June '07 - I'd walk a million miles for one of your smiles

[daisyandbabybootoo]

i can't resist looking at links....annobal, how about the bug one...little boys love bugs. you can buy lots of plastic bugs cheaply for the party bags and maybe organise a min-beast hunt in the garden if the weather is nice (or even better if i's not as the slugs and snails come out then...yuck)

Faylisa, how abot getting some cheap t-shirts and fabric paints and letting them be creative. you get paint that you paint on and then iron to set it once dry, then you can add detail with sparkly 3-D paint....or do some tie-dying. Some kind of art theme is always good for girls.

Thinking about a new career as a children's party planner!

I like the jungle theme - they could all wear camouflage lol! Pirates good too but a good friend had one of those. However JD would change all that but that would be a totally different party .

Foxy, DH asked DS1 who came today and his response was Billy, Jude and Emily - think they made quite an impression

That's a great idea Daisy - I think you have a new career waiting for you

So, JBM poked me and I still don't have the foggieest what it's all about

Daisy I think my DC's have inherited their dad's skin and go brown after about 2 seconds in the sun. I just go pink

Please excuse my overactive e key BTW

I did it! It's taken chuffing ages but I am on facebook. Now what happens? Can you view my photos or do I have to contact you as I clicked only friends? Everyone is SO glamourous and have lovely, gorgeous LOs.

Must go and be nice to DH so it will have to wait til tomorrow now.

Thanks for being pleased I'm back.

daisy - Hope you weren't in Staithes the weekend we set off from home for a picnic near Pickering and ended up just driving to Salburn and back cos it was pissing it down. (before DHs op so he drove)

Derlor, great to have you back. I'm off to bed now

Thanks for the hamster Daisy, just what I always wanted

Ria, just added you (hope that's you )

Just looking at your photos Derlor, love the one of the kids in front of the lake

Ooh, I'm feeling really sick. Not sure if it was the food I ate or the 2 glasses of wine and a glass of champagne, but I do not feel well...

glad you all had a good meet up though. look forward to the next one.

vole, ouch for you, hope you are managing ok.

Urgh, going to try and go back to sleep though I expect DD will wake up as soon as I fall asleep.

GRRRR

I get up at 5.30 so I can get everything done this morning for going to Nans as well as apply for my dog to be in the next series of 'it's me or the dog' and they have stopped taking applications!

Maybe I will have to actually have to pay someone to make him a nice dog. It's that or I kill him.

Bumper hope you feel better soon!

LOVING DS right now

Asleep from 9.30 - 5.30, a feed and back to bed
Bless him. Should take him out more often.

This is my friend's thread, I know she would appreciate some support from people who know what she is going through.

Feel much better now TA, it was probably something I ate (that's my story and I'm sticking to it!) Glad the boy slept so well. DD also did.

Fed her at 10.30 when I got back, and she has only just woken for a feed at 6.45 ! We've taken to shoving her dummy back in her mouth when she stirs, whereas before I would feed her as soon as she stirs. Going to try and go back to bed now, I don't supposes there is any chance she will go back to sleep now.

Shame about the dog application! I am semi seriously considering applying for "how to look good naked"...

Thanks fr all the party suggestions - I think I might try the t-shirts.....

Oh bumper, how awful for your friend. Hope she is ok, it's great she has a friend like you to lean on x

Hi everyone

Took me a while to catch up - glad the meet went well and you got there OK TA - don't know how you did it without a sat nav - mine goes everywhere with me! Where did you park? Was it a problem parking. Its many years since I lived in Forest Hill and I assume I can still turn left by the garage and park up the hill?

Where do you think you saw me TA? Unless you were in depths of Kent - its unlikely it was me

Very re all this sleep. My LO goes to sleep at 7pm but has 2 feeds before 7am (usually one at 10ish then one during the night). at 3am this morning, she was laughing and cooing so much I fed her just to quieten her down ...was that the right thing to do?

Off to visit a good friend for lunch today and visit the girls at work so DD can be handed around for cuddles

Have a good day everyone

Bumper, I'm so sorry to hear about your friend. I've posted on her thread saying if she wants to talk to someone who's been through it then she can get my number from you.

TA...did you see my post about the nappies?

Ria...we were in Stithes end July/beg August and had glorious sunshine for the whole week! We were very lucky picking our week

I need to know how you are getting all this sleep. DS3 doesn't even go to sleep til nearly 10pm, then could feed either once or three times over the night, usually takes 1-2hrs to go back to sleep after a feed and I'm buggered! He seems to have one good night with just the one feed then a bad night with loads. Am not complaining though cos he's so gorgeous!

Have to get some stuff done today and DH wants to go OUT! Back tonight. Rx

glad you had good weather daisy (think that might have been the week I was in Ingleton and it rained there instead). our sleepy little backwater made the national news with the flooding.

i saw daisy, thanks, and to annobal too. it's so sad. we were so pleased to be having dcs close together. she was going to buy a phil & teds and dd was going to go in it too when we went to visit she lives about 4 hours away from me though so i feel so helpless, though if she wanted I would go up in a shot.

Wish I knew the secret Ria! We've taken to just sticking her dummy in if she stirs, and she'll go back to sleep for a few hours. We don't expect it to happen every night though!

I'm after the secret too Ria. My DD will go down about 10pm & sleep till 3 or 4am. She feeds for an hour drops back off for an hour, maybe 2 then is awake till 10pm again. Sometimes she will nap if I take her out in the pram for an hour or so but that doesn't let me get anything done or catch up on sleep myself. How does everyone else get their LO's to have daytime naps? My house is a health hazard & I haven't eaten in peace in 2 months. AAAAARRRRGGGGH.

Hi Tallulabelle, how are you doing? Are you coping ok without DH?

No answers from me, I'm afraid,except to say I have resigned myself to it being that way. Am just grateful if i get 5 hours myself! am particularly knackered and grumpy today.

freezer stocks are running low too. at least the cleaner comes once a week, but everything is so dishevilled by now, its too big a job for her!

AAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

I wish I knew the sleeping secret too! My DS doesn't settle until 9 or 10 at night and then wakes up every couple of hours in the night - we can sometimes settle him back with a dummy but usually have to feed him twice.
MY DD started sleeping through sporadically from about 12 weeks so I am clinging onto the hope that DS does that too. With DD it seemed to help when we put her in a grobag rather than a sleepsuit and blankets. I had decided not to do that with DS as I thought he might be too warm to do so in the summer (DD was a winter baby) but given the awful weather at the moment I might just try it- is anyone else using a grobag at the moment?

Hi Faylisa - and everyone!
I've got DS in a 1.0 tog grobag and think it's great! I just change what he wears underneath depending on temp (short sleeved boysuit / long sleeved bodysuit / bodysuit with legs in etc)
Glad you all had a good meet up yesterday - it would be good to do one oop north too!