@WayOutWestMom : Oh wow, that IS big news!!! What a change that will be for your lifestyle.
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BIG change. And it’s more than a little scary.
Since the apartment needs major remodeling (there’s only a sink in the “kitchen” and the bathroom needs to be made more accessible for the me who now has mobility issues), I likely won’t be moving out to CA until the end of the year.
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My son-in-law isn’t a physicist, but his father is and SIL is very methodical. He records everything and keeps close track of baby GD’s food intake, which he shares with caretakers too.
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Congrats, Wayoutwestmom! A big change but what a lovely tribute to your relationship with your D & SIL that they want you to stay with them!
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GD (21 mo) started daycare a few weeks ago.
She came home yesterday throwing kisses.
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That will give you time to do all you need to close out the chapter in the home and area you have lived in so many years.
I haven’t been on CC for ages - probably close to a year more or less. I came to look and see if the bag a day thread was still active cause I’ve started back with my purging attempts. First thing I saw was this thread which is perfect.
We are expecting our first grandchild August 1st. It is a girl. I am so excited for them (son and daughter-in-law). I was surprised how emotional I was when they told us - I’m not a huge baby person and was happy with whatever the kids chose to do. My daughter and her husband have no desire at all for kids which I’m fine with. But son and d-i-l had always planned for kids (in fact had an unplanned pregnancy 3 months after their wedding which was ectopic and heart wrenching for them). So I am thrilled for them. I had tears in my eyes when they told us.
They live so far away though. I don’t want to be a once a year granny 
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Swimcatsmom, welcome back!
I was told you don’t recover from an ectopic pregnancy until you deliver a live child. In my time, an ectopic meant major surgery. Now, it is a pill. The emotional toll is still there. So, a big congrats to all
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Welcome back, @swimcatsmom, and congratulations!
We spent time at D’s today, and our GD put her head down, stuck her rear in the air, and used her arms to move herself forward three times. She smiled, then she cried. 
She has been trying so hard to crawl, so it was exciting to see some movement. She will be six months in a week. I told D that they need to be ready for a crawler in the next couple weeks. They grow so fast!
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My GS (the one who weighed 11 pounds at birth) is two months this weekend. In the picture for it, he’s wearing the same onesie his sister wore for her six months picture.
The kid is not fat at all–just, BIG.
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@garland our GS is ‘sees food and eats it’ while his sister is slim. Happy that GS takes after his dad with more stocky build and GD takes after slim mom.
Although our GS is just a bit ahead on size, and he weighed the same as sis at birth. He will be 3 in July and has bigger shirts. When he was 6 months he was in 9 month clothes, etc.
@garland My younger D was like that. She weighed over 10 lbs at birth. She wore a size 3 months from the day I brought her home from the hospital. D2 stayed ahead of the growth curve and was in the 99th percentile for height and weight until she was 3. Then she just stopped growing.
Today she’s an average height, very slender young woman.
The twins have shot up in height and weight. Although they were full term births (39 weeks and 2 days), they were very small. Twin A started off in the 6th percentile for height and weight. Today she’s in the 93rd. Twin B was really tiny, under 5 lbs at birth and in the 3rd percentile for height and weight; she’s now in the 97th percentile for height and 87th for weight. Both are wearing 12 months size even though they’re only 7 months olds.
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Wow! congrats @WOWM!
I haven’t posted in ages, and I’m not even sure how to do so in this new format…. But, Congratulations on all the grand babies!!! Being a grandparent is absolutely the best. I am lucky to babysit my 21-month old grandson every morning, while my daughter studies downstairs. (She already has a Master’s degree, but is going back to school to become a speech pathologist.). AND, she’s pregnant again! First ultrasound this Thursday; should be almost 9 weeks, due the end of January.
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Congrats, @anxiousmom!
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I know! I did daycare for my granddaughter from 5.5 months to 13+ months and it was so fun to observe it all. She pulled to stand first for me but I would cut my tongue out before I ever told them that, LOL. She was a much later crawler than yours there. But then she did a lot in a short period of time.
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I just returned from five days of taking care of my 2 1/2-yr-old granddaughter. I am exhausted. We had a good four days – yesterday didn’t go so well; she had a meltdown at nap time so Mom had to intervene. (Both DS and DIL work from home most days.)
It’s really tiring – both emotionally, as I’m not used to being “on” all the time, and physically, as I’m not used to getting up and down from the floor 900 times a day!
The first thing GD did when she and DS picked me up from the airport was to launch into a hardy version of “I Like to Move It Move It!”
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I am finding the getting up and down so many times a day to be the most difficult part of watching my GD. I am in very good shape, so it surprised me … guess 30+ years takes a toll!
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Yes, that sitting on the floor to play, and then getting back up is a bit harder to do at 64, than 34! At least there is more padding on my bottom so the hardwood floors don’t bother me as much 
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Getting up and down, especially caring an infant, is much harder than I remember.
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