What's up Sunday? Spam

[mands1125]

Good morning! We are rolling out of DC in a little, stopping in Baltimore for a Baptism party, then finally home! We want to take a short drive to our new house too to see how much progress they made while we were away. Yay so excited!

Have a great day ladies!!

[mands1125]

Aug 23, 2015 6:53:56 GMT -5 @holachica said:

No long run today since my shin is acting up.

We're still gonna do our weekly grocery shopping, get coffee abs later head to Buy Buy Baby to get the convertible car seat. A restaurant by the mall does all day happy hour and has great food, so we'll probably do that for food today.

Which seat are you getting? I'm still researching!

[mrsclark731]

Morning!

Rough night of sleep here. H and I are both zombie-like this morning. I just came back from Heritage's with a breakfast sandwich, a soft pretzel, and 4 sugar free Red Bulls. Yummmm.

The in laws are coming at 11 for a visit. I gotta get my shit together.

After that we want to put DD in the hot tub with us. We turned the water down to 80 last week for her.... We won't let her in for more than 20 minutes but I think she'll like it judging from her pool experience last week.

[lilyelayne]

Another perk of being home this weekend is going to church! Then to my grandmother's for lunch, then to my ILs for nephew's 2nd birthday party.

[flyster]

Yesterday was awesome. Inlaws came over in the morning which let me clean. Dh and a friend finished up installing the dishwasher (!) and my MIL helped clean the house also, so its super clean now, even post party. The party was super fun. We broke in our firepit, and LO had lots of fun being the star of the party. He did have to share a bit of a spotlight with my friend's 10 pound dog who is super cute and chill. Sadly the dog was not as into babies as LO is into dogs, so he didn't get to play with the dog at all.

Today we are headed about 40 minutes away to my Aunt's house. My parents were up visiting them (they live about 3 hours away) so we are all going for brunch. Yum! My Aunt and Uncle haven't seen LO since his bris at 8 days old, and my parents haven't seen him for a few months except via skype I think. Big changes~

[toadandbuggie]

On our way to Outer Banks, NC. So far LO has been pretty good. Hope everyone has a great Sunday!

[mands1125]

Aug 23, 2015 7:43:39 GMT -5 toadandbuggie said:

On our way to Outer Banks, NC. So far LO has been pretty good. Hope everyone has a great Sunday!

Just left there. Have fun! We had amazing weather all week.

[ace226]

In the next month we might be homeowners! Eek! A lady from church texted me out of the blue, saying she felt compelled to ask me if we were looking to buy a home. Totally random. But we said yes, and she asked if we wanted to check out hers before they listed with an agent.

Long story short, we're going to tell them today that as long as the financing comes through (which we really have no doubt it will) they have a buyer.

[jensoprano82]

Aug 23, 2015 8:04:39 GMT -5 ace226 said:

In the next month we might be homeowners! Eek! A lady from church texted me out of the blue, saying she felt compelled to ask me if we were looking to buy a home. Totally random. But we said yes, and she asked if we wanted to check out hers before they listed with an agent.

Long story short, we're going to tell them today that as long as the financing comes through (which we really have no doubt it will) they have a buyer.

Congratulations!!! So exciting!

[cloe111479]

Dh went to his bowling not league. Dd and I are watching Mickey Mouse clubhouse while I pump.

Then we add headed to my parents for lunch -- my dads frying a turkey.

[ace226]

jensoprano82 thank you!

[mishka29]

We had a fun day yesterday at a local busker fest. Both girls were really well behaved and LO even skipped a nap.

It's a lazy day today but we might try to go swimming later with both girls for the first time! I've signed them up for fall swim classes so this should be fun.

[miniwheat]

toadandbuggie, Have fun!
ace226, Congrats!

[miniwheat]

Today we are doing some shopping for our vacation and prepping the driveway to be sealed. Fun times.
DD scared herself off the big potty and back onto the little potty because she forgot to put her potty seat on the big toilet and fell in. Poor kid!

[miniwheat]

And this...

[lotsofdotts]

Aug 23, 2015 7:28:54 GMT -5 mrsclark731 said:

Morning!

Rough night of sleep here. H and I are both zombie-like this morning. I just came back from Heritage's with a breakfast sandwich, a soft pretzel, and 4 sugar free Red Bulls. Yummmm.

The in laws are coming at 11 for a visit. I gotta get my shit together.

After that we want to put DD in the hot tub with us. We turned the water down to 80 last week for her.... We won't let her in for more than 20 minutes but I think she'll like it judging from her pool experience last week.

I'm jealous of your hot tub. I want one so badly!

[kartish]

Aug 23, 2015 8:04:39 GMT -5 ace226 said:

In the next month we might be homeowners! Eek! A lady from church texted me out of the blue, saying she felt compelled to ask me if we were looking to buy a home. Totally random. But we said yes, and she asked if we wanted to check out hers before they listed with an agent.

Long story short, we're going to tell them today that as long as the financing comes through (which we really have no doubt it will) they have a buyer.

Congratulations! That is awesome.

[lilyelayne]

ace226 congrats! That's awesome!

[Mom2Ms]

Not much over here. DD is going with the sperm donor today. She doesn't want to. I hate forcing her to do things with him. That leaves me with DS and DH and DHs sons. It's such a challenge with his kids. Even with my knee, I try to keep DD active. His kids are just lazy. They don't want to do anything outside, ever. Unless it's video games on an iPad. And all they ever want to do is eat. The majority of the questions revolve around when the next meal or snack is. And all they want to eat is crap. They tell us what they eat at the other house & it's fast food constantly. One of them asked to go to Costco for dinner. What?!? Needless to say, they are overweight. The one kid is 8 and I buy him size 12 clothing. It's so sad. I may just hide in my room for the day until DD gets back.

[Mom2Ms]

Aug 23, 2015 8:04:39 GMT -5 ace226 said:

In the next month we might be homeowners! Eek! A lady from church texted me out of the blue, saying she felt compelled to ask me if we were looking to buy a home. Totally random. But we said yes, and she asked if we wanted to check out hers before they listed with an agent.

Long story short, we're going to tell them today that as long as the financing comes through (which we really have no doubt it will) they have a buyer.

Amazing news! Congrats!!

[lilyelayne]

Mom2Ms do y'all have your H's sons full time now?

[Mom2Ms]

Aug 23, 2015 7:14:43 GMT -5 @holachica said:

mands1125, Diono Rainier. 12 year seat lifespan, narrow frame so you can fit car seats next to each other, it can RF up to 44 inches/50 lbs and FF up to 90 lbs. It seems as we will be able to RF for a long time.

I'm going to look this one up. I swear I don't remember moving DD into a convertible car seat until she was forward facing, which was obviously not around this age! I will have to start looking. It would be nice to not have to lug a seat in & out of the car anymore. I just feel like we didn't get much use out of the first car seat, with only using it 6 months!!

[Mom2Ms]

Aug 23, 2015 9:56:41 GMT -5 lilyelayne said:

Mom2Ms do y'all have your H's sons full time now?

No. They are still in the midst of a full on custody battle while she's STILL out of the country. Right now it's every other weekend. And every Wednesday. And the weeks where we don't have them, he has them on Fridays. It's really sad because the "mother" has signed them up for so much shit that the majority of Wednesday is their football practice (which the older one doesn't want to play) and all of the visitation day on Friday will be football games now. And Saturday is their karate. So he gets screwed on those days. I went to their "karate" tournament the other weekend & it was an absolute joke. It doesn't appear like its real disciplined karate instruction. I mean the majority of the "instructors" we're probably 70-80 pounds overweight, sloppily dressed, and couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag.

In September, it moves to every weekend. Then possibly full custody in November. I feel like we could really help these children in so many ways. I really, really do. I think the younger one might be kinda slow, DH thinks so too (for example he's 5 and can't wipe his bum or brush his own teeth or talk understandably). We could really help these kids I think by giving them a positive structured environment. But his ex is trying to derail pretty much everything. The court mediator has already told the judge that the mother is manipulating & basically alienating the children from the father. Last night, she was face timing with them, I heard one of them refer to their father as "Daddy" and she made some weird throat clearing noise or something and they corrected themselves and called him by his first name......

Sadly, I thought DDs father was the worst human/parent on the planet. I was wrong.....

[dreemkin]

Had the rents and sister over for an impromptu cookout last night (we like when they are over bc we get a break from the girls #sorrynotsorry). We watched the bears win their preseason game against the colts.

Today: chillin and grillin (ribs...drool!) It's rainy here so hopefully we still can if the rain can just STFD.

Everyone, have a restful day!

[pitdigger]

We put G in the convertible last month while in MI (Diono Radian RXT). Considering he's 28 in and 21 lbs at 6 months, it was likely to have to happen soon. My mom is storing the infant seat for us so we didn't have to cart 2 seats back.

Once G finishes his bottle, we're headed to my rugby club's beach bbq. It's a nice sunny day, so poor kid has to wear the UV stuff and not just a swim diaper.

[jensoprano82]

Hopefully we finally will be moving to our new home next weekend, but the process has been a time sucking brutal process. I feel guilty because we are seriously considering hiring movers that will pack us as well, and even though it seems wasteful I just cant really imagine packing an entire house with a baby under one arm, and H is starting school this week and I still have my job and aaaaaaaagh.

Also, DS is full blown crawling and its adorable and terrifying.

[Mom2Ms]

Aug 23, 2015 11:11:06 GMT -5 @holachica said:

Mom2Ms The mom of your stepsons might not be the greatest but maybe she has also noticed their weight struggles and put them in karate and football to help them lead a more healthy lifestyle. I know you and your H will help his kids, and it's hard to get tone across in writing, but your posts about them are just reading a little... harsh. I hope everything works out for you all in regards to custody.

Unfortunately I wish that their mother put them into that kind of stuff to help with weight struggles, however, it's more geared towards putting the children in as many activities as possible, so that she doesn't have to parent them. We are told by the kids that even when she is home, they spend ALL their time with the nanny. The struggles they have are completely blown off by the mother. Frankly, my opinion doesn't matter, cause they arnt my kids, but if one was concerned about the kids health, perhaps they would stop feeding the children McDonald's, lunchables, pizza, cookies, and Mountain Dew for meals. In no means am I a good or proficient cook, but I'm also not going to take my kids through the drive through for every meal. Have I taken DD to fast food drive through, you bet! I'm not perfect. But it's not every single meal. Sorry my tone appears harsh, its unintended. I worry about their self esteem and social growth, I don't want other kids to be mean to them. Both DH and I want to help them so badly, but we are spinning our wheels at all of our attempts to help them that are thwarted by the woman who bailed on them to go to the Middle East for a year. No matter how frustrating the situation can be, my heart breaks for these kids who deserve so much more.

[wimcgrath]

jensoprano82 that's the kind of thing I would also feel wasteful doing and then have to talk myself into it. In actuality, hiring movers to pack and move is a necessity! This way, LO gets adequate time and attention and the packing isn't done in a half assed way that leads to breakage. Don't feel guilty!

[lilyelayne]

I'm still using the infant seat but I never take it out of the car. DS is too heavy. I just take him in and out like it's a convertible seat. I hope to put his convertible in this week, but he's happy in his infant seat still.

[Mom2Ms]

Aug 23, 2015 12:21:23 GMT -5 mumomma13 said:

Aug 23, 2015 11:30:35 GMT -5 Mom2Ms said:

Unfortunately I wish that their mother put them into that kind of stuff to help with weight struggles, however, it's more geared towards putting the children in as many activities as possible, so that she doesn't have to parent them. We are told by the kids that even when she is home, they spend ALL their time with the nanny. The struggles they have are completely blown off by the mother. Frankly, my opinion doesn't matter, cause they arnt my kids, but if one was concerned about the kids health, perhaps they would stop feeding the children McDonald's, lunchables, pizza, cookies, and Mountain Dew for meals. In no means am I a good or proficient cook, but I'm also not going to take my kids through the drive through for every meal. Have I taken DD to fast food drive through, you bet! I'm not perfect. But it's not every single meal. Sorry my tone appears harsh, its unintended. I worry about their self esteem and social growth, I don't want other kids to be mean to them. Both DH and I want to help them so badly, but we are spinning our wheels at all of our attempts to help them that are thwarted by the woman who bailed on them to go to the Middle East for a year. No matter how frustrating the situation can be, my heart breaks for these kids who deserve so much more.

Weight is so closely linked with genetics that oftentimes kids will even struggle when their parents cook healthy at home. Also, the emotional damage of children thinking their parents are worried about their weight can be tremendous. I know you have their best interests at heart, but please be as kind as possible if you feel you need to address the issue when they are within earshot.

ETA: I don't know their ages, but if they are pre-pubescent I definitely wouldn't worry too much right now. They will grow within a few years and a lot of baby fat will disappear.

OMGosh no. No way would this ever, ever be discussed in front of them. Not ever. Not even when they are here at the home. We talk about this & other issues when they are not here, for that exact reason.