November 2012 - The nights are drawing in again

[StuntNun]

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I love Lidl nappies, they are as good as Aldi ones. I bought a pack actually yesterday. She has been in them for about a year now, not even one leak.

Good news today, Leo's best friend is coming to see us on Thursday eve all the way from Poland, I can't wait to see him and his wife.

Went for a run today, going to collect O soon and we are on school run duty this afternoon, collecting my sister's 3.

Ah YW its so sweet isnt it. I aways remember DD incorporating S into her play - he'd be lying in the chair thing (way before he could sit in a bouncer) and I'd turn around and see S with a saucepan tucked into the strap, or a spatula balanced on his head. Does J seem like a giant now?

We use Aldi nappies but I have heard good things about Lidl Wanda.

Good news on the sleep Stunt.

Hope you have a fab visit Lily, must be wonderful to spend time with the people who loved L the most

Evening ladies :)

Recipe for which pr?

oh noes, have I missed the group snuggle? :(

glad J slept through last night stunt!

oh no qm hope you get more sleep tonight!

yw that sounds adorable! 4 hours sounds quite reasonable for the 4th night, good stuff bless her :) Scares the living biscuits outta me though, the thought of 4 hours!

Oh that's nice lily how long are they staying for?

Always room for a little'un.

So. This weekend we went to the fair, and me and F went on the merry go round. I thought she'd like it, she loves horses so...anyway, she didn't, she screamed the whole way round And now she has been having nigtmares screeching "orse orse mummeeeee". And tonight is too scared to contemplate bed alone. I feel like a v bad mummy!

BP don't feel bad. I took L to one of his mates birthday parties. We got there as they blew up the bouncy castle. Every day he asks me for reassurance that the bouncy castle has gone to bed. At least 5 times a day and that was two weeks ago.

Do we need a Monday quiche bundle?

BP I treated J to a go on one of those little ride on car things at the supermarket the other week WITH a coin in (something I'm normally too tight to do ) he bricked himself and now insists "no pennies!"

L has been cluster feeding since 6pm. Hopefully we'll get a better night as a result!

I made a lovely spicy tomato and lentil soup for work lunch and totally overdid the chilli flakes.

Burn baby burnnnnnn

Same here with the no pennies! P loves sitting in the cars but he'll mend you if you stick a quid in!

She ended up in our bed last night for some reason. Woke at 4:30 and just wouldn't resettle. I spent the rest of the night awake having my hair stroked.

We were at my parents' over the weekend. P had a ball and loves her ganny and gampa. She did continue her carnivorous streak however when we went to see mum and dad's chickens. "I hungee" says p. "What would you like for lunch, p?" Says I. "Uuuuhm. Kicken!"

And she has learned "I burped"

Still cluster feeding!

Haha Pass to the kicken. My sister has recently had to explain that pigs are more errr 'committed' to sausages than chickens are to eggs!

Hahaha pass yesterday DH told L that sausages were made of peppa pig!!

Loving I burped! We have 'my bottom goes pop pop'

Yeah. Sadly pigs don't lay sausages.

Not sure how happy she would be about nomming daddy peeg

F announces "bum" for all funny bottom emissions, but has started to distinguish between a true bum and weeeeend

She has just crashed out on my lap in our bed.

These chattering stories are sweet. Can't wait for J to talk. Hope the cluster feeding goes well for you. Dh is struggling with lack of sleep since I went in. He's signed off sick now.

She fed til 9.40 and I popped her in the crib and she's now rooting! Right - loo break then a boob rematch I think!

Oh god, cluster feeding. Brings it all back. I hated cluster feeding. I expect it's quite nice to begin with though. I just remember the bad bits.

It seems like E is scared of clowns. DD1 bought back a book from school which had a clown in it. E bought it over to me to read but when I got to the page with the clown on she started shaking her head and saying "bye bye clown". So I put it away. When DD1 got it out of the bag again she ran away saying "no clown no clown". Least I know I won't be taking her to the circus.

Argh I think Lilla is reverse cycling - she's currently cluster feeding (having started at 6pm) and bar a torturous few 20 minute snatches to tease me I've yet to get any sleep tonight.

How do you sort out reverse cycling?

You don't YW. It is hormonal. Milk is best stimulated in those hours. She is only doing what she is meant to do.

And are you aware you have put her full name in your last post?

Aye never mind I do that with J too sometimes when sleep deprived. Today's mission is prod and strip the 5 day old to be awake enough to feed every two hours!

Passes matchsticks to yw and pass

to chatter stories. We ask F if he's doing a poo to which he usually answers "just a fart". Which is blatently a big fib.

I had the worst ever dream last night. Vivid vivid images of F falling off a cliff as he slipped between the barrier with me standing next to him. Woke up in a cold sweat at 3.30am. Fortunately i went back to sleep and there were no more dreams.

Ds1 was telling funny stories last night without really realising. We couldn't work out why he was saying a yr 6 pupil was in his class at registration crawling on his hands and knees. Til i realised he must have been sent there from his own class for acting like a reception kid.

yw I hope you are resting plenty. IIRC getting an idea of the difference between day and night is something which comes in a few weeks - I think until 3-6 weeks you just have to suck it up. Which is hard when you are recovering from birth, however the birth was done, but it's the way it is.

Brand new newborns are often good sleepers at the beginning, especially section babies as they get a dose of the anaesthetic, plus they don't have any of the trauma travalling through the birth canal entails - a calm section is as calm for them as it is for us. Plus she had a little jaundice so that may have contributed too.

Anecdotal evidence suggests girls are better at sleeping than boys, and are often easier babies to handle. I wouldn't know of course, but I did have two fairly easy babies, particularly DD1 who was a dream.

Ooh chatter. LO has come on in leaps and bounds, and is streets ahead of where DD1 was at the same age. I like watching her yell at the dog. He doesn't bother obeying her yet, though he has started to respect DD1's orders. LO gets really angry about that and stands there, one hand on hip, the other pointing at the floor, yelling "dog! lie down! LIE DOWN! Now!" and stamping her feet when he ignores her. I normally end up standing behind her and gesturing at him to lie down, which he does, and then LO is really proud and pleased and gives him a hug and a kiss and says "goooooooood dog, goooooooooood boy, bravo!"

The dog and I exchange knowing glances.

Jims I hate those dreams they can be so frightening.

Jims I had something similar a while back, terrifying and awful. Big hugs.

Lol PR at instructions to the dog! Are both your DDs being brought up bi-lingual? How does that work - does LO mix up the languages?

S is also coming along with speech and making himself understood. It's lovely. He very proudly told us all about an event at nursery y'day - "durdle, S's knee. Brave." And then showed us the picture of him stroking the nursery turtle.

Interesting about sleep - DD was a dream, S is still a PITA.

And bless DH. He has his first playmate this arvo with a mummy friend made at playgroup. He has been going a while now and is the only dad there. I think he has been accepted! His own friends with kids aren't terribly local and none of them stay at home at all and while he isn't lonely on his three at home days, I do think it will be nice for him to have the option of adult company from time to time.

You can assume when I type out what the DDs say I am translating. They understand English but they won't speak it. I'm not forcing the issue, it will come. DD1 can speak it because I have heard her, but not to me; She certainly understands everything I and Mr Tumble tell her. LO was immersed in stimulating French at a slightly younger age so it will be harder for her. But she understands most of what I say.