Yay! It's May for the 3 year old tribe! - Page 7

[eilonwy]

Leah, BeanBean and BooBah were introduced to ranch dressing by the IL's-- they absolutely adore the stuff. I've never been a big fan of salad dressings, left to my own devices I might have a bit of fat free italian every now and then.

They love veggies, though. They've really got great appetites. Last night I made dinner for my nieces and it turns out that they're much pickier and stranger than I knew. They eat ketchup on *something* at every meal, and BizzyBug refused, of all things, macaroni and cheese. They also ate about twice as much food as I was expecting them to eat. I've finally gotten to the point where I can make a meal for the kids, me, and Mike without having tons of leftovers, but I needed a whole different set of expectations for the girls.

You know something funny? My first child is in this group, my oldest. When it comes to three year olds, I'm learning right along with everyone else. In Bella's group, I feel like an old person, because Bella is my third child. I've already been through all this new baby stuff, I've done it all, I'm one of the experienced parents instead of a novice. It feels so strange to me, to have people responding to some of my posts the way that we all respond to Casina!

[hjohnson]

Leah


I'd like to know what an average days food in-take is for your 3 year old.

your ds's weight/height: (31lbs- 38 inches) Chris is 38 inches and 32 pounds

average breakfast: 1 frozen waffle and 1 glass of milk

average lunch: 6 chicken nuggets -or- whole pb&j -or- a corndog, and 1/4 cup carrot chips, a banana, or 1/4 cup of strawberries.

average dinner:Lately he has been not interested in eating dinner. He will eat a few bites of whatever we are eating and that's it.

snacks thru out?: cheerios, goldfish crackers, cheese stick, or some kind of fruit

**also, are there days when your ds does not eat at all? No

[DecemberSun]

Carrie, it was hotter than heck here today, like 103. Crazy hot!

Rynna, that is funny.

We had the visit today with Julianna's grandma. I think I almost had an anxiety attack on the way there but now, after the fact, I actually feel much better. Julianna had a fun time with her sister, brother, and uncle (10, 6, and 9). She was spinning around in an office chair and having a blast, and of course when it was time to go she didn't want to, so she said "I wanna stay here! I wanna go with Gramma Angie!", which thoroughly pissed DH off when I told him about it. But I actually loved that she said it because I know that all the talking we've been doing with her has made an impression, and she feels comfortable to really like these people. It made me feel better to know that she will be ok, even though it will be hard for ME. DH just needs to get into reality and realize that this IS happening and he has to deal with it and not make it worse by being angry and immature. Ugh. The whole situation sucks obviously, but what can you do, YK?

[DecemberSun]

I have been really really impatient with the kids lately. So of course that makes them act out more. : I need to bake some more sugar cookies or something.

I think it would help if I actually had a day off every now and then! I'm not asking for much, just like maybe one day a week where I know I can get a break, YK? DH is really no help because when I do leave the kids with him I come home to a disaster area, and *if* the kids ate it was pure junk food, and none of the regular housework gets done so I have to play catch up AND deal with kids who are frazzled and out of sync. So it's usually more trouble than it's worth... Dh actually made the comment the other day that I should start going to Curves every morning again. I almost killed him!!! (The reason I stopped going was because of him not wanting to watch the kids!) So I've been doing the Windsor Pilates 20-minute workout video and I really like the results. Of course, I'm only doing it for *ME*.

Kaylee has an attitude today, so I better go...

[abranger]

here you guys are. I stoppped getting notified about new postings:

i'll catch up and come back to post

amy

[punkprincessmama]

mamas,

nak here... leah, we won't be able to go out there this summer, but it's for good reason! I'm sorry

dh met a guy and they really hit it off, he has a tree trimming business and is teaching dh. It is a good situation for all involved, we commited to stay here until the end of June though, so we will need to head out to Va straight away, instead of having time for detours

more when i have two hands!

[DecemberSun]

I understand, punk. It's too damn hot here now until October anyway. I'm holed up in my air conditioned living room.

My stupid van keeps dying (probly a carburater problem), and the A/C only works if it's under 95 outside, which does me no good here in the desert where it'll get up to 115 in a month or two. So I will probably sell Vanna White for cheap to someone who can fix her up and give her a good home. Not exactly sure how I'm gonna get a new van since I already have a loan on the Yukon and we need it to pull the boat, but oh well...

I'm rambling 'cause I'm bored!

[tea olive]

hey y'all. we're back from berkeley and i'm trying to save the feeling in me.....tho i guess i should unpack since it's after two days!

[tea olive]

oh no! rynna, you found out i'm not wise after all!
it's amazing how much experience a mamma gets. i just wonder how i squandered my time as a supposed adult before then.

leah, i'm glad the visit went okay. and you can vent all you want, it doesn't bring me down and you need it. for me this is the best place for more open venting....

diet stuff lata.

[abranger]

Casina- How was the trip? Can't wait to hear. Did you make it Chez Panise? Berkeley Bowl?

I am leaving tomorrow for my SF weekend BY MYSELF! Wish me luck I am starting to stress about leaving GA.

Amy

[**guest**]

Oh how I long for a vacation. I'd take ds with me but it would be so very nice to go someplace NICE and relaxing.

Things have been quite trying this month. Haven't even checked this thread in awhile.

Hope you all have a nice weekend.
Liz

[hjohnson]

Two days ago, I started homeschooling with Christopher and he is loving it!!!! He doesn't want to go back to school which is fine with me. Daddy would like him to go to public school for K-12 but we shall see.

I have a sore nose thanks to the fact that I fainted last night. I either smacked the wall or the floor on the way down. It is still sore this morning.

[**guest**]

Yikes Heather...Why'd ya faint?! How scary? Was there another adult around when you fainted? Hope you are ok.
Is there any chance that your nose is broken?

Hugs to you,
Liz

[punkprincessmama]

Hey mamas, how ya'll doing? Sorry to hear about you fainting Heather, that must have been scary. Hope you are okay. And that is awesome about homeschooling with Christopher

Casina, can't wait to hear about your vacation!

Have fun Amy!! I'm sure it will be nice to have some time to yourself, and you will come back refreshed and recharged for Georgia.

Things are feeling pretty surreal here, but the nice thing is how well I'm dealing with it all. I'm pretty proud of myself, which in a way feels funny, but oh well.

Have ya'll heard about the Unschooling conference in Irving, Tx Labor day weekend? It looks like a blast! We are thinking about attending. I lost the link but I have to find it if we decide to go! So when I do I will post it here if ya'll are interested.

[tea olive]

what do you wanna hear? we want to live there and our little house equivalent is worth a million dollars. i expected it to be cool, but what we really found was that it was comfortable. it felt like we belonged there. we hit berkeley bowl, no chez panisse or sf. ended up hanging with friends most of the time. we stayed two blocks from shattuck a big street with amenities at a b&b with a beautiful garden, two blocks from our friends, walking distance from campus. even my kids didn't want to leave and had their own mourning fits, which surprised me. no one told me it was full of flowers and disgustingly large dinner plate size roses. we spent the last day driving hiking through a redwood park and then walked through a valley with wild elk to the point reyes national seashore which was about an hour and half away. i cried i had never seen anything so beautiful and had no idea anything existed in this country. i got sick of myself being so responsible and it was a hard adjustment for my dh to be around us all the time. it was a fantastic experience for all of us.

ruby is almost 41 inches and 30 lbs. she eats tons though she is sickly again and i can't actually report what it all is right now. there's never a day they do not eat anything - if anything, they pathologically masticate and think they are hungry when they are tired. i'm think in general that age 3 seems like a big drop in eating compared to toddling. my interpretation of the growth charts it loose - they are based on non breastfed, non whole food or vegan vegetarian children and the american population is just so diverse.

i think i can say she has had the whooping cough all this time. reed has had a sprained ankle all this time as well, so it made traveling interesting.

her new big request is "mommy! nail file" and she cleans her nails. one of her daily games now is sharpening pencils with the "shavener" and pulling lil bits of stuffing from her animals and mixing the shavings and marking the stuffing with lead in a container. go figure.

[eilonwy]

did you know that the WHO recently published growth charts which are based on breastfed babies?

[DecemberSun]

Hi mamas, no one's been posting lately...

I am pms-ing BAD. Sore boobs and nausea and crazy bitchiness. DH hates me right now. I would say I might be pregnant but I've been taking the pill so I don't think so... But crazier things have happened... The subconsious powers of a baby hungry mama are stronger than hormonal birth control, right?

[tea olive]

hey i'm here. just coasting along. i just keep shaking my head at ruby and her charisma.

[DecemberSun]

Z and J's favorite thing to do before bed is to visit starfall.com. They love making the pumpkins and snowmen, and doing the alphabet letters. They are starting to recognize a few more letters, and I think this site really has helped. Julianna also loves tracing them in a a wipe-off preschool book we have. : I'm so proud of her. She is much more artistically talented than Zachary- he can barely makes scribbles and she's drawing people already. Her bio Dad is a good artist, so maybe she's taking after him. It's so interesting seeing their little selves unfold. Very beautiful.

Nice new smileys. I like these ones : and :. :

[eilonwy]

Ah, Starfall. Ain't it great?! BooBah kind of scares me, though. We don't even let her touch the mouse, but watching BeanBean is apparently enough for her to learn.

Today I found some really neat sites, including this one, which is full of short stories being read aloud. They're free to download; I found a whole bunch of stories like that today. And some reading assessments, too, all by following a link that someone posted in another of my regular threads. Lots of cool stuff. If only I'd had all day to sit and look at them... but I don't. Instead, I found enough information on reading fluency to make a deal with my mom: if I can get BizzyBug's reading level up at least one grade level in the next two months, I want her to promise not to send her back to school in the fall. Why? Because that'd be a heck of a lot more learning than she managed all year in kindergarten; her reading level hasn't increased at all, and if anything her speech is worse.