**APRIL 2007 Mamas** It's December! - Page 2

[CorbinsMama]

Originally Posted by finn'smama

CorbinsMama, pippa is a sweety!

Thank you!

For Finn we are making a model of my parents farm and I am going to make some felted animals out of roving.

That sounds so precious! I would love to see pics when it is done.

[Queen of my Castle]

Holy! in like 45 seconds you guys wrote a bunch of stuff!
thanks- the opening went well. I met a woman and we talked babies-yay.

Finn'smama- definately something about Canada

um...man, I just go blank when I get here!
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[MonTana Mama]

As always-cute, cute kids!!! I love this group. I finished my Christmas shopping today! Yay! Less than $100. We drew names this year-FINALLY! We actually have lots of snow this year...I love snow! I love the sparkly white...and being all cozy in bed with my hot rice pack...sigh...DH is always studying and still sleeping downstairs. Hot rice packs are great gifts! We are going to OR on the 17th. Medford.

[MaxiMom]

Uh, let's see..

Krismarie - I'm planning to go back east with the kids in March. Let's make a plan. hanno, are you in?

Queen - glad the show went well, you must be relieved.

We'll send a lovely package of jams to the family and will buy a few items for the kids. I'm going to give the bulk of Max's list to my fam, as they always get great gifts for him. I've been planning stocking fillers for Max and Scarlet, but haven't really gotten past that yet. For my neices and nephews, I'll be making some fun stockings filled with goodies and a few things I've had on my list for them. I just bought a sweet little pottery tea set for my nieces, 6 and 2, that should be fun for them, they are such girly girls. :

I was practicing sewing the stockings the other night and made one from an old sweater of mine and it came out more like a high heel stocking, pointy toe and all. Max tried it on and it looked like an elf shoe, so he asked me to make another and now he has little elf socks for Christmas.

We got our tree today, the earliest I've ever gotten a tree. It was a perfect morning, snowing! We got two trees, big one for downstairs and a small one for upstairs in the loft (where Maxie likes to play alot - hoping it will be his room sometimes soon ), which Max and I decorated today. It was wonderful, he is so excited for Christmas.

[rivkajean]

just subbing, around here it sounds like it's gonna be a long night, lotsa fussiness today, top teeth nearly thru the gums
we'll see how it goes, and i'll try to be back soon with pictures.

[doudat]

Originally Posted by rivkajean

just subbing, around here it sounds like it's gonna be a long night, lotsa fussiness today, top teeth nearly thru the gums
we'll see how it goes, and i'll try to be back soon with pictures.

Hope it went ok.

Romi lost her voice. She sounds terrible. And she's coughing, poor thing. BUT she had the best night so far!! Went to bed at 7pm, and woke at 3am to nurse, I was in shock My boobs were really full and she fell asleep on the boob (which she never does since she nurses so darn fast, but there was more milk in there than usual). Then she woke again at 6am to nurse. She's still sleeping and it's almost 8am. No fever.

[doudat]

MaxiMom: Jams, what a great idea for gifts!! I should've thought of that...

CorbinsMama : Pippa is a cutie!

hanno: problems with superbaby? I keep on thinking of the Incredibles when I think of your family!!
Vegan meal: that would be a hard sell in our family. I'd love to look at your menu... I'm always impressed by the imaginative menu planning that vegans come up with. We have a restaurant in Montreal, don't know if you heard of it, called Chu Chais and it's vegetarian (They do have vegan options) but the cool thing is that they make meat-like foods. The have vegetarian shrimps, chicken, pork, and it's amazingly good!! It even looks like the real thing.

[4lilfarmers]

hey all

maximom--those elf shoes sound cute...you should post a pic! how old is max? he sounds like such a sweet boy. kaylo is at the most intense age (and he's an intense kid)... he's so picky about what he wears, eats, reads, sees, on and on and on.

finnsmama--i love that your dp knits!

hanno-that's rough...all that biting. hopefully it's just a teething thing?? i feel like kaylo did it some too--but not quite that bad.

doudat---glad she doesn't have a fever this morn...i can't believe she's slept the longest while she is sick--my kids always wake up every 1/2 hour when they are sick--


did someone say their dp was making wooden toys?? i'm going through our toys and getting rid of any they make me wary of lead. i've turned into a sort of lead-freak now that i know that so much of my house is lead-y. i at least want their toys to be really good.

my bestfriend came up to watch the boys last night since dh is milking and i had to go to work (...yea, we still don't have a babysitter around here...) and i ended up staying up until 2 talking to her....and of course this was a morning both boys were up before 6:00. luckily kaylo watched a little pbs in bed for a while (we have a tv in our room too, queen...but we only get the public channel)...but neither went back to sleep. i'm going to be ready for bed by 2pm today.

[MaxiMom]

Krismarie - Max is the same age as Kaylo, born 2/12/04, and VERY particular about things, too. Clothes, food, routines, etc. He is very sweet, but can give me such grief sometimes! And so curious about every little thing, sometimes I just want him to be quiet and not ask me so many questions.

So, Max was up at 4am for about an hour and now Scarlet is up at 6am, what's going on!! Oh well, at least I got the fire going and it's quiet. Hey, she just crawled back to the bedroom, maybe we can go back to sleep now. (do we have a fingers crossed smiley?)

[MaxiMom]

doudat - hope Romi is feeling ok, that must sound kind of cute, though. Yes, we made so much jam this summer, time to send it off in fancy little packages.

I'm sure we'll all be glad when teething is done!~

[4lilfarmers]

Originally Posted by MaxiMom

Krismarie - Max is the same age as Kaylo, born 2/12/04, and VERY particular about things, too. Clothes, food, routines, etc. He is very sweet, but can give me such grief sometimes! And so curious about every little thing, sometimes I just want him to be quiet and not ask me so many questions.

So, Max was up at 4am for about an hour and now Scarlet is up at 6am, what's going on!! Oh well, at least I got the fire going and it's quiet. Hey, she just crawled back to the bedroom, maybe we can go back to sleep now. (do we have a fingers crossed smiley?)

wow, i didn't know they were so close! how crazy--both of our kids are so very close in age!

yes, we do :

[tabrizia]

We had a decent night yay! He slept from midnight to around 3:30am, and then again till around 7 before getting up to feed a second time. He did wake a bit early at 11:30am, but I can deal with that.

We bought a couple more presents last night so we are practically done, which is nice.

We also went out with my inlaws yesterday afternoon and had some family pictures made. We also got a couple of pictures of just Desmond. He is so cute, he was basically standing with no support for one of the pictures, which was amazing, especially since it was for 2 or 3 minutes, eek!

Today is going to be a lot of errands mainly, a couple of stops for presents and then normal shopping for groceries and such, maybe we'll stop in the New Trader Joes while we are out and see what they have.

I would be interested in the gift exchange as well if we do it.

[tabrizia]

I forgot my rant about my Mother in Law. Now i love my Mother in Law she is a great person and we get along well. However, what ever gave her the idea that soda is appropriate for an 8 month old baby? After pictures yesterday we got a snack at the food court, I had lemonade and she had coke. She gave Desmond some of my lemonade, it was only a drop to be fair but still, I hadn't noticed her doing it because I was talking to DH at the time. She was commenting on giving him a taste of her Coke too.

Sigh both of us and my father in law just kind of looked at her like she was insane. I also made the comment about no soda for him if she wanted to babysit him before he hits 4. Because you know I really don't need her giving him tastes of foods DH and I don't feel are appropriate. Both DH and I are kind of boogling at the thought of giving a 8 month old soda. I mean he hasn't even had water, let alone juice, and he so doesn't need soda.

[finn'smama]

What is it with people wanting to feed babies crap?? My own mother always wants to do this. It drives me nuts. And pop of all things!
Speaking of MILs, mine was over last night and the first thing she always asks about Arlo is if he's sleeping through. I always look at her like she's crazy and tell he no in a way that tells her I would be worried if he wasn't. She asks every time though. She finally just stopped asking about Finn's sleep habits:

[finn'smama]

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[hanno]

Originally Posted by doudat

hanno: problems with superbaby? I keep on thinking of the Incredibles when I think of your family!!
Vegan meal: that would be a hard sell in our family. I'd love to look at your menu... I'm always impressed by the imaginative menu planning that vegans come up with. We have a restaurant in Montreal, don't know if you heard of it, called Chu Chais and it's vegetarian (They do have vegan options) but the cool thing is that they make meat-like foods. The have vegetarian shrimps, chicken, pork, and it's amazingly good!! It even looks like the real thing.

I hadn't heard of that restaurant. I did once go to a very expensive one where everything is covered in tinfoil inside and a very small punkish one I think near Maryanne street.
I hope Romi feels better soon!!
Ion is well from his cold but not me, I'm so super sick still.

[hanno]

Originally Posted by finn'smama

What is it with people wanting to feed babies crap?? My own mother always wants to do this. It drives me nuts. And pop of all things!
Speaking of MILs, mine was over last night and the first thing she always asks about Arlo is if he's sleeping through. I always look at her like she's crazy and tell he no in a way that tells her I would be worried if he wasn't. She asks every time though. She finally just stopped asking about Finn's sleep habits:

WhyohWhy do people ask this? And how to answer? I still get up in the night to pee and sometimes have a snack or a drink, why can't the baby?

[hanno]

Originally Posted by finn'smama

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[kewpie-o]

Originally Posted by ShyDaisi

Oh, yeah....kewpie -- how have you been dealing with the "I am almost asleep and my gums hurt so I am going to bite you, but I won't stay asleep with out your nipple in my mouth" baby. You mentioned a couple of times in your posts that Scout was doing that, and Micah has been doing the same. But, I have no clue what to do about it!! If you or anyone else have any advice about this, I would love to hear.

Originally Posted by kewpie-o

I wish I knew what to tell you, but she did it for like a week and then just STOPPED. (I shouldn't jinx myself, though - I think it's only been a few days days since she last bit me) :

I spoke too soon. Crap. 2 bites in the last 2 days. :

[kewpie-o]

congrats on 1,000 finnsmama!! :