I remembered the camera today but forgot the memory stick! What a total bust. I will get this right next week.
Melody, who you may remember is a homeschooling Mom whose husband works with Mike, and I had made plans to take her children and mine bowling on Monday. She now has piano students (Go Melody!) and so needed a day other than Monday. We settled on today – Friday. She gave me the freedom to invite some others with children the ages of my older boys. I did that at park day yesterday.
What a blast we had at the base bowling ally. We stayed much longer than I’d anticipated and the day got long for Zander. At one point I calmly told him that if I had to talk to him about his behavior again I would take him home. He acted up again. He’d already bowled 2 games. Jamin was at home because he wanted to finish school work (he’s got his hands full with Algebra 1 and Biology). I decided since we’d been gone over 2 ½ hours he was probably done with school and so I took Zander home. Poor boy. BUT he is learning that though he’s louder than I – my word is to be trusted and there are consequences to misbehaving. In other words he may be a screamer and I’m not – but I’m the mom. {g} When I got back to the base to pick up the other kids some of the families had decided to go down to Kids Kingdom. I phoned Mike and he said that he had a couple of hours left at work so we joined them.
We got to discussing that it’d been 24 days since we met these families at this very park. I’m reading “Third Culture Kids” and seeing that in the phase of transition I’m moving into the “entry” stage. This is good…shortly I may feel “involved” again.
Stacia’s been on this “new” funky formula for a week. We’ve now tried them all EXCEPT the new Sam’s Club has a generic that is cheaper and I’m trying it before going back to the original formula. None of them have seen to make much difference in the amount of her spitting (though I won’t discuss the finer points of consistency, smell and bowel movements here {vbg}).
We got a late start on our Pizza and Movie night – but we are pressing ahead….
2 comments:
De'Etta,
My dd Hannah had this problem when she was a baby. Switching formulas never seemed to fix or even help it. From what the Dr. on base told me it had to do with the muscle in her esophagus that was underdeveloped. She literally had projectile spitting up, not sure if that's what Stacia has but sounds like it. Hannah grew out of it by 1 year so I wouldn't worry too much about it. I'm sure you've talked to her Dr. about it all but just wanted to share our experience with you.
Hugs,
Jen in Az.
Yes...it sounds the same. I've about given up. I get tired of the comments when we're out "oh YUCK" or "she's spit up"....and somehow the sense that I'm not an attentive mom if she spits...but I am. {g} Of course that is NOT what most mean but it is my perception. I actually appreciate folks telling me when she needs freshened up - it's just that some do have an attitude about it being GROSS.
Anyway - we've tried lacto free stuff, partially digested stuff, brands and brand names....and she continues to spit her way through life. We decided to try Sam's brand formula as she spits it all...she went on a hunger strike but is eating today.
She is growing and so I guess we'll wait for her to outgrow it....and keep doing lots and lots of laundry. {G}
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