Oct 2007; This Little Piggy Rolled & Crawled to Market, This Little Piggy Walked Home

[FloriaTosca]

I hope I manage to do this right...I'll kick everything off with a roll call if it does.

Hope you find the website helpful Dal.

What a horrible fright you must have had WWAJC!! I am glad she was ok.

York sounds nice alice - not sure I fancy the train with two wee ones either though.

DH been away all day today so I am a bit bored. Most exciting moment of my day was going to Tesco.

Ah Dareh just woke up rats.

Ohhh he's so smart! I just went in to check him and give him his blanket and he just stopped crying! Didn't even start up again when I left the room! That is unbelievable.

He's been a nightmare with his food lately. He just keeps spitting it out, it is very annoying.

Those of you who are breast feeding - how many feeds are you doing now? I am trying to get down to two a day. He has been on four. Trying to cut out the afternoon one right now.

Inzi - wow, can't believe Jane's saying all those things and getting toys on request - that's amazing! What a clever girl.

Took Anya to a party yesterday - some friends of mine are emigrating to Malawi of all places! There were a couple of other babies there about Anya's age - can't believe how extrovert Anya is in comparison - she's so ballsy she goes to investigate strange babies and puts her face right up against theirs - exactly the same as headbutting her own reflection in a mirror - not sure other babies (or parents!) are that impressed though. She shrieks to join in conversations and she flirts mercilessly with anybody who looks at her for more than a couple of seconds. And that's before we've got to trying to pinch things off tables (magazines, wine glasses) and finding handbags to peer in. Don't think this phase is going to pass very soon!

oooh have skimmed as i'm packing for tommorrow and been out all day with my dad and his wife in whitby(my dads decided to make an effort-he has spurts of them, not that i mind either way, quite enjoy having 'daddy' pay for stuff for a change!)

WWaJC-hahaha at Anya, cheeky monkey, I'd love to see a baby come up to Shannon and do that, she tried to crawl to a little boy in the swimming pool but it was too deep and she got really mad.

Alice-do yuo think choc's coming? i will see what he wants to do, he'll have his mate with him so he should be fine for me to leave him after so long, do you live far from where we're staying? we're hoping to get there early tommorrow so we can do a bit of shopping too, i will text you my new number in a bit.

Inzi-how clever is Jane??!!!! Shannon says lots, but most of it is intelligible.

Choc-belated happy birthday!!! are you coming on Wed? are you coming on the 2nd Sep too?

damn, better go get sorted, hi to everyone xxxx

Wow Inzi I can't believe Jane is doing all those things! Dareh isn't doing anything like that yet. All he wants to do is spit out his dinner which is driving me nuts.

After me thinking that Dareh was super smart with the sleep he was a bit rubbish last night! He woke up a lot but I didn't feed him - really want to be consistent. DH looked after him today for two hours so I could nip out to a meeting and when I got back he said that what I do is harder than what he does and if he had to do that all day he couldn't cope!

Hi everyone

I didn't realize there was a meetup on Sept 1/2nd - must have missed the discussion while away. I can't make it anyway - inlaws coming.... (sad emoticon).

J20 - I am going to Alice's on Weds. She lives about three miles from where you're staying - easy to get there on the metro or I guess we could meet you in town, might be easier...? Alice??

Inzi, can't believe Jane either.

Stefka, R has three breastfeeds a day - morning afternoon and before bed. Otherwise she has water. Well done with the sleep training!

White wine, I can so imagine Anya doing that!!! How funny!

Am of LLL and her holiday at the mo....

Can't remember what others said but am too hot and need to tidy up so more soon!

Hi all!
Inzi -that's fab! Jane is doing so well, Henry doesn't do half of that but can at least clap on demand! He's doing a lot of mum mum mum bab ba da da at the mo which is a step forward from Ollie who didn?t say anything till he was 2 (then didn?t shoosh after that!) He's also in 12-18 and, on occasions 18-24 months clothes so he does big well he is rolling now (wehay...) sits up until he throws himself back and then that is most definitely the end of that and LOVES his older brother -the feeling is mutual between them I am so lucky.

Dh completed the 1/2 marathon which was fab. He was exhausted and didn?t do it in the time he wanted but at least he finished and he wasn't last by a long shot. We had friends to stay last night and went out for dinner (2 nights in a row -get us!) then we all went to Warwick castle which was fab.

Choc-i'm in car so could drive...but never been on metro..so may be something to try, i don't mind either way, I've got no kids, so it'll be easier for me to travel than the 2 of you.

gutted that you can't make the 2nd! who is definately coming then???

hoops, sorry i ignored everyone else

stefka-well done, you're doing really well being consistent, keep it up

muppet-well done to DH!! glad you had a lovely day

Inzi Jane is doing so well! Can't believe all she can do esp the stuff she can say. think you deserve a big proud mummy moment!

Choc and J2O have texted you both about wed - looking forward to seeing you both!

Muppet haven't used hugabub for a while although did take it to York on Sat in case Sam needed to sleep in buggy (only took single one). I have an ergo one that I use now - Adam can go on front side or back in it althought the downside is he cant face forwards in it which he really likes. Not getting rid of it yet though - will prob still use it! I also have a hipseat for round the house which is fab.

Struggling to remember what everyone else has said (probably not helped by big glass of wine!!!) but hello and hugs to you all...

We have had a lovely day with some friends of mine from uni who popped in for lunch - they live in London but were up visiting a few people for the weekend. Then the usual park and caffe nero fest - we need to get some imagination and start doing more exciting stuff! Honestly though we have to walk through park on way to caffe nero and if you ask Sam if he wants to go to the park he says 'no I want to go to cafe nero!!!!!' Straight up! We have him well trained

Thanks Choc - I just put Daren on three a day - or I am trying to anyway! I am doing first thing, a mid morning and then bed time. Sometimes he still wants one in the afternoon too though - it depends on what we are doing. Need to get to two a day so I can think about doing some odd days of work. Not going to worry too much until he is one though.

Alice & Choc...not coming to York on Sept 1st? Oh no!!!! So that is no Alice, choc, wwajc or lll!!...that leaves just J20,me and was it Dal?....crickey, either of you want to take a rain check and wait until everyone else is free?

Wow Inzi; Jane really is a bright star!

Stefka; I still feed Alex on demand; at least 3 feeds a day, sometimes 4 or more, and at the moment just 2 feeds overnight but as you know it has been considerably more than that until very recently.

Some one please tell me I'm just being paranoid and over protective...normally my Mum comes to my house to babysit when I teach but this Wednesday she can't make it..so this afternoon I asked my mil (she has come to look after him a few time before)and she said yes, but she wants to do it at her house.... now I'm only going to be occupied from 3.30-4.00,6.00-6.30 and 7.00-7.30 and am perfectly capable of looking after Alex myself between those times..our house is baby proofed and has all the toys and care equipment necessary...when I'm at her house I have to watch him every second to stop him getting into mischief or hurting himself...it isnt that I dont trust her but I dont see what advantage there is in taking him from his normal environment when he isnt used to her, she doesnt approve of my potty regime or cloth nappies and wont use them and he will need a bfand his dinner at 4/5ish and will be getting tired by 7.00 ready for his 8.00 bf & bedtime....am I being over protective wanting her to stay here?

No Floria, You're being sensible and reasonable and practical. She's being irrational by the sound of it. Does she have any special requirements that can only be met at her place??? I'm guessing not. Hope you can get her to see it this way without too much trouble!

Had to get that out of the way, before trying to get a proper message in.

First off - big waves and hellos to you all - and despite recent absences, I'd join in Muppet's thread appreciation, it's been great to have you all here through over the last year and a bit [soppy face]

I have in front of me a piece of paper with scrawled notes on it saying things like (and I quote) 'FT mink. AliceT foot. Muppet - poo sleep over' - Let's hope it all comes flooding back cos it's not making much sense to me right now!

Ok:

Alice - hope your foot is better, and that everything else is good too !!

Floria - smiled and felt for you over the mink incident. Glad the little blighter has gone. We had a family in our back yard a few years ago. They too moved on without intervention.

Inzi - great news about your weight loss. So sorry about the money. I was wondering whether you might be able to take an indirect discrimination angle, in that only women on maternity leave miss out on the redundancy, but it does seem a strange argument when you think about it. I can't believe how advanced Jane is with her talking! Blimey, you're rightly a proud mummy

Choc - Happy Birthday belatedly. Glad Rebecca is showing some signs of improvement in the sleep department. And as to work, I know what you're saying about not having to go in much in the summer, but I've got a vile HoD and I feel I need to show my face a fair bit to avoid trouble, also, if I'm going to be teaching full-time, I actually need to spend quite a bit of time preparing, esp since he's given me a brand new subject this year. Not overly demanding, but will keep me on my toes.

Crochet hope you're having a lovley holiday in gorgeous Tenby. Congrats also on the weight loss. And, I haven't got the full story, but I have managed to gather that you've been having [deliberate understatement] something of a hard time with your sister of late . So sorry to hear that. Well done on going into MandS on your own !

Stef2a Sorry have to keep putting the number lock on to do the bold stars, and forgot to turn it off just now. You were asking about bf'ing weren't you? Huw hasn't fed at night since he was 3 or 4 months. He's now having four feeds a day, pretty much how you described your current pattern. I'm aiming to cut out the lunchtime feed soon. At the mo, I come home from work at lunchtime to feed him, but I'won't be able to do that once term starts. I've already missed that feed a few times, and he hasn't turned a hair. He too is feeding for shorter times that he used to and is easily distracted, but still has a good feed if he needs one.

Muppet I can't decipher my scrawl about you!! I think it might have been 'well done' on the running front, but I can't be sure. I'm v impressed with you. I decided to do my 'couch potato to 5k running plan' again this year. Started last week and have been out three times. Just running a minute, walking 90 seconds at the moment. But I wseem to have injured myself. My knees are in agony. So bad it's keeping me awake at night. (don't worry Inzi, I'm not going to 'run through' the pain). PMSL (in a sympathetic way, of course) at the poo in the tent fiasco - you poor thing! Sorry about the inlaws and the endr... oh god, my brain has gone to fuzz and I can't for the life of me remember the order the next syllables ocme in, but you know what I mean. Where's this fabulous running shop btw??

J2O - about your trip away being a bit of a disappointment. And about Leonie being so difficult at the moment. It's bloody hard being a mum sometimes. I'd second what the others ahve said about trying to find some time for her. I know it's probably easier said than done, but even just special small things you could do when the baby is asleep might help. Good luck with her.

WWJC I've got 'not old' written down! I too would rather be home early, or even just not out in the first place! Maybe we are old, but wtf, it's great ! PMSL at the regurgitated fly!

Dal - are you pg???? Dying to find out. So sorry to hear about yoru horrible expreience when you wree younger. Glad to hear you and your dh are up for it now ! does that come across as insensitive? I'm too tired to tell at the moment. Apologies if it did.

Big hellos to everyone I've not mentioned! Blimey, I'm too exhausted to tell you what we've been up to. I'll try to get on for a post tomorrow.

take care all x

HI all

Apricottle - Good to hear from you! Great news on the running you sound like you have a good plan and more experience than me, hopefully the injury should clear up as you're taking it steady. The fab running shop is 'run' in swindon. They have the treadmill and camera so can film you running and then assess your style to find the best shoe for you.

Alice - I think I'm going to have a look at other slings as Henry still loves it and I'm feeling so much more brave about going out for days out. My world is slowly getting bigger again!

Floria - Is your MIL just trying to make things as easy as possible for you? Maybe she thinks that having Alex in the house will distract you and that having him at hers would help? (Don't know how she is so I may have it completely wrong x) I agree with you that having him at your would be better as everything he needs is there including the potential to bf and cloth nappies. Plus it would be good for her to 'share' Alex with you but have her own special time with him also. Difficult though, as she's doing you a favour. Can you chat with her about it? Is she approachable?

Going to have an 'at home' day today as the house is a bit of tip as we had visitors, we're all tired (friends called for me last night so I went out for a drink -another late night though I only had one drink as I didn't need a hang over!) It's very grey here so I think we'll do the house and maybe go swimming later.

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Apricotle

Wow Apricot - you are a professional when it comes to responding to the thread! Hope you are well.

Floria it makes zero sense to have to take Alex to your MIL to babysit - I don't understand why she can't see that! I would use the breast feeding issue to make her come to you.

DH trying to change a rolling poo nappy - just leaving him too it

Apricot Well done on the epic response to every one post. Thanks for confirming my feelings on the subject of my mil...she is lovely but a bit flakey for my liking as a baby sitter sometimes (on Saturday she had left a porcelain gravy boat on a low table, just where Alex could/and did get it...I rescued it just before he swung it against the table and when I said "he nearly smashed that one!" she just said "no he didnt!" in the tone of voice you would use on a 10yr old making up stories about how they could fly!)and apart from her wanting to have him to herself without me watching over them I can't see any advantage to him going there..if she needs to get housework done she has no means of confining Alex and not even a stair gate (and he has started to find stairs facinating I knew there would be some drawback to living in a bungalow)....now I've just got to think of a polite way of saying thanks for agreeing to babysit but you have to do it here or not at all

Well I was going to respond to everyone myself but Alex has finally achieved his aim of the last week or two and got his hands in the peat of the big fig tree in the living room and now he needs a bath [image of grinning imp with peat in his hair/ears/nose etc etc]....ho hum

I'm here! Just waiting for the chilli to cook, late tea tonight. Will try to catch up with everything a bit later on once i've had tea if I get a chance!

Ps- Don't worry about the boasting, you deserve to, she is very clever after all!

I'm here! Just waiting for the chilli to cook, late tea tonight. Will try to catch up with everything a bit later on once i've had tea if I get a chance!

Ps- Don't worry about the boasting, you deserve to, she is very clever after all!

I am here too - just had one of those days of chaos! Dareh was all grumpy and wouldn't eat and kept trying to get into cupboards and having a strop when I wouldn't let him. He's in bed now thank god but DH is watching this really god awful boring TV show about people who have fallen out with their builders - very dull.

Hi again, don't know why my last post happened twice?

Stefka - lol at the boring builder program, I just caught the end of it. Watching the secret millionaire now.

Floria - Everyone has advised you well on the MIL looking after Alex situation but for what it's worth, no, you are not being over protective and I think it's absolutely the best idea for her to come to yours. Hope you manage to find a way of telling her.

Maybe we should take a rain check on the York meet if there's only going to be 3 of us? Probably be best to organise it when more of us can make it...

WWAJC - Sorry to hear Anya fell off the changing table, I know exactly how you feel, Dylan fell of the bed just before we went to cornwall and I was beside myself, he was fine though. Glad she's ok LOL at her 'eating' a fly! I can't bekieve it's nearly her birthday already, I forget some of the lo's on here are so much older than Dylan, it's still 2 months till his birthday! (30th Oct)

Alicet - Glad you enjoyed your day at the museum in York, sounds like the boys had a good time too. LOL at Sam requesting cafe nero

Inzi - 12-18 month clothes !!! Dylan is just growing out of his 3 -6 month clothes, we've been waiting forever to put him in the 6-9 ones and now he finally fits some of them, they'd look a right pair together! Wow at the words she can say and things she can do, she's so advanced, not surprised you're so proud Dylans latest achievements include doing impressions of Tess the dog where he goes 'ugh''ugh' and shouting 'dada' when dh comes in from work. Today he attempted 'grandad' when we were at pils, it sounded like 'gaanda', grandad was proud as punch.

Choc - Hi, hope the sleep is improving some, I know I say that a lot but I really do sympathise and am willing for you to get more zzz's

Muppet - 12-18 months , 18-24 months ! As I said before, Dylan is still between 3-6 and 6-9 Can you send him here to give Dylan some tips on how to eat better?! Hope you enjoyed swimming today.
Apricotle - Hi! Good to hear from you, pop back and tell us what you've been up to! I'm not so convinced that I might be pg anymore, I don't have as much breast tenderness adn not as much sickness. Also, i've been charting my temperature online in preparation for ttc and according to the chart I ovulated on 22nd aug so I can't be pg if I ovulated can I! If i'm honest i'm slightly disssapointed but happy to wait till Jan when we'll be all sorted, dh feels the same

Thanks everyone for your kind words and support about the thing I experienced when younger, it means a lot.

Well, Dylans room is nearly sorted! Just a few more boxes to move then he can go in there, very excited

Dylan pulled himself up to stand in the bath last night! Strange though as he never even attempts anything like that in the lounge, in fact he doesn't even want to sit for long (even though he can) he'd much rather just commando crawl around playing with his toys.

I put him to bed tonight and then heard some rustling coming through the monitor. I went upstairs to find him cuddling in to my blooming marvellous fold out booklet/leaflet thingy. No idea where he got it? It could have been on the flor near my bed side cabinet but I can't see how his arms are long enough to have reached it?!!! Very strange
Can't really rememeber what else I was going to say, probably remember when i've gone. Hi to everyone i've missed, chat again soon x