August 08 - Sleep thiefs and baby lags in stripey tops with bags of swag.

[Steaknife]

just kidding...

HP you had a bit of water didn't you. Our is going down but only because they've got the damns going fullspeed which means someone down stream is now soggy. We're expecting more rains....all week actually so I suspect it will be up again. I phoned my dad in Hawaii today to see if my cousin, here, was checking on my dad's boat, here....since I wasn't. He said he'd give him a call.

Oh did I mention my doctor's office phoned this morning (leaving a voicemail because I failed to answer). The nurse said I have to REDO my pap because the lab messed up the test. WTF! How does that happen...TO ME!!? I'm sure they saw my name and said, OH SHE LOVES GETTING THIS TEST DONE let's DROP this on the floor so she'll have to retake it. YAY! I get to have ANOTHER pap!! I'M SO EXCITED!!!

Pizza and orange juice for dinner. DD1 gave me a hug for it.

dizzy I am so so sorry to hear your very sad news. Very frustrating re passports too. Thinking of you all, and hope you manage to get a decent nights sleep.
hotter My stepdads factory got flooded out, and they lost a lot of stock, and some very expensive machinery got damaged.(screen printers)
oops hope all goes well with trainer and bloods.
buckets sorry to hear your still feeling that way, hope you managed an ok evening iykwim.
ts great news for you today,and good for kindergarten enrolment. Good idea to get stuff now than wait till everything has been picked over before dhe starts.
So dh gone to work,ds just had a ridiculous bf (3 sucks) and twisted off maybe another eventful night here.

xpost ts for you.Like you really need this.

^sazzles* are you still

Enjoy your swim

vg Hi hope you are well.

You tinkers

Lovely day here, think I'll wash some of the clothes that are going on ebay. Getting excited because my new sewing machine is coming this morning and I might get my new sling finished

Never mind about the pap TS, what's not to enjoy about having your legs in stirrups?

Hope you got some sleep No1 and enoy your swim Sazzles

Not caught up.

English style baby clothes - nice idea. When my French allows it and life feels more organised [wishful thinking emoticon] I would like to have a market stand at the Saturday market here - selling groovy English style stuff, not just mine but stocking other peoples stuff too. Gap is a funny mix of chic and hippy and even in the cheap shops baby stuff is really expensive.

8o'clock bedtime - no chance of sneaking it as DH had a bit of a strop when I put her down half an hour earlier than he wanted the other day. I was hoping I could sneak it as he works later now but I'm not sure.

She slept through last night, but hadn't settled till 9.30 and awake at 7.30 is so a good long stretch without a wake up but still only 10 hours overall and an hour and a half nap yesterday. I just don't think it is enough for her.

If only I could work out how to get her to go into her cot asleep and stay asleep. [frustrated and guilty emoticon]

Going to catch up some more....

aah - Sazzles poor you.

We had 12.48, 1.05, 1.24 2.21, 3.30 5.55, 6.30 brought her into bed then awake for the day at 8.35 [yawn].

Do babies have bad dreams/nightmares at this age? DD does alot of sobbing/crying in her sleep and is not hungry cannot be consoled. When I pick her up she fights me for a few minutes then can be cuddled to sleep but cries when I put her down.

TS - yuck at having to redo pap - they are bad enough without redo's

Morning HP

Squealy baby back later.

Dizzy - sorry for your sad news, but your brother can travel on an expried passport for six months of something.(someone told me this years ago, so double check.)

Dbrother and expired is what I meant. Though Sazzles might be a more failsafe option.

thank you all - sazz I'd phoned the passport office yesterday and they told me I'd have to have a completed application form and vetted photos AND a fax from the Dr in Spain to confirm that he is deceased and that he is a relative of mine and I HAD to travel and be down there by 9am to sit and wait to see if it was possible all for the pricely sum of just

steaky I've just checked the shiteyryanair website and it states that they absolutely will not accept photo ID that isn't valid

not sure how much time i've got before DS gets bored of sitting in highchair so just quickly, morning all and an extra special good morning to hotpot

oops your description of DD last night was my DS last night. I'd put his behaviour down to teething and a horrible cold but you could have something there re nightmares. it does seem to be a bit of a conicidence that quite a few of the babies are suddenly sleeping badly

last night was slightly better than the night before but still not much sleep involved.

when DP said goodbye this morning i asked him why he was leaving so early, his reply was so he could get a seat on the train. fair enough i thought. then i got a text from him "f**k.. i came to work an hour early. i set my phone clock wrong!"
oh my i giggled! he was in work at 7.15!!

Just a super-quick one as I am sat in a cafe 'updating my addresses' lol and DS has awoken which means he will soon be demanding freedom from the pram...move went well and we are both ecstatic to be in the new area and out of the old. House is lovely but echoey! Don't think we'll be needing the baby monitor much, you can hear everything that goes on inside...and next door too

Sazzles I have read that there's commonly a sleep regression around the 9 month mark Look forward to that then. lwfh little to no self-settling here either; he's alright at night (sometimes) but napping just does not happen unless he's in the pram/rocked in the car seat/in the car/lying in bed next to one of us/in arms/on a lap. It could be worse though - he is lovely to cuddle and just think, soon they'll be running away from us shouting 'eeurgh, get off Mum' and wiping our kisses off their cheeks

Haven't managed to read further than page 29 so HI to everyone I've missed so far

Oh no on the sleep front, rough night here too Marcus screamed from 12.15 till 2.30. Nothing would settle him, he was trumoing alot though. I get this everytime he has ff.
It was horrendous. Luckily he then settled at 2.45 till 8am. DD up a few times but quickly settled (disturbed by ds screaming)

Sorry for all who had rough nights too.

Had a row heated discussion with dh this morning when he got in from work, can't do with him going on and on at me so told him to go himself

been to toddlers this am so at least dcs got to play. Off out for a walk in this sunshine.
dizzy hope you are feeling ok
cyteen glad you are happy in your new home

Well done on the move. Passing on all packing and moving vibes on to CC then ...

Dizzy I am so sorry to hear about your uncle. The quick funeral thing which is the norm here too is very hard on relatives who are far off.

DD2 is a shite sleeper, but lovely and happy when she is constantly awake. When she slept from 8 till 2:30 (against the run of play as Chelsea fans say), DD1 woke up and ranted and roared from 11:30 until 2:15, driven round the twist by threadworms in her poor little bum. Feck the finger-sucking habit which is the cause of the little blighters getting in to her system.

They are both asleep after music group which is my one guaranteed 'sleep creating device' in the week and instead of cleaning the house I have planted lots of pansies in a fit of pique. V. lovely they are too.

I tormented myself about DS's lack of sleep when he was small. DD1 was treated exactly the same and sleeps far more than either of the other two. Different children have different sleep needs imho.

We need PF back for a bit of firm but fair advice I think.

Cyteen is v. wise about getting the cuddles in. But can I say that it is technically possible to have a six-year-old boy who is incredibly affectionate and has never turned down a kiss from anyone and has no concept whatsoever of personal space.

HI back Cyteen! Glad the new place is ok. We use similar nap persuasion techniques here and I like your thinking...

Dizzy my dear I'm so sorry about your uncle . There's never a good time but how rotten just now - it does sound completely impossible, no-one could expect you to get there. Glad your friend will be with you this w'end. We'll be thinking of you too.

Steaky your DH does seem fixed on this bedtime issue, doesn't he?! Is it about 'keeping DD french' (IYSWIM) or about the amount of time he gets to spend with her do you think? We have family dinner and then bed at 8pm here and I have no idea whether the nights would be better if we gave it up - but DH generally isn't home til 7/7.30 and I'd hate DD to routinely be in bed before even seeing him. Plus eating with her and eating with him are equally important to me (and eating twice would be all too easy ). Sorry -- that's no help as you want something different but if he really won't budge perhaps there's nothing to do but look for the positives... anyway.

Poor Marcus No1

x-post No1 and Sibh, sorry about the bad nights - poor you and poor little ones

Hi sibh your boy sound so adorable, my dsis son is very very affectionate too, and funny you should say about not knowing about personal space, neither does he as my dsis constantly tells me.
pertelote your evening sounds fair, I would also opt for later bed time if dh was home that time too, however with his shift work he is around a lot of the time.
When his shift pattern starts though the dcs are often asleep when he gets up and in bed when he gets home. So sometimes doesnt see them for 3/4 days.
(I have seen him go in and poke check on dd though in the hope for a cuddle.

Took dd and ds to feed ducks today and they loved it. I am amazed how much thye have both just put away for tea little gannets.
I am really rambling now sorry hope you all had lovely days.