The 7th Broadly Gemini Luxury Bus - Now with highchairs!

[AGnu]

Old thread here

Bibs at the ready, things are about to get very messy!

Ow, ow, OW! Runt dropped a feed yesterday & now I have a stubborn blocked duct! It's so sore but heat & massaging doesn't seem to be helping. Can't wait for him to be hungry again! I'll take some ibuprofen as soon as I can find it! I'm in paaaaiiiiin!

Kitty why don't you tie the bag to the bottom of the cot? ds turns sideways across the cot and moans.

Actually he moans at anything any everything at the moment. I actually wish he'd take a dummy. He moans if he's too hot, too cold, lonely, touching me, not touching me, needs a feed, doesn't need a feed, just wants to head his voice, doesn't want to hear his voice, moan moan moan. And whilst he's moaning I'm not sleeping.

And that's before his daytime moaning.

Ouch Agnu find that ibru quick. Tried a cabbage leaf yet?

How Are you feeling now agnu

Look new festive smilies

Still sore. I even spent ages hand expressing in a hot, deep bath to no avail. Still, no fever yet so the chances of me living through this are looking good!

It's quiet around here. Has anyone heard how Lib is doing recently? Keep meaning to msg her but my memory is terrible atm!

Yes, it has gone very quiet in the last few days. These kids are really keeping us busy!

M is now addicted to her dummy. She had one on our drive up North and now she won't go to sleep without it. Oops. May have created a monster over here. A bit nervous about how she will do with strict bottle feeds next tues and weds, but even more not looking forward to pumping and dumping all that medicine-tainted milk!

Yikes agnu OUCH. Have you tried raw grated potato poultices? Moist heat packs?

I've been thinking about lib a lot lately, hope you are well you wonderfully sweet lady!

Am I the thread killer?

Yes, yes you are.

Runt's being difficult! He's decided that it's fun to clamp hard every minute or so during a feed or try & look around the room... Or clamp while looking around or just bite down hard & throw himself backwards quickly until he pings off. We're not talking atm.

I was always afraid of being the thread killer!

Ew, yeah that sounds like M too, agnu (I like your new name! What brought on the change?). How are the nips? She's going through this insane drooling phase and trying to cram all 10 fingers in her mouth at one time or is just a ferocious beast with trying to chew and clamp down and rip apart her teething chew toy. Where did this kid come from? She's like a freaking puppy. Still no rolling action. She loves her jumparoo though! She's a little maniac in that thing.

Bring kitten has bit grasped the jumps too at all, she actually bounced herself out of her chair yesterday ( sturdy one with clips) and yet put her in the jumper and she stands just looking at things?! She's just like runt with the old nipple tug and wants them for her own amusement aka I'm tired I want to suck, I'm unhappy I want to suck and she developed a lovely habit of screaming / moaning the second I go out of sight!

Morning. I actually slept last night, and feeling slightly more human today. Ds dropped a feed or 3 somewhere between 1130 and 7am.
Baby group today
IKEA tomorrow

Wow frus you've got yourself an actual sleeper! HOw are you feeling these days with all this new found rest?

IKEA, eh? Whatcha planning on buying in that lovely addicting place?

Anyone dressing up the munchkins for Halloween?

I've got a minion, a lion and a strawberry. DH is dressing up as Mr. Gru... and I've got no idea.

I read that as "Mr Gnu"!

bring pretty much half the shop. ds' room needs finishing, and my storage system needs a few more bits added to it (it's the algot build why you need type as I hate wardrobes they smell funny ) high chair for ds, a little bed, bedding, storage boxes, toys, probably some random kitchen things too. you name it I plan on buying it. definately addictive; I love the minimalist space saving type furniture. my house is full of it ikea stuff

I only had one night of sleep, I expect it was a fluke and won't happen again. 7.5 hours seems a freakily long stretch. My children don't seem to do sleeping through before the age of 3.

bring I love that stateside children can dress up as pretty much anything for Halloween, its much more fun, it's quite depressing that they have to be scary costumes here. Dd1 wants to be a mummy for a party she is going to, but I might convince her to be a bat or spider or something so I can do fancy face painting on her again. Dd2 just doesn't get it. Although I could easily convince her to wear her superman costume. as then not be able to get her out of it for a week do you go out trick or treating?

kitty I have one of those. I can't go to the toilet without ds whinging. And if I dare to put him down, or try to sneak off when he's asleep he wakes up and moans. Or if someone else holds him he moans until they hand him back. It's like he needs that milky smell right in front of his nose to sleep or be happy. He sits next to me, or on my lap, holding onto my top and grinning like the cat that's got the cream.

Me too agnu

Lol. I'm excited to see my cool DH in a nerdy turtleneck and a scarf (he's already a baldy). Yes, we're going trick or treating with some friends who have two adorable little girls. DS1 and her DD1 are in the same class and they've decided they are getting married . I had no idea they could only be scary things over there. DH just told me about this too. How odd!

M is getting all stranger danger on us too. She'll smile at people if I'm holding her but freak out if someone else is.

Did I ever mention that I love it when my DH snores? Really loud, snorty, gurggly, snoring? While laying on the couch? After making me watch Groundhog Day with him? Let me tell you, were are having a PAR-TAY over here right now

Oh my goodness. My flukey boy did it again.

That sounds like a fab par-tay bring you need a dog that snores too. I'm going to record them both one evening. although the dog is by far the funniest as he always dreams

Ds1 and his girlfriend fiancé? sound so cute

Well done little boy frus!! Has he cracked it, I bet you done know what's going on
We are getting dressed up dd1 mike korowski ( spelt wrong- out of monsters inc) she bloody loves it, we have to put it on every day! Kitten a pumpkin and me a cat obviously!
We have a Halloween party today then bday party Sunday which is also fancy dress although pirates and princesses, the invite says princess dd1 so we are going as pirates to much gender sterotyping plus I know dd1 wants to be the same as her big cousin lol ( her one true love)
I read it as me gnu aswell lol

Good morning. Clocks changing confused all the babies!

Sorry for being quiet this week. Sounds like there are lots of bouncing, rolling, shuffling, drooling, nipple clamping, gumming babies around just like mine

Ireland was a great trip. DS slept through both flights. He was gone before we even took off and woke after we landed in both directions. Coming back through Dublin Airport was a bit of a nightmare for various reasons, and we'd a really bumpy flight back but we got here.

It was lovely to see my family and have my siblings meet DS and for me to meet my sister's new DS too. It felt so short though. It's hard living away sometimes. On the plus side my brother and (pregnant) sil were in London this weekend so we got to spend loads of time with them yesterday too.

DS has been well. He had a weird few nights when we first came back to London. He'd go down to sleep at usual time but wake up within an hour and cry the house down for up to 45 mins. Seems to have got over it now though and is back to regular sleep patterns - down around 7.30, feed around 1.30 and 5 and then up at 7.30.

Got his Halloween costume in ASDA yesterday - black babygro with skeleton bones on it and a little skull hat. Halloween is much bigger in Ireland than it is here - almost as big as the US. We also don't necessarily do the scary costume thing but it's all I could get for DS. We're going to an NCT big coffee morning on Thursday so he'll get to wear it out.

Fun kitty! I love Mike Wazowski (such a midwestern name! makes me laugh every time). Also awesome idea on the pirate costume. I would totally dress up M as a piratess too!

Oh frus I am loving the idea of having a facebook vid show off of my DH and your dog snoring I bet mine will win! And, om, wow, another night of sleep! Maybe this is the new trend?

That's great he did well on the flights Lor! So odd on the bedtime behavior though. That usually sounds like jet-lag behavior from my boys whenever we travelled, but glad to hear it's passed. Fun costume! FB pix please! (I'll post M in her strawberry too!)

God does anyone else feel like today has gone on forever!!
Pics on fb!

Yy... Today is the never-ending day. Which is good in a way... The world's going to end tonight anyway, if the weather forecast is to be believed! Frus you're the most southerly aren't you? Have you nailed everything to the floor, taped your windows, shut your curtains, stocked up on batteries, tins & non-cook food? Make sure you've got a torch by your bed...

I've slept for a large proportion of the afternoon thanks to a sudden migraine! I was absolutely fine at church this morning then DH dropped me & the boys home before going back to help tidy things up & by the time he got back I was on the verge of crying from the pain! He didn't help much though... He took Runt up to bed & decided to strip our beds for the wash while he was up there... By this time it was 1.45, Calf had been awake since 7ish & had an exciting morning & we were waiting for DH so we could have lunch together. Not a good moment to be doing other things... I think he got the point after I completely lost it & screamed at him... I hate my migraines. They make me incredibly short-tempered & I lose all concept of self-control & start shouting which doesn't help my head! This would be why I usually take myself straight off to bed but I couldn't do that because some genius had just stolen the sheets! I crashed on the sofa instead & left DH to fix a dodgy fence panel, just incase we get blown all the way to Oz tonight!

Oh no agnu So sorry to hear about the migraine. Ouch.

Hope you guys don't blow away over there. MIL told me about it this morning.

DH has taken over the TV this weekend. F'in sick of American football, football, baseball and hockey. URGH. [mad] Rant over.

How's your dd's finger doing frus? How was IKEA?