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!!!

Hi everyone - just a quick one to say hello and happy easter. hope you all had a great time and happy birtdhay Floria too.

Happy birthday Floria!

Muppet - no way should you give in over Ollie - poor little boy would be lost staying with strangers even if they are related!

Did everyone have a fun Easter? Here it was cold, snowy and largely sleepless. We took R swimming yesterday which was fun - she was initially shocked and then started to smile, which is what happened last time. Going to baby yoga today - off to Alicet's first and DYING to hear all about the meetup - not sure if she took pics. Not so sure about the temperature, though..?!

Have a good day everyone!

Finally found you! Just saying hello so I can add the thread to the ones I am watching.

Not much to report - Dareh's nights are still pretty bad - he was up seven times the other night, last night it was 4 so a bit better for him.

Tried to give him some carrot the other day and he was having none of it. The apple went down well though! He oddly refused a bottle of EBM the other night when I was trying to catch up on some sleep. Very annoying!!

Weaning is hard work - I feel I have so much to learn! And the nappies - ugh!

Hope everyone is well

Just read all the posts since Thurs and the door bell rang so now cant remember the half of it!
Thanks for the birthday wishes I had a lovely day..Mum cooked my favourite dinner; garlic tiger prawn and crusty bread starter and tournedo rossini main, chocolate and seville orange truffle dessert which was supposed to be followed by cheese and biscuits and birthday cake but we were all too stuffed to have any...and I was bought a gorgeous garden bench, lots of plants for my clay soil garden and loads of Lush bath stuff...mmmm one very contented floria here...(even if Dh did find himself driving round half the county to find a shop open on Easter Sunday morning that sold birthday cards, he'd remembered one from himself, just forgot that Alex needed some assistance in getting one!)

Alice; hope the heating is finally sorted...it has been far too cold to be without.

Muppet; at your ridiculous mil.... What on earth is she thinking? Just because she knows them..?...Personally I would have baulked at staying with strangers when I was a teenager let alone when a toddler! If they cant put you all up then Ollie obviously stays with you..as you say "end of!!"

York night out; oh how I wish... but Alex wont take a bottle and sad to say I simply dont trust Dh to either have the patience to doidy cup his last feed properly or even wake at 4am to doidy his night feed ... and as for using the potty in the morning, or worse, changing the new and not so improved contents of his nappies... well... he's been home since Thursday and has avoided the changing mat like the plague! [despairing emoticon]...so I cant see me stopping over anywhere and actually being able to relax and enjoy myself....ho hum...it is only for a year or so of my life, I will be able to go out on the town again one day...Meanwhile really looking forward to the York picnic (in snowsuits) meet up.

PMSL at realisation that the women with two kids are all ready and eager to hit the town, whereas Floria, Anyasmum and I with our PFBs all think our los won't cope without us!

What a lot we have to learn!

However my inability to go out isnt just cos lo won't take a bottle (though she won't) - it's cos I need every precious minute of sleep I can get!!!

oh and am of your meal Floria! yum!

Stefka;Hi.Glad you found us. 4 is better than 7, I dearly hope it is the start of some improvement for you both.
Personally I've found the timing for preparing Alexs meals difficult...not thinking ahead enough...but we are getting into a pattern now that I have got so much frozen in cubes. Alexs favourites are bananaand roasted butternut squash, but he pulls faces at everything new at first including apple and pear which I thought he would love immediately...the community nursery nurse told me that it takes at least 14 attempts at any one food before they really know they dont like a food, so those foods are being tried once a week, regardless of the faces he pulls, for the next 3 months![nasty horrible mummy that I am). Have you tried a doidy cup yet? A bit messy at first until you get the knack, but alex has refused bottled ebm since 9 weeks, wont even have it from a soft mouth pieced feeder cup, but will guzzle it from the doidy no probs (awkward little tyke)Hope you get some peace soon...Choc and the others with sleep deprivation too...

...er... am I the only one who got any benefit from the peaceful sleep document?

hi guys, just a quickie, bloody easter hols, got dd1 here asking me to play with her, god, no internet for 2 weeks cos i've got to give her attention!

pmsl choc, i suppose if you can all bear to leave your los we could just book into somewhere and sleep all night!

oh bugger gotta go, Shannon has woke up

Choc..rofl...you are so right!!
[sheepish grin emoticon]
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but Dh might break him!!!![laughing/genuinely worried emoticon]

We'll just have to have yet another sort of meet up where we can stay out but have the los with us...a sleep over?...or perhaps more accurately a lack of sleep over?...????

Floria your birthday sounds fab and my mouth is watering at the scrummy food!

PMSL at Choc - hadn't noticed that it's only those with 2 up for a night out! I too am a bit more up for sleep at the mo - I figure though that if I have a night away I could have both!!! Understand about those who are bf though - I didn't ahve a night away from Sam until he was nearly 6 months and that was only because it was my sister's wedding and hen night and because he started breast refusing a couple of weeks before then so feeding wasn't an issue. Wouldn't actually have been ready to leave him if it wasn't my sister!

Looking forward to seeing Choc today too... And we have heat! Apparently the boiler had just overheated so he's turned it down plus there was some air in the radiators (despite us bleeding them...) So our house no longer feels like a freezer!

Thanks for all the support... the party's in june so i have from now till then with MIL telling me that she thinks ollie would be fine. I just hate the way she says 'I've told aunty xyz that ollie will be staying with us.' Well, how about asking his parents first? I would never presume anything about anyone else's child! I do apologise in advance for my moanings over the next few weeks as her way is to just keep asking you the same thing over and over and not to listen if you disagree.

Anyway, my next task is to organise Henry's Christening. It's on the 4th May but I haven't sent out invites yet. I have texted, emailed the date so people do know when and where. I'm just going to do sandwiches at our house afterwards as we won't have that many.

I'm glad you had a lovely birthday Mrs Fish, the meal your mum cooked sounds fab!

Alice, I hope you get your heating fixed today.

Choc, I wish you sleep x (lots of I too!)

x posted Alice -good news about the heat, I guess you'll be wearing your bikini all day to celebrate

Sorry Floria!!!! Of course I meant you!

Muppet this MIL makes yours look like a teddy bear!

Am reeling with shock after reading that... Treid to be a little moderate in my response as the OP obviously wants to support her dh reading between the lines but OMG I would rip the limbs from them both if it was me!

lol i'm afraid i'm in the pfb club too, just can't bring myself to even imagine spending a night away yet [wimp emoticon]... off to eat some more chocolate mmmmmmm

just read that other MIL thread... OH MY GOD!

What an evil old bag of a mil! I'm with ladytopmhat (sp?)I'll help hold her down while the op sticks a skewer through whatever part of her anatomy she likes!

Floria - glad your birthday was good - meal sounds yummy. You can always send any uneaten birthday cake this way, I can guarantee it won't go to waste !

lol Choc - hadn't realised that only us first time mums were doubtful about leaving our lo's! But having done it once already I'm not in a rush to do it again just yet! It's too stressful for me, never mind her and dh!

Alice - glad your heating is working again.

Just read the other MIL thread - oh dear god, poor woman (and baby!) Only consolation is baby will be too young to remember and her ears will heal. Can't imagine what I would do if that were Anya though - can't think of anything painful enough .

omg!!!
That MIL is a witch!

wow that MIL is a super bitch.

My god, I would have been so upset and angry, what a complete cow

Anyasmum;so sorry, but the family decended for egg and chips yesterday and demolished it for dessert...it was really scrumptious too, lighter than air sponge and inches of thick fresh delicious cream and....... I'm sure we'll have something at the TC next week to make up for it

Well after reading all that ear piercing thread I'm not going to even think of criticising my MIL ever again.

Watching Alex like a hawk as a friend who visited last week (8 days ago) has just rung to tell me her 8mth old has chicken pox [concerned emoticon]she says that if he isnt showing symptoms after 10 days he should be ok...so fingers crossed for the next 48 hrs.

Floria if I were you I would be taking Alex straight back round to play with the lo who has chicken pox. It's so so much milder when they're little - Sam had it at about 15 months and barely turned a hair. He will get it at some point so might as well be when he's young.

FT-i second what Alice says, dd1 had it a couple of years ago and she was awful with it, the amount of times that i tried to get her to catch it when she was younger as well and then she went and got it 2 days before we went on holiday.

hmm the mil thread i didn't post on although i read it, i had dd1s ears pierced when she was about 14 months old so i would have got shot! although i don't think i'd get Shannon done now and i certainly thought her doing it herself was terrible!

Shannon seems to have her fang teeth coming through first, the slits are there and the lumps, she keeps sobbing as if she is in agony, i don't know what to do with her.

i suppose i'd better go get some sleep while shes asleep, night all.

hello everyone
nothing much to report from the strawberrylace household. We seemed to spend the whole easter weekend eating nice food at different people's houses. It did feel like christmas driving around in the snow though!
hope you are all well....

morning all - still reeling from that mil post......hope you're all well.

We had another rubbish night; have any of the other LO's had wind trouble once they start weaning?? that was our main problem I think.

Floria, I take it the sleep doc is still working for you? any chance someone could email it to me?? [email protected] would really appreciate it, although our difficulty is that I am so tired I can barely feed at night never mind impose routine! why did I not do this sooner??? you think I'd know better second time round! just much, much harder than I thought on my own when DS is still unwell. roll on summer. I might introduce formula at night in the hope of a longer sleep - would that help do you think?? or too much with the solids just being introduced.....aaaaggghhhh!

getting warmer here hopefully - glad the heating's fixed Alice.

have a good day everyone.