April 2007 - from Fluffles to Falafel and back again

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I know your game, leave the thread til it gets really long cos you all know that once it reaches 400 it starts to bug me

glad i'm not alone it really helps to know that.

SOL, 'one less meal to sort out' my god, was thinking the exact same thing about going to soft play I feel like i am endlessly feeding or thinking about feeding. It's inanely dull. I think I really need to be back at work and have something else to focus on. I've also joined the preschool committee to get something else to do! I most definately could not be a SAHM it is the hardest job in the world.

morning all - eddas your post sounds so familar

Ange - that nursery is FANTASTIC - one lucky little lady

for those lo's who are fully weaned, what is their milk/sleep routine from after tea til breakfast pretty please - not even remotely sure if what they are currently doing is good or going backwards

Eddas, that is exactly what I need - to get back to work. I am so bored of doing the same thing day in day out. I love B and K to bits, but need more. I could never be a SAHM either - the hardest job on the planet.

Morning Oooggs.

oooggs, ds pretty much weaned. His feeding is:

Bottle on waking normally around 7
Breakfast 1-2 hours after first bottle
Lunch, when dd has it(normally just toast so doesn't get much IYSWIM)
Bottle mid afternoon
Diner when dd has it between 4-5 normally
Bottle before bed, normally between 6-7

Every so often, like today he doesn't have the whole bottle before bed so wakes up at ridiculous o'clock for more(this morning it was 4ish) but he then didn't have his bottle on waking. He's weird because when he started waking in the night after going through he didn't have extra milk just more spread out over 24hours IYSWIM. strange kid

Anyway HTH

Right, have to go and do 3 little pigs apparently

oooggs - went home for the weekend and was able to give the pasties to my grandparents.

Grandfather (92) - "not bad for a first attempt"

My mum - "don't be so bloody rude"

Grandfather - "well, the meat needs to be cheaper and fattier"

Granny (86) - "your pastry is nice"

Grandfather - "yes, but it's too good for a traditional pasty"

Me -

So I think they were still too middle class . Am not going to be making more, what a fiddle!

but did they like the monocles?
Right, off to mum's for today, see you all later x

Sorry to hear you had such a crap evening nutty.

Eddas, yes, we have a spare room to clear out, work out what we can get rid of and put the rest into storage. It's mostly but not completely my stuff. My mum's suggestions include putting D in his bouncy chair on the landing while I work. But tbh, both D and I get too mopey if I don't arrange or find some reason to go out for at least a few hours each day. And the landing is tiny, I want to be able to get a few boxes downstairs and then put them away again. And then there's the basic keeping the house clean and tidy which doesn't happen. I do look forward to going back to work, although it will be hard and the house will be a mess, at least I won't feel as guilty about it, I'll just think oh well, no time!

Liath, pmsl at the middle class pasties.

Morning. Lol liath at your grandfather

Oooggs, F's day is something like this -
8am Bottle of milk.

10.30am breakfast of some sort of cereal plus bottle of milk.

1.30pm Bowl of savoury food (mainly veg puree type thing) plus bottle of milk.

4.30pm Bowl of savoury food again or rusks (she loves these, but very sugary so try to only use once a week!) plus bottle of milk.

6.30pm Bottle of milk then bed. She has started sleeping all night for the last three nights so she has nothing until her 8am bottle the next morning. She seems to be happy with this routine. Have tried doing meals at different times, or breakfast earlier, but she wont eat so have given up!

Oooggs, although K is not eating much the pattern we have is:

7.30 7 ounce milk

Not doing breakfast yet, but would probably have to do about the same time to tie in with me getting B to school

11.30 7 ounces milk and food

2.30 7 ounces milk

5.00/30 food

6.30/7.00 8 ounces milk

Liath, God love your grandparents!!

I have got ds home from school again today as he told me his ear was hurting when he got up this morning. He didnt look too bad, but I thought I would give him the benefit of the doubt and let him stay home.
The little git has just confessed that he lied to me and that he should have gone to school!! Bloody hell! He is only 4 years old ffs, when did he learn to be so deceitful!! It did make me smile really, that he couldnt keep up the lie and felt the need to tell me Little bugger I have told him that the next time he tells me he is too poorly to go to school I will send him anyway!

Oh MJ how cute, if a bit naughty My brother did this once at about 6. Mam reckoned the idea of pretending to be ill was too much for him so he confessed. Meant we both had to visibly very poorly before we could stay off.

they are so devious aren't they

need to get him that book about the boy who cried wolf

I'd send him after lunch.

Back again - still not fully dressed though. Hee! Hee!

Mmmmmm, between tea til breakfast ..... P has tea about 4.30 / 5pm ish and then has BM at 7ish and then bed, she wakes about 6am and has boobies in bed with mummy til 7ish and then has breakfast with us and other two about 7.30ish. She has lunch anytime between 11.30 and 12.30. She has boobies when ever she wants them during the day (usually signalled by her flopping backwards and pulling frantically at my top in a demented and crazed manner. ). HTH.

Did think about sending him after lunch, but have already told the school that he was still poorly and wouldnt be in. Dont think he is old enough to understand the humiliation of the teachers knowing he lied He isnt having a nice day here with me anyway!! Is being a pita so not getting any tv or nice things [mean mummy emoticon] mwah ha ha ha!!

Am feeling much better today about the feeding. Think I was tired last night so it upset me more than normal. Am sad to let the bf go, but F is ready to leave it behind, so I have to go with what she wants I guess. Still makes me a bit teary when I think about it though

Mwah Ha Ha Ha!

Yes, BFs are getting less and less with P and it makes me too - More so for you though, I guess, MJ, as you are not planning on having any more. I do feel very that P is needing boobie less and less. Sigh.

Right, the little stinker has awoken so need to go and give her lunch and commence with my pm .....

Can we have a new thread as I don't have ctrl-end and this is getting far too long?
elkie, the sond is Feeder, Piece By Piece. DH played it to him a lot when he was little, might just be coincidence but who knows?

Lousy night here - B has a cold (another one I hear you cry ) She woke at 10.45 and basically couldn't settle except with me. DH is away so there was plenty of room at least but with her snuffling away and periodically fidgeting I was woken again and again. Don't think I had to feed her though till six so I suppose that's a positive. Of course when I did feed her she had a massice coughing fit and threw up on me All that perfectly good milk......
On the plus side though she fed again at 9 and went off to sleep for an hour and a half - so I did too! Thank goodness older girls can get their own breakfast now (bad neglectful mother emoticon) Off out now for little walk with the sling as pushchair has a puncture

Oh NL, hope she is better soon. Nothing worse than being puked all over. Never know where to start with all the sick everywhere!

{{{{{NL}}}}}} Hope today is a good one for you after all that - what pushchair have you got? Guessy ou will need an new inner tube or puncture repair kit.

Any suggestions for thread title - haven't been here a lot lately, so don't know what the latest laughs are!

April 2007 - The Madness Continues ....

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Bugaboo - man in bike shop is mending it for me tomorrow - not very good at that sort of thing myself.

I just feel worn out - with the house - no news, the nursery - bad news (although that is sorted now and I need to work on feeling better about it), the puncture - bang news, B's (not) sleeping - yawn, yawn news and no money etc etc - quick someone slap me before I go into downward spiral.

M bought 'A series of unfortunate events' yesterday - she loves the books and really enjoyed the film when she saw it - but I find it so depressing I'm even a bit oppressed by that!

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{{{{{{HUG}}}}}}

NL, sorry to hear you're feeling things pile on top of you a bit. How old is M again? I bought some of those Unfortunate Events books to read myself secondhand but I've not got round to it. Does she read them or want you to read them to her? I know one of my book catalogues has the first 13 books on unabridged audio.

I'm feeling a bit bored atm - D has been quite good so far today and is on his second nap and it's been quite a good one though he will probably wake up soon now, saying that. On the bright side, I called a friend I made contact with via Mumsnet Local and we're going to meet at a park cafe tomorrow - we'll have the park if weather's nice again and the cafe if it's not. And this afternoon my dad has decided he should get us a stairgate.

Sorry NL, I should have said in my last post that I'm sorry things are getting on top of you, I didn't mean that you were letting them. Ooops. I think that's me (allowing it to happen to me IYSWIM).