Hi there all!
Happy birthday Gabe!!! Glad you've had a nice time!
Good to catch up on all the news too, and bless you, Missmode, for being so honest. Two days in the house with LB and I feel like shouting from frustration. Of course, then he does something cute like crawling away from me, waiting to be caught, and when I do catch him he screeches with laughter...and all is forgiven. Although still frustrated.
He is shuffling along, and his first word seems to be: nein.
Nein!!!
My sis ter on law, who watches him when I work, is half-German, and between that and our native : nee!, well, he has certainly learnt how to say no! He babbles loads, and blows bubbles in the water in the bath, and is just absolutely cute.
And (she says in a whisper, touch wood, touch wood) he has started sleeping better from 2 weeks ago. It must be a combination of no more milk and not cuddling him at all, or maybe just luck, who knows, but I'm grateful.
His birthday is next week, cannot believe it. We got him a wheelbug and his own little couch, but it will be a small family thing.
I am having a bit of a wobble now, with insomnia. As you all know I went of my AD's app Nove last year, and things have been so good, even trhough the sleepless night, colds etc I was coping fine. But I've had some serious attacks of insomnia (and it feels as if there is NOTHING worse than being unable to sleep if the babe is snoozing away!) and I just hope it's the stress of the past few months catching up with me and nothing more serious. Aaah well.
No secret recipes for early mornings, at the moment still grateful if he sleeps past 4am.
I must still find the guts to send him to a nursery, just find it so hard, the thought of leaving him with strangers. But he loves other kids and I know I should give it a go.