Happy lunchtime again Mugabeans! Hope you are all okay today and that the weather is kind enough to allow you out the house . I have the ILs and SIL/BIL with us this weekend so I have dispatched DH out for a walk with his entire family while I have my lunch in peace. It's bliss.
I find most children's television really creepy which is the main driver for not having it on. I'm not anti-TV as such, I just hate kids TV. Grumpy 1 tends to watch DVDs every now and again, but had never seen a telly on until she went to her childminder at 1. Having said that, I am really enjoying now that she is a bit older sharing age appropriate programmes / films with her. We watched March of the Penguins over Christmas because she is really into animals and she loved it. We like going to the movies too, the Moomins film was great fun.
Age gaps As you all know by now we have a 4 year 3 month age gap between our 2 which is about 18 months longer than we had considered our 'ideal'. I was going for 3ish years between them. Like rra I knew that I wouldn't be able to be the parent I wanted to be with a smaller age gap. Thats not to say that the hormones didn't drive me mad when grumpy 1 was a baby, I think I spent my whole mat leave with my body thinking it would be a good idea to get up duff again and my rational brain saying 'don't be mad!!'. I also had an excellent friend with a baby about 9 months older than grumpy 1 who warned me how much more complicated it gets when they are moving around / weaning / potty training which did put me off throwing a newborn into that mix . It's all horses for courses though, I'm a great believer that life is what you make of it and I can see the pros and cons in both large and small gaps. magrat do you have something you would like to share
fatty love, how is everything in the ninja-house? I hope your DP is okay and that you and the kids are alright xx
lily where is the pic of the nursery? Well done DS for nursery-snoozing, what a little legend!
frolic glad that the dream feed bought you more sleep. Week 19 has seemed to be a bit of a turning point for us too, not great sleep but back to only 2 feeds a night and last night they stretched out to 12:30 and 5:30 which means we got our magic 4 hours! The ILs will never know how luck they are, today I only might kill them and bury them under the patio. Yesterday I definitely would have!!
siani grumpy 2 is a nosey little sausage too, her absolute favourite thing is to sit and watch other people / babies. Its mega cute, the little old ladies in town love it!
everything Are you relocating or moving to a bigger property in your current area? Big change ahead, but very exciting! I'll take a slice of bread and butter pudding, cream or custard?
Right, have to go and meet them all in town so I can feed grumpy 2. Should get cake out of it though... wish me luck...