June 2013 Commando crawlers vs Baby slugs

[SunnyL]

Hi all - the old thread was about to run out so I started a new one.

Little Miss was up to mischief last night. Thankfully it's DHs day off today so he took her into bed with him while I slept in the spare room. She is just so excitable when she wakes up at night. It can can 90 minutes to scrape her off the ceiling.

So I am crippled with indecision, and you lot are reliably helpful:-) We have an agreement that we each get a weekend off a year. DH has had his and went to the Lake District Friday morning to Monday afternoon. I now need to decide what to do with mine. Friends will be in the lakes Friday to Tuesday over the August bank holiday. I was thinking this would be great but they are planning serious hard core walks and I've not much of that sort in a while and will be out of shape. I'd hate to slow them down as that's really irritating, and they'd be polite but hate it. I would have done too. And it's four nights away from home which is a LOT. Couldn't come home eat due to train line shutdown.

I can't think of any other options. I don't really have friends to go on a weekend away with to a city or something and I don't want to spend a fortune. Also if I was hypothetically pregnant (am not and would obviously tell you lot first!) then I would probably be feeling wretched and not want to go. Thought about spa weekend but don't fancy that alone. Would bloody love to climb mountains but that's feeling a bit of a non starter as well.

Kind of think should just not bother but if we do have another baby I won't be going anywhere for ages!

So what would you do??

Hmmm. That's a tricky (though lovely) problem to have Bean. Personally, I would try and take the time to do something that I really would struggle to do with a toddler in tow / would be hard when pregnant. It's a pity that the walking weekend doesn't quite work for you.
A friend of mine (with two young children) took herself to Paris for the weekend recently. She planned exhibitions and that sort of thing. But that may be too ££ for you to do.
Mind you, you're in London aren't you? Eurostar??

I have no idea what I would do given the opportunity. But I think it would involve time to just be

I'd go off and spend time on my own for a couple of days, Bean. I'm craving solitude that I just don't get anymore! You can do exactly as you please wherever you please...

Bean your friends might be so chuffed to see you again out walking for the first time in ages so the weekend may be great.

Other option is to stock up on a series of day trips. I'm hoping to get back out scuba diving soon and DH is happy to take Lily pad for the days I'd be out.

I'm also hoping to start evening classes soon which I never thought I'd have the time and space to do.

Bean- go to the lakes! Can you spend the next few weeks building up to walking further/faster?

Bean it would be a shame to miss out. Is there any way you could go and join them for walks some days and not others? That way they could do some hardcore walks and maybe do easier ones when you join them. So you don't feel left out you could do a spa day or something while the others are off walking and you'd still be with them in the evening. Obv. this would not work for a 4-day hiking/backpacking extravaganza!

Am happy to report that E is finally turning a corner in terms of no longer being such a screechy baby. At last she can wake up in the morning and happily sit in her cot for 20 mins or so before I go to get her. It's great. Mind you the inconsistent napping is less pleasing but we can't have everything can we?

Inconsistent naps are happening here too. I'm starting to wonder if ds is gearing up to the one nap a day thing? No idea how that happens. He starts nursery next week....can I make it their problem??

Mrs if our experience is anything to go by then starting nursery isn't going to help on the nap front. Hinder would be way more likely!

On the weekend away front thank you! Not one person said 'oh but why would you even want to go away, I enjoy every precious minute with my child'. Which is what I've had in RL. I do resent this. I'm not convinced it makes me a completely bad person to fantasise about a weekend off?!?

Really Bean? You can enjoy your dc and still enjoy time away from them. It's similar to enjoying being with dp/h, maybe even having promised to spend the rest of your lives together - but that doesn't mean you can't do stuff without them. It doesn't mean you love them less. Sigh. People are odd sometimes. Maybe your rl people are just jealous

Re naps - yes, I'm fully aware that naps will go to pot at nursery, despite best intentions. At least ds is old enough to cope with that (within reason). So long as he sleeps at somepoint in the day...!

M has been transitioning to one nap a day for bloody ages now - problem is he still gets tired around 11am, wants to sleep, but then wakes around 12.30 and won't sleep again till bedtime. Which is currently at about 6.30 as he can't last any longer

Hoping he moves it to after lunch before the end of the holidays! 41 days till school starts back... :o

If it's any help Lily's naps vastly improved when she went to nursery. She clearly recognised their superior skills at getting children to sleep . Of course that was when she was 6 months old so I've no idea if it would work so well now.

and on a non-baby related note, we've just had our offer on a house accepted. hurrah!

Hurrah indeed! Right move link?

here it is. Hoping to be able to knock down the v old extension (kitchen/conservatory) and do a much nicer one. Also looking forward to prettifying the garden. The main reason for buying is that it's a lovely village with great school and right on the edge of the new forest but only 5 mins to the beach.

I dont' know about anyone else but I'm loving this time. I feel like the first year is so hard and then once they turn 12 months things get easier and they get much more fun. I remember thinking the same with DS.

Love it! So will you all 'live' downstairs and keep the upstairs bit for guests? And frankly by guests I mean us as I love that bit of the world:-)

We looked at a four bed where the fourth bedroom was the loft conversion. I would have wanted it as our room though wouldn't have been keen on having polly down a floor!

Aloha that's lovely. Your plans sounds good too.
Completely agree on being a good age. Ds is so cute playing with his cars and other toys. Full of sounds and imaginative play it's incredibly cute.
Anyone else fed up of this heat yet? I've tried not moaning about it but I'm struggling with it now. Ds is a bit off his food not sure if it's the heat, or his mmr jab? I cannot get his room below 29 degrees so it's a nightmare getting him to sleep. His windows open, and fan on too. My room is the same, so not helped being 7m pregnant! Not sure what's worse; heat wave and pregnant or heat wave and newborn?!

Never thought I'd be complaining about heat - but YES. Evie's room gets so hot - 29. I had no probs in Hawaii but then every room had a ceiling fan and there was always a nice breeze. Went for a lovely walk in the forest yesterday and kids played in a stream. It was bliss.

In terms of the house we actually thought we'd have the kids downstairs and we'd go up. I have a video monitor plus when they're first settling to sleep we'll still be awake downstairs. Neither really wake in the night now and I think my hearing is so attuned to them we'd hear through the floors. Once E is in a proper bed we'll probably put a stair gate across her door.

Aloha - that's a house with a lot of potential, and I love how flexible the space is in a bungalow. (is there a large space just outside your upstairs bedroom? That would make a good office space if you needed a home office without having to impact on living spaces). And your DCs can play in their room without itbeing on another level. So good!

Being on a different level to your DCs is very common in London (know a lot of people in older narrow townhouses where there's only 2 bedrooms on each floor but are 4 bed houses), I hear of very few problems, although having mulitple stair gates is normal!

we're struggling with the heat too, I think we just are set up for heat in this country! DD hasn't been sleeping at all, although it broke a bit last night and she went back to sleeping pretty well, although she wanted extra milk at 10pm-ish, I think she's just so thirsty! Is anyone else doing baby signing/makaton? DD has been doing some signs back to me for the last few weeks - she's using the milk sign for most food though.

Congratulations Aloha! That's a great house. When do you think you'll be able to move in?

Hot here too. Sympathies to those who are pregnant, I remember wilting in the heat shortly before ds was born.

DS had a dose of the runs yesterday, poor lamb. I haven't had the courage to use washable nappies yet Hey ho. He's in fine form today though so hopefully just a 24hr thing.

I'm experimenting with one nap only today. Who knows how that will go but I seriously doubt he'll manage two at nursery anyway...

I think there's only one of us pregnant now as I had my ELCS a week early in Thursday due to baby being an unstable breech lie. I was in hospital for a week because they didn't want me labouring away from the hospital.

So, Seth Edward was born weighing 7lbs 1oz and is absolutely gorgeous and perfect.

I'm also home already, next day discharge. Don't mind that though.

DS will only sleep on one of us, so we are tag teaming sleep. Here goes sleep deprivation!

Aloha, that's a fantastic house. Loads of scope there.

DD experimented with 1 nap. It mostly worked badly. Evenings were a disaster for her!

Congratulations Hungry!
Ds slept on us for the first 4 weeks, then as if by magic decided he didn't actually mind his crib after all.
Am I the only pregnant one now? 29 weeks and counting.... Any tips very very welcome!!
Great that you got home so quick after.

Congratulations, Hungry! Ahh, so he ended up being tiny with the early delivery! Really lovely name too.

Looks like a great house, Aloha.

Yes, Hedgehogy, only 37 weeks (though scan had him a week ahead), so missed out on 1.5 or so pounds in weight. He's adorable!

And we will get use out of the newborn clothes I bought that DD didn't fit into at all, so all is good. :-)

Congratulations Hungry And welcome to the world Seth! That is lovely news. Glad you're home too.

Sweetpea - I guzzled fancy ice lollies last summer when pregnant in the heat. It helped a bit...

One nap experiment sort of worked. I am motoring on with it for now...

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Hungry how is it with 2? prays she says it's dead easy so I can con DH into having another soon Are you guy's settling in?

I have to say 1 year olds are a lot of fun. They don't sleep so much but Lily is very contented to play for hours without any major dramas.

I took her to work for a meeting on Monday and she was very good. She walked around the boardroom insisting that everyone try on her necklace and hug her bear. So sweet.