The 9th Broadly Gemini Bus - the one with first birthdays!

[Lorelei353]

Ooh Inge to start a new thread. So if the last one was the one where they don't sleep, then they'll start to sleep now, yes?

I go back to work next Weds Kitty. DS started properly today. Full day today, tomorrow and Friday. I've just done a lovely yoga class and am using the next few days to have lunches, get hair cut etc. miss DS though.

pear definitely want to hear all TTC details! I'm beginning to accept that I will do it all again but not yet!

Oh Frus I can only imagine that the father of your children will always be so hard to walk away from. A pure torture as you never had this in your plan when you made your Dc! That said we need to give you a big MN bucket of ice water and say Nooooooo resist temptation. You would regret it big time and would only be stuck in a much bigger mess then you're in now!! Keep strong

Lor ~ Your DS sounds very calm apart from today. I love that your DH had to deal with a public display We also read lots but lately reading hasn't been enough. Bpear just wants to explore, explore and explore! No time for reading anymore. He just pushes the books away as if to say No thank you However, we have been to the beach this week and that was fantastic. Sand is his favourite thing in the world and he can sit for 1 hour digging, patting and lifting the bucket with help. I regret not buying him a sand and water table as that would have helped us loads entertainment wise. Oh well it has made the beach trips more special!

ha ha. We have the spoons thing too and also laundry. He takes socks (always socks) off the clothes horse and puts them back in the laundry basket
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Oooo TG! I thought it was just us that went through the spoon stage. So embarrassing carrying a child around in public who won't let go of a teaspoon!! Lol We're thankfully out of that stage phew!!

Runt also likes to carry things around & is very into putting things into what he considers to be the appropriate place! Come to think of it, they have a baby spoon as part of their play kitchen & he spent a good portion of time this morning wandering around with it! I wonder if it's a security thing - they spend so much time learning to walk while holding our hands that once they can walk unaided they still like the feeling of holding on to something!

I had the cutest moment with Runt this evening. DH took Calf to Sainsbury's to buy bread & Runt was fussing at not being taken too so I went to read a book with him but he'd hidden it. Instead I decided to just sit on the floor & let him choose what we were going to play with. Initially he looked a bit confused & tried to eat a bit of fluff off the floor... When I told him not to he brought it to me, crawled onto my lap & just sat there sucking his thumb! He must've stayed there for at least 25 minutes! He slid off a couple of times, I think just to check that he was allowed to go if he wanted to, & crawled back on after a few seconds. It was so sweet that I didn't want to move even when my feet started going numb! He ignored DH coming in but leapt up when he heard Calf. Best 25 minutes of my day!

Ahh Agnu that sounds like a lovely quiet 25 minutes! Sweet to hear that he missed dc1! Brotherly love

I'm so confused. Bpear is still waking so early... 5:30am. I'm getting so many mixed comments from people. Some say let him cry until 7, others say he will sleep longer the more he walks and if he's teething he wakes even earlier I let him shout until 6am when it starts going into real tears. He's so good about going to bed at 7pm every night and doesn't wake in the night, I just feel I can't leave him crying for 1 hour. Maybe I need to toughen up?! I just really wish he would wake up at 7 and that if don't have to do anymore training... I am so done with sleep training!! It's heart breaking but I'm really tired with all these early starts. Don't know what to do next

He's always been so terrible at self settling. If I felt that he would go back to sleep then it would be easier to leave him. Once I get him up at 6am I will bf him in bed and then go down for breakfast at 7am. Maybe I should start by trying to leave him until 6:15 at first and then make it longer and longer each week? Hmm that's an idea. He normally wants to go back to sleep at 9-10:30am for a nap.

Lor kitten is just the same with the books, she loves the and as you say slides off goes to the bookshelf brings one back saying book and clambers up to get it read then repeat a million, she never used to be interested but I think she's realised she gets your undivided attention and to sit on your knee so her two favourite things! She's not as quick as tiger was though as she'dreact to the book at the same age so if I said where's the mouse shed point to it, I must have tried to get kitten doing it for the last month and she still doesn't get it but laughs or points to something else
Frus what is the state of play then? Does he know you want him to move back in? Is he saying no?
Agnu will calf get free hours soon? Will you utilise it in a pre school? I know you were talking about home schooling so wasn't sure if you would put him in or not?
Pear I really do t know what to suggest if you can delay him by 10 mins everyday and it works why not give it a try, kittens woken a few times earlier and no shouts at the top of her voice ma ma lol but I can leave her and for quite awhile and she doesn't cry, when she wakes after a nap she always crys

pear DS often wakes around 6 but we just pick him up and get into the bed in his room with him and he goes back to sleep for another 45 mins to an hour usually.

Kitty ~ I managed to leave him until 6:10. That's an improvement as previously he had been getting up at 6am. He's just such a pickle He went down at 3pm but can't settle and is still moaning 34minutes later. I know he's tired because he was rubbing his eyes and doing all the classic signs. I wonder if he will ever grow out of it.

Lor ~ I would love bpear to sleep in a bed with us. I'm very . He would never do that. He doesn't even like lying down in bed when we're all awake. He has to be sitting up. Probably too worried that he might fall in our sleep

6am is just a common time for a lot of kids unfortunatly pear
My dsis used to have a really hard time with her dd until around 1, she's now unbelievable,she slept on Sunday from 7-10:30 when they went to wake her I fear drugs are involved lol

Oh when I say he's up at 6 I mean I try not to collect him before sleeps. He never sleeps past 5;20am 6am I could actually handle! But when's it is between 5-5:20 I'm not very good at handling it!

before 6

Yay he woke at 5:50 this morning. Lie in for me Left him until 6:20 so this is progress (although the length of time before he cries has stayed the same).

DH is sick so it looks like I'll be missing the baby boat this month boo hoo! And this means we're more likely going to have to wait as I'm really not keen on a July/Aug baby!

Frus I took exactly a year's maternity leave. I went back in the middle of May (4 days a week).

You could try to convince him that he'll get better sooner if he can his blood pumping faster & therefore get more lymphocytes to the infected areas... or something... Y'never know, it could work!

Update on my weird body: AF is now 4 days late but the pain/discomfort seems to have disappeared. No idea what's going on but I'm freaked out again that I might be pg, despite not actually having had sex at the right time & the sex we did have was protected & he didn't ejaculate anyway. I might have to POAS anyway just to put my mind at rest. If it was BFP I'd be more inclined to think it's a hormone-altering cancer than a baby!

Why is Runt not asleep?! They've both spontaneously taken to waking at 7 instead of 9, I know, I'm lucky regardless! he's been sleeping slightly less in the afternoon & getting to bed late the last couple of days. He's been up there for nearly an hour now & he's still squawking happily!

Calf had a meltdown this morning because "it's not Thursday, it's just today". I have no explanation for it. I wasn't going to deny that it's Thursday just to appease him so I just left him to tantrum & told him he could come down for breakfast when he stopped screaming. It took an hour. It was something to do with me saying we were going to make something "tomorrow" yesterday but I couldn't fathom why explaining to him that today/Thursday are the same thing didn't solve the issue! He was still saying it when I brought him down, I just ignored it in the end! Kids are crazy.

Um AF is back

Umm... implantation bleeding?! Clutching at straws! Oh well, get yourself some of them swanky ovulation tests, start measuring your temp every morning... There's always next month!

Mine isn't. I'm seriously considering POAS tomorrow, despite knowing the chances are immaculate-conception slim!

If I fell pregnant at the end of this month due date would possibly land on DH birthday. Always something!!

Agnu has AF always been irregular since giving birth? Are you going to see the dr today?

Bpear woke up screaming at 4:30am He won't go back to sleep now. I assume it's teeth again.

Kitten not the best either, I think I remember posting about the mouth ulcers months ago well they just never seem to go completely or keep comming back then her lady bits got red a few days back, we've been putting sudacrem on but it's aggravated it if anything so doctors yesterday and she's got thrush poor thing her bits are like red raw now like blisters in hoping this will sort her out, feel guilty for not taking her earlier before her bits but I'd taken tiger with the ulcers and they'd said whatever it is viral ect there's nothing to give you just have to wait for them to go, hoping the medi makes her better once and for all
Pear what does it matter if due date is hubbies bday? I think that's cute, dh and kitten are only 2 days different so it was almost and tigers bday is the 31st aug probably the worst you could pick! Still wouldn't have them any different
Boo to af's!!!