Weekend of 09/04 GTKY

kelseyyh

#allthehormones

What made you cry tears of joy this week? 

 

juliebird6

Here’s an embarrassing response: the 3-week old (but new to me) finale of world of dance. 🤣

bblair24

No tears actually fell, but I wanted to cry happy tears watching DD2 yesterday. She was playing with this little box, dumping things out and putting them back in and dumping them back out again. She would scoot herself around to pick up more boxes and then do it all again. It was just adorable! She’s 3.5 and loves to sit and play by herself and sometimes I’m just amazed at this tiny little person that suddenly sometimes seems so big! 

mamabee1113

DS counting to 10 all on his own for the first time (he’ll be 2 in November). He has a speech delay, so most of the numbers would sound like total nonsense to a lot of people but my mama ears hear him perfectly clearly. I swear he goes to daycare one day knowing nothing and then he comes home knowing shapes, colors, and numbers. And the pride in his face when he says them.. ugh who’s cutting onions?!  

kelseyyh

@mamabee1113 That’s fantastic!! ❤️. The pride is almost better than the accomplishment 🥺, so sweet!!

forevertired

@mamabee1113 that’s awesome! Definitely a proud mama moment. 

No actual tears but finding out the app finally had April up has been a very happy emotional moment. 

kvh22

@mamabee1113 lol my (newly) 3yo still skips 5 when she counts to 10. Sometimes it's even just 1...2...3...4....10!!!! But she counts from 10 to 20 fine most of the time 🤔😂 That's adorable about YS feeling so proud 😍

No actual tears but in the same vein, DD1 had no words until 14 months, picked up 4-5 all in a week, and then nothing new until 2 days ago literally right after I was talking with her BMB about her speech (in the context of other moms thinking an SLP might be needed for their kids). With 4-5 words at 15 months she's not eligible and I was bummed that she was on the bubble but couldn't get help and she all of a sudden said banana (nanana) multiple times to ask for banana bread and said quack quack when she saw DD1s ducky. Both consistently and not repeating or prompted but out of the blue.

kelseyyh

@kvh22 Quack was one of DS’s first words earlier this year 💕. It’s so cute! 

I love the skipping number counting - too cute. My son is 20 months, but he had a big interest in numbers and letters about 2 months ago. He has counted to 10 or 12 (thank you clocks lol), but just like your DD1 now he loves to skip all over the place. The other night he was in our bed and he kept repeating 10..12..10..12 😂. 

My tears of joy were just hearing some inspirational stories on youtube 😂. Not as sentimental aha. 

A cute thing my son did this week was repeatedly ask for hugs and kisses though.

thedomesticgeek

I've been having problems with trying to collect eggs from our nesting box while a chicken is still laying and then disturbing them, so I've been looking in the window at the chickens first to make sure no one is in there. So I showed my daughter how to do this, but she's short and needed to stand on a milk crate to see in the window. I grabbed one from the garage and she was nervous and needed my help getting up and down from it. The next day she checked the weather, found that it was about to storm, and told me she was going to take care of the chickens. She grabbed the crate from the garage, stood on it to check for chickens, got down, put it back, then shuttered all the windows so the chickens wouldn't get rained on. It was just so independent of her, and I was so so proud. 

mamabee1113

@kvh22 that’s interesting that your daughter didn’t qualify for speech therapy. When DS qualified he was 15mo also with 4-5 words, although the big indicator to actually go for an early intervention eval right away was loss of words. But even with that, when we went through the full evaluation he didn’t reach his age group in any expressive language or pragmatics categories. And the gap between his expressive and receptive language was (and still is) staggering.

peppylilfoxy

Weird thing but going to to Ukrainian grocery store and throwing up from the smell. It was embarassing af but I was so happy that I my pregnancy symptoms have been so strong. It's reassuring that baby is growing and sticking. With my son I didn't even get nauseous until 13 weeks and that lasted all of a week.

kelseyyh

@peppylilfoxy 💕💕. 

kadeephd

This.  I'm a former choir nerd and this is just such a beautiful song/performance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9hXeBXAs9Y

eahayes

No tears but so happy my nausea is going away and, even though still tired, I'm able to eat more!

pelorunningmama

Yay @eahayes so happy for you!

bblair24

@eahayes yay for feeling a bit more human! 

MidwestBrunette

@mamabee1113 my almost 3 year old does the same thing! 1 2 3 4 6 7...it drives me nuts, I know she will figure it out eventually, but it is difficult to listen to.