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[Piecey]

This is how I found him this morning. Er, well, NOON!

Uh oh.. I woke him up!

(that is a 12month sleeper! )

They grow so fast.

 

[Disney Ron]

I got the best deal on Enfamil yesterday at Walgreens. I got 4 jumbo size cans with an extra 20% of formula for just $37.26. This would have been close to $100 without coupons. Coupons saved me $62.70

2 formula checks for $5 each
2 manufacturer coupons for $5 each
2 Walgreens register tape by one get one coupons (max.up to $13.85ea)
5 store flyer coupons for $3 each (should have been just 4 but i noticed on my receipt I got credit for 5 )

I was so darn proud of myself!

 

[Piecey]

That is awesome!! Way to go!!

Melessa, I can't imagine. I get the whole seasonal depression thing a bit too. I know that my PPD (which still hits me from time to time) would have been a million times worse if Lucas hadn't been born in June. It really helped me to go out on one of the porches and just "get away" when I needed to!

I'm glad this transition has been easier for you... I guess that makes sense. By now you've gotten used to it and most of the major changes are done and over with.

Have you thought anymore about going back to work?...



I REALLY need to get busy.

 

[harleyquinn]

Love the pictures Patsy!

Sounds like Lily is going through another growth spurt (right on time). My mom said she's had 3 bottles already (she usually only has 3 total until I get home at 6:30!) and between bottles she is sleeping in her swing (for 2 + hours).

Is it wrong to hope my mom has to deal with the worst of it and maybe she'll sleep with me tonight?

 

[caitty13]

I just wanted to share a picture of my little one's, I took this lastnight. Lilliana was not happy at all but it was warm out and I wanted an outside picture.

 

[Piecey]

Not wrong at all!

I have one package of super cheap diapers leftover from my baby shower.. and I hide the good ones and pull those out when my SIL comes to babysit.

I think it's natural for us to hope we get the more enjoyable time with our kiddos and not someone else. We did do most of the work, anyway!


....I'm going to go get productive now. Stacy and I are so bad! We sat on Facebook last night chatting about how we should be packing.

 

[ShootingStarMom2]

Hi everyone,
I have ten $5 off Enfamil Premium Lipid formula if anyone uses that kind. My sister went on a retreat this weekend and they did a huge coupon exchange. She took all the leftover inserts and I thought maybe someone could use them. I saw the formula list a while back, but can't remember who uses which. They expire on 11/30, but if you bulk buy it might come in handy.

 

[harleyquinn]

There's a list? maybe we can add it to the first post so we can always find it?

I get tons of formula coupons that I don't need.

On a seperate note, stupid me realized something yesterday. I had been giving Lily the frozen milk out of the stash i had developed. I have no idea why it didn't occur to me to give her the stuff I had pumped the day before. I guess I just hate the idea of wasting all the milk in the freezer. I get twice as much as I need at each pump, so I have a lot extra. Doh

 

[DannysMom]

I had been giving Lily the frozen milk out of the stash i had developed. I have no idea why it didn't occur to me to give her the stuff I had pumped the day before. I guess I just hate the idea of wasting all the milk in the freezer. I get twice as much as I need at each pump, so I have a lot extra. Doh

You can send both fresh & frozen to be used while you are at work. You'll just go through your frozen milk more slowly. You might want to mark the thawed milk to be used first, as thawed milk should be used that day & fresh pumped milk will keep (refridgerated) for about a week.

 

[harleyquinn]

You can send both fresh & frozen to be used while you are at work. You'll just go through your frozen milk more slowly. You might want to mark the thawed milk to be used first, as thawed milk should be used that day & fresh pumped milk will keep (refridgerated) for about a week.

Thanks Valerie! That's what they ladies on Kellymom said too.

Kinda nice that I left one thawed bottle and the rest fresh for my mom today totally by accident. I'm thinking I might pump directly into her bottles for half to save on the breastmilk bags too.

 

[Piecey]

I did a list off of memory a few weeks ago. I'm not positive if I was entirely accurate though. If people let me know that what I *think* is right I can add it to the first post.

I obviously dropped the ball on the list on the first page... the last time I updated it I was still in the hospital after having Lucas!


I think it goes like this:
Enfamil-- Maggie, Disney Ron, Mendy
Similac-- Me, Disney Ron, Staley, Veronica (Stacy used to but now hers is covered 100% by insurance so not anymore)
Good Start-- Mendy, Caitlin

 

[HomeSweetDisney]

Boy you're GOOD, Patsy

So my biggest problem with Jake's sleeping has been that he starts out the night in the crib but then after his 3 or 4 a.m. feeding he screams bloody murder if I put him back in the crib & he ends up sleeping with me. Well last night he wouldn't fall asleep till 11 but then he slept till 3:30 and went back to sleep IN THE CRIB until 6:30. I was amazed! I am hoping I can get him to do that again tonight. Wish me luck

 

[december]

Thanks Valerie! That's what they ladies on Kellymom said too.

Kinda nice that I left one thawed bottle and the rest fresh for my mom today totally by accident. I'm thinking I might pump directly into her bottles for half to save on the breastmilk bags too.

I pump directly into bottles. I just cap them and then put all the Dr. Brown insert stuff in when I get home. I don't think I ever run out of milkso I just pump until I get 5 to 6 oz in each bottle, then stop. I have a huge freezer stash that I will probably never use (a good problem to have I know).

Boy you're GOOD, Patsy

So my biggest problem with Jake's sleeping has been that he starts out the night in the crib but then after his 3 or 4 a.m. feeding he screams bloody murder if I put him back in the crib & he ends up sleeping with me. Well last night he wouldn't fall asleep till 11 but then he slept till 3:30 and went back to sleep IN THE CRIB until 6:30. I was amazed! I am hoping I can get him to do that again tonight. Wish me luck

I've been putting Katie in her bed at night. Sometimes she will sleep in it awhile-sometimes not at all. She slept until 5:30 Sat morning, but since then hasn't made it past 3:30. And like Jake, there is NO putting her back when she wakes up!

I'm so jealous of Patsy right now! He was so cute in his bed after sleeping half the day away!

 

[staley7580]

This is how I found him this morning. Er, well, NOON!

Uh oh.. I woke him up!

(that is a 12month sleeper! )

They grow so fast.

OMG!! SO CUTE!!

We are having MAJOR sleep issues right now. I know it is because my husband is home, and the kiddos arent used to it.. But I have gotten a total of about five hours of sleep since Saturday. I spent Sunday night trying to sleep on the living room floor with Vinny and Kaylee. My husband is such a loud sleeper.. I cant even sleep in the room with him!

 

[staley7580]

oh... and the babies have just outgrown their 12 month clothes. I JUST BOUGHT THEM. I practically had to grease them up to get them in their sleepers tonight.

 

[TiggerStac]

Not wrong at all!

I have one package of super cheap diapers leftover from my baby shower.. and I hide the good ones and pull those out when my SIL comes to babysit.

I think it's natural for us to hope we get the more enjoyable time with our kiddos and not someone else. We did do most of the work, anyway!


....I'm going to go get productive now. Stacy and I are so bad! We sat on Facebook last night chatting about how we should be packing.

So I should be finishing packing now....what I am doing catching up on disboards I have about an hour before I have to leave to get my hair, and toes done... thankfully everything is here and together, it just has to go into suitcase. Diaper bag is ready to go, minus Bradys sippy cup and snacks for brady/tyler for the plane. I have to keep remembering to put the h20/gel stuff for the kids in teh ziplock in the diaper bag. Need to add my handsantizer and contact lens drops...too. UGH. t-24 hours and we'll be driving to the airport.

 

[Piecey]

So I should be finishing packing now....what I am doing catching up on disboards I have about an hour before I have to leave to get my hair, and toes done... thankfully everything is here and together, it just has to go into suitcase. Diaper bag is ready to go, minus Bradys sippy cup and snacks for brady/tyler for the plane. I have to keep remembering to put the h20/gel stuff for the kids in teh ziplock in the diaper bag. Need to add my handsantizer and contact lens drops...too. UGH. t-24 hours and we'll be driving to the airport.

I still have NOTHING packed for us. A few more loads of laundry to do. Still have an assignment due for one of my classes. I've just been lazy all day. I do have some of Lucas' basic stuff packed up... some formula, diapers, and my cousin (who works on L&D at one of the hospitals) just brought me some of the RTF bottles. Woohoo!

She's never met Lucas and she made a comment that next time I deliver I should do it at ****(where she works) so she can see him.
Why do people do that? I'll deliver at the hospital I want to deliver at, which will definitely NOT be the one that she works at, and I think it's so strange for people to make comments like that. If I'd wanted to deliver there, wouldn't I have done it with my first kid, too??

They are the weird ones that I told you guys about earlier where c-sections are done in the regular OR and you go to recovery for THREE hours before you go back to the maternity area. No way!

 

[december]

Don't think I'm crazy when a new ticker shows up in my signature this weekend. I know I've planned and canceled 2 trips now (July and March). Dh was supposed to go in July, but made it clear he didn't want to. Even though I tried to cater the trip to him-booked a house offsite (got my deposit back yesterday), checked into golf courses for him to play while we were in the parks, was going to do 2 days at the space center, etc.

Then the 4-3 deal came out and I booked spring break, and was so excited. Then Southwest released the flights, and they were 250% of what I was expecting! Dh was griping, told ds12 that he would miss youth turkey hunting week, and he wanted a new job (which would mean we would have to move). Also, I checked my grad school schedule, and realized that I start my last class that week. So I canceled (not officially, but told the kids we wouldn't go). That made dh happy, but now he has decided NOT to look for another job.

I'm dying to go back, I have the money, and the kids want to go. So I've been fighting with myself all week. Then yesterday, I got a pin code for May and June! I finish grad school in early May, and we get out of school (me and the kids) on May 27. So I'm booking a trip for me and the kids, as a grad present to myself, starting on Memorial Day. I'm hoping the flights will be cheaper on the holiday itself. I don't care what they are though-I'm going this time! I may even book AKL instead of a Value-we'll see.

Ds12 will probably miss 1 or 2 little league games, but he said he didn't care. He is trying out for the junior high baseball team, and was worried about missing practice, but I talked to the coach yesterday (before I even got the pin code) and he told me not to worry about it and go.

I'm just aggravated at dh right now, and I guess I needed to vent. He "helps" but most of the work around here-cooking, cleaning, that baby-falls on me. The house is a wreck, again, and I feel like I have no help. I stay swamped with work all the time. In WDW, someone waits on me. They drive me, feed me, and clean up after me. I need that to look forward to.

The nail in the coffin was this afternoon. I always have kids with me-I drop Katie off at daycare, take the kids to school with me, bring them back home with me, and this week 3 times I've had other people's kids to take to and from school (they call and ask and I can't say no). This afternoon, I needed to run get some things, and dh got off at 12. So I dropped them off at home, waited to get Katie, and ran to a local outlet store. I was enjoying some alone time, and bought several Christmas presents and some warm clothes for Katie. I was gone for 48 min. Exactly. And dh was waiting on me when I pulled into the driveway ready to leave for a ballgame. He was mad that I was gone so long! And he only had 2 of the 3 kids! I love him, but some days I just want to smack him!

OK, vent over (for now)-thanks for listening!

 

[december]

I still have NOTHING packed for us. A few more loads of laundry to do. Still have an assignment due for one of my classes. I've just been lazy all day. I do have some of Lucas' basic stuff packed up... some formula, diapers, and my cousin (who works on L&D at one of the hospitals) just brought me some of the RTF bottles. Woohoo!

She's never met Lucas and she made a comment that next time I deliver I should do it at ****(where she works) so she can see him.
Why do people do that? I'll deliver at the hospital I want to deliver at, which will definitely NOT be the one that she works at, and I think it's so strange for people to make comments like that. If I'd wanted to deliver there, wouldn't I have done it with my first kid, too??

They are the weird ones that I told you guys about earlier where c-sections are done in the regular OR and you go to recovery for THREE hours before you go back to the maternity area. No way!

I can't wait to hear about your trip! I hope the 3 of you have a great time!

 

[ADAMANDLISA]

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Thanks for the signature art! Can't wait to try it out!

(yeah, husbands can really suck, can't they!)