DECEMBER life with a babe - Page 2

[mamamilkers]

Just got back from Paris?!?! Wow! Were you just on a vacation?

[veganf]

Originally Posted by mamamilkers

Just got back from Paris?!?! Wow! Were you just on a vacation?

Sort of a business trip for my husband...(he's the last of the 5 photos) [url]http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgevent/hof/welcome ...but they paid for me to go as well. It's been almost 10 years since Rob and I met (April 1997 in Paris), so I really wanted to go.
Just a long weekend really. My mother stayed with my other boys, and they did great. They exhausted her though!

[veganf]

Originally Posted by mamamilkers

Just got back from Paris?!?! Wow! Were you just on a vacation?

Sort of a business trip for my husband...(he's the last of the 5 photos) http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x...nt/hof/welcome ...but they paid for me to go as well. It's been almost 10 years since Rob and I met (April 1997 in Paris), so I really wanted to go.
Just a long weekend really. My mother stayed with my other boys, and they did great. They exhausted her though!

[ColoradoMama]

Originally Posted by veganf

Just got back from Paris last night.

I'm jealous! I'm stuck at home with four kiddos, a stinky living room (looooonnnnngggggg story), and a dead fish that I have to dispose of after the kiddos go to bed while dh is in San Francisco! I cleaned the kitchen while he ate out at "The Stinky Rose" tonight. So, I just sent out a girl's night out to my friends for next Tuesday - I need a night out!!!!!!!!!

[BetsyS]

I'm jealous of Paris, too!

I need to take Christmas pictures this week. Ah, I love Christmas outfits, and poor Will has 3 of them. That's just the fancy ones, too...He has several loung-ing around type clothes for the holiday, too. I'm just a sucker for them. LOL

He's about 18 lbs now, growing every day. I love the coos and laughs and this funny old man almost-laugh that he has. I am so in love with this baby; it's unbelievable.

He sleeps pretty good, but not as good as he once did. But, still 3 naps a day, one of those for 2 hours, the others for 1 hour. Then, he sleeps from 7 pm-7 am, waking once or twice to eat.

But, to pay me back for the sleeping, he HATES the car. And I do mean hates. I live in the suburbs and everywhere is a long drive. He can't ever handle more than 15 minutes without screaming. : If we hit traffic, and I can't stop, I just cry along with him. I've got a new Britax carseat ordered (should be delivered this week) that I'm hoping will help. This has dashed our plans to see the inlaws at Christmas this year (in Ohio), so we've got to figure out something to make that time of year special. We're thinking of changing churches to find one closer due to the screaming(many other things went into the decision, but when you don't really love a church, then have a screaming baby in the car on the way there, you start questioning your sanity at continuing to go to said church ) I stay at home alot.

[veganf]

Originally Posted by ColoradoMama

I'm jealous! I'm stuck at home with four kiddos, a stinky living room (looooonnnnngggggg story), and a dead fish that I have to dispose of after the kiddos go to bed while dh is in San Francisco! I cleaned the kitchen while he ate out at "The Stinky Rose" tonight. So, I just sent out a girl's night out to my friends for next Tuesday - I need a night out!!!!!!!!!

Oh, I hate it when a pet dies, especially when home alone with the kids. We are now petless, but of course that meant a lot of fish, 2 mice, and a parakeet had to die . Are the kids attached to the fish? Or are they sort of anonymous pets?

[peilover010202]

We've had a few fish die too, we still have 1 hanging on though. But, once he's gone the fish tank will be cleaned out and put away. ds1 really doesn't have much of an interest in them anymore (we've had the tank for a year now.) We have 2 dogs too and I like to tell dh that 5 "kids" (dh included) is all that I can handle reasonably well at this point.

[ColoradoMama]

Originally Posted by veganf

Are the kids attached to the fish? Or are they sort of anonymous pets?

Well, we had a black molly die last week, and my daughter (the 7 year old) cried hysterically. I really don't give a darn about the fish - they're dh's. I'm just feeding them while he's gone! Since he works in the basement that's where the tank is - since he's not here, the kids don't go down there. He'll be back Thursday night. His job for Friday is to get a new fish before the kids come down on Friday afternoon.

He mainly takes care of the stupid dog, too. (Yes, I mean stupid - this darn dog doesn't have a brain in his head. He kept me up all night last night, so I'm a little irritated with him - can you tell? ) He's a little 7 pound mutt, and we have to watch him when we put him out to potty or he will run off. I keep having visions of forgetting him outside! I haven't, but I keep panicking myself all the time! I keep picturing a little dog-sicle running around outside (it's very cold at night).

[veganf]

Originally Posted by ColoradoMama

He mainly takes care of the stupid dog, too. (Yes, I mean stupid - this darn dog doesn't have a brain in his head.

Oh my gosh you're cracking me up. Sounds like the idiot dog I had growing up. Dumbest animal ever. And my husband would LOVE to have a dog again, but I REFUSE to take care of it, since after all that's what would happen, and I also refuse to have a dog inside the house. The neighbors have 3 dogs (and 3 boys just like us, and their teenage nephew staying with them, all in a little ranch house), so he can get his dog playtime if he really wants to.

[NewAtThis]

We're back from our cross-country funeral trip. Thanks for all the well wishes mamas! They were much appreciated. Can I just say... I have the most amazing baby!!! Stella was such a trooper! She weathered the long drives, the long flights, the sick relatives, the 3 hour time change, the non baby-friendly schedule (what a reminder that the rest of the world doesn't run on baby-time), and she made it all look easy! I was so worried about the flights and drives, but she was happy and quiet and nursed a lot, so it was no problem. I even figured out the nursing in car while we're both buckled in!

It is so good to be back home...hopefully Stella will get back on pacific time soon!

[veganf]

Originally Posted by NewAtThis

I even figured out the nursing in car while we're both buckled in!

: : : HOW did you manage THAT?!?!?!? I've nursed with the baby in the carseat (back when I only had 1 in the backseat) with me unbuckled hanging over him . But how do you accomplish that with BOTH of you buckled?? I know...you're PlasticWoman!! Do tell!!

[ColoradoMama]

Originally Posted by veganf

: : : HOW did you manage THAT?!?!?!?

I was thinking the same thing! Super stretchy woman superhero!

Krista - wouldn't you know, after I post about worrying about that stupid dog running off - what does he do? Runs off. Grrrr. I was so peeved. A neighbor found him and called us. Dumb dog - I called dh and said, "That's it - he ran off, I'm NOT looking for him, he's just gone." Oh well, he had his tags on, so he's back now! Gotta take those tags off! j/k

Louis went in the swimming pool for the first time, and he totally loved it! Five years ago yesterday, I was holding my first brand new ds!: So, for ds1's 5th bday party, we went to the pool. I had Louis in the water sling, and he was really enjoying the water.

Then, that evening when we came home and the kids were in bed, and we were going to bed (after we watched "Back to the Future" - yea, we're geeks!), dh goes to check on the two oldest kids. Well, dd1 had :Puke in the bed, all over herself and her stuffed animals - in her sleep (only kid I've ever know who could puke in her sleep, but she's done it multiple times). Have I ever mentioned that I gross out really easily? Well, she has really long hair, and I had to get in the shower with this poor kid at midnight last night and wash her hair three times to get it out. I felt so sorry for her because she woke up and was really grossed out. I told her she threw up in her sleep and she said, "How could I do that?" Beats the heck outta me kid.

[veganf]

Originally Posted by ColoradoMama

Then, that evening when we came home and the kids were in bed, and we were going to bed (after we watched "Back to the Future" - yea, we're geeks!), dh goes to check on the two oldest kids. Well, dd1 had :Puke in the bed, all over herself and her stuffed animals - in her sleep (only kid I've ever know who could puke in her sleep, but she's done it multiple times). Have I ever mentioned that I gross out really easily? Well, she has really long hair, and I had to get in the shower with this poor kid at midnight last night and wash her hair three times to get it out. I felt so sorry for her because she woke up and was really grossed out. I told her she threw up in her sleep and she said, "How could I do that?" Beats the heck outta me kid.

Alright, I'm trying not to laugh. But it's funny when it happens to someone else!! That's the one thing we seem to get once each winter is the stomach flu. Well, not my husband, but me and the boys. I was always susceptible to that as a kid too. But A.J. can throw up in his sleep and not notice as well. Even the worst poopy diaper cannot compare to orange chunky smelly vomit dried on pajamas and in hair (I guess I'm lucky I don't have a girl with long hair!). It's so sad to put a sleeping child into the tub in the middle of the night like that.
And the amazing thing is my husband can sleep through the whole ordeal, even as I'm simultaneously puking and pregnant (like last January!) while washing sick children and changing bed sheets. Ugh.

And I was watching Back to the Future 3 the other day, so we're total geeks too.

[NewAtThis]

Originally Posted by veganf

: : : HOW did you manage THAT?!?!?!? I've nursed with the baby in the carseat (back when I only had 1 in the backseat) with me unbuckled hanging over him . But how do you accomplish that with BOTH of you buckled?? I know...you're PlasticWoman!! Do tell!!

It was true desperation, really! I just couldn't stand dd screaming (the really sad extendo-cry where she's shaking all over) when we were stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic with no escape, not even a shoulder to pull over on. So I'm sitting in the middle back seat with a lap belt on, rather loosely. I sit up on my knees and lean over her. It's not comfortable by any means, the carseat edge totally digs into my side, and I know I'm only buckled in well enough to keep from getting ejected from the vehicle in a wreck, but if it's only for a minute to calm her down to where we can get off the road and I can take her out of the seat to nurse properly, then I'm ok with it. I couldn't do it for more than a minute or two, but boy it really helped those situations where we were stuck on the road...

[taradt]

I have always leaned over to nurse in the car, you stretch as much as you can to the baby, baby moves his head to the side you are on and latches on. I also hold the back of the carseat with my hand to keep me closer. Takes a couple of times to get it right but then is really easy. Kienan has had to be nursed in the car since day 1, it is the only was we get anywhere

tara

[veganf]

I can see how you could do it with one baby, LOL. I guess I was trying to imagine doing it from the front seat with two other kids on either side of the baby .

[taradt]

Originally Posted by veganf

I can see how you could do it with one baby, LOL. I guess I was trying to imagine doing it from the front seat with two other kids on either side of the baby .

you mean you can't just flip it over your shoulder yet

[veganf]

Dentist appointment

So Nate had his first dentist appointment today : because one of his teeth has a light brown discoloration on the top ever since it came in. The dentist wasn't worried thank goodness!!

Ryan also had his first visit today, and he did just perfectly.

The coolest thing was the hygienist who cleaned our teeth today was new, and she has 2 college age kids...anyhow, they used to live in CA, and their pediatrician was William Sears! No wonder she didn't seem the least bit phased at my "different" parenting, etc. Anyhow, she says she hadn't sent him a xmas card in a while and after our conversation (well, my side of it consisted of a lot of "mmfphsth thtthsss" while she cleaned my teeth) she is going to send him a card & updated photo of her kids; apparently when Dr. Sears started practicing in San Francisco her daughter was his first patient. Anyhow, I thought it was pretty neat! And I have a whole new comfort level at this dentist's office, like they're not going to tell me to wean my kids or that Nate's tooth issue is my fault or whatever.

[JenMidwife]

wow, so glad the dentist went well! how on earth do they manage to get a good look inside the mouth of a 4 month old?

pretty cool about the dr sears connection! what a small world!

[mamamilkers]

That's so cool about Dr. Sears! A mama on another board I went to had him as their son's ped. How wonderful! I love my DD's ped. she is soooo AP friendly and is a holistically minded MD. I love that I feel like a great mama when I leave the office, instead of having to fight with her about our choices