Dec 09 - We've found our fingers, we've found our toes, what happens next nobody knows

[Claire236]

Starting new thread before we run out of room. Now to link from the old one. Could be interesting

chocolate? Only because I don't have any in my house in an attempt to eat healthily and have suddently got obsessed with it just now...?!?

Good try but not the right answer .

Can we have a clue?

cupcake? That's what Catherine had at soft play today

Erm...got to be something seemingly unsuitable and yet harmless???...chilli sauce? left over take away curry? teabag?

Am I close?

PS - sorry about the head-song hendo. If it's any consolation, it was stuck in my head all last night - and again now - too

Ooh, thread title...

How about "Dec 09 - Twinkle, twinkle little stars - the one where they all sleep through"?

Otherwise, I quite like ABF's "Dec 09 - We have babies"

Nope, the car was purely spur of the moment!

I havent even tried Elizabeth on chunky things yet. She cant sit up so well and she gags so easily. I gave her a green bean at the carvery and she bit it in half and I panicked!
Im going to wait till she is sitting confidently I think.
She likes to have her own spoon when eating though.

Ok, the clue for the mystery food is that on here it's often referred to together with Fruitshoots as something that you shouldn't feed your dc. In fact if anyone off this thread reads it I'll probably be thrown off mumsnet and reported to ss .

Are you there yet?

at ABF's car buying spontaneity!

chips?!?

Sausage roll?

Gregg's sausage roll?

You got it Al!! .

I took dd to the post office after I picked her up from nursery school, I told her that after the PO she could pick something that she would like from the bakers (Greggs) and then when I told her that we were going to start ds on solid food at lunchtime she was very keen to share! He only sucked on a bit of pastry but still, put me up against a wall for the food police firing squad!

Actually dd has been a sweetie today; tonight when I asked her what her favourite part of the day was she said "Sharing my blueberry muffin with Samuel". I told her that my favourite part had been hearing her say that .

Ds has had some healthy food today too, honestly!

Oh and I'm utterly amazed that both of my dc are fast asleep!

isn't that a banning offense on Mumsnet!!

The sharing thing is very sweet. Alex has started saying he loves Catherine a lot. Sometimes he'll even give her a cuddle and go "Ah, you're so cute". Always makes me smile

Having a fall out with DH at the moment. Can't be bothered to start an AIBU but I need a mini rant... His Dad is coming over tomorrow to help him with some plumbing. FIL is famous for pulling faces when he comes round here because he doesn't think our house is clean/tidy enough - he and MIL live in a house that is so clean DH's best man described the house as a museum when he went round there on our wedding morning!! So before he comes over, I want to clean. I've been at soft play with both children for most of the day and can't really vacuum when I'm on my own with them because Alex gets scared of the vacuum and Catherine will not be put down so I end up with both of them in tears. So I started after dinner and was still vacuuming when it got the bath time. I asked DH to do bath time on his own. Cue stropping from DH because it's hard and Catherine cries when she has to get out because she immediately wants feeding and telling me I'd had 'all day' to vacuum and why was I doing it now!!

I'm fed up because I couldn't vacuum earlier for the reasons above and because I've done bath time on my own 3 or 4 times now while he's gone to the pub with his mates or to various gigs where he's stayed away overnight. The first time when Catherine was only 5 or 6 weeks old!! It seems to me that my reason for wanting him to do bath time was a lot less selfish than the reasons he's used in the past and it was hardly a big deal - I was still around to feed her etc.

Grrrr. Men.

Oh, and now I'm cleaning on my own because he's gone to 'the museum' to watch the footy with his Dad!!

Grrr for you too Al!

I nearly always do bath time on my own here, no matter if dp is in or out. Usually I don't mind but sometimes I feel really cross about it.

I'm going to vacuum and mop the floor now too.

OOOh LaDiDaDi, i love bakery pasties...i will prabably be shot on here for saying that-although greggs isn't my bakery of choice (i'm sure the ones i go to are much the same tho'!)

Have had my DM and DSD round this aft and evening. Anna has been a dream, which is great as she is going to stay with them for 2 nights in a fortnight when we go off to a friend's wedding. Am looking forward to it and apprehensive in equal measure as i hope she will settle there at their house and not cause them any hassle. she is generally very sociable, so fingers crossed!

Know what you mean Al. Our house is never very tidy (well not since we had Anna!) and i always find that something doesn't get done. It's just the way it goes when you have children IME. Either you have a less than tidy house, OR, you get a cleaner!

DH got back from his parents house after the match and apologised

I get really worried when his parents come round as their house is immaculate - just like their daughters houses and they have 2/3 kids each too so it's expected. His Dad is even worse as he seems to think that kids are easy (he told me this when I said we weren't having any more cause two was enough to cope with) so he thinks I should have plenty of time for keeping the house clean. He was away 7 days a week when DH was small - 5 days at work and 2 days working at his Mums - so I guess he never got to see how much hard work it was. By the time he got home, they were generally in bed so it must have seemed like a breeze. Plus, I think MIL is a little OCD (all the bathroom toiletries, including the spare shampoo, bodywash etc she keeps for visitors, have to colour co-ordinate with the bathroom!?) so the house probably always was tidy too.

It's the look of barely siguised disgust on his face that upsets me.

Still, I didn't decide to be a SAHM so I could spend more time cleaning. Pre-school keep telling me how confident Alex is and how it's hard to remember he is only just 3 as he is very well spoken and interacts so well with everyone. I like to think this is because I've always taken him to lots of activities and let him interact with lots of other children and adults. I'm sure he wouldn't be half so confident if he'd spent the last three years stuck in the house watching me scrub kitchen floors!! Our house isn't dirty but it's by no means a show home either. I'm just too fond of a sit down once they've gone to bed

Ooooh nothing wrong with a sausage roll. My MIL has made me a few batches of sausage rolls to snack on whilst bf and they are lovely!!!

Glad your DH apologised Al and I'm sure he would rather you were bringing up lovely confident children rather than obsessively cleaning. My mum has always told me that exposure to germs is good for children for building up immunity and I have whole heartedly continued that tradition in my house! If you want you could send your PILs round here first and then they'd probably think your house was immaculate!!!

Teething definitely over I think. Imogen had a two hour nap at lunchtime today for the first time in a week and although she woke up for a snack after going to bed (at half time though, clever girl ) she's been asleep since so fingers crossed for the rest of the night.

Spoke too soon, she's woken up again...! Only about 50 messages left on this thread now...

Morning all,
Sorry DH upset you Al, but glad it's been apologised for.

I totally understand. My DH just left for the day - he'll work until about 2am. So before he left, I vacuumed, did a load of laundry and swept the kitchen floor whilst he had cuddles with Holly. She's minutes away from crawling so I will have even less time to do little jobs like empty the bin. I could do quiet jobs whilst she's napping if I wanted but I mainly prefer to have a quiet sit, (and watch football) especially when she's gone to bed. All day on your own is very tiring, emotionally if not physically imho.

LaDiDaDi - glad DS enjoyed his food yesterday. When those of you with more than one DC describe their interaction with each other I find it so very lovely to hear!

I am really fancying a sausage roll now... we have to take a walk to Tesco later as the fridge is getting bare... hmmm where's my list?

Im dying. Didnt get in till 7am this morning. Im never drinking tequila again.

Pleased that you got an apology Al .

Not sure that ds enjoyed his food so much as endured it. I don't think that he actually ate anything, still I'm sure that the evidence will come out of the other end soon.

Lol at ABF! Tequila, tequila! . You must have had a good night, tell us about it when you are feeling less fragile!

Morning everyone! Imogen's night still rubbish - bed at 645 then woke up for feeds at 8.20, 11.45, 2.30 and 5.45. Then woke up properly at 630 as she had rolled right up to the top of her cotbed, turned 90 degrees and got her arm stuck out the end. I sent in dh who got her up, played with her, dressed her, did breakfast, nap, got her to take lots of formula for her feed while I got to sleep until 1030 am!!!! I feel so much better for it. I hope she settles back to sleeping more at nights again soon, it's exhausting. I sort of think that if I didn't feed her every time and tried to settler her she's stop waking so often, but it's so much quicker just to feed her and get back into bed...

ABF - your post made me laugh this morning. Altough I was very impressed with the 7am finish time!!! Hope you manage to get lots of rest today though.

Claire how was your week back at work?

Just had an awful experience with dd .

We are going round to a friend's house tonight and taking ds with us but dd is going to sleep at my mum's house. However, dd has started to not like going to my mum's or indeed spending time with her when I am not there. This is really sad as my mum looked after her when I worked ft before mat.leave and loves her to bits but once I was on mat.leave I really wanted to spend as much time as possible with dd, I really feel like I want to make up for working ft before and I've loved being with her. My mum clearly feels rejected by dd's behaviour, seems to be a bit jealous and also, I think, blames me for it all for wanting to be with dd so much since I've been off work.
Anyway this afternoon mum was here and then we explained to dd that she was going to stay at grandma's house. Cue hysteria from dd to the point that dp carried her to the car and she kept trying to undo her straps saying that she didn't want to go without me etc etc. .

I feel dreadful, I really wanted her to go so that we could have a night out and I could have a break in the morning (ds will need bf but is still easier to deal with alone than with dd). Also I need her to be happy to spend time at my parents house without me, inc. overnight, as when I go back to work she will need to stay there some weekends. The whole thing is a nightmare and I feel like I can't work out or do the right thing. I hate the thought of dd feeling like we are making her go away from us .

Have just rang mum, dd is still hysterical and apparently in the car said "Grandma J (mil) is my granma and you are Samuel's grandma) for mum.

Aw LaDiDaDi How old is your DD?

Alex really struggled when Catherine was born and started wetting and messing himself on purpose for a few weeks. Then he wanted to sleep in our bed and currently, he's refusing to eat himself and wants me to spoon feed him just like I do Catherine!!

It's a massive change for them and they've only had 6 months to adapt to being a sibling - things will calm down.

Tonight sounds horrible though. Could you maybe have a sleepover with her one night so she gets used to sleeping there again? Maybe start with you all spending the day there then working up to an overnight?