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September 07 Mamas - December already???

post #1 of 152
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Cross posted because I forgot it was a new month

Faliciagayle Um, yeah, I’d say the midwife should stop by before the “big show” Sheesh…you’re getting SO close!! This is very exciting

Jeanine The Yule log idea is a great one it!! What a nice little tradition you guys have going there though. I can’t imagine a 17’ tree looking small – we had to search for one under 7’ so it’d fit in our house-built-for-dwarves Seriously, I have no idea why all our ceilings are so low I painted DS’ bedroom ceiling without a stepstool or ladder and I’m only 5’5”

[b]mommajb[/] I always put ALL the presents away right after we open them. It drives DH crazy (which of course makes me do it even faster). I can’t stand the clutter. I start cleaning up the day after – I seriously can’t take it. I leave the tree until New Year’s Day, but that’s my limit!

at closin gin…too funny. I joked today I’m naming this baby Jose Cuervo.

Marty instructed me last night “Santa no like cookies Mommy. He only loves wolly pops!” I hope I remember these things when he’s older. They’re so funny. He wanted to go to Red Lobster the other night and asked me if we could go to the “Crab Target”. Clearly I shop at Target too much and he thinks every store is a Target. He’s such a character and SO emotional. He’s either happy as if he won the lottery or sad like his dog just died. His buddy ran over to him with a Little People person this morning at school but literally collided with him and Marty burst into tears “Adam no like me! Him HIT me with dat people!” He was SO offended. They really are such big people packed into those tiny bodies. My heart was breaking for him but at the same time, it was too precious.

On the other hand, if he makes me watch Shark Tale one more time I’m going to kill myself.

Made the mistake of mentioning some possible baby names to my mom…what the heck was I thinking?? I am a complete idiot…clearly.

In the running…boy: Logan or Grayson, girl: January, Audrey, or Harlow. My mother hates all of them of course and made some really colorful and childish comments. Grrr.

Hope you all are having nice, quiet evenings. I came home, put on sweats and a tank top and my “bunny robe” as my son calls it. It was the magic sleeping pill when he was a baby – he’d cuddle right into it and fall asleep. I miss those days soooooo much How’d they get so big so fast??
post #2 of 152
Jumping in quick before I get in the tub--mrsb, love ALL the names! Logan had been our top boy name for a long time, then Lincoln stole the top spot with this baby for a boy. I love Audrey but with our last name, it just wasn't in the cards!

Will come back to post more later or tomorrow, I promise!
post #3 of 152
Love love love Grayson!
post #4 of 152
Audrey and Grayson.

I am not a big drinker but my dad tells me my kids are easier to take after a few drinks. Maybe I should try the gin.

FG - baby! it is getting so close. I am so excited for us.
post #5 of 152
I like Logan and Harlow

We have no idea what this baby is going to be named.
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The week before Jamison was born, dh decided we should probably pick her name. I wasn't too concerned . But we narrowed it down to two (we knew she was a girl.) Jamison Olivia or Ashlynn Elizabeth. Then we waited til she was born to see which one she was. It was weird how ..... I can't think of the right word.... how much I was *not* concerned with naming her ahead of time. With the other two I was bugging dh to settle on a name, or at least a short-list of names. This time he had to say "uh...shouldn't we think about names?" All that to say, the name will come when it's good and ready, Alicia.
post #7 of 152
I obsessed over names for all of mine, knowing full well they woudln't be named until I had seen them. Well, I guess for my first I was 95% sure of his name before he was born, but the others ended up with names that had never made any lists.

I like the names Audrey and Logan - Mrsb

Alicia - I can't believe you are so close! So exciting!!!!
post #8 of 152
Well, mrsb, it seems we have settled on Audrey for a girl but the boy name is still up in the air. You did leave it up to us right? Didn't you say you have another ultrasound coming up soon? Given the situation with the names I am guessing it will be a boy.

ETA, over never mind. I read back over the thread and there doesn't seem to be as much consensus as I thought. bummer.
post #9 of 152
Jeesh, I feel so lazy these days! I just have no motivation to do anything while we're hanging out at home. I feel like I should be cleaning or sorting or something productive, but all I want to do is sit around and cuddle and play with Lucy! I guess that's productive enough, if you look at it as savoring my final months with her as an "only," right?

We're going to see the Nutcracker tomorrow with my aunt's homeschool group and I hope Lucy will actually sit through it (she adores my aunt and cousins, so that should help!). Yesterday we got 4" of snow in the morning and it was completely gone by afternoon, but we went out to play in it at 8 am...Lucy was in heaven! She had a blast. Today the high is 51, lol. Crazy Buffalo weather.

I hit 26 weeks yesterday and realizing that we might have as little as 11 or 12 more weeks is really hitting me now! It sounds so much shorter to say 12 weeks than 3 months, lol. I don't know where November went, or October for that matter, so no matter how I phrase it, the time is just flying. Dh's birthday is the 14th, then Christmas, then BIL and his girlfriend are coming to visit for New Year's...and then it's the final countdown! I know anything can happen as far as gestation, lol (my mom's 1st was 2 weeks early, next was two weeks late), but I want to be ready with everything by 37 weeks just to be safe, and that's mid-February!
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Rachel Yes, I agree, Audrey kind of doesn’t work well with your last name. I do like it a lot. Our last name is a PITA…seriously. Knocking out all one-syllable names just really irks me with the boys names. I loved, loved, loved Rhys and Bryce!!

mommajb at not a big drinker…oh the things I miss right now. Only 22 more weeks You crack me up…of course it’s up to the group!! Why wouldn’t it be I should really get my mom on here since she makes all the decisions anyway (no sarcasm there!!)

Faliciagayle Oh that makes me feel sooo much better. I’m such a “planner” by nature that having this “unchecked” item on my list is driving me completely batty. You’re so much closer to the finish line than me though. So exciting!!

jeanine I think we’ll probably do the same. Once we find out the gender, we’ll narrow it down to two and then wait until we meet him/her. Usually I’m more decisive, but with DS there was no discussion. He was going to be a jr. and that was all there was to it – per DH. I didn’t realize how much stress that took off my plate

I have a monster headache today and that is really me. I found out some disturbing news about someone I work with today and it’s really upsetting me given the events surrounding poor Gia. One of my coworkers who is in the midst of a divorce (beginning stages) came home from a business trip to his son and to-be ex-wife at the airport and his son said something about tomorrow. When the dad didn’t know what he was talking about the son said he wasn’t sure he was allowed to tell him. He finally dragged it out of the kid that the mom packed up all their stuff while he was on the business trip and was leaving the next day to go back “home” to where her parents are (another state, mind you) the next day. Merry freakin’ Christmas, huh?? How losery is this woman??!! What is up with people ??!! I mean REALLY!!!!! The kicker is that he called the police to see if he could report it as a kidnapping and they won’t let him do anything until 24 hours has passed AFTER she takes him. Seriously?! The best part of all of it is that this woman, prior to him filing for separation, would just spontaneously pick up and disappear for a month or two at a time and not tell him where she was going, no advance notice, nothing and she’d just assume he was going to care for their son. He’s 10 years old – not a baby, but not self-sufficient either. I just don’t understand people anymore. Since when did children become weapons??!! I am really just baffled and angry – hurting so much for the little boy who doesn’t even fully understand what’s happening.

Ok, well rant over I just had to get that out there.

As for the name discussion…can I just say I hate picking girl names??!! I find boy names so much easier and I don’t know why. I feel like there’s so much pressure for a woman’s name to really say something about who she is, especially in a business world. I really wish sometimes my name was androgynous so people wouldn’t use gender as a basis for the way they approach me, you know? Boy names, on the other hand, are cake. DH thinks it’s a boy…everyone else says it’s a girl. I really don’t know! I know pregnancies can be SO different from one to another (I’m living proof of that!) and not mean anything about gender but if that’s any indicator then it is a girl This has been so backwards of last time. I do feel though that this group is a more open-minded forum than my very narrowly-minded family so I’m glad to hear all of your reactions and opinions

A little girl at Marty’s school was crying so hard this morning and clinging to her Daddy’s leg crying “Daddy! No! Daddy! No!”. It completely just broke my heart. Marty looked at her, me, then back to her. It was that look like “Mommy, what do we do?” Of course as soon as her dad walked out of the room she stopped and I ran down the hall after him to let him know. I know the feeling of being at your desk all day and wondering if they ever stopped being hysterical. It just makes my heart so warm to know my little guy was worried. He loves this little girl to pieces and talks about her constantly, so that might have something to do with it. Aah young love
post #11 of 152
happy december everyone!

we still haven't heard back about the house. it's a short sale, so it can take for ever before we hear if our offer as been accepted or not.

roisin was so excited to put up the tree last night. we had so much fun. she's been really good about being gentle with the ornaments too.

we've decided on a midwife for our birth and we should have our first appointment soon.
post #12 of 152
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Originally Posted by mommajb View Post
Well, mrsb, it seems we have settled on Audrey for a girl but the boy name is still up in the air. You did leave it up to us right? Didn't you say you have another ultrasound coming up soon? Given the situation with the names I am guessing it will be a boy.

ETA, over never mind. I read back over the thread and there doesn't seem to be as much consensus as I thought. bummer.
Well, since we have Mrsb's baby named, and Ishy went ahead and named hers without us, should we start on Alicia's? j/k, mostly.
post #13 of 152
I agree with Audrey. I'm the worst at naming babies, pets, etc. I change my mind frequently. The boy name for the next baby will be recycled from what we would have named Laine had she been a boy, my next girl name is another that I'll recycle from her list. All of my pets have either been kitty or dog because I can't name them, I guess you can't really apply that to kids

Better day today. Liam is still being a bit of a pistol but he fell asleep and stayed asleep in his own bed for a few hours last night. He still ended up in mine, though. I think the medication he was on for his cold was/is causing some nasty side-effects. He's still having tummy troubles but that seems to be improving. It did seem to give him a break and he seems to be sickness free now.

We are going to work on making a Christmas card for Andrew today since I'm sending out his Christmas package tomorrow, otherwise just a lazy day around the house because I promised we wouldn't leave the house today.
post #14 of 152
mrsb, for the record, i like grayson and january.
post #15 of 152
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Originally Posted by *jeanine* View Post
Well, since we have Mrsb's baby named, and Ishy went ahead and named hers without us, should we start on Alicia's? j/k, mostly.
Yeah! Of course, now I feel bad. Dang baby, naming herself this time around!
post #16 of 152
Didn't George Foreman name all his sons George?

Sil and bil were here over Thanksgiving. Neither have ever been married or have any children. Dh is the least eccentric of the three and even he is out there. Anyway, Saturday morning we were all in the kitchen having coffee and they begin using the magnetic letters to name my future children. I was so confused: Don't they think five is enough? How much are they going to pay me? I don't remember getting pregnant or giving away naming rights!

Alicia, are you giving us a list to choose from or is it up to us to dream something up?

Linsay, Do you expect to hear about the house before January or do you have no idea? I don't know how short sales work.

I had a friend over for lunch and her four children are loud. My five children are loud. Nine children in my small home is too much. It is 40F and rainy so I couldn't make them go outside. I want to read a book and nap.
post #17 of 152
we talked about having a lottery.

just lost my train of thought. i was nak'ing, big kids were outside with Aunt. i hear dd1 screaming, which is a rather common occurrence, but then i see ds hauling butt to the house. PANIC! I open the slider to see what's going on, Aunt doesn't know, ds gets inside and says "DD1 broke an egg."
seriously?!?! we thought there was an actual problem. the grown ups need some tequila now. and the kids need a refresher course in the "blood fire rule".

i'll tell you about the baby naming lottery later, although you can probably figure it out. consider it a fund-raiser.
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Now I feel like a giant idiot. I looked in Liam's mouth tonight and apparently one of the 2 years that I had assumed had come in completely had not, there is a corner of it left and it's swollen. That would explain the crazy behavior. He hasn't really napped the last few days either, but yesterday he fell asleep on the couch, woke for a bit, and slept until after 4pm. No nap today though. Hopefully once this tooth is in completely he'll be back to normal.

at the naming lottery. The kitty thing didn't really apply to my last two cats, but I didn't name them. I still called them both kitty, though.

I'm off to unpack more never-ending boxes and finish up my Christmas shopping for Miss Laine!
post #19 of 152
Thread Starter 
Lindsay for finding your midwife! So exciting

Jeanine Don’t forget about Lindsay too We’ve got lots of babies to name!! Love the “blood fire rule” – SO true!! DS was screaming bloody murder the other day and I came to the “rescue” of a matchbox car stuck under the couch Seriously!

Katie I hope Liam’s nights improve and his health too. I’m glad he’s mostly sickness free. Sorry to hear about his tooth – hope it’s a fast one!!

Rachel I wish mine would name itself…and decorate it’s bedroom, and go through the old baby clothes…geez, I mean I ask so little. I’m the one doing all the “cooking” for 9 months…I mean really!

Mommajb Oh geez…don’t you love when people make those decisions for you! I can’t imagine having another one after this one (yes, I said that after Marty too) so I can understand why after 5 you might be ready to say done.

Well I’m completely exhausted AND on my own tonight. DH has a dinner for work and while I know he doesn’t see that as exciting because he won’t get home until late, from my point of view, he’s out with grown ups, at a fancy NYC restaurant, getting a free, hot meal that he didn’t have to cook or clean up after, and he’s drinking. We won’t even address the quiet limo ride home. I’m just out of sympathy – sorry!!

DS scared the bejeezus out of me tonight. He was in the tub and I was drying him off when I noticed welts all over his pelvic area. I screamed and went “Oh my God!! What is that!!” Completely calm and collected like I should be NOT. Turns out someone didn’t rinse all the soap off and a simple wipe with the towel, they “welts” disappeared. SHeesh…maybe I should wear my glasses from time to time Mistaking bubbles for welts…I’m totally losing it!!
post #20 of 152
so, you have people buy tickets - not cheap, like $20 or $50 or $100 a ticket, and then you draw the winning ticket and that person gets naming rights.
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