A follow on thread ...

[Festivepussy]

here for the fag free few!

Hello everyone.

Mm, dd's in love with the yellow boobah who's called, apparently, humbah. So now it's 'take humbah ...' whenever and whatever we're off to do. I was thinking about it and it's a weird first time thing for me that this is something dd has chosen for herself that I actually don't like! Previously we've been in a seemingly endless Noddy / Big Ears obsession which I've liked as I enjoy the characters but the Boobahs seem so pointless. She's in love though, she pulls these incredibly soppy smiles whenever she sees Humbah and wanders around cuddling he / she all the time.

Where's FG with my answers?!?

And yes, yes, yes, I completely echo the sentiment of thanks to you guys. You've transformed the last couple of months from hell into friendly hell if you see what I mean!

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By the way ... I was going to stick a thread on the sleep board about this but maybe I'll ask you guys too. Dd had a very bizarre night last night. She went to sleep like normal, fine, then woke up at 2am just wide awake and couldn't get back to sleep. She wasn't crying or making a fuss but wanted me to go and see her so she could tell me something every 10 minutes or so. She's not ill really though has remained a bit peaky since her bad cough, but no fever and said nothing hurt her. Eventually she fell asleep again until 8.45am this morning! Any ideas? She wasn't too hot or cold ...

ds1 whose the same age as your dd went through a strange phase like that too. it was a couple of months ago just after dh had gone back to work and ds1 had started nursery so not sure if either of those things had a part to play in it. basically he would wake up and often start crying for no reason and you couldn't console him until he just tired himself out after 20 or so minutes. i don't think he was having nightmares as it later changed into a waking up for juice and biscuits demand which apparently is quite normal! now he does stir a few times but immediately goes back to sleep sometimes like the other night he just screamed for mummy and then when i got into bed with him he was all wide awake and being funny (funny ha ha). he went back to sleep after 10mins of chat!

don't know why this is but your dd is not the only one! i also have a friend whose dd does this too...

oh and i did watch the boobahs once and thought it was quite odd really. ds1 is just into all things mechanical and of course, rabbit

btw, i got absolutely slaughtered on fizz and cranberry juice last night whilst singing karaoke (in the safety of our home) and ended up vomiting in the toilet before having the sanity to have a shower at 3am!!! consequently have a sore throat and felt rather fragile after climbing out of bed at 12pm...

what did you lot do?

Thanks for the advice re. dd's sleep, mm. She's also done what you're describing but I thought the being awake for 2 hours was rather strange? Especially as she then slept in so late so she must've been tired. She had a weird nap too, usually she's a 1.5-2 hour girl but today woke up after 30 mins, clearly still knackered but desperate to get out of bed. So I've spent most of today trying to stop her from getting upset as over-tired. We watched Aristocats on dvd, her favourite. You should hear her personal rendition of 'everybody wants to be a cat ...'

Umm ... last night was just me and dp in. This is going to make us sound a bit sad but we watched 'Cleopatra', the old epic with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, ate cheese on toast and I had some bubbly and dp some beer. Then we watched the London fireworks from our window (great thing about being on the 21st floor!).

Have you all had a good fag-free first day of 2005? Do you think we should start a new thread to celebrate? But then will FG be able to answer my questions? Or maybe I've scared her off with them ...

sorry to be so absent and HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!!! You've been such lovely supportive friends this year - loads and loads of hugs.

It's been v hectic, had loads of people dropping by last night as they do around these parts - our small town has a massive bonfire & torchlit procession so it was great fun, got bit piddled but no puking, unlike certain folk around here!

am now de-spidering my disgusting workroom. c'mere cc and help me declutter!!

yeah cc that would be fantastic - to have a totrally puff-free 2005. That's what am gonna aim for anyway.

bm, sorry to be so slow at answering your qus! Yes I start out with an overall plan but there are loads of shady areas where I'm not sure what'll happen and it all changes anyhow, as I'm working and get to know the characters better - it's quite fluid. I prefer it that way cos to stick to a rigid plan would be so boring!

The charatcers are sometimes loosely based on people I know or composites of two or more people or just invented. A book maybe starts with a single idea - with wonderboy it was my son dex's fascination with mazes, and also us moving from london out to the country and me thinking HEELLLLP!!!

The one I'm writing now was triggered by those lurid 1970s cookbooks you find in charity shops.

Hope the sleep thing settles down bm, how lovely when they conk out for 12 hours or so and there's none of this up at night stuff... dd tends to have phases too - v early waking phases (5 am) or blundering into our bed everynight phases... tends to be good sleeper tho & yes, adept at pester power just cos she's so easily pleased - she's worn a santa hat (99p!) I bought her in the chemists all christmas hols!

oh i didn't realise that it was 2 hours of staying up bm!!! poor you! from what i can gather it seems to be one of those phases they go through as if they're old enough to have a choice in life so they choose to stay awake i was just pondering today about kids and the big ups and downs we have had with ds1 because of his eczema and eating and most things pass in time and you still get through them don't you? it's amazing what we all have to deal with and how each child is different...

when dd has an unusual short nap why don't you try to get her to have another one later in the afternoon? ds1 is so active, sleeps the same amount as your dd but sometimes needs a second nap at around 5ish. this is quite rare nowadays but if they need it i find it does a lot of good and it doesn't affect his night time sleep.

fg, i was counting on you to have an equally eventful new year in the bathroom

i've got a lot of those technicolour cookbooks as inherited from my parents before they left! one particular one springs to mind...food with bright green, red, orange and yellow aspic decorations. YUM

Welll, last night dd slept from 7.30 - 8am without a murmur so it was hopefully a fluke the night before. Sometimes I do put dd down for a late nap if we've been out etc. and she's only had a very short sleep but generally I find she wakes up from it in such a foul mood that it's not worth the effort and I put her to bed earlier instead.

I've been bad. I had one. Met a friend in Greenwich park this morning and I was feeling really grotty, think there's a bit of a tummy thing lurking in our place at the moment, and I couldn't resist. I feel as though I can still taste it in my mouth. I have to say I did enjoy it but I'm not enjoying the fact that I enjoyed it now. If you see what I mean.

I had been going to suggest a new thread called '2005: the flare-loving fag-free club' but now don't think I can ...

Come on bm, don't be too cross with yourself - we're still in new year mode and you can just right it off as a little blip. I sinned over christmas too BUT with you lovely girls here and hopefully a new thread (cc? do you wanna start one?) we can all put our stinky foul breathed & foul lunged & forever craving days behind us. CAN'T WE!!!

mm I asked dh if I seemed pissed in front of our neighbours at new year and he said, 'No, you were dignified.' That's a first then!! But booze flowed steadily for second half of dec, am prob withered inside.

glad to hear you had a better night bm... off to mum's tomorrow so not on here till thur - have fun, fag free fun that is,
big hugs xxxx

new thread....no more ok guys...

Righty oh...have 5 mins to myself now and can post. Oh BM...dont worry about it, it was one, Im sure you said to me or FG that its not the end of the world as long as you dont have another and another and another and completely ruin the whole giving up thing. It was a wee blip, and although it was good at the time the guilt that set in later wasnt worth it was it?
Have fun Fiona
Ill see you all over at the new thead!
No advice over the sleep thing btw...my first dd didnt sleep till she was...er about 5 and a half. and dd2 slept like a dream from birth. So I have no idea what im talking about as nothing i did seemed to have any effect on them

Heres a thread for us to read too here