rolled from belly to back twice and back to side the other day during playtime.
5. She also unswaddled herself in her crib which means I need to get some sleep sacks ASAP if I want her to start napping in her crib/pack n play.
6. I feel some guilt over not taking a long term substitute position this fall but I also know staying home with LO 3x a week will be pretty great.
7. H doesn't know but if the right long term sub job popped up (ie, it paid well), I'd probably take it. As important as it is to be with LO, I'd like to have my own money.
8. I'm making my mom come with me to lo's 2 month appointment because I can't bear the thought of her in pain and H can't make it.
9. I find crumbs on LO regularly. Yesterday I had some chocolate from my muffin on my shirt and apparently smeared it all over her when I stood up from nursing.
10. We're going to a special event at the zoo Sunday and I'm really excited to take LO! I don't care if she's too young to know what's going on.

[erbear]

Aug 12, 2015 7:18:12 GMT -5 Kristykristyleelee said:

erbear you have just inspired my next binge watching spree. Gilmore girls here I come!

Possible FFFC: I have never seen the Gilmore girls before.

I had never watched it, either! It's really hard to not read spoilers!