Hi Ladies!
I hope everyone had a merry merry Christmas! It is New Years Eve!!! yay! Not that I can stay up to midnight these days, but we'll be celebrating on Paris time tonight, so at 6pm, the three of us will celebrate!
I have been sick since Christmas, got hit with the pneumonia again
Charlie has a bad cold now, just hoping and praying Poppy doesn't catch anything.
On Christmas Eve, we had to go to his sister's house and it is SUCH a production. They cry poor every 5 seconds then put on a lavish party (but with crappy food, I mean seriously, you can't say it is mac and cheese when it is just basically DRY noodles with an inch coating of almost burnt breadcrumbs!!!) and give out so many gifts! They are all showy people. We aren't. I told them up front that we usually get Poppy in bed by 8 and that we would bend the rules tonight and stay at her house until 8 (we got there at 4, and it takes 45 mins to get home - and he only had ONE morning nap and was already getting kooky). they took their sweet time and had a stupid trivia game that they made a big scene demanding Charlie and I couldn't be on the same team, yet 2 other married couples were on the same team. Whatever, just hurry this party along. By 7pm, I asked when we were eating because I had already feed poppy and he desperately needed a nap, being up since noon. she had JUST put the food on!!!!!!
Charlie and I ate quick, did the silly yankee swap, where I don't know why I bother, I had a theme for both, took time to pick things out (mine was a pizza theme.....a pizza peel(to transfer pizza), dried herbs, good olive oil, a pizza cutter, and a crust mix) and everyone else brought in gift cards. I just felt like it was a last minute thing, and some cards were towards supermarkets not even around us. Ugh. Anyways, they kept trying to take poppy AWAY from me, out of the room. Ah no. He stays with me. He gets a little weird around strangers, anyways. Fast forward to the blessed end of the party and they were physically trying to take the car seat out of my arms to swing it around. Hell No. GO AWAY. sigh. It was a long night. Christmas was at my mom's. Good food, but we didn't stay long. We were ignored by many, so actually it wasn't too bad!
Poppy is now a standing machine! ALL he wants to do is stand and gingerly cruise around.
He had been here and there standing up on us when we lay on the floor but 2 days after Christmas and we were playing on the floor......boom, he stands up against his little bouncy car. SOOOOOO proud of himself, gives a little scream of delight each time he stands. He can carefully get back down by himself too, so all day long, we are on the floor next to him as he stands up, screams in happiness, gets back down. Repeat - about 10,000 times. lol. but we love it! few bumps and falls but he giggles and says "mom-mom" and tries again!
We wear him out as his naps have been much easier since he has been moving so much!
Not much new on the food side, he is content to stay on the baby foods - we try table foods here and there, but he is ambivalent to them. One question - when do they start holding their own bottles to eat? I'm not complaining, as I love our bubba time, but he CAN hold a bottle and pick it up and swing it around, just won't feed himself. Is he a lazy baby who like bubba time with mom-mom too?
Or do they not do that yet? Not that I'm looking to give it up myself, just curious.
Steph - sorry about the colds! they are the pits, esp on vacation! So glad it was a good time!
Angela - love Ethan in the car! I foresee that in my future too!
So glad little Reece is such a good little boy!
Anna - I used to work in retail for years - and one christmas season helping out as a manager for a bakery. Although you WANT people to come in and boost sales, some people, eh, you can live Without!
Good luck into the 7-day stretch.
MA - there is something to be said for small, quiet families. As the youngest of 10, I'll never quite know that but it can get a little out of control. The only people who bought poppy a gift were charlie's sisters - on my side, just the godparents. That was it. Was I a little surprised as I spent a small fortune over the years on their kids (I have 19 nieces and nephews) and not one little card for my baby. I will admit I was surprised. Not out of a desire to get actual gifts, but come on, a flipping card would be nice. One sister is hellbent on pushing up one of her sons (the poor other one is nicer, gentler, smarter, and more down-to-earth, but is ignored, makes me so mad!) that you can't say ANYTHING without her one-upping you with him. If I say: oh, he's such a good boy, he slept 11 hours last night, she will come back and say: well, CHRIS was sleeping 13 hours from day 5. You just can't win. My mom was asking her (as she's a dental assistant) gee, is it common to have 7 teeth when he was 9 months, isn't that a little fast (my mom is so proud of poppy, I am so happy she has come around). Sis says: well, some kids get their first tooth quicker. CHRIS got his first tooth when he was 2 months old. Mom just changed the subject but talk about insecure! you can't do a darn thing without her oldest doing it bigger and better. tiring.
On the TTC front, I am in the TWW.
we did so well with the bd'ing until the actual day of ovulation!
I know the little guys can last, so I'm not counting myself out yet, but we were just too, well, almost broken, so do it again!
If we have to try again next month, we won't start the bd'ing on day 9 again, we will wait until about day 12!!
Currently on 8DPO, which is cycle day 25. I am irregular, and O'd late this month, so I'll test by Sat or Sunday, which will be around 30-31 days. Fingers crossed!!! But trying again next month will be OK too! just hope to get PG before the summer!
ok, love to you all, I'm freezing and have to finish my chores before the little prince wakes up. I'll be back later.
Beth
My dad even bought her a Nabi 2. I had NO CLUE what it was and when it was handed to me, I felt like it was over the top. It's basically an ereader/tablet type thing. 
