Rollin', Rollin', Rollin', Though their gums are swollen, Keep them babies rollin', on't side

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Here we go then

roll up, roll up for the six month food fest.

Better night here, only two feeds at 1ish and 5ish, but at one point bumble was having a real chat to his blankie. DH was on the sofa and said he couldn't figure out who was talking and thought it was DD until he heard me say "shut up bumble". I have no recollection of it

We've given up with the porridge for a bit as it might have been that upsetting his tummy. He's certainly more cheerful now it's cleared his system.

wet and rainy here today

stuck indoors with three tired grumpy children who have been fighting and squealing since they got up......oh joy!!

enjoy your lunch ceebee

I'm going to take some inspiration from This thread and make sock monsters/egg cosies today

Morning Ceebee. The weather here is horrible this morning. All overcast and cold. Looks like a day indoors for us. Just need to pop to the high street to get some Christening invitations for Sumo. He is getting christened on 10 May.

Sumo had some breakfast this morning, loved it . He was obviously ready for solids.

Hope everyone has a lovely day.

morning everyone - it is a boootiful day dan sarf like (said in best mockney accent) Just dropped DS1 off at football camp (4 hours of running arouind like a loon, will do him the World of good!). Bit sad though when I really think about it, once they hit 5, start school and things like football cmap, you really do lose them IYSWIM. Whole little independant World going on He will always be my baby though! It's lovely for him though as lots of his "gang" at school go and he quite literally couldn't wait to meet his friends!

DS2, Tiger and I are off to the gym for a swim. I am still feeling under the weather but it's the ideal time to take them both as not worrying about DS1 drowning (he swims 25m but looks as if he is drowning when he swims, I hate it!)

Hope everyone else is fine and dandy.

Morning, very wet and grey here too. Having a pyjama day today. dd1 watching bedknobs and broomsticks, dd2 on the loo talking to dh who is in the bath and so far today i have cleaned my kitchen cupboards and the fridge out. I only stopped bf a couple of weeks ago but my periods haven't returned either, no doubt they will with avengence.

LB, glad to hear Jay is okay! Lazy larynx - whatever next!

Rosa, poor you wiht clingy baby, what a bugger. A friend of mine had to take her toddler to the loo with her and everything. So far, Fin doesn't seem to mind if I'm not there but I'm beginning to realise that this doesn't mean this state of affairs will continue. He used to sleep through the night, f'rexample...

Hi 5inthegg! It's ace here, glad you could join us.

Hi Dozy, glad you're feeling so much better. Yay antibiotics, eh?

Lacks - OMG, hope DD is okay, the wee daftie. Did our kids all get a memo "Ah, April - time for a trip to A&E"? You must have been so worried.

LOVE the 1st, 2nd and 3rd baby thing, although it appears that for some things Finbo is an NSC rather than a PFB. Hmm.

Must be a Pennines thing as it's okay here now but it started off misty as anything. Hope your indoor day is okay and hugs.

Happy birthday, Coolkat* and well done your DH!

Weaning - I am still hoing to get to 26 weeks but have lost count of how many weeks Finbo is so am going to introduce his first taste of solid food on his 6 month "birthday" as a treat! Feel bad for losing count but really, my maths is shocking...

Suncream: Boots has BOGOF on baby suncream. Cannot BELIEVE that the Johnsons stuff is £10 for 50ml. Yikes. Good job babies are small and, in Fin's case, wearing a burkha to save money.

Emmanj, no period since Feb. But no pg symptoms either, and have a coil, so hey. Am just assuming that I have stupidly irregular periods, or it's somthing to do with bfing, or both.

Fudge, mini eggs have smack in them. It is the only excuse for the amount of them I eat. I had a book called "great lies to tell small children" and one of my favourites was "Pubs have magnets in them that drag Daddy in by his fillings. He has to go in or his teeth would come out". I feel much the same about mini-eggs, which evidently have magnets in that stick to mummy's teeth and make her eat them.

Vbab - I sort of know what you mean in that (and this is going to sound MENTAL) I went on the coil as I am morbidly scared of falling pg again accidentally but conversely I am also jealous of people with lovely pg bumps. Even though I didn't really enjoy the last month of pregnancy very much and cannot bear the thought of going through it again yet. See - mad as spoons. I think there is something biological going on that just makes (some) women go oooooohhhhh baby baby baby and I think I'm on of them!

Okay, I think I'm mostly caught up now, must go and change Fin as he is lying on a duvet on the floor - DH said he was awake from 4.30 til 6.30 so we very nicely gave him a monster lie in. He is feeling a bit low, however, so we need to go and wake him up in a minute or he will get depressed from having a massive lie-in. Plus, who is not cheered by a mily baby dribbling vomit over them?

Last thing, went to see my grandma yesterday and she looks awful. She is 87 and has breast and bowel cancer and I don't think I'll see her again. She is teeny tiny now and I just wanted to give her a big cuddle but it would have hurt her. She is refusing treatment as she wants to have a nice last few weeks/months, which I totally sympathise with. So I hope she manages to get out in the sunshine today, bless her. She is one of my two remaining gps and my fave, as she is so sarky normally, but it is sad to see her so reduced. And she nicked on of my mini-eggs... [watery-eyed ]

Well, I think M loves his cot!! We put M in his cot last night for the first time as he has finally outgrown his Moses basket. Anyway, he slept til 7am, had a feed, and went straight back to sleep, and is still sleeping!! (Sorry, I'm not trying to boast, just really amazed!!)
But he is still pooing for Britain, and his poor bot is red raw. I think I'll go to the baby clinic in the morning to see what his weight is doing.. If he is still putting on weight I don't think I'll be as bothered about all the pooing. It is 2 weeks tomorrow since he started doing his 7 or 8 poos a day, it was once a day before this. He is still feeding normally and behaving as normal so I'm still not sure what it could be.

Really grey and drizzly here this morning. DS1&2 are playing board games (!), have worked their way through Candyland, Othello, Greedy gorilla and Pictureka so far this morning!! I got up after feeding M at 7am, in an attempt to have a shower and get dressed before he started whingeing. So now have been kicking heels for the last hour thinking "oh I better not start anything as he's bound to wake up any minute".

Hope everyone's day goes well. For my part am hoping this darn period finishes soon before I turn anaemic!!!

Lol rutho. Dh and me were reminiscing on various myths we've heard to tell kids. One "urban myth" I presume is that some parents would tell kids the icecream vans were only for kids who didn't have a freezer!!
However, one of my (very cruel) friends used to tell her kids that when the icecream van made the music, it was to tell the factory they had run out of icecream!! Har Har!

rutho, sorry about your gran . My mum died of untreatable lung cancer last January and watching her decline was awful....{{{hugs}}}

morning all
So much to catch up on and will start reading after I post this!

Just wanted to see if I was the first to get a first haircut????? Took J on Saturday for his first hair cut and he looks brilliant! There was so much of it that it was covering his ears and down his neck, he was sooo good and just sat there on my dad's lap letting the hairdresser do her stuff! Am so proud

Do have a bit of an issue though, he really isn't taking his milk much anymore and I don't know what to do any suggestions??
xx

Have tried to skim everything.

Start at the bottom. Autumn, congrats on hair. I did cut Miri's fringe a couple of weeks ago! But not an all over 'cut'. Re food, I made the mistake with ds1 of feeding him too much food and not enough milk (he preferred food and now at 3 does not drink any milk except in cereal). He dropped rapidly down the centiles! I would suggest feeding milk before food and can then fill up the rest of his tummy with food rather then treating milk as a drink, it is still the most important food till 1.

barbs, I forgot you were from Harrogate. Guess what, friend doing massage course with me is also from Harrogate. She is young, free and single and has a car! So we can work on her to drive you up there if/ when you both get to know each other from course. She goes every couple of months. She is Bosnian, be weird if you knew her! Sorry about the dh stuff. It is hard. I definitely see it as dh's 'job' to do some of the childcare and do not feel I owe him for it. It was harder with ds1 cos we were trying to do up our house, so that was his 'out of hours' job - but this time, when he is home, it is 50:50. At nights I do more, and he owes me for that!

daisy, oh my goodness what a nightmare with the cleaning stuff. But why oh why were you cleaning on BANK HOLIDAY?!!!! That'll teach you to juist have a good rest and lots of fun and forget about the house . Glad was ok with the dh. I had to lol at barbs saying she wouldn't be able to leave it alone, definitely me. I would have poked and prodded until we had a big row - probably about something entirely different.

pinxy, wise words about the dh. I also take things personally, but sadly they are also meant personally at times. Huge row with dh on Fri was because ds1 was playing with Judo and I was closely supervising. He was being a bit rough, but he was being ok, and I kept saying, "don't pull this, don't poke that" so I didn't want to say "stop playing with him". Anyway, ds1 scratched Judo's noise and drew a bit of blood (pinprick) and dh lost it with me and implied I had let ds1 beat up his precious baby . I was furious and said ds1 needed to feel part of things and it wasn't a big deal and Judo didn't even cry! I so resented what he was saying, but I know it just came from being very protective of his little baby...need to remember that and then 'have a word' when I have calmed down about exactly how he made me feel instead of blowing up.

We have come to parents and Baby Wiss is so unsettled...has been up 5-7x per night and then exhausted and grumpy in day. Poor baby, she is a sensitive little soul.

oh I forgot, emmanj my dc's are mixed (Sri Lankan) and I used factor 50 when on holiday in Greece. In UK if it is reallllllllllly hot and sunny I use sun cream (bad Mum) like factor 20 or so.

Hi Merry - thanks for the advice on giving him milk first. He loves his food and I think he just gets bored with milk (other than his last bottle at night) as he is always looking at other things he must do at the time Will give it a go and let you know how we get on. He is such a tall skinny boy that I don't want him to be underweight for his age.

Incase you wondered why I don't highlight names is that my asterix key is a bit hit and miss !!!
Daisy so glad your dd is ok - And also that you dh is ok with you . I remember when dd1 broke her collarbone at 13 months I did not see her doing it I was in the kitchen at the time but I know dh was so cross with me .
Dh is good with the girls but he still will not bath minirosa he is scared she will slip - I even bought a bath rest thing to help him but she can't kick about so I think it will be given away!
Suil - We have 2 weddings in Sept and NOv and I am dreading both ok they will be older but if its an evening affair then I will not go It will be too much for them and neither of us will enjoy it. I did bring my mum over for a wedding last May only had dd 1 and dh and I went to the meal and had a good time childless!
FOF glad that the cot is a success I still have the basket in the room as well as am lending to a friend but don't want to give it to her until she has the results of amnio so it is being used as clothes horse!
I must go and wash up .....

Hi everyone, MIL was just here and she said she will take the dc's for the day of the wedding. I'm not sure about it cos she has never even babysat dd2 although she used to look after dd1 a bit when she was younger (not really sure why she stopped actually, I think she just lost interest) I don't think they will have a particularly good day without me but I think I have to try letting go a little for me and DH's sake. We haven't had anytime alone together since dd2 was born and very little since dd1 was born 3 years ago.

Why do I find it so hard to leave them? Plenty of people do it for longer periods of time. What if I had a job to go back to? I don't know how I would cope. Silly, isn't it?

Hooray - P has finally learned to roll from back to front, I missed it of course!! He then gets stuck on his front, but he's getting there! He has also figured out today that he can squeal like a piglet and it has become his favourite noise, he's hardly stopped doing it since he woke up.

Oh, he's just rolled again and is now stuck, again. Best go rescue him!!

Am loving FB scrabble by the way!!

barbs, if you do make it over to Harrogate at any point, then it would be great to see you - daisy and I are in Leeds so not far away at all!

Suiledonn - its perfectly normal to feel like you do, we spend every waking moment with our LO's, so we are bound to be anxious about leaving them. But, as you say, it might do you good, and you could always do a few 'trial runs' before the wedding with MIL and see how they go? I do know how you feel though, i have been just been through similar and i would deff say it did me good to leave DD in the end.

Glad you had a good wknd Hana!

Thanks for the suncream advice merry and sorry to hear about your grumpy little soul. Must be so tiring with twins aswell, i really do take my hat off to you!

DD had 1st spoon of baby rice this morning - loved it! (althoguh most of it ended up round her mouth rather than in it!)

So much that I wanted to respond to.
Vbab your feeling sound totally normal. Hoorah for Autumnlady and J getting his first haircut.
Hope you are feeling better Dozy.
Big hug to Barbs.

Hi Obs how are you?
Does everyone's LO's have teeth? J was teething like mad - dribbling, hands constantly in mouth, pulling his ear, read cheeks - then nothing Has it all stopped or is this the lull before the storm???

Autumn, Sumo has rosy cheeks and is chewing his fists liks mad. He is quite partial to a double fist combo when he gets going. As yet,no teeth.

suiledon, we are meant to be going to a wedding down south in July, but didn't want to take kids as it would be a long day, so DH staying at home and I am going for the day, staying overnight and coming home. Could you perhaps do this?

Sumo was weighed this afternoon, and comes in at a hefty 17lb 15oz He is a little chunky man!

Took DS1+2 to the park today, but the weather is still horrible.

Hello all

bit overcast here today but warm. Met dh, dc's and two ofmy mummy friends and their DCs in the park after my counseling, just got back. P&T back in force as it's quite a walk and I can push the three DC in it (not sure your are meant to, but -hey-ho).

Gah cold-callers. Ws just in the middle of writing this post then one of those people from the elctric knocked on the door grr.

Hop everyone is ok. V. of baby haircuts. Mine just have a light smattering of hair, very fine and nbot really worth, or posible to cut!

Rutho so srry to hear about your gran.

We have that lies to tell kids book, too. My favourite is the super-dad bit- his arch nemesis is All The Things That Need Doing lol. Dh has also taught DD1 to name all the ants she meets.

Dozy you sound a lot better, and would love to go swimming but I have too many children. MUst try to persuade myself to use creche facilities.

Sock monsters rock, Daisy. Mine wer making robots and rockets with DH this morning. Ds's rocket is ike a home from home for his robot- it ahs a sofa and a kitchen.

Weaning- have bought some baby porridge (the milled stuff). When is Mimi 26 weeks? Can someone tell me because I too have lost count

I know what I meant to say. Mimi was fine this morning. I nearly ran to the park afterwards, though, to hug my beautiful little family. Thanks for your kind thoughts

Hi Pinky - J has the most amount of hair I have seen which, before haircut, took forever to wash and dry. He was also getting food in it which wasn't pleasant. Glad you had a nice time at the park too am v as I am stuck here in my office working and waiting for the moment I can rush for the train and rescue my mum from my gorgeous, but tiring, little man. J is 24 weeks next monday and was born on 3rd Nove - does that help??? I have to write it in my diary as I forget

xx

Pinky, how was the conselling ?
I can confirm that Autumnlady's J does have lots and lots of long hair. He is so sweet. Does he look more 'grown up' now that he has had his hair cut Autumn ?
I too have to write in diary how many weeks M is. Not a clue.