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APRIL 2008 - The One Where They Try to Escape from Cots & Highchairs

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Soph73 · 13/11/2008 15:38

Can someone please add "our babies" as my machine will probably blow up if I try it

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scorpio1 · 24/11/2008 19:52

Peachy

Hi Ellie

EllieG · 24/11/2008 19:55

Hey scorpio

scorpio1 · 24/11/2008 19:57

new pics

OOOh ellie, work. did you like it? DH said to me 'what will you do tomorrow'?

Errr have my first 2 hours of total quiet for 7 months!

EllieG · 24/11/2008 20:00

2 hours to yourself...wonderful

Work was great! I talked to this little boy about who he wanted to live with and he told me he didn't want to see his Dad cos he tried to kill his Mum with a chainsaw
I thought that was fair enough really in that case, I think I might be a bit nervy of my Dad if that were the situation!

scorpio1 · 24/11/2008 20:02

oh yes, me too, lol! (hope it was just lol and not serious - you never know!)

EllieG · 24/11/2008 20:06

Fab photos!

Right, DSD's 10th birthday tomorrow so must go wrap presents

scorpio1 · 24/11/2008 20:07

everyones birthday is in november! See you soon!

EllieG · 24/11/2008 20:08

No his Dad really did that when the Mum left him, I read the report. Is very sad but he is fine now

OMaLittle · 24/11/2008 20:41

Hello girls

Gorgeous pics, Scorpio, Mimi is SO cute and really looks like you as both my girls are the spit of their Dad. Have a good morning tomorrow, relish every minute!

Ellie, I would put in a bid for South London but we're currently thinking of moving too! Feels like such a big decision where DD1 goes to school. I don't feel ready to move out of London, but... I don't know. Maybe Brighton. Anyone know it? Am sure you would cut a dash in Cheshire, showing all those fake bakers the timeless glamour of natural beauty. That is awful about that poor boy. So amazing that you are back helping people on day 1! Have huge respect for your job.

DD2 is also going to nursery next Tues am (and from then on) mainly so I can try and get on top of the housework - we just seem to have clothes everywhere all the time! Thank god I have abandoned my eco credentials and don't have nappies to wash this time.

Denny am sure you look fab. Very brave going into changing rooms with any pre-kids mates! Good about DH realising. I think mine too is gradually cottoning on - I think it's been two separate things that I've been doing every night and also looking after them all day every day and he hasn't connected them but this morning for the FIRST TIME he thanked me for not waking him up in the night. I accepted his thanks for last night, and the 200 or so others (and that's just DD2!!).

Peachy, hope things are getting better. Can't believe Bas is standing! He's such a super-baby. DD2 is crawling now, mainly backwards but she can get pretty much everywhere she wants (after a wiggly fashion, and a few 'BUT WHY IS THE TOY GETTING FURTHER AWAY?' tantrums false starts).

TSC, holiday was in Lanzarote. It was amazing, weather was great, had a Toyota Prius and used 17 euros of petrol in 12 days! Shame that was about £15 by the end of the holiday!! Ear is fine now though hearing and balance both intermittently a bit off. Flight back didn't even hurt! How was your trip to Malaysia? Bet your flight was more fun than ours - DD2 was DETERMINED to stay awake and flirt with old ladies (arching her whole body around me in order to scan for potential targets) even though she'd been awake for 10 hours straight and couldn't keep her eyes open or uncrossed. Hence I spent most of the flight bobbing up and down in front of the delighted customers who'd paid extra for legroom seats!

Other big news is am going back to work in Jan. DH's job is looking really shaky and it just seems silly not to go back (even though I HATE it). Fingers crossed I'll get made redundant and then we can, erm, wing it. Actually feel not too bad about it as I think it's been weighing on my mind knowing it's what I really ought to do.

Have good evenings, all. Spooks then maybe a cheeky Sopranos (our newest box set addiction) for us. Fancy a glass of wine but I suspect all we've got in is the Strongbow my sister bought for last Christmas on special offer (DH has drunk 21 of 24!)

GoodDaysAndBadDays · 25/11/2008 09:04

scorpio can you tell me what your ebay name is so I can search for your Wii fit?

DH and I been trying to get hold of one....

Denny Hope you really didn't mind us 'GOKing' you......you looked fab on the Sat night out...... I'm sorry you found it stressful.

Luckymummy

scorpio1 · 25/11/2008 09:27

you can email me if you like at stephaniematthews943 at btinternet dot com

OMG @ jezza kyle this morning!

EllieG · 25/11/2008 09:36

Mornin' all

DD has a cold again boo. Either that or she is teething. Has snotty nose, temp or 39.3 degrees and is grumpy. Eating OK though. She slept through again last night though, which makes 3 nights in a row! Woo!

DSD had good morning (10th birthday) we got her a digital camera - I managed to find a really good deal on one on amazon which is a good camera, just older model, for 35quid! Was chuffed with that as got good reviews and easy to use.

scorpio1 · 25/11/2008 09:38

Sounds good Ellie happy birthday to dsd! Woooooohoooo at sleeping baby Mimi was up and down last night, poor thing was a bit snotty and it kept making her cough, she is fine today though

EllieG · 25/11/2008 09:42

I think they do it deliberately. They sense when you need sleep and are at your most vulnerable.....

DD has started only going down for half hour naps now too, which is annoying. I am experimenting this morning with keeping her up a bit longer in the hope that will make her sleep more when finally goes down.

EllieG · 25/11/2008 09:44

Bloody hell she's just woken up! Half an hour exactly! Don't know how she does it. I guess my experiment didn't work then. Oh well.

TheShipsCat · 25/11/2008 10:05

I dreamt about you last night Scorpio, which is weird. We went shopping together on a cruise. Lovely pics!

A is at nursery today. Its so odd not having her here.

Oma - congrats (?) on going back to work. Its terrible that you hate it, but it might be nice to have some time back to yourself...Glad you had a good holiday. Brighton is lovely, my brother used to live there, but he had to move because the sea gulls were really getting him down . (too noisy!) Bristol is meant to be really good too - not great for a commute though... I'd put in a vote for Ipswich, if I could think of one good thing to say about it - (apart from the fact we live here, of course). The rest of Suffolk is lovely though, but yes, it's really hard leaving London.

Denny, great news that DH noticed that 3 kids can be hard work!

VictorianSqualor · 25/11/2008 12:38

Ellie, With DS we started by making his cot somewhere for 'quiet time' rather than enforcing sleep so he would spend time there a couple of times a day when not tired or too wide awake.
Then I locked myself away with him for a week and watched his sleep cues so I could put him down at the exact moment he was tired and he magically just started sleeping in his cot for naps, no fuss.
It wasn't so easy with night times but be started by changing his last full feed of the day and moving his bedtime forward, so where he was previously going down at 7 straight after a feed I'd give him a full feed at about 5ish, bath, small feed, talking to him during the feed so he didn't nod off and then put him to bed awake, read a story, leave the room (all by 6pm)
The first few nights were horrific, I may as well have camped outside his door because every time I put him down within five minutes he would cry and I didn't want tears so I'd run straight up. Then I'd shh/pat him until he was calm, put him back down ad infinitum.
Within about a week he cracked going to sleep by himself, then it was just stopping the night wakings. Most of which automatically fell into place but I have been doing the withdrawal of feeds if he demands in the night so I'll give him enough just to calm him down, then sit him over my shoulder and pat his back (like winding) to make sure he is semi-awake when he goes down.
Last night he fell asleep on me at 5:30! He woke for a small feed at 3:45 and slept through til 7am.

Scorpio, haven't seen JK yet, I was doing my thang at the children's centre but it is sky+'d was it good?

MommyHasaHeadache · 25/11/2008 17:41

Hello all - very envious of all of you that have cracked the sleeping through the night thing! Will have to try what you did VS - hope it works on my very hyper baby!

OMa - thanks for the link to that article - very interesting reading, and funnily enough I have just (yesterday) been diagnosed with migraine associated vertigo. I've been given medication for it which should either reduce the episodes or get rid of them altogether - so fingers crossed! Glad you had a good holiday - sounded like you really needed it. Sorry to hear you are having to go back to work in Jan - I'm thinking I might have to start looking sooner than I would like - DH also thinks his job is looking shaky. Damn this financial climate!

Goodness Ellie - that poor little boy. It makes me so sad hearing these stories. I met a CM at a baby group last week who looks after this one year old boy twice a week. He lives with foster parents now as he was just left in the cot for the 1st 6 months of his life, and as a result of that is now a little behind.

scorpio1 · 25/11/2008 18:31

It would appear i have serious man flu. Feel very sorry for self.

chipmonkey · 26/11/2008 00:26
OMaLittle · 26/11/2008 08:31

11 till 7.30!!

Am a New Woman.

Scorpio, hope you feel better.

OMaLittle · 26/11/2008 08:59

Must share a good food - green lentils and sweet potato pureed with butter and cheese (and the water from steaming the sweet potato). She loves it on its own and also sucking it off toast. Just made it up because I cooked the lentils then they tasted bitter and pasty so I added the wilting sweet potatoes in the cupboard and the butter and cheese.

Meant to say, LittleRascal, am SO humbled by your messy play! Give yourself a huge pat on the back. (Also made me quite hungry, I love custard.)

scorpio1 · 26/11/2008 09:57

I am very snotty, oh the glamour

OMa So pleased for you and the sleeping!! . Sorry that you have to go back to work if you really don't like it...could you go PT, or do something else, in the same area just nicer for you? (Sorry am bit naive about grown up jobs )

DH did weekly shop, school runs etc. Good!

PeachyAndTheSucklingBas · 26/11/2008 13:39

sleeping babies? ds4 did 9 until

  1. Bummer

LOL

he still feeds enough at night that I have as yet not had a period. That's a Good Thing in my book!

VictorianSqualor · 26/11/2008 13:41

DS2 was up lots last night but he is poorly. So is forgiven.

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