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Post by nellieoleson on Feb 19, 2018 10:04:02 GMT -6
Hey hey, ladies!
We got some snow here last night - just a little bit, but it’s still pretty outside. It feels kind of weird, though, since we’ve been having such mild, spring-like weather the last few weeks.
Also in my world, I need to stop having “cheat” weekends, or whatever you want to call it. I’m a pretty healthy eater during the week, but on the weekends my H is always suggesting burgers! pizza! Thai food! beers! and it always sounds delicious and fun. But I’ve been charting my weight every day since the beginning of January and it’s discouraging to see the bump in the graph that happens every Sunday and Monday. I’ve put a lot of effort into eating healthy, but haven’t lost any weight overall because everything I lose goes right back on over the weekend. I’m not trying to lose a ton of weight, but seeing progress would be encouraging! Sigh.
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Post by nellieoleson on Feb 19, 2018 10:07:40 GMT -6
What books are your kiddos into these days?
Dd2’s current favorites are Room on the Broom, Little Blue Truck, Big Red Barn (by Margaret Wise Brown), and My Friends (by Taro Gomi).
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Post by scorpioscuba on Feb 19, 2018 11:19:57 GMT -6
DD is sick! She has been so healthy for over 2 months so this took me by surprise. She has been running a fever, runny nose and a cough. I'm really keeping a close eye on her given her respiratory issues and hoping things don't escalate into wheezing. FX no ER visits this time! By far DD's favorite book right now is the "owl book" it has really gotten her into counting and some colors: www.amazon.com/Hoot-Hide-Seek-Counting-Little/dp/158925595X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1519060521&sr=8-2&keywords=hootShe also likes the Goodnight Train, Blue Hat Green Hat (and all Sandra Boynton books), and for some reason she has also become obsessed with DS's copy of Dr. Seuss' "Oh the Places You'll Go" She sits with it and flips the pages and says "the places you go" over and over. It's super cute. |
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Post by lollipop on Feb 19, 2018 11:43:52 GMT -6
M's favorite books seem to be On the Night You Were Born and I Love You Through and Through. Those are the ones she most frequently chucks at us while saying "book".
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2018 12:56:21 GMT -6
We had snow Saturday morning that lasted a few hours because it got up to 50. The weather is cray back and forth. We were able to pull dd around in a sled for a bit and she had a great time.
Dd is big into books. I’m not sure she has a favorite. She likes to “read” herself and then make stacks. Or we read to her. We sometimes read 30-50+ books a day. It’s her thing right now. THat and watching Daniel tiger!
We had a fun weekend with family and friends. Dd is starting to really enjoy play dates. It’s fun!
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Post by dizzycooks on Feb 19, 2018 14:05:40 GMT -6
Dd3 loves The Belly Button book by Sandra Boyton and Potty (which is sung to the tune of Bingo). I don’t recall the author.
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Post by kcrkcs on Feb 19, 2018 16:50:56 GMT -6
Hey! Sorry I haven't been around it's just been a lot here recently. But things are mildly settling down. L loves books. She will look at them by herself and demands much reading. I don't know that she has a favorite per se. Little blue truck, little owls night, so many dr Seuss books, pout pout fish, giraffes can't dance... really she loves them all which is great because I don't have to read the same one constantly. 😬
Our big excitement is that she slept through the whole night two nights in a row!!!!! I am not expecting this to really be a thing but I am grateful we are at least heading the right direction finally. Maybe I will start sleeping through the nights eventually too.
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Post by nellieoleson on Feb 19, 2018 18:43:34 GMT -6
kcrkcs - yay! I wish I could like that twice! Fx it lasts!!
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Post by scorpioscuba on Feb 19, 2018 19:46:30 GMT -6
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Post by scorpioscuba on Feb 19, 2018 19:52:10 GMT -6
I’m going to have to order little owls night @kelltothekell. I feel like we have every kids board book ever so it’s rare I see something new. And dd loves owls. Excited for something new! 😊
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Post by nellieoleson on Feb 20, 2018 0:35:55 GMT -6
I’m going to have to order little owls night @kelltothekell. I feel like we have every kids board book ever so it’s rare I see something new. And dd loves owls. Excited for something new! 😊 We have it, and it’s pretty cute. Dd1 went through a phase with it when she was 2-ish |
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Post by nellieoleson on Feb 20, 2018 0:36:20 GMT -6
@kelltothekell - did you have your reveal? Want to share??
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Post by dizzycooks on Feb 20, 2018 4:55:53 GMT -6
scorpioscuba I was just going to say I need that owl book too. Has anyone read Owl Moon? My big girls love it and dd3 likes to hoot like an owl. We got dd2 a lofted bed this weekend and moved dd3 into the big girl room. She loves being in there and so far they are all actually sleeping at bedtime. I have been up since 4am in the regular these days. Apparently sleep isn’t necessary. I’m hoping this little guy will give me 10-3/4 pretty regularly and then apparently I will be just fine. Smh. 🤦♀️
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Post by lollipop on Feb 20, 2018 9:53:57 GMT -6
S LOVED Little Blue Truck. To the point that it's been 2 or 3 years since I last read it and I still have it memorized. Insanity. Thank goodness M prefers a bit more variety with books. Movies on the other hand... Barbie movies on repeat are her jam
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2018 11:24:33 GMT -6
kcrkcs that is awesome! I’m so excited for you and hope it continues! nellieoleson. We found out the baby’s sex last week. Dh picked up the results from the dr. Office and the plan was to not look for a few weeks and do a reveal with my family. The person at the dr office held up the results (dh asked if the lab results had sex on it too) and dh accidentally saw the sex! It wasn’t how we planned it but turned out ok because I wasn’t sure i wanted to wait! We made cupcakes and dh decorated with pink or blue icing and we did our own little reveal. It’s a BOY!! I am excited. I will say I had some disappointment initially because I just had this picture in my mind of dd having a little sister and I thought two sisters would be closer than a bro and sis. I also feel more nervous because it’s new territory so I think I’m more anxious than would have been with a girl because know what to expect. Of course, we are thrilled either way but i had a preconceived notion of it being a girl so had to get past that.Excited that it’s becoming more real!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2018 11:30:15 GMT -6
We aren’t telling anyone the sex yet. We are still going to do a little reveal with my family when we see them again just for fun.
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Post by kcrkcs on Feb 20, 2018 21:05:25 GMT -6
There is also a little owls day book. My niece has it. They are super cute.
Hubs just got L a Peppa Pig magnet book. This is definitely her new favorite.
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Post by dizzycooks on Feb 21, 2018 21:31:05 GMT -6
**trigger warning!! Violence and kids***
I’m typically pretty mellow about my kids and want them to have independence, space and opportunity to learn, but is anyone else having ALL the feels about violence in schools and human trafficking lately? We’ve had several HT incidences bear my house at places I frequent with my kids and it’s freaking me the f out. I had to talk to my daughter about lock down drills and why it doesn’t matter that she was a good listener and quiet if her peers were screwing around (which they were!). Ugh. She’s crying because she’s missing recess to have a redo, in crying because she’s doing it at all! Ugh. So hard!
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Post by crimsonandclover on Feb 22, 2018 13:45:59 GMT -6
kcrkcs, yes for sleeping!!!! We had a phase of STTN and it was everything I dreamed it could be. Now we're back to MOTN wake-ups for no reason at all and sometimes we have to go in her room somewhere between 4-5 and sleep on a mattress next to her bed so that she'll settle back down. dizzycooks, I have to say that I've been so glad my kids are not going to school in the US. I'm sure I would be anxious about it there. Germany has had school shootings, but nowhere *near* the amount of the US - there have been 6 since 2000, and the last ones were in 2009. I get so frustrated and angry that nothing is done in the US, and my relatives who post things about arming teachers just make me even angrier. @kelltothekell, I was 2 years older than my brother and we played all the time as kids. Of course there came a point when we were teenagers and our interests diverged, but I wouldn't worry about them not playing when they're young. I don't think the sex matters so much at that age. DD3 loves the books that just have lots of pictures of objects / animals in them. She grabs them and says all the animal sounds or the food words that she knows. A hilarious story on that note: We were looking at a book of animals, and we were on the farm page. DD3: (points at sheep) Beep! Me: Yep, a sheep. DD3: (points at cow) Moooo! Me: Yep, a cow says moo. DD3: (points at cat) Mow Mow! Me: Yep, a kitty says meow meow. DD3: (turns page, points at sloth) Mama! Me: 
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2018 14:11:00 GMT -6
crimsonandclover , thanks so much for the tidbit. That makes me feel better. I have a brother but he is six years older so totally different dynamic. (spoiler alert: he thought I was a brat and didn't want to play ever.... we are good now) 
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Post by kcrkcs on Feb 22, 2018 19:24:18 GMT -6
Ear infections can fuck off. So can rsv. That is all.
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Post by lollipop on Feb 22, 2018 23:32:48 GMT -6
@kelltothekell S is 4.5 ish years older than M. She thinks he hung the moon. He loves her to pieces. They play together of and on thought the day, but they're both very stubborn and bossy, so they'll be fine for a few minutes, and then when one doesn't want to do what the other says they go their separate ways for awhile. Rinse and repeat. I think the biggest problem is the age difference not the difference in sex. He wants to play games that are more rough or complex than she can handle, and she just wants to dance and play with her babies, and he gets bored of that after about 5 minutes lol.
My sister and I played together more, but again, I think it was because we were only 2 years apart. If there'd been a bigger age difference I probably wouldn't have wanted anything to do with her.
And of course some of it is just different personalities and interests. S likes Lego, and stikbots And Minecraft. Basically anything where he can create scenes in his head and then play them out with toys, whereas M likes to dance and play dress up and dolls. My sister and I were the same. When our interests lined up we got along fine, but if one wanted to do something the other wasn't interested in we'd find someone else to play with (we usually had a small army of cousins around), or we'd do our own separate things. That worked best when we lived with a friend of the family. We had our own rooms, which only happened a few times growing up, and instead of a door I had a baby gate that I was tall enough to climb over, but she wasn't.
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Post by dizzycooks on Feb 23, 2018 7:03:05 GMT -6
crimsonandclover lol at the sloth comment. I legit spit my coffee out! You’re the last thing..
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Post by dizzycooks on Feb 23, 2018 7:05:06 GMT -6
Is it wrong that I’m mildly smug that the roads were actually pretty good this morning and it only took me an hour to get to my testing center so I’m sitting at a coffee shop enjoying a coffee and bagel *alone* and dh is doing the morning with the girls for...the first time EVER??! 😂 I do hope they’re nice to him, but it’s such a freeing feeling to have nothing to do with it. I left before anyone got up.
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Post by lollipop on Feb 23, 2018 10:45:40 GMT -6
Is it wrong that I’m mildly smug that the roads were actually pretty good this morning and it only took me an hour to get to my testing center so I’m sitting at a coffee shop enjoying a coffee and bagel *alone* and dh is doing the morning with the girls for...the first time EVER??! 😂 I do hope they’re nice to him, but it’s such a freeing feeling to have nothing to do with it. I left before anyone got up. That's how I felt when I drive my mom to Calgary last week lol. H does mornings every week, but he is rarely alone with them for more than an hour or so. I left before he got up (the kids were up, so I had to wake him on my way out), and go home just in time to pick S up from school. It was fabulous. We stopped for breakfast at the halfway point, and on the way home I had my music cranked almost as high as it would go and sang the whole way home. |
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Post by kittenmittens on Feb 24, 2018 6:48:47 GMT -6
Hi! Anyone remember me? 😬
@kelltothekell congrats!! I had the same exact feelings after finding out my second was a boy. I think I cried on the way home from the ultrasound. Anyway, once he was born all of those feelings went away and now I could not imagine life without him.
He’s such a wild child and so different than my DD but I think having an older sister has helped to keep him sweet. He loves to “nuggle” and is always telling me and DD “I love you.” It’s seriously the cutest.
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Post by kittenmittens on Feb 24, 2018 7:58:16 GMT -6
Sorry I haven’t been around! I still follow some of you on Facebook and I love seeing updates there I’ve been dealing with some medical stuff (high blood pressure, thyroid issues) which has kept me anxious and busy but I think I’ve gotten my medications straightened out finally and am feeling a little better. Both kids started full day preschool/daycare and they love it! Such a pleasant surprise! I’m sending them M-Th and considering M-F next year then just keeping them home with me on fridays occasionally. Hope everyone is well! I haven’t read but going to catch up now. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2018 12:57:57 GMT -6
kittenmittens hi! Stop by more often! Thanks for the words about adding a boy to the fam. I had to get over the initial shock because I had different expectations but I’m settling into the idea and getting excited.
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Post by dizzycooks on Feb 24, 2018 13:43:37 GMT -6
+1 to not being sure of a boy. I’m still not. Dh and are tackling a lot of baby projects this weekend bc I’ve been in complete denial and done NOTHING to get ready for him. 😞 genuinely hoping I’m more excited when he arrives bc right now it’s kind of a problem.
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Post by crimsonandclover on Feb 25, 2018 7:16:25 GMT -6
+1 to not being sure of a boy. I’m still not. Dh and are tackling a lot of baby projects this weekend bc I’ve been in complete denial and done NOTHING to get ready for him. 😞 genuinely hoping I’m more excited when he arrives bc right now it’s kind of a problem. I was scared I would have felt this way if DD3 had been a boy. I think it's normal, and I'm sure you'll be head over heels once he's actually here. But even if it takes a bit for you to bond, that's ok too. I don't know how it was for you, but I felt like it took me a while to bond with DD3 because I was still so busy with DDs 1+2 and DD3 just kind of was this little one that came along everywhere and had to eat a lot. It wasn't until she got more of a personality that I felt like I connected more. |
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