Thanks for all the supportive messages, skorpion i hope he sleeps well too. Have been camping twice with him now and both times he was fine, in fact slept pretty well, or, rather would have if not for being woken by DD having night terrors. Although, the whole campsite was woken so likelihood of bear cub sleeping through is not high . sirb not likely that family will be hugely helpful - my brother is a military man, and he runs a tight ship with his family too, and has 3 children, age 6/4/2, so will have his hands full, while i desperately attempt to have some vague grasp on parenting two!
Looking forward to seeing the family though, this is the only family I have who I am in contact with, the rest are my ILs, and love them as I do, they are not my own longstanding blood relatives. I have not especially been close to my brother but we are getting closer over the years since mum died, neither of us are in touch with our other brother or our sister, so its just us two. We are more similar than we realised I think. He is going to Afghanistan (for the second time) in September and I am worried more this time, so need to see him.
tamlin yey! you are back! and with your belongings now, oh how hard to go so long without a bed! I love the image of DS crawling around the floor begging for food
Food - bear cub loves bananas! He also loves boiled egg. Can't remember the 'rules' on egg, but whatever they are, he loves it anyway, along with prawn crackers, which I am pretty sure he should not have, but stole from my plate yesterday someone asked about food for family, think it was laugs? We cook stuff like pasta/cheese sauce, fish pie and veg, jacket potatoes (skin great for baby gums) with chilli (mild version for DD, just cheese for DS), also Dhal and rice (that is a current fave with both children), chicken pie (scoop out filling and mash/chop for DS, give him some pastry to suck on), omelette, scrambled egg/toast, risotto (fish/chicken) spag bol/lasagne/cottage pie (not for ds, he has not had red meat yet).
teeth - there is definitely a second on the way, and it is not being kind I don't think. He is really unhappy with it, and I can see it almost ready to break the skin but not quite that grey/blue yet. Poor boy.
Jem did i say hello? if not, very rude of me sorry. Been tired and absent. Camping - we are going on tuesday for a few days. To the Cotswolds. My biggest suggestion is take some jars/pouches of food, do not try to be clever and cook/take it all freshly made from home, its a bit stressful! a few days won't hurt, unless you are doing full BLW. We will give him bits of our food supplemented with pouches! Also, try to keep some semblence of bedtime routine, to help reduce the chances of nighttime waking. Take a first aid kit with baby related stuff (sachets of infant nurofen/ paracetamol), take jumper/cardigan with a hood on and put that on at night, along with sleepsuits with scratchmits and use the mits to keep hands warm, take extra blankets and a night light. also the best thing - i took the travel cot, which is a bit cumbersome, but meant I could put DS outside in the shade while we prepared food/cooked/washed up/relaxed etc and he did not escape! Not sure how long that will work for this time as he wants to be moving. And, one more thing, do not stay up late drinking rum if you want to have any chance of a sleep, as it is guaranteed that will be the night your child will chose to wake at 4am .