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To think my 5 month old actually is cunning, spoilt and has me wrapped round her little itty bitty cutesy shmutsy finger?

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Chocoholism · 18/04/2014 09:26

She had me up in the night, not for milk as she can go through from 11pm to morning but she wakes up making all these cute noises to attract my attention, I pick her up after a while of hoping she settles herself back down, she then promptly nuzzles her head in my arm nook and closes her eyes so I hold her for a few then place her back in cot and she wakes, so again I pick her up and she nuzzles back in BUT this time she grins so big as if to say, that's right mummy, you are MINE to spoil me when I want, you do not need sleep! She kinda reminds me of king Joffrey from game of thrones (only without the evil murdering streak).

(Feel silly pointing out but feel it necessary to just say that this is lighthearted :) x)

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PickledEggMobile · 18/04/2014 09:28

Ahh she sounds so cute! I love it when my one year old launches herself at me and shoves her face right into my neck.

Koothrapanties · 18/04/2014 09:33

Yep, dd does the same damn thing. She's 6mo. Dh and I accidentally woke her up when coming to bed the other night and she lay there laughing and wiggling until she had us both giggling. She thought this was hilarious and decided to stay awake for another hour.

If she wakes up and starts talking I usually leave her to it, but if she catches my eye she goes bananas and starts laughing. I think if they weren't this cute, they wouldn't survive as the sleep deprivation would get the best of us and we would have to leave them on a bus somewhere.

DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 18/04/2014 09:46

Isn't evolution grand?

"Hi there. We're sending you a house guest who can't walk, talk, or control their bowels. But don't worry, they're fitted with a massive cute generator rated at 40 kilokittens to stop you killing them."

WilsonFrickett · 18/04/2014 09:51

God damn those squidgy dictators!

Oh I could really go a baby squeeze today Grin We could job swap op? You come here and pander to the whims of my 8 yo emperor (not as squidgy but maybe a bit more creative and funny) and I'll come pander to yours?

thebodydoestricks · 18/04/2014 09:52

Having a child makes you a Slave to them for life.

I melt when my 6foot 2 inch 23 year old gives me a bear hug.

Your dd sounds munchable.

WutheringFrights · 18/04/2014 10:28

My squishable 9 month old DS nuzzles into my neck....then sinks his teeth in.
Cute vampire baby!

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Chocoholism · 18/04/2014 10:35

It's so true!! I find myself getting really frustrated that she won't sleep like a normal person (ha ha) but then I look at her in my arms and the way she needs me is so adorable!
wilson I think I need 8 yrs experience with this one before I take on an 8 yr old, hmm:)

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DonkeysDontRideBicycles · 18/04/2014 10:36

I don't know if it was the space to ponder during a 3am feed or mild derangement from general tiredness but I do recall gazing at pfb thinking how we'd been dancing to his tune from his arrival. I OBEY OH TINY TYRANT.

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Chocoholism · 18/04/2014 10:38

I think that all the time donkeys I'm thinking she needs a bouncer throne, I'm her maid and DP is the court jester!

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Chocoholism · 18/04/2014 10:40

I must admit that as soon as I learnt that I had to dance to her tune and that she never read the same books as me, then things were somehow easier

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Koothrapanties · 18/04/2014 10:49

Choc there is no point fighting it. I have read a few times that you need to get your baby to work around your family. That just makes me laugh. Unfortunately dd doesn't understand this and is pretty sure the world revolves around her.

Dd: you are halfway through your shower and have a head full of shampoo mummy? That's a shame as I have a desperate need for a cuddle right now. No, I'm afraid it won't wait, even if you play peekaboo round the shower curtain. Chop chop mummy!

Me: ahhh, aren't you so cute, you just want your mummy.

Yep, she's got me all right.

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Chocoholism · 18/04/2014 11:28

Koothra that is spot on. It's all fun and games and I don't mind admitting that it has been a huge shock to my system but she is my life now and brings me so much happiness.

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TaliZorahVasNormandy · 18/04/2014 13:18

I'll swap the cute squidgy baby for an annoying 6 yr old, who keeps thrusting things at my ear, shes currently squished underneath me and I aint moving anytime soon.

Andrewofgg · 18/04/2014 13:38

Of course today's MNers were not like that at 5 months, were we?

WaterLoadaCack · 18/04/2014 13:41

Mine both do/did this.

The beautifully cute conniving swines. Easter Wink

WilsonFrickett · 18/04/2014 13:42

Not me Andrew - child of the 70s me. Four hourly bottle feeds whether I needed them or not, then out into the garden for what my DM calls 'exercising your lungs'. Grin

Gruntfuttock · 18/04/2014 13:50

WilsonFrickett that's nothing - child of the 50s me. My mother would bring me down from the top flat every day and leave me in the garden in a pram including even when it was snowing and freezing cold. I was both out of sight and out of earshot. Was she bovvered? No. In fact she probably hoped that I wouldn't still be there when she went to get me.

Poor little baby Gruntfuttock. Sad

Andrewofgg · 18/04/2014 13:52

Now you see WilsonFrickett I'm early Fifites and we were so poor . . . oh, sorry, wrong site.

OP My DS, now 29, had us both in a state of slavery, and I look back on it with pleasure!

Andrewofgg · 18/04/2014 13:53

Gruntfuttock cross-posted but the sight of your screen name is a joy in itself. The world's dirtiest dirty old man!

WilsonFrickett · 18/04/2014 13:55

Mine used to leave me outside the shops Grunt. She says everyone did it and almost no babies got kidnapped, so that's alright then...

Lj8893 · 18/04/2014 13:59

Aww!

My dd is nearly 6months (scary it's gone so fast) and thinks I'm just a big toy! Her current favourite thing is to grab my nose.

We also kept finding in the evenings our heating was coming on even though neither of us had turned the thermostat on. I then discovered that as I walked past it taking dd to bed she was turning it on as she went past! Cheeky monkey!

SanityClause · 18/04/2014 13:59

There was the cutest toddler in the park the other day. He was just full of smiles, running off in the opposite direction from where is mother wanted him to go.

It was sort of nice to just sit on the grass, making a daisy chain, and have no responsibility for chasing him, though.

Gruntfuttock · 18/04/2014 14:13

Andrewofgg "Gruntfuttock cross-posted but the sight of your screen name is a joy in itself. The world's dirtiest dirty old man!"

Oh, thank you so much! Smile

That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me.

ThatBloodyWoman · 18/04/2014 14:17

I was obviously as hard as nails.

There was nothing remotely cutsey wutsey about my dc's at 3am.

They soon learnt I was stoneface in the wee small hours....

silverten · 18/04/2014 14:23

I'm with you BloodyWoman.

Mummy is Very Very Boring in the middle of the night in this house.