May 2011 Moms

AW: 2 year pics

mullenem — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:08:07 GMT

We got back Audrey's 2 year pics (taken a couple weeks late) and I'm so happy with them, I just wanted to share! Hard to believe they're already 2. What a great age, with her personality really showing through.

disclaimer: images by Cortney Tostevin Photography

Anyone else have some new pics to share??

I'm going crazy!

Steph&Harry08 — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 18:36:27 GMT

Warning: This is a rant/vent.

I'm at my wits ends. I'm so stressed out it affecting my health. I'm in school full time and I stay home with DS during the day, in class at night. I'm falling behind because during the day DS won't let me do anything. I mean he is constantly whining, he won't play alone for 5 minutes! He cries constantly, I feel awful, the only times I get some time to study is when i give him a snack or sit in front of the tv, sigh, yes I'm that awful! I can't afford to pay a sitter/DC, I have no one to watch him a couple hours.

I don't pay attention to him, I can't do school work. He's nap is all over the place, he naps for half hour after it took me 45 minutes to make him nap, I was so desperate I would bring him in bed and lay down so he could nap longer, now he won't nap unless i'm there with him.

He is in in room crying, and all I want to do right now is run away. I mean it.

Why couldn't I get the kid that naps two hours a day, the one that is content playing by himself for at least 5 minutes, 5 minutes!

ETA: AND I cna't talk to anyone about this bc all my SAHMs are so "happy" and "perfect". DH think I'm being "lazy" bc I don't play with him. I have NO ONE to talk to about this.

Crib to bed transition

oooCarrieB — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:12:18 GMT

Anyone else working on this now? It kind of seems like teaching her to fall asleep all over again. And even with the guard rail on the bed, she's managed to fall out twice so far, although she wasn't as upset the second time around.

Naps seem particularly diificult and she's been taking her diaper off during naps and peeing the bed. I'm glad we have almost 5 months to figure this out before the baby comes.

Another boy!

melpatbat — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 20:47:36 GMT

DS is a big brother!

We were team green again and had #2 at home Thursday night!

DS#1 is pretty happy and seems to be adjusting well. Hopefully things keep going smoothly.

Update

mullenem — Mon, 13 May 2013 13:48:45 GMT

This post sucks to write but we found out Friday that we'd lost baby #2. No heartbeat at the ultrasound, probably stopped growing around 10 weeks. It sucks but we have the green light to try again in a month or two. At least DD's birthday is a good distraction and a reason to be grateful for her!

No more paci!??! (sort of XP from 24+)

mullenem — Fri, 31 May 2013 16:52:15 GMT

I'm in total shock. So, we got the paci (or plug as we call it) down to only nights and naps and occasional long car trips around a year ago but MAN she loves that thing at night...actually two of them, one to suck, one to hold.

Two nights ago, I was out shopping (a real treat!) and DH put DD to bed. I get home and he's like "Where are all her plugs?" I asked if he looked under the bed, to which his response was "sort of..." She had easily fallen asleep with no plugs within just a few minutes though! Then yesterday, we told DC to not give it to her and she napped as usual and bedtime with no plug last night was good too!!!

I'm sort of in shock...I can't believe it worked *knock on wood*. I'm pretty sure our next child is going to be a payback because Audrey has just been a breeze for the most part.

I am glad to see

pook — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:53:17 GMT

That people still post here even though our babies are turning 2!

We still only have Georgia, not really planning on having anymore. I am sure some of us have two or are even working on #3 by now. :)

Did elisbu have another? I know she wanted to right away.

2nd birthday, second baby?

JsRib — Mon, 06 May 2013 00:31:39 GMT

Anyone going for #2 now that your baby is turning 2?

Milk

oooCarrieB — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:59:17 GMT

What kind of milk are you giving your 2 year old? At our 2 year apt, our pedi said we should give her whatever milk we drink, but we don't drink milk. I quit drinking milk when we started IF treatments.

I'm leaning towards keeping her on whole milk as my acupuncturist recommends. I know there was a recent study that showed that kids who drink skim milk are more likely to become obese, but I don't know the details.

I drank 2 percent as a child, so I guess that might be okay too. DD is about 50 percent for height and weight now.

Speech

emeraldfairy — Thu, 30 May 2013 12:58:15 GMT

I'm concerned about DS speech delay. All of the articles say he should be saying 50+ words and putting short 2-word sentences together... He understands everything we say... and communicates back with us (baby sign language, shaking his head, gesturing, noises like "choo choo" for train and animal sounds when he's referring to those things... and some words)... At his 2 year checkup, the doctor said communication wasn't an issue... she saw that he understood everything I said and was able to communicate back to me, but just not in words.

It's just so frustrating because when we try to get him to work on saying a word, he just looks at us and says "Yah-yah"... I hear him say words when he's playing or when Sesame Street says a word... but then he won't say it again.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Not Eating

Steph&Harry08 — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:18:07 GMT

DS hasn't had much of an appetite for the past few days. He's always had a good appetite and occasionally he won't want to eat but it's maybe one meal out of the day this is more like every meal for the past 5 days. He takes two bites and he is done.

I wonder if he is teething because his fingers are constantly in his mouth but it kind of concerns me that it's been almost a week. He even says no to his favorite foods which tells he is just not hungry.

Any thoughts?

Birthday Fail

melpatbat — Sun, 12 May 2013 02:51:50 GMT

I posted below about not getting DS anything but taking him for a train ride instead.

Well thank goodness he's an easygoing kid because it was a big ol' fail.

The commuter trains here don't go anywhere interesting, just big parking lots in the burbs, but one stop is a big mall. We figured we'd go the mall, eat dinner, look around and head home. DS kept asking where the train went, not understanding that we were on it. By the time we got there it was 7:00 because we missed the first train. We ended up eating in the food court, grabbing a drink from the dollar store and then realizing that we had 5 minutes before we had to head back to the station to catch our train that only runs once an hour. We had promised DS the toy store so we went quickly, pulled him out crying and ran to the platform in the pouring rain. By the time we got home it was after 10:00 and we were so tired.

I don't know what we were thinking. The highlight of the day was the cupcakes we had for breakfast in bed.

Almost May!

oooCarrieB — Wed, 01 May 2013 01:12:53 GMT

What are you getting your LO for their bday? We are getting our LO a balance bike, a helmet and a toy pack n play for her dolls.

In between sizes?

mullenem — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:06:31 GMT

I feel like DD is at such an awkward pant size right now. She's outgrowing 18-24 month pants in length but then the 2T ones are super long. She has Children's Place leggings in 2T that fit great, but the jeans in that size are HUGE. It's so frustrating trying to find her pants! What are your kids wearing that you like?

Any lurkers in the house?

Steph&Harry08 — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 07:00:31 GMT

This board is really slow, true, by the responses on the posts you would think there's only about 5 of us here but our posts get over 100 views. Are we that bored that we click on the same three posts 50 times or we actually have many lurkers?

Whoa, I'm pregnant.

mullenem — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:34:02 GMT

Just found out yesterday that I'm pregnant! We've been trying for about 5 months now and I definitely wasn't expecting the test to come out positive. I had my usual day-before-period-starts brownish spotting Friday then nothing all day Saturday so I told my husband I'd probably take a test Sunday morning. He was like "okay, but it'll probably be negative" and I replied with "I know" but-shocker-it was positive!

I'm so not ready to go to a new BMB. I just stopped in there (Nov. 2013) and it's a mess of "SQUEEEEEEE!!!!" "How are you going to announce?!?!?!" and "OMG, I can't have bacon/caffeine/lunchmeat/etc. I'm going to diiiiiie" All I want is to get out of the ugly, greasy, sick feeling first tri, and into the glorious second tri (and I want to know the sex so bad so I can go through DD's clothes and see what I can use or get rid of...complete opposite season...ugh).

But, I'm definitely excited!

Anyone TTC#2+?

kerrbear72 — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:34:19 GMT

I know we have lots of pregnant moms so I was just wondering who was actively TTC?

2nd Birthdays

pinkflipflops44 — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 02:36:55 GMT

Any plans?

The rules of the playground...might be long, need to vent!

Steph&Harry08 — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 05:23:47 GMT

We were at an indoor play cafe a couple times last week and it seemed that every time DS got a toy, some other kid (even younger ones) would snatch the toy from him, he would just stand there and look up at me. The one time I said to the kid that DS was already playing with it and to please give it back, the mother sighed loudly and snatched it back from her DS's hands and put it down on the floor in front of us and took her her kid away from us.

Then, at one point a bunch of kids were all playing at the train tracks each with their own truck/train but this one kid kept pushing DS to the side and slamming his train into DS's. DS would just stand back and when he looked up at me I said, "I know, he is not a nice kid" some dad looked at me irritated like saying "really?".This kid looked about the same age, it was hard to believe someone can act so rough because DS is so sweet mannered.

And then there's the parents' interaction. I don't know if every time someone says to me that DS is cute I'm supposed to say the same thing back. I know this won't sound nice but, I'm not a kid person, I don't care for other people's kid, I mean, I don't croon over them, and some kids are just not that cute, sorry! Some parents force them to say "hi to the nice lady", "tell her how old you are", I also feel forced to interact with a little person when I have no desired to do so. It's that so mean of me?

Oh, and don't get me started on the older boys running all over knocking small babies down!

When is it ok to correct other kids, and if not correct them, defend yours? How do you teach your child manners when some don't have any, what's the limit, are all the toys a free for all because it's a public space? I wanna hear your thoughts, please!

Long distance car trip with a toddler

Steph&Harry08 — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:59:14 GMT

Has anyone driven a long distance recently? We have to travel back to DH's home state in August and if we fly it's $928 round trip for all three (not including we would have to rent a car for the week!). Or the other option is to drive 12 hours! Someone told me we should start our drive when DS goes to bed so hopefully he would sleep most of the time...any thoughts?

Mean Toddler?? Anyone else??

lawson_in_training10 — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:28:24 GMT

So my lil man has just recently started hitting-mostly me but his dad and his brother some too....im trying to get him to stop and so far he does stop when told...but i was just wondering if anyone else was going thru this?? and what have you done to get urs to stop??

hysterical crying fits

kelly321 — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:41:39 GMT

Just last week, DD1 started having occasional hysterical crying fits that are so horrible she makes herself throw up. Is anyone else going through this? Today she had two. One because when DH got her out of bed he brought her to ours (WTH DD1???) and one because she wanted to go outside and swing but I had to make a bottle and feed DD2.

I'm going to ask my pedi tomorrow, but I want to know I'm not alone and hear tips if you have any.

Early Birthday?

Steph&Harry08 — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 20:15:51 GMT

I can't believe our LOs are about to turn 2!

I want your opinion on something. DS's birthday is on 5/20 so I was going to have his party on Sunday 19th. His godparents are moving out of state due to his work and they are leaving on the 15th. I really want them there (one, he is my cousin and two, they adore DS) but his moving date is set by his company so it is out of his hands.

I say we celebrate DS's birthday on Saturday the 11th. Since Sunday is Mother's Day I thought Saturday would be better. DH says it's ridiculous to celebrate a birthday so early and that it is not our fault my cousin and his wife are moving, and that it's even more inconvenient that it is the day before Mother's Day.

To me it is more important to have there the people that really care about DS and not go by the calendar because DS doesn't even get it is his birthday. Plus on his actual birthday the three of us can do something special.

What do you think?

New Car Shopping - anyone have a Hyundai Elantra or Sonata?

FitBalancedMama — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:11:34 GMT

Hey y'all, I am so undecided on the new 2013's Elantra & Sonata, does anyone here have one or the other they can recommend? Currently I have a Dodge Caliber which is basically the same size (we compared measurements) as the Elantra except its a hatchback. I think it's a great size for our daily lifestyle since our other car is a Mazda CX-9 SUV, but I also like the Sonata because I've heard it is a smoother ride and it is more of a sedan than a compact.

The Sonata GLS {cloth seats} price at the dealership right now is $19,120 and the Elantra GLS {cloth seats} is $17,195 or the Limited is $19,605 {which DH likes because it has the leather}. I'm not too particular on any of the upgrades, sure having leather or a sunroof sound cool but we have those already in our SUV so I am fine with sacrificing them, plus I've always had cloth seats. We only have one child, DS is almost 2 & we don't plan to add on to our family until later this year (going to ttc our 2nd & final babe this fall) but this will be a car we keep for a minimum of 6 years.

As you can see, I debate with myself with what I want, I almost wish someone would just tell me what to get lol! So that's where y'all come in... which should I get?

Time outs?

mullenem — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:16:35 GMT

So DH emailed me today (we're both at work) and said that he wants to get a time out chair for DD. I'm not a fan. While I do think that time outs have their purpose, I don't think that she'd understand a "Time out chair" and would likely end up using it frequently so it would no longer be a punishment. Also, I know that DH has a small amount of patience in general so I don't want him to have a go to place to put her when she's being just a little bit of a naughty toddler and he doesn't have the patience to deal with it in a more constructive way. I wish that he wasmore patient but it's just not in his nature and doesn't seem to be changing any time soon.

I've suggested that we do a few things. Like last night, DD threw a pretty good tantrum so I held her, made her look at me, and explained what we needed to do in order to be able to do what she wanted (read books, but we had to get ready for bed first). I just don't know that she's at an age where she would understand a time out and I hate the parents that just say that a child is being bad and punish them. They need to understand what the bad behavior is and learn what they need to do to correct it.

I guess this is mostly a rant, but what are you all doing? Time outs? Or ignoring tantrums? Explaining bad/good behavior? Thoughts? DD is really an easy going, good natured little girl 90% of the time so I guess that I'm just not all that concerned with dealing with a bad tantrum once every few days...But I need to figure out a method that works for both of us at the same time so there's consistency.