December 2012: 1st birthdays and 1st/2nd Christmasses

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Next year sometime, we're not in a rush :)

We're doing similar pidj but just our immediate family is almost forty people We know a chef at a super super pub (he's own pub chef of the year before) so are hoping for a good deal

No nap, but I had a run this morning which woke me up a bit, and I'll be having an early night!

The weddings all sound lovely. I think we'd do it differently if we were doing it today.

DD was being naughty when I collected her from MIL today. As we were coming in the front door she said "it's too difficult being as good for you as for Daddy. I try my hardest but I just can't do it!"

Very sweet, but then as A was dropping off she went and started talking to him, so he spent the next 15 minutes crying.

Poor baby utopian, hopes he's feeling better now.
spotty glad ds seems better.
beasty that's how T is - she's a bit better now I don't feed her at night but will still refuse solids in favour of milk. I've refused a couple of times today and she's been ok with distraction, but she's been overall quite hard work today as she was up at 5.30 and had rubbish naps.
beasty you are hardcore going for a run in only 4 hours sleep - the only thing id be going for would be a massive bar of chocolate.
hales I'm glad you've decided to give it a go. As you say, now or never - there's never a *right' time. I do hope you get a break from caring for your dad (in the nicest possible way).
Apparently there was a tornado in our village on sat! We were out of the area and all was calm when we left, trees and fences all over the place when we got back.

I loved our wedding - we were quite young and the first of our friends to get married. We were on a serious budget so it was quite homemade but some years later a friend who was planning their wedding told me that they'd thought about which weddings they'd enjoyed most as inspiration and ours was top!

Glad you're going for it Hales.

That's nice WL. All of my friends have had huge HUGE HUGE weddings (£20k+) and it's made DP and I realise quite how much we don't want that. I really enjoyed being a guest/bridesmaid but that level of fuss and organisation isn't for me. They keep telling me I'll regret it if I don't have the big country house wedding, which I think is very rude as they'd be pissed off if I told them they'd regret their choice of wedding. I'm an adult and I know my own mind as well as they do.

This way we'll spend a fortune but it'll all be on us and J! Speaking of which DP was yesterday when his DB told him that he and his fiancé will be going on honeymoon for 2 weeks to the Caribbean and will be leaving their DS at grandmas. BiL told him it'll be fine and that DN, who will be 4, won't even notice they're gone and won't miss them at all. DP honestly cannot believe it I expected it all along.

Today was injection day, it went really well tbh. I gave him a box of raisins to play with straight after and he immediately stopped crying.

utopian poor boy! It's horrible when they're poorly. Hope he is better this evening.

spotty great that DS slept better for you last night, is he seeming brighter / more himself today?

hales I hope it goes well for the both of you and that you can enjoy being a little family.

wl it's lovely when people tell you your wedding was great. We went to so many weddings in the last few years we knew what we didn't want.
Food was really important to us and was our biggest expenditure by far; but it was amazing!

Well after an awful night we had a pretty awful day . DS slept till almost 1am then came in with us. I think he woke again around every half hour and I'm sure I was awake most of the time from around 5 or so onwards. DH got up with him at 6:30 I think and left me in bed but I just couldn't sleep. Then we had a big row. Then I cried and cried and cried and it didn't really improve from there. But we did get some stuff done.
And we went for a walk and tried not to slip over on the ice. But the sun was shining!
Off to bed early. Just want to cuddle my husband.

I'm leaving the dc to go on honeymoon. I'm already not looking forward to that part and we're going for five days. I've only left ds when I was in hospital and didn't leave dd until I had ds! I'm a bit of a wuss

WL we had that weird weather too, hence the tree nearly landing on dp. It swept across the whole of the south, very strange.

Bless you nutella. You sound like such a lovely couple. DH bought me flowers today for being a grumpy arse and causing a row last night. I can never sleep after a row so read for ages whilst he slept peacefully - git!
spotty I'm a big wuss too and haven't left the dds much. This year I've got a night or 2 away with DH planned and same with the girls so will have to man up!

Food was really important to us too and I remember being a bit pissed off as I didn't get to each much of the fab food as people kept talking to me! Darn those well wishers!

Ds' getting his hair cut today! I will have to do a before and after shot

utopian did you ever crack the early mornings? I decided to take a stand this morning 8-5.30 is just not enough for her (or me!) and after a scant 1.5 hours total day nap she was miserable and could barely stand up. I fed her and put her back in her cot, we battled for an hour, she cried a lot but I did manage to get her settled a couple of times but she woke every time I left the room. By 6.40 it was game over as the bigs get up at 6.45. Will try again tomorrow I guess.

WL if you had been a fly on the wall yesterday morning you might not have thought we were lovely. It was a loooong day yesterday.
Yes I know what you mean about not getting to eat much food at your own wedding . I only had a little plate of starter and then it was time to "open" the mains buffet and even though I only had a small plate of food I was stuffed after that!

Spotty yes we definitely need pictures! DS's hair is growing and I might trim it at the back but it isn't anywhere near haircut territory yet.

DS slept through! First time ever! DH and I were in bed just after 9pm and asleep by ten. But I woke at about 1am - the last few nights that's all DS has managed and then again around 4. DS finally woke at 6 and wouldn't settle so came into be with us and slept an hour from about 6:20 ish till 7:20 ish. But he did a lot of slightly funny poo this morning... Could it be a post teething poo?? I'm hoping he hasn't got a funny tummy

H's Diarrhoea is really bad, shes got cuts on her bum, where it must be really sore. She is coping well though despite she can't even pass wind without pooing. I'm just covering her in nappy cream. I would leave her without a nappy but shes so active there would be poo all over the house!

Yay to DS sleeping through Nutella

Spotty aww his 1st haircut, H still has hardly any hair so we're nowhere near needing that yet.

All your weddings and wedding plans sound lovely. I have no intentions of marrying my DP anytime soon, but then again we have only been together for 2 years on Monday.

Yay for sleeping through Nutella!!

Hales poor h that sounds horrible.

I was late picking dd up from nursery because I got caught in the middle of the hunt

Hales try metanium, but a very thin layer so the skin can breathe. Or Waitrose bottom butter. I strip R before running his bath so he gets some nappy off time. Or you could get a few flat cloth nappies and put those on with no cover, would hold poo and should be absorbent enough not to leave piss everywhere

A mum i met at a group once said she let her dc wear just the nappy no cover at home so they could feel the wet. I don't understand that, surely it just leaves pissy bum prints on the furniture? If you're going to do that, leave out the fleece liner so the actual arse feels wet surely!

pidj I totally agree with you there. How is the cover going to make any difference to the baby "feeling the wet"??? That's rather odd....

hales chamomile tea and some porridge oats in the bath are amazing for sore bottoms. Honestly the morning after DS has had a chamomile & porridge bath his bottom is heaps better. Is like magic!
Otherwise the creams available here are different so I can't help you there but we have a selection
(we put the oats in a muslin cloth secured with an elastic band. Give them a bit of a squeeze while they're in the bath too - it feels a bit gross and slimed but I think it helps get the stuff into the bath)

Today was much better. After we slept so much better. But I have been feeling iffy all day and I'm sure DS has the same bug. I feel really nauseous but I've just had some marmite toast and feel a bit better. DS was at the childminders this morning - another settling in session. I dropped him off. Left him on his own for about 30mins and then came back and stayed for almost another hour playing with all the kiddies. DS did well but was shattered and has only had one, one hour, nap today... We are preparing for a bad night... But trying to remain optimistic.

Metanium is the cream we're using, shes just pooing that often i don't think anything is helping her. Thanks for the bath tip i've been giving her Camomile tea to drink but never thought of putting it in the bath. I'm doing a phone consultation tomorrow with the Dr just because its been 4 days now and it seems to be getting worse not better despite me sticking to giving her really plain foods. (Toast, mash potato etc) The poor thing seems starving but then eat her usual couple of mouthfuls and shes done.

Nutella, when is DS starting with the childminder?

I agree that it sounds like a waste of time. Maybe shes received some dodgy advice somewhere along the line.

Poor H hales, that sounds awful, poor lamb. I always let T have a nudey bum run before or after the bath, but she does always wee somewhere!

spotty the hunt? Yuk!
nutella yay for the sleep through. I'm really hoping that T got the message that 5.30 is not ok this morning!

A while back there was an mn thread about crazy reasons for tantrums - tonight dd1&2 went into total sustained meltdown because I said they couldn't come to my imaginary zoo (I'd been doing a family rip off of dear zoo) because they were squabbling. It was actually really rather amusing, if loud and wild!

I did the camomile tea/oats and bare bum a while back Hales when j was really poorly, it worked really well. I hope poor H feels better soon.

I've been up all night with my poorly monkey. He has a hacking cough, has made himself sick and is sweating buckets. I think an early morning call to DM is in order to see if she'll have him. He's been fine all day.

Ds woke at 5:50

We always see the hunt round here WL and where I grew up so it's not something that bothers me (until I get caught in the middle).

Hales I think a phone call is a good idea. I wonder if they will ask you for a sample?

Love your pretend zoo WL!

Poor j WillYou. Sounds similar to what my dc have had on and off. Can you catch some sleep today or are you working?

Well i've had the phone consultation, he's advised only cool boiled water or diarrolyte (sp?) and no food or milk and just to keep an eye on her. I have a feeling she will hate this as shes been starving. I've text one of the girls i work with to see if she can cover my shift tonight so FX.

Willyou i hope J is feeling better soon.

WL i'm also loving your Zoo idea.

Hope DS naps well. For you today Spotty.

Nutella i forgot to say that H has dropped down to one nap a day now. Occasionally she'll have 2 naps but thats rare now.

Hmm hales that seems mean. Ds would be so upset if I didn't let him eat!

Metanium only needs a tiny smear, seems odd but try using less