@showmom858 , and here I am rocking my grandson. And similar sleeper.
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Both this photo and @showmom858 photo warm my heart. I can just imagine holding those sweet hands. It goes so fast.
We are watching two of the grandkids today. The almost 4 year old is asleep in the living room after listening to Frog and Toad on my phone. The two year old is sleeping with my husband in the bedroom we keep for the kids. I’ve got the two dogs in between those to areas of the house. Trying to keep the dogs quiet to not wake anyone. I can’t put them outside as our dog got out this morning and we haven’t had time to search the fences to see where he got out.
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My daughter was so impressed we got both kids to nap. She said they rarely nap on the weekends for them. The oldest napped for three hours.
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GD #4 has deformational plagiocephaly (flat spot on her head) and was prescribed an orthotic helmet. GD was apparently born with the flat spot and it hasn’t improves despite repositioning therapy and PT intervention.
D is not happy about it, but understands the necessity.
GD will need to wear the helmet for 23 hours/day for the next 3-12 months. She will be re-evaluated once a month and the helmet’s shape will be revised as her head grows.
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Yesterday we had my almost 4 year-old granddaughter here for the afternoon and into the evening. I laid down next to her on the bed at 7:15 pm, and snoozed until she got picked up by DS and DIL at about 10:30 PM. Then I slept through until 8 o’clock this morning….I feel well rested today!!! Sleeping like a baby…
Today we took DGS 6, and DGD 4 to the local musical theater production, and they did very well even though it was a Loooooonnnnggggg 3 hour production. It helped that we had prepared them by reading the book from which the play was written, and by showing them YouTube videos of some of the song selections, and had discussed some of the cool aspects (some of the actors “fly”, the stage scenery moves around on wheels, there is a live orchestra). ALso, the intermission included cookies.
I was so pleased!
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Yesterday when I was doing FaceTime with GDs, their dad was reading a book about nature to them. All of a sudden GD2 (15 months old) got teared up. I asked what was going on. D1 said that GD2 seems to be sad when they read that book, but she also looks for the book. D1 decided to hide the book.
It is interesting that a 15 month old understands enough about a book to be emotional.
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Interesting! My granddaughter did the same thing at about the same age. Only the book was “Giraffes Can’t Dance” so we never did figure out what made her sad. It was on one page.
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D & SIL took GD (5) to Chicago in the fall, and she absolutely loved it. She is going back in early summer, when she will be a flower girl in SIL’s cousin’s wedding. She’s so excited that she has already packed her suitcase … she brought her stuff over in plastic bags when she spent the night last weekend, because she won’t unpack her suitcase! Yesterday, she informed me that she has lots of money in her piggy bank … “money just like an adult” … so she can pay for a hotel room in Chicago. She’s a trip! 
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You never know… maybe she has a bunch of hotel points 
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Funny you should say that - after she said she could pay for a hotel room, D said, “I already paid for it using points!”
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Twin B had an unfortunately adventure yesterday. SIL took one car to work. I was at the dentist with the other. D decides to take all 3 grandkids and the dog on a walk to the neighborhood lake–which is partially frozen. D and SIL have repeatedly talked about not going out on the ice. Its dangerous. They’ve shown the grands videos of kid falling thru ice into freezing water and how they are shivering, cold and screaming when they get out.
So…they’re down at the lake. D has yelled and reminded the kids multiple time to stay off the ice and made them come away from the dock where they were squatting the very edge poking the ice with sticks. Someone walks by on the beach with a dog on the leash and she turns away to calm their 5 month old puppy who is barking at the unfamiliar dog and there is a bloodcurdling scream…..Yep, you guessed it. Twin B who has a big, rambunctious personality and is going thru a “you can’t tell me what to do” phase, walked out on the ice a couple of feet and fell thru. Fortunately the lake is shallow and she only fell through up to her mid-calves. But it was in the mid-twenties with the wind chill and so she is very cold & wet to her knees. No car at home, and no one D can call to come get them. D walks the kids & dog home. (About 1/2 mile). Twin B has first degree frostbite on her toes. D (who after all is a ER doc and knows how to treat this) gently rewarms her with cool, then tepid water on her feet until the toes stop burning and finally with a warm (not hot) bath.
Twin B is fine and we hope she has learned valuable lesson about lakes & ice and also about listening to grown-ups. We also hope that her twin and her little brother who witnessed it all have also learned stay away from the ice.
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Absolutely the best lesson is to watch a sibling get into a jam because they didn’t follo w directions. Glad B is going to be okay.
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How scary!!
I am down visiting my son and his family to help out while the other grandma is traveling. Shortly before I arrived (at 7 am) yesterday DIL felt sick, the 4 year old came home from school with a fever, the 6 year old woke up with a fever and the 2 year old woke up from his nap with a fever. DIL went to urgent care t care and tested positive for influenza A. She had a flu shot but I think this is a new strain. So far my son and I are not sick. Fingers crossed!!
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Super scary indeed – but I will offer that my youngest child was prone to see these sorts of things as a beta test and would just alter the plan for next time. Couldn’t take our eyes off him for a single second.
My DiL has asked me to make some decor for her baby shower, which apparently they are throwing themselves? I bit my tongue and reminded myself to not die on a hill of traditions. I will say that her rage at the world has subsided, thankfully. And we are now allowed to tell people, so my friends with grandchildren have assured me that it will be walking on eggshells most of the time with new parents.
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Sounds like maybe your DIL is feeling better, maybe hormones settling a bit and also getting used to the upcoming life changes. It’s a lot, even when planned ( hoped, wished…) for.
Back in the day baby ( and wedding) showers were thrown by friends or distant family. But that’s very different now and you are smart to go with the flow.
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Agree things are changing. My niece had her sister throw her baby shower/sprinkle for 2nd baby at their parents’ house. I (auntie) bought favors and the dessert that my sister-in-law (mom of new baby to be) requested. Everyone who came was happy to be there. We went to Amazon registry and bought some of the things on it for the new arrival. It was a very happy event. It was family on both sides—my brother’s siblings and next generation plus my SIL’s siblings and next generation.
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7 years ago, my niece had a “sprinkle” at her house, with invites sent out saying it was hosted by her mom and sister. I thought it was unusual, especially because my niece’s H has a very good job - it wasn’t like they couldn’t afford baby stuff for a second kid. But I didn’t say anything, and I attended, because while I thought it was strange, I didn’t have an issue buying something for the new baby. Everything changes, and I figure I should roll with it.
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It was fun to gather and nice of my brother and SisIL to open their house, after they had already hosted our extended clan for New Year’s Day lunch too.
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DIL loves to entertain; they host movie nights and book swaps and dinner parties , etc…so I think she just wants to be in charge because that’s her happy place.
I have been to a few showers and am astonished by the number of people invited! When we had our kids, I don’t think we even knew 40 people.
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