July 2010: Drool it, maul it, crawl over it - that's how our threadbabes would eat a creme egg. But why the Creme Egg?!

[CakeandRoses]

Will that do us?

/panic

just lost a big post!! Rahhhh!!
I was only driveling on about what a rubbish night it was here, i will spare u all the details now, cant write it all again. But he aparently only had half hours sleep all day at the CM, which isnt really good enough is it, thats why he just couldnt SS last night, such a shame.......for all of us because hes had some really good nights this week. He still has a bad bum too, his nappy rash is slightly better but he has 7 dirty nappies yesterday she said. She suggests he may have become intolerent to something, strangly this week he has drank loads more milk than he usually would, draining almost every bottle. He started having bad poos after i fed him that stage three jar last weekend and its just continued since than but it cant be to do with that can it.
Anyway, just want to say sorry for my bad spelling and punctuation on here, i am usually very tired or in a rush like now!!
cake cute re F's drum.
chu what hours will ur dh do next week. i hope u have a good day today, do u have anything planned? when are u seeing ur folks again? That always seems to pick me up a bit.
dh cooking club sounds ace, let us know what u make!
wss i hope ur morning isnt such an early one, it totally sucks, D was awake for over an hour in the night and all i could console my self with was that maybe he wont wake so early, 6.40 and DH got up with him and left me in bed for half hour 'sleeping' why is it u never can sleep when u get the opportunity?
Right gona go clear up the breakfast stuff. Whats everyone doing today?

We're going swimming! I don't know who's more excited, me or L - probably me! DH is back to 'normal' hours next week thank goodness.

Apparently there is a 9/10 month regression, maybe we're in the middle of that!

Sounds like there's a few babies with sleep "issues" (phew, not just me then)

vik lots of pooey nappies and nappy rash can be a sign of teething. But may not be!

I can't rule out teething here, G has 6 (2 top, 4 bottom), maybe the other 2 top are coming through. I can't remember - do we then get a break before the back ones come through? Or does it vary from child to child? I only did this 2 years ago with my first dd, I can't believe I've forgotten it all!

I kept her up as long as poss, only till 7.30 pm, she was knackered (not surprising really), I am going to bed too (8.13pm ) to get as much sleep in as possible tonight. Also gave her calpol and stuffed as much food into her as possible.

Chulita glad your nephew is home now.

stac good to kinda get your mojo back, I'm certainly starting to feel a bit more bothered about what I wear/dragging a comb through my hair/slapping a bit of mascara on. I'm not a very groomed person at the best of times but it is nice to feel like I actually want to wear different clothes etc.

Still got shedloads of baby weight to get rid of though (when can you not get away with calling it baby weight anymore )

ummmm so who do you believe tsc? It's a tricky one.

Ack

Does K ever have friends round when you're not there? She could be telling the truth re vodka but 'forget' to mention anyone else who maybe helped themselves to the other spirits.
If it is him then that's absolutely crap and how on earth is he going to be able to prove to you that he's not drinking?

Jeez, the timing of K coming in pissed like that

can you usually tell if he's lying tsc?

i'm out of my depth with this so don't i'm not sure i can give any meaningful advice but i guess you could just monitor how he is from now on - maybe he will change his ways given it's all come to such a dramatic head over this last week?

why is he so against going to a meeting?

tsc I wouldn't want to go to a meeting if I didn't have a problem. So I think I understand why he wants to prove it to you every other way. So maybe wait and see and give him a chance?

how can he not have a problem if he's drinking most of their spirits, watering down what's left and then blaming his 16 yo step-daughter trudy?

sorry, not trying to make this into a 'lets all gang up on dp' thing but given everything tsc has said, it doesn't sound problem-free.

I know, but he's not said that it was him. I don't know really what I'm saying but maybe something has happened that no one has thought about (sleep walking, practical jokes of K's friends, etc.) and it might not be his fault.

I know this sounds stupid, I just wanted to say, that if I was sure it wasn't me and that I didn't have a problem, then I wouldn't want to go to a meeting.

Things that have changed since I've been on this thread:

I am contemplating making my own quiche

We now have a big, loud, ugly Vtech walker in our living room and M loves it

If I'm not sure about something when it comes to M, my first thought is, who on the July thread might know that, rather than who in RL

I find it very touching and comforting how much a bunch of essentially strangers can care for each other, be there for each other and help with all sorts of things and at all sorts of times. It's brilliant! I also love how funny you all are, and that I often snigger when I read your banter.

There is lots more but I can't think of it now.

A friend of mine is coming around later with her little boy. She has been very outspoken and strict to people about not wanting any plastic shit presents for the baby, only wooden, educational shit stuff. I wonder what she'll say about our great big baby walker. I am actually contemplating hiding it, just so I won't be judged. But I think her focus will be on another couple, who will also come along and who have said, in order to punish her for her arrogant requests about a present, they will bring her son a plastic toy gun . I think I will sit back and enjoy the argument. Hihi.

Have a good afternoon all.

Shit shit shit. Found a crying L on the buttom step in a heap on his front after a loud thud! Was sure the gate was.shut! He seems ok now thankfully but frightened the life out of me. Think he might have been trying a repeat of this.morning when I let him thru the gate and he crawled all the way up on his own.

Tsc that's shit! Hope things get.better

melissa L fell down the stairs when she was about 12 months, I just hadn't closed the gate while I told a door-to-door salesman to fuck off that I wasn't interested. It happens to a lot of us :)

trudyla we never wanted any plastic tat and to be fair we've done pretty well most of our stuff is poncey wooden. Sounds like an interesting afternoon

I've been trying to come up with a recipe for (processed) sugar and dairy free biscuits and flapjack/cereal bars and I think I've got it now. L loves the biscuits and S ate 4 pieces of my latest flapjack attempt. I'm quite pleased!

I indulged in a Mars bar despite being reasonably healthy all day so I'm going to do the Shred once L's in bed to work off about half of it. I'm in a real chocolate mood this week, I've polished off almost all the chocolate in the house

memphis thank you for reminding me of the existence of pasta bake, it went down very well today!

Oh, melissa, it's so upsetting when they are hurt, isn't it. Hope you're both better.

Well, the afternoon was much more peaceful than expected. The toy gun didn't make an appearance.

chulita I prefer nice wooden toys to plastic ones but I would never be so rude and demand them as presents like she did.

I also had a lot more principles before I had M (no dummies, no plastic toys, etc.) but since I've had her it's more a case of whatever keeps her quiet for more than 5 seconds makes her happy.

Actually, that's another thing I've changed because of this thread, M only gets her dummy at bed time now. We're doing OK so far, but she is still very easily upset and angry. The few days she was better, were only that, a few days. So I am toying again with the idea of dairy exclusion. I still have to convince DP to get on board, though.

chulita Did you do the Shred? I must start doing it again. One day, I will do all 30 days. I will, I will. What other DVDs did you order? I used to really like most Davina ones (apart from the post and pre natal) but find them too time consuming now. I'm only going for the Shred cos it's 20 mins (even though it's really almost 30)

oh god melissa. how are you both now?

trudy/chul we were the same on the poncetastic wooden toy front but they've ended up with a bit of a mixture as altho if we only buy non-plastic toys ourselves (except thomas trains and the walker which i bought second-hand), family/friends often buy plastic stuff as presents and i let felix choose what he wants from the charity shop every week and most of the time it is brightly coloured, noisy plastic, natch. i just recycle the less-played with plastic tat back to the charity shop very regularly.

We're both ok now thank you. Was a bit of a fright for both of us. Realised was 3rd accident of day. 1 hit himself in head with lock on washing machine door; 2 based chin on a chair hook (that attaches it to another chair) at E's ballet and cut top gum with bottom teeth & 3 his tumble either up or down the stairs. He has a lovely collection of bruises on his face and forehead and chin [neglected emoticon]

I like wooden toys but the children don't get bits of paint in their mouths from biting the plastic ones! L is biting and chewing on anything at the moment. he's decided that the end of the cot is perfect (but not the teething rails). Oh but he prefers the opposite end to the one his sister chomped

Gotta run as my old uni chaplain & his wife are coming to stay for the weekend and the guest room is still full of junk (and dh is trying to get our car back from garage, but that's another trauma story)!

I did do the Shred, but then I'm doing this online calorie counting thing and I was 385kcal over my target so I had to do something! I've ordered the Tracy Anderson mat workout and Davina super body one. The Shred really works, I've only ever made it to day 18 but each time I feel fitter and DH even commented last time that I was looking pretty good. It's just that I'm so bored of level 1 after starting it so many times! How do you have the energy? I've not been able to exercise when pg either time!
And no, I'd never demand wooden toys, thankfully my friends all have excellent taste (actually no one buys us any toys )