Infant, Toddler, and Preschooler Check-in (7/24)

[Speedy]

Age: 13 months

Milestones: Walking with the walker

Challenges: Sleep. And screeching at inappropriate hours

Funny/cute stories: We got his new car seat in on Monday. I took it out of the box, but haven't put it in the car yet and he keeps crawling into it and sitting in it like "c'mon mom, let's go!"

How are you? Eh. Not so good. I'm really wanting to leave my job, but at the same time I HATE change and it's making me anxious. My bosses are opening a second building at the end of next month (as long as construction stays on track) and if it doesn't settle down after that I'm going to put some serious energy into deciding what I want to do. Going back to school is a consideration too, as long as I can figure out why I'm getting so distracted and manage it. To that end, I have an appointment next week for testing for ADHD (I can't remember if I had mentioned that here before or just over on CD)

Anything else?

QOTW: Good question. Webtoons maybe?

[addymac]

Age: 23 mo

Milestones: talking and repeating more. Learned how to jump!

Challenges: sleep-ish. He was doing great, then I went OOT and he freaked and started his MOTN wake ups.

Funny/cute stories: he attends this yoga class at our play gym. It’s adorable. One night his dad came home and he actually showed him all the positions he learned - how to stretch up to the sky, how to be like a frog and a snake and a dog. It was the cutest.

How are you? Eh. Going back to work on Tuesday. My hand/wrist still hurts all the time if I try to use it a lot and I have very little strength in it- like carrying an empty plate is heavy for my hand / wrist and tendons so I’m not looking forward to working a bunch of days in a row. Oh well.
*TW DEATH*
I have an appt on Monday to talk to someone about my friend’s death. I keep wavering on whether I need it but DH called in a favor to get me in- otherwise the next appointment was end of Sept. so I have to go. I know it’ll be good for me but some days I feel ok and some days I feel the urge to sob uncontrollably. Also I think about her every single day multiple times a day and that can’t be healthy either right? I assume it will lessen as time passes but. I also don’t want to go anywhere we used to go to together in this city, which is hard. So I guess I do need someone to talk to. It just feels so awkward, the idea of it.

Anything else?
My sister is visiting for a week. It’s nice to have a break from my nanny. So much time together I was starting to get annoyed by her for dumb things, but my sister is so clueless about a lot of shit esp related to kids so she’s just making more work for me these days, which is annoying AF when my hand is killing me.

QOTW: What is your favorite app? Not necessarily the one you use the most, but your most favoritest one ever.
I don’t think I have one? I really only use my phone for communicating with family and for social media. Or amazon. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I don’t really play games