Where in the World Isn't Bob Saget?

[NYwdwfan]

I was so sick with my 2nd baby that I ended up LOSING weight...I only gained 9 lbs in my pregnancy and DS was 8.5 lbs. The first pregnancy I think I gained a little more...but still not much and I ended up needing to lose like....4 lbs to get back to pre-baby weight. Or maybe it was I lost 2 lbs with the first and 4 with the 2nd? I don't remember, but I remember I did not gain much and I had big babies...DD was 9 lb 4 oz. I think I was back in my regular clothes 2 days after I had DD, and right away with DS. But with DD I had zero appetite and nothing sounded good. I had to force myself to eat because everything sounded so awful. With DS, I just couldn't keep anything down for the first 22 weeks. I lost so much weight in the first trimester and a half that I didn't have time to gain it back before DS was born. I don't recommend pregnancy as a weight-loss solution, though.

I was sick with DD for the entire pregnancy, especially for the first 7 months or so. She was a 9lb 8 oz baby and when they weighed me right before delivery I was 1/2 lb heavier than I was at my first prenatal visit. I gained about 4 lbs with DS but he was only 7 1/2 lbs.

I gained 50 with the first and 60 with the second, although with the second I gained more because I was less to start. I’ve always been pretty small so the contrast was pretty crazy.

I need to brag on my DS for a bit. I haven't talked about it much in this thread, since I haven't been in here that long and most everything happened before I came in here, but DS was bullied terribly at his old school to the point that we had to pull him out and were willing to homeschool him until we found a suitible option because he was not safe at his old school. He was diagnosed with Autism in October, 2 days before the carp hit the fan so to speak and we stopped sending him to school immediately, which could have gotten us all sorts of fines or jail time. Thank goodness the attendance officer granted us an urgent status based on his case so that we could look for another school to place him in where he would be safe and his new school stepped up and sped him through the acceptance process. He was 9. He turned 10 in December, but in a lot of ways he's more like a 7 year old. So anyway, he quit soccer and joined a chess club a year ago....he has been playing chess since he was 4, but only with daddy or opa, and soccer wasn't going well, so he decided to join the chess club so he would get to play more often and with other kids. He really fit in there so much better. So tonight at chess, he saw 2 boys picking on a little girl, shoving her, etc...and my baby boy who was bullied so badly jumped in between them and tried to get them to stop and ended up getting hit. Despite everything he's been through, he still had the courage to stand up for someone else. He came home in tears and refused to talk about it (everything we got, we heard from the chess instructor, who, knowing the history from his old school, thought we should know what happened), so he's more than a little traumatized and worried that he'll have to quit chess because he is afraid he's going to get bullied there now, too. But I don't think that will happen....the instructor saw the fight, broke it up, and had them all talk it out and DS wasn't the target, he just got caught up in it because he tried to stop it. I wish he hadn't had to go through that, but proud that he stood up for what was right.

His instict was to help - that’s amazing for any kid but especially after what he went through. I think once he realizes how he saved the girl from some of the trauma he experienced and she probably views him as just the coolest person for helping her, he may may feel better about the situation. He should be ok going back. He showed confidence, and confidence tends to ward off the jerks. And I’m sure the instructor will be watching pretty closely.

 

[Goofyernmost]

I gained 50 with the first and 60 with the second, although with the second I gained more because I was less to start. I’ve always been pretty small so the contrast was pretty crazy.

My wife had mild morning sickness (if there is such a thing ) in the first trimester for both. However, she also qualified for a preferential parking place at Dunkin Donuts the rest of the times. That was her only real craving.

 

[PUSH]

I gained 50 with the first and 60 with the second, although with the second I gained more because I was less to start. I’ve always been pretty small so the contrast was pretty crazy.

Are you sure that wasn't just muscle mass?

 

[Lucky]

I'm reading a book, published in 1987, about London in the late 1800s. It quotes a Lady Charlotte Bonham Carter from that period. I looked up Helena on Wikipedia and it turns out she's from a prominent family and is even distantly related to Florence Nightingale.

 

[Nemo14]

I'm reading books about Yellowstone park...

 

[Lucky]

I'm reading books about Yellowstone park...

I'm waiting for the cartoons.

 

[Songbird76]

I gained 50 with the first and 60 with the second, although with the second I gained more because I was less to start. I’ve always been pretty small so the contrast was pretty crazy.

His instict was to help - that’s amazing for any kid but especially after what he went through. I think once he realizes how he saved the girl from some of the trauma he experienced and she probably views him as just the coolest person for helping her, he may may feel better about the situation. He should be ok going back. He showed confidence, and confidence tends to ward off the jerks. And I’m sure the instructor will be watching pretty closely.

Oh I'm sure the instructor will be watching closely, and I'm betting he probably talked to some parents as well. His day job is teaching elementary school, so he knows the ropes. I'm not too worried about DS going back...for one thing, I really do think it was an isolated incident. He's been in chess for a year and nothing like this has ever happened before. For another thing, these aren't the kind of kids who are bullies. You walk in and pretty much every kid looks like they could go to DS's school...I know at least a few have autism. There's an underlying reason the fight broke out and I wasn't there and I don't know what it is, but I've never seen that kind of behavior from these kids. It's just not normal for them, so I don't see it happening again. I'm sure once he goes back next week and sees it's all back to normal, he'll be fine. It's just that he has no other experience than kids picking on him constantly, so he doesn't understand quite yet that arguments happen and it doesn't necessarily mean that it will always be like that. He just needs a new frame of reference and then he'll be fine.

 

[Songbird76]

I'm reading a book, published in 1987, about London in the late 1800s. It quotes a Lady Charlotte Bonham Carter from that period. I looked up Helena on Wikipedia and it turns out she's from a prominent family and is even distantly related to Florence Nightingale.

Oh wow!! Is it a non-fiction book? What's it called?

 

[Lucky]

Oh wow!! Is it a non-fiction book? What's it called?

Non-fiction. "Oscar Wilde's London". Lots of good old photos.

 

[Songbird76]

I'm reading books about Yellowstone park...

Have you ever been there? It's really beautiful! I highly recommend it. One of my favorites is the Mammoth Hot Springs part, and my mom loved Morning Glory Pool. I always wanted to stay at the big beautiful hotel there, but it's massively expensive. We stayed in a cabin a couple of times, though. I don't think I've been to Yellowstone since I was in 6th grade though....I'm sure the hotels have changed a lot.

 

[Nemo14]

I have, but not for several years. DH and I are going in September so I'm reading up on it now.

 

[JenniferS]

First time this year ....

 

[Nemo14]

I had a rare morning out by myself this morning, so I did a little shopping then stopped at one of my favorite nests to see what was happening there. Dad eagle was clearly visible from the road just keeping watch:

 

[Nemo14]

He watched the traffic and me for quite a while.

 

[Nemo14]

As I was putting my camera away, Mom flew in to the nest with food for the babies:

I watched her for a long time til she apparently needed more food because she squawked and Dad Eagle flew off towards the river. I waited for a while to see if he'd return with a fish, but after a while I decided it was time for me to get going. They're so neat to watch.

 

[MinnieM123]

@Nemo14 , some of your close-up photos of the eagle should be displayed. I'm thinking maybe even "travelling exhibit" (similar to museum collections) at a school (you'd have connnections, as you used to be a teacher), or perhaps a library, for example. A former colleague of mine used to sometimes display his photos (travel photos) at a local nursing home. There was no money involved; he just wanted the patients to have a change of pace and see pictures. They were well received.

 

[Nemo14]

@Nemo14 , some of your close-up photos of the eagle should be displayed. I'm thinking maybe even "travelling exhibit" (similar to museum collections) at a school (you'd have connnections, as you used to be a teacher), or perhaps a library, for example. A former colleague of mine used to sometimes display his photos (travel photos) at a local nursing home. There was no money involved; he just wanted the patients to have a change of pace and see pictures. They were well received.

That's a great idea - I think Ill check into that when we get back home this spring. I did print up a photo book of some of my favorites a couple of years ago.

 

[Nemo14]

Temperature dropped to 63 tonight. People here are donning their winter coats.

 

[MinnieM123]

Temperature dropped to 63 tonight. People here are donning their winter coats.

Have they shut down the schools for tomorrow yet?

 

[Nemo14]

Have they shut down the schools for tomorrow yet?

You laugh. On our way down here, we stayed in VA for a couple of days with our son and family. It snowed the first day and they got what we would consider a dusting. School was cancelled that day and they had a 2 hour delay the next day.