Ten Things Tuesday!

KH826

Happy Tuesday, one and all! Tell us any 10 things on your mind today. Bonus PIPs are always welcome! ;-)

AandStilltrying

1. My in-laws are gone.
2. My in-laws are gone.
3. My in-laws are gone.
4. My in-laws are gone.
5. My in-laws are gone.
6. My in-laws are gone.
7. My in-laws are gone.
8. My in-laws are gone.
9. My in-laws are gone.
10. Did you get that I'm excited the in-laws are gone after 12 looonnnnggggg days?

Pip is 21 week bump

KH826

1. Will’s 4 month pediatrician appointment is tonight. I made the appointment for 5:30pm so that I could go after work and wouldn’t have to move my schedule around. Now I am wishing I hadn’t made it for so late. It takes us at least 30 mins to get home from the pedi’s office, and last time we were there we had a long wait to be seen (about 45 mins after our appointment time). Anyway… I am guessing we won’t get home until 7pm at the earliest. It will be fine, but it will mess with our evening routine a bit. I think I will make his next appointment for an earlier time and just schedule my work day around the appointment.

2. I am excited to see how big Will is at his appointment tonight! I am not excited about the shots… poor little bugger. I hate it more than he does. Last time, he barely cried, but I cried enough for both of us. I’m such a weenie.

3. I am getting a flu shot this afternoon. My company pays to have a nurse come in every fall and give a flu shot to anyone who wants one. I forgot about it when I was getting dressed this morning though, and I am not wearing something that can easily expose my arm for the shot. These are the things I fret about. Blah.

4. I have been getting pretty intense headaches a lot lately. I think it is stress, and also I have this wacky neck/shoulder pain… I think that is contributing to it. Last night the headache was so bad that I was practically in tears on the way home. I took a massive dose of advil when I got home, and that helped. On my way to work this morning I felt the headache coming back, and now it is back and almost as bad as yesterday. I am drinking lots of water hoping that helps. Maybe I am not getting enough water?!?!...

5. My childhood best friend is getting married in 2 weeks. I feel badly because we aren’t going to the wedding. She lives in North Carolina now, and it is about a 10 hour drive from us. There is also no convenient airport to fly into based on where she lives. Even if we did fly, we would end up renting a car and driving over an hour from the airport. Plus I don’t exactly have an abundance of vaca time due to Mat Leave this year, and I have already planned out the rest of my days to coincide with Thanksgiving and Christmas, and travel to Boston to see my family. Anyway, after lots of consideration, we decided not to go. I feel badly, because she and her fiancé came to our wedding. I talked to her about it, and she said she understood and she seemed genuine about it. I just feel badly. I need to look at her registry this week and send her a nice gift.

6. I have soooo much respect for the parents of twins on this board! Reading about your routines, daily challenges, sleep troubles, etc. It is just amazing how you folks do it with two! I am in awe. Just wanted to shout out and let you all know that I think you are truly awesome!

7. We are finally ordering a sound machine today. We haven’t needed one since our AC unit and ceiling fan made enough noise in our room at night. Well, the AC has been off now for a little while, and I just switched off the fan 2 nights ago because it is just too cold now… Will is still STTN, but he seems a little more restless when it is so quiet. He kicks more and grunts and makes noises periodically. He never cries, so we just leave him in his lounger. I think he may be having time at night when he is awake, and then he just self-soothes and puts himself back to sleep. He may have always been doing this, but we just didn’t hear it as much with the AC and fan on. I’m not sure. Anyway, I am the one who isn’t STTN lately HAHA… between hearing him making noises across the room and my wife’s snoring (which suddenly seems 10x worse to me! – how is Will sleeping through her snoring? Probably because he snores a little too!)… anyway, I am the one who isn’t sleeping, while my family of sleeping beauties get all rested up. I am hoping a sound machine will help. I don’t know…

8. Speaking of STTN, I haven’t really talked much about Will’s sleeping until it came up more in the parenting thread this week. It is one of those “confessions” type things that I didn’t want to mention. At first I didn’t want to jinx it, and then I just didn’t want to be the obnoxious lady talking about how her kid sleeps like a rock star, so I just kept it to myself. I feel sometimes like I should only share the challenges and not the good stuff if other people are having a challenge in an area where things are going well for us. Does that make sense? A few people said yesterday that I should be bragging about Will’s sleep. I will NEVER do that. I know how fortunate we are to have a good sleeper, and I also know that it could change at any moment. Every night that he STTN I think that this could be the last night that he does it…I am ready for him to start waking up at any time, because odds are at some point that will happen. Also, for those who aren’t getting sleep right now, I never want to be the one to be “bragging” about my sleeping kid while your eyes are glassing over and you are slumped over your desk at work from sheer exhaustion. I get it, even though my kid is a good sleeper. I myself have always had a hard time sleeping, and even though Will is doing great at night, I am often up listening to or watching him sleep because I am a psycho.

9. I have been stalking real estate listing lately just to get an idea of what the inventory is like in the area(s) where we will be looking, and to see what prices are looking like in those areas. Well, last week the PERFECT house went on the market. I made the mistake of showing it to my wife, and she totally loved it. Unfortunately, we just aren’t ready financially to move yet. I am hoping in the next 6-12 months we will be, but it is going to depend on how things go with my work at the end of the year (if I get a raise or promo… or if I decide to try to make a move and find a new job…). Anyway, now I am motivated even more to make this happen, because I keep picturing us in this house. I just hope something similar comes on the market when we are ready, and that we can afford it….

10. So Will has been belly laughing lately. Just in the last week or so his giggle has turned into a full on belly laugh. It is totally awesome, and I can’t get enough of it. The only problem is that Reese (our pup) seems to be scared of his big, hearty belly laugh. She runs and hides every time he does it. We can’t figure out why that scares her, since she isn’t scared when we laugh, and she doesn’t run and hide when he cries… it is strange.

Jazibel

1. Kaden woke up at 2:46am because he was coughing and hungry.  Combined with Owen's restless slumber last night I'm a little more tired than usual.

2. We Skyped with EV's youngest brother yesterday and he met Owen for the first time.  He's in his early 20's and a little elusive.  

3. I'm hoping to get the rest of the wall decor hung today and to unpack the "delicate" items so I can start organizing the garage.  I don't want to move too many boxes around until the fragile stuff is out of there.  My goal is to have only plastic bins of storage in the garage when I'm all done.

4. I am having the debate on whether I should donate my smaller clothes... It seems impossible that I will ever be that skinny again, and it would free up some room. But I love some of those clothes - so we'll see.  To that effect I've decided radical dieting needs to be okay even if I'm breastfeeding. What I'm doing now has me at a standstill, so we're adopting an 80% paleo diet.  Last night I made pork loin and spaghetti squash. Kaden loved it and wolfed it down.

5. I've tied a pink blanket with red cherries on it around Kaden's neck 25 times in the last 15 minutes.  It's his cape.  Alas the fact that it keeps falling off is resulting in more toddler tears and dismay than happiness.

6. I had a second phone interview with a company yesterday and it went really well. I'm curious to see where this goes. On the flip side a friend whom I've been consulting for on and off just asked for my direct participation on the operations end of his business.  I'm sketching out a business plan today so I can get a better idea of how to move forward.  Working with small businesses is definitely a passion of mine but the money may not be sustainable for our family until 6 - 12 months from now.  I'm lucky to have EV's support either way but I feel a lot of pressure to make the right decision.

7. I found a local Preschool co-op. They don't accept kids until 2 years 10 months of age, but they have a toddler activity group that takes place every week from 10am - 12pm with an adults participation. It's only $70 for 11 weeks (1 day a week).  But still for the Bay Area that's such a good deal.  I'm taking Kaden tomorrow and luckily I can bring Owen and wear him.  I'm excited to have Kaden meet other kids (and for me to meet local moms).

8. Ok - took a break from TTT to read some books to Kaden who was having meltdowns over his cape not staying on despite my giant knots.  Trying to wipe his nose is obviously the best way to get him to leave me alone for a few minutes... I'll have to remember that.

9. My wife is a champ!  Her commute went from 15-20 minutes to 40-60 minutes.  She's complained lightly but has an overall great attitude about it. To help pass the time she just made a long list of audio books she's planning on listening too.   I am so grateful to be living where we live, we've seen friends several times already. There are LGBT meet ups relatively near by and other groups of moms where I will hopeful meet friends and playmates for the kids. I've been so isolated for a year I've forgotten what it feels like to have people come and hang out at our house just to talk. I love it.

10. I made a list of goals for the next year+. It's something I used to do a lot and I was always amazed to see how quickly goals were achieved and wish-list/bucket-list items  checked off.  For the last year + I've been making "to do" lists but not focusing on the bigger picture. Hopefully this will help me make decisions that line up with our families long term goals.

herbunmyoven

Jazibel said:

9. My wife is a champ!  Her commute went from 15-20 minutes to 40-60 minutes.  She's complained lightly but has an overall great attitude about it. To help pass the time she just made a long list of audio books she's planning on listening too.   I am so grateful to be living where we live, we've seen friends several times already. There are LGBT meet ups relatively near by and other groups of moms where I will hopeful meet friends and playmates for the kids. I've been so isolated for a year I've forgotten what it feels like to have people come and hang out at our house just to talk. I love it.

I did a 60-90 minute commute each way for over a year. It was terrible, but audio books were totally the way to go! I got a ton from the library and poured through almost every business and biography book they offered! I also did a free trial of Audible, downloaded some podcast, and streamed talk/comedy from iHeart Radio...back in the good old days of unlimited data. I found it was also super helpful to always have a case of water and tons of healthy snacks in the car to avoid bad decissions

mallory4284

1. I took over an hour nap yesterday after work and I'm so glad I did. Last night when we went to bed I had a huge allergy flair up and was in tears from feeling like I couldn't breathe.... Coughing, my chest hurt, nose was stuffed. I have no idea what brought it on but it took me forever to finally fall asleep. At least it's much better today!

2. I'm so excited for Sunday! We're taking a road trip to Cincinnati to see the Panthers play the Bengals. This is the first professional football game I'll have gone to, so I'm ready for this week to be over!!

3. I need to call my mom tonight and see how her cat is. She was saying Sunday that she was probably going to take him to the vet to be put down. He's old and she just recently had to take him to the vet and he was near death. He pulled through but now she says she thinks he's losing weight and he's started peeing all over her house. She's torn about to do and I forgot to talk to her yesterday to see what she decided on.

4. I'm at a loss for anymore to talk about besides my two week wait and I don't want to inundate everyone with rants about that! So instead of racking my brain for useless information, I'll quit while I'm ahead!

5. Hope everyone is having a great Tuesday!

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6. I love how just vacuuming and picking up the house a little can make me feel less guilty about deep cleaning more often. My house may not be dusted and mopped all the time, but at least it's uncluttered and relatively clean!

7. J called after work and asked if I was okay with having someone come look at our roof to see why we have what look like a leak/crack in the ceiling of our bedroom. (It doesn't drip water or anything but the ceiling is messed up so we assume there's an issue on the roof or in the attic) I don't know why she thinks I'd object to her taking a day off work to do that!

8. I also love how our new baby is so cuddly. She's definitely playful and likes to be crazy, but she loves to be held and cuddled.... And will curl up on/next to you and sleep forever!

9. On the note of her being crazy, she chewed THROUGH the cord for our sound bar for the tv... So we can't use our sound bar right now! And of course J blamed me for it!!

herbunmyoven

1. I took Friday and Monday off to celebrate Octoberfest with my wife's family. These were the first official vacation days I have taken all year, and while not totally restorative, the trip was worth it. A's grandfather died around Christmas time and this week would have been his 97th birthday, so the whole family got together to celebrate. It was really nice. 

2. I love my wife's siblings and their significant others. It makes me sad that I don't get to see my own brother very often. I haven't even met his fiance. 

3. Being around Nana and Grandpa gave me time to crank out the first draft of my mid-term paper. And my amazing wifey did a round of proof reading. Now I just need to clean up my APA stuff and I will officially be 3 weeks ahead of schedule in school. I am excited about my final (and hopefully last ever) paper, and will get cranking on it this weekend. 

4. We are still trying to decide on next steps with TTC. We have our WTF this week and will go from there. We have one egg, one shot, and two bodies that both have their challenges. Right now the plan is for me to take the last try unless the RE makes a strong case not to. We are still trying to decide if I should cycle in November or December. 

5. I am pretty behind at work because of my vacation days, but I am choosing to bump instead of getting ahead.

6. M consistently amazes me. He is learning new skills every day. He has a fantastic personality and I am totally in love with him! His skill of the day is trying to walk backwards. 

7. A is currently obsessed with genealogy. She has some shady stories in her family, and has become singularly focused on researching her great-great-grandma. The woman was super illusive. She is missing from censuses for about 20 years of her adult life, and despite having her parent's names A can not find any record of her as a child. A assumes that she probably changed her name or lied about her birthday at some point along the way. When I was home for lunch A had just found records of some of her kids in an orphanage. 

8. I am super excited to be heading to Minnesota for a quick work trip. I used to travel multiple times a month for work, but with this job my last trip was over a year ago! A and I met in MSP and I have so many fond memories there...especially in the fall!

9. I think we have officially shifted M to a later bedtime, which seems to be helping him sort of sleep through the night more consistently. We let him get a quick cat nap around 5:00 to push for bedtime around 8. For the most part this has eliminated our midnight wake-up, leaving us with one wake up between 4-6am which he will usually eat and go back down for. Yay for more sleep!

10.  I am super happy for the supreme court ruling...or lack there of. I just want us to get nationwide legalized marriage already!

redrockmama

1. We are legally married (again)!!!!

2. Because we were technically married when M was born we can apply for an amended birth certificate with both of our names on it. 

3. I'm shocked, I was 90% sure SCOTUS would take one, or more, of the cases. 

4. M and I had a rough day yesterday. I'm not sure why, but it was hard and made me question whether I really want to stay home or not. I really understood how some parents say that working makes them a better parent. I hope it was a fluke. I'm staying home tomorrow morning for a bit so we'll see how it goes. 

5. I need to schedule M's 4 month appointment. I'm curious to see how much he weighs and see how he is doing overall, but not looking forward to shots, he hated it last time. 

6. My new boss seems like she might  be open to the idea of me working from home a bit. She was totally cool about tomorrow morning and mentioned how she thinks it's a good idea and rewards good employees yada yada. She also told me she let a staff bring her baby to work until he started crawling. Working might actually work out for a while until we are in a better place for me to quit (when J gets a raise)

7. I need to start making our Halloween costumes. We got all the stuff, now I just need to make time to work on it. I'm sure they will be super easy and fast, but I want to avoid our usual procrastination and late night cramming. 

8. We finally got out and went for a hike this weekend. It was soooo nice. I've missed the outdoors. M slept the entire hike, but loved checking things out when he finally woke up. I hope we can fit in another hike before snow is covering the mountains.

9. We kind of decided to start TTC #2 next Dec. J has been less than enthusiastic about carrying #2 because of how scary my pregnancy and birth were, but the plan was her idea so I guess she's getting more used to the idea.

10. M looks so much like me (which is so weird sometimes) I really hope that #2 looks like J. I'd love to have a little babe that looks like her. It's so awesome that M looks so much like me though, I wonder if it would be strange if he resembled the donor more. 

ball.and.chain

1. My wife made Italian Wedding soup for our lunches this week. She is a great (professionally-trained) cook and the soup is one of our favorites, but for some reason this batch is not good. I added salt and Tabasco to today's portion and it's a bit better but still not great. Not sure what happened.

2. I skipped my lunchtime walk because it was too windy. I hate wind and the neighborhood I work in can be crazy windy. Bonus -- this gives me time for TTT!

3. I fear I am one of Those People on FB who post too many pictures of their kids. Oh well. I justify it because it's the only way my in-laws and other out-of-state family get to keep up with B.

4. On a similar note, people at work keep asking to see pictures of B and I love showing him off.

5. Just got my flu shot at a work clinic. @KH826 and I are leading parallel lives. Ready for winter!

6. I'm so over hearing about Ebola.

7. I lost 7 lbs last week...but this week hasn't been as good. I'm hoping the scale goes down a little...even 0.1 lbs would be fine with me!

8. I need to send out an email about the Mass GTG!

9. A friend who has been trying to adopt a baby as a single woman finally got her son this weekend. She's had a lot of challenges and disappointments in her adoption journey and I'm so happy for her -- even though I cannot imagine caring for a newborn on my own!

10. I always geek out over apple season. The farmer's market near my office has so many great heirloom varieties. Currently trying to decide what kind to use to make into applesauce that I will freeze for B!

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StacyLH24

1. I still haven't heard from my RE. I called today and he isn't in. The receptionist said that she thinks she remembers the nurse giving him my file. One of them is going to call me back and let me know for sure.

2. I called Dr. KK's office again because no one from there called me back either. She is scheduling in to January at this point. I need to talk to their billing person and then call my insurance company before I actually submit my records and their registration packet for an appointment.

3. I found out that one of our local OBGYN's office provides IUIs and, from what I heard, provides all of the necessary and proper cycle monitoring. I'm not going to lie, it is enticing if IVF doesn't work out. The drive time and gas to and from Buffalo is a huge impact on our whole process. I won't explore it until we are officially done with our RE's office. If they don't provide monitoring like a RE does, then I certainly won't do it. If they do, we might consider it. Hopefully we won't have to.

4. Sometimes I wonder why people find it necessary to tell me that I have a fertility problem - a "broken uterus" to be exact. I know this. I'm living it and it is directly impacting C and me. You aren't telling me anything I don't already know but thanks for rubbing it in (several times in one conversation)...appreciated that so much. The circle of people I want to see or talk to is getting smaller and smaller.

5. I'm trying not to dwell on #4 but my feelings are really hurt and I'm angry. This wasn't just some acquaintance which makes it worse to me. I've posted several things on FB over the past few months about infertility etiquitte. Apparently some people didn't get the message.

6. Our second donor is completely sold out of vials. This IVF cycle was our last vial, so now I need to find a new donor. This is causing some anxiety. I have saved several profiles to look thru and narrow down. I'm suddenly afraid that maybe they won't be compatible with my eggs and nothing will fertilize as a result. I've never worried about this before. On the other hand, it just might work out to be better.

7. I'd like to outsource the job of dealing with TTC.

8. C is doing very well in her CDL class. She loves it and is so happy. I'm excited for her.

9. I love living in the country and could not live in the city or the suburbs. I do not love that there are hardly any resources close to us. I'm thinking of checking out accupuncture but I'm not sure there is anyone in our county who does it.

10. I miss having an office with actual walls and a door.

Himee33

1. Had another appointment with my RE today. Lining is still at a 7, even with my increase of Estrace. Waiting to hear from my RE after she goes over my file. Doesn't look good for the October 11th transfer. Will probably have to change protocol and maybe do the transfer in November. I don't know why they didn't do something sooner.

2. I started crying when I was getting my blood drawn. I'm just sad. Its been almost 1 year since we started TTC and what started out as "You have no issues and will be unmedicated" has turned into 10 months of drugs, one bad thing after another and a whole lot of sugar coating. What is wrong with me?! I even brought up going and seeing a friends RE that she loves, because she has 4 IUI children right now by him. I absolutely love my RE, but maybe she is missing something?!

3. L has always been the positive one. The one that pushes me when I've had enough and been there when I'm feeling so defeated to remind me to stay positive. Today after the RE appointment was the first time since we started TTC where she was the one sad. She just wants to quit. There hasn't been that many happy times in the year and shes tired of it consuming our lives. I know she doesn't mean it and is just frustrated and sad. I don't blame her. She said shes going to call our RE later today and have a little chat. Oh boy!

4. I think I might call my friend and ask for her REs number. Wouldn't hurt to get a second opinion, right?

5. I'm with @StacyLH24 Let's outsource the job please! I also hope people call back soon and you can get everything figured out!

6. This weekend we are heading to Iowa again for L's college softball reunion and alumni game. We were just there 2 weeks ago and it's such a long boring drive. Please don't make me go!

7. Sunday L and I drove to Michigan to view the wedding venue. We loved it! It's so beautiful out there and exactly what we both wanted. I can't wait till they open up the 2016 calendar so we can put our deposit down!

8. I have no desire to be at work today. It's my long day 7am-8pm. I didn't sleep well last night and I think I'm getting a cold. L has a cold right now. I keep telling her to stay away. Maybe I will sneak in a nap

9. L's best friend is coming to stay the weekend of Halloween with her new lady friend. They are insisting we dress up. Ashley wanted us all to be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but I told them I am dressing in all back (the only color I ever wear) and being a cat. I love Halloween, but I hate dressing up. It has now been decided that I will be a cat and they will be mutilated mice that I attacked. L said I will be the angry cat on fertility drugs. Haha not funny.

10. I wish my RE office didn't wait till closing time to call everyone. JUST CALL ME NOW AND GIVE ME THE NEWS!!! 

StacyLH24

@Himee33 - I'm sorry to see things are probably getting pushed back. It sounds like you and I are about in the same place mentally right now. It plain old sucks and I'm sorry. I think a second opinion is a great idea. I hope you get an answer soon about your lining.

ATXmommas

1. I locked my car key in the car and am waiting for Z to come bail me out. Thankfully, she's already picked up Ash and isn't too far away. Good time to TTT!

2. Tomorrow is my son's teacher's last day. I'm soooo sad. We love her.

3. Said teacher babysat him on Saturday night so that Z and I could go to dinner. She brought me a $25 gift card for my birthday, which was completely unnecessary. Then, she refused to take money from me when we arrived home. Don't worry - I made her 4 year old son take it. I kinda threw it in her van and walked away before she could give it back. She's so sweet and Ash LOVES her.

4.. After a shipping mishap, Ash's elephant costume arrived. Can't wait to see it! I ordered a size 2T Alabama shirt to our over the elephant to complete the Big Al look, but I think it's too small to fit over the costume. Hopefully I can exchange it for a bigger size in time. In not, he'll just be cutest elephant in town!

5. I still have no idea where Ash will wear his Halloween costume. Even if we don't find an event, we'll dress him up at home for a photo op. But, surely something will come up. I need to check out family events in town.

6. I have an all day leadership training tomorrow that is about an hour away. It is from 8-5:30. Ugh. I can probably manage to get there by 8 without a huge disruption in our morning routine, but I'm going to have to leave by 5 so that I can feed my child by 6, which essentially means I'll be done by 4:30 because that's when I have to pump for the last time. Not to mention having to find a place to pump. The last time we had an offsite, the hotel was extremely accommodating. Fingers crossed for a good experience tomorrow.

7. It is getting harder and harder to take good photos of our squirmy kid. He's just at that age, ya know? We took a million pics the other day for his 10 month photos, plus I wanted a recent pic for his birthday invitation. It's a cute pic of him, but the lighting is terrible because we took the pic on the morning before the sun was totally up. We have a new running friend in our life who works in graphic design, so he's going to help us edit it thankfully.

8. I think I'm going to get a Rody for Ash. Two out of the three reviews on the Parenting thread yesterday were positive, so I'm going to try it out. Hopefully he loves it.

9. Random, but I'll be so happy when we have no more bottles or pump parts to wash.

10. We're addicted to the tv show Parenthood. Didn't know what I was missing all these years!

Z is here! Perfect timing.

mallory4284

Also ETA:

10. A bonus PIP of my sweet (when she's sleeping lol) baby!!

StacyLH24

@CrazyAunt84 - Our closest Wegmans is in Hamburg which is 45 minutes for us.  I have contemplated a monthly trip just for groceries.  There is so much there that we just don't have at our rinky dink stores here.  I have yet to wander in to a Trader Joe's but I hear that is pretty spectacular as well. 

AandStilltrying

@CrazyAunt84‌ we love trader joes! Sadly we don't have a wegmans so I don't know what I'm missing there. Trader joes has great beer and wine and it's cheap! We also like to stop and grab a pizza dough ball and make homemade pizza fast! Yogurt is also good from there!

Jazibel

@CrazyAunt84 - I miss Wegman's!!  I went to school in upstate NY and EV lived in Syracuse for a while so I've been to the Syracuse Wegmans ;-)

It's mostly Trader Joes and Whole Foods for me now. 

KH826

I love Wegman's, but I need to be careful because my grocery bill could easily be double on a week that I go to Wegman's. There is just so much awesome stuff, so I know I over-buy and splurge on things that we definitely don't need. So for us, a Wegman's trip is a treat, and not our every week grocery destination!

We also love Trader Joe's! They have really good frozen stuff and I LOVE their dried fruit. I am currently in a dried apricots phase, and Trader Joe's are the best! My only thing with their produce is that it doesn't last very long. Most of it is organic, which is great, but it only lasts 2-3 days before it turns. So I can't shop there for the week and have produce that will last me until I am ready to use it. And going to the grocery store 3 times a week is just not reasonable for us.

So I totally love both stores, but neither of them are our "regular" store. They are mostly for special treats!

trisholio

1. I am late, but oh well.  

2. I have a few spare minutes while M and K are hopefully sleeping upstairs and Adalyn is sleeping next to me on the couch.  

3. TMI Alert-I thought that I was allowing my body to heal but after my wife went back to work I realized that its pretty much impossible.  I wake up every morning feeling like my vagina is going to fall out, its super sore and aches for an hour or so and then goes away.  I know it is from picking up baby K all the time, going up and down the stairs too much and not resting at all, but I don't feel like I have a choice.

4. I knew it was going to be hard to handle the three girls, but man some days are rough!  I am happy when I get a shower before my wife gets home at 5pm.

5. The one thing I didn't expect in becoming a foster parent/mother was learning not to take things personally.  It is so hard to separate yourself from the child's actions.  M is 2.5yrs old and frustrates me most days.  She does things on purpose she knows are wrong I swear to test my patience.  

6. We had our first experience with the emergency room on Saturday night.  K decided to launch herself off a small stool, and managed to land on toys with her head.  I was worried about a concussion, so we took her to the local children's hospital.  She was checked out and all was fine, but she gave us quite a scare.

7. Adalyn had her 1 month check up on Monday (she was actually 5 weeks) and she weights 9lbs 7oz and is 22.5 inches long.   She might have a slight dairy intolerance that is causing some acne so we are working on that.  

8. Going to the store with just Adalyn is a vacation these days.  

9. M and K are finally quiet, I should probably go check on them.  They are either finally asleep or into something

10. I have to share a cute picture of Adalyn :-)