Long Week Coming Up

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and ate just a little more than you should.

Maigan, Just be consistent in making sure Allie doesn't get away with throwing things and it should be fine. A firm no and possibly having to sit by herself or take a toy that she likes could help too.

Thanksgiving was interesting. About an hour after putting the turkey in our oven stopped working. We had to dump the turkey and figured we would just need to replace the heat element. No such luck, the entire range had to be replaced. I made a crockpot chicken dish for Thanksgiving and we did have our turkey dinner Sunday.

Ron is going in for back surgery tomorrow. He has a burst disk and has been pretty miserable lately. He will not be able to do anything for 10 days and then no lifting over 5-10 pounds for a while.

Everyone take care.

tis the season for heartburn...

happy thanksgiving ya'll ! it's time to loosen those pants and enjoy a third round of dessert guilt-free !!!

scary lil devils

oh maigan - two is fun, isn't it ? i used to have that problem with my girls except that avery was a biter. it was hard not to laugh but she would simply chomp down on reily when she wasn't getting her way. all you can do is be firm and consistant. every offense got a firm "NO" and time-out. if avery kept doing it, the time-outs and punishments got longer. eventually, she would start crying and i would keep repeating that biting wasn't nice and that she had to say sorry. what was also important to me was to be fair to reily. too often, the "baby" gets away with a lot and the older kids pick up on it real fast. so if reily is playing with something and avery steals it, i make her give it back (rather than the oft used "just let her have it" crap you hear all the time). i try to emphasize sharing and fairness - so hitting and biting are definite "no-no"s.
just try not to smile - especially if allie clocks her at 50 paces with a marble. she may be a hellava shot but any encouraging laugh or smirk will only make her do it again. and again. and again.
hope that helps
kri

PS number 3 is still nameless. squirmy and cute, but still nameless

scary allie

hehe... I can imagine it IS hard not to laugh, Maigan. I don't know, honestly, as I am just discovering the complexities of being a parent of two. But I can highly recommend the book "siblings without rivalry", and perhaps that will shed some light for you.

good luck, amiga...

Amy, I am sorry you had backsliding with Samuel. It must be hard to watch him have such a rough time of it. Do you and Ron have any support locally, other parents going through the same stuff who you can lean on/talk to? I dont know, but it seems like a network of families living with an autistic child could be a comfort. big love, sister.

wilder and i are much better. he is all the way better, really, except for a bit of a lingering cough and runny nose. I had a secondary complication of bacterial pneumonia, so I was mighty mighty sick on friday... but am much improved with lots of antibiotics.

how are the girls kri?

xo

marystarr

Rough Week!

Sounds like everyone is having a rough one this week...H1N1, MRSA, regression, baby pains, hang in there ladies! It will get better.

I need a little advice...Allie has decided it's fun to throw things. Doesn't matter what she has in her little hand, she will launch it with all her might at Lizzy. Last night she threw her Little Touch Leap Pad and hit Lizzy right in the face. Lizzy was totally minding her own business watching a cartoon and out of nowhere she was blind sided by her sister. It ended up splitting her lip open and scared her terribly. I know this is a result of the torture Lizzy has delivered to Allie over the past two years but I can't let it continue. Allie received a time out and as soon as she was released she came into the living room, found a hard plastic ball and nailed Lizzy right between the eyes. In a way it's funny, but I know I have to put a stop to it. Any thoughts?

Sarah, I truly hope that all goes well for you and will be checking Facebook a bit more often to find out how you and your sweet little guy are.

Kri, That sucks that Avery had to be treated for infection too.

Marystarr, Poor Wilder and poor you. Feel better soon.

It has been a bad week for Samuel. He had a bit of a regression and we saw behaviors that he had stopped over a year ago. He played with his poop, screamed, wouldn't talk, and was almost non-responsive. He is coming back, but it was heartbreaking to see.

sick bunnies

i hope that everyone is feeling better ! just finished treating avery for her MRSA infection. since i bathe the girls together, i was just waiting to see if she would develop the same symptoms. i wasn't disappointed. things with number 3 seem to be going well. 23 weeks down, 17 more to go. still nameless. i like monroe, harper, emerson, marlowe.....dan likes anderson and crosby. don't ask me about crosby - i've got no idea where that came from !
uh oh...i hear a tantrum brewing...
xoxo
kri

H1N1

seems me and the little guy have it. although no one can confirm this. been sick since saturday, and yesterday we were rocking fevers of 102. Last night I was alternately freezing (shaking and shuddering in the bed) and sweating like a mad animal. drenched. crazy stuff. I took Wilder in this morning and happily he had no fever today. they said we should keep doing what we're doing and come back if we have any respiratory distress. the funny thing is, I have had WAY worse flu than this before. WAY WORSE. I would have brought him in monday if I had any idea this wasn't just a bad cold. It didn't feel like flu until yesterday.

Sarah, sounds like you are almost there! You sound confident about the plan, which is good. Hearing it makes me incredibly nervous, as I am a nervous nellie about interventions in childbirth and induction and all that. But that is just me, and know that it is because I love you and I will worry like a grandma over you until you have that sweet baby home with you and you have kissed hospitals goodbye ;) big hugs!

xoxoxxo

MaryStarr

update

So, We saw my OB on Monday. He feels, that given my cardiac issues during pregnancy (super massive fast heart rate....that causes me to nearly pass out about 12-15 times a day), we should deliver the baby early.
I am 33 weeks on Saturday (2 days from now). The plan is to do an amniocentesis during the 36th week and if his lungs look good, then I will be admitted that same day for induction. Based on the doctors "on call" schedule (I only want MY OB to deliver, not any of his partners), I will be about 36 1/2 weeks on the day of the amnio so the chances are pretty good.
We're looking at a Dec 11th birthday. :)

Will keep you posted. For those on Facebook- It will be updated as we progress. So if anyone (kri, maigan, marystarr) see my FB status as "in the hospital", etc, feel free to share it here with the rest of the girls!!!!

Can't wait to meet our little (BIG) guy!!! He measured almost 4 lbs, 3 weeks ago!

xoxoxoxoxoxoxox

pics

3D picture of baby Frog....and a pic of Riley when she was smaller....I have a better one of her but can't find in for the life of me...
Regardless, he looks EXACTLY like her!!!
32 weeks....the countdown begins!!!! Off work now- will go back the first of Feb...
love to all...

Kri, Poor kid. That just sounds terrible. Hope she is doing better.

Here is a picture from our Halloween. The kids had a great time. Theodore was supposed to be painted up like a skeleton but changed his mind, Vivian is an evil mermaid (seriously, her own idea), and Samuel was a Jedi again.

Esme

is my favorite name. period. would sound good with your other gals too, I think. also

Phoebe

Charity

Viola

MRSA???? holy crap. I am sending hugs and love to poor lil miss reily. how yucky. poor baby. and how scary for you Kri... shit. I have a box of clothes here with your name on it. I am sorry i have been a slowpoke. i am so lame about mailing stuff. promise to do it this weekend.

will write more later. Maigan, I am so sorry about your dad! Glad he is doing better. Sounds like you are all on top of it. Let me know if you need any info on diabetes. I have a lot of info on managing it from my pregnancies, and my mother is type 2 as well.

xoxoxo

MaryStarr

Halloween...I was not able to get both kids to cooperate one the same picture

anyone out there ???

everyone busy with the holiday season ??? it has been very quiet. on my end, reily is healing and taking her meds like a champ. baby #3 is a squirmy lil thing....and as yet unnamed. avery still has a strong lisp but her sentences are improving weekly. work is work- people getting sick, some getting better, some dying. training a new nurse right now. the saints are rocking the NFL n'awlins style.
xoxo
kri