August 2008 Globe Trotting Babies - Passports Ready...Where to NEXT?

[TwilightSurfer]

Spain? Scotland? France? Singapore? Canada? MEXICO???

Where shall we do our next meet-up?

Btw ts SausageandMash's ds is called JAMES I think. Those from the London meetup should be able to back me up/tell me i've got it all wrong.

hmm, she's either got a tom or a james, i can't remember!

albs how you all feeling today?

hotpot glad you had a good night

dizz hope baby visit isn't too scary. your description of your delicate princesses made me smile!

TS that's brill about DH in your dress! at least he had alchol to blame! mine just decided to try my skirt on one day to see if it fitted and when it did, he kept it on!

oops hmm sounds like i need a trip to costa for a chocolate twist! you're such a bad influence!

lol, we also had a 4am awake baby! and i mean properly awake as well. i finally convinced him to sleep at 6ish, he woke again at 8 so DP was given a bundle of loveliness to entertain while i went back to bed. I've had 2 hours sleep all in one go this morning!!
well last night was a nightmare so obviously a good day does not a good night make! His trick the last few nights has been screaming like he's possessed. this happened at 11ish last night (after i'd spent almost an hour settling him). I couldn't do anything for him and was dead on my feet so DP enlisted. apparently it took him 2hrs to get him to sleep. 20mins later i was up with him again. i was then up less than hourly with him all night (average was 30mins)
So in short, DS has been awake most the night screaming like a devil child! seriously, i need to video it, i've never heard anything like it

hots got the vouchers this morning thank you

You're welcome Dizzy Hope you have fun with the tiny baby, I am also and a little bit when I see other, daintier babes in comparison to my big hefty boy, especially if I have to carry him anywhere without the sling. I will have one arm like Popeye at this rate...

Miamla that sounds horrendous poor DS and poor you. How is he today? Bright and cheerful while you teeter on the brink of insanity? We have yet to repeat the sleep-through, if that makes you feel a tiny bit better!

Reminds me actually, I got an email from my old boss the other day, he was telling me about his DD who is 9 weeks old . Apparently she is sleeping through, oh apart from a feed at 9.30-10pm and another one at 5.30am . Funny how definitions of sleeping through vary so much!

I finally started sorting through my pile of ebay clothes but they've been piled up so long they all need ironing now. Feck I hate ironing but no-one would buy this crumpled stuff

Afternoon.

Miamla - oh my, your night sounds like a shocker.

Izzy is finally napping, I am wearing cords and was so scared of waking her when I went to the loo that I waddled down the hall like a demented cowboy so that the fabric wouldn't make a sound.
Motherhood does do strange things to your powers of reasoning doesn't it?

hots its exactly how you said!

HP I was hoping to ebay some of my crap stuff that was at my mums, but it seems that I did such a good job throwing stuff away rationalising stuff last time I was there that there isn't much to sell.

I am going to ebay Izzy's stuff as "French designer baby clothes"

An afternoon with my pg friend and her two under five have cured me of any thoughts towards a second.

GAh, she's awake again.
How can 15 minutes be considered a nap? Crazy baby.

steaky thank you for the wonderful image of you waddling with your trousers round your ankles! Never done that myself, obviously

steaky i read somewhere about baby sleep cycles that they have light sleep periods after 15mins. this means that a noise that wouldn't normally wake them, will do if it happens at the 15min point

Miamla I had my trousers on properly - but your way is much funnier!

My mum noted that Izzy was willfull - no idea where she could have inherited that from

Well she is calling away in her bed, at least not screaming.

Miamla we also had devil-child screaming last night, most out of character for DS, plus he was latched to the boob as if magnetised there and it took all my skill and strength to pry him off. An hour after I dropped him off at nursery this morning they rang me to say he has hand, foot and mouth disease - sore spots in the mouth especially, which would account for his violent reaction to the dummy.

So not feeling my best either. I am still unable to shake off this fucking virus that started off as a cold, then turned into tonsillitis and now seems to be just generalised grimness. Nausea, stomach cramp and loss of appetite, three day headache and aching muscles.

Hello to everyone else, I did read and catch up but can't remember what I meant to say

Oh, fairly certain S&M has a little Jamie.

Poor babycyteen - does this mean that you are off work, he is off nursery and you are at home? When DS had a sore throat and would BF or take his dummy sleep was a bit of an issue. We walked him round the block, which we hadn't had to do since he was a newborn

2.45am in LWFH household

LWFH - is this our first wake up?
MrLWFH - or maybe the second or third

3am in LWFH household

LWFH - what are you doing?
MrLWFH - gargling sodium bicarbonate

3.15am in LWFH household

LWFH - what are you doing?
MrLWFH - just sending an email to somewhere in Europe (NOTE even with the time difference this is still kind of the middle of the night. I knew that him having a blackberry was a bad idea)

7.15am in LWFH household. Everyone gets up.

MrLWFH - we have cockroaches again, I saw one at 3am

so, to recap, MrLWFH managed to gargle sodium bicarbonate, send an email and catch a cockroach at 3am this morning. Uncertain of the number of wake ups. Regardless of how DS slept the return of the little fuckers means that it was a very BAD NIGHT indeed.

Also had a wake up at 5.30am when DS came in to bed with us.

poor cyteen too. Sounds rubbish. I am sure that my DH would suggest that you gargle sodium bicarbinate.

cyteen i thik my ds had hand foot and mouth when he went on nursing strike in April . So painful for them, poor little mites

dizzy loving your descripton of your girls. My 2 come pretty close i think (9lb9 (dd) and 8lb11.5 (ds)) and I agree that teeny babies scare me.....

lwfh I am indeed home from work and DS is banished from nursery for the rest of the week. My work are very nice about stuff like this though, thankfully, so I'll be working from home. Just as well I've only just gone back in some ways, as I'm not in the middle of anything, just catching up on emails and reading which is very doable at home.

albs funnily enough the only way he will go to sleep at the moment is by nursing His mouth is clearly sore as sometimes it's hard to latch him on, but once he's on he is magnetised there and won't let me put him down. Poor little sausage Still, it did mean we had a lovely lie down in bed from 3-5pm which did me the world of good too. I'm not anticipating much sleep tonight so I'll take what I can get in the day!

Sazz well done on your productive day Bless your DD1, I was laughing again the other day remembering you telling us about her sleep-shout of RAISINS!

Cyteen {{{hugs}}} I feel so bad for you both. There's nothing worse than a sore throat. BTW did the nursery say what steps they were taking to make sure more children don't get sick...I assume that is where he go it from so others must have it or have had it recently.

Sazzles you might need a few more hours in the day. WOW! Ya'll did a lot.

How's this for good mommy award? Reese was going around picking up bits of last night's dinner that for some reason the broom didn't trap. I quickly fixed that problem and then gave her a plate with cheerios...which she dumped on the floor so as to continue what she started. Now both are sitting here beside me eating cheerios off the floor.

at Reese Still, it says a lot for your housekeeping skills TS as clearly your floors are clean enough to eat off.

The nursery did say that they'd had to send another child home last Friday with HFM. They have washed all the toys but a certain amount of bug-sharing is inevitable in these situations I guess.

lol at reese's floor antics!! OPne day a few months ago I gave ds a little tub to play with. It had been in the little net thing under the high chair (good storage for toys but real crumb trapper). dd suddenly said "what is h eating?". a piece of last night's brocolli was in there .He was not impressed when it got removed form his grasp.

TS Reese would stand no chance in our house as the cat has worked out that if you hang out underneath the highchair you are guaranteed a good feed.
Add to that the fact Izzy has worked out that if you drop the food the kitty comes and finds it and we are in for one fat cat in a few months.

We are having toad in the hole for dinner. I had a long conversation with Mansteak about the toads I had got at the supermarket - the French eat frogs, we eat toads! He wasn't sure if I was joking or not but was worried that toads would be very expensive and asked to see the reciept at which point I put him out of his confusion and told him it was sausages.

Wish me luck, it is only the second time I have done holey-toads since an unsuccessful first attempt years ago.

cheerios still on the floor...

reese has been napping for almost an hour now...

dd1 watching i dream of jeanie reruns...

i've finished cleaning up the computer room...

and now i've decided to sit down.

please don't hate me but i've got a pint of ben & jerry's ice cream sitting next to my laptop, thawing from the heat exhaust. brownie batter, anyone?

haven't caught up yet, just popped on with a message from S&M....

Please give my love to all and hopefully I'll be back on soon, for a catch-up and some goss!

evening all

steak good luck with the toad, we've just had a gourmet meal of cheese and onion on toast (we're both shattered so cooking was out of the question); lol at noisy cords

albs hope you and family are feeling better now

miamla sorry to hear of yet another horrendous night for you, we had one here but not nearly as bad as yours, when will they SLEEP?

cyteen sorry to hear you're feeling bad, poor Joe too

S&M's ds was always chipolata to me

hi thelovelypf good to see you

well, my period arrived yesterday - but I was a bit relieved as it explains last week's madness...

ts I love that American thing of eating a whole tub of icecream...mmm...[greedy emoticon] I dont think we get brownie batter over here, sounds yum.