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

[CakeandRoses]

Here we be (phew!)

Where have you all gone?

S woke just before 2am and cried til 5, then decided he wanted to be up for the day at 6am. I am very, very grumpy and need a sleep...3 hours solid of whinging and he still woke up at 6 - what is wrong with him?

Go W!!

D woke at half 5 again, this seems to be his usual time now.

chulita I hope so too, so happy for her :)

All he wants to do now is stand, all day long. He pulls himself up on everything and then just stands there.

dh 5.30 id L's usual time but last night i passed him a bottle and i didnt hear a peep again til 7!!!
mlic thats exciting about the house, will you keep house your in or sell it?
chulita thats rubbish about not being able to go to the hen do, a friend of ours was getting married in may but broke her wrist so has put it back til august, seems like a small thing to cancel for, i eould judt go for a big bunch of flowers to hide it!!
we dh and i chatted more last night things seem to have improved already i told him he needs to grow up, im not bothered about him doing his own thing but just want notice so i can make plans myself! he has a family to consider now and he totally agreed meeting my group for coffee this morning tried to buy a laptop charger from pc world but the are £85!!!! so i got one from trusty ebay for £15

Yay for W, mlic!!! Really hope it continues. As chul said, it's worth hanging on in there even if the daytime crying doesn;t stop for a while as i'd also heard it can take a while for their system to recover.

Ouch to 5.30am dh

Oh chul that is a v bad night . any chance of a nap today?

that all sounds like really good progress memphis. you're doing so well - look at how far you've come in just the last few months enjoy your coffee morning.

F loved his playroom tho dragged all his toys back into the sittingroom. I'm literally obsessing over how to decorate it now tho.

dh and i were having a right old standoff re holiday most of the evening. tis ridiculous.

crappy night here yet again - F only woke up screaming again but dh managed to keep him in his own bed. A was up a few times but think they both slept well from 3amish (i think) til gone 7am so i feel ok. I haven't fed A between dreamfeed and morning wake-up for nearly 2 weeks i think now.

how's nightfeeds going there wss? twas amazing that G dropped them on hols!

F is a delight this morning, really chatty and cuddling A lots. Hope this bodes well for the rest of the day as I have solo bedtime again tonight as I OKd dh going out after work

And F's music class is back on this afternoon so hopefully will see some friends there.

Finally a full nights sleep! so why do i feel like i've been hit by a train?!
Chul that sounds awful you poor thing :( probably no chance of a nap either
mlic go W!! thats brill! hopefully he'll be in a better mood today for it. Very exciting about the house!! i'd love to build our house but won't be happening for a few years yet.
Cake you make me laugh the way you obsess about stuff . It's so nice to have a room to bung all the toys in!

Forgot to say memphis glad things seem to be on the up at home. Totally agree with the lying thing i absolutely despise lies in any form. Makes me so angry

tsc I might be a really horrible mum but when S scratches/bites/pulls hair I plonk him in bed and walk away. Even if he's mid-feed right before bed I just let him scream about it for a couple of minutes and then go back. I'm quite lucky though because neither of my 2 have been really bad, they might be scarred by constant abandonment though...

mlic that's brilliant news! Well done W :)

cake last night was the first time that I didn't offer boob during the night and throughout the 3 hours of crying I kept thinking if I offered him boob he'd probably be out like a light. He wasn't rooting around or nuzzling though so he wasn't desperate for it, it would've been like a comfort thing and he's been really good recently at not feeding at 2. I reckon 5 nights out of 7 he doesn't wake for the 2am feed at the mo so I've decided to just get him out of the habit of it entirely.
As for playroom, an understated shade of orange to go with all those wooden toys

memphis good for you for having a chat with him, I hope it's all up from here for both of you!

Morning all

terrible migraine here so won't say much.

Just remembered that I hadn't answered stac. No, I don't think you are being unreasonable for making your DH sleep on the sofa while you bootcamp R. I think you are being very kind and I would make him sleep in the bedroom and deal with at least half the wake ups [cwink] No matter what you decide, I hope you'll be successfull.

MLIC DP and I both design websites but I used to work as a translator and still pick up some translation work every now and then. But I'm not doing much at the moment. That's not really helping you, is it [csad]

Well done W! So did you cut out dairy then?

Sorry about your shit night chul.

Glad things are looking up for you memph

What is the latest stand re holidays cake?

kk It's chulita's theory of when the children sleep well, the mums start insomniating

I'm off to chop my head off lie down until this headache is gone.

Wahoo trudy for the new word!! i slept liie a log but im not well today so that must be why im so tired. Very bad stomach and serious cramps and head feels crap :(
but on the bright side im busy today AND its a glorious day here!!

Would you hope to sell the house you're in eventually mlic?

afternoon all!!
well.I.am.a.silly.twat, I left my car keys in the car door and went into asda shopping!!! thankfully someone handed them in!! and i actually stayed calm!!! im so glad, they had the shed, bike and gate keys on the bunch too!!! would have been expensive if i lost them even if the car and contents of shed the bike and gate keys would be £600 to replace the 2!!!
every time L eats anything remotely lumpy he vomits, if i give him peices and he sucks it to oblivion he still brings it up, is this something i should worry about??

mlic we've been making bread with Vitalite the last few months and it's fine. Sorry your offer was refused, maybe wait a while and see if they get desperate.

memphis eek! scary stuff with the car keys. We once left the house keys in the door and got down and dirty upstairs not realising One of DH's colleagues spotted them and posted them through the letterbox - thank goodness he didn't open the door and shout! I'd ask the HV re L and lumps, I thought that at this age they should be ok with them and you've been giving him lumpy stuff for a while haven't you?

S doesn't want anything off a spoon now so any suggestions of dairy-free filling foods would be lovely.

And DH and I just skated on very thin ice because I cba to reach for the mousey sleeping bags so we'll see if bf is as good a contraception as the old wives say...

Yey, we can be pregnant buddies chulita

Ooops, I meant to add a [cgrin] to my last message for chulita

Loving the royal smilies [csmile]

I've not got AF back yet so I have no idea where I stand with the whole thing, it would be a surprise but not a bad one. I'd still like to lose this extra stone but I'm not going to wait til I have before starting anything else cos I'm not that committed to dieting at the mo! Was SIL's due date yesterday so maybe that got me thinking...

I havent had AF back since before I was preg, I dont miss it at all!

Ah, so mlic's pg too then That's what DH calls them, I for some unknown reason end up calling them monkey sleeping bags which rather kills the moment (even more than they do already) when I mention them mid-flow and DH pisses himself laughing. Much better to just ignore the darn things...

DH I've had 2 AFs since Jan 2008 and I don't miss it either!

I spent half an hour handsewing L some felt food and presented it to her when she woke only to hear "I no like deez fins eiva' ('either' is her new word), nice to have your hardwork appreciated! Mind you, she was bashing S on the head with the sausage earlier and I spied the fried egg on a plate so maybe all is not lost.

Oooh, exciting/scary/mad mlic and chulita !

Will be jealous if/when you do get pg but am pretty this is it for us now. Especially after solo bedtime (still trying to get F down after I woke him up going back into his room for my mobile and blackberry) and scraping thick shit off F's potty when by rights I should be drinking wine and eating dinner now.

Have roasted some aubergine and butternut squash but haven't yet decided how to have them. Fancy rice so might just throw it altogether with some lentils like a proper lentil-weaver.

I didn't know you were a website designer too trudy. < Welcomes trudy into cake and spirael's geeks' lair >

tsc like chulita, I dump A down when she bites/scratches/mauls/slam-dunks me mid-feed but she tends to just roll around giggling so not sure it has the desired effect.

Monkey sleeping bags [csmile]

J is going through an annoying phase of throwing all his food off the high chair tray, constantly. Any tips of how to get him to stop doing this? We are in the midst of decorating so the floor is dusty so we can't always give the food back to him. He'll take one bite or lick and then fling it. The only way to get him to eat properly is by spoon feeding him, but he isn't very keen on that. We've tried saying 'No' sternly, and also ignoring him when he does it and praising him when he doesn't do it, but it doesn't help.

Snort at you expecting a 9mo to listen, woodlands. Sorry, that wasn't v helpful .

tbh, it's just another infuriating phase they all go thru, i don't think there's anything you can do to stop him. He'll get bored of it after a while, quicker if you ignore it.

If you want to be able to give it back to him then you could try putting a wipeable plastic mat/sheet thingy (like the type you can put down when they paint) but wiping it will be a big pain. Alternatively something disposable like paper. Or material (eg a couple of muslins) which you can chuck in the wash.