So I have laryngitis and I'm still heading into work (teaching kindergarten) because I have it in my head that my voice will come back. I lost it around 230 yesterday afternoon & it's now 645 in the morning. Haha! This will be an interesting day if it doesn't come back. I probably should have taken off, but I feel weird doing that the second day back from vacation.
Morning! L had a rough night so I'm pretty knackered today.
We've been to rhyme & story time, and then we went and had a cuppa with friends. L very kindly had her nap a bit early so I was able to have an actual conversation. This afternoon we're going to the clinic for her monthly check up and weigh in. My mum's meeting us there and if the weather is still this lovely, we'll probably go for a walk.
I hope that everyone who had a rotten day yesterday has a better time today.
So I have laryngitis and I'm still heading into work (teaching kindergarten) because I have it in my head that my voice will come back. I lost it around 230 yesterday afternoon & it's now 645 in the morning. Haha! This will be an interesting day if it doesn't come back. I probably should have taken off, but I feel weird doing that the second day back from vacation.
Post by heartofglass on Feb 23, 2016 7:26:16 GMT -5
Looking forward to a day off tomorrow so I can get some extra snuggles and especially so I don't have to pump. I feel like I'm doing irreparable damage to my nipples.
LO was up three times last night and is super clingy and fussy and won't stop pulling up on the TV stand and pulling off the foam bumpers on it. I move her away and she freaks out. Oh, I started another period, too. Fun stuff over here!
Post by pghtruelove on Feb 23, 2016 7:36:34 GMT -5
We are going through a sleep regression too budders and I feel like going on a murderous rampage. I think I've slept 30 mins total in the past 48 hours. SO keeps telling me to go sleep and he'll hang with the baby but I just hear him being frustrated with her and I end up running out to our living room to save the day.
Post by heartofglass on Feb 23, 2016 7:41:29 GMT -5
budders I'm so sorry. I have no advice, just sympathy because I've been there. We're just starting to stretch our sleep times out a little so keep up hope. I've been going to bed at nine just to guarantee I get 3 to 4 hours of consecutive sleep. Luckily A isn't too mobile during the night. I keep two firm pillows on each side of me so I can't roll and I keep him in the crook of my arm kind of on top of me. His zippy doesn't let him move too much while I'm holding him.
We are going through a sleep regression too budders and I feel like going on a murderous rampage. I think I've slept 30 mins total in the past 48 hours. SO keeps telling me to go sleep and he'll hang with the baby but I just hear him being frustrated with her and I end up running out to our living room to save the day.
This. My H gets long showers and I get maybe 10 minutes before he's bringing the baby in to look through the curtain acting like he's inconsolable.
Post by pghtruelove on Feb 23, 2016 7:50:04 GMT -5
heartofglass ugh seriously all they need to do is keep the baby alive.
I'm currently sitting in bed listening to him freak out. He doesn't have to do anything except play with her. Doesn't have to feed her or clean up around the house or anything. Just sit on the floor and play with her while I try and catch up on sleep. Just an hour.
We are going through a sleep regression too budders and I feel like going on a murderous rampage. I think I've slept 30 mins total in the past 48 hours. SO keeps telling me to go sleep and he'll hang with the baby but I just hear him being frustrated with her and I end up running out to our living room to save the day.
This. My H gets long showers and I get maybe 10 minutes before he's bringing the baby in to look through the curtain acting like he's inconsolable.
Omg, my H does this, too. "What's mommy doing?!" Well, she was enjoying her shower but now will need to rush through it...
Good morning! I hope all the sick/tired moms and babies feel better soon! Or at least have access to mass amounts of caffeine We're +1 to the dad needing rescuing. Somehow he can deal with the baby fine for a few hours if I'm out of the house, but if I'm in the shower or working out and DS fusses, it's a category 5 emergency until I go fix it. I don't have much to add, it's a pretty standard Tuesday for us. DS is learning how to play with toys "correctly" more though, which is super fun to see since before playtime was basically him shoving things in his mouth. He's now able to put the balls into this fire truck toy we have - baby genius!
Morning. Standard Tuesday for me too. We have our last swim lesson tonight. I clearly am leading such an exciting life over here. Feel better to all the sick babies and moms. Hopefully your voice returns stinybean!
I saw some of you were talking about some Easter baskets yesterday? Heads up I just saw on parenting that they are doing free shipping and 20% off Easter stuff today. I think it was Poterry Barn Kids you were talking about anyway
Tried to order a PBK Easter basket, but MM's name is too long for their personalization... Thank God, that just saved me like $50. Now I'm just spiraling on Etsy Easter baskets....
Also, hoping they let us leave work early today because apparently we're getting some super storm this afternoon. They're letting schools out at lunch, so we won't be long after that, I'd imagine.
S was so pitiful lastnight. She just whined every once in awhile over the monitor. She's actually still sleeping. In going in late to work and leaving early so DH doesn't have to be with her all day. He doesn't have much patience for crying/whining. We've already had a pep talk this morning about how he needs to be really patient with her today.
It's supposed to be really nice here today so I'm hoping to get LO out for a walk. Also might try to figure out how to talk to mom about how upset DH is about her feeding our kid candy without permission....may wait till tomorrow on that though.
Am I the only person not buying LO a fancy personalized Easter basket? We never had them as kids and last year my mom bought DH and I each really cute white ones with peeps liners so I think we'll just use one of those this year.
Post by carolyngrace on Feb 23, 2016 8:58:05 GMT -5
DH also ask helpless with Oscar sometimes when I'm home. Particularly in the mornings when he's tired, he will just hold Oscar and followed me around. It is so annoying!
I do think as the mommy, it's up to us to set those boundaries though. On the weekends when it's my turn to get some alone time I either leave the house or lock the bathroom door and turn up the music. If I hear him fussing I do not intervene. Unless DH explicitly asks me to. It can be hard because of course I want to comfort Oscar. But I think men need to feel like we are confident in them. Even if we're not. Oscar will survive an hour of not being blissfully happy. So I try and sit back and let DH handle it. I also think we get caught up with mommy guilt. Feeling like we should help. There's no reason we should!
Bluedaisy, I actually was just wondering if I was the only one not getting DS anything for Easter, period. In my family, Easter was about the Easter egg hunt - you run around and have to find your eggs with the candy in them. DS isn't mobile, nor does he eat candy, so I figured we'd "skip" Easter this year. It's just never been a present-giving holiday for us. Maybe if he's crawling by then I'll put some eggs around the living room with puffs in them?? I'm sure grandparents are getting him some random stuff, so I guess I'm just not that motivated to do so. FFTC?
michyme123, I love the shopping cart idea! So cute. We ended up buying the "Smartrike" for LO because it was on sale so I think we'll give that to him for Easter.
@jemomma, and carolyngrace, I definitely need to learn to do this. Even when baby is happy I have the urge to go to him. I feel guilty if I don't have something I NEED to do and he has baby.
jillywilly I totally get it. We are not religious, so for us, it's really more of a fun "egg hunt" holiday as well. We didn't start Easter baskets until DS was 2.5, and those were filled with 3-4 small toys and maybe one piece of candy. I really only like the idea of baskets because I don't want them to feel left out of the tradition when they get older. When they are all a little older we will likely do away with the baskets and just do the egg hunt.
That makes sense. Either I just grew up with a lot of kids who also had non-gift giving parents, or I feel like the Easter basket is becoming more of a thing. Same thing with Valentine's Day and a lot of other holidays - it seems like there's more and more "present" holidays than when I was growing up. I had Christmas and my birthday, that was about it.
P couldn't sleep for crap last night. At one point he grabbed my finger and went to suck on my knuckle, as he has been known to do, and I let him. I forgot he has teeth now.
jillywilly, or DH is was about candy and an egg hunt. In my family we often got candy, a book, some little easter stuffed anima, an outfit and then since our birthdays were October and there was no other holiday to really give outdoor toys we often got things like skipping ropes or jacks. Not big presents but more seasonal stuff.
The only reason we bought the trike was because it was on sale, we could save it for his B-day but it's good for babies 10 months and up and his birthday isn't until July so I'd love him to get the extra two months use out of it.
Im not doing Easter baskets at all. We aren't Christian and DS1 never liked the secular Easter stuff so wwd stopped doing it with him and we aren't going to do it with P at all. I'm kind of happy to have one less holiday to think about.
I think I'll only buy the liner. I can get a basket at a craft store for waaaaaay less than $31!
Smart! I did the bunny one bevause they didn't have the liner I wanted in the large size. Of course it's in stock today-__- maybe I'll buy it anyway and find a cheap basket to use it with....
DH has a 4th and final interview with a company today. Please dear lord let him get this job... I need my normal happy husband back. I know him being unemployed is hard on him but I cant take his pissy attitude anymore!
DH has a 4th and final interview with a company today. Please dear lord let him get this job... I need my normal happy husband back. I know him being unemployed is hard on him but I cant take his pissy attitude anymore!
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