July 2006 - toddlers, climbers and daredevils sign in here!

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Thought it was time for a new thread folks.
Great news about your job Bloss. Will catch up with you all tomorrow. xx

Bloss, how generous of your parents!! I always thought you were a saucy minx, for some reason... you are right about DH, I have now given up on him, he can sing for it.

K's a bit of a singer too. She copies Joey, and joins in at the last word of every line. Very cute. She has also gone around all day saying 'I love you'. We taught her that. So cute!!

Ceebee, yum, yes it was three out of four of them!! Mark and the other two. Not Gary...

Right, best go and um, sit on the couch with DH... hope there's something good on....

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You ought to see what Sophie eats or rather doesn't.

Breakfast-hands bowl of cornflakes straight back to me uneaten (sometimes eats a few bits) Drinks a Tommee Tippee cup of hot milk and eats some of a round of toast and butter.

Lunch-half a breadbun with ham or cheese (pulled apart and uneaten) a few pieces of apple and a few of my crisps. A piece of cake.

Tea-unless it is mashed potato or oven chips/Smilies it is played with and uneaten. Mousse/fromage and perhaps cake and then hot milk before bed.

She has hot chocolate if I am at home in the morning.

Night ladies

HC
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KZ, I awaiting a photo from DH, and then I'll post it on. It was a home jobby though!!! Still The back hasn't been cut, it's just mad dreadlocks. Maybe I should brush it out some time...
Lol at Roshi's nyum nyums!! How funny!!
K als got the chocolate bug, but I think it caused a flare up in her eczema so I've stopped her from having any now. That and a million other possibilities.

HC, Sophie sounds just like Kayley the way she eats. Fruit is the only thing she'll eat in any quantity, grapes, bananas, apples.

She slept quite well last night actually, thinking about it. She came in our bed quite late, and then just had a couple of milks, but hardly any struggling or fidgeting. Hmm, this could be the start of something. Here's hoping.

Anyway, back to the grind...

Have a good Monday all.

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Ooh if we are doing feeding here goes with Josh's average daily intake

7am - 9oz milk (still from a bottle )

8am - breakfast is a bowl of cereal (probably about 4 tablespoons) - usually either cheerios or rice krispies.

10am - snack - a breadstick or a couple of mini ricecakes

12 - lunch - eg a fishfinger, 2 tablespoons of mashed potato and peas or 2 tablespoons of pasta, pesto and cheese followed by a pudding (either a jar or a pot)

3pm - snack - usually a big banana or a cereal bar

5pm - tea - usually either philly sandwiches, peanut butter or cheese on toast followed by a yoghurt

7pm - 3oz (ish) milk in a cup and a couple of animal biscuits or a mini riceceake

plus water throughout the day and other bits of what we are eating.

Annie/Spin - any advice on how to cut fringes as Josh is now blowing his fringe out of his eyes so I guess I need to do something about it.

KZ, Blurred new haircut

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Night spin! I keep forgetting you're a day ahead.

CB, our version was to wait for her to fall asleep on me, then put some folded kitchen roll over her face to catch the hair, then DH hacked at it from the front. Probably not the best way I admit... (note the subtle curve to the left...)

Right, best do some work. Dammit.

DS had his first home haircut at the weekend too - well, I say haircut, but I just hacked at the long lock that dangles in his eyes (too long to stick up any more). The rest is curly loveliness still. I just got DH to hold DS's head whilst I went in for the kill

just caught up on posts. tip of the day for haircuts - if you're in london don't take your lo's to trotters as they have no restraints i nthe chairs and jacob tipped forwards and fell out of it on christmas eve. that said the haircut is pretty good, however the bump on his head wasn't...

i am about to strangle my PILs!!!! my mil insists on rolling jacob's trousers up so they look like village idiot waders. talk about not putting things in perspective though . i'm just pg and irritable and want our routine back. we seem to have no time on our own really now and given sam is going to make an appearance in about 8 weeks i am really feeling that this is the last time jacob will be MY little boy. sorry vent over!

feeding routines.....hmmm....ceebee we still have milk at morning (on waking) and bedtime from a bottle

730 wake up then about 3oz milk (bottle)

8-830 1 weetabix with milk, about 1/3 piece of toast with butter

10ish about 6oz of bottle (or whatever is left from early morning milk)

1230 one piece of cheese on toast / open hame and cheese spread sandwich / about 150g savoury pot

3ish couple organix gingerbread men / carrot crunchy stick things / 1/2 slice cheese on toast

530-6 dinner about 400g savoury - either plum stage 2 stuff or pasta with tomato sauce or cottage pie or something like that, with 200g or so of fruit (normally pureed or mashed up), then sometimes a yoghurt.

730ish anything between 5 and 9oz milk before bed (again bottle)

water and well diluted apple juice through the day and also sometimes swedish krisprolls as snacks if we are out or he's particularly hungry.

he's being rather picky about lumps again at the moment but i can see the pointy bits of molars appearing day by day so that's something at least.

we've also tried cutting down his liquid intake through the afternoon after 3pm, except for bedtime milk as he's been waking up wet through his nappy - we have a champion pee-er!!!!! and it does seem to be working except MIL has been putting his nappy so low at the front that it's been leaking at the waistband last 2 mornings and not been even remotely full

anyway, enough ranting about PILs - off to consultant on wednesday morning so will see how bp is going.

saucy dreams - matthew king from emmerdale STILL.....at least i'm pg so have that excuse bloss

Lysette!! Can't believe it's only 8 weeks to go!!!!!!!!!!
Poor jacob and his bump...
Sympathies with the PILs. Know what you mean.

Mae, Lol at the hacking!! What are we like...

Bottles here too still. Just at night though if we can. she's happy to drink from a cup during the day, unless she's not well.

Right off to doc's now again, to see about her eczema again..

o'h yes forgot to say jacob has cup and whatever glass we are drinking from in the day.

i'm 23 and a half weeks now so actually it could be 6.5 weeks..... hopefully 8.5 or longer though!!!

jacob has also started giving kisses when asked and also just offering them!

lysettes i can't beleive you are due so soon either, seems like last week you told us you wre pregnant! So exciting.

Routines, hurray, my fave:

1am or 3am or 5am etc (or whenever he wakes up) 7ozs milk, from a bottle. Not only does he still have a bottle girls but he is on a number 2 teat! I tried many times increasing the teat size but he always choked on the flow and as it was always a time I wanted him sleep and choking and gagging woke him up again I thought sod it! Drinks fine from a cup or beaker during the day.

7.30am - toast and jam, weetabix, banana, raspberries or blueberries. Eats bits of it sometimes, all of it others.

Snacks a couple of times during morning, raisins, a biscuit, those School fruit bars. Has juice on demand, very weak squash usually.

Lunch at 12 is either hot leftovers from our dinner the night before, and yoghurt or a fruit pot or more fruit, or a rice pudding, or a sandwich, hummous, pate, cheese or ham.

Fruit or a yoghurt or raisins or sometimes crisps that he shares with H for afternoon snack.

For dinner read lunch.

7ozs milk at 6.30pm before bed.

He woke at 11pm last night, just as I'd got to sleep, and threw up everywhere, meatballs and pasta, why does it always have to be an orange meal that gets regurgitated onto a cream rug? Then stayed awake screaming till 1am. Till I got the medised out. Didn't want to give him milk as he'd just been sick. He was then up at 5.30am. I nearly fell asleep in my eye test at luncht time!

Harry was in such a state going to nursery this morning. "I don't want to go it's boring! I miss you so much mummy, where do you work, is it far away, can you work here today?" Really really sobbing, shouting at me to stop the car etc. Conversely Toby practically ran in without a b ackward glance!

I gave Harry a picture of me to take in with him and told him to look at it if he got sad. Apparently he was fine by 9am but it was horrible. Hope tomorrow is better. I knew after a month or so this would happen with H, as it has sunk in it's for good every week, so the fun place starts to resemble a prison rather than a creche type thing...

On the hair front I am grwoing harry's and Toby's is really curly now. Seemed a shame to keep cutting such platinum hair.

Right off to laze on the sofa. Wire in the blood tonight I love that.

Bloss

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Well, ladies, you have made me feel much better about Josh still having a bottle - my mum keeps nagging over and over (and over....) again about how he should be off bottles by now and how me and my siblings were off bottles by the time we were 8 months blah blah - I guess that made me feel that it is 'wrong' but Josh is clearly not alone! He gave up his nighttime bottle without any fuss - he wasn't drinking much milk then anyway and a few weeks ago, when he was being sick every evening, I thought if I switched to a cup it would make him drink slower (and probably less and therefore not fill his stomach up) and maybe not be sick - and, touch wood, it seems to have worked - and he didn't bat an eyelid when I gave him the cup - just need to get my a**e in gear and switch his morning bottle

Lysette - wow, how quickly your due date has come round. Jacob will always be your 'baby' you know and he is going to love having Sam to play with.

Today seemed to go on FOREVER! DH is away so it was just me and Josh - it has rained hard all day so no chance of going out so I have had to entertain Josh all day which is a hard enough job for a couple of hours - never mind 12!! Have to confess to having CBeebies on quite a lot . Have also discovered a programme called Handy Manny on Playhouse Disney - It is great! Josh loves it too

Emma only stopped bottles just before Sophie was born at about 2 1/2. I ignored everyones tutting

Wire In The Blood is good!

HC
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Hey all. How are your little angels/terrors?!

Where the devil have you been??????????????????????

HC
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HC - been very busy, with work, and Bella and being a married woman and all! Been sorting out house into some kind of order etc and just no time.

I am up now, as DD is unwell, and although currently sleeping, not likely to last long!

When she is not ill though, she is just perfect! Talking, running, absolutely climbing, can say short sentences (two words) with comprehension, can follow commands, laughs all the time and is just beautiful.

Did all your little ones have a good xmas?

ceebee my mil seems insistent that jacob should be on the potty now as he's so regular when he poos - i have had to repeat till i'm blue i nthe face "we are starting training him in may so it's i nthe summer and he'll be coming up to 2 then - with boys often the earlier you start the longer it takes". i might as well be saying " the all blacks are never going to win a world cup again", for all the notice she takes of me...

new shoes for jacob today - proper clarks solid sole type things. he hates them, but then he hated the others for ages!

don't forget ladies that sam is coming out 8 or 10 weeks early - my actual due date is 2 may!

xxx

Hi Pav - good to see you back again

Lysette - don't mention the words 'potty training' . I am trying to bury my head in the sand about it as I am dreading having to do it!!

Right - off to Mothercare and Asda now even though it is STILL raining but I can't stay inside forever - I hate living up north sometimes!!