July 2010: C'mon threadbabes: eat like MLIC's; drink like TSC's; smile like Memphis's; laugh like Cakes's; crawl like nearly all of them (except Cake's)... but mainly: sleep like Spireals

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Here we be (phew!)

how scary tsc!

sorry to hear you had a bad night cake. I was in desperate need of some good sleep last night so I slept in the spare room (what will be J's room), and DH dealt with J. I fed J at 11pm, then I woke up when I heard him crying at 4am, but went back to sleep pretty quickly. I then woke up again when I could hear him at 6.45, so went through and fed him again. Apparently he cried for about 25 minutes at 4am but then went back to sleep, so not bad at all. I do feel better for a good night's sleep!

We're off to Cheshire for a wedding this weekend - J's first trip up north! Am looking forward to it though a bit nervous about keeping him quiet during the service and the speeches, and also how it's going to go keeping him up late in the evening. We shall see!

Freaking laptop just lost a huuuuuge post that I was going to bore you all with.
cba now
tsc sorry mate, yesterday's nightmare sounded horrible :(

woodlands hope you have a lovely time, hopefully J will surprise you and be really easy!

Bummer chu i hate that!
Great few nights mylife hope W has turned the corner. I really thought D had as he slept through three nights early this week but its gone to shit again last night and the night before. He came home with what the childminder described as a viral rash yesterday and she said he kept crying out in his sleep, he seems ok today if not a little clingy and he has slept loads this morning and is asleep again now, really hope hes not incubating something. We are stopping in a hotel in bristol tonight and tomorrow, i have just phoned them to see about a cot, which they can provide, and if they have a microwave we can use for warming baby food, they have no microwave for customer use and dont provide a food warming service, am i expecting too much? God knows how/ where we will feed him, just have to play it by ear.....
I have my booking appointement with the MW on tuesday so only a few more days to be in denyal! however i tried 4 pairs of work trousers on the other day and ended up wearing my elasticated waist maternity ones, i dont think im showing yet just must have an enormus fat ass!!
memphis im a retail manager and i always help my customers!!(if they are nice!)
tsc horrid, cant imagine how u must have felt!
cake how old was F when A came along? D will be 17ish months, im not bothered about pregnancy or birth but im scared to death about having two under two!

viksam i was a retail manager too, I was always nice maybe too nice but it makes me really critical of shoddy service, talking of shoddy service I was in dunhelm and while i was being served the till played up and she said to her workmate the till is having a spag attack I was too to say how shocked I was!
cake just seen on ebay a wigwam with cowboy fabric on it thought about your playroom!!

MLIC, hope bedtime went OK and you are now relaxing with a stiff drink. I am on the lager.

I had no plans this afternoon so stuck J in the sling and went on the top deck of a bus up to the next town along to look in their (posher) charity shops. I like charity shops for clothes/books/toys for J, and all the little old ladies made a big fuss of him. It's the first time I've seen J properly waving goodbye when we left - felt like a milestone! Since the survey we did on this thread the other day J has started properly waving, clapping and saying mama and dada to the right parent, hooray.

tsc it never stops with shit with your car and money does it???!!! hope you can get a minder sorted, has anything prompted the choice of maybe leaving or is it an accumilation of events?
mlic reading that about small age gaps makes me want one now :( ive actually felt bloody broody this week, i keep thinking like with the babies, its a phase and it will pass!!!

tsc were you joking re your dp?! i really hope so. talk to us

was the bit about references/acceptance kinda hidden or in a separate email which you could have not received?

mlic really re going back to work?!! why, what, etc?

woodlands i adore charity shops too. i like nothing better than rummaging thru any second hand shops. the survey seems to act as a charm - A always starts doing things just after i've done one.she started saying 'hello' a couple of days ago but still not mama

trudy, vik and memph look away now>

teething hell here again, F has driven me totally fucking insane today. he has been disgraceful. mlic i'll take your 'E hitting you in the face' and raise you 'riding on his sister', 'pressing her birthmark', 'pulling her up to stand and then letting go so she whacks her head on the shower screen' and 'pretending to bite her finger' x1000

A also having a mare with her teeth so all in all her life is pretty horrific right now

just about to watch a dvd with dh and A and neck vino

sorry xposted tsc

sounds like you do need to get things straight there but you've got so much else going for you two that it has to be worth fighting for

Ah see, I was about to say to you mlic that perhaps its E's teeth too :D

tsc I really hope you an resolve it and he opens up to you, when do you think you will lay it out for him and see if he tells you?
mlic and cakes that doesnt bother me if I have L tring to ride a future child, the puppy is already riding L and dh when he gets the chance

i can not wait to say i told you so when F's teeth come thru and he's a perfect angel

why do you think it isn't teething with E?

do you mean riding riding memph?

Sounds serious Tsc, hard to know how bad what he is doing is without more details but it must be bad for you to consider ending the relationship. If he knew you were thinking of leaving him surely he would realise it's something that has to change?

Vik whenever the second dc is born it's a bit full on for a while - you do get it all over with quickly this way! And honestly, it is lovely having a second. A friend of mine had her second 12 months after her first (not planned!) and she coped really well - and she's not a massively "baby" person or whatever. She's now about to have her third (the others will be 3 and 2).

One advantage of a small age gap is that they will both still sleep in the day so you get a bit of a break. A gave up her daytime sleep when I was pg with G so I had no real break during the day - till she went to pre-school when G was about 5 months. And when the baby is born they do really just lie there, feed and sleep for a few months (well, hopefully!), you don't have to do that much with them - so you have time to focus on the older one.

Breaking news: G just took her first step...

I'm a skinflint too mlic. I sooo love getting bargains and I am so used to economising that I would have to really really love something to spend any real money on it. The church playgroup I go to has an charity shop attached to it and virtually everything in there is $2 - 1 quid - I love it and get loads of stuff there. I don't mind spending money on the dcs so much - though I still um and ah over it - I bought a lovely raincoat for A, it was reduced to 11 quid in the sale from abotu 20 and it still took me a while to convince myself to buy it - it will prob last her about 2 years and then will last G for 2 years too.

Gah - terrible night again with the two screaming teethers. Just how I needed to feel when I'm about to drive to brighton.

Wow wss !! That's amazing! Any more since?

Grinned at your turning into your nana mlic. I'm not so much as a skinflint, I'll happily spend money on some things but LOVE to get a bargain too.

I'm 100pc sure it's teeth with F, mlic. Toddler taming has made it far easier to understand and deal with his day to day toddlerish behaviour but this current horrific behaviour is sooo different to how he usually is and is always linked to teething symptoms (eg he's waking screaming, says his teeth hurt, is off his food, drooling and I can see his teeth are partially thru). Ah well, we can beg to differ but i'll have the last laugh :D

Yes she's done it again 3 times since - just one step each time - standing not holding on to anything, then one step, then standing again. Then looking bemused at the huge round of applause she gets.

I'd trade it for her actually sleeping decently at nights though

wss yay for her!

We were going to try sleep training D last night but when I was giving him his last feed he fell asleep. He was really good last night though, slept til 6:20 in our bed.

We're going out for a free meal today, DP did a really good job at an italian place last week and they said we can go there for a lunch on the house. Looking forward to it!