December 2011: They're one Jim, and highly illogical!

[LittleMissFantabulous]

I went with Gary's suggestion, as it was quite awesome and indeed factual!

:o

Onwards?

Gary DS was originally nicknamed Chunk Chunk as he was 9lbs 1oz at birth :o He is now nicknamed Little Chunk, Sausage (short for Silly Sausage), Bibi-Ahh (Bibi in Chinese = Baby and they add ''Ahh" on the end of most sentences), Little Sod and Little Bugger.

DH has now disappeared to play badminton...won't be back until 1pm grr!

OMG the baklava is SO yum. But it is also SO evil! Sugar, nuts, butter, honey, butter, sugar, butter, filo pastry and did I mention butter? It should be illegal!

Shame there can't be a channel on Sky for Old Skool kids TV!

Nicknames: DD1 has always been my bean. DD2 is Little Lady which surprises me as she is going to be a tomboy I think!

Today we are meeting friends for the afternoon and having some lunch out at a local pub.

Then home for bedtime routine as back to school for DD1 tomorrow and then Dancing on Ice for us to settle down and watch.

Anyone watch Splash! With Tom Daley last night?

Mopsy never had Baklava. Looks far to sweet for me. I'm more of a savoury girl.

I've never had baklava either. Though I do have cinnamon and raisin bread in the bread maker :).

Tidying isn't going well, DD is miserable, and I can feel tooth number 4 poking under her gum.

I fell off.lost this out of my 'I'm on' section. Weirdness!

Today Octoboy is being 1. He is celebrating by sleeping off the vile night we had. Sodbox!

Happy Birthday Octoboy!

Happy birthday Octoboy!

Happy 1st birthday Octoboy x

Happy Birthday Octoboy!!

I love baklava, mopsy, hope it tastes lovely.
I tried making halva once & it was awful, so sticking to shop bought.

Had one of those awful nights where DS woke at 11-12 & then decided 4.30 was wake up time, luckily DH dealt with it all & let me have a lie in until 11am!!

Thanks for the good wishes. He scored for a free doughnut earlier so was most impressed.

My mood is lifting a little. Festives out if the way so I can breathe a little freer it seems.

Just waiting for Squidge and Boo, then we will go for obligatory birthday tea. It'll prolly be at pizzaslut, we have form >_

Ah, a good Pizza Hut just occasionally is great, it's a real fill your face experience! Hope you, the brood and the birthday-tentacled-one enjoy it !

Further nicknames in this house are Reptilian Overlord, Fat Bob, Benbo, His Tiny Highness (both ironic and now out of date owing to size!) and Puppy. He is Le Petit Ponce every morning and then lunchtimes at weekends though

Today has been job day- taking down tree and decorations, run to the dump, hoovering, taking DS to the park.... We need to bathe him, run the chins, book his hospital appointment for next week and do the thank yous later though, phew... So not exciting at all Seven, hope yours was more thrilling.

Stir fry for dinner though, can't wait.

By the way, how's the house stuff going aethel, not heard much from you, other than a massive need for a massive coffee each day!

Not often we visit Pizza Hut as DD1 doesn't eat pizza! So have fun LMF.

We had a lovely lunch out today and really proud of DD1 for eating all her lunch without a fuss!

Back to normal tomorrow and I should make a salad to take to work tomorrow but can't be arsed right now so will have to do in morning.

Hee hee. Am OK, northern, thanks for asking. House stuff is at a grinding halt due to Chrimbo, still gunning for a mid-Feb exchange/completion, though who knows... Will be onto it again next week. I have a to-do list a mile long, bloody daft idea to try to move but it's too late now!!

Nearly killed my back with the thirty day shred, so am reluctantly scaling back for a week or two, operation lose weight slowly is going, may well be slower than desired but never mind!

The coffee requirement is due to DS teething the last few nights: at least I think that's the reason for him waking up every hour or so from 9pm-3am.... And now to wrestle with the mobile phone website, it keeps falling over and not showing my bill (I want to convert back to pay and go but it's not playing! ) much budgetting is required so I'm trying to do it a step at a time.

dS is referred to as Monkey, Baby, Littleman or Bertie-Boy.

Facebook folk will know the most oft used nickname for Octoboy. I'm not going to put it here as it's quite unique and I'm not up for being utterly outed! He also get Mr Moodles (im not allowed to call him Mr Moo according to Boo) and Pumples McTrumples if he's being particularly windy:o

We mostly use monkey, fat pants, mc stinky and my husband calls him spartacus or sparty.

How stupid are we?! We've just connected these two facts - monkey wakes up at 5.45 every morning and... the heating comes on (loudly) at the exact same time. Duh! I'll be changing that later!

Easily I am so jealous. You have discovered a possible connection to something that could help "Spartacus" :) to sleep. I don't know what to do with BOi (nicknames: The BOi, Ali, - bit obvious that one, Little Lord FauntlerBoi, He-who-must-be-obeyed), sometimes he shocks us and sleeps through, but most often he'll wake between 11 and 1 - and can be settled back to sleep, but if he wakes between 1 and 3 he will not go back down. He kicks out, he screams, he is inconsolable. I'll eventually take him out of his cot to settle him, I'll sit in the armchair in his room and calm him til he sleeps, but if I try and put him back in the cot, he'll wake and go ballistic again. I tried for about 45mins last night, and then gave up and brought him into bed with us - where he settled quite quickly. On other nights I've got into his cot with him, - and he settles. I've tried controlled crying once. I hated it, and after a couple of hours we broke.
I'm beginning to think, ah to hell with it, let the BOi just sleep with us. But not if it'll cause us problems in the future.
We went to the Trafford Centre yesterday to get noo shoos for DH. After 4 hours, all we had bought was new pjs and dressing gown for BOi, and lots of clothes from the M&P sale for BOi.
'Twas rather frustrating. We'd been in every shop, tried on lots of shoos. Seen many we quite liked but DH balked at spending 100quid on shoes, so we didn't get them, but he didn't like any in his idea of the right price bracket. He'd "seen nicer" - (Duh! Yes, but they were more expensive!). So it looks like we'll have to spend another day going through the same exercise again. This is a typical example of where the "value of precious time" outweighs the cost. And anyway, if we do another day like this, then BOi will end up with more stuff, and any money saved on shoos will be spent threefold on the BOi.
My DH needs a maths lesson. And he hates shopping. I need to remind him of this.

easily I'm not only jealous that you've found the cause, I'm jealous he sleeps until 5.45! We had a few good nights until 6.30 over Christmas, but now it's worse than it was before. She woke up at 3, thankfully DH got up as i was up most of the previous night, but she's been awake ever since, and still shows no sign of needing a nap. I want to say it might be teeth, but even with a short morning nap and going to bed at 6.30 exhausted when she wakes she's just awake and wants to get up.

I done my pregnancy yoga DVD last night, first time this pregnancy. I honestly can't remember the last time I felt this relaxed, though my shoulder is killing this morning.

Off to play at a friends house today before her DS goes back to school tomorrow.

Sleep is still a mythical beast here:( This last few weeks he's been feeding like a newborn. I'm getting resentful again, which is ridiculous.

I just read this about establishing more of a routine. Nothing new particularly, but I like the idea of doing somethings in the living room, then saying goodnight to teddies and objects one by one before moving downstairs to his bedroom for the final part of the routine. It may be worth a try... anything is. We still rock him/sing him to sleep upstairs and then take him down. I know this is wrong, but it's easier...

Wow i had no idea some of you were still having so much trouble overnight we are very lucky he sleeps through most nights and if he does wake he just needs a cuddle and then goes back to sleep. the problem we find is he wakes up anytime from 5.30 (on unusual days now) to 7.30 so there is no consistency.........not that it is much of a problem!!

Names here are Danny-Manny, Cub and The Boy although over christmas cheeky pudding was thrown in the mix and it is now sticking round.

Tooth 7 is through and 8 is coming quickly behind!!

Oi thanks for the link, I've quite often found that site has useful guides.

DS is obsessed with books at the moment, he keeps pulling his books from the shelf and going through the pages by himself! I usually jump in and read him a couple after he's had a play with them. Favourites seem to be anything that has a lift up flap like Dear Zoo, or Where's Spot. I like the ones with a bit of humour like The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly or Thue Hungry Caterpillar. Any recommendations as we have an amazon voucher to spend? :)

We have maybe one shitty night a week, and 5.30 is wake up time.

Cheung, we've got DS this bedtime book, it's got touchy feely bits so is nice, there's also a Row Row Row Your Boat book (cover is orange, with a little boy & donkey toy). which is nice.

for FiggyBoy.

We have many nicknames for Freya - RaeRae, Foofster, Stinkpot, Picklepants...

She must have known that today I am back at work and therefore I did not need any sleep last night! I'm exhausted and still not feeling well. I have been ill for 4 weeks now. What started 2 weeks ago as a simple cold is now turning into blocked sinuses which are starting to get painful and causing headaches. GP is useless. I'm going to book an appointment with our (private) company GP on Thursday because I have had enough!