December 2012: the one where they're all potty trained. Sort of....

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The old thread was getting dangerously close to 1000 messages, so thought I'd better start this one.

Happy Birthday WL, i'm glad you had a nice party and hope your getting chance to recover today.

Nutella i love the FB pic of your 2.

I'm sat in my Dsis i've sent her back to bed as my DN has croup and has had her up most the night. DN seems fine and is happily playing with H. Postman Pat is on in the background and H sang along to the song but seems to think the words are 'postman pat and that bloody cat'. Its made me giggle i've told her the real words now though.

hales that's hilarious - you should have captured it on video before telling her the real words!

Ds repeatedly poked me in the stomach yesterday shouting 'bugger bugger bugger!' my mum and step dad were here too.

Hales that is brilliant! I love H. She sounds like a lot of hard work good fun!

Today we went to the park. DS climbed a tree. He actually went really really high, much higher than DH could reach (he is a good 6'2" ish tall). Of course he eventually panicked a bit and we managed to talk him back down into the stronger less wobbly main part of the tree and then eventually DH could reach him. Little bugger! We both stayed really calm - even though we didn't feel it. Jeeeeez he is going to make us grey or bald or both!

Happy birthday WL!

And tschuss! Again! This time from Frankfurt. Crazy couple of weeks for work.

Enjoy the hotels and dare I say some sleep frazzled!

I'm home, thankfully.

I got less sleep in my two days away than I have with chicken pox boy!

My mattress was like sleeping on concrete. Truly awful!

Oh no! I feel your pain, I am rubbish at sleeping away from home. I take my own pillows if possible, and if not, sleeping pills!

What do you do if your DC don't eat much tea but then demand cereal later? We are finding H is only eating small amounts but often IYSWIM.

I say no. Dd is awful for this because she knows when I put ds to bed dh will get her cereal/sandwich/toast etc etc but I've completely stopped this. In fact I've told her if she doesn't make an effort with her dinner and is hungry later then we will warm her dinner up for her (obviously if she genuinely doesn't like it I would never make her!). It seems to be working.

If they haven't eaten dinner because of something I've done (something new they didn't like, late lunch followed by dinner at the normal time etc) I'll give them something. Normally toast or some cheese.

If they are going through a phase of eating little and often I might plan around it.

Otherwise it's tough luck. Have some water or maybe some milk. If I think they are hungry I might offer a banana. When they say no I say they can't he hungry then.

Don't forget that often thirst is miss identified as hunger.

Thank you, you've both given me a good idea each. I'm going to keep her meals there and reheat if possible and also offer a drink first. I was just wondering if it was normal as she eats such tiny amounts before saying shes full.

Another thing is to give her a tiny portion and let her ask for more. I know DD (and DH!) will get overwhelmed if there's too much on their plate and eat far less than if they get the option of a couple of small portions.

Yes dd still has all of her food on one of those ikea plates or bowls. Dd knows that I will never make her eat something she doesn't like though. It's hard to get the balance right! I want her to eat her food but I don't want to force her!

I say it's fine to leave their dinner but they won't get anything else. I usually make things they like and occasionally something new which they always reject but I keep making it regularly and each time I say they have to have one bite, two bites, three bites etc. If they are hungry, they are allowed fruit but definitely not toast/rice cakes etc as they would always choose these over a meal that wasn't their favourite.

We had this last night. A wouldn't eat the lasagne that MIL had saved for him when we collected DD, then asked for toast as soon as we got home. Not a chance!!

Then I left him getting changed for bed. I popped my head in to see how he was doing and thought his pull up didn't look right. Had a closer look and that would be because he was wearing 7 pull ups, on top of one another. Why? Because he wants to open the new pack and wanted the current pack to run out so thought he'd use them all in one go last night. Got to admire his problem solving skills!

DD is finally allowed out in public today. She had a bleed last week and had to go back in for a night of iv antibiotics, but is well recovered now.

beasty haha for A and his pull up extravaganza but eek for dd. That sounds scary, glad she's ok now.

We had tea time shenanigans too -T wouldn't eat the fish pie so at bedtime she wasn't getting a hot choc (milk with a pinch) so miraculously found she could eat her tea after all. Then got her hot choc.

Big boys have gone running, littlest is down for a nap after being up every hour all night. I have hot tea, hurrah

Why goat? Is he poorly or just a tortuous night? Every now and then T wakes loads for no explainable reason. It's a killer.
Happy Easter all - I hope the bunny is good to you and yours!

goat did we ever get wedding pics from you?

He's just forgotten how to sleep :(

I think so, will check and bump x

Oh no goat. Hope you have a better night tonight. Ds was in bed at six tonight. He was very tired plus I wanted to prepare him for the clock change

It's been getting progressively worse for 6 weeks now

Does anyone else have a sleep walker? DS often calls or whines or cries about 1-2 hours after going to bed, he usually only needs DH or I to go up and soothe him and he goes right back off. But we have found him walking around his room really distressed and disorientated, I don't know if there is anything else I can do for him. He does seem extra tired at the moment, I don't know if that might be making it worse.

goat how old is smallest now? DD went through sleep phases I couldn't remember from DS, but they seemed sort of similar... Sorry, no help but lots of sympathy for you! Broken sleep is rotten.

I had also forgotten again about the bastard clocks changing tonight. Arse

Oh no Nutella. I don't think there's anything you can do but is it possible it's night terrors? I don't think plain old sleep walking would cause him to be distressed? Ds shouts in his sleep, usually at dd! I used to get night terrors and sleep paralysis when I was a teen. It was horrendous.