falling behind

[mamajoan]

Um. So things have been very busy at work this week, and Ruthie has been waking up a lot so I've been going to bed early. Which is why I haven't been posting much.

Anyway, sorry for the somewhat lame-ass April Fool's post the other day. Ah well. BTW, the part about my financial situation being kind of dire was not a joke, unfortunately. Right now I am ostriching that though; too much else going on.

Congratulations go out to: hardcorewife whose fourth baby and third daughter, Evelyn, arrived last Monday (Ruthie's birthday buddy! :) ), and queenalia whose second son, Adam, arrived last Friday, and my non-LJ-having friend Amy whose fourth daughter, Hope, arrived last Thursday. Whew! And with whuffle and evil_macaroni about to pop any day now, it's just babies busting out all over the place. Must be spring. ;)

In Ruthie news she is starting to be able to identify some letters and numbers. The other day I showed her a letter "S" fridge magnet and said "what letter is this?" and she said "Five!" which I thought was pretty good. :) She also spontaneously identified a Crazy Eights card as "red four" and a letter L as an L. And this morning she counted thusly: "One two three four four five six seven eight nine ten eleven eleven eleven eleven..." LOL. She says "ee-yeh-ven" which I think is just so cute. ;D In other Ruthie news she is still having poop issues, and her little bum has been SO red and raw and bloody for quite a few days now due to all the straining. :( I talked about this briefly with the doctor at her checkup last week, and the doctor recommended a laxative called Miralax. So I have been giving it to Ruthie for a couple days now but it does not seem to have kicked in yet. Anyway, her daycare teachers started treating her bum with a mixture of cornstarch and A&D, which seems to be working and the rash is definitely getting better. Last night was the first time in ages that she didn't cry and sob and clamp her thighs together and try to wiggle away when I changed her diaper. But it's just going to keep being a problem until we can get her onto a better pooping schedule, so hopefully the Miralax will start working its magic soon.

Isaac came home from preschool the other day with a band-aid on his finger, which he showed me, and when I asked what happened, he said that they were at the playground and his friend M "tried to bite me." Which apparently means "bit me." Hmm. Upon further conversation he said that M and another kid L were "being mean to me" which apparently means chasing him, and that they were "trying to get me out of the way" and he put his hands up, or something, whereupon M bit him. Well, it's really hard to know what really happened from the way Isaac recounts these things; and I'm certainly hesitant to call it bullying because M and L are basically good kids and are Isaac's friends. It's entirely possible that they were actually playing together just fine and M suddenly decided to bite for no reason. It's also quite possible that Isaac provoked M in some way. Who knows? Anyway, I started to tell Isaac that if M and L were bothering him, he should run and tell a teacher; but before I could even get that out, he said it himself. So at least he knows what he should do, though whether he actually does it will be another question.

OK, back to work, more later.

Comments

[downwardlashes.livejournal.com]

We've had mighty awful rash problems over here, and I've come to adore our tube of Lansinoh lanolin. It clears rashes up in no time, I'm amazed. Caspian hasn't had a monster one like Ruthie's since we started using lanolin at the first sign, but last time he had one we used this scary steroid cream that cleared it up quickly, I think it's prescription only. Poor guy still has a scar from that rash :(

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we've been using A&D which is a combination of lanolin and vaseline. It seems to work well on most of Ruthie's rashes.

[mofic.livejournal.com]

Anyway, sorry for the somewhat lame-ass April Fool's post the other day.

You mean you didn't really make those bread loaves? I thought they looked gorgeous!

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

LOL!! They were beautiful, weren't they?

[eirnoir.livejournal.com]

Miralax is made of awesome. Should work within 5 days or so, then keep her on it for a good couple of months (cut the dose back if stools get too loose.) Good stuff, that.