Westside is the best side in August! - Page 9

[Arwyn]

Oh Lisa I missed this the first time! We have lots of boxes and newspaper for packing (I think), and I'd be happy to wrap on your squishy little baby. And I think we're available on the 6th, although we have no room in our car. But muscles we do have!

Do you want me to drop by boxes tomorrow? I'm heading out that way to see Jenn anyway.

Loved the thunder, except for the freaked out dog and twitching baby which meant I got no sleep.

[oregonbound]

Originally Posted by unlegal

Woo! We're quiet and almost falling off the front page!

Anyone hear any thunder this morning? Woke me right up! I love storms And it's raining. Oh, and the kids are still sleeping. I'm in heaven.

What's everyone doing this week?

We're going to the Japanese Garden on Friday for our hike this week. Not really intense hiking, but I love that place! So fun for the kids to explore. I also posted the schedule up for the upcoming weeks on where we are going on my blog. Would love to have more people come with us :

Yay! It's raining harder!

My kids went to a summer camp at the Nature Park Interpretive Center in Beaverton and want to go for a hike there. If you ever go there, we'd be happy to join you! We don't haver any plans on Friday, I've not been to the Japanese Garden because when I tried to go, I thought it was too expensive. Do you know whether it's just adults that pay or kids too? My kids are 4 and 6 now so they are usually too old to go for free, and paying for 3 admissions is too much for us. Maybe I'll check it out and if only I have to pay, we'll go. Do you know if I can get around with a stroller? Too much stuff to put her in the backpack, and besides, she won't stay in it.

And YAY, I am glad we finally got enough rain that I can stop watering the tomatoes for a few days!

[unlegal]

Originally Posted by CameronsMama

I know, isn't this weather awesome? We've got all the windows open enjoying the cool fresh air, and we've been hearing some good rumbles.

You're hiking trips sound like a lot of fun, Cameron and I might join you for some, I'll check out the blog!

I've got all my windows open, too!

You should totally come. It's nice getting outside, and the kids love running around.

Originally Posted by oregonbound

My kids went to a summer camp at the Nature Park Interpretive Center in Beaverton and want to go for a hike there. If you ever go there, we'd be happy to join you! We don't haver any plans on Friday, I've not been to the Japanese Garden because when I tried to go, I thought it was too expensive. Do you know whether it's just adults that pay or kids too? My kids are 4 and 6 now so they are usually too old to go for free, and paying for 3 admissions is too much for us. Maybe I'll check it out and if only I have to pay, we'll go. Do you know if I can get around with a stroller? Too much stuff to put her in the backpack, and besides, she won't stay in it.

Oooh, I'll add that place to my list Thanks for the recommendation.

It is $8 for adults, kids 5 and under are free, and students are $6.25 . You can get around with a stroller, though some areas are little paths with stones and some stairs in some places, but I imagine you could just not go through those spots. Most of it is paved, and stroller friendly.

I hate paying that much to go to a place, but I think the Japanese Garden is so freakin' beautiful and worth the $. I took Ciara when she was 2, and she about died. She thought it was the greatest place ever.

[SleepyMamaBear]

second night in a row with littel to no sleep.
agg i just want some restorative sleep dammit!
i am so tired my eyes are jumping with my heartbeat and i am unsteady when i walk. napping isnt an option til Niamh is ready.
damn insomnia. damn thunderstorms, damn husbands overactive bladder, damn dd1s night screaming. damn damn damn. the only one who DIDNT keep me up was the one suckling the life out of me.

[LucyRev]

Hi everybody! I'm LOVING this cool weather after 3 days in Vegas. It felt like an oven there. Plus it was abnormally humid. Probably a lot like it was here. I don't think DH watered the garden like I asked him to because I see lots of yellow leaves from the window. : But I had so much fun. Way way too much fun in fact.

I am so tired! The first day I was up for 22 hours. The second night we stayed out till 5:00 in the morning. Then we freaked out in the morning because we realized we had to check out at noon and we felt awful and had only slept a few hours, but our plane didn't leave until midnight. I guess I threw out my back dancing or I walked too much, but my lower back is killing me now. But my feet are fine. It's weird.

And I'm so used to eating small meals all day that I was really screwed up from only eating a couple big meals a day. The first breakfast we had there was so greasy and gross that it made my stomach uneasy all weekend so even when we went out to eat I couldn't handle eating much. I was really craving fresh fruit and veggies. Then add intense heat and drinking and walking for miles... I can see why summer is not the best time to go. But the pool was amazing and we saw Elvis in it! All the people we met were super nice, except for a couple grumpy employees and a couple slimy dudes. I really suck at gambling. My friend was lucky but I was not and it just made me grumpy so I quit gambling.

I have too many Vegas stories to type it all out here, but much fun was had and it was so good to see my friend.

Lisa thanks for the salon link. I have always wished for a hair place with childcare!

Tiff, congrats to your sis.

Home inspectors...all I know is, find your own and don't use the one the realtor tries to refer you to.

okay, I think I shall try to sleep some more. Josie says her tummy hurts. but maybe she'll take a nap with me.

[neomia]

Originally Posted by SleepyMamaBear

Lisa, Morgan works on the 6th so i cant volunteer him to help move boxes, but if you have a moving party i would love to come help wrangle any and all kids.

Yay! I designed an evite and need to start sending it out! I will probably throw it out there to most of y'all I have emails for, but please don't feel obligated or bad if you can't make it or plain just don't want to!

Originally Posted by LiLStar

And the chemicals.. thats one of the main reasons we didn't get a new one. At least the 30 year old one has had plenty of airing out time. Heritage seems pretty nice! Two pools, and two really nice playgrounds. And our payments will be so crazy low we'll be able to pay off credit cards in no time.

Oh, and packing paper!!! I have a ton! Please come get it, its taking over my pantry pm me for address.

Ah good, should have known you would have it all checked out! The airing out makes sense! Heritage is seriously the nicest trailer park I have ever seen. I even drove through there wondering of there were any rentals until my friend scared me off. Are you getting that one that was on Craigslist that said something like 5000 down and 499 a month?

Oh, and I will PM you for sure!

Originally Posted by CameronsMama

DH has a truck, he's pretty darn "manly", he's really good at moving stuff, and I'm pretty sure we're free on the 6th. Does that earn us an evite to the moving party?

We shouldn't need the truck as Ron's friend has one we can use, but heck, another one couldn't hurt I guess! Heck yeah you get an evite! PM me your email address!

Originally Posted by Arwyn

Do you want me to drop by boxes tomorrow? I'm heading out that way to see Jenn anyway.

I just emailed you asking if you were coming this way tomorrow. Teach me to read the thread first....

Originally Posted by SleepyMamaBear

agg i just want some restorative sleep dammit!

OK mama, it sounds like it is time for an action plan! Would your mom and/or Morgan be able to handle Addy overnight? We have that whole big room downstairs. You could come and spend the night with just Niamh. Or go someplace else, but you need to get caught up even for just one night! The only reason I am in such good shape is that Ron has been sleeping with Orion in another room. It makes me sad we don't have a big family bed, but I think it is the right decision for now.

[SleepyMamaBear]

Lisa, thanks so much for the offer i wish i could take you up on it.
really its insomnia from 5htp (kind of makes me mildly manic which leads to insomnia for me) then thunder past two nights, then DHs bladder last night, and Addys scream fits havent been too bad for the past few nights, much better since we stopped the sunscreen. and Niamh is just content to nurse all night if i let her, which on rare occasions keeps me awake wanting to crawl out of my skin if i am touched out. yead, i am SID too.

[LucyRev]

Tiff,

You sound so overloaded! Is Addy having night terrors? Josephine had those for a while and it was hard to feel so powerless. Nothing I did helped her. I just had to sit next to her and make sure she didn't get hurt.

uh oh...I hear pitter pattering and crying. Gotta go.

[SleepyMamaBear]

sometimes they are night terrors. sometimes she wakes up and wants to play then hears the word no and goes balistic, sometimes she is dreaming, and wakes up cranky from a bad dream and just starts screaming at us... its pretty rare for her to not wake up and scream actually.

btw, i wanted to say your vacay sounded like you had a blast and it was exactly what you needed! YAY!!!

i got a call today from someone at the hearing and sight institute place where we are going to have Addy evaled. should happen within a month

[LucyRev]

That is great news, Tiff! So is Addy set up to start Head Start in the fall? I think they can help get evaluations and diagnoses done too. When I worked there, I was a teacher aide and the family advocate's assistant and we helped families with all sorts of stuff...taking people to appointments if they didn't have transportation and even making appointments for people who didn't want to do it for whatever reason.

[SleepyMamaBear]

well the woman i talked to said they did evals for their program. i had no idea about head start doing their own evals. i wonder how good they are at assessing SID?
my concern is that they just arent going to see all that Addy is SID about, because its not big time over the top SID like my brother V is, but she is most definitely SID. i just dont want anyone to overlook her because its not SOOOO bad, you know? its bad enough that it effects her day to day life and how happy she is.

[unlegal]

Originally Posted by SleepyMamaBear

sometimes they are night terrors. sometimes she wakes up and wants to play then hears the word no and goes balistic, sometimes she is dreaming, and wakes up cranky from a bad dream and just starts screaming at us... its pretty rare for her to not wake up and scream actually.

Ciara also has problems regulating sleep. When she wakes up, she's often very disoriented, angry and cries a lot. Usually takes her about 10 minutes to snap out of it. I was reading The Out of Sync Child, and apparently it is common in kids with SPD, along with other sleep problems. She has been doing it ever since she was a baby.

[LucyRev]

I think they might just have somebody who does some kind of preliminary assessment and then can refer you to a dr. I think we actually had one dr. who came into the classroom if it was needed. Sorry, I don't have more info. It was a long time ago. I didn't know if you needed the eval before they would let you into the program or if you needed it so they can help her more in the classroom.

We had specialists come in to do speech therapy during class and some who did occupational, so hopefully they will have some resources to help.

Of course you are doing the right thing by taking Addy to a good doc! I wouldn't trust anyone but a specialist to know all about SID.

SO...I don't know if I should take Josephine somewhere for a speech evaluation. She has a huge vocabulary, and I'm not worried about her receptive language skills, but she has really bad pronounciation. I just asked her to say "socks". She said, "daw". She can't say s,c,j,g,k. She can prounce the T in Toe but not Truck. I can understand most of what she says but now that she knows so many words a lot of them sound the same.

I suppose it would help if I took her to a 2 yr well child check but I skipped it since we weren't getting shots and there was so much nasty stuff going around at that time, I didn't even want to step foot in the waiting room.

In other news, she's all weaned now. Sort of. I don't have more than a few drops of milk and she doesn't nurse anymore. When she asks to nurse, she puts her mouth on me for about 5 seconds and that's it. I don't know how long this pretend nursing will last or when holding my boobs will stop being a requirement for sleeping. This process is so much different than it was for Naia. I'm still letting her lead, but I might have to make some rules about boob holding.

[KateMary]

Originally Posted by LucyRev

In other news, she's all weaned now. Sort of. I don't have more than a few drops of milk and she doesn't nurse anymore. When she asks to nurse, she puts her mouth on me for about 5 seconds and that's it. I don't know how long this pretend nursing will last or when holding my boobs will stop being a requirement for sleeping. This process is so much different than it was for Naia. I'm still letting her lead, but I might have to make some rules about boob holding.

This sounds like Ruby, I think she is all weaned now. : Its been about a month or so. She has gone 3-4 weeks twice before and then her latch has been really funky and uncomfortable so I feel totally done. She pretends to nurse outside my shirt sometimes. Complete with little pauses to wait for a letdown. She still asks at bedtime but I say that Nora needs it tonight and maybe tomorrow night she can try. But I don't mean it, I have no intention of nursing her again (I think), and I am not sure if I should just tell her that. She is sometimes okay with it, sometimes she cries for about a minute and then rolls over and goes to sleep, and sometimes she doesn't even ask. Nora really does need it now, in order to fall asleep. Her falling asleep time is increased a lot if there is not enough milk. So I am not sure if I should be up front and tell her she is not nursing anymore or else just keep putting it off till she stops asking.

Glad you had fun in Vegas Nadine! I hate eating while on vacation, I always get all screwed up too. I really like doing vacation rentals with our own kitchen so we cook for ourselves mostly.

[unlegal]

I've been sitting here NAKing for the past hour, and then look at Oliver's face - he's got a nice rash going on. I think he has Roseola! That would explain the possessed toddler I've been dealing with since Saturday

Either that or Rubella, but he had a fever for a few days, and Roseola seems more associated with fevers...

LAME. I hate childhood illnesses. So, maybe I'll have to postpone the Japanese Garden till next week. We'll see how this rash develops.

[neomia]

thinking about hitting the children's museum today about 1. i have membership and can get a mom and kid in free if anybody is interested.

[unlegal]

Never mind about the Roseola. His rash went away pretty quick. I guess he's just a regular, healthy demon-child.

[unlegal]

Originally Posted by neomia

thinking about hitting the children's museum today about 1. i have membership and can get a mom and kid in free if anybody is interested.

I would so be interested in going, but I can't seem to get myself out of this fog I've got going on this morning! I think I'm about to go make a Dutch Bros. run. I'm desperate.

[LiLStar]

Originally Posted by neomia

Ah good, should have known you would have it all checked out! The airing out makes sense! Heritage is seriously the nicest trailer park I have ever seen. I even drove through there wondering of there were any rentals until my friend scared me off. Are you getting that one that was on Craigslist that said something like 5000 down and 499 a month?

Oh, and I will PM you for sure!

we put an offer on it on friday, then spent the weekend getting excited about decorating, paint, updating the yard, even possibly remodeling the kitchen. Then, I just had this gut feeling of.. total dread. Logically, it seemed like a great idea. But there was just NO shaking that "don't do it" feeling. I was even having dreams (nightmares?) about that dang place! So when she called back monday to say they accepted our offer, I had to tell her we were backing out. I felt like a total flake!! But you just don't ignore bad feelings like that. So, the hunt is still on! We've found tons of other places that we want to go look at.

[Lovely]

Rachel,

Good for you for listening to your gut feeling. even if you don't know why