November 2014 - The one where they outrun us!

[MrsAukerman]

New thread ladies.

ERM naps yeah we take whatever we get usually one 45mins or two 20mins

Ds1 was a text book baby in terms naps and sleep I think at 14mths he had just moved to the after lunch nap at midday til 2/2.30 never missed a nap. Ds2 if he naps more than 45mins I have to checvk on him n we have to walk him to get him to nap - nursery stroke his cheek.

Ds2 is hilarious though he makes us laiugh so much but is hard work into everything . he comes up and sys ahhhh and Gives us all bug cuddles and kindly shares his food smacking his lips saying yum yum

Did I say DD has dropped her afternoon nap since October? Well, yesterday she had gone for 3 hrs morning nap and 1hr afternoon one. Obviously, couldn't get her to sleep till 9pm last night. But 3hrs nap?! In a noisy nursery??? She is still stirring at the lightest noise at home. Sometimes when nursery staff talk about the day she has had, I feel like saying "hey, you must have mixed her up with some other kid!"

"Operation Nap Nazi" seems to be having some success.

DH & I are feeling a LOT better too. Amazing the difference it makes!

Oh yay! - good work Anna! It is amazing how much difference a bit of sleep and rest makes .

On the other hand, DH has gone out for the evening with some work colleagues and DD has therefore obviously chosen tonight to scream the house down when put to bed....first time in WEEKS...it's as if she knows he was going to leave as soon as she was put to bed

haven't babydolly does this too, it doesn't matter which one of us is out but she will make life harder when there's only one of us doing bedtime.

Had to leave work to get dd from the childminder early today after 4 bad nappies, she seemed a little floppy and grumpy too, hopefully not too bad a night ahead...

In nursery's weekly Facebook round-up of what has been going on in each room they said that the baby room had enjoyed their slide, which is similar to the slide we have in our garden. Now I realise what DD has been trying to tell me while pointing excitedly at the garden, so we have been sliding this morning. The problem is that now she wants to walk but she can only walk if I hold her hands, but she has no shoes because she can't walk well enough for proper shoes so has been walking in the garden and yesterday in the park in just socks which it isn't really the weather for.
I also noticed her 'look at me doing something I shouldn't be doing' face. She likes to pour the water from her cup over her highchair tray and splash her hands in it. She waits until I am looking at her doing this, shakes her head to say no and smiles a cheeky smile at me.

lady hope DD is ok

DS largely better now (can't actually remember if i said he was ill) but awake for 2 hours in the night. Gggrrr. I actually gave up and got DH to take over.

happy those lightbulb moments!! She must be thinking 'come on mum, you can see what I'm pointing at!' DD has this weird noise she makes when she wasn't a drink and it wasn't until we were with a primary school teacher friend who said 'oh yes, cup cup cup' that we realised that's what she was saying!

She was fine overnight, she didn't eat dinner (normal), woke at 11.30 and 4.45 (and up for the day - pass the matchsticks) and no poop so packed her off to the childminder who was apparently really rude to dp because now the other babies have and was blaming dd. I text her angry that she'd been rude to sensitive dp and she said she was fine it was the prospect of a full shitty clothes change at 7.30. text half an hour later to say she'd had to do the same for babydolly too. I still took her to sing and sign. She seemed better, just tired (grrrrr).

Date night tonight then I'm going to visit friends in the west country til Sunday, babyfree, the prospect of a meal that won't be shared and thrown on the floor and then a full nights sleep is too exciting for words.

oh no ladydolly, can't believe she was rude about it! As if you could have any control over it... Roll on the weekend! Sounds fab!

Wait, she was snotty cos babydolly hadn't done a poo already? ?

Then don't be a childminder then!!!

DS was out in the garden helping Daddy with gardening for an hour. Adorable. Found a twig and kept planting it here and there with great concentration. Sitting in the vegetable patch throughout of course. Those Jojo waterproof dungarees were the greatest purchase in the history of the world!

Must get some of those Anna.

Lady dd's nursery told me she's had a few dicey poos today, hmm. Her form seems fine though.

She's sitting here playing with all of dd1's toys, happy as a pig in muck. A few minutes ago she was up on the lite chair quietly reading a stack of books. She really has become good at entertaining herself, never thought I'd see the day!

We thought she was annoyed because babydolly had given the tummy bug to the other kids but after my angryish text she said it was the prospect of cleaning all the poo off the other little girl so early in the morning (but yes, don't be a cm then!). Got another call from her at 4.30, babydolly had vomitted everywhere. Dp went to get her as I had an apt, he said it was literally head to toe. Luckily she was bathed by the time I got home and apart from being a bit pale you'd never know it had happened. We had to cancel our date night tho. Sis and bro in law got our comedy night tickets :(

Ooh anna I wonder if she's old enough to come to the allotment now...

Well based on today - definitely! He just pottered about in a world of his own. Waterproofs & wellies are a must though so you can relax & let them at it.

Those Jojo dungarees are great cos they can be worn in warm weather too - very glad I didn't get an all-in-one as you have more flexibility I think. We got 18-24 months and he's swimming in them but they're so adjustable that it's fine.

Afterwards his hands were pure black with dirt and his mouth too - obviously tasting everything!

That's one of the most childish things I have heard recently - to have a go at parents about their 1yo "giving" a bug to others. WTF! Equally you could have made a smug face and accused her for not keeping the place clean and babydolly picking it up because of substandard hygiene. Just as unreasonable in my opinion. However harsh was the text, it was well deserved.

I maaaay have made a snide comment about the babies could have all picked it up from the same toy... at soft play. (I clearly meant at hers). This is babies, they're dirty little buggers so if one is all they're all ill. She tried to blame us when they all got flu as well because we apparently we brought 'foreign' germs from dubai. I have to admit I don't love my childminder, babydolly is so happy with her though...

Since cancelling the tickets for tonight she is of course absolutely fine :)

I don't blame you for not liking her... foreign germs... That sounds almost xenophobic :) you with your exotic travel upsetting her little safe heaven of ignorance.

Bedtime is going extremely badly here. DH just made me come downstairs as being with her wasn't making her cry any less. I had been up there since whatever time we finished dinner, probably about 6.30, doing bath time, washing the hair of 2 children who hate having their hair washed, wrestling them into pyjamas, reading a story, waiting for DD1 to find all the cuddly toys she could possibly need and make all the excuses not to go to sleep, feeding DD2 then putting her in the cot and listening to her cry and cry and cry for no reason...
Now it's almost time I was going to bed as I am up for work in 8hrs time, but I haven't even had a drink this evening or cleared up after dinner.
She has been very cute today, making me take her out to the slide, holding my hands and turning them to say sing 'Wind the Bobbin Up', chatting away, wanting us to help her walk round, but right now I am fed up with her.

Ahh happy hope she settled and you got some sleep and if you were found bedtime why didn't dh clear up dinner stuff and make you a drink

Happy dear god I hope it improved after that.

We went backwards here. Awake from 12.30 - 4. So we don't know if Operation Nap really was effective or if it was just one of his famous "lulling mummy and daddy into a false sense of hope" episodes.

We shall keep it up anyway but last night definitely wasn't nap related as he only had an hour, as all week. It's more like if he wakes his brain can't switch back off again.

It was cold in the room though so we're going to set the heat to come on at 12.30 tonight. Can't hurt!

I'm working a long shift tomorrow so I desperately hope he sleeps through tonight as I need to be able to go in - I need the money!

Anna have you considered doing nights as usually pays more and if at home you would be up you may a well be at work and agree with dh you get 3hrs sleep when you get back you all have lunch together then he gets to have couple Mrs if he has had a crap night with Ds

Am cooking roast pork for first time since dh hospital stay!! His bopsy showed some rare condition to do with food reaction causing scarring in oesophagus therefore narrowing it hence why food got stuck.

Your poor DH. Well at least he has an answer.

I hate nights! And realistically you only get about 4 hrs sleep the next day. It's crap!

Slept through last night apart from several brief wake ups which I don't even count these days tbh. So not too bad this morning - despite being on an infection ward whilst pregnant today! At least I don't have to do the TB/shingles patients!

Poor DH though - spending Valentine's Day one on one with DS till bedtime - I think it's easier here!

Ahh when I did nights and even as a night nanny if just one night I wouldn't sleep next day til bedtime I would just go to bed at 8pm instead. Think this willpower must be what has got me through the last 15mths!!

You nurses are hardcore!

It was lovely getting a full nights sleep last night while I was away. I got back at 1.30 and dd hasn't let me out of her sight since. We even had a nap together on the sofa (until 4.45pm... will pay for that later). She's on the boob non stop too. I'm getting nothing done but it is lovely.

I'm having a sandwich after finishing dressing an infected stump. Yep, pretty hardcore day today!

Ha ha Anna nothing puts me off good either ohhh other than suctioning secretions - I don't do snot!!

OK I must not buy anymore clothes for ds2 just spent wyyyyyy too much on frugi and maxomorra oh n piccalilly goodies. He has more thank enough clothes need to check summer stash, he will need summer bits prob in 2-18+18-24 then winter bits in 18-24+2-3 think we have some 18-24 Summer shorts from ds1 who was in them til 3! Ds1 luckily moved sizes as seasons changed. Bonus of organic and scandi clothing is they have good resale second hand whereas high street stuff not so much (that's my excuse and am sticking to it!!)