Parenting Check In (Sept. 22)

ball.and.chain · September 2014

Happy (?) Monday, everyone!

How is/was your weekend? Any new accomplishments, challenges or successes?

QOTW: If you won the lottery, what would you do differently with your child(ren)?

Parenting Roster:

(Please let me know if you would like to be added)

@KH826 – Will born 6/4/14

@ATXmommas – Sebastian (“Ash”) born 11/21/13, other Momma is Z

@Wallace323 – J and L born 8/8/13, surviving triplets born at 31 weeks

@Trisholio and @trisholiosboi – Proud foster parents to M born 2/6/12 and K born 8/22/13; baby Adalyn born 8/29

@JGY – Gabe born 3/24/13, other Mama is S.

@Stringy813 – M born May 2013

@Filmfanatic82 – Charley born 3/15/14

@Mamosey‌ & @Karlamo‌ – R born 2/25/14

@2brides – G & C born 5/18/06, other Mom is L

@Jrtmom – Henry born 8/15/13, other mama is L

@Sarahtrpt – C born February 2014

@CageyMack – W born 3/16/13

@Themommymonster – C (DS) born 2/18/09

@Clairmeij – Alarico born 6/28/13, other mama is V

@Mystjava – Little Bear (LB) born 3/31/10, other Mummum is Shawn

@winstan1 – J (DS) born 9/10 (currently 3.5 years old)

@newmompeanut – N (DD) born 2/12/13, other Momma is B

@herbabymama‌ – C (DD) born 12/10/13, other Mama is K

@AmandaG47 – Twin girls born 2/22/14, other Mommy is J

@mwagner25 – Oliver born 11/27/13, other parent is L

@jazibel – Kaden born 7/13/12 and Owen born 5/2/14, other parent (Aya) is EV

@redrockmama – M born 6/19/14, other Mama is J

@ball.and.chain – B born 6/28/14

@Flygirl1228 – Twins 7/25/14

@KLeigh1‌ - S born 7/25/14

@2MamazInSeattle‌ - S born 8/21/14

@shameless370087‌ - Anthony and Sati, born 3/9/2014, Other mom is S

@shelly2314 - Elise and Olivia, born 8/19/14, wife is M

ball.and.chain · September 2014

B is 12 weeks old! His 3-month birthday is Sunday. What???

Today I dropped him off for his second of two daycare "trials;" he will be there 3 hours this morning. He starts for real next Monday, when I go back to work. Fortunately, S is taking that week off so she will handle B and daycare stuff and I just have to get myself to the office.

We were in Maine for 3-4 days and he did great in a new environment -- including Saturday when there were between 14-18 people around. He was very social and friendly, gave out lots of smiles, and loved meeting our family friend's 1yo daughter. He has been a little congested and sneezy and I thought he had a cold, but it has been mild and hasn't progressed much so I am wondering if he could have seasonal allergies. A couple of times in the last week he has STTN, both 7-hour stretches! It's not consistent but it's nice to know it's possible and that he's moving in that direction.

I should go get stuff done while he's in daycare! Oh whoops -- QOTW! We played the Powerball last week, which is what made me think of it. We agreed that S would quit her job and be a SAHM, so that would be a big change for B. I would keep working but would drive to work (parking is super expensive) so that I could have more time with the family (my current commute takes a long time). He'd be more likely to get a sibling than he is now, and he'd probably get signed up for a lot more activities and classes. He'd definitely get to travel more as a kid. And we'd probably put him in private school, at least for high school -- the public schools in our city are OK, but not fantastic.

trisholio · September 2014

Good morning all! Can you add Adalyn to the roster? She was born 8/29

Things are good and crazy with us. We spent most of the weekend at home enjoying family time before my wife goes back to work tomorrow. M and K are adjusting well to the new baby, honestly they ignore her most of the time. K tries to play in the vibrating chair or pushes the swing, but doesn't mind the baby any other time. Adalyn is a pretty good baby. She is breast feeding like a champ and sleeps 2 to 3 hours at night.

Qotd: if we win the lottery my wife would quit her job and we would travel with the girls. I would want them to be try different activities, see new places and meet different people.

ball.and.chain · September 2014

trisholio said:

Can you add Adalyn to the roster? She was born 8/29

Done! Glad she is doing so well.

JGY · September 2014

Gabe will be 18 months (1.5 years) this week! Good grief. The time.

Word explosion going on over here. He gets at least 2 new words a day, which has been really fun to hear. Also emotional explosions. Lots of extreme reactions and new found opinions to express. Sigh.

I think my favorite new thing that G does, is feeding the dog. Whenever he sees that the dog's dish is empty (thank goodness we have a grazer for a dog), he insists that we take the dish into the room with the food, put in 2 scoops, and he carries the dish back to the kitchen and sets it into the stand. It's adorable. Of course, as will all things these days, once he's done it a few times then he likes to play with the "Rules." Now he puts the dish into the stand, but not all the way, and then pulls it out and looks at us. Rinse and repeat. Ad nauseum. It takes about 5 minutes to get the dish actually settled in there. We lose a few kibbles every time. Still, cute.

As of about 6 weeks ago, G is finally (mostly) sleeping through the night. As in, 11 hours straight. There are still a few nights each week where he'll wake once (or twice) but it takes 5 minutes to get him back down and I can almost do it without waking up myself. Now if we could only get the dog to be as compliant! As a number of you know, sleep has been a long and exhausting battle for us. If we do have #2, we will be doing some things differently.

QOTD: If we were to win the lottery, we would make some big changes. S would likely quit her job, and start her own business. I would probably quit my job, and volunteer about 30 hours a week. Gabe would absolutely stay in his daycare situation, at least part time. We would start TTC immediately, and would fix our housing situation either by moving (boooo) or making some ill-advised additions to our house (ill advised because the neighborhood can't really support a higher resale value, but whatever, we just won the frickin lottery)! We would pay for some solid professional help with our dog training. And, lastly, we would travel A LOT. We would visit our families at least once a month, and would even throw in some other trips just for fun (what????).

That reminds me, someone on this board was going to a Club Med in FL a while back. Was it @mwagner25? Did you ever report back about your experience (sorry if I missed it)?

mwagner25 · September 2014

Hello all,

Oliver is 10 months this week. There isn't too much new to report this past week. I have been working a ton and having mom guilt/sleep deprivation from trying to spend as much time with Oliver as I can when I am home... But lately that has ment getting home from the ER around 1 am finally falling asleep by 2, then getting up on the morning at 5:30 or 6 with Oliver to try and get some playtime in. I am excited to look for a new job with better hours when we move to Minnesota this Spring. I have been a bit jealous of L since she is staying at home right now. I just wish we could trade for a week and I could stay home and she could work. Sigh*

@JGY we have the Club Med vacation coming up. We leave on Halloween. We also are planning a trip to Minnesota to see family and look at houses mid-October.

QOTW: Certainly I would find a different job. Maybe just work per diem, I couldn't stop working completely because I like the intellectual stimulation of my job. We would probably start trying for #2 right away, and consider having maybe 4-5 kiddos if money were no option. Right now we are thinking 2-3.

KH826 · September 2014

Will is 15.5 weeks old (he will be 16 weeks on Wednesday, and 4 months on October 4th)

We had a busy, but great weekend!

On Saturday we started out with a morning bath time. We usually do it at night, but we were all tired and lazy on Friday night, so we waited until Saturday morning. Then we headed out to my company's annual family picnic. There were TONS of people there, and lots of kiddos. I work with mainly 30-somethings, and we have had a major baby boom that has been going on for the last several years. Anyway, Will was a trooper. We stayed for about 2.5 hours, and he was held by A LOT of different people. I didn't love that, but he seemed just fine with it. My wife had to tell me after we had been there for about 30 mins "You really should let some other people hold him" HAHA. I still don't love crowds and don't think I will ever love lots of people holding my baby no matter how old he gets or if they are my friends and co-workers. Anyway, he was certainly a hit with folks at the picnic, and he didn't make a peep the whole time. He was getting a bit tired and overstimulated by the end -- so we made our exit before he could get fussy. We left the picnic and drove directly to the grocery store. We changed him in the back of the car (he had a MASSIVE poop-tastrophy on the way to the store), and then we sat outside of Starbucks and fed him before going into the grocery store. The weather was so nice, and he seems to enjoy dining Al Fresco! After the grocery store we headed home, and he napped for a bit in his car seat on the kitchen table while we put away groceries, did some laundry, dishes, general tidying... then he woke up and we snuggled!

Yesterday my MIL and SIL came over and we went to a Fall Festival at a local orchard. It was a bit hot/humid, but it was still a nice day. Will was awesome again, and enjoyed being outside. He fed the ducks with my wife, and we took some pictures of the three of us (we don't have that many I have noticed, so we are working on that!). My MIL insisted on buying Will a souvenir, so he got a little wooden tpy set with a tractor and farm that says the name of the orchard on the side. It is very cute! Then we all went to lunch, and Will hung out and refused to nap because there was too much to look at. He slept in the car for about thirty minutes on the way home after lunch, but his nap did not survive the transfer from the car into the house! I thought he would be cranky because he had been up so much of the day with very limited napping time, but he decided to be Mr. Social. We put him on the floor and he did an awesome tummy time, and then gave us all some great belly laughs! After my MIL and SIL went home, he finally settled down and napped on me in the glider for a little while. All in all, it was a great day and we got some really nice pictures!

Some other miscellaneous Will stuff:

* I think he is going to get a tooth sooner than later. He has continued to drool like crazy, and we can tell when his poor gums are sore. We use the teething tablets when needed, and he loves the freezer rings. He also loves chomping on our fingers and eating his blankie. Now when he is chomping on my fingers I feel little sharp areas trying to poke through his gums that I couldn't feel a week ago...

* My wife asked on Saturday if I thought we weren't feeding him enough. He eats 6 bottles a day, 4 0z of formula each. He transitioned to 4 oz bottles around 4 weeks of age, and has been eating the same since then. He actually eats less now because he sleeps longer stretches at night so he has cut out his 7th bottle and pretty much always just has 6 bottles a day. So that is 24 oz of formula a day. I consulted Dr. Google (I know, I know..) and there are a lot of varied opinions. I will ask our pedi at his next visit. He doesn't seem to be hungry between bottles, so I feel like he is getting enough. I don't know... I know this group is mainly EBF or combo fed, so I don't know how that translates, or if anyone has any thoughts on this...

* I always thought I would love the nickname Will and call him that most of the time. I still refer to him as Will mostly when writing/texting about him to others, but when I am actually talking TO him, I mostly call him William. I don't know why. I am kind of surprised by it. My wife calls him William about 50% of the time, and Will the rest. I call him William about 90% of the time. Everyone else seems to call him Will. I feel like I am going to be the only one calling him William as he gets older. I think I am OK with that though unless/until he tells me he hates it HAHA

* He still hasn't rolled over. He just seems like he doesn't care about it at all. I try to coax him to roll over and he just laughs at me. It's kind of funny.

QOTW: Two main things would change for our Children if we won the lottery... we would have more of them, and we would send them to private school. My wife would really like 4 kids. Originally I was against this idea entirely. Now I think if money was no object we would have at least 4. Money is an object, so I am still firmly standing in the 3 kids camp. Also, we are looking to move before our kiddos are school-aged, and we are looking at school districts. We can't afford some of the towns that have really great school districts right now, and that makes me sad. Ideally I would like to send our kids to "Friends" schools (private Quaker schools in PA, they are not religious though, and they are socially very liberal... they are also very expensive. Like $20k for kindergarten).

JGY · September 2014

KH826 said:

Then we headed out to my company's annual family picnic. There were TONS of people there, and lots of kiddos. I work with mainly 30-somethings, and we have had a major baby boom that has been going on for the last several years. Anyway, Will was a trooper. We stayed for about 2.5 hours, and he was held by A LOT of different people. I didn't love that, but he seemed just fine with it. My wife had to tell me after we had been there for about 30 mins "You really should let some other people hold him" HAHA. I still don't love crowds and don't think I will ever love lots of people holding my baby no matter how old he gets or if they are my friends and co-workers. Anyway, he was certainly a hit with folks at the picnic, and he didn't make a peep the whole time.
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Stuck in box!
So ... who did you coworkers think your wife was this time?

KH826 · September 2014

JGY said:
Stuck in box!
So ... who did you coworkers think your wife was this time?

HAHA - I went out of my way to say "my wife"... most people who I am close with at work actually know her, but for people who didn't, I kept saying "and this is my wife..." to make sure that was clear. Hopefully no one is confused, but I am sure some still are. Because peeps are dumb.

JGY · September 2014

KH826 said:

* My wife asked on Saturday if I thought we weren't feeding him enough. He eats 6 bottles a day, 4 0z of formula each. He transitioned to 4 oz bottles around 4 weeks of age, and has been eating the same since then. He actually eats less now because he sleeps longer stretches at night so he has cut out his 7th bottle and pretty much always just has 6 bottles a day. So that is 24 oz of formula a day. I consulted Dr. Google (I know, I know..) and there are a lot of varied opinions. I will ask our pedi at his next visit. He doesn't seem to be hungry between bottles, so I feel like he is getting enough. I don't know... I know this group is mainly EBF or combo fed, so I don't know how that translates, or if anyone has any thoughts on this...

This was totally trial and error for us, and I (unfortunately) put too much weight into what some people were telling me, and I believe we underfed our poor little guy for a while after spending 2 months starving him at the breast! Ugh. I suck.

Anyway, my question to you would be: does he seem contented when he finishes his 4oz bottle?

If he's content, isn't seeming fussy or uncomfortable, is generally happy and is growing at a normal rate, and the cadence between feedings is doable for you guys, then I'd say you're feeding him enough. Of course I'm not a Pedi, but those would be the big items to tick off of my checklist.

JGY · September 2014

stringy813 said:

We are currently dealing with an ugly rash in the diaper area. We don't think its a diaper rash, its not on her lady parts, more on her butt and thighs. She was in disposables instead of cloth while we were away, but she's been in them before with no reaction. Its itchy and scabby. We thought she had just scratched a bug bite at first but then it spread. So heading to the doctors later today.
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ATXmommas · September 2014

Ash was 10 months old yesterday! Please bear with me as I document a lengthy update...

We have a mover and a groover on our hands. This kid is constantly moving - crawling, shaking, standing up, banging, making noise, you name it. Rarely sits still unless he's eating. Despite a number of recent toy purchases, his favorite toy at home is a plastic water bottle with a handful of rice inside and a hairbrush. Our house isn't set up well to accommodate baby gates, so when we're downstairs we are constantly chasing home out of the kitchen - he especially likes the dogs bowl and banging against the pantry door.

He sleeps pretty well most nights. Typically he's nursing to sleep by 7:15 and I put him in his crib by 7:45. He typically wakes up once around 3:30. He has STTN about 3-4 times and occasionally wakes up more than once. If he wakes up earlier - like 10:30, Z goes in and gets him back to sleep easily. If he wakes up at 3:30, I nurse him back to sleep. He's often up by 5:45, but has started to sleep later lately. Hope this trend continues! He takes two naps a day, though we're not structured enough for those naps to be at the same time (on the weekends when he's with us all day).

Our boy is an eater. He nurses or gets a bottle about 6-7 times a day still - typically 7:30am, 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 6:00, 7:15, and maybe once during the night. He's eating bfast, lunch, afternoon snack, and dinner. He eats anything. He LOVES tomatoes more than anything. Up until recently, we were mostly giving him plain veggies, fruit, and bread, but we've started to give him more of the food that we make for ourselves. He eats veggie burgers, hummus, pancakes, fried rice, tofu, thai noodles, all fruit, most veggies, and lots more.

I'm making less milk, but he is always satisfied at the breast, so I'm trying to be more relaxed about my pumping output. Just two more months and I can wean from the pump.

Ash is so terribly sweet. Except when he bit one kid and shook another kid at day care last week. Oy. That's embarrassing. Logically, I know this is typical behavior of a 10 month old, but I'm kinda freaking out a little bit. I know there isn't anything up do at this age besides redirection, but I'm terrified of not having the tools to raise him to be respectful and well-mannered. I know I'm getting ahead of myself, but I'm crazy like that sometimes.

Z and I are just so in love with him. Even though we have to wrestle him to change his diapers or put on his clothes and we hardly ever have a minute to relax, he makes every day better. This kid was meant for us.

As for this weekend, my sister came in town to spend time with us (mostly him!) and they had a great time. My sister is great with kids and he think she is so funny. We ran around on Saturday - are lunch out and spent some time at an outdoor shopping area that has a play area for kids. We went in a family run in Sunday - I love that Ash is perfectly content in the jogging stroller. I hope as he grows the family runs will become a good memory for him.

QOTD: how much money are we talking about here??? Z and I would probably both continue to work in some capacity, though if we came into LOTS of money, I would find a job that I found meaningful and enjoyable without regards to pay. Neither one of us are interested in being SAHMs. We would buy a house in an excellent school district and start heavily investing into college fund. We would increase our housekeeping to weekly and start having groceries delivered so that we would have more "fun" time with him on weekends. And buy him an awesome wardrobe.

ATXmommas · September 2014

@KH826‌ - we call him Ash about 95% of the time, but I always introduce him to new people as Sebastian. :-?

KH826 · September 2014

JGY said:

This was totally trial and error for us, and I (unfortunately) put too much weight into what some people were telling me, and I believe we underfed our poor little guy for a while after spending 2 months starving him at the breast! Ugh. I suck.
Anyway, my question to you would be: does he seem contented when he finishes his 4oz bottle?
If he's content, isn't seeming fussy or uncomfortable, is generally happy and is growing at a normal rate, and the cadence between feedings is doable for you guys, then I'd say you're feeding him enough. Of course I'm not a Pedi, but those would be the big items to tick off of my checklist.

So this is an interesting question ... he cries every time that the bottle is empty, but only for about 10-15 seconds. My wife and I joke that he is just sad when meal time is over. He has pretty much always done this. He lets out a few little pathetic cries as soon as the bottle is taken out of his mouth, and then he is fine. He typically goes about 3 hours between feedings, but we feed on demand. Sometimes it is more like 2.5 hours, other times it is closer to 4 hours, but for the last month or more it is always 6 bottles a day, so always 24 oz in total. He put himself on this schedule, we have gone out of our way to not schedule his feedings at all, and just react when he is hungry. I honestly think he is just fine, and he is clearly growing plenty, but my wife read about people that feed their babies at Will's age WAYYYY more than what we are feeding him, and I think she panicked.

His next pedi appointment is October 7th, so I think we will keep doing what we are doing for now and ask the pedi in two weeks.

KH826 · September 2014

ATXmommas said:

@KH826‌ - we call him Ash about 95% of the time, but I always introduce him to new people as Sebastian. :-?

This is interesting! I wonder how many of us do this with our kiddos and nicknames... it will be interesting to see when the kids are older what they prefer and how they introduce themselves.

Jazibel · September 2014

Our little world is a bit crazy right now as we head toward our move on Sunday. The house is a wreck and I'm kind of freaking out that we'll get it all done in time. The big difference between this move and any other is that we have sooooo much kid and baby stuff. And even though I packed most of it away I can't pack everything because Kaden and Owen both have so many basic requirements, toys, clothes, diapers, blankets, books, bikes.....

Owen is doing tummy time and Kaden is reading him a book. Every day they seem to interact more and more. Owen loves to touch our faces and grab our clothes and Kaden adores the interaction. Now Kaden is laying on his tummy next to Owen showing him his car. I really think these boys could end up best friends.

Aside from packing this weekend was pretty mellow. Saturday morning I texted EV (who was sleeping in until 9ish) that it was time for pancakes and Saturday morning cartoons. We watched the Lego movie which was really good. Mid-day EV took our big comforters the the laundry mat and the kids and I packed and worked on nap time. We BBQ'd pork ribs in the evening and ate outside.nThen I took the kids to the park while EV napped (so she could stay up late get some work done).

Sunday we just hung out at home and packed and played. EV gave Kaden a haircut and he looks super cute. Sunday night I drew an elephant face on a balloon and we tossed it around the living room, there was a ton a silliness and laughter. Its moments like those that I try to store away in my memory forever.

Owen surprised us again by rolling over back to front when we left the room this weekend (he's done tummy to back several times). He loves textures, human faces and laughing a lot. Kaden can count to ten with a few hiccups in there. I'm now working on colors. We're waiting on transitioning to the big boy bed until after the move - hopefully it all goes smoothly.

QOTD: I'd immediately start shopping for our dream forever home and never have to move our kiddos again. I'd love an amazing garden with play structures, pool (with a fence, cover and alarm system so kiddos couldn't access it), sand pit, trampoline, etc. EV and I would start our own business buying and flipping houses. She would likely want to continue her career. We'd volunteer and hire an amazing nanny to watch our boys while we were working. We'd definitely travel and have a vacation house or two. We'd send the kids to private schools and likely arrange from them to study abroad once or twice. I did for a year when I was 13 and it definitely influenced my perspective. We'd also be far more likely to have 3 or 4 kids and I would probably really explore the option of IVF with EV's eggs if she were open to it.

redrockmama · September 2014

Thijs is 13 weeks old, 3 months as of Friday, time is going by so fast I wish I could slow it down.

Nicknames: We knew when we named him that we, and he, would have to correct people a lot, especially if they just read his name. We always tell people his name is Matthijs, we rarely call him Thijs or Matthijs, but it's probably about 50/50. Usually we call him baby boy, little love, grump-alot-a-gus, or some other silly name

Our weekend was interesting and I way over did it. Friday night we went to a friends house and watched the soccer game. M did great and slept the whole time, even through her screaming baby, but we didn't leave until 11:30 and the rest of the night was horrible. M has decided that once he nurses to sleep he needs to stay latched on to sleep. He can be asleep for 20 min, totally out and as soon as I unlatch him and try to move him so I can lay down he wakes up. So, it was a rough night for us and we got up early to go to visit my dad while J worked. He was pretty fussy and tired the whole time. My poor dad only sees him when he is overtired.

After getting home we went for a long walk, which was nice. Then J went grocery shopping while I took care of M, who was fussy. He was being really weird, screaming and crying and then nursing for a minute, popping off, crying, latching back on. I was worried that I'm not making enough milk, but I could express some so I don't know what was going on with him. Eventually he fell asleep and for some reason that I can't remember now, I stayed up way too late again.

Saturday night/Sunday morning was more of the same refusing to be put down to sleep and I got about an hour or two of sleep and had a migraine. J took him to the other room eventually and I slept until he needed to eat again and battled the migraine all day. If anyone has tips on transferring a sleepy babe from boob to bed I'm all ears. Our farm outing got cancelled due to rain, but J's brother and his girlfriend came over for dinner and then we all went for a walk. It was fun to see them.

M and I got to sleep at a decent time last night and I woke up sore, but no headache, yay! I usually have Monday's off, but switched this week because J is going out of town all week again. This way I get one day off while she is gone.

M is doing great, he is getting chubby, which is adorable and his eyes are turning brownish. We don't do a lot of him just laying on his back or tummy but we did this weekend and he almost rolled from his back to tummy. He rolls from his side to tummy often though. He isn't quite grabbing things, he still has his little hands in fists most of the time. His coordination is better everyday and he holds his head and body up like a champ. J even wore him front facing in the carrier and he loves it. Sorry for the novel.

QOTW: We just talked about this actually haha. I would quit my job, we would pay off our house, finish the basement and we would travel a ton.

Karlamo · September 2014

Hello! R is staring down 7 months on the 25th!

R is at the new daycare right now. It's our last week of straddling 2 dc's. We're looking forward to having some normalcy to our routine next week. I've missed my 2 days off with him since I feel obligated to send him to the new dc for a few hours to adjust/get my money's worth. Next week he'll be back to just 2 days/week in dc.

He is ALL over the place. This kid can crawl and crawl fast! I've been in denial for months now but it's time to accept that he's growing up. I did more baby proofing. The good news is R shows us what is an issue. Like going after cords or the cats water dish. He keeps us on our feet all day. So with all this crawling you'd think he'd sleep better at night. Not so much. Sleep remains elusive to these moms. Lately we've been getting a little cocky and staying up till 10:30 only to be awoken at 11 by R. I just try and remind myself it's only for a short time and we're lucky to have him.

For nicknames, being named Rudy he gets cheered on a lot by everyone! People enjoy chanting his name. It's fun to do it when he's trying out a new skill. We also call him Rudes and when you're watching him you're on Rudy Duty.

QOTW: @ball.and.chain‌, were you eavesdropping in on us this morning? My wife and I just said today being a SAHM would be a lot funner/easier with 2 SAHM. We even went as far as calculated how much money we'd need to run our house per year without changing our lifestyle if we both stayed home. Winning the lottery would work or another thought was getting a "husband" who only want us to cook,clean etc while he earned the money.

2brides · September 2014

It was a mix of...Sick kids. Kids who felt better. A friend of the boys spending the weekend with us. Sick kid. Kid who slept for 14.5 hrs straight through. Soccer game. Flag football game. Going out to lunch. Going out to dinner. Sick kid. :P

QOTD: We'd sock away a lot of money for college (after paying off some debt.) We'd probably keep them where they are for the rest of elementary and middle school, but do private high school. I'd also love to have a travel budget so we could travel as a family. I think L and I would still work - we work well together, but wouldn't be good as 2 SAHMs.

shelly2314 · September 2014

So sorry, it is difficult for me to find time/energy to log in and comment. Working on getting my schedule a little more settled so I have time for bumping (b/c that is important!)

How is/was your weekend? Any new accomplishments, challenges or successes? So, Olivia has had a few fussy nights where she is refusing to sleep more than 15 minutes at a time or wants to feed constantly. I know it is a growth spurt, but it still sucks. We have been working on a few things feeding wise so maybe we can figure that out

QOTW: If you won the lottery, what would you do differently with your child(ren)? I would travel with them so they could experience life and the world instead of just reading and studying about it

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