May 2009 - This too shall pass.. from leg warmers to pennies

[Momino]

this too shall pass!

Je pense que Grumpy est pissé. Je suspecte que le vin soit impliqué. That's very exciting.

Tummum Glad you're all well, if a little shaken. Enjoy your holiday. Sounds lovely.

well she's still awake.. but kicking and cooing away happily in her cotbed with a vomit guard of an extra flat sheet folded in half, tucked in tight.. on top of her normal fitted one.. so if she vomits I won't have to change the whole bed.. just the extra top layer..
she's bobbed off me twice and fallen asleep until i've moved her.. daren't feed her anymore or we'll have a repeat of before..

tummum - that must have been very shocking for you all. Hope the rest of the holiday continues without incident.

grumpy - that's all very exciting! Have a good holiday too.

Very of all this Frenchness going on. I love France; the last time we were there we cycled across the South, from the Atlantic to the Med. I was 13 weeks pregnant with DD1!

llaregub - well done on your jeans, that must feel great!

We're over half way through my week without DH now! DD1 fell asleep in the pushchair again today, so of course bed time wasn't all that great. On the plus side, A slept for 3 (yep, count 'em, three!) hours this afternoon and I managed to clean the kitchen with DD1 helping. Well, mostly she sat on the floor putting her shoes in the saucepans making us shoe pie for tea, yum!

tummumjust seen your post.. so glad you're all ok. try and enjoy your holiday without too many what if's.. the main thing is they didn't happen and you're ok.. just a little bit scraped and dented.

Tummum you obviously have someone looking out for you. Try and put it out of your mind.

DS2 is very sleepy this evening. He has been asleep since 6.30pm and has only woken once for a very short feed. I'm either in for a disturbed night or he is settling down at last!

Dandy - our sleeping seems to be similar to yours. A is much happier sleeping on her front, and I can't get her to sleep much before 10 usually, although it was 9 tonight. She has a massive triple boober feed sometime between 5 and 7, then goes back to sleep; if I don't wake her to go out then she'll sleep until about 11! If I do wake her because we're off somewhere than she'll stay awake until the afternoon and then crash out for a few hours.

I don't know really Dandy. In fact I've been talking to DH about it as I got a bit concerned that perhaps I was suffering from some sort of mysterious disease.

I did however exercise all the way through my pregnancy and they say if you do something enough it becomes a habit. Since giving birth I've continued to exercise at home, plus I have been eating better than I used to do. I think it is that, plus the breastfeeding that is making the difference.

I've been a bit hit and miss but generally I am doing my Davina work out 2 or 3 times a week, plus the wii once or twice. I'm walking quite a bit too. In the evening I do the ironing which used to be my prime pig-out time, but now the ironing prevents me from doing it.

I do feel better for it, and even attempted a very daring move at soft play the other day that I never would have done pre-pregnancy.

I really hope I keep it up this time, but my weight has fluctuated over the years so it wouldn't be the first time I've lost it all and put it back.

evening all.
grumpy, great news! you sound so excited, that makes me happy.
tummum, have a good, safe hol. that must have been scary but do put it behind you.
llare, impressive re: your jeans. well done!
fi, ingenious about the extra sheet, very clever trick - i'll use it for night time toilet training.
flippin, halfway through the week, hurrah! you sound so cool, like you do this without dh all the time.
dandy, Harper doesn'tlike to be put down either so I spent most of this afternoon cuddling instead o f doing housework.
don't have much to say otherwise.

oh, yes: tummy time. does anyone put their LO's for 'tummy time'?

To be honest poor DS2 hardly ever gets to go on the floor for fear of being trampled on by rampaging DS1. Poor neglected second child!

momino - lol at 'cool' about it all. it's very easy to sound calm online . I just have to keep taking deep breaths and remember that DD1 behaves a lot better if I'm well behaved too!

Right, I'm off to bed. I should have gone about half an hour ago but kept getting sidetracked online. Night all.

good morning! well, 2 nights in a row harper has woken up at 2ish, has a feed then wakes up an hour later for the other side. growth spurt?

also she seems to have reverted in that she's been very colicky lately in the afternoon. at 13 weeks shouldn't she be going the other way?

hope all are well this morning. looking forward to seeing reebee and Felix this morning as she's in York. will be lovely to put a face to a MN name (though I see the FB photos!). and can't wait to have an F cuddle!

speaking of meeting, Grumpy, yes defn meet up - here if best for everyone and if you'd like to see a film. I'll check the film schedule. the only one I know is 'time traveller's wife' in 2 wks. don't know what is next week.

Morning all (yawn),

Well i have showered, dressed, put S back down for a sleep, put one load of washing on, all before 8am! Guess it's easy when S is awake at 6.15 . I have all 3 DCs all day as DH went to London at 6.15 and is not back til 10pm. So will need to do something to entertain them (park or soft play or grandparents house).

Momino- i would be up for a York meetup again, although if we're going to the cinema i would need to check nursery could take DD as i have swapped her nursery days around.

morning all not too bad a night after g eventually settled. she fell asleep at about 10.30pm ish.. ds was up in the night.. but dh got up .

Morning all!

TumMum Glad you're okay

I had to go to the children's hospital in an ambulance with DD1 yesterday - the full gory details are on my blog if you want to read it, but it was pretty horrendous and she's going to have a big scar across her forehead. I've sent DS2 to nursery so they're less likely to hurt each other until it heals properly

blotted- i saw on FB about your DD1- looked very nasty and upsetting for you all. Even though i am squeemish i just had to look .

dandy our day is like yours.. g has to fit round ds's activities mostly. she also doesn't settle for the night until 10pm at the earliest.. it's almost like she waits till ds goes to bed at 7pm then goes yahoo I've mum and dad to myself I'll have some play time and eat loads too! I generally get about 7hrs sleep afterwards before either g wants her feed or ds gets up. she does go back to sleep after her first early am feed.. before next one two hours later. our sorta day pattern is 6, 8, 10, 2pm, 4/5ish then bouts of play/feed/nap time until 10.30ish. today started at 5.30am so that'll alter all the norms a bit.

got ds and his friend will's birthday cakes to ice today. ds wants a dinosaur.. orange with blue spots. will wants a peppa pig george.. cakes all baked and in freezer will do one today and other tomorrow I think. which first?

still full of cold but fluids and paracetamol helping.. ds and g have it too

OMG blotted how truly awful and scary.. have just read your blog.. but my phone wouldn't do the pictures.. it read just as gorey as I can imagine they were if I'd seen them. how is she today? and how are you??

morning all..

haven't been on here for a few days so must catch up on reading at some point.

I've got a bad cold so am dosed up with paracetamol, M same but dosed up on calpol and using saline nasal drops. M having trouble BF at the mo due I think to the fact that she can't breath thro her nose, she keeps puking up bless her

night out on sat was okay I guess but came home to row with DH - tell you all about it later...

looby hope you enjoyed your night out despite the row. my doc says vomiting is the norm when babies/toddlers get a bad cold.. or excessive pooing.. what doesn't go one way goes the other! an efficient way to shift as much snot as possible in one go..

Our days are becoming a bit more predictable. S generally wakes around 6 or 7, has 3 naps, often around 9am, noon and 2.30pm but they do vary in length (30mins to 2 hours) quite a bit. Bath around 6 and bed at 7. Then maybe 2 or 3 (or 4!) feeds between 7pm and 7am. He also feeds on demand in the day, sometimes an hour apart, sometimes 3. So a bit more predictable, but not a routine as such.

blotted, omg how scary! so glad she's ok and hope you're ok too.

looby, hope you're feeling better soon and
Fi, hope the colds finish soon. Keep drinking hot lemon .

Just had a lovely morning with gorgeous ReeBee and Felix. had lots of smiles from F and got a couple of photos of the babes which i'll put either here or on FB. so nice to meet MNetters in RL.

so we'll do another meet in York probably at the end of Aug. TBC

Ree, thanks again for the biscuits... had no chocolate in the house otherwise!