December 2012: Everyone loves nap time.

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Started a new thread for us before we run out of room.

Poor H hales
What is it with all the vomit? T coughed herself sick in the night requiring clean pjs, sleeping bag, sheet and mattress cover - guess it was the whole feed then! In the morning she had either sneezed out loads of dried blood or brought up what she'd swallowed. Poor buba.
One magpie is unlucky - how about one dead one right in front of the house! I stopped in after playgroup to get dd2s scooter before collecting her from preschool and there was a bloody dead magpie right in front of the little shed thing - I had to move it right away to get the scooter. There's now a dead magpie in my wheelie bin!

will you was a bit worried when read that he hadn't passed urine for 11 hours but thought phew when then simultaneous read he'd got better. Hope things have all settled down- they sometimes become a bit sensitive to dairy post d&v so may explain the explosion.

utopian how cute is that pic of your ds on fb.

spotty ds is going to pre-school next yr half days all year but we are so lucky that between me being part time, dm and dmil we're just managing to cover it. School holidays are going to going to be a serious juggling act though!!

hales wow that's a lot of milk! If she's got such a bad nocturnal cough see your gp again as she may need something more than just the inhalers.

wlmum that's really freaky!!

It was really freaky - it had obviously not been there long and must have just fallen out of the sky - it wasn't mangled and didn't even have any flies on it etc despite being a hot day.

Woo-hoo DH just settled T for the first time EVER! He's getting in some practice for when I'm away for 2 nights in a couple of weeks. He he hee.

Maybe a dead magpie brings good luck then WL woohoo to DH settling T

A woke up twice last night, and again needing medicine (horrid cold and teething). So of course, now I've had 2 nights of good sleep, I feel worse than ever!

The DC have had to go to nursery for the morning because MIL has caught the horrid cold, and the fact I've had to use my blue inhaler for the last few days says that I'm getting it too.

WLmum I think your DH needs to ensure he doesn't loose his touch and settle every night until you come back!

hales that is a lot of milk. DS has one bottle at bedtime which is 200ml 7oz (ish) I think. He drinks most of it. Through the day he just has water unless I share my juice with him at breakfast and then my (of course) cold cups of fruit tea during the day

Hello again. I'm a terrible member of this thread, I just like lurking and seeing how everyone is getting on. I'm awful at posting though, as I feel I have very little to say.

Today for example, has been a 'bad' day for us, but it's soo much better than everyone else's on here I feel I shouldn't complain!

Sorry all the school stuff is causing such stress. I'm not really looking forward to when I have to deal with all that. Hopefully I can stay a sahm till then, but we'll have to see really. Sounds like it might not be a great time to start back at work though.

Also feeling for all the poorly babies and tired mums. There does seem to be an awful spate of illnesses just now. Hopefully we'll all have a healthy happy summer.

DH settled T for the first time at the start of the month, since then I've had him doing it every other day :) I think it's good to have it seem 'normal', so should be done often to keep the routine of it. Also, it's lovely having a bit of time, even if I'm just tidying toys etc. I can properly switch off as I know the day is done.

Ds is completely refusing to take his crocs off. Ever.

Wow hales she must cost you a fortune in milk! Ds has one cup in the morning and that's it.

He's looking more and more like a young boy every day so grown up!

Think we're going to go on one of the gruffalo trails this weekend as the weathers so lovely

Is it more for older kids the gruffalo trail Spotty? DS does like the book :)

Hales wow H drinks LOADS!! Is it hunger do you think? I know you've said she doesn't eat much in the day. Did your hv have any advice or anything to cut milk down and try to increase food? We're also on milk AM and bedtime and water the rest of the time although stupid DH gave him lime and soda the other night and he went wild

Maryland ds steals dd's squash fruit shoot all the time

It's more older but I know ds will love it too. It's just big wooden carvings of the characters in the forest I think.

I call fruit shoot toddler crack. A goes wild for it

We got DD the next stage car seat this afternoon, so A moved up into her old seat (besafe izi). They were both so pleased and excited- A was giggling as I put him in.

I had to put him in his cot for a minute though. He was biting DD's leg. As I carried him up he was trying to bite my shoulder. When I went to get him I asked if he was sorry for biting. He smiled and opened his mouth wide!

Beasty I put R on the floor away from me for stuff like that. A few seconds later, I ask him if he's ready for a cuddle to say sorry. He has bemused a couple of children at playgroups now when they've bumped into each other by accident because he turns round to try and cuddle them afterwards!

I tried moving him the other day when it was my leg he was going for. He came back for more. So in the cot it is. I'd just put him in their room, like we do with DD, but I couldn't deal with the mess that would ensue.

hales T definitely started to eat more in the day when I reduced the night feeds. She still has quite a bit of milk though.
Dd2 pointed and laughed and said look at that lady mummy today - she was a dwarf. Mortified. I said you know that people come in all shapes and sizes and each is perfect for them. I do say this kind of stuff to them quite often but u guess it didn't have much meaning.
Today is the 3rd anniversary of one of dhs best friends killing himself. Movie and a cuddle tonight I think. Ts middle name is after him. So so sad.
Looks like a scorcher this weekend, I've got a massive to do list - if I get half done I'll be pleased.

5.15 start to the day. Boo.

Ooh, not good. We're off to build a shed today at our flat. We might even get to move in on the 30th!

I've got to go food shopping this morning whilst dp's at work. I find it really stressful going on my own with both dc!

DH is working, so I have to take DD to her ballet lesson and stop A causing to much disruption while we wait. Then to the market. And a trip out this afternoon to collect DH's birthday present.

A slept through again, so seems to be every other night. DD didn't again.

I usually feed them on the way round but even that only works for a bit. I am now reluctantly embracing the on-line shop.

We're poor so have to go to lidl and they don't do double trolleys so only ds can sit in it. It wasn't too bad though only in there half an hour and cost £50 for a weeks worth of food including nappies.

WL you 5:2 don't you? I had to throw together a dinner for me last night as we hardly had any food. It was 229 calories.

I steamed mangetout (green and purple) sliced courgette and sliced carrot then stir fried it with ginger in 2tbsp of soy sauce and 2tbsp sweet chilli dipping sauce then served with a tin of tuna and spring onion. Was so nice!

That's impressive! I would totally go to lidl etc if there was one close by.

Sounds delicious! I don't eat meat or fish so would swap out the tuna but otherwise yum!
Have had a couple of weeks months off 5:2 and really need to get back on it. I do a veg stir fry with grilled tofu with ginger, garlic, chilli and soy which is great - you get much more food than you'd think.