January Babylicious March Thread - Page 9

[Malama]

hey Andy- I think i was WAY overexaggerating that I'm not getting adult interaction. It's just that I'm getting a lot of BABY interaction! We've actually had guests from out of town or friends over almost every day for weeks, it seems. It's nice, but I'm also exhausted from staying up late chatting, instead of going to bed with my baby! i think we're house guest free until the beginning of april, when my brother comes (actually we're going to vacation with him on the other side of the island).
also with a baby, I am often only half-tuned into the conversations. yk? Ican't ignore him because the talk is good!

sounds like a lot of hugs need to go around this am! remember that this stuff usually passes! and sounds like some dhs need a kick in the butt!!

I wannaspend the day in bec (dh will take sil hiking and i don't wanna go), but we're having our house painted (outside)- we'll see if it's conducive. yesterday Luka was HATING the car. ugh.

[paquerette]

Mornin mamas!

So today and yesterday, she's been cranky and exhausted again within 15 minutes of waking. Yesterday she wouldn't nap very long and I pretty much spent all day getting her back to sleep (my mom was here too, so I got some breaks). Today we went back to bed and slept until 11! And she was still cranky after we got up. : Seems to be content at the moment to sit on me and watch me type, so I'm gonna do it!

Ooh, fellow SCAdians! We almost took Bea to her first event Saturday, but the weather was yucky and we were tired. And I never finished her tunic. I'll post pics when I do, because there's nothing cuter than kids in historical garb. For all you ladies who enjoy the renfaire but don't know what I'm talking about, it's a historical recreation group almost completely unlike renfaires. Check out sca.org if you're interested, you'll either love it or hate it.

Someday, I'll get a chance to do more than just skim this thread. I feel like I'm missing a lot of the conversation because I can't remember what I read yesterday or two days ago.

[LEAW]

Well dh evidently now understands why I was angry enough to thwack him last night (why must they be so dense??!!!?!) and is trying to make up for it. He's awfully cute about it, brought me breakfast, changed baby a bunch of times, actually sorted the mail and tossed the junk, offered to make lunch (we have no food) and is going to the grocery on the way home from his meeting today. But I'm still mad, he should know better!

And poor Lauren, she slept until 7 this morning, is only nursing for 5-10 min at a time, and falling asleep. I will admit it's nice to have her sleeping, but not nice that she's sick, and it's not that I can get anything done, at best I can sit up in bed and let her face smoosh into my thigh instead of my arm or breast so that she stays asleep. Nothing like a HN kid being superHN while sick.

For me this has been one bizarre cold. Started with chills on Friday, took until Sunday to get itchy sinus and sore throat, today I'm a little congested, but not bad, it's just annoying enough to make you feel really crappy but not enough to actually really be sick enough to want to stay in bed. Come hell or high water, I will go to IKEA on Thursday! Lauren can hang in the car seat and sling, sleep the day away, and I'll go buy her a wardrobe, and maybe a kitchen table.

I forget who asked about the house construction - the living room is actually finished (except for the floors) and we're in need of some grout and trim in the bathroom, nursery is done, we haven't started our room yet (we can sleep in the nursery when we do, there is a trundle bed in there) and the kitchen/dining room is the current big mess. Of course we have a few small messes too (back porch rail fell down in the fall, something under the basement is leaking, dh built a computer lab in the basement that never got finished, etc.)... I got a little hammer happy when we put the walls up in the bathroom and took out the wall between the kitchen and dining room. The difference is wonderful, but it's a lot of work to keep cleaning up and patch the 2 rooms together, nevermind the lack of cabinets and counter space we have now.

Dipes in the wash, the laundry is the only thing I've been consistent about. And I'm so ready to buy some wool.

Lisa

[jessitron]

Lisa, so sorry you're sick! Glad to hear that DH is contrite. Maybe you should forgive him, since he probably wanted wine and conversation almost as much as you do now.
Your house sounds crazy - I'd go nuts. But it'll be great when you get it finished, right?

Az, s it sounds pretty rough at your house. Have you told DH that you need more attention? I hope it gets better soon.

Everything is great here. Today I got to shower with DH for a few minutes, wow! And later had a nap, and a bath. MIL is wonderful. She just brought me a banana and juice, and the dirty laundry keeps disappearing and reappearing, clean and folded (wrong, but who's picky). I am LOVING this week.

The faucet - DH got as far as getting the old faucet mostly off. When he couldn't figure out how to get a particular nut off, he stopped. This worked well; the plumber picked up where he left off and got the new faucet in. It is great! We finally have enough water pressure to get the dishes clean.

Andy, you sound a little busy. Don't stress about these things - if the videos are a week late, that's pretty minor. Nobody's going to die from that. Go stare at your baby. That makes it all better for me.

[3_opihi]

Oh mamas, my day sucked so bad yesterday. Here's basically how it went:


Tried to go to the PO in town, but Violet started screaming hysterically to the point of choking. So we ended up sitting in the parking lot of Burger King for an hour while she calmed down. Picked up kobe from school, FINALLY made it to PO. Of course, at this point I realized that my ATM card was missing from my pocket. So, I'm desperately trying to wade through all the piles of school art projects, sandals, broken toys, beach buckets, bills (don't ask) cookie crumbs and miscellaneous other crap that resides in our van, while on the phone with dh who is very PO'd that I lost our debit card yet again...Finally I find it - in of all places, MY WALLET Dear God, what the heck could it be doing in there? I ended up leaving the post ofice because the line was going out the door and around the block practically...

I get home, gotta change diapers x2. While I'm upstairs getting Violet, Makai has managed to draw all over himself, including his face with permanent marker. I set Violet down and she pees on the newly washed sheets...My house is a pit, my car is a pit. I haven't even brushed my teeth or hair yet today. The kids are completely insane...Ievery time I turn around they are playing these dumb shooting/karate chop your brother games. I still need to go grocery shopping for dinner, but I'm dreading putting Violet back into the car. And this is just the beginning...the list just goes on and on and on.

so here I am sitting on the computer. I'm feeling really overwhelmed by all of this, and wish I could just bury my head in a pillow and scream. really, I don't know whether to laugh or cry, or both?

(And here, my 5yo is asking me for a cup of coffee. WTF?!?!? )

It only got better from that point. My computer crashed. With all of our non-backed up digital pictures on it. So now I have to go beg one of my mom's grad students/slaves to boot the hard drive from another source so I can get everything off of it. I HATE this laptop, the screen is really dim, and its hard to read - so I might not be posting much for awhile.

I was up until the wee hours of the morn scrubbing our upstairs to the bone, because I found a CENTIPEDE in our shower. I think it came in because it was so cold yesterday (like, down in the 60's) and it wanted to be warm. However, this is completely scary -- if you haven't seen one it looks like this Anyways, so I had to go through every stack of paper, pile of clothing, blankets, stuffed animals ect..to make sure there weren't anymore little stowaways, because if one of the keikis got stung I would feel awful and it would probably warrant a trip to the ER in the middle of the night. However, my house is now sparkling clean, which is sort of nice.

Of course, dh slept peacefully through the whole thing, grrr...this seems to be his MO as of late and I'm soooo not digging it

I too, forgot whatelse I was going to write. My brain is pea soup. Hugs all around to those who need them. Our living room gets redone this week. That will be exciting, but its alot of work and I know dh isn't going to help. Umm, oh, for those whose babes are hating the car - yesterday on our little adventure I discovered that Violet will sleep peacefully through th stoplights instead of waking up, if I blast a static radio station, I don't know which is worse, the static or the screaming - probably the screaming - but it works..

Oh, gotta go. Kobe just poured root beer all over the floor. At least he's cleaning it up himself.

Pam - love the ceremony. Dha nd I had a handfasting when we got married and it was similar to that, the preistess also did a baby blessing for Kobe. It was awesome. Can't go into it right now - should be cleaning root beer.

Andy- we have one of those wee woolie covers. They are adorab;e and they work great.

Phew! Aloha!!

[Malama]

Instead of sending individual hugs to all who need them- here it is

Ann- wow. I'm so sorry you had such a crappy day! None of the stuff soudns out of the ordinary for youg kids, but sorry it all happened at once! And you are too good with the centipede- cleaning everything. I'm so lazy- woulda looked around a little and then given up (last time I was stung was in bed and I never found it, eventhough I took apart the bed). I hope it warmed up there. it was freezing here yesterday too, but bright and sunny today.
Did you ever try a paci for the car for Violet? We've had some success for it for Luka, but only if someone is sitting next to him, basically shoving it in there. he is not really interested, but will suck and sleep if we're persistent. After having a bad car day for him yesterday, I decided NO cars today.

so my whole family is hiking at the volcano and my baby is FINALLY asleep. for some reason today he was waking up within 10 minutes of falling asleep and just exahsuted and crying. Finally swaddled him and we slept together and now he's still there in bed. our house is being painted and the painters are listening to country music outside : (my apologies to anyone who likes country- it's NOT my cuppa tea).
my sil is still here, and I hope she goes home with favorable things to say. part of me is worried she's gonna go back and tell my MIL how icky it is here- houses in hawaii can be a little, well, icky (you know bugs and stuff in the tropics). Also she's sleeping in Noam;s room and I looked in there and it's just a disaster- every surface covered in legos and the closet full of baby clothes (where I've been storing them)- just the usual house of regular people with kids in HI.
anyhow, I'm rambling because I CAN....because I have my hands and whole body free at this minute....and I'm NOT eating, what's up with that? better hit the kitchen!

[Pam_and_Abigail]

Oh, Andy, I wanted to cry when I read your post! It sounds like you are really stressed, and I can feel for that!
And yikes that centipede was scary looking! Reminds me that, while I envy you two in Hawaii for going to the beach all the time, that I'm usually glad to live in a place so cold that we have very few harmful insects or animals.
I have a hard time actually posting, but I do try to make a point of reading all the posts, even if I can't remember what I read.
I started seeing a councellor for my personal/mental problems, and finally made it to a LLL meetings for the first time in 4 months.

Wish I could write more, but the tacos are ready and I haven't had them since friday!!

[mamabeca]

Hey ladies - whew! Sounds like we are all battling the mean nasties...dh's that don't get it (mine is out drinking with the buddies right now!), colds, tiredness, inlaws, nasty insects (IN YOUR BED?!!!? Shower is bad enough!!!). Orin has had so many of the same issues that are popping up here today - cranky right after waking up (today after he woke up, just after my last post I think, when I thought he might still be hungry, he went back to sleep! Then he was up most of the afternoon while I ran errands. He only slept cat-nappy for a bit, until 6pm (from 1pm) That's a long time for him, he usually needs more sleep after 2 hrs. Well, I got my matza balls made, and the soup was great. My friend that usually shares tuesday soup with me was sick, so I dropped it off at her place and found out today was the last day to reg. for girl scout camp, which dd is REALLY wanting to do. So I rushed over there and registered her (actually that was Ori's worst moments, cried pretty much the whole time I was there, ugh) then bought a new king sized comforter for the new bed and new sheets too because it's dual adjustable and we need twin longs, which are kind of tougher to find than I expected - not THAT tough, but not normal at Wal-mart kind of thing. anyway, BBand B had a huge sheet sale, so we got good sheets very reasonably (and didn't have to buy extra top sheets, which we don't need). That was a big success, actually! Then drove over to get dd at school (ugly line-up, but we scooted in to the lot and I got a big kid to sit in the car with Ori while I ran in to get dd) and off to the chiro who thinks dd has a pretty serious problem and should go back to the regular doctor for more x-rays etc. ugh ugh ugh!!! Then to dinner at Friendly's (no comment) and then to Dance class. By the time we got home, Ori was howling but he was alert and happy most of the time we were with dd. Now everyone is asleep and I'm going to go watch a movie and pop some popcorn.

Pam - hope the tacos were good! Lisa - oooooh, big hugs hon. I'm sorry you are both so sick. How come dh isn't!? That would be karmic, no?! I am loving the wool. The only prob. we have is ori's legs are too skinny. Anyone have any ideas how to make the legs a bit tighter on wool???

Az - you are strong, girl! Hang in there. Those neighbors have some serious karma coming back to them... no worries there, they'll feel it! Who knows why people are so retarded about that kind of thing...just don't care maybe, or not aware??? Dh has his own theories about this kind of thing (esp. bad drivers who don't look for other drivers on the road - one of his favorite topics!), but I like to think people are good at heart and just forget that they aren't alone on the planet today... sigh

Karen - it's good to have so many visitors, they do keep the ooglie booglies away and make you clean up a little once in a while, and also good company sometimes! But also nice to have your own house back. Noam's room sounds like a great space for a little boy!

Oop, dh just walked in, see ya!

[Proudmom]

Just a quick note... HUGE s to everyone. Admittedly I enjoy reading them, because I have those days and it makes me feel less alone. Remember this too shall pass...

I left dd in the crib last night until she woke up to eat. It was rather amazing that she slept. She does sleep alone the first couple hours of the evening, but to just fall asleep without being held or nursed. Who is this kid

Got huge smiles today. We had been getting little ones, but today she had whole mouth/face grins. It was awesome.

Busy week with meetings/appointments/etc. I get my tooth fixed Thursday. I am HOPING it will just be a filling....fingers crossed.

Heather

[LEAW]

Andy. could you straight stitch a yarn through the leg bands and tie it snugger? Like a waistband for his little legs?

Ugh I feel better but /lauren sounds like a dragon. We've done lots of steam and nose drops, but it just isn't enough.

Back later,
Lisa

[Azreial]

Ann that sounds like quite the day, poor mama. And I don't think I've brushed my hair in days : I've been washing it but I never seem to make it to that next step.

Sounds like just about all of us have been having a rough couple of days.

My day got better though, I went and laid down around 5 and dh made dinner and let me sleep for a bit, while he keep Elizabeth busy. He came up and got me when she was hungry after they finished dinner. Then after I ate and she started fussing again he took her for a forever ride to get her good and asleep. Then he kept her with him down stairs until she woke up, while I was upstairs sleeping. I really don't know what I would do with out him.

I'm feeling "island fever" I need to get out of this city. I think I'm going to take nice long drive to do a pointless errand today

[Azreial]

Oh here are some new photos the old ones are in there too

[Malama]

Az- the pics are so sweet! I love the kids with the dogs on the floor with the sunlight streaming in. you've got quite the bunch there!

I am so lame. We stayed up til midnight watching Sex and the City. We don't have TV and just discovered this show (which requires no brains to watch- perfect for me). GB came home from the library with 2 seasons worth, so we have to power watch them. That meant 7 episodes last night- yeah, 7! SO am I tired. ugh.
We're gonna drive to the other side of the island to go to the beach too. Sil's last day is today and we have to take her to the fantastic beaches there. hopefully it'll be warm enough to take Luka in. It's been cooler on this side of the island recently.
Of course I'm on my last few diapers too, so i gotta get them washed up. I'm tired.

Heather- I HOPE for you your tooth is just a filling. I've had 3 appts since Luka was born- one to fix the filling, at which time he determined I needed a root canal. The root canal, and then the crown prep (which was the worst). I gotta go back for the crown now too. UGH!

Yeah Pam for getting to work on your issues now. It's hard to have problems when you have little ones.... or i should say it's easy to HAVE them, just hard to deal with them!

Andy- slow down mama!!! lol!

oooh, baby looks like he might poop- it's been a coupla days. These spaced out bms make for simpler diaper changes, I guess.

[LEAW]

We're still pluggin along at 4-5 poops a day, oh how nice spacing would be!

Do any of you know anything about reflux and how it differs from normal spitup? I'm pretty sure the quantity/frequency isn't normal, but Lauren is mostly happy and gaining too. Sometimes she pops off and cries like mad when eating and frequenly she will dump an ounce or two back on me, and she's always spitting up, even 2 hours after eating.

[Azreial]

Lisa I think the reflux is painful and the baby would be crying tons. DS was a terrible spitter I was convinced that he was getting nothing at all to eat. He'd soak through several bibs and at least one outfit change a day. He was getting pleanty to eat and grew just fine. So as long as she doesn't seem in pain and is gaining weight, just stock up on bibs and keep a pre-fold close by, and never go anywhere without a change of clothes. With ds keeping him upright as much as possible helped too.

Elizabeth sometimes pops off and screams but with her its almost always gas.

Oh and ds would spit up any time of the day it didn't matter if he'd eaten 4 minutes ago or 4 hours ago

[3_opihi]

As strange as it sounds, that amount of spitting up is fairly normal. It can look like they are spitting up cups and cups of milk, but really its not. Usually, reflux is accompanied by colic, spitting up, sceraming while stiff as a board, stuff like that.

I'm guessing, from what you're describing, is that you might have an overactive letdown- oversupply issue. Sounds like she might be gulping and needing to burp - hence the popping on ad off. The spitting up is probably from overeating, or milk being trapped on top of an air bubble.

Karen - I've got a midwife question for you, since you see lots of hapa babies. Violet has what looks like a dark grey bruise at the top of her tailbone, inside her crack. I know its not a bruise, since its been there since birth. Do you think its one of those birthmark spots? I can't remember what they are called, but I remember reading somewhere that dark skinned babies can have them. My boys were much fairer than she was...

[Human_Being]

Hi, all...
I'm gonna make an attempt at jumping back in. I read and then baby calls,plus last time I posted here I made a long post and wasn''t signed in so the board wouldn't accept it and then erased it before I gfot back on. So I am occassionally reading along. Also putting pictures up on the blog for the far away relatives eats my computer tiime, so I haven't been around here as much. And i am totally ignoring my e-mail lists.

Anyway, nice to read what you are all up to and seeing baby pics. Loved the chubbed cheek Violet a ways back!

I have been still in recovery mode- no big physical anything for me yet, let me vent the ways it sucked. The c-section thing really threw me for a loop. My back was out so bad I couldn't really pick the baby up well. I would set her on a chair and stare at her thinking dang, how do I get her up?! And forget the floor. And we also have a low bed, so that was a big challenge getting her out of it in the morning. By three weeks I was only getting worse and was thinking I needed physical therapy. I went to my trsuty accupuncturist, and she did my pulses and gave the "WOW,you're messed up" look and diagnosis. I was so grateful someone had some advice and idea of what was wrong. She called it deficient kidney energy, and said it was casue I was wiped by the long labor and c-section. It is an internal energy problem casuing the back pain, and can be I fixed with herbs and accupuncture . Good. I was seriously feeling like a disabled person unable to bend cause of my back, and can't reeach cause the stupid IV's caused nerve damage in my arms that casues firey shooting pains up my biceps and left big numb spots on my wrists. Argh. PLus, I can't life the legs casue the sciatic nerve is also screwed up as part of the back thing. Trying to get underwear on, which requires bending and reaching or leg lifting, has been a tragic-comedy. So after weeks of feeling like I couldn't do the most basic stuff and fearful I never would, i think I am finally getting better. I sat around commiserating with my 80 year old grandma who had back surgury adn my 60 year old mom that had a hip replacement, and was all to in the know about their complaints. I am only 30, geesh! So she's working on the kidney energy, and general vitality (my hemoglobin went to 7.7 in surgury so I am wiped), and then she'll work on reestablishing the flow where the meridians were cut in surgury. Anyhow, I am having definate impovement. I have a chair set up in the house where me and Iris sit all day. Husband sets it up with pitchers of water, straws, snacks, the phone and the remote control before he leaves for work. He is being awesome, he is doing all diaper wash (i haven't done it once yet) and cleans the house every moring before work- an leaves my little station all set up for when we wake. Very good. And I still have 3 more days of meal delivery coming to us- that has bee ngreat, except that I had a week I got three shepards pies, which I'm not into anyway!

SO 3 ophis, I love Louise Haye, too. All this trauma has me thinking I need to find my book- low back is about support. I have lots of support, but right before birth had some money isssues with DH, and it is admittedly hard to be unable to do much and rely on others to supprt me.

But whats great is the baby- Iris hasn't had a single inconsolable crying spell, and she is now a month old. She goes to bed at 10, waked to poop at 3 (and hubby gets her and changes her, since I ccan't get out of bed easily) and then sher nurses a snack's worth, then goes back to sleep. Hubby changes her when he goes to work about 7 am, and then she sleeps with me till 10 or 12, and we wake and nurse and change. So we are sleeping 10-12 hours. What a blessing, especially since I am in bad shape. I have not one a single bad night, or even a little lack of sleep- knock on wood.

Anyway, she is now a month old, and can be seen on the blog- http://dahlborg.blogs.com/baby_2005/

We are growing out of diapers, too. My favorite is the kissaluvs- Karen asked a while back about them, and they are not fleece- they are 90% cotton and 10% polyester. They have a fleecy texture. I need size 1's, I missed a big lot a while ago on e-bay. I spent so much on itsy-bitsy diaper we grew out of so fast, I want to get something that will last so I am afraid to commit.

I am surprised you all like the pocket diapers- I had one happy heiny and hated it. Maybe the FB are better? I just can't get into the pocket idea.

And Welcome Paq and Tiger.
Thanks P&A for the Stawhawk low down on the ceremony. We'll do something for Iris at Unity church, a baptism like thing. It is "metaphysical christianity" and right up my alley. I like the idea of having a "coming out" ceremoniy for the baby. Kudos on not putting her down on the ground yet Pam, I have read that and thinki t is sweet. My family is afraid I'll never put the bbay down and make her impossible to baby sit for. So I tease them about that, that in some cultures babies never touch the ground, so be grateful I have at least put her down a bit.

Oh, on the baptism conversation someone mentioned the weird praying dolls- If your praying dolls have a convention, let me send the demonic sounding Precious Moments talking doll my aunt gave me- she says some sweet prayer, but sounds like Chucky the possesssed toy. DH rudely announced that when we opened it in front of my aunt. Oops.

Also funny was the Stevie wONDER- yeah my baby does that too. Its when she's over tired, or my nipple is a bit flat.

Anyhow, my baby is waking and tooting, time to check the diaper. I was gonna do EC but have not been mobile enough. I hope I can get it when I feel better. DH is good with it, if she hasn't gone at the 3 am poop or his morning change, he "pssss"'s at her and gets her to go. Glad he has been such a great help.

Hope you are feeling better, Lisa and who ever had strep- it escapes me now!

Good luck Will, I hope we get an update from your husband afterwards Nicole. Lots of good thoughts for you all.

And on clothes- my chubby prepregnant clothes fit, not the regular ones. I actually gained three pounds in the lkast two weeks, after almost being at my prepregnant weight. I have to rethink having chocolate in the snack section of my little chair set up I am existing in!

Anyway, baby wakes, Heidi (who forgot where spell check is, sorry!)

[mamabeca]

WOW! Welcome back Heidi!!! What an amazing journey you are on. Your baby is GORGEOUS! She must really be the light of your lives! No wonder dh is being so nice to you...probably wants more of those beautiful little things around his house ;-)! It surely does sound like a nightmare of recovery, though. I'm SO sorry. You do sound like you have some coping strategies, which will help your sanity, if not your back. I do know back pain, and sympathize... hang in there! It can only get better.

Az - E. is just angelic! I too love the C+E+L shot! Very cool. I love that he is so gentle toward her; at least in this picture! I'm glad you got some sleep. If we weren't having relatives in from Canada, I'd say drive over our way! Just a different pile of snow, of course, but at least we'd have company at 6am! Noone else here has any desire to keep us company. This morning I caved and put on Einstein Motzart and slept on the couch. He actually WATCHED it for 20 min.! It was a great nap for me, too. I actually felt human after. sigh.

I'm actually feeling quite overwhelmed right now. the house is a total wreck (not just our usual one, etiher. The sink is leaking, the car is broken, the dog is puking, the dog hair is thick and choking us out of our home. the dust is so thick in places it's like a whole nother surface! It doesn't even puff when someone puts stuff on it. ugh), the reuseabums gal hates me because I'm upset that the soakers didn't show, my best friend's daughter's b-day party is too far for us to get to in a day with the baby (5 hrs.), I lost the to do list for the brownie troop (luckily another mom took notes and saved my butt, but...), I have piles falling over and boxes filled with crap that people have dumped on us that I will never use and I can't bear to just throw it out and I don't want to go to the trouble of learning how to ebay or recycle on line or anything... it's all feeling very BIG and I just want to go back to where I could snuggle the little man in bed and have someone bring me some orange juice. breathe.

Thanks.

It sounds like everyone is starting to heal up. When I went a-walking today, it seemed like the first vestiges of spring were out - birds chirping, woodpeckers knocking their heads against the trees (duh!), there was even some green grass visible! I can't wait to see if the daffies I planted come up!

Must go and find the b'day present I bought for Friday and have since LOST !!!??? I am really going a little nuts... How do you cope??? What do you do when you feel this way???

[Azreial]

Andy I wouldn't be keeping you company at 6am either we're usually sleeping then. I don't know who you were saying looks gentel with the baby but both of them are. ds loves to give her kisses and have her hold his finger and Louie s always curling up with her and trying to calm her down, and amazingly succedes sometimes. Get dd to bring you oj in bed. DS is great for stuff like that. She gets a be a helper and you get pampered.

Heidi it seems like you're having a hard time with you recovery. i'm glad to hear that your dh is being a big help but i wish you were feeling better. I hate the 2 happy heineys that we have too. i'm afraid of poo leaking out the sides and pulling the pee soaked insert out is just yuck!.

DH is watching ripley's and they have conjoined twins who are joined at the head on and he wants to know what happens when one dies (we need a shiver smilie) and I'm all creeped out

[Killick]

Heidi - Welcome back. I am sending happy healing vibes your way. I am so sorry that you have had such a hard time with healing. On the upside, being trapped in the chair has given you tons of time to bond with your gorgeous baby!

Andy - I had an I'm totally overwhelmed moment on Monday. With both kids still screaming in the car, and dd entering the neever ending whiny mode, I felt totally frazzled. DH and I talked about it, and we decided, rather he ordered, that I take some time for myself. Now, when he comes home, he takes both kids and I get to do something by myself for an hour. He has had to force me to do it though, since I am far more likely to let myself go in order to do something for my kids. So, I recommend either a super hot shower, exercise or shopping. Then, tackle the dusting, one room at a time, even it takes several days.

Since I work for state government, and our salaries are paid by tax payers, we don't get bonuses. Instead, we get an event called the annual employee recognition event. The employees contribtue money to this event all year long through fundraisers. Today's theme was the 50's. Will was quite the dashing little man in his white onsie and rolled up jeans. I even managed to get into my mom's poodle skirt. How they actually wore those things all day is beyond me. They are so totally hot!

Well, better go. Gonna watch survivor and then get to bed. We watched "The Incredibles" tonight. Such a great movie. Have a good night!