Sorry but cacking made me laugh. Just the image of a mad woman with a bottle of wine crouching in the corner of the living room while "Chiquitita" blares from the telly.
Anyway....
Stoof - poor you! Period and cold and boils! OW! I'm sorry things are tough financially and you're having to put DS in nursery 5 days a week. It must be a real wrench but you have to do what you have to do. As for regretting emigrating - I think it's great that you had the guts to give it a go and were also honest enough to say "no more" when it wasn't working. If you'd never done it you might always be thinking "what if..."
Rainbow We went to have dim sum last Sunday up in chinatown. It was really nice. My favourite is the suckling pig with crispy crackling but I like prawns in paper and those little triangular pastries with sesame seeds on top too. Oh and the turnip cake.
mamaloco My mum swears that I didn't sleep a wink at night for the first 2 years. I'm not sure I trust her memory though. If it's true though I am getting paid back for it now.
We started on solids yesterday. He had a little bit of steamed sweet potato and squash mixed together yesterday evening. He would not go to sleep until about 11!!! It was a nightmare but then he did sleep until 3.30 and then 5.30 and then 6 and then 8! So I got a bit of a lie in and he napped well today.
Today he had 2 helpings of baby cereal (a mix of organic rice, quinoa, amaranth and millett - the Plum brand one) mixed with my milk. I was only going to give him one meal a day to start off with but he wouldn't take the bottle of expressed milk that I'd done to mix his iron medicine with this evening so I chucked some cereal into it and fed him it with a spoon.
I didn't realise how messy it was. So much just dribbles out even if they obviously want it - he was leaning towards the spoon.
He's been a bit out of sorts - got a cold and his teeth are obviously hurting. Both DS and I are sure the teeth nearer the back of his mouth are closer to the surface and when he chomps stuff he always chomps at the back. I guess it is not unheard of for molars to come through first? I know it's not the normal thing though.
He is rolling both ways and commando crawling a bit. It is kind of annoying that I can't leave him on his own on the rug or the bed any more but obviously great that he's coming on as he should.
He's been asleep since about 8.
Today I have felt like I've been chasing my tail and not getting anything done/finished.
I cleared out some stuff and put some bits on freecycle and the woman who was meant to collect some sheets didn't bother to turn up or leave a message. I managed to list some stuff on ebay and DH loaded some things into the car to take to the charity shop but the road was apparently gridlocked so he just bought some teabags and came home.
Most of the time it's great to have him around as he works from home but it can be really irritating as well. He always turns the radio on when he comes into the kitchen and then leaves it on when he leaves. He always leaves a teaspoon next to the kettle after stirring his tea rather than putting it in the sink and he is always buying records from charity shops when I am trying to clear space. He says he'll always drop anything and look after the baby if I need him and he did - for about 5 mins but then he needed to make a phonecall so I had to just leave the washing up I was doing. Anyway he is annoying me today and he beat me at university challenge.