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M + K = 05.16.09 | A.P. = 02.27.11
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Every time I burp my child, I burp, too! haha
My parents are coming out in a week, to meet J. I've already started mentally preparing myself.
Photo by J Shelton Photography
Married 10/5/08 | 2 yrs of TTC, tests, procedures & a m/c | IVF #2 =James!
Hugs! I think that would be tough for anyone. Hopefully you will find some great support in your new place asap!
I am so ready for my Dad to head home. I want our schedule back, my tv back to my shows, and no more people making messes.
I also pulled out my maternity jeans this morning. They were calling my name, "hey Caldwell, were comfy, and have no button." I know it's super easy but my jeans are all uncomfortable after eating, and these days thats all I want to do.
The bolded part blows my mind. You and Jas are the best.parents.ever! Seeking help to cure a chemical imbalance should not preclude you from adopting. Any adoption agency should be able to see what an awesome mommy you are!
The only Easter Bunny I can get behind.
Maxwell Joseph 4/09 Lucy Violet 10/12
No kidding. It is freakin' absurd that being a normal person who gets help when they need it would make it difficult to adopt. Jeez.
Jen - Mom to Jillian (10/2008) and Hayden (4/2010)
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We bribe Jillian with Calliou. She likes to take water with her to bed but then she wets through her diaper. But if we tell her that she can watch Cailliou when she wakes up if she doesn't have any water, then we avoid a fit. I'm pretty sure this breaks all the parenting rules.
Jen - Mom to Jillian (10/2008) and Hayden (4/2010)
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I sleep so terrible when I am alone. I am always afraid someone will break into my house. I know it is irrational but I just can't shake it. I run thru my head all the possible options of if a person got in I would hear this or that. It is awful.
DH took DS and the dog camping last night and I am meeting them today after work today. But with the whole house empty I just could not sleep. I stayed up until 2:30am and I had to get up for work at 6am.
Oct 2011 3 1/2 years old.
Robert Williams Birth date 5/16/2008
Medical files are private though - how can they require you to disclose all of your personal medical history? What if you went to a different doctor and then if/when you go to adopt you only submit information from your primary doctor? I can't believe you can't get help for a medical problem without getting dinged like that. It just can't be right.
More of a vent than a confession but I am so freaking annoyed with DHs cousin.
She lives in CA so we see her *maybe* twice a year but she insists on sending gifts and red envelopes for EVERYTHING and then we're expected to reciprocate. She sends clothes for the girls that are always wrong season and wrong size or something we just wouldn't put our kids in. She always brings gifts when she comes to visit, and she's visiting now so but brings the gifts to my ILs. I came home the other day with my trunk full of inappropriate clothes and noisy, ugly, annoying plastic toys. Of course now we are expected by DHs family to give her daughter a bunch of toys and clothes and money. We don't have the money for that! I'm thinking of returning all of the clothes and giving her the gift card we get back. I don't want to sound ungrateful and I wouldn't feel this way if she was doing it out of generosity but it always feels like she does it out of competitiveness (she's extremely competitive with DH). Of course when we do give her something we get these smarmy thank you cards that don't really say thank you. We got her daughter a book for christmas and the thank you card said "thank you but it's too bad she's too young for it." seriously? Too young for a picture book. Ugh, I'm just tired of her.
I have had my sister over since my DH went back to work to help me out with A. He is now almost 6 weeks and I know I can probably do it on my own, but I like having the company and someone there to encourage me to go out.
It blows my mind how great people who want to adopt have such stringent policies and they examine every detail, including GETTING HELP for anxiety/depression (which is not uncommon,) yet complete morons, unstable people, pathological liars, and murderers (aka. Casey Anthony and the people in the article Jill posted on FB who killed their child in a microwave) can have/keep their kids. Not fair.
You have to submit medical information, have a physical, be interviewed 410 times by a social work, FBI cleared, have your home inspected, etc. It takes almost 4+ months just to do paperwork to get clearance to adopt. I am sure you could probably find a way around it, but its stressfull enough to go throug and not try to keep something hidden or lie about it.
Shoot we dont even know if we want another child, or if we would try some IF steps. It just kinda puts me in a hard spot.
We started sleep training this week. She'll be 4 months old this weekend and it was time to get her in this routine. I wake her up at 6:00 everyday and we are out the door by 6:45, I pick her up at 4:30 and we home by 5:15. She was going to bed at 7:30, but was starting to get really fussy during the day. So I'm starting to put her down at 6:30 or 7:00 after our night time routine, but not rocking her to sleep. It has been hell (she cries and cries and cries) and a lot of my friends have been totally judging me. It is really frustrating, but we have to do what is right for us. We are an extremely active family and need for her to be able to soothe herself to sleep without having to be rocked. I stay in the room with her and put my hand on her head or chest until she falls asleep, but she just cries. I talk softly to her and she calms down, but the minute I stop she looks at me with the biggest lower lip jutted out like, "What are YOU doing?!" It's heartbreaking and I'm totally second guessing myself on this.
that is sick! You did the right thing.
I am so f'n sick of my husbands sofball bs. He plays on 3 work teams and 1 tournament team. If he's not playing he is talking to his players, or looking at new bats. He also wants me and A to come and watch him. A doesn't sit still for nothing, and cries for his dad the entire time. I am exhausted as it is. His response to me: "you knew what you were getting into when you married me". Um yeah we didn't have a family or a house when we got married! I mean 1 team sure, but 4 give me a f'n break.
Not a flame, I get the sucky sleep stuff (believe me, I have a 10.5 month old who has never once STTN) but from everything I've read/heard 4 months is just not old enough to self-soothe, which may be why she's not responding well to it. I am not a CIO person although DH wanted/wants to, but I wouldn't even let him discuss for real until she was 6 months plus. Hope you are able to figure something out. She is sure a cutie pie and getting so big!
I got invited to a bach party for a good friend in Vegas and am going despite it being 2 weeks before I go back to Vegas again for the Bach party for a girl who's wedding I'm in.
Ever since my brother moved as part of his company's merger, I find myself having tolerating the heat in Houston a little less and wanting to move. Sadly, the cities I would want to go to, and where I have family/friends (LA, Chicago, NY) are all VHCOL and it reminds me again to stick it out in Houston. It actually makes me miss Seattle's weather. People here joke about missing the few rain drops we get and the high temps and humidity just like Seattlelites joke about the rare sun and overly cool weather this time of year.
I really do have an addiction to Nutella and I would not need to work out for so long each day if it weren't for that product. I think I need a sugar detox.
I understand what you are saying, and she did well the first two nights and didn't cry at all. Gazed at me, smiled and then fell asleep. So I'm not sure why the last two nights were like this. She STTN since 6 weeks so I've never had sleep issues, which is why we started earlier than normal. Haha, clearly I'm just confused! And thanks, she is getting really big!
I'm sorry
I know what you are going through, but more so my DH does. I was actually excited to move, but I know it was harder for him because he had always lived in Seattle and it was hard for him to leave all of his friends and family. If it helps, we have been here about a year and he can't imagine moving back. It also motivated him to be more social and start meeting new people. Where again are you moving?
I was feeling really good about myself yesterday. I bought a new pair of jeans that are a size smaller than normal, I bought a new bra that actually fits (I had been reluctant to admit my nice C's had turned into ginormous D-DD's
) and had curled my hair for M's 9 month photos. I went upstairs before we left and TJ looked at me and asked, "Is that really what you are wearing?" I guess he wasn't a fan of the pink shirt I was wearing, but it still hurt my feelings. I wanted to junk punch him. He isn't usually that insensitive so it shocked me.
We did CIO with M a few weeks back and it worked like real-live-actual-Houdini magic!! We were bed sharing but she's a sneaky little poop, I woke up one moring and she was crawling as sliently as possible toward the end of the bed. Since doing CIO she goes to bed at 8:30 and has been getting up at 6. When in bed with us she woke up 3+ times a night to nurse. I was so opposed to using CIO (for us, not as a general practice), I almost wish we would have done this sooner.
Not FFFC, but I just have to say I miss this board like crazy. I have been super busy with work, and I wish I had more time to post and not just lurk.
M/C 9/21/09 | M/C 12/24/09 | BFP 1/23/10
Madeline Rey DOB 9/30/10
TTC # 2 Jan 2013
BFP 3/12/13 | EDD 11/18/13
It's a GIRL! Lydia Marie!
That is disgusting! I understand having to go, but drive the empty bus back to the bus lot and pee in a toilet, or in their bushes! I would have called too.
The only Easter Bunny I can get behind.
Maxwell Joseph 4/09 Lucy Violet 10/12
I completely agree that you did the right thing!
M/C 9/21/09 | M/C 12/24/09 | BFP 1/23/10
Madeline Rey DOB 9/30/10
TTC # 2 Jan 2013
BFP 3/12/13 | EDD 11/18/13
It's a GIRL! Lydia Marie!
I bet you looked hawt! Guys do NOT think about what they say sometimes.
M/C 9/21/09 | M/C 12/24/09 | BFP 1/23/10
Madeline Rey DOB 9/30/10
TTC # 2 Jan 2013
BFP 3/12/13 | EDD 11/18/13
It's a GIRL! Lydia Marie!
Shut the front door! Seriously?
Unable to even.
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You don't understand the appeal of Benedict Cumberbatch / think he's fug / don't know who he is? WATCH SHERLOCK. Until you do, your negative opinion of him will not be taken seriously.
Let me see...
::taps chin::
1. Chicken is gross.
2. Avocado is gross.
3. Mushrooms are gross.
4. I apparently have the palate of a picky 2 year old.
5. Natty keeps bonking her head (not hard enough to leave a bruise or even a red mark) on our coffee table by crawling under there and trying to sit up. We move her out of the way. She keeps doing it. We've been letting her because she has to learn sometime.
6. In that same vein, we haven't done much in the way of baby proofing and both girls are mobile. We've moved the kitty toys out of the way and put old pillows (not the couch cushions anymore!) in the kitchen/downstairs bathroom doorways to keep them from getting in there. That's about it.
7. There was a groupon on Wednesday for half off a dozen cream puffs from Beard Papa's. I may have purchased several of them. Maybe.
Unable to even.
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You don't understand the appeal of Benedict Cumberbatch / think he's fug / don't know who he is? WATCH SHERLOCK. Until you do, your negative opinion of him will not be taken seriously.
Yup, you get a full background check with fingers prints and the works. They leave out the anal probing....you just get that when you get the bill from the agency/lawyer!
However I would never change a single step of the process and I would do it again for another little stinker!
My feelings would be hurt too. I am sorry.
We miss you too! I thought about you when I took over the PG & TTC check-ins because I know you used to do it. Hope you are able to be here more!