Feb 06 - ......Meh.

[Phoenix]

Hello EPPM

Feel free to rock Flame.
Are you feeling any better?

DS is still up

I'm going to hate this advent calendar....first year for a while that I've had choc ones, and ds has spent all morning asking for chocolate.

DD actually said (when tucked up in bed, and I was about to leave) 'I'm not going to bed Mama- I'm going to get up NOW!' because she thought she'd get to do the next window!

I swiftly told her there would be NO calendar opening without good sleeping first mean mummy.

Our isn't chocolate... we DH saw the playmobil one and was besotted-he claims it's a long-term investment

Lol @ "long term investment"

We do choc before bed, so they have to not squabble during dinner to get it

I wanted a playmobil one, but will have to wait til next year.

Oh, and the cold is much better Jas... now just want to be sick with period pains from hell. I don't remember the last time they were this bad

Well, FLame.... you can have 9+ months without them soon....

I was thinking that this is my body trying to cram in all the pain at once . I have taken 2 co-dydramol, have a wheat bag, and it is now a fairly strong ache

We got the playmobil one cos it was half price last Jan Ds2 has that. And ds1 got the lego one, cos we get that half price anyway.

Poor you Flame. Do more exercise, that helps pain Actually, wondering why you havent just sent your pain vibes my way luke you ususally do!!

One each????
Pah- mine will be sharing at that price! (we always had too, and ours was just a picture one...and there were 4 of us- thats how you learn to take turns!)

Tell us that again when you have a 2 y/o and a 5 y/o

Morning,

I'm fine ta EPPM

Ds spent yesterday looking up at his advent calendar (it's high up on the fireplace) saying 'i see number 2' today he's saying 'i see number 3' My answer is you're not having another chocolate til tomorrow

I think I tried to make the dds share the advent calendar one year....it didn't go well

I introduced the no chocolate one the next year.

I wonder if I can persuade the dds they are too old next year and just buy the playmobil oner instead....

I have failed to buy 24 small pressies to go in dd's wooden calendar, so she has a choc one that my friend bought her at the weekend. We didn't open it yesterday, so she got 2 pieces of choc before school today.

Dh in Dublin now, so am coping alone with the dc. Just wish that I could put ds down when he's napping. My other thread suggests I could be holding him for a very long time!

I think even without being ill, you've had enough to do just looking after everyone, not to worry about the wooden advent calendar.

I'm off to find other thread....

This may sound daft csws, and is obviously not a solution, but do you go to parent and toddler type things with dd?

The only time I felt I got a break from dd2, and time to play with dd1 was at toddler group, where there are always broody mums and friendly grandmas to hold the baby (who will of course go to sleep instantly to disprove the claim that she cries all the time)while you get to give dd attention.

Have you tried homestart?

Csws - that vtech lulaby thing you linked to on your sleep thread is what i have for Lewis. He still needs it to go to sleep now. He has one at my mums too for when he sleeps there. And when he wakes up in the night he puts it on himself to get him back to sleep . No other advice though. for you.

CSWS- it does sound pretty grim
Is it worth considering a hammock?

We only do a couple of toddler groups now Jas, and there haven't been many volunteers to hold ds, but it's more at home that I'd value the help anyway, and overnight to be able to lay comfortably.

If a hammock guaranteed to work then I'd get one EPPM, but it's expensive for an experiment which could fail.

I put him down to sleep for over an hour this afternoon. He had been up a good stretch beforehand so was suitably knackered!

Is 8pm too early to go to bed?!

CSWS- hope you're in bed! I know what you mean about the hammock- I am humming and hawwing...they are expensive, but I am thinking of all the hours I held DD upright after feeds....and how much sleep I missed out on....

I will come to your house and hold him for you csws.
Really.
Just let me know if you want me to...

Do homestart operate by you? Someone to cuddle ds while you have a bath/nap/tidy up is exactly the kind of thing they do.

I've no idea if a hammock would work....my brother had one and my nephew loved it, but their new baby doesn't.

Likewise the musical thing.

I just got used to it with dd2 I think

DS is still a nightmare skleeping now....I've just put him into bed after he fell asleep in my arms downstairs.

4 hours of variations on bed and cot and jumping on dd2 have failed.

He's ill still right now, but I've no confidence that things w3ill improve when he is better.

Thankfully, dp is at home, so I didn't have to wake ds for the school run this am. He slept until 9

Not looking forward to tonights performance...

Hope you have a better bedtime tonight Jas.
Took me over 5 hours to settle ds last night, so hoping I do too! Have ordered an Amby for delivery tomorrow as I can't cope with the prospect of another night the same. Am praying for it to be a miracle cure.

Will be attempting bedtime at 8ish again. Just got hysterical (overtired) ds off to sleep on my lap, swaddled up, so it already has some similarities to last night.

Dd is thankfully going to bed well, although generally requiring attention at least once a night. She has gained some more molars over the last few weeks whilst we've been too busy to really notice.

Oh dear, ds now screaming again.

Oh CSWS - I wish you were closer An hour away from me and I would be there to do all the holding in the world for you, but I really can't do you and back in a school day!!

Ooh, would be great if you were all close enough to share the load.
Just discovered that Corrie is on til half past, and am seriously debating whether that's too late or not .