Jan 09 - weaning,smiling,laughing and chatting and loads more fun to come:)

[stripeywoollenhat]

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Dog- pasta jar sounds great........I'm on it! Sounds like you are getting lots of exercise, bet you are back to skinny bum and legs with all that walking, if only I could be bothered!

Stripey- Little girls are great for craft, bring on the craft . Zach is constantly covered in glitter anyway (our whole house is) so he'll have to learn to love it!

Lenni- My feeding erm, schedule I suppose, is pretty much on par with yours I guess (our DS's same age I think). This has reassured me somewhat. Yep 5 feeds a day would be my idea of heaven at the moment

lenni, dog - thanks. hoping she spends a good long time working it out...

re mil, i know that she is sad that she doesn't have a biological grandchild and kind of understand that, and don't imagine she would be a natural with babies even if she didn't slightly resent c, but i have a problem with her resenting our lovely little girl, so i do hope she gets over it soon... i think she could be sad without resenting c, you know?

pat - i now have a vision of zach in his bouncer dusted with glitter. so cute i think you should do it...

dog - it's definitely your dp's dad who is missing out. i think that about dp's mum, but it's hard for dp, you know. but i am sure she will come round in time - c is just irresistible, after all...

Think I might make a glittery pasta jar and then sprinkle the excess onto his little noggin............ Poor little sod, I'm constantly finding it in his folds and DH says he's always covered in it at work as well (people are starting to wonder about him ).

Agree with Dog about resentful MIL's, we have a similar problem with DH's StepMIL but she blows hot and cold with whether she likes the kids or not. She does have a biological GS who is about 8 and she can't see him for various reasons so I do feel sorry for her but she is just so changeable!

My poor DD was painting as soon as she could sit up! I remember longing for craft activities.

No not on for her to resent C. Poor little C, she is scrumptious too. Agree with Dog on the being a grandmother part - I wish my Step-Grandma (and my Step Dad) had taken to the role with a bit more gusto when we were little - would have made for a much better family dynamic now.

Phew - glad I'm not the only one feeding loads!

Hello folks.

Just back from weekend away, it ran over lol. Stayed at mum's for last night as too tired to keep driving.

So someone do a news round up for me? I skimed through and I know EPPM? How? Must get on fb right now!

Any moosey news?

evening

managed aerobics going wed 2

Hello, just popping in to let you know I am OK so you can stop worrying about me. Thanks for caring though. I have been popping in occasionally to read and try to keep up with the gist of things but haven't really felt like joining in.

Don't want to bore you all with the incredibly dull ins and outs of why I've been feeling low, but things are starting to improve now so hopefully I'll be back to normal soon.

DD is fine, has shifted herself onto a nice easy schedule of 6 feeds a day 3 hours apart up until 10.00pm then sleeping through till 7/7.45 am. Was worried at first and tried to get her to take more feeds but she just turned her nose up.

Noticed a few of us have been having 'poo' issues. DD has had quite a few problems in that department recently, either not pooing at all or exploding everywhere. Also gone from normal bf poo to thicker/smellier paste consistency which is really unpleasant. I'm assuming its either been a virus or to do with her change in feeding pattern and seems to be improving now.

She has also decided that she doesn't care what the books say, she is going to sit up - now! DH and I were so shocked, she has been trying for a week or so but suddenly sat up in her car seat in front of all our friends on Saturday tipping the whole thing forwards! Since then she has been sitting up at every opportunity and although she has fallen forwards a couple of times reaching for toys she seems pretty stable and tends not to wobble over sideways like the boys used to. She's also getting up on her arms during tummy time now so is determined to see the world from new angles so to speak.

Mum had a fall on the patio on Saturday and has broken her wrist and fractured her right eye socket! They have run a lot of tests and they still have to do a brain scan and may possibly have to operate on her eye to stop her losing pressure in her eyeball. DD nearly burst into tears when she saw her today and Mum had to sit with her bad side facing away from her the whole time.

Anyway I'm off to bed as I'm trying to take better care of myself health and sleepwise at the moment.

Hope everyone is ok and there are no major problems I have missed.

lenni - my grandparents were all dead by the time i was born except my father's father, who i barely knew and who died when i was six, but i look at my mother with c and i can see that they are going to have a lovely relationship - c seems to really like her already. i think dp's mum would be crazy to pass up the opportunity to have a similar relationship, and i also think it would really help her and dp's relationship, so hope she does work it out...

dog at painty pfb...

uch love Moose! Very sorry about your mum, hope it all gets sorted. Come back when you are ready. x

you take care x

moose, glad things are improving, anytime you need to moan about the ins and outs this is the place. hope dd's poo sorts itself out and at sitting up antics!. take care of yourself

Moose lovely to 'see' you. Wow for sitting! I think ds will follow dd and be an early sitter... but not just yet

Lenni when dd went in her own room, she was 5.5 months, and I fed her in her room. Have no idea when/how we'll move ds into her room... bedtimes are hellish still, and she'd probably wake in the night when he does, which is the last thing I need atm.

tree you attended a wedding recently... it was my colleagues!

tink Wow- aerobics? impressed!

stripey Ooh for crawling! I know a baby who crawled at 4.5 mo - because they had a little dog that she was obsessed with following everywhere!
My dd crawled at 1 wek before 16 months though but yes- at least I knew that when I put her down, she'd be there when I came back!

We did pasta jar with dd... worked to a certain extent, but then she stopped caring about rewards (this is across the board, not just pasta jar) so we've stopped, and are doing our best to ignore all poor behaviour. I do have to keep reminding myself that she is only 3, and I think I expect too much of her frequently sometimes.

No of feeds per day? erm... you all count these things?

moose poo.... erm- ds's goes like a paste, and smells vile when I've eaten more dairy than usual... ring any bells?

EPPM - OoooooooOOOOOOoooOOOOOOooo! AHaaaa!

stripey - my DS1 crawled at just under 6 months, James is also doing leg crawling moves although he is way off getting his top half going (thank goodness )

Hi all, how interesting that Eachpeach and Tree have a real life connection.

Stripey, sorry your MIL's stay didn't go so well, hope that you're all able to get things sorted out with her.

I don't really count or time feeds - I had more idea with bottles with ds1 but I'm still feeding C on demand/when it fits in well with plans eg if I feed him now hopefully he won't cry with hunger on the bus.

Hi to everyone who's around and reading.

hi

dd1 fine @ drs no wee infection dr thinks all to do with her long sightedness, going to school soon, having a new sister etc. has a lot on her plate.

hi moose - glad that u r getting there

booksgalore - sorry for bad day