I was just posting my latest (long!) post in the June edition, thinking how this thread has gotten so big again, then after I finished it I realized it was July and we should start a new one! So here goes. If you haven't read the last couple June posts, go back and check em out. See you here soon... ↓
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Name: margie | Date: Jul 3rd, 2008 1:27 AM
hi buffi! that is interesting about cameron, it is true that if he is able to hear with assistance than signing would have probably just set him back. its a miracle the things that they can do now to help kids who are hearing impaired! if you dont mind me asking, was he born with hearing problems or was it from an illness? well, i got anjelica's pictures at jc penneys and i spent WAAAAY more than i was planning on, haha. its totally possible there to get really quality portraits for a cheap price...the problem is that too many of them are quality and i fell in love with the collages with more than one picture. i was not planning and didn't want to be in the pictures at all but somehow i got suckered into "helping" and somehow even all sweaty from it being 115 degrees outside and really hot in the studio, no makeup, and hair all crazy messy.....they actually came out kinda cute, i think i liked that they were really natural and that you focus more on our interaction together and how much we love each other than my icky appearance. i was kind of rushed through and didnt get options of other backgrounds and was a little peeved by that after everything, but they all came out so cute that i figured that was just a sacrifice...it was hard to get a happy picture from little miss teethy anyways. she is getting some sharp little chompers in there, she always "kisses" by leaning over and kinda munching and licking your face with open mouth, haha, but now it actually hurt a little bit! well, im exhausted but i'll talk to you all again soon...good night! ↑
Name: jenna32 | Date: Jul 3rd, 2008 10:20 AM
Macy's starting to crawl now!! Well not really,but she can kind of push herself up and slide around, time really has flew by!! ↑
Name: Zeke | Date: Jul 3rd, 2008 7:10 PM
Not too much new here. Just wanted to wish everyone a great holiday weekend. I got my JCP pictures online now. If you want to check them out. go to smilesbywire(dot)com The Customer name is Rebekah Woolsey and access code is LTPP0213106812JCP. Bobby was really good for the pictures. The two year old was being a two year old. But - there ended up being some cute ones. ↑
Name: margie | Date: Jul 7th, 2008 1:03 PM
where is everyone??? ZEKE- your pictures turned out really cute! i can't wait to get mine back! jenna32- Anjelica can kind of scoot around too now, its freaking me out because our apartment is NOT child proof whatsoever and really small so I have some work to do before she's able to really get movin...luckily I have a pack n play I used for her bassinet so I can convert that to the playpen and put her in there when she starts to get around too much and I am cleaning the kitchen or cooking or something. Hope you all had a great holiday! ↑
Hello all sorry I've been MIA so long. We got rid of our house guest she was so lazy. I told her she needed to find something else cuz it wasn't working. We went camping 2 times and took Joe 1time. He loved it! I put some pics up on piczo. he is very mobile now so it is all I can do to get anything done. We have a couple of steps at the back door that I can't put a gate around so guess where he goes! Anyway it is so fun to watch him explore. DH just fixed my computer i had been asking him for 2 weeks. My oldest son is 19 and moving out in the morning. he and his cousin are getting an appt. together. We had my neice and nephew for a week and then some cousins come for a visit. It has been a crazy couple of weeks. Sounds like ev eryone is doing well and getting lots of pics done. I had cousin pis taken when I had my brothers kids. They turned out nice. Well I will have to go back and read last months posts again so I can update myself . Hope you are all well. ↑
Name: socurbaby7 | Date: Jul 7th, 2008 9:06 PM
hey ladies... im sorry i havent been saying ne thing for a while... jus life is full of drama and what not... and its all finally settling down... i have court on thursday... but i cant help but be nervous as hell about it... like just seein her .. thinking about it makes me sick to my stomache... ahh... and has ne one not gotten there period... i mean i had a lil spottin here and there... but other then that nothing... im scared i might be preggo... but i dont wanna test either... to much reality for me.,.. anyway veronica is sooo mobile... she gets into and around everything... her brother is driving me a lil nutty tho.. and im trying to find an affordable preschool for him.. but it's not looking good in the affordability department... ahhhh... ill write more later im exhausted... ↑
Name: margie | Date: Jul 7th, 2008 11:15 PM
Hey if you guys want to see our pictures they are at: smilesbywire(dot)com The Customer name is Margie Chase and access code is LTPP0652108198JCP ↑
Name: socurbaby7 | Date: Jul 8th, 2008 7:53 AM
omg margie... shes soooo cute... and i love the picture with the bubbles lol ↑
Name: tish212 | Date: Jul 8th, 2008 9:16 AM
hello ladies, i know long long time huh? Things have been really busy around here lately, but i will try to catch everyone up...lets see MIL has had TWO emergency surgieries on her eye from her retina tearing. We went to my SIL's graduation and that night MIL said she could only halfway see out of her eye...the next morning she woke up blind out of that eye. They did the surgery to only find out 2 weeks later they had to redo it...so she had to restart the 8 weeks bed rest again, and she is going insane...shes entered a bit of a depression. The my grandfather in law got back surgery where they put titanium plates between l3 and l4 and l4 and l5.... so he is in bad shape right now too.... SIL says she has found a place to move to so she is leaving her abusive husband (we shall see) and BFF found a new guy who treats her like a queen, and she is happy as a clam if they are happy! Now onto my lil princess- she had her 6 month appt late because of the Johns Hopkins visits, and she weighed 15lbs 6oz, and is ONLY 24 1/4 inches 50th for weight and only 10th for height the dr said he is gonna closely watch her height but he thinks it is because of how short me and MIL are. She didnt get her ears pierced because the lady that does it wasn't there that day...so she has an appt for July 16th. She did great for her shots, she screamed for like 10 seconds and then didn't care any more. Though she was fussy the rest of the day and sleep all the day the next...and now i can barely ever get my lil energizer bunny to take a nap...lol thankfully lil miss wake mommy up early is laying next to me and i guess from boredom she fell asleep lol. PHEW! Now onto how she is becoming a BIG girl.... well she can get into the crawl position and rock and if determined enough she will crawl, but mostly right now she lifts herself up on her knees and keeps her head down and pushes herself forward... the dr said he thinks she may just skip crawling and o to walking, now WHY would he think that you ask...BECAUSE she cruises... does that make sense? she grabs something pulls herself up and can stand while holding onto like the couch or something like that...shes a lil wobbly still and falls a lot, but she knows how to do it...crazy baby. she has taken over mommies side of the bed, i literally sleep on the very edge of the bed now so she can sleep in the middle of my side....spoiled lol. well i will be adding more pics to my piczo just a few... but they will be on the page marked ALEXA 6 MONTHS, so please feel free to check it out tish212.piczo.com well ladies i would love to talk more but i have sooo much to get done...hope to talk to you all soon!! ↑
Name: Buffi R. | Date: Jul 8th, 2008 11:23 AM
Hi ladies! I love everone's pictures!! I even got to see Tish's Piczo site because I'm logged on from home today - can't see that one from work. I haven't been on since late last week. Our home computer died over the weekend, but it's OK now. And I'm on a week's vacation from work! Woo Hoo!!!! I'm having what they call a "stay-cation" where I'm home just doing projects and trying to reclaim my personal life after I got really busy with work a few months ago. Margie - Cameron had normal hearing at birth because he passed his newborn hearing screen, but some time between then and 12 months (when we really started wondering about it) he lost it. One of the earlier theories on the cause was this really powerful antibiotic he took called Gentamycin when he got an intestinal infection at a week old from his prematurity. This drug is known to cause hearing loss in some people, but apparently you have to have a genetic trait to be affected by it, and he tested negative for that when we did some genetic screenings on him. He also tested negative for the most common hereditary causes (thinking ahead to future children, we did this testing a long time ago). The Geneticist said based on his testing and medical history, she thinks the hearing impairment came from the oxygen deprivation he had during the birth (from the placental abruption I had that caused him to deliver early) and also from the 10 days he was on a ventilator after he got the infection. He was also septic for awhile from the infection, and that might have caused it too, or it could have been a combination of everything. Apparently hearing loss can take awhile to set in, so even though these things happened early on, it probably didn't affect him for awhile. When he was 8 months old, I remember him being very "normal" and "easy", then it all went down hill. His behavior got very erratic and he started developing sensory-seeking habits like stuffing his mouth way too full of food, banging his hands on things a lot, he got very loud vocally, etc, etc, so that's when we think the hearing impairment set in. And ladies, don't read anything into this with your kids. If they develop some of these behaviors too some day, don't freak out. I mean he was WAAYY on the far side of normal with these things, plus he wasn't responding to sound, so don't be worried about your kids. It's good that Cameron had hearing for awhile, because it's one of the reasons he took so well to the cochlear implant and being able to speak well. He barely has even a twinge of the typical deaf accent. Even at the start of his speech therapy, the few sounds he did make were perfectly clear. He speaks and hears so well now, you'd never know he was hearing impaired if you couldn't see the equipment. We're always watching Maddie for signs of deafness, but so far she seems completely normal. The fact that she can wake from a deep sleep to even quiet sounds make us feel very assured that she won't ever have this problem. Well, I better go. I got on the computer today to start working on some of our insurance claims (one of things I never have time to check on from work anymore). I've been stalling, not looking forward to getting back to my to-do list. :-) Have a great week everyone! ↑
Name: Zeke | Date: Jul 10th, 2008 12:11 PM
Margie - I love the pictures, they are so cute. Socur - I haven't started my cycles back yet either. Funny, I took a pg test tuesday just to be sure. It was neg of course. Nothing much new right now, it's been super hot and really smoky here because of all the fires in CA - they keep putting warnings out to keep children indoors and windows closed, which kind of stinks. Hope everyone is having a good day. ↑
Name: socurbaby7 | Date: Jul 10th, 2008 3:15 PM
so ladies... good news.... i went to court today and i finally have the official restraining order on her... she didnt even show because she didnt wanna look stupid i guess... anyway i become the guardian of d'caury next week... but i think we have to go to court after that too jus to make everything final.... but omg... finally drama free life ... idk even know whats going on wit my baby daddy.. i let him see the kids on wednesday like usual... and he has this control over me to make me forget im mad and jus make me smile and laugh... and i hate it cause he acts like im not mad and jus continues on like there was nothing wrong... and it gets frustrating... but its good around the kids too...idk.... i need to find me a new guy lol... i have to get the kids pics done tooo but i dont have too much extra money now...but d'caurys turnin 4 att he end of the month and veronicas 6 months so i needa get on this... anyway gotta go... have a great day ↑
Name: tish212 | Date: Jul 10th, 2008 5:36 PM
well not much going on here....alexa is waking bright and early ever morning now...daddy gets up at 5 am and well now so does she so mommy isn't getting much sleep anymore....she thinks when i go to bed at night that it is play time lol and she is fighting her naps during the day so i usually have a fussy grouch with me...lol... she is doing great though saying mama has become perfectly clear now,...and she likes to stick her tongue out...she has also began to wave to people when i tell her to say bye....its so cute! well not much else going on here just wanted to check in.... have a great day ladies! ↑
Name: margie | Date: Jul 14th, 2008 2:21 PM
Buffi- it sounds like Cameron has actually survived through a lot. He is doing pretty well considering the prematurity and the placental abruption and the infection. What a little miracle he is! I hope you enjoy your stay-cation...I need one of those too! Luckily work for me today hasn't been to crazy yet, next week I am covering for someone on vacation again so I am expecting a ton of work. Zeke- where do you live in California? I have heard of other people taking a really long time to get back to normal cycles too, are you breastfeeding? socurbaby- congratulations on your good news in court! hope your life will be a little more peaceful. I'm not even going to get into the ex thing...you already know he's bad for you it sounds like. It's good to put aside problems when there are children involved, but don't get too carried away because you know how he is! tish- that is so cute that Alexa is waving now! I have been trying to show Anjelica how to do that but she hasn't quite got it. She kind of sticks her tongue out. Her latest thing is babbling up a storm! She all of a sudden can get all these consonant sounds that she couldn't get before. She now says mama still, but also dada..baba..yaya..nana. A lot of them don't really mean anything much but for all I know they do to her. It's so funny because I just babble back to her and she will really listen and sometimes laugh like I said a funny joke, she is a riot! We took her up to Cottonwood, AZ which is about an hour and half away from where we live in Phoenix to see her Great Grandma and Tony's aunts and cousins and all their kids, she had a blast! She is really friendly and doesn't have the "stranger danger" mechanism yet so she let everyone play with her and love on her, she LOVES being center of attention. Hope you all have a great day....can't wait to hear updates from you all again soon! Bye for now! ↑
Name: tish212 | Date: Jul 14th, 2008 3:34 PM
MARGIE- OMG i wish alexa would say dada, we have been trying forever to get her to say it, but she refuses.... she is on day 4 of her cling to ONLY mommy days.... yesterday we went to MIL house and she wouldn't let anyone touch her... everytime someone tried to take her from me she would turn her head away from them and grab onto me tighter.... it breaks my heart not only that she is scared but that she isn't letting anyone else have time with her....this is gonna make my family reuinion next month really hard.... since it will be the first time she meets anyone from my family like my grampa.... and i dont want her to not let em hold her... uggggg..... i love her with everything i have inside but my arms are killing me and so is my back because she wont let me put her down..... right now thankfully she is sleeping.... but it wont last long... cuz shortly she will be up again ready to cling to mommy. She isn't sick or anything i have taken her temp and when she is with me she plays and laughs and everything is normal-its just when i put her down or dh takes her....she let him take her for 3 mins yesterday then leaned as hard as she could toward me and threw both of her arms out saying mama mama.... so i took her.... i know it bothers him a bit... but he wont let that show.... ugggg i am working on my list of things to pack for our trip to New York in august (for the reunion) its just so different now that i have her, so much more to pack.... well i better go lots of things to get done before she gets up.... have a great day ladies! ↑
Name: Zeke | Date: Jul 14th, 2008 5:21 PM
MARGIE - I actually live in Reno (NV). It's a few hours away from any of the fires but the smoke has been horrible here. The air quality is a level 2 still which means you aren't supposed to open your windows or spent much time outside. Yep, I'm still nursing but I do think I'll start my cycles again soon. I have been really crampy the last few days - so I think things are returning to normal. TISH - bobby has been clingy too. It's not that I have to hold him, but if he sees me he thinks I should be holding him so he'll cry. Which is kind of frustrating. He will be playing happily in the living room with dd and dh and if he even catches me walk by out of the corner of his eye, he'll cry for me to come get him. Good thing I don't mind carting him around with me :-) ↑
Name: socurbaby7 | Date: Jul 15th, 2008 8:35 AM
hey everyone, hows everyone doing... everythings going fine here... veronica says mama... dada.. buhbye... and hi... she doesnt really understand them but she says em... the first time she said dada... we had just arrived at my ex's house and she goes "hi dada" i was like... wtf... it was amazing but i was like she barely ever sees him and does that lol... so me and the ex are now only seeing eachother once a week so the kids can see eachother... i become d'caurys guardian tomorrow...well... i think thats all i have for right now... ↑
Name: tish212 | Date: Jul 15th, 2008 11:31 AM
ZEKE- i dont mind carrying alexa at all i love my lil sugar bear.... but occasionally a break would be GREAT, when i say she is stuck to my side i MEAN all the time, i cant even go to the bathroom i have to hold her while i pee, i mean COME ON lol!!! oh last night we were playing with her on the bed and i had her standing (she can stand up as long as she has something to hold to keep her balance, (but she holds herself up) and she started taking normal good steps on her own! She walked all the way across the bed! she did it over and over again!!! i really think her dr is right that she will skip crawling, because then we tried to show her how to crawl and she got mad and tried to stand up again! well gotta go she is awake from her nap!
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Name: Buffi R. | Date: Jul 15th, 2008 12:34 PM
Hi ladies! When my son was a baby, we never had any stranger anxiety to deal with. We used to say that he was a kidnapping waiting to happen because he'd go with anyone. :-) Maddie surprised us with a little of that, like sometimes she won't smile at other adults (she cried once when a stranger looked at her in the stroller) or let them hold her, but overall it's very manageable. Nothing like what you're going through Tish. Right now, it's a lot like what Zeke said. Maddie will play well with her brother or DH, but if I walk through the room, she'll cry for me. Tish, I'm not sure what the answer is, but you might want to mention it to her doctor in case they have any suggestions. In our case, we probably got around the problem with Maddie having a sibling who gets a lot of my attention, and with my son's medical problems from birth, he was raised by about 50 different people counting all the nurses, doctors, physical therapists, etc. who worked with him. Both kids were in day care from an early age too. Maddie isn't saying any specific words yet like mama (or at least words with meaning that we can tell) but she's definitely babbling more, so hopefully that's right around the corner. My son gets so excited when she babbles. He says, "Maddie's trying to talk!!" like he can't wait to start talking back with her. He's so cute with her. I can't believe how lucky we are that they get along so well together. Knock on wood that lasts awhile! LOL I wonder if Maddie will skip crawling too. She's been so close for weeks now, but she still just crawls backwards or rolls everywhere she needs to go. Her latest thing is getting up on her hands and toes, but she still isn't moving forward. She tried so hard to pull herself into a standing position in her crib this morning. This weekend DH, DS and I are all going to Cedar Point (that's an amusement park in Ohio, about 3 or 4 hours from our home in Michigan). Maddie is staying home with DH's parents. This will be my son's first time there. He's not quite tall enough to ride the big rides, but that's OK. I'm looking forward to checking out all the kiddie areas I've never seen before, and there's one big roller coaster he is tall enough to ride, so I'll bet we'll go on that too. He's such a wild man, I'm sure he'll love it. I turn 35 on Saturday the 19th and originally my birthday present from DH was a trip there for ourselves, then we decided it would be more fun to bring Cameron. DH & I are too old to ride the big rides all weekend long! LOL This will be a nice "get-reacquainted-trip" with Cameron too. He hasn't had much one-on-one time with us since Maddie was born. Talk later! ↑
Name: tish212 | Date: Jul 15th, 2008 3:37 PM
BUFFI- we will be taking a trip to kings dominion later on this year...we are taking my little BIL since he has never gotten to go, so me and DH are gonna take him on all the rides while MIL and FIL watch alexa (they will be there with us, just not riding rides) we went 2 years ago with some friends (around halloween time) and had a blast! I love roller coasters! so BIL has been begging to go but MIL was freaking out cuz she doesnt want him to ride rides by himself...so we offered to go if she can watch alexa... so we are planing on going maybe in OCT.... right now we are still trying to be ready to go to NY, phew i keep thinking of things that i need to add to my list, i am a type A person for things like that i HAVE to have a list, plans and all that way in advance.... that way i KNOW i am prepared....lol our trip is a month away still and i have already begun to want to pack to make sure i have everything lol....Alexa has an appt to get her ears pierced tomorrow, i hope (if the lady is there) but i wont get to see her dr, only the nurse that pierces ears...her next appt is in sept..... alec thinks its an anxiety she has that i may go away and not come back...since she spends EVERY minute with me..... she doesn't go to daycare and hasn't been babysat for almost like 3 months now... so she is 100% all mommy all the time.... he seems to think its an insecurity she has that she might not know where mommy is at.... so i dunno.... she seems to be learning sooo much lately! its like everyday she learns something new... she now can watch me doing something and will imitate it...like i was showing her today how to push a toy off the tray of her walker and then she would do it, i know its not much but to me it is everything.... i love every little thing she learns.... but PHEW isn't time just flying by? our lil ones are now 7 months ONLY 5 months till their 1st bdays....anyone have any plans for it???? i had thought of things but then i remembered it was the middle of winter lol so no bbq like i wanted...so i am thinking of something else... well gotta run... have a great day ladies! ↑
Hello all! you all still have so much time to get on here how do you do it? Joseph is constantly on the move. He crawls so well now. He even goes thru his exersaucer now like its a tunnel. He just cut 2 more teeth and now has 4. This 2 at a time is miserable. He loves the swimming pool and I even put him in the sprinkler today just a little like the mist part and he loved that. Alexa is just beautiful love the new pics! Joseph still doesn't say anything would love to hear mama or dada. but he'll talk in his own time. I will go back and catch up on everyones posts. My oldest moved out last week and had us over for dinner tonight. it was pretty cool. It amazes me how grown up he is now. His appt is in good order it looked like a dump when I seen it last wek but he cleaned it up nice. I am so proud of him. I just pray he can make ends meet all the time. It's such a hard time for everyone with prices of everything going up. I can only imagine how hard it is just starting out. Hpe you all are well. going to go read now will check back as soon as I can! ↑
Name: socurbaby7 | Date: Jul 17th, 2008 7:10 AM
hey ladies.. i forgot to tell you my other big news... i start work today!!!! im working mostly weekends and some nights.... just so i have someone to watch the kids while im gone... im working at a museum (getting my foot in the door for when I graduate) and at a hotel ( as a breakfast hostess and some desk shifts) ... omg... ive been trying to get a milk supply for my family when they have to watch her... boy has that been fun... i hadnt been pumpin all summer and now all of a sudden im tyring to milk myself 4 times a day lol... ive been driunkin a gallon of water a day and taking fenugreek.... omg has ne one else noticed that one of there boobs is a lot bigger then the other.. i mean i have always been slightly lopsided but wow its really noticable now lol...anyway i have to get everything ready for later have a great day ladies ↑
Name: margie | Date: Jul 17th, 2008 2:12 PM
BUFFI- I'm SO jealous!!! My family used to live in Michigan and although I was too young and scared to do the Cedar point thing when we moved (I was only 6) when we went back to visit and we drove there and I LOOOOOOVED it!!! We have Six Flags in CA which is like about 6 hours away but Cedar Point is so much more fun to me! The Mantis and the Raptor were my favorites. TISH- in some ways I almost wish that Anjelica was more clingy to me as silly as that sounds, now that she can say dada she yells for him instead of me when she needs something instead of mama like she used to. i think shes very proud that she finally can make different sounds. WANTANOTHERAFTERTR- I can't believe that josheph is crawling that well and already has 4 teeth! that is awesome, anjelica is still working at the crawling thing but she mostly lays on the ground on her tummy lifting her head up with her arms and kicking her legs around like a frog and crying eventually cause she isn't getting anywhere, the getting the tummy off the ground part is a little difficult for her so far. she is working on more teeth im pretty sure though because she has been acting like she is in pain lately and having sleeping problems again...uh-oh, here we go again! SOCURBABY- good luck on the job! so you are working and going to school at the same time and a mommy? thats a lot of work! but its worth it in the long run, I sooo wish that i had finished school when i had an opportunity, now its too hard, i dont know when its going to happen! well, thats about it for now ladies...i am waiting for the stupid glass place to call me here at work so i can meet them out there to replace my windshield....XBs are the worst with cracking glass! i guess cause they are so flat. talk to you later! ↑
Name: tish212 | Date: Jul 18th, 2008 9:39 AM
Just wanted to post that alexa got her ears pierced on wednesday-and did just fine! She only cried while the nurse was holding her, as soon as she was in my arms she was fine.... and now my lil girl looks more like a lil girl no matter what i dress her in! ↑
Name: Buffi R. | Date: Jul 18th, 2008 12:52 PM
Hi! I'm popping in on my lunch break to check in since I won't be on-line for a few days while we're in Ohio. (Wantanother....that's about the only time I get on-line, from work, at least when work isn't too busy to have to work through my lunch....) Margie, that's cool you've been to Cedar Point. Like you, I was a chicken about roller coasters when I was young, but I love them now. My favorite is the Magnum. It's been around for a few years, but I still like it the best. Of course, we won't be on any big ones this time since we'll have Cameron in tow, but that's OK. If I really want to ride one, DH can stay with him while I go on one by myself, but that might seem strange, like going out to dinner by yourself. The waiting in line by myself could be really boring. :-) We have lots of packing still to do tonight. We'll be lucky if we get to the hotel before midnight. Maddie still doesn't have any teeth and she's still not crawling, but I have to keep reminding myself that might be a good thing and I should enjoy it while it lasts. :-) Last night she made me wonder if she'll skip crawling. She got up on her hands and toes with her butt in the air and held it for about 30 seconds. She moved her hands back towards her feet and it looked like she was trying to stand up, but then she flopped back down. Hopefully she doesn't pick this weekend to do something new while MIL is watching her. DS crawled for the first time while MIL was watching him once. Oh, I have to tell you guys what I did to Maddie recently, and believe me, I'm not proud of it. I injured her on accident and I feel so bad!! I was putting her in this little travel high chair we use for her solid feedings (we have a regular high chair too, but it's still in the box). The tray snaps down on the arm rests and I accidentally pinched her finger on one side! The worst part was, she started crying and I just figured she was crying to be fed, so I was like, "Hold on, Maddie, I'm working on it", getting the bowl ready. When she started crying harder I realized something else was going on. She was flapping her one arm up and down (the loose one) and the other was firmly stuck to the chair, then I realized what hapened. She was getting pinched for about 20 seconds before I figured it out and got her free. She bawled and clung to me for several minutes and WOW did I feel bad. We used this same chair with my son for several years and never had that problem, but now I'm really cautious how I put the tray on. It's like "hand check!" every time I use it now. Well, gotta go. Back to work..... Have a great weekend everyone, and Socur, congratulations on your new jobs!!! ↑
Name: margie | Date: Jul 18th, 2008 1:36 PM
BUFFI- I think that they are all designed that way where the tray can easy pinch fingers and arms because i have almost done that a few times with anjelica with her high chair...so far ive been lucky, but i can see how could really easily happen for sure. Oh and have a great time on your trip! I bet Cameron is going to love it. TISH- I bet she looks so cute with her earrings! I picked up Anjelica's pictures from pennys yesterday and her earrings really showed up in them and looked so pretty on her! the pictures came out great by the way, but i wish i had bought the cd so I could just print out as many as I wanted on my own...I might do that next time. ah, back to work, boooo!!!! hehe, talk to you all later ↑
Name: Buffi R. | Date: Jul 21st, 2008 12:10 PM
Hi all! Back from our trip. How's everyone? Not much activity from you ladies over the weekend. I'm glad I didn't miss too much. Cameron had SOOOO much fun at Cedar Point. We're changing his middle name to "No Fear". LOL He was tall enough to ride two of the "big" coasters and he couldn't get enough of them. Fortunately, he had a lot of fun on the kiddie rides too and in the water park. We had a little excitement on the drive over when our rear driver's side tire blew out on the Ohio Tollroad. (while I was driving!!!) That was pretty scary, but DS slept through the whole thing and DH got the tire changed in about 20 minutes. It was just slow goings from there on out, including the 3 hour trip home. But we had great gas mileage driving slow!! Guess there's a bright side. DH's parents brought Maddie home last night so the family's all back together. She didn't crawl for them either, so I'm glad I didn't miss that. But she does have a wicked cold now that keeps her up at night. I'm very, very tired today, trying not to fall asleep at my desk at work. Margie - does JCP have pictures on CD? In the whole year I've been using them, I haven't noticed that. I think I answered someone else's post wrong too when she asked if JCP had gone digital, I told her I didn't think they had CD's - just the pic's on line. I know with the on-line ones, you can download them for screen savers and some people think they make decent prints for the relatives, but they're not high enough resolution for your own prints. I can't remember exactly how to download them, but I think if you right-click on the image, you can select that option, or there might even be a download button for that. I remember it was pretty easy to do. If they have CD's I would imagine the resolution is the same as the on-line pic's. But please let me know about the CD, now I'm curious. Talk later! ↑
Name: socurbaby7 | Date: Jul 21st, 2008 5:13 PM
hey ladies.. omg... soo busy with everything... i worked thurs fri sat and sun... and im tired... i had to pump soo much milk ahead of time jus to get through this... and i have to keep pumping... its jus a lil annoying... cause im not used to having to pump all the time... its worth it... jus a lot of extra work... anyway... hows everyone doing ↑
Name: tish212 | Date: Jul 21st, 2008 6:11 PM
HEY LADIES!!! Phew what a BIG weekend we had! We are going to a family reunion in august and i told Alec i wanted to get some new clothes for it....ive lost a lot of weight even weight i had before alexa- i have dropped 3 pants sizes!!! (that is from prepregnancy weight!) so i wanted some better fitting clothes to wear when we went out there. Also I have been using all all extra money to get alexa clothes and toys and such- so Alec busted his butt working tons of over time at work and took me shopping on saturday. I had no idea we were gonna go this weekend so i was soooo happy friday when he said we should go to bed early since we had a BIG day of shopping a head of us.... I got some cute clothes and i am sooo happy! (of course today i went out and bought alexa 5 new shirts and 2 new pairs of jeans, she has so many clothes she never wears the same thing twice except pj's and some of her cute shirts like the one that says UFC, and the one that says i love my daddy even though he's an asshole LOL) Then sunday we went to MIL and spent the entire day there, we had brunch which was great she made fried eggs, bacon biscuits and gravy so i had an bacon and egg sandwhich and a biscuit with gravy lol i was such a pig lol! then for dinner we had filet minion (MIL had never had it so she wanted to try it so i made it for her) corn and spanish rice ( i know werid combo lol) and she loved the steak so i gave her the recipe and she is tickled pink! She is also doing a lot better with her eye, the pain is a lot better now but her eye is still pretty swollen so she can't open it...but she is out moving more so she isn't as depressed as she was. And she had a great time with alexa yesterday.... even though at first alexa wouldn't let anyone else hold her except me-she is really going through that stranger thing....OMG speaking of strangers on Saturday i was holding her while in line to check out and i felt alexa's leg start to shake and i turned to see why and this random lady had come up and grabbed her leg and was shaking it! I was like what the??!!! so i kindly asked her to NOT touch her since i didn;t know where her hands had been and alexa was just getting over a fever from teething i dont want her getting sick again, BESIDES who just walks up and touches someone elses child?? I flipped out i thought she was trying to pull her away from me at first because of how hard she was pulling on alexa's leg.... i almost hit her.... i know that sounds wrong but dont doubt me to beat the crap outta anyone that tried to take alexa or hurt her! well the other day she said dadadada to alec but she only said it 2 times and hasn't said it since but we are trying soooooo hard to get her to do it again.... and she loves to sing in the car..... i turn the music on and she sits in her car seat singing away it is sooo cute.....well i gotta put her down for a nap hope everyone is well!!! ↑
Name: margie | Date: Jul 21st, 2008 7:58 PM
hi buffi, thats awesome that you had such a great time! i had a tire go out on me recently too, it was no fun...but at least everything turned out ok. oh and ya you can order the cds online, but you cant purchase them in the studio, so if you go to the smilesbywire website they are on there, but they are 99 dollars!!! socurbaby, i can't imagine having to pump while working because i work and it would be so hard for me to do...but at the same time i wish that i was lucky enough to be able to breastfeed. hi tish! isn't it funny how we have that mama bear instinct where we would kill for our babies, lol, i know for a fact that i get that way...even with my own family! im soooo protective. i have had a HELL of a week ladies...first of all, my brother is back from vegas which i knew would happen--he is a former drug addict and current alcoholic, he was living with a girl up there but they got in some huge fight and now he's back...he just goes girl to girl and lives with them while they work and he sits at home drinking beer all day, he has some pretty severe emotional issues from drug use and guilt about how he treated my parents while they were alive...anyways we are really close and i love him to death but he is staying at my little dinky apartment and sleeping on the couch until he figures something else out.....i feel so bad because i want to help him change his life but it appears he has no interest in anything but talking about it....thats one thing. then i had a great weekend and came home to a note at my door...apparently this girl that parks next to my space decided that i damaged her car with my door--um, NO, i had to back out of my space to even get IN that side because she parked so out of whack and ive been thinking of asking the office to move my space for a while because of her lack of parking skills. so i call her and go to her door, she doesnt answer either even though both of their cars were there. then at 11:30 at night she decides to call and says to meet her outside to talk about it--are you kidding me??? so i did and ended up having a near to screaming match with her in the parking lot. her logic was so messed up saying things like "if you didnt do it then why are you so mad?" and saying shes going to take me to court over a door ding that i didnt even do! what is she going to do...get CSI to investigate it? please! i have a white car, um, hello! the white paint could have been ANYONES! i know that we have assigned parking but how does she know she didnt get it the night before. so now i have to go and talk to the office about moving my space because i am NOT parking next to her anymore. thank you for letting me vent! lol. oh one more thing...2 people are out in my group and so i have a LOOOOOOOOTTTTT of work to do this week. at least i can do the overtime from home after anjelica goes to sleep...if i can stay up, im exhausted. ↑
