January 2014- the one where the babies move more, but sleep less!

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Hope this is ok!

I feel ya - my Dec 13 babies are sleeping less

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Forgot to say on the last thread that L has been having little tantrums recently. Mostly she just lies flat on the floor and pretends to cry!

I'm just going to jump back in on this thread as I will never catch up on the old one!
Alex is the reverse - not yet walking but actually sleeping ok... His sister on the other hand. Three tomorrow and been in our bed every night for the last few weeks. Boney toes in my back all night long.

Thanks Olivia!

Henry can't walk unaided, but he's trying to!

Thanks for the new thread, million :)

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The tantrums thing is a bit funny.

Tonight, DH gently told M off for.throwing her dinner on the floor for the cat, and she properly dissolved into tears. I don't know if this is a new thing or if it's because he's been away.

Toby Henry has been doing similar. He crawled across the floor to get to DH, who moved. Henry flung himself on the floor and fake cried... Dh was unmoved, we've had this all with ds1

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Thanks for the new thread million. Your children are just beautiful!

Yes to the tantrums, too. H is acting like Kevin the teenager. Everything is so unfair!

checking in. Thanks for the new thread.

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E has some good tantrums at the moment. She throws her head back in dramatic slow mo while silently screaming (mouth open, no noise) then the yelling begins. She did it at the swimming teacher for daring to take her for a swim on Tuesday.

She's vommiting today. First time she's ever been pukey sick. Oh my god the smell.

Got offered the job. Subject to references etc start on 16th feb for 8 month contract. Yeay we can move house! Booo I will never be at home!

Sunshine I can tell how cross dd is by the gap between when she starts screaming and when she actually makes any noise

Thanks for the new thread.

Sunshine congrats on the job

S never tantrums when daddy is home Yesterday I was trying to cook her some tea and she kept repeatedly head butting the kitchen cabinet then crying. Very annoying!

The boiler has packed in this morning so it's freezing. Luckily we have got a gas fire so we will just have to not leave the living room all day. Can't get in touch with my landlord until 9 either. Brrrrrrrrrrrr!

Sunshine well done and congratulations!

Well done, sunshine!

Congratulations sunshine.

O doesn't seem to really have tantrums (unless she does at the inlaws and I'm just blissfully unaware!). She seems to be a lovely sunny baby at the moment so hoping this continues.

Thanks for the new thread million.

And congratulations on the new job sunshine. I know what you mean about being torn. I am a bit the other way around, I keep fantasizing about what we could do if we had another income but I have no support at home and no car so practically it would be a nightmare. I would love a job though, something for me! Let's engineer massive pay rises for our respective DHs...

Hope your landlord sorts the boiler out soon Felix. I thought of you and S the other day when we watched The Furchester Hotel for the first time.

PIL are insisting on us all visiting family tonight but it is the start of the 6 nations. I can't go out, I am busy! And N and DD need to learn Calon Lan! CAN'T THEY SEE THIS IS AN EMERGENCY?!?!

altered I regularly laugh out loud at the furchester hotel. My favourite one is where they have a customer who is a cookie and they have to put a fake moustache on him to disguise the fact he's a cookie otherwise the Cookie Monster will eat him

I had an 'I AM WOMAN, HEAR ME ROAR' moment and sorted the boiler myself! I'm well chuffed about it.

S is hitting me with every toy today. I'm going to end up covered in bruises as she whacks me really hard How on earth can I teach her not to do it when she just laughs her head off when I say no?

So glad the hitting/biting then laughing isn't just my slack gin, in the night garden & Pointless based child-rearing. Had a totally knackered, non-napping teething baby at 5 last nght who did the tantrum thing of just falling like a felled log onto his back. It was exactly like Iggle Puggle does when he was surprised.
The dementors are upon us this weekend and as I'm oncall there'll be no gin. Give me strength!

I like that one too Felix and well done with the boiler!

When Henry slaps, I say really firmly "Gently" and stroke his hand against where he was slapping. No idea if it works, seemed to with ds1

My favourite Furchester episode is the one with the Veggietones

We went to Westfield today to meet up with a friend who is about to move to the States, and accidentally bought P's first shoes. Having refused to demonstrate her walking in the shoe shop, which meant that they thought she only needed pre-walkers, she wandered out of the shop while I was paying. Luckily my friend was following close behind, but I think I'll need to buy some reins soon!

No real tantrums here yet, and luckily not much hitting. Today's new fun thing however was poking me in the eye very slowly, and then laughing. Sadist baby!

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Yes to the violence... F has started slapping and kicking me. He laughs when he's done it. TB.

F still isn't walking... He pulls himself up and tentatively cruises, but he can't bend down/squat yet and he's nowhere near walking... Anyone else's DC the same?

book O was the same, absolutely refused to walk in the shop. And as she was so tiny at 8 months they really didn't believe us that she was walking!

M is the same, angel. She's pretty confident at cruising round the furniture and can stand for a few seconds on her own, but she doesn't know to move her feet. I'll stand her a couple of feet away from me and tell her to walk to me and she'll just pitch forward until I catch her. She thinks it's funny.

Angel S is the same. She only pulled herself up for the first time on New Year's Eve. She started cruising a few days ago but she's not very good at it I don't think she will be walking for a long time yet.