July 2010: old-skool, the worm, commando and shuffling on the bum: that's the way crawling's done

[CakeandRoses]

Well that gives them all of about 14 day's worth of chat to get crawling then

that's great advice tsc - wish i'd told you when F spilt water all over my blackberry last week as it's still not right.

hope it works dh

tsc i feel the same - almost hallucinating with tiredness.i almost fell asleep, sitting on the edge of one of those car ride things in the mall earlier , so of course the children (even A) are being 'challenging' and dh isn't home til 7.30.

chulita i could kiss you for giving me hope that this phase will end soon

we didn't leave F overnight til he was 10m and tbh that was only because i had to do a practice run for the wedding night. without that reason, i can't see me wanting to leave A overnight for ages but i really hope i'll feel ready to do it for a day soon.

trying not to laugh at F, he's squatting, grunting and going red but when i asked him if he was pooing, he was so indignant that he nearly took my head off

at F's poo antics.

L's 'cot' mobile broke last night and I'm watching a few online. I'm happy with any wind up one but DH likes the tune of the old one. Every time I put L in bed she asks for elephant music and then asks daddy to fix it...how quickly can I get a replacement?? Trouble is the first one ending is in over a day and there's no guarantee we'll win that one - CRISIS!

dh hope your ipod dries out.

dh what were you doing with your ipod in the toilet?
chulita could you message them and offer them a price to finish the bidding early?
L is already asleep, no chance for a lie in tomorrow then, i couldnt keep him awake any longer he is so poorly and fussy,screaming when i leave the room!
we sat at the new table for tea tonight with L between us it was lovely apart from dh eats like a pig, i want L to eat nicely at the table and dh wont pick up a bloody knife unless he cuts things up just shovelling into his mouth and his elbow on the table, you can tell his mother deserted him without teaching him table manners, i sat there holding my tongue he is 32 i cant tell him how to eat but it made my blood boil, give it a year and L will be eating like a caveman too :(

memphis dh has awful table manners too, spluts/slurps/arms on table etc. I tell him off though (doesn't work...yet)
I might email them, she's lost without her elephants!

Thanks tsc Ill do that :)

memphis it was in my cardy pocket which are deep but wide, I sweep my cardy to one side when on the loo and the ipod slipped out, grr!

You had to do a practice run for your wedding night Cake????

Were you not too sure what happens on a wedding night then?

dh hope yr phone recovers

Well practice makes perfect wss

That gave me a laugh wss!!
Currently have ellie in my arms trying to get her to fall asleep. The last 3 days she just will not sleep day or night. It ties in with her learning to sit and clap so im thinking this maybe something to do with it? That their mind is too active or something. Its probably a rubbish thought! so have bathed her in sleepy stuff and massaged her with sleept cream....and now she's asleep. For how long though?! it was half 12 when she finally gave into sleep last night!
Going to belfast tomorrow up to family for the night. Need to get stuff ready now..

OK the weirdy in-laws are now boiling all the tap water before they will drink it.

Must be because New Zealand is known for being so terribly polluted .

They have actually gone away till Saturday now. Yay!

Oh god wss how are you going to last 6 weeks?!!
[Grin] tsc!! yep she can and she can wave too. She waves like the queen actually! Very posh little lady i have.. But she can't crawl! i've been putting her up on her hands and knees trying to coax her and she stays there for a few seconds and gets too lazy then and flops.

wss yep, practice was needed - we had an 11mo after all so it had been a while

i was impressed with the clapping too kk. arf at tsc ripping Tiny from her breast

A is sitting up well and feeding herself very nicely now but fuck all else

she can wave too kk? she's doing really well! 7 months is the earliest they'll do that normally (around 7-9 months i think)

now that is cool tsc

thinking about it now, i feel a bit bad actually as i think we treat A as if she's about 3mo still as she's so much 'the baby' in comparison to F. i don't think we wave to her at --all- very much

G is waving too. No clapping though. She is getting harder to put down for sleeps in the day as when I put her in the cot lying down she just sits up again and stays sitting up crying. Have had to stay in sometimes and do a bit of shh-patting. She does seem to be going to 2 longer sleeps a day now though rather than 3 shorter ones.

Tsc my outlaws are from some lovely bit of the New Forest in Hampshire, so other end of the country from where me and mine are from.

NZ is very lovely, though tbh with small kids I think life is similar anywhere - getting up early/playgroups/cleaning up/wiping bums etc! We have some lovely places to go on holiday here though and we do get a guaranteed long hot summer.

I'm so jealous of the waving and the clapping... although J did sit up by himself earlier.

I got really freaked out, I went in to get him from his attempted nap and he was just sat in the corner of his cot playing with his toys. I had a really paranoid thought that someone had snuck in and sat him up.

Do any babies respond to their names yet? J will smile when you talk to him but wont always look at you, but often ignores me when I call his name, unless I'm offering food.

cakes I tumble underwear...why wouldn't I? It's not that I wouldn't hang it up to dry outside, it's that we live in a top floor flat so tumble dry everything I can. Several plastic backed bibs have been ruined due to my tumble drying escapades.

WSS just grin and bit your tongue, I had to live with my in Laws for 9 months, it drove me mad.

In other news, J's fourth tooth in as many weeks in coming through, it's making me want to pull my hair out. I had a little cry earlier because I couldn't get him to stop crying and he was soooo tired. He wouldn't eat either and just started wailing 'maaaaaamaaaaaa' whenever I put him down. I just managed to get him to lay down on the bean bag and relax (hoping he'd fall asleep) when MiL came round and picked him up. It was about 11, nearly a full hour before she was supposed to be here and I was still in PJ's due to crying baby. I said 'He's very tired, I've just managd to get him calm enough to sit down, I'm just going to get dressed', walk back in and she's picked him up and he's miserable again.

Dps mum is always clapping with her so that must be why she claps. She doesnt always wave at the right time though! We could be sitting having a conversation and she'll just start waving randomly!
I love the idea of living abroad too. Dp really would love to but i dont know how i would be in reality

I did indeed see how beautiful he is. I think I will have to upload one of J as competion...

In-laws are from a place called Brockenhurst...they are very much your stereotypical Telegraph readers, they were ranting on last night about how "all the Muslims are breeding like rabbits" ] tbh I don't think they have ever met a Muslim...they are just spouting crap they read in the papers...