Oct 2007 - This little piggy had pureed butternut squash and a slice of pear...

[alicet]

Well thought I should start a new thread in time to link it on the old one!!!

CONGRATULATIONS to Alicet's sister! Fab news. How big was he?

Polar, sorry about the crap nights. I'm suffering with you and have never eaten or drunk so much chocolate before this year!

Oh dear all this talk of fitness is making me tired. I do a lot of walking about with my pushchair but otherwise nothing; I have never been a sporty person and now is no different. My excuse for everything is bf: I assume I am burning many more calories than I am, and justify my lazy grazing this way.

Well, BabyChoc is getting hungrier: it's official. I've discovered that pulling her into bed with me gets me and her more than 45 mins sleep at a time, so obviously I am doing that when I cant cope with soothing her back to sleep so many times a night... BUT she keeps thinking this means food. I think feeding her at night is less tiring than the perpetual wake ups, but it doesnt really seem to keep her asleep that long. Oh well. She's 24 weeks tomorrow.

Trying to remember what people have been saying and failing! Sorry! J20, how are you all doing? Muppet your exercise is making me tired reading it.

Still no highchair here as am soooo indecisive... and anyway we're moving... and she hasnt even started solids yet...

have a good Monday all!

Hi all,

Sorry to hear of crap nights. Henry has a chesty cough and we expected nights from he's but he's gone the other way and is sleeping for England. For breakfast he had avocado and banana after his milk then went to sleep for four hours then didn't really want anything else aprat from milk. He missed hi afternoon nap as we were out and about. We got home at 4, put him down and he slept through till 7.30 this morning. He had milk and then kiwi and baby rice and he's gone back to bed as he was rubbing his eyes!!!

Still, it's his Christening on Sunday so I don't mind as he needs to be fit and well.

I went to an NCT nearly new sale on Sat with a friend, got a few bits maninly clothes and games/puzzles for Ollie. It wasn't as much of a scrummage as I'd thought and my friends SIL said that the one she normally goes to women actually push each other out the way!!

Over to Ollie's friends for lunch today and a chin wag over a cuppa for me. Then fish pie calls me to cook it this afternoon and more tidying of the house for the weekend.

Anyone got any ideas for food I could do for the Christening that's quick or freezable as I'd like to make a few things up in advance. I was thinking of doing breads with meats and cheeses. Choc mousse (I can make it so it doens't look like dog poo now !) as it freezes well. Meragines (Sp I know!) with sumer berries and cream as they meringues freeze too.

Have a good day all
x

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hello everyone!
Sorry you are having bad nights Polar and Choc
Congrats on being an auntie Alicet
Muppet - all your food sounds lovely, I would be far too lazy to attempt such wonderful creations! I know jacket spuds take a while to cook, but could you pop a load of little ones in the oven early before you went out to the christening so they were cooked when you got back? and you could make chilli or ratatouille to freeeze and serve with them? that's about as exciting as my cooking gets!

Well, we managed to chop down the trees in the garden and get rid of them and a load of other old tut on Saturday. Now i just have to get on with digging the flower beds so I can plant some new stuff. Have some mums coming round this afternoon, so I am hoping that the weather stays nice enough to sit outside!

Hey everyone,
Sorry sleep is not going so well polar and choc, hope it improves soon.
Well, after a good start to weaning where Dylan would at least taste anything you put in front of him he has now decided he's not really bothered , he was eating all his breakfast each day (baby rice and fruit puree) but now just not interested, doesn't open his mouth in anticipation like he was doing and will only take a few spoonfulls at the most... lunch is worse, not really any interest at all, this has only started over the last 3 days, not sure why. One thing I considered was that he might be teething as if I give him the spoon he just chomps on it and cries when I take it away, surely he can't be teething constantly though can he? He's not crying all the time or anything? Oh I don't know?!
Another thing, yesterday when he did a poo (TMI alert) it had lots of tiny black strands in it, can only think it must be something he's eaten? Maybe the strandy bits in avocado? Any ideas?
Sorry for the me me me post, hope everyone is ok x

V. quickly (Madam is demanding my sttention) ...

Dal - re: strandy bits - could be avocado, or banana seeds.

As for not taking food from a spoon, try giving him a spoon to feed himself with, and shovel your spoonfuls in around it ....

must go ...

hi all

very sorry for those that are suffering re sleep. Where do you get the energy to get through the day.....
Muppet .. food sounds yummy!

Can\t remember the rest!! Sorry!

Dal - defo try the spoon as a 'toy' and feed around it. I have to opposite problem. DS prefers to eat from a spoon and has been refusing to drink any milk. Why do they keep testing us!!!???!!!

just changed my name.... hope this works...
(its Mine by the way!)

thanks for the advice re strandy bits and spoons ladies, yeah will have to try the spoon thing although at the mo everytime I give him the spoon he chews it constantly and I can't feed around it as he won't take it out , must be to do with teething, no sign of a tooth yet though...

Oooh, nasty horrid tummy bug thing. Yuk, yuk, yuk. DH and I both have had it, luckily I had it last week then dh had it over the weekend as I was getting better, so not much overlapping. Anya's got away with only having it a little bit, though she's been so off her food she's lost weight (down 6oz in 3 weeks - she's back down to 14lb 15oz). She's been eating like a gannet (sp?) since Satuday though, making up for it.

Anya got her measurements done again on Friday - she's even better than average than she was last time . She's still on the 'normal' charts and the consultant is so pleased he's signed her off for 6 months .

Alice - congrats on being an auntie! And lol at Adam eating pizza!

Newmama - not nosy - Anya's got achondroplasia (a form of dwarfism) - she needs an MRI scan to check her spine/skull for rare complications. The condition seems to be only affecting her very mildly so far though, touch wood, so we're not too worried.

crochet - well done on exam - I'm sure you did well.

Muppet - am very impressed by all the exercise. I am feeling very couch-potato-ish in comparison.

Polar - poor you with the sleeping thing. Hope it's better tonight.

J2O - how you feeling now?

My mum's taking Anya shopping tomorrow so I can get loads of work done - sort out some advertising etc. (Thanks for your words of support everybody!)

Hi to everyone not mentioned.

Goodnight all - hope your lo's sleep well.
x

Anyasmum - thats great news about anya being signed off for 6 months!

I was hoping to go to bed early tonight, but DS has other ideas. We tried to put him to bed at his normal 9pm, but he kept crying and is still downstairs now, watching tv and rolling around the floor!

Anyasmum that is great news about Anya, I am sure you are so pleased. I did have a much better night last night thanks, I thought it was going to be a bad night as Zoe woke at about 10pm crying which she never does and we ended up bringing her downstairs with us for a while as she wouldn't settle. But she went back to sleep ok and although she didnt sleep all night she was happy so I just ignored her and went back to sleep and left her to her party in her cot

Strawberrylace I hope you werent up too much longer with DS and that he slept well for you last night

Dal, Zoe's nappies are the same I haven't given her avocado but she does get banana so maybe it is that! I hope Dylan is going to be more co-operative today and take food from a spoon for you, I always feel its two steps forward and one back with them (it can also feel like one forward and two back)

Choc I hope you managed to get a better nights sleep last night, I really don't know how you do it, I at least get the odd good night thrown in to allow me to catch up, I take my hat off to you!

Great news Anyasmum

Anyasmum - That's fab news!

We went to Jo Jingles this morning -anyone else go? Was strange experience being on the 'other end' while someone else does the teaching and singing as that's what my last job was, I taught music throughout the school from reception to year 6. The lady was enthusiastic but VERY LOUD!!!!! The music was very loud too but you couldn't hear the lyrics over her. She changed/missed out a lot of the words but at least she did use the proper names for instruments (my pet hate as teaching 4 years olds who call things 'shakers' yet we expect them to know 'blurb' and 'phoneme' for literacy really bugs me. If they can manage phoneme that can manage the word maracas!! God I'm anal.....) Henry liked the puppet but some of the songs were just to loud for him.

Might try swimming with him instead

Made Tana Ramseys' lamb burgers for tea but cannot see how on earth you were supposed to only get 2 burgers out of her recipe. I got 4 and they were still way thicker than her 2cms burgers as told in her recipe. I find her stuff okay but some of the recipes don't seem to work properly.

and after that huge moaning post I am official Mrs Victor Meldrew......

(Maybe that should be my new name!)

hi everyone!!

Anyasmum-thats great news, am very chuffed for you!

Alice congrats on being an auntie!!

now of course, because i've started typing, shannon is kicking off! so it'll have to be quick, im better now, Shannon has just started getting better today after having dioreah(-not even going to try to spell it) for the past 5 days and also a sore throat, thank god thats coming to an end!

i'm in the process of stopping smoking too, oh i'll try and get back later grrrr

hey everyone,
Wonderful news Anyasmum
Polar - yeah it must have been banana then, he'd certainly had a lot more banana that avocado when I think about it. He was a bit more cooperative today, he kind of let me put the food in his mouth after lots of over enthusiastic encouragement and me opening my mouth and making chomping noises to get him to copy me (oh the shame ). He had a bit of rusk with milk for breakfast and at dinner time had quite a bit of greek yoghurt with mango puree, whilst dh was doing the open mouth thing!
Well, he had a 'meltdown' a while ago as he was overtired cause his afternoon nap wasn't long enough, he's now asleep on dh's knee and dh has fallen asleep too... wish they'd wake up so he can be put to bed!
J20 - glad you're both feeling better , good luck with the quitting smoking, when I actually did it I found it a lot easier than expected after the first week or so and wondered why I hadn't done it earlier.
well, thats it, i'm gonna see if I can bring them round a bit.
Hello to everyone I haven't mentioned.
Catch ya soon

Polar - glad Zoe was ok last night. Anya does the same during the night - I know she wakes up but she just has a little conversation with herself and smacks the cot bars a few times before going back to sleep.

Muppet - sounds like Jo Jingles was a bit overpowering! I think there's one near us but I've not been, though I go to a Surestart thing on a Tuesday where we do nursery rhymes and actions, which Anya loves. They've just moved to a bigger centre though and there were loads more people today so it took about 20 minutes to do the 'welcome song' because we have to sing it to every baby in turn! (What's a phoneme?)

J2O - glad you and Shannon are both better. Good luck with stopping smoking. Are you going cold turkey or using patches etc?

My parents have had Anya all afternoon, so I've got loads done . They're having her on Friday too so by the weekend I should be mega-organised. Good job as dh is away for the weekend playing rugby fives (that's a very minority sport).

Goodnight all, sweet dreams.
x

Hi everyone

Anyasmum, great news on Anya (can't remember if have already said that!) and well done with the work you've got through. Smug emoticons indeed!

Dal, re Dylan's eating, well he's just 6 months, isnt he? so I don't suppose it matters if he has phases where he doesnt want to eat much. He'll be just fine!

Muppet, I've been to Jo Jingles. It was fun! Very noisy, but fun.

J20, good luck with the smoking! Good way to save money.

Polar, glad Zoe's sleep has improved.

Can't remember what others have said... I am slowly becoming the kind of parent I didn't think I would be. I thought I would be a bit uptight, nervy, anxious about everything, insisting on lo being in her cot, on bottles by six months. Instead I find myself increasingly co-sleeping as the only way to survive her bad sleep habits (as soon as she is pulled in beside me she gives a big sigh and goes off to sleep. On her own she marauds endlessly) and unable to do controlled crying and utterly unbothered, really, by it all. Funny how parenting changes you! Next I'll be running a marathon or something - well, maybe not.

Lisa, how's Ben doing?

Hope you're all okay!

lol choc, its amazing how your perspective changes isn't it? i woved dd1 would not be introduced to sweet till she was a few years old, yeah right!

Shannons being a little sod in a morning, waking up about 5 and crying till i put her dummy back in, then shes ok for a bit, she keeps waking dd1 up though, so for some of the time, she'll keep her entertained!

i was going cold turkey for the stopping smoking, well, i was having half a cig here and there, from mon night though, i haven't had one at all, used a patch yesterday and today, and also eating more!

oh i can't remember what everyone else said, again, sorry. hope you are all ok xx

J20 -good luck with the giving up smoking, whatever way works for you put the money you'd spend on fags in a pot and watch it pile up nicley. Treat yourself with the cash you've saved.

Choc -I know what you mean, there are so many books to read about the 'right' way to parent. I've relaxed so much more with Henry than I ever did with Ollie. -even thinking about having a third!!! (Dh is coming round to the idea ) If co sleeping works for you -great! If that's what you want to do -great! I am a definite advocate of 'whatever gets you through the day...'

Anyasmum - a phoneme is smallest phonetic unit in a language that is capable of conveying a meaning, as the m of mat and the b of bat in English. They also learn digraphs, blends ect so a tambourine is really piss easy lets face it!

Am having major panics at the mo as I'm trying to get the house ready for Sat/sun. Not looking forward to having the family trash the house on sat, in fact not looking forward to having the family round full stop. (Dh's not mine) Deep breaths, deeps breaths.....

I have arranged with dh that once the Il's + sisters have arrived we are off to the local supermarket to do the food shopping and then I'll leave a chilli out for them but we're off out to dinner. Sounds awful but they really stress me out and don't seem to listen to me, what I want to do with MY children so the best thing is to not be around really. I am going to get Henry ready at my dads as he lives where we are having H Christened and then we'll walk to the church. Yep, MIL is gunna hate this as she won't be walking into church with him and I've already told dh that if H is unsettled in the service that he needs to keep his mother under control and not bug me as she did with Ollie (He screamed the place down and all she kept saying was 'give him to me, pass him over, are you sure you don't want me to have him?' )

Rambling I know but not looking forward to it at all. I didn't realise it was the bank holiday weekend and I'm hoping they go on the sun night so we can have a family day on Mon....

muppet - I think you will find, if you think really hard, that you already have an invitation out to meet some friends on Monday, seeing as its the bank holiday and all, so you're very sorry but you won't be around to see in the in-laws on the monday, and as you have to be out first thing in the morning and you don't want to disturb them, that they will have to leave on the Sunday night.....

If you see what I mean

christening sounds stressful, but it will be worth it!
Bet Henry will look really cute!
Pictures please.

Anyasmum - really glad Anya is doing so well.
Hello to everyone else.

Not much going on here. DH cousin is coming over with her twins and husband for lunch..... feels like a sunday!

Our day out at London Zoo was perfect, esp as the weather was amazing.

My mum is back next week... yiiippeeeeee!!

ps... Its Mine. I managed to work out how to change my name at long last!

LOL choc, I am with you, there are so many things I thought I wouldn't do or would do differently, giving Zoe a dummy for one but I have found that there are times when I will do anything for some extra sleep or a bit of piece and quiet!! I had an awful night with Zoe last Thursday night she woke at 1am and wouldn't go back to sleep, we had a friend staying with us and DH and him were sitting up talking so I sent Zoe down to them and she chatted to them till almost 3am I thought I might as well get some sleep if they were up anyway! I always said I wouldn't get Zoe up if she woke! (felt great for having the sleep though )

J20 good luck with giving up smoking, I am sure its not easy, especially with your day starting at 5am!!! Muppets idea of saving the money and treating yourself is great you might as well enjoy the money

Muppet - hugs to you I hope that you enjoy Henry's Christening and that your MIL backs off and lets you do things your way. Sometimes you just have to put yourself and your own feelings first and if they wont listen to what you want then I think you are doing the right thing by just getting off side. Congrats for talking DH round on the third child

Hi all

Am back and a little calmer....
The house is spotless and I'ce said to dh that the dogs can stay downstairs till mon as the stairs are always the first to look manky. We have our living room on the second floor and all the toys have been sorted and tidied away behind the sofa so you really can't see them and, for once, I can honestly say it looks immaculate!!! Closing the door and not letting anyone in there!!!

Strawberry - I do seem to remember we agreed to meet our friends for a day out on mon....thanks for reminding me!

Polar - DH suddenly said he was coming round to the idea of dc3 but only if we have roughly the same gap as Ollie and Hen so it's not for a while but at least he's said yes!

Mine -Will indeed put many pictures on my profile!!! (and also ones of me with straight hair and fringe!) Glad you're mum's back soon, I know how much you've missed her x
How are you feeling at the mo?

Do you remember a while ago we were in alickle as to whether to go to dh's auntie's 50th birthday party in Austria? Well, I don;t think I updated you....

MIL was bugging us and bugging us as to whether we had booked flights and kept telling us of great deals she had found. Dh and I had talked some more and decided that he was going to go but the boys and me were not. He hadn't plucked up the courage to tell her and we didn't. IL's came down for Ollie's birthday and then MIL told us that FIL was waiting for a Drs app and Austria was now on hold!!!!!!

and
thank god we didn't book 3 flights, book a hotel for 2 nights and get the boys passports done......

But [relievedemoticon] that we don't have to go and that it's her who's the called it off!!

ahem that should read 'pickle' not 'lickle'