AUG 08 - Toddzilla vs Mum-ra!

[cyteen]

Once more with feeling

Night Dizz

longway - hi! I clean DDs teeth before we go up to bed and she has her milk after. I'm not worried about it, but probably because I don't know I need to be rather than through any informed choice. I suppose because she used to have BF and then bed so now it is cows milk then bed.

Hi lwfh I didn't know you lived in Leeds too once! Whereabouts? [nosey] Cyteen and Red lived there too in their student days I seem to remember, and steaky actually lived down the road from me (ish), but you are all gone leaving me to fly the flag for West Yorkshire all on my own

I also ignore milk when it comes to teeth DD never drank from a bottle (pesky lass) so went onto a beaker of milk downstairs before bed when she stopped bfing at age one. DS on the other hand still has a bottle in his room, he 'brushes' his teeth (really he just sucks the toothpaste off) then we have songs with DD then he goes to bed and is forced into semi-unconsciousness by his warm milk. I figure these teeth will fall out soon enough (he has already chipped one ) so not worth disrupting bedtime

It is over 14 years since I last went on a first date.

Loved the VG - would like mine to look like that but bf for nearly 7 years has madee that impossible I think.

LOL Red , we were all spelling out a different word though

Bed time for me too, night if there is anyone left up

The K I S S I N G was good too though.

Night all.

Longway Reese refuses all milk at this point so calcium infused juice is what she is offered other than water. That said, at night or most often in the wee hours of the morning, if she wakes and won't go back to sleep I will give her a sippy cup with juice to drink. I leave it with her in her bed (it doesn't leak) and I go back to bed. For those random nights I feel safe her teeth will be fine till proper morning wake up time. I live across the street from our pediatric dentist and he raves about both girls teeth saying we are doing an excellent job with them. So I guess those nighty-night drinks aren't doing mine any harm.

Ladies remember it was said "filth" that brought us all together. SO BE CAREFUL STEAKY.

Off to figure out if I can help a friend out. Seems my name was brought up as a "good" person to help with a school fundraiser. This would be for DD1's preschool....the one Reese will be attending next August. I hate to "not" help but then...I'll just have to think about it.

HAPPY TUESDAY!!

TS not to worry lady, all suitable precautions taken.

and yes,

HAPPY TUESDAY

Mum has DD today so I am working on GSD (global steaky domination)

porridge and fruit for breakfast here.

2.5 hours of screaming last night (from DS, not us, although it was a close one). Is it bedtime yet?

Mum just told me she can't babysit - she has had the dates for over a week - I could weep! Very cross with her as this is not the first, nor the second time that she has got dates confused.

But she is helping me hugely by taking DD one day a week anyway and for having her at short notice on Saturday. So not the end of the world and we can always stay in.

But I wanted to wear my pretty dress and go out to a restaurant.

Tuesdays, tsk.

Ah Steaky - what a nightmare.

And now he's said that we should rearrange to next week.

I wanted to do kissing with the nice man!

Sazzles don't you have an Altoids you can offer the poor chap. He obviously has no loving partner to point out his problem. I'm sure he's the guy in his office that all chatter about around the water cooler. "EEEUUUWWW did you sit near him in the meeting yesterday." "Yes and I about DIED!" "Do you think something died in his mouth?" "I don't know but he'd be great on the battle field laying the enemy out with one puff."

Cyteen

Morning
Back to the daily grind.

Thanks to all those Aug08 little ones that messaged Reese. She got it! Up at 2am. She spent the remainder of the night in our bed....where she and DH are still SNORING!!!

Cyteen hope you are keeping it together today and DS is alright

Steaky what a bugger

Oh, DS stirring already from his nap and I haven't got the washing out yet...

steakY oh no re rearranging

all those with bedtime battles. if you've been on Fb you will have seen/maybe even commented on my status 2 weeks ago. After being away over the xmas hols ds took to screaming at bedtime - whereas since 6 mo he has always done down happily awake. The thing that worked here was leaving him in his room but standing outside the (ajar) door ssshhh sssh sshhing. goin gin and cuddling etc revved him up and it all started again each time, and this way he knew we were nearby and not totally ignoring him (pauses to listen to ssshhhes proved that) but he re learnt how to self settle. It was 50 mins the first nigh, then got less and less until suddenly one night it was as if the blip never happened . I have been doing lots of reading obsessing about it and it seems that a blip in sleep often happens at about 18 months - so much stuff happening developmentally and in their awareness about them being separate from us etc etc.

hotter - yes, just as a student - so I mostly lived in Woodhouse. But my grandparents lived in Wakefield. Oh and I was also going to reply to your post about it being stressful having a massive child who eats a lot. DS has always been huge - DH says "Yes, we are really proud of him" whenever people (frequently) say how huge he is. This helps as it is quite a good reply.

Thanks for all the milk and teeth comments. Helpful for when I think about maybe changing our bedtime routine.

Quick bargain dress alert - is anyone a size 24? Have found stunning flattering dress at bargainous price. Am gutted they don't have one in my size.

lwfh and hotter - i too have giant children. Got used to it with dd so now just shrug it off with "i do big babies and then have to lug them around" type comments.

people are always amazed ds is only 18mo

Goodness me, where is everyone? Steaky did you get your date at home, or have you rearranged? for your weekend action though

hotpot where are you thinking of moving the Swiss family too? (see what I did there?)

Ds and I have been to the dentist today, all good and ds has 2 wobbly teeth, not just the one we thought

Thats ds1 of course! Be a bit if O had 2 wobbly teeth - he's only got 9 altogether!!

And thanks for all suggestions re sleep. I think it's general bad parenting habits that makes O so reliant on us putting him to sleep. That and I distinctly remember feeling very sad when I was little that (for a number of reasons) my parents weren't there to comfort me and cuddle me, one of those times being at bed time. They were in the house but just not 'there' for cuddles . So poor T & O get cuddled to pieces by me . No bad way to be - it's what i wanted!

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