Finals, biting, and fingers crossed

[mommyofgracie]

With Thanksgiving inching ever closer, so is finals week and my anxiety level is slowly rising. If one looked at my calendar, they might see the week after Thanksgiving and think "Wow! That must be finals week! After all, 4 exams in 3 days could not possibly mean anything else!" But they'd be wrong, and yes it does, it means that all of my professor's are jerks!!!!! So the week right before finals I have 4 exams, and then I get to follow them up with comprehensive finals in each course. Why am I doing this to myself again? Oh yes, because society requires it.

Gracie has been coming home from daycare with "Incident" reports lately, and giant red and bruised bite marks to match. There is a little boy in her class who has apparently developed a taste for my daughter's skin, and every other day or so decides to try and take a chunk out of her. I am getting irritated. So, daddy and I sat her down and said that if this little boy bites her again she is to punch him in the face! She said "OKAY!!", but I don't think she quite understood. Either way, someone needs to be teaching that little boy it is NOT OKAY TO BITE. As a matter of fact I'll bet if someone just bit him back he would stop REAL quick. He is not a baby anymore, he is 2 years old and he needs to stop. Ugh. In the meantime, my poor baby is black and blue.

In other news, William and I have been "trying" to have another baby. We figured out our time frame and decided it would work out perfectly to have one more before I start upper division nursing (yeah yeah I know we're nuts). The only thing is that we would have to have the baby at the beginning of next fall so that come spring semester the baby would be older for daycare. But, that would mean we have to get pregnant... now. And while we are telling ourselves that we are not actually trying, we are just not trying NOT to have a baby, all the careless sex in the world has so far resulted in nothing. It's been 4 months of waiting and tracking and checking and nothing. I am starting to think that maybe Gracie was some miracle baby. So, we are waiting to see this last month and if it's a no go I am back on the pill until I graduate.

Anyway that is me for now.

[lilmamaten]

Nov. 20, 2008 at 11:24 AM

oh girl, i would be PISSED if my daughter came home like that! i dont know how you kept yourself from telling someone off. back in the day, i had a lil cousin who was a biter when she was around the same age. she got kicked out of 3 pre-schools, and my aunt had to pick her up right away if it happened. She stopped doing it after a few months and a few school changes. My point is that something was done about it, it didnt just keep happening over and over to the same kid. so they should probably have a better consequence for this little boy. i mean understand his parents side as well, but seriously! that is unacceptable! grrrrrrrrrr. i agree with you telling gracie to punch him!!!! maybe then he will learn because the adults arent doing anything! but im sorry that it is happening to your baby :(

Anyway, another baby??!??!! I hope it works out for you! Im sure Gracie is going to be a great big sister whenever it happens. We are probably going to wait until Luscianna is around five, maybe even in kindergarden. I want another right now really bad, but its just not smart for us :( Good luck to you, though!!! It will happen exactly when it is supposed to, so dont stress.

Well you have a good day girl! Let me know when your schedule clears up so we can finally get together k!

[Kris2615]

Nov. 20, 2008 at 11:39 AM

I think it's awesome you told her to punch him!  She should.  Make her stand up for herself.

As for a baby...if it happens it happens!  I think it would be great for Gracie to have a brother/sister and despite how crazy your life is with school I think it's easier to have little ones together.  I look forward to when Ken and I are still young and the boys are out and we'll be able to do things as a couple and still be young enough to be active!  HAPPY SEX!!

[zmom1]

Nov. 20, 2008 at 2:17 PM

Wow they should have some kind of policy at the school where the kids gets kicked out after a certain amount of times he bites.  Have you reported the boy?  That's nuts!  But it is best to teach Gracie to punch him right in the nose:P 

Sorry about school and the suckiness that profs seem to love.  I hate how they think your whole life revovles around their one particular class!!!

Like I have said, good luck with the baby making.  You know God has a plan for you and your family and the baby will come when you need it. 

[Amberly_n1984]

Nov. 20, 2008 at 5:47 PM

Garrett has been getting bit by the same kid.  His name is Calvin and he looks like his eyes are screwed up.  Garrett beat him yesterday on the playground.  They let me know about it when I picked him up.  They didn't name names, but they said that Garrett whipped a kid on the playground.  I asked point blank if it was the kid who keeps biting him.  They said yes and when Garrett and I left, he got an extra stamp from Mommy.  He's come home with bite marks 3 times now and last time, we told him to tell the kid to stop and if he still didn't to push him down and run.  Garrett took that and turned it into "I'm gonna sit on you and scratch your face", but whatever, he didn't come home with another bite mark.

If you wanna get pregnant, go on the patch.  Half the babies in the hospital when Garrett was born were conceived on the patch, Garrett included.  Oh, and a half dozen of the pregnant nurses who worked in NICU were on the patch and knocked up.  Go figure.

[mommyofgracie]

Nov. 20, 2008 at 9:26 PM

Ha! Thank you guys you're the best! And yes, if you ask Gracie how her day went at school she says "Calvin bit me!" ands shows you all her bite marks. It makes me mad he's doing it to other kids too! Maybe we can teach Garret to beat him up for Gracie too, lol

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[WenBier]

Nov. 21, 2008 at 3:53 PM

Wow good luck with that...I remember having profs like that. As if finals week and the holidays aren't stressful enough they think you need back to back tests. I had some tests days before the actual finals, and the profs said, well that way you've studied right? Wrong b/c the final is totally different stuff if it's comprehensive, and of course they usually are. Hang in there, you can do it! It will totally be worth it once your done. I'll be back in school too once they finish the Texas A&M campus here in RR. I have a BS but I want a nursing degree too :)

Also, if you are trying to get pregnant take a stong prenatal vitamin. You need vitamins to ovulate regularly... that's how I got preggo with Andrew. I was taking ridiculus amounts of vitamins, all dr prescribed of course. Oh and I also drank green tea, it's loaded with antioxidants.

I think I would have told Gracie the same thing, it sucks being out of control and having some dumb kid take advantage of her. Good for Garrett, that kid got what he deserved. They need to keep him away from poor Gracie.

[silversha21]

Nov. 23, 2008 at 4:20 AM OMG, and you guys just told me how great pre-school was! But actually tours at both schools, when asked what kinds of problems are typical, mentioned biting. I hope Eamon doesn't pick up any bad habits because while he's agressive he's gentle. I gues what I mean is that he's not mean. But if another kid bit im, I'm pretty sure he'd bite him back and we wouldn't have to tell him to! Amber can I just say I cried from laughing so hard when reading your response. Rykiel: Good luck TTC. If it's meant to be... School will get better. You'll hit your groove, and you'll get into the more interesting classes. I wish you luck in all.