~ Friday Special Valentine's Edition AW/SS/Random Thread~

elsa1688 · February 2014

@bebemac I didn't update because I didn't want to seem braggy. Or like Kels. Buutttt, he booked us a room at the Four Seasons downtown, we got upgraded to the Governors Suite, the view is incredible. Had dinner at the restaurant here, got a beautiful purple quartz ring and had some very hot sex. He had to wrk this am (like 15 minutes away) so I got room service and lounged and now getting a prenatal massage. He's picking me up and we are headed to this motorcycle show (tickets were his present). I feel like an absolute spoiled princess. I havent even told anyone what we did because I know I will sound like a brat.

nunzchucks · February 2014

@joules235 Can you flag that as spam so a mod can review?

nunzchucks · February 2014

@MegK82 Oh wow. I'm an idiot! On mobile, the title was in the same font as post titles here. ::hangs head in shame::

bebemac · February 2014

@elsa1688 Ohmyword. That sounds divine. Lucky you! How exciting!

elsa1688 · February 2014

@bebemac it was incredible. It was definitely a once in a lifetime moment so I just enjoyed every second. Once baby comes, spontaneous overnights are obviously done. I am very lucky and extremely grateful

lest12 · February 2014

@elsa1688 - that sounds awesome!

bebemac · February 2014

https://youtu.be/b7l6jg4Hlog

katekat8721 · February 2014

Get ready for all this attention whoreness!

We're back from the 3D u/s! The babies look great but (pro tip) if you already have active babies in the morning, don't try to "perk them up" by drinking orange juice before your morning ultrasound. The OJ set them over the edge and they were fighting each other the whole time!

Sorry for the crappy phone pics of a pic, we were at breakfast!

Violet rubbing her eye - you can see the soft spot from the plates on the skull.

Scarlett rubbing her eye - apparently we got a lot of eye rubbing going on lol

Annnd baby Scarlett getting round house kicked in the face from Violet. Keep your hands up girl!

Brats :P I was totally right that Violet had changed positions, hence all the crampy, achey, ickiness the past few days. They're now in a ying/yang position instead of an "L". Mystery solved!

https://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mf4cir1WAl1r5grla.gif

My other AW... I got a vanilla milkshake on the way home. Booyah!

lest12 · February 2014

Awesome, @katekat8721! My SS for today - I made yummy chicken parm for dinner. Now I'm going to take a nap.

bebemac · February 2014

@katekat8721 I can't handle all of this adorableness! Must show my H! You must be over the moon!

Question: How will you know who is Scarlett and who is Violet once they're born? Me dumb, remember?

Score on the milkshake - what a perfect Saturday!

ETA: Oops! Spelled Scarlett wrong. Sorry!

kibean · February 2014

@katekat8721 SO CUTE!!! Love it!

elsa1688 · February 2014

@joules235 our granola goddess! I need help. My skin is SO dry, especially my hands. Coconut oil is not helping. Any suggestions?

bebemac · February 2014

elsa1688 said:
@joules235 our granola goddess! I need help. My skin is SO dry, especially my hands. Coconut oil is not helping. Any suggestions?

OMG! Me, too! My face has dandruff. I don't get it because I use OCM with a little castor oil and mostly apricot oil. The backs of my hands and wrists are like an iguana!

katekat8721 · February 2014

bebemac said:

@katekat8721 I can't handle all of this adorableness! Must show my H! You must be over the moon! Question: How will you know who is Scarlet and who is Violet once they're born? Me dumb, remember? Score on the milkshake - what a perfect Saturday!

Not dumb! They name the baby closest to the cervix "A" and the one further "B"! If you deliver vaginally this doesn't change, but if you have a c-section they may pull "B" out first and then call her baby "A" since she was the first delivered. Confusing! We have to wait and see how they're positioned before birth to determine if we can do vaginal/c-section, but if it's a c-section I'll be the spaz yelling at the doc "which one did you grab first?!?!" haha

bebemac · February 2014

@katekat8721 Makes sense!

wtfisup · February 2014

@bebemac, re: dry skin -- if you haven't already, make sure you're not washing your face too much. I only wash mine to remove makeup. And since pregnancy has given me the skin of a wealthy lady who takes care of her face, I've nixed most foundation and am only washing it once a week now. I don't know if it the a) not washing it or b) not putting on foundation, but all of my rampant flakiness ceased.

abastian00 · February 2014

As if my EDD (6/6) couldn't get any more awesome (because, well, new baby and whatnot) - turns out the next season of Orange is the New Black is getting released that day too! Thank you Netflix Gods!!

abastian00 · February 2014

joules235 said:

abastian00 said:

As if my EDD (6/6) couldn't get any more awesome (because, well, new baby and whatnot) - turns out the next season of Orange is the New Black is getting released that day too! Thank you Netflix Gods!!

I just opened this thread to post this! Get out of my head! Seriously though I'm excited too!!

Great minds think alike! SO excited!!! So glad Laura Prepon decided to come back in a substantial way, love her character. This will be a wonderful way to spend a few days with a newborn!

bebemac · February 2014

@joules325 and @wtfisup - thanks for the face tips! Will see if I can find some tallow balm! Intrigued!

bebemac · February 2014

joules235 said:

bebemac said:

@joules325 and @wtfisup - thanks for the face tips! Will see if I can find some tallow balm! Intrigued!

You could buy something pre-made like "this"
Or you could DIY with "this"

ETA or you could take DIY to a whole new level and render your own!
https://www.paleoplan.com/2011/12-02/make-your-own-tallow/

Thanks! I will definitely buy and not DIY. Once I rendered my own leaf lard and my house smelled fer dayzzz. Plus, most days it's all I can do to brush my teeth, so there's that.

elsa1688 · February 2014

Thanks @joules235!!!

lest12 · February 2014

joules235 said:

MegK82 said:

@katekat8721 they are precious! thanks for sharing!

i'm so frustrated that my H never wants to talk about names and when we do we don't agree on anything. last night when i voiced this to him, he told me, it will all fall into place like it usually does. not if we don't talk about it won't. this poor child is never going to have a first name. i've been looking at the name/sex thread just so i can see what you are all naming your daughters for some ideas and inspiration. we already have two girls and our list of names we don't like or are off limits is long. i'm not having much hope at this point of picking a name before june. /endrantwhinebitchmoan

I feel your pain, H and I can't agree on a boy name. We have a girl name picked out and ready to go but keep going back and forth about the boy name. When ever I bring it up he starts throwing out all kinds of nutso names that neither of us would ever consider. Not. Helping.

I actually had a little mini-emotional breakdown about this today, too. I feel like I look at names all the time, make suggestions, and he just nixes everything I say. Then, he will throw these ridiculous names out there that either I can't pronounce (Finnish) or NMS (super Italian) and I at least TRY to get on board with them... But really, they are ridiculous. I have never even heard of Koosti as a name. And I'm Italian but would never name my kid Luciano. Then I say Luca and he doesn't even humor me, it's just no, absolutely not. I finally just started ugly crying today when he nixed Cyrus without a second thought and I wasn't even that set on it, anyway. Our LO will just be Baby Boy Lastname forever

lest12 · February 2014

We were set with a girl name, and a back-up. Oh well. Neither of us have a middle name and we don't plan on giving LO a middle name either. I'm not sure if that makes it easier, or just puts more pressure on the first name!

lest12 · February 2014

Not just a German thing. I'm italian and DH is Finnish... Neither of our parents did middle names for us or our siblings... My grandparents didn't use them either. It actually took me a while to get used to people putting so much focus on MNs on the bump, they're so foreign to me. Not bad, just not even a little on our radar.

lest12 · February 2014

lest12 said:

Not just a German thing. I'm italian and DH is Finnish... Neither of our parents did middle names for us or our siblings... My grandparents didn't use them either. It actually took me a while to get used to people putting so much focus on MNs on the bump, they're so foreign to me. Not bad, just not even a little on our radar.

Yeah, MNs have always been a big deal in my family, mostly because they are often family names passed down through the generations. As I said above, my kids all have family member's first or middle names as their mn. It's a nice way for us to honor family members, but still allow our kids to have their own names for first names.

I think that's really nice

My fn is a family name and I love it (I loved my Nana, who I'm named after). At this point I wish we had a family name we wanted to use, just to help us pick a name!

elsa1688 · February 2014

@lest12 I love Luca!! It's always been my favorite boy name but my SO is Lucas. I love Luciano (it's my dad's name) but I can't bring myself to name out boy that. I would love Luciana for a girl and have her go by Lucy. My dad immigrated here from Italy and no mn either.

wtfisup · February 2014

We made a rule of "no family names." That was our only rule. We just didn't want the kid tied to the family that way. Individuality is really important to us. I also feel like there's some freedom in not having your name connected to someone else known, alive or in the past.

Lindsleigh77 · February 2014

Finally bought a little something for LO, only $10. Just thought I'd share my SS/AW moment lol

nunzchucks · February 2014

@joules235 To me, the kids have DH's family's last name so that is honor enough. My dad is the last male in his family and then he had two girls so our MN choices favor strongly on my side of the family.

wtfisup · February 2014

joules235 said:

wtfisup said:

We made a rule of "no family names." That was our only rule. We just didn't want the kid tied to the family that way. Individuality is really important to us. I also feel like there's some freedom in not having your name connected to someone else known, alive or in the past.

I like this idea. I kinda wish we had gone this way because we are having issues getting our boy first names to work with the family middle names we like. Its more practical to just give yourself full freedom in naming. Now with DD named after people in my side I feel like we need to honor DH's side this time...

Also I love your siggy pic, it makes me smile every time I see it.

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@joules235: just remember, you really don't have to. In the long run, no one is going to comment or care. When you named your daughter, you made lots of choices to arrive at that name. And you'll make lots of choices to find a name for you're son as well.

I'm a big advocate of making the big or meaningful life choices based on what you want. Family rarely care as much as we worry they will, and good family doesn't care at all. They'll just be delighted to have a new member.

lest12 · February 2014

elsa1688 said:
@lest12 I love Luca!! It's always been my favorite boy name but my SO is Lucas. I love Luciano (it's my dad's name) but I can't bring myself to name out boy that. I would love Luciana for a girl and have her go by Lucy. My dad immigrated here from Italy and no mn either.

@elsa1688 - I love Luca, too! I don't understand how DH loves Luciano so much, but not Luca.

Out of curiosity, does your dad have a NN he goes by? Lucy would be adorable for the female version but other than "Lou" I don't know what a not would go by.

bebemac · February 2014

My middle name is Jo. Ugh. Jo is splattered throughout my family - great grandma was Jo Ella, mom is Jo Ann, cousin is Mary Jo. On Friday when I went to the court to change my last name to my married name I sliced that baby off. What a relief! Mom will be pissed, but whatevs. I just keep reminding her that I am 38, not 8.

elsa1688 · February 2014

@lest12 Most of his friends call
him "Luch" (loo-ch). And to friends kids/ our little cousins he was "papa Luch".

Another thought, nn don't always come from first names. And they tend to lend themselves to people or not. I'm Ornella and never really had a nn. My sister is Oriana and a ton of people call her Nana. It's not always something you can control.

coffee-saur · February 2014

ugabamafans said:

LizM05 said:

Ok, pg stuff is beyond my mathematics. So if some one says they are due with a baby in Nov. wouldn't that make her like 2 weeks along?? I can't find a computer thing to figure this out for me, just a due date calculator, so I have to guess last menstral cycle (awkward). Anyone know how or where I can figure this out???

@lizm05 - it is impossible to know that you are due with a baby in November. I was due 9/31 with DS and got my BFP on 1/27 (I could have tested a few days earlier). I would say that an exception MIGHT be if they did some type of fertility treatments, but I'm too tired to even do that math.

On a side note, I lurked on the November board and saw one of our June mommies with an angel baby is expecting again (and correcting a poster re: due date). Made me happy to see that.

Yea I dunno what to think about it for sure. I went to my moms and was gonna read her texts to see if that's actually what they said and my brother had actually called her. My mom has memory problems so I wouldn't be surprised if she didn't remember correctly... But I asked her and she was positive they said Nov... If it really was, there's something fishy about it all.

lest12 · February 2014

elsa1688 said:
@lest12 Most of his friends call
him "Luch" (loo-ch). And to friends kids/ our little cousins he was "papa Luch".

Another thought, nn don't always come from first names. And they tend to lend themselves to people or not. I'm Ornella and never really had a nn. My sister is Oriana and a ton of people call her Nana. It's not always something you can control.

@elsa1688 - DH said we would call him "Luch", too. I'm not so worried about all the nn's he'll have growing up and through life... but rather, what I would call him now, lol. Luciano just feels like a lot of name, you know?

You and your sister have beautiful names, though! I had assumed your name was Elsa.

bebemac · February 2014

@elsa1688 Your name isn't Elsa?

elsa1688 · February 2014

Ornella Elsa lastname

it's pretty google-able to I changed it to be less so. Little sister is Oriana Maria Rosa lastname. How's that for a lot of name, @lest12??
eta:
Baby Luch might just be an adorable nn. Or a nn Luca? Best of both worlds?

bebemac · February 2014

@elsa1688 Still way too Google-able. I just stalked you a bit. You'll get a notification!

wtfisup · February 2014

I have turned into Captain Irritability today. Dear gawd. My poor husband.

Anyone else just feeling pissy about any and everything?

Update: just had great sex; much happier

nunzchucks · February 2014

@merie412 Ahhhh! So weird!

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