Aug 08 - odds on this one won't last as long

[dizzydixies]

new thread ladies

wonder why this one won't last as long

morning all, yum, choccie cake for breakfast! Happy birthday hotpot!! Hope you have a wonderful day with your family

miamla thanks for that link, we watched it whilst eating breakfast - made me all nostalgic for 80s pop NOT!

cyteen love that pic of you + bro, were you a tomboy?

re hormones, I think I can feel something happening in that direction as felt sudden irrational anger about nothing yesterday - how I have not missed that feeling!!!

vg I am seriously considering shabby chic french kitchen now...just took down a load of chicken wire yesterday from old fruit cages, now I have a use for it!

buckets just found your kitchen photo and that's exactly the colour i was trying to describe to VG!

miamla re self settling, I think you have to give them a chance to do it ie not going in to them...what about trying pf's count to 100 before going to him thing? I was going to do that last night as usually I leap up and attend to ds really fast so he doesnt disturb dp and dp had agreed to the count to 100 thing but after 20 secs of ds crying last night dp shouts 'DS is crying - how can I go to sleep!!!'

Self settling - DD used to be really good at this - from about 10 weeks till we went to England last month.
I agree with Simnel you have to give the baby the chance to do it.
I would feed the baby, cuddle her for a minute and then put her down in her cot and go back to bed.
It was magic, no fuss, no bother one sleeping baby.

But since coming back from England its all gone tits up - as you are witness to - ah well, we'll get there again.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOTPOT

TS after all your hard work please make sure you remember to party your ass off at your reunion I'm sure it will be rockin'.

How exciting at all the potential new babies for the August mums (or is it just tragic that I find that exciting?)

Apologies for the misery-me post this morning but I am feeling rather down. TIred after a rubbish night's sleep and woke up thinking ahead to the day with no excitement whatsoever. Knowing that DS will only have a short nap in the morning, leaving me not a minute to myself, let alone be able to settle for any decent sleep later on. And lo, it has come to pass - 30 minutes after being awake for 3 hours. Just enough time for me to have a shower and get dressed, which means the kitchen is still a shit heap from breakfast and when will I get the chance to clear that up? Never mind actually have 5 minutes to do something I actually want to do.

Plus since the weekend I seem to have lost the ability to express any decent amount - was getting 4-5oz regularly before, now it's more like 2oz.

I love my DS to bits but the routine-ness of our days is really tedious. If only he would have longer daytime sleeps, he needs them and I need them too, but he just won't...

hmm, that be a good idea simnel! so do you reckon its better to start doing it with naps or during the night? i think judging by your DP's response i might try during the day when my DP's not here!

Simnel - surely the answer to your DP should be "count to 100 darling"

Cyteen - oh lovey sorry you are feeling pants today. Is it nice enough for a walk later, I know it might not be exactly what you want to do but maybe lil one will sleep and you won't feel the need to entertain. Any nice cafes near you for drink and big slab of something bad for you?

cyteen what's DS like in his highchair? i used to have the same quandary as you ie during his naps do i (a) have a shower (b) clean the kitchen or (c) do something i actually want to do! i've discovered that as long as i'm out there with him, DS will sit in the highchair long enough for me to sort the kitchen out. (i do have to resort to making silly noises and doing silly dances but hey, anything to keep him amused long enough to get the job done). Having a shower has proved to be a bit more tricky when he's awake. If i'm really really quick i can get away with putting him in his cot with a few toys he hasn't seen for a while but he usually gets bored just as i'm putting shampoo in my hair. Hmm i've just had the cunning idea of taking the highchair upstairs to the bathroom
so that leaves just (c) to do when he's having a nap!

x post with Steak! her idea of a slab of something is a great one!

look who i've found!

i am NOT going crazy!! there were bunnies there a minute ago!!!!

simnel yes indeed, I was a tomboy. Being brought up by a lesbian will have that effect although my natural inclination is to scruffiness anyway.

Steaky re. 70s decor, check this pic of my brother's room The orange is amazing!

I miss him so much. In our childhood pictures it is amazing how much we both look like Joe.

miamla- how did you do the circles in your nursery? paint or stivkers?

Miamla he's fine in his highchair as long as you keep giving him food I do generally get kitchen stuff done while he's having a meal (the advantages of BLW!) but feel a bit mean for doing washing up etc. instead of interacting with him in manner of uber-parent. As far as showers are concerned, I have discovered a cunning extra use for the moses basket - sit him in it with a selection of toys - it means he can sit up without fear of wobbling over and I can do whatever it is (shower, hang laundry out ) while still entertaining him with silly walks and soforth.

I think my weekend away has just given me a taste of my old 'just me' self again, and now I want more. Which is fine, it's good actually, we just need to work out the balance

WOW -
Cyteen you are very much in need of some hugs today aren't you - so here you go {{{{{}}}}}

Izzy sends you some baby-milky-sicky-hicuppy ones too {{{}}}

hehe I have done the highchair in the bathroom when I shower! Now I just leave ds to girn in his cot [bad mummy emoticon]

I have been training ds to self settle in the day since he was about 6 weeks old ...cant say he always does it but I rarely need to feed him to sleep in the daytime now. Although have done just that but it's the teeth

yes steaky I should have said that, will try to remember tonight!

steak i drew the bigger ones using a drawing pin and a bit of string with a pencil tied to the end. But i cut out templates for the little ones. actually, if i remember correctly, i had loops at set intervals along the length of string to make sure that if two circles were meant to be the same size, they really were! and then just painted them. for the stripes i just used the edges of the lining paper for one side and a plumb line for the other. hth

cyteen another thing i found that helped dealing with a messy kitchen was for DP to try and sort it out whilst he was looking after DS. He was alot more understanding after

simnel how do you manage the daytime training?

I was a tomboy too cyteen all mudpies ,climbing trees, out on my bike all day, mucking about by the canal getting filthy. If I have a girl I am hoping she will be one too as all that pink stuff is not my cup of tea. Am keeping all ds's clothes for her!!

Being a tomboy was great, I just wanted to be like my big brothers - riding bikes, climbing trees, knees and shins permanently scabbed. Ace!

simnel yes, DP and I have already said that if we are ever expecting a girl we'll have to find a tactful way of asking people not to buy loads of pink crap for us. It does my head in.