April 2007 Babes - It's JUNE!!! - Page 6

[tabrizia]

Evening all, hope everyone is doing well. This thread has been kind of quiet recently. I haven't been posting much either because not much is going on here.

So I do have a brag for tonight though, Desmond slept alone for an hour tonight! I am so happy, now if we can get him to sleep from when he goes to bed till when we go to bed it would be even better, but an hour alone is huge right now. He won't sleep unless someone is right there with him, which kind of kills off my evenings at the moment, since he is actually going to bed between 9 and 9:30 now. So our goal right now is to get him to be willing to sleep alone for 2 to 3 hours. He made it an hour, yay!

And yes it is kind of sad the small things that can make you happy.

Not much else is happening here, it is a fairly quiet month so far, it will get more exciting next Friday when we go to North Carolina on vacation with my parents. For now though we are enjoying the quiet time, inside since it has been hovering in the mid to high 90s the past few days.

[MaxiMom]

Hi there. I have one spare moment between scooping Scarlet up off the chairs and counters and keeping up with my crazy, energetic 4 year old!

Scarlet is a tenacious climber and it is especially difficult when cooking dinner or any of us are in the kitchen. I sure hope she gets over this one soon.

She's also been sitting on the potty seat for a couple of days. When I ask her if she wants to sit on the potty, she nods her head yes (so cute), so I put her on and she likes to look at the chicken picture book while we're in there. She hasn't really done anything in the potty, but she sure looks cute sitting on it. Also has been asking for baths - loves to drink the bath water - yuck!

Hope everyone is keeping up with their babes and getting lots of sleep.

[4lilfarmers]

Originally Posted by doudat

Eeeeeeeew!!! I can't even stand to hold the plant to look closer, these things gross me out, I'm such a city gal

What a great weekend we had, HOT and sunny We took out the wadding pool and let the kids play, romi had a blast! Liam was a terror with the hose, but besides a few (ok, many) mishaps, tears, booboo's, fighting over toys, we had a great time.

We bought a bike trailer on special at ToysrUs and Nico took Liam out for a ride. I thought he wouldn't even want to get in but turns out he loved it and didn't want to get out! He didn't even complain about wearing his bke helmet!!

i want a bike trailer too!! but i also need to get a bike. i've been looking for used ones but i hate garage sale-ing so it's been just checking the paper here and there. sounds like a nice weekend. i hate the heat!! oh and sorry about not letting you know about the kozy yet....i'm a libra and very indecisive.

Originally Posted by finn'smama

What is going on?? We were all the way on page 3!

We have been really busy here lately, with work or just being outside. Arlo is walking like a champ and really trying to talk too. His favourite toy is any kind of ball. He LOVES to play ball...It's very cute. I wish I could upload some pics, but you'll have to wait until I get my new computer. Then I can also show you pics of my new haircut!

yea! new computer! can't wait to see your hair!

Originally Posted by hanno

We have no power and haven't since Saturday night! There were some scary storms. I'm at a cafe

wow! you did get some crazy storms there-eh?? did you lose a lot of your frozen meals and bm??

Originally Posted by MaxiMom

Hi there. I have one spare moment between scooping Scarlet up off the chairs and counters and keeping up with my crazy, energetic 4 year old!

Scarlet is a tenacious climber and it is especially difficult when cooking dinner or any of us are in the kitchen. I sure hope she gets over this one soon.

She's also been sitting on the potty seat for a couple of days. When I ask her if she wants to sit on the potty, she nods her head yes (so cute), so I put her on and she likes to look at the chicken picture book while we're in there. She hasn't really done anything in the potty, but she sure looks cute sitting on it. Also has been asking for baths - loves to drink the bath water - yuck!

Hope everyone is keeping up with their babes and getting lots of sleep.

wow, the potty?? she sounds so adorable!

[LionessMom]

DD tries to say Spongebob. it is so cute. her sisters have spongebob toys and she walks around the house with it saying "bob bob". it is just adorable.

[doudat]

Darnit. AF is finally here . It came back at 18mths pp with Liam and I was hoping for a bit of the same this time around. Oh well. 14 mths isn't too bad I guess.

[koofie]

Originally Posted by doudat

Darnit. AF is finally here . It came back at 18mths pp with Liam and I was hoping for a bit of the same this time around. Oh well. 14 mths isn't too bad I guess.

Much better than me at 4 mo... It was the same for DD1. I'm doomed for the next one too, I guess.

Sorry about AF :

[finn'smama]

Originally Posted by LionessMom

DD tries to say Spongebob. it is so cute. her sisters have spongebob toys and she walks around the house with it saying "bob bob". it is just adorable.

.0.omg! .0 Arlo is doing the same thing! That's too funny

Originally Posted by doudat

Darnit. AF is finally here . It came back at 18mths pp with Liam and I was hoping for a bit of the same this time around. Oh well. 14 mths isn't too bad I guess.

Still no af here, and i actually had a regular period by 6 months pp with Finn. Weird eh?

[MizLiz]

Originally Posted by doudat

Darnit. AF is finally here . It came back at 18mths pp with Liam and I was hoping for a bit of the same this time around. Oh well. 14 mths isn't too bad I guess.

I got mine just before 12 months, but was bummed out because with dd1, I didn't get it back until 21 months... I was hoping that I'd have a number of months to go still.

Speaking of AF, my cycles have always been all over the place and this still seems to be the case... for those of you who are having periods again, are they 'on schedule' or irregular?

[koofie]

Originally Posted by MizLiz

I got mine just before 12 months, but was bummed out because with dd1, I didn't get it back until 21 months... I was hoping that I'd have a number of months to go still.

Speaking of AF, my cycles have always been all over the place and this still seems to be the case... for those of you who are having periods again, are they 'on schedule' or irregular?

Mine were ~every 6 weeks until recently. They were not completely regular, but I could kind of figure out when to expect them. I thought the irregularity/long cycle was from the IUD.

[tabrizia]

Originally Posted by MizLiz

I got mine just before 12 months, but was bummed out because with dd1, I didn't get it back until 21 months... I was hoping that I'd have a number of months to go still.

Speaking of AF, my cycles have always been all over the place and this still seems to be the case... for those of you who are having periods again, are they 'on schedule' or irregular?

I got AF back at 8 months sigh, and she has been nice and come back every month since right on schedule. I am very regular every 27 or 28 days she appears sigh, I was hoping to make it to a year before she showed too, oh well.

[doudat]

It's weird cause with Liam at 14 months he was sleeping through the night and nursing only twice a day. Romi still nurses quite a few times at night and a few times in the day. You'd think I would've had a longer break before AF showed up, no logic to it I guess. And no cramping, nothing. It just came. Completely unexpected.

[hanno]

Originally Posted by MaxiMom

She's also been sitting on the potty seat for a couple of days. When I ask her if she wants to sit on the potty, she nods her head yes (so cute), so I put her on and she likes to look at the chicken picture book while we're in there. She hasn't really done anything in the potty, but she sure looks cute sitting on it. Also has been asking for baths - loves to drink the bath water - yuck!

That's awesome! She really is a chicken girl
...and sorry to hear about the turkeys, poor little dears

Originally Posted by krismarie

i want a bike trailer too!! but i also need to get a bike. i've been looking for used ones but i hate garage sale-ing so it's been just checking the paper here and there.

I have a bike trailer and a bike--now all I need is a child willing to sit.

Originally Posted by krismarie

wow! you did get some crazy storms there-eh?? did you lose a lot of your frozen meals and bm??

yes and probably yes
We were able to get the milk to the freezer at the co-op house but it was already starting to melt and they only have an over the fridge freezer and not a deepfreeze so it may or may not be good still. I'm going to take milk donor out of my sig because I haven't been pumping
The food, we just couldn't eat it fast enough.

Originally Posted by MizLiz

Speaking of AF, my cycles have always been all over the place and this still seems to be the case... for those of you who are having periods again, are they 'on schedule' or irregular?

mine have been 26 days, 34 days, 35 days, and now over 37 days!

[hanno]

5 days without power, btw. Oh yeah, our fish are also living at a neighbour's in a tote! We now know exactly what we need to survive 'off the grid'.

[4lilfarmers]

Originally Posted by hanno

5 days without power, btw. Oh yeah, our fish are also living at a neighbour's in a tote! We now know exactly what we need to survive 'off the grid'.

wowie! we'd be in trouble...we have two large freezers, electric fence for our animals... hope it comes on soon!
and i think you can leave milk donor, even if you aren't pumpin! you still are a milk donor!!

[hanno]

Originally Posted by krismarie

wowie! we'd be in trouble...we have two large freezers, electric fence for our animals... hope it comes on soon!
and i think you can leave milk donor, even if you aren't pumpin! you still are a milk donor!!

it's back as of this morning
How often do you think the animals test the fence? Would it take them a while to notice it was off?

[4lilfarmers]

Originally Posted by hanno

it's back as of this morning
How often do you think the animals test the fence? Would it take them a while to notice it was off?

it might... a lot of times they just the sight of it is enough. but we have some young ones that can get rowdy. and our chickens are protected from predators by an electric chicken wire. we do have a solar charger but need a new battery for it.

[tabrizia]

Originally Posted by hanno

it's back as of this morning
How often do you think the animals test the fence? Would it take them a while to notice it was off?

Yay for getting power back! I'm not sure I could survive 5 days with no power, I think we'd be camping out at my in-laws house.


In other news Desmond slept for 2 hours last night without me having to be in bed! I am so happy.

I also put up a ton of new pictures on my blog, since I got around to putting them online and I've had time to do it today during nap time.

[koofie]

Originally Posted by tabrizia

Yay for getting power back! I'm not sure I could survive 5 days with no power, I think we'd be camping out at my in-laws house.


In other news Desmond slept for 2 hours last night without me having to be in bed! I am so happy.

I also put up a ton of new pictures on my blog, since I got around to putting them online and I've had time to do it today during nap time.

Desmond is so photogenic and always seems to be having fun!

So, as of today I am a SAHM for the summer. Well, Ari and Abby are finishing out the week of daycare since I paid for it already, but no more teaching other people's kids for 2 months! Ari and I are working on a HSing schedule, so I can try it out since I would love to when we can afford it. I'm also looking into activities for us to do - when I was a kid we spent the whole summer at the pool (it seemed) but since we don't have a pool membership we're going to have to look for other activities to engage the girls.

Happy summer!:

[MaxiMom]

Originally Posted by MizLiz

I got mine just before 12 months, but was bummed out because with dd1, I didn't get it back until 21 months... I was hoping that I'd have a number of months to go still.

Speaking of AF, my cycles have always been all over the place and this still seems to be the case... for those of you who are having periods again, are they 'on schedule' or irregular?

Pretty regular around here, which is great, because prior to children, it was never regular.

Originally Posted by hanno

5 days without power, btw. Oh yeah, our fish are also living at a neighbour's in a tote! We now know exactly what we need to survive 'off the grid'.

Wow, that's a while! Good thing it's been warm there. Lots of candle light dinners?

Originally Posted by tabrizia

Yay for getting power back! I'm not sure I could survive 5 days with no power, I think we'd be camping out at my in-laws house.


In other news Desmond slept for 2 hours last night without me having to be in bed! I am so happy.

I also put up a ton of new pictures on my blog, since I got around to putting them online and I've had time to do it today during nap time.

Yay, Desmond!

Kris - I got the pictures, thanks!

Anyone else's babe going down to one nap? Scarlet doesn't nap until at least noon and stays asleep for an hour to an hour and a half and that's about it for the day. Goes to sleep at night between 8 and 9 usually.

[tabrizia]

Originally Posted by MaxiMom

Anyone else's babe going down to one nap? Scarlet doesn't nap until at least noon and stays asleep for an hour to an hour and a half and that's about it for the day. Goes to sleep at night between 8 and 9 usually.

Des has been at one nap for a couple months now, I want to say he switched to one nap around 10 months, but it has been long enough that I'm not positive of exactly when he switched, I know he was at 1 nap by 11 months though. He does nap for about 2 and a half to 3 hours still though which is nice. He is going down around 9:30pm recently which is nice, will probably get to 8:30/9pm pretty soon.