December 2012: the little monsters continue to surprise us.

[MaMaPo]

I for one have a very surprising baby.

Big cross post!

She is funny, mostly.

She never went for anything dangerous when she was younger, so I think we've relaxed too far. Probably a good thing, with A on the move now! Just need to find a lockable bathroom cabinet big enough.

I can recommend ecover though, as relatively safe....

No idea FoD sorry.

When I was 3 I drank nail varnish removed.

Hmm I tried google but didn't get anywhere I think it's a place name in Wales?

We went to Jamie's Italian. It was ok nothing special. Saw someone getting arrested on the way back.

Oh also dp said he never, ever wants another baby

I phoned the on-call GP. He reckoned it is quite common and is a hormonal thing.

Said that if I was still worried about it by Monday to take him to our own GP.

Spotty forever is a long time. He may change his mind, you may change yours, you just don't know.

Glad you got some reassurance FoD, hope he's put your mind at rest until you can see your GP.

My gorgeous boy is laughing in his sleep, I hope he stays asleep on transfer though I need sleep myself.

So cute WillYou!

FoD I did wonder that but wasn't sure if I was making it up!

I'm so tired I can't cope with going to bed after 10 and I think ds woke at 5 ish. Dd came in at 5:45 so we've been up since then zzzzz (feel free to ignore me or throw stuff at me if you've been up in the night).

Spotty sorry your evening wasn't quite what you hoped for. And I'm with you on the early nights. Lots of waking up, briefly, but a lie in until 6!

DD was so cute this morning, talking about a daddy long legs. "mummy, I call the spider long legs "skinny legs"".

It was a nice evening there were a few silences though I think once (if) I get working again I will have more to talk about

I have to hand my notice in next week I can't put it off any longer. I'm really scared!

Hello all, we're back from camping! It was lots of fun but exhausting! Ts sleep was terrible - short naps and lots of night wakings with extensive boobing! I'm sure we'll get back on track quickly enough with a push.

Sorry to hear of all the poorly babies and yay/boo to sleeping deoend

Glad you got to have a dinner out spotty. Must be a nice change.

My husband ordered about 12 cookbooks from amazon which arrived last week (they're about half the price compared with in Australia) so we had lots of inspiration and a nice meal at home. Yesterday I took c on her first bike ride - daringly, I wore her on my front in the ergo. My bike is very upright so she was comfy. Not sure I'd do it again but I felt reassured as there were no cars - lots of London streets were blocked off for cycling.

Last night v broken here - there was a noisy party on the rooftop of an adjacent building. The noise wasn't too bad, but some dickhead from our block of flats woke me and C twice by screaming at the other party to keep it down! So angry about that.

Welcome back WL hopefully t will sleep better now she's home.

That would have really annoyed me mama!

Darn fat fingers!

Depending which side you're on!

spotty sorry you and dp are not on the same page re future babies, I hope it all works out. I was lucky that dh and i both quite wanted a third. Im sure dh would have been a bit less keen if we already had one of each flavour though! Good luck handing in your notice - I've always found leaving as scary as starting! Big wuss that I am. I'm going back 2 weeks tomorrow . Seriously wondering about trying to save a bit so that I can quit and go temping as it might be a way in and they might be more inclined to accept p/t as they pay by the hour. Hmm we'll see - I need to get everyone used to me being back at work first - DH is crapping it!

Eek two weeks! What are your hours like? The thing is I know dp is right we just can't afford a third not if we want to do nice things and go on holiday etc.

I only do 18 hours a week over 3 days and its not stressful or difficult but I'm quite bored and see nowhere to go - its the kind of job where most people have been in the same position for years and years. I would like a bit more challenge but also really need to start bringing in more money.

I'm supposed to be getting stuff done this morning while DH has dd1&2 at swimming lessons but T decided on a short nap and is now having a lovely boob feed.

The 3rd baby decision is tough - I look at friends who only have 2 and they're starting to get more freedom etc and their lives are becoming easier but I just wasn't quite ready to close the door. Of course I love having the 3 now and dd1&2 love T so much it's wonderful.

We have always been planning on three and have had mixed messages from both sides saying it's fun/not that much harder than two and then that it's way harder.. for now I'm just hoping we manage to conceive again. No reason why not and ds was a quick conception but dh was an only, whose parents would have had more but couldn't, and he really really doesn't want ds to be too. Also I know a few people who had dc1 easily and had to have ivf for the next so am irrationally angsty about it..

Well we were up all bloody night! Slept 2-4, 5-8 at which point I woke DP handed him over and got back in bed. He's exhausted now but won't sleep. This stomach bug has a lot to answer for!

There was an all night BBQ complete with shit karaoke going on here. they were across the road, 6 doors up and in another street and we still couldnt hear the telly! had to shut every window for the first time in months.

Welcome back, 2 weeks WL? Rubbish, I bet it'll be hard work coordinating drop offs/pickups. Who'll be having T?

I need to go and discuss my return to work but my mum and dad have buggered off in holiday AGAIN so I have no babysitter.

I'm still ridonkulously broody! After J was born I wanted a lot more, but I think for now I'll have a second and see how I cope curses self and will end up with triplets

Sorry you had a bad night WillYou.

WL have you ever been to Alice Holt forest?

When I hold ds's hands he walks but he lifts his legs as high as he possibly can. It's hilarious.

I think part of us having 3 is that we struggled to conceive (and then a couple of mcs) and felt so bloody grateful to have kids that I kinda couldn't get enough.
utopian I think it all depends on the personalities going on within the family. Obviously it is more work but I have days when it's no bother at all and other days that are tough, but I think that would be the case with 1,2,3 or 4 dc tbh!
willyou poor you and J, hope it goes away very soon.
spotty we haven't but I always hear great things about it. Must put it on the to do list!

spotty I'm imagining baby goose-stepping style! . It sounds most amusing - fb a vid?

Yep co-ordinating picks and drop offs is going to be a bit of a mare for the next year - all childcare is spread between us, DH works 4 long days at dm and pil help out. There'll be dd1 to and from school, dd2 to and from pre-school in a diff place 3 days and T toting along. Next year dd1&2 will hopefully be in the same school so that will make life easier. Luckily dm is uber helpful and flexible.

I will try and get a video! Dp has the week off after bank holiday to decorate the bedrooms I was thinking we could go there on one of the days. It's somewhere I think needs two adults

Ts crawling is progressing fast and now she can get up to all sorts of mischief like licking the marker pen face off dd1s balloon - see fb photo! Such a rascal - we took the bumbo camping but it was useless as she can now get out of it. Didn't have this trouble with dd1&2 who sat on their podges til 11 months!

Our night wasn't too bad, slept 7.30-1 1.30-5 5.30-7 . And today we sprouted a tooth! :) I knew he'd wait until DH was in India! Lol. There's one more India trip planned and its the beginning of nov, I'm willing to place a bet DS will start walking if the biggest hasn't managed it before

Mil was round today helping to look after DS while I got some packing done for our holiday. She was great but she does fuss a lot. Poor DS wasn't allowed to crawl off on his own, or pull himself up, or eat his rice cakes (he shoves them in whole) she just fussed so much. So I let him take himself out onto the patio and find inappropriate things once she'd left, you could see the relief on his little face! Lol

WL DS has been able to get out the bumbo for about a month, I cried when he first did it. I wanted a nice static baby for a while! Lol DS has been doing a lot more real crawling over the last few days but his commando is so much quicker he usually reverts to that!

We had a pretty good day, and have got A a vtech walker, because he loves standing and trying to walk.

Then about 5 mins from home DD was sick, so that's the car seat cover off for washing.

Then later my foot slipped out from under me on the stairs (luckily I was just carrying washing, not a child). My bottom is definitely bruised, one wrist hurts, and I'm not sure about my lower back (could be the bruised bottom!)

So a fairly eventful weekend.

Here's to a quiet week ahead....

Utopian my theory, from watching others- especially SIL's 6 children, is that they can entertain each other once you have 2 or more. So, whilst it can be hard balancing the attention needs of 2 (especially when baby feeds) you get time to do stuff.

I'm clinging to my theory!

And it took 6 months to conceive A, vs 1st month with DD.