March 2013 - time to wrap them all up in tinsel

[StormyBrid]

Old thread here.

worse we're like Plonky on the timings - we keep mealtimes and milktimes separate. I spotted something in Evil Baby Whisperer that suggested around this age milk should be at the time you'd give a snack. Thinking about it, that's pretty much what we do - milk at the crack of dawn, 11am, 3pm and bedtime, food at 9am, 1pm and 5pm. It seems to work, and Fartypants is definitely in the process of reducing milk herself. Those middle two feeds, she's having about four ounces now.

How is the worselet on mush? Does she show any preferences? If we were sticking with baby led weaning we'd be getting absolutely nowhere. Savoury mushes, she'll try a mouthful then get distracted by the cat. Fruit mushes, she practically inhales. For a reduced stress option, can I suggest getting yourself to Asda? They've a hell of a range of cheap fruity mushes, and then at least you're not having to throw away purees you've spent hours lovingly creating.

Incidentally, six month old Molly may love her porridge, but all that means is that Molly's a total weirdo - porridge is vile. It's weetabix all the way round here, with mashed banana in.

eco hang in there, it does get better. How long until 37 weeks for you?

I am thanking my heathen gods we don't have crawling yet. Nappy changes with rolling are bad enough. Especially when it's a particularly horrific one.

Plonky yes thank you. The sun has got his hat on and we're driving from Norfolk to market Harborough to look at some boring houses. I got a lot off my chest yesterday and it feels better just to have done that and to have started thinking about what I need to do for me to make things feel better. I know what they are, I just need to do them.

Caterers? Sigh. Yes, a tedious part of the proceedings. Dream your dream meal and ask them if they'll do that. Even if it's bonkers. It's your chance to have pork pie quiche with m and m salad if that's what you want. And talk to someone else they've catered for in the past.

Rings? Much more exciting. Long ago, I think at their silver wedding, mum got a new wedding ring that fit her older hands better. At that time she chopped her old ring in two and gave half the gold to me and half to my sister. My sister used hers in her wedding ring and so Did I. I found a local jewellery maker artist and we designed a ring together. I love it! It's white gold with mum's gold used as a design over the top. It's not terribly expensive as an option plonky if you have something alternative in mind. Enjoy your planning.

Plonky have you got any relatives who love to cook and hate being idle? BILl's mother did most of the catering for my sister's wedding, saved a fortune (which was handy, as my mum's mum had donated a grand for catering, most of which was left free to be spent on champagne).

Eco glad you're feeling a bit better. Laptop's playing silly huggers though so a longer reply will have to wait.

While I'm not doing nearly as well as Gerry, I'm still trying to lose weight. Started the new year at 16st 6.6lbs (I am a giant with an enormous arse). Was hoping to start February under sixteen stone. Weighed myself this morning. Dead on sixteen. Could have wept. Instead, had a poo. Fifteen thirteen point eight! I must not celebrate with cake, I must not celebrate with cake...

Silly huggers

Excellent loss Stormy, that's nearly half a stone (actually half a stone if you include toilet-based weight loss) in a month. Healthy rate and should be sustainable!

Eco your ring sounds great. I don't think well be popping down H Samuel for our rings, but likely just commissioning an independent jeweller to make something to our taste.

As for food, well it's likely well have a hog roast, but we need servers for wine and canapés on reception. My mum, sister and me are all skilled in the kitchen, so we'd like to make the canapés ourselves. Nothing complex though given my sisters going to be six months pregnant at the time! There's a strong chance this'll not happen though, as I think I'd rather be getting my nails done the day before the wedding. Oh and running around after a toddler.

Eco market harborough! That's not Luton! And much nicer/closer to your family (another shop I've worked in :) ) do you feel more positive about mh? It's lovely there.

Sun gone in and clouded over so were off for lunch/a rainy walk.

At half a stone a month I'd hit baby weight target in six months.

worse I feel for you. It probably is teeth. Hope you are snoring away now while dh is in charge.

plonky im so excited about all the wedding talk. Congrats to your sister on her pregnancy. Will you be a first time auntie?

stormy well done on your weight loss. Celebrate with a carrot stick instead. In future make sure you always go toilet before weigh in. Im not going to post what I weigh but its a lot. I put on a stone since i have had ds. Ive been dieting for a month now and ive lost 8lbs. I've really cut down my portions, white bread and pasta which has helped alot.

We have 2 teeth coming through which explains the craziness lately.

Pasta is a total no go for me at the moment. Bread consumption is minimal too, though I don't do white bread anyway. They make me bloat so much. A week of no bread and my stomach's much flatter. And of course, skipping the simple carbs means there's room for the odd toffee crisp. . Well done yummy, and here's hoping we both shift another half stone by the time these babies turn one.

DS just done a huge sick. Afternoon plans up the spout as I'm now stuck under a very floppy baby.

Ah, it's too cold and gloomy to go out anyway. Far better to spend your afternoon under a sleeping baby.

Eco sorry missed your post yesterday. Glad feeling chirpier and cope supplies returning. Lots on so not a surprise. I feel like I enjoy my work time as it makes me get a bit if old me back, but also feel that as I am not with DS as much as dh I am less able to stand by my views of what should or shouldn't be going on with child rearing. Stupid I know. Also feel like I get no time for me as dh regularly has to cover extra time for out of hours work or me visiting my ill dad. But neither of those things is fun .

We have a new tooth (that's number 2) coming through and commando crawling as of yesterday.

Just checking in to say a quick goodnight, and a thank you for the baby nurofen tip. It has got to be teeth, as she is eating well and not obviously unwell, so I'm crashing out now armed with a bottle of milk, a spoon for the nurofen, and a prayer for sleep.

Well done on the weight loss guys, impressive stuff.

Plonky your planned wedding feast sounds just perfect.

Right, it's 8.45pm, so that's an acceptable bedtime. I'm off.

how was last night worse? Any better? Did you get any joy with ibuprofen?

And plonky, sorry to hear your plans got spoiled by poorly boy. Was the sick a one off and is he better? Maybe you'll have a nice Sunday to make up for yesterday. We drove past 'the wine shop' in market Harborough twice We really liked the town. Sit has sainsbury, lidl, aldi and waitrose literally all lined up next to each other! Shame train commute would be 400 a month.

Morning!

We are bright eyed and bushy tailed today. DS seems to have made a complete recovery, thanks for asking Eco. We gave him only water for the rest of yesterday (in the few minutes he was actually awake) and he's just wolfed down half a crumpet and some banana, so I think he's fine. Something must have disagreed with him. I've come to the conclusion that I am far better with poo and snot than with sick.

I was amazed at how well kitted out Market Harborough is! The lovely old high street full of shops that you can actually use and a Very Good Wine Shop even if they do treat their employees terribly And 400 a month for commute is ok! We spend more than that on nursery . And I imagine Rutland would be pricier in just about every way, and you were considering that. The most important thing is: do you like it? Was the house nice?

Also, can I just rant about something please?

I found the perfect caterer. Affordable too, as in £16 a head for hog roast and a few canapes upon arrival. Until they send me an email stating that canapes at 4.30 + hog roast at 7.30 = 2 course meal! £38 a head!!

Consider my flabber well and truly ghasted. I might have expressed several profanities upon opening that email. Something along the lines of what they can go and do with themselves.

Hi all
Just catching up ok the last few days. eco you put into words exactly how I feel- especially recently. I cried at his 4.30 wake up this morning and then couldn't get back to sleep- I think at nearly 11 months he should be sleeping through. So yes sleep deprivation makes everything worse for me. Lots of other stuff going on which just adds to it- I also feel like I have list my identity a bit. Glad you're feeling a bit better .

More teeth here too!!! We use nurofen- it def helps worse. Hope sleep was had last night...

Happy Sunday everyone. We are going to go for a nice walk and maybe a swim later. Any nice plans anyone?

Ps eco if it helps at all I've thought from previous posts that we would get on in RL!!

Oh plonk . Anything with weddings equals taking the p*ss money wise!

plonky can you get away with telling caterers its for an anniversary party or something? As shattered said the word wedding makes businesses think kerching! Stupid stupid prices.

sadly not, yummy, they already know it's for a wedding. Will probably make the canapes ourselves (400!! Eek!) and just use them for the hog roast and some bodies to serve stuff. A handy way for them to lose out on over £2000...

Plonky that's outrageous. Name and shame. They deserve it. Do you know anyone with teenage children who could be bribed to do canapes and serving?

Sleep last night was not good. I was up for 2 and a half hours with her, and DH an hour. In the end he went and slept in her room and left her in her cot to cry herself to sleep. I can't manage that myself, it kills me. Plonky I think you suggested bringing her in with us, which we have tried, but for some reason the novelty of sleeping in the big bed wore off months ago, and now it makes her cry. I guess that is a good thing!

All that aside, things are actually going great as she has finally really got the idea of food. Finally finally finally... I could weep with joy. I just blitzed up what I thought was a sizeable portion of chicken, lentil and sweet potato casserole (i.e. our lunch) and she cleared the bowl in literally 5 minutes, then tucked into come crackers and a whole pouch of fruit. As plonky would say my flabber was well and truly ghasted.

The sun is shining here, I hope it is with you, and I'm off outside now to enjoy it.

Anyone fancy coming and painting a big red cross on our front door? Dd and I are very much lurgified. Scary Friday night with what at first sounded like a horrible case of croup for dd, but an hour or so upright on me sorted out whatever was settling on her chest. Not much sleep since Wednesday night, then at 3.30 am she woke again, at which point I realised I had caught it, and was trying to rock/pace a screaming baby whilst suffering from a horrible headache and tight chest myself. Really want it to turn into a proper cough because at the moment it just hurts.

Friends over for a roast today, which was lovely but has completely done me in. I'm now in bed, wishing lemsip did a sugarfree version, waiting until it's time to take some more drugs.

Considering taking her over to my mums in the morning as usual then coming home to bed for the day instead of going to work.

Oh dear Gerry. Is it half term yet? It sounds like you could all do with a week of convalescence - and if that means dropping her off at your mums so you can both get rest then so be it.

Worse I'm very tempted to name and shame. I've found caterers who are charging half what those numpties wanted. £2000 for canapes for 90 people is insane, especially when the hog roast was quoted at £1000! So I've found one that will do it all for less than the idiot company were quoting for (presumably heaven-sent gold-plated) canapes.

Once the deposit's paid I'll feel I can relax a bit - that'll be all the big stuff done and we can start doing the more enjoyable bits. Like wine tasting and cake decidering. And the rings.

DS is really starting to respond to being told no. Usually by crying. I fear we have hit the toddler stage a tad early (but I imagine it will get much, much worse). We've got the in-laws coming over today so I'll be entertaining them while DP is at work. Be nice to see them, and for DS to see his great grandad again.

Gerry hope you're at home taking it easy, and on the mend. Sounds miserable

Plonky glad you found someone else. Some people just take the pi55. We once had some builders quote us £500k for an extension . Seriously. That's like an entire new sizeable house. Needless to say we didn't use them.

Actually made it to baby clinic this month, and the good news is the not so tiddly tiddler has dropped back down the centiles from 75th to 60th, which is on a par with her birth weight. Normal now she's moving about and eating proper food apparently. So big tick from the HV for me for once.

No response to no here. This is unfortunate, given her penchant for biting.

Confession time - I think the last bad night was entirely my fault. She was probably too hot. Now the weather has improved and it is no longer blowing a gale, the house is much warmer. I feel awful. Last night I switched her into a lighter gro-bag and she slept through from 11pm to 8am without a squeak.

I win the ultimate bad mummy point. I am about to take DD out in a tracksuit. In my defence, I had nothing to do with getting her dressed this morning.

11-8am! Is that possible? Well done worselet.

Gerry hope you are having a well earned rest today.

plonky if you are able to make canapes that will be great but you will have so much going on and add to the wedding stress. If you can find a caterer that can do it cheaper then go for it otherwise it will be too much hassle.

Ds has a favourite corner of the living room, anythi g he is not supposed to have he quick goes to that corner.

Glad you've found an alternative Plonky, frustrating how the £ signs appear in people's eyes for the w word. Grrr.

We have commando crawling, our second tooth and an ear infection requiring penicillin. Poor poorly baby and poor me - I have another cold coming on! That's my third since end Dec! I am so so so so bored of being ill!!!!