For the 8th time...............May Babies!

[egypt]

well hello

i'm here spots. so its a leap pad not leopard as i was thinking you were all misspelling ! what is it though?

I am mooching too.

looking on ebay for it. gad i really have missed something here havent it?!

do u actually use toothpaste!? and after last bottle dd is about zonked, there's no way i could clean her tooth. i did read somewhere that when they just have the 1 or 2 to wipe it with a muslin cloth

Egypt, Really? I hope so as we haven't been cleaning DS's teeth just yet . . . I feel so rubbish at this parenting malarky sometimes.

thank goodness someone is the same. i hark on about only giving dd water as i dont want to rot her teeth with juice and here i am never having cleaned the darn thing. only a week old mind.. but even so.. you're not a rubbish parent libb

Thank you Egypt, I think I am just having one of my "oh gawd, what am I doing?!" moments. How is your dad?

you are very thoughtful libb. he is fine thank you. feeling absolutely back on track apart from a bit of indigestion , which is totally unrelated i am sure. he keeps popping in work which is naughty as he's on the club until end of month. suppose its good that he feels like he can. anyway, how are you feeling about your grandad?

Well I've mainly been cleaning them with a soft toothbrush and a TINY bit of baby toothpaste (Macleans Milk Teeth I think) - haven't been very accurate and is only in there for seconds, but I don't rinse so I'm hoping the toothpaste just sitting in the mouth will help!

I clean them just before his morning nap, but like yours egypt, he's zonked after his last feed. I'd been feeling guilty about not doing it and waking him up slightly this week to try and clean them, but he's not particularly happy about that. Dunno what's best really.

BTW, I'm sure I remember a friend of mine's mum laughing at us with ds1 because apparently the advice then was to start cleaning them by the time they were 2 years old!

I figure I'm just trying to get him used to it so it becomes routine before he gets into the tantrumy stage, tbh...

I am pleased to hear about your Dad, he sounds like mine though. Won't do as he is told and wants to take it all on! My dad is a law unto himself.

Not too bad about Grandad, the thought that he is now Grandma outweighs anything that could make us feel sad. Dad went through his old photos and produced a dvd of their life. We also have diaries dating back to 1939 that Grandma wrote - some amazing stuff in them. My faviourite was 1963 when the diary advised young mums that so long as the baby was fed and clean then everything else would take care of itself! She did write some funny stuff though, my personal favourite was the entrant on the day Dad was born, "its another boy." Nothing else at all!

Blimey, ramblerama! sorry . . .

hmm me neither, and never considered the morning nap clean.....or the afternoon one. oh blimey. what a HASSLE! i think they shouldnt be allowed teeth until the can do it themselves.....and squeeze paste onto the brush too

Casmie, that sounds like great advice about the tantrum stage

Oooo no egypt - I'm not doing it because of nap times, and I CERTAINLY don't do afternoon nap! No, it's before morning nap, because it's routine - after breakfast (which is when I clean my teeth in the mornings too) and it saves extra walking up and down stairs .

sorry libb posts crossed and i then missed it. that is so lovely about the dvd and diary. i wish there were something like that from my grandparents lives. bless

no worries Casmie, I have decided to do a similar thing - not an epic but just little notes and stuff I have come across. Last week DS had his buggy docorated with stickers by one of his "birds" at the childminder's. I have taken them off and put them on the relevant page! sad old duffer that I am!

what have you decided to do libb? think i missed something.

do u take loads of photos btw? i take hundreds and my mum is even worse, but i don't understand mil....who has taken none, except the day dd was born. weird

right, must get to bed....dh thinks he's on a promise and it is getting late.

oh cripes got names mixed up again. I am really really sorry, Egypt I called you Casmie - I think I am losing the plot. I have been polishing my brass candle holder and think the fumes have hit me at last!

Good night, my DS has just gone up but I am too awake. Speak to you soon xxx

heh, just logged on and found I missed all the chat!! hey ho... the toasters and footspas send their love... Off to bed too now.

morning! a very tired mummy here! lucas did go to bed at 6.30 and i didn't follow much later BUT he woke at 5.30 and scared me a bit with his cough that wouldn't end! i had to check if he wasn't throwing up anything - luckily nothing!
but hohum, that was it for me. tried him in our bed but he wouldn't have that either - he was just plain hungry!!!! - so up we got sigh
lucas is back in bed now hmmmmm

so - who opened the chatterbox
spots: very cute storie about your duet
and so sporty!! your running. where do you get the energy from????

plan today is to go babyswimming! depends completly if mummy and daddy can keep their eyes open

Morning!

I'm in shock. Both children slept in! Well, ds1 woke up at 7.20am and ds2 slept until nearer 8. As they've been waking nearer 6 for weeks now it was such a refreshing change (confess to panicking a bit when I realised ds2 hadn't woken up by 7.30 though!!)

plan for the day is to go to Homebase to compare kitchen prices. Think I'm sold on the MFI one though, so unless the price differential is astronomical don't want to drag the kids around too many more shops. Probably should be a good mummy and doing some "proper" activity with them though You know it's bad when your eldest starts jumping up and down and saying "WOWEE! We're going to HOMEbase!"

you are soooooo lucky georgina.....and getting a new kitchen! i saw a kitchen i loved in mfi too. very rustic oak. but then my dad who has fitted one billion kitchens said he's never buy an mfi kitchen as they are cr*p. hmmm, sorry, dont want to sway your decision but apparently the units are so

dd was a nightmare last night. she woke at 8,11,12 - awake until 1 where i gave up and put her in her pram in front of the washing machine again...slept until 730. might as well just put her to bed in it in the first place. must admit, i have put her in her cosytoes from the pram in her cot, with her radiator off and just a sleepsuit on for 2 nights and she slept much better. do u think this is asking for trouble or should i just do it and eventually wean her off it? then at least she is sleeping in her room.

i mean casmie - ooops, sorry, can't stop thinking of you as g