Cookies - thanks for the cookies! I'm not great in the kitchen department (although I do an excellent brunch) as DH is the chef in this household, but I'd like to turn my hand to some healthy oat-based baking.
I guess for you, the good thing about going back to work is you get fitter! I'd love to be a bit more active in my job rather than sitting at my desk all day. When I'm super senior and important, I intend to have junior staff briefing me while I'm on the cross-trainer or out running. Which I guess means I can only have fit people working for me 😉
Dragging the Moses basket into the hallway sounds like much better parenting than having "grown-up cuddles" in front of the baby!
Yes the muff wax was long overdue - erring into gorilla territory. DH had the good grace not to mention it until after I'd had it waxed. I feel so much better. I had an evening appointment so DH could look after J. Luckily for longer appointments eg my hair it's naturally blond, honest
I didn't actually go to Babyfest in the end. My pregnant friend who I was going with sadly split up with her boyfriend the day before. Poor thing is understandably totally miserable. Five months pregnant, in the middle of buying a house (not with him, luckily), and suddenly single. Not sure if it's irreversible, but anyway, Babyfest wasn't what she fancied doing!
How do you manage to exercise 5 times a week? Is there a crèche at your gym? Or do you have other clever ways of occupying the littlies? You're almost certainly right re building muscle.
What do you use if not a happy nappy?
How thick is the material on your Caboo, and how much are you selling it for?
Cookies and Primary - ha, I can just imagine you sending Brewers yeast in an envelope through the post, and being investigated by the police for suspicious unidentified powder! Seriously though, if you clearly labelled it I'm sure it would be fine.
Primary - wow - I'm so impressed by people that can do clever dress-making stuff. I am highly, yes highly skilled at sewing on buttons... and there my sewing skills end.
Birchy - so sorry to hear about your sleep and boob. Hope things get better for you. They say it takes the bad moments for you to really appreciate the good moments. They are idiots - I'd rather just have the good moments.
Bluebs - I feel that motherhood is teaching me as much about diplomacy and psychology as it is about babies. I know what you mean about having so much more baby experience than DH at this stage. With DH, amazingly though he's doing, I know he's never going to pick up a child-rearing manual. So I try to slip little nuggets of information into conversation in a subtle and light-hearted fashion, as well as letting him see me doing things so he can copy. For example, some of the little games that I play that help jasper to learn patterns. DH is actually quite interested, as long as the information is fed to him in a digestible form.
Great idea about alternating gym sessions with your DH. Sadly DH and I are (or, for me!) gym members at our respective workplaces so that doesn't work for us.
Ha ha re Tams' grippy starfish! What temperature do you have the water. Jasper hated his first few baths, when I had the water lukewarm (because I thought that was best/safest). But now I have the temperature almost as hot as I'd have it for myself, and he absolutely loves baths - it's pretty much his happiest time of day. He also likes bubbles - I use "Infacare".
Sounds like a great plan, for you and DH to both work part-time and to share childcare.
Bluebs and Sunday - Very brave and virtuous of you to try out washable nappies. You're better women than I. Sunday - I chuckled at the idea of "a single leg hole"!
Tams - ha - I now have images of you gallivanting round the world with hordes of children and animals in tow!
Becks - glad you had a fun evening.
Anna - how blissful! I love Oxfordshire. Is that home for you? Jealous.
Cake before pie - brilliant!
Beautiful pic of the remorseless Grace!
I have baths with jasper sometimes, but it's more of a quick splash and scrub - not quite the same as relaxing with candles and a glass of Sauvignon like in the old days!
Jasper has now grown out of the first of his 0-3 outfits 😔 I'm going to milk the rest for all they're worth before moving into the 3-6s.
Can't remember if I said already, but I went to my first baby yoga recently and it was rubbish. Has anyone been to a good baby yoga? If so, what was it like and what did you do? Mine involved more nursery rhymes and less yoga than I'd have liked - annoying, especially when I'd spent 14 squids 😬
Talking of nursery rhymes, has anyone yet been to rhyme time at their local library? I'm planning to go this week. And what other free/cheap activities have people found?
I had a very satisfying few minutes today (well, yesterday now!) with some cotton buds (those little ones on a stick) and jasper's belly button. Very satisfying indeed. Also his armpits, the gaps between his fingers/toes, and the little rolls of fat on his legs. It's amazing how much fluff and unidentified grey stuff (dead skin and coconut oil?) gathers in various places, regardless of baths. And smells a bit yucky. Am pleased to have found a quick and easy way to get rid of it.
Hmm, charming way to end a post!
10w & 4d