Welcome home Eagle ! I smiled at the vision of baby Eaglet in the air upside down being washed with a hose !!!! was it the baby biscuit or the onion, do you think ?!
Agree with Eagle, since A and I are apart for sleep, she wakes up a lot less, she does but will fall back asleep if I am not in the room, smell of BM, comfort, reassurance, who knows ? if I am, then only boob will get her to go back to sleep
We have had 1 horrible night with A screaming almost for 2 hours last week. But DH forbade me coming in. Since, we had almost 11 or 12 hours sleep with 1 waking or none at all.
Rosie, glad you have your house back, selling it is heartbreaking but as you said it will give you the opportunity to start something else for your family, see it as the beginning of a new era with Rosebud, xx
Scarecrow, it looks like T has all the feeds he needs, solid food at his age is mainly to develop his taste buds, mastication and language later on, rather than getting food in really, he is absolutely fine imo, you are a good mum !
Re Xmas get together, Tuesdays are fine by me too. We are off from 14th Dec so any day before would do for me.
The birthday party went well. Kids have been very civilized and played all together without fighting nor crying (10 children from 14 months to 9y) The room was fantastic, huge with lots of natural light flooding in and stone floor. Because we had it only for ourselves, I felt comfortable, I am silly but most of the times we are out in restaurants, I feel like I disturb people's peace when my kids don't behave... There were sofas and empty tables, so they could relax, sit and play board games (I had 3 board games) or draw (50 pirate drawings to colour, lots of pencils) while others were running around.
The pinata was quite difficult to break, I was scared they could hurt themselves with the buster but they stood back while one of them was smashing with all his strength, it was funny to see them so focused on destroying something, it was like "Yeah ! let's do it. For once, we won't be told off" there was something in their eyes ! Excitement but no evil.
While they were on the pinata, we had our lunch, dim sum and crispy duck and hot and sour seafood soup !
The cake was sumptuous, I had to choose between a pirate ship cake and a treasure chest cake. It was a hard one. The kids were all excited.
Champagne to finish off as it was also DH's birthday, 3 bottles for 10 of us... glad nobody had to drive home
4 hours of relaxed chit chat, nice food with friends, this is what we wished for. And above all, the birthday boy was very happy to see his cousins and friends. He has been spoiled to the root, his bedroom is a toy shop. We had to take a cab home with all the presents he received !
Although I had a moment of panic, A went missing and we looked for her for what were the longest 3 minutes of my life. We left her wandering around and she went behind a sofa, out of sight. I started panicking a bit.
Now I have to find DH's birthday present. Oups !!!