Hello all ? warning this really is going to be a mammoth post ? 2 weeks away is a long time if you keep chatting!!
Finally trying to catch up. Feeling a bit of domestic failure with all this talk of making cakes! It is Toby?s Christening on Sunday and we have 25 people for lunch afterwards ? planning on a cake (MIL is making the actual Christening cake), but I?m not sure I?ll bother ? sounds dangerous!!!
DD is much better today and needing constant entertaining ? ?fraid to say I?m looking forward to kindergarten starting again tomorrow and it has only been 1 day I?ve had to cope with them both ? spoilt while we were away. Toby never had to wait for attention, DD was constantly amused and I got to finish hot cups of tea (made by someone else!!). Even managed a few days skiing - managed to fit around Toby feeds and long sleeps. Out of 15 days, only 2 days did we not have glorious sunshine! (It?s raining there now though, Mum says, so we were really lucky! ? planning to go again over Easter, as DD has taken to skiing like a duck to water (or a penguin to snow). The smile on her face when we picked her up from her lessons was amazing. Shattered her though ? she slept loads. On days she wasn?t skiing, we went swimming together and had really good mother/daughter time, while my mum looked after Toby. So all in all a great holiday, but as I?ve said both children are playing up today, due to the lack of attention I think! Christmas was good and the children were spoilt as always (thankfully mostly with clothes, which are useful. Have to say with our boiler bill coming shortly (so lovely to have warm house again though!), DH and I decided against big presents this year ? spend it on things that we need in the house over the coming months.
Greedy ? 6ft 4 aunt ? that?s tall! I thought my brothers at 6ft 6 were tall, but for a girl that?s enormous ? so hope your DD doesn?t go over 6 ft ? not fun finding clothes! Presents in triplicate, including ring boxes!! Fantastic news you got your ring though ? good all DH!!! Playhouse sounds magical ? can?t wait until we have our garden done next month and actually have some space outside suitable for playing children! Council people came round this afternoon to take photos and have a look ? so hope we get the planning permission through ? we are improving it and making it safer, so can?t see why not! I?m planning on joining weight watchers again later this month as I too am fed up of being fat ? although I lost a lb over Christmas ? joy of breast-feeding a boy, coupled with some exercise I assume!!! How did DD?s birthday party go? Is marcy still sleeping well after dropping the 10pm feed? That?s one huge bladder your DD1 has (almost as big as your DD2?s stomach by the sounds of it!!). Have to admit that my DD is still never dry through the night ? think I need to speak to the HV about it, as she seems to have a pathological hatred of going for a wee during the day except under duress and must save up her wee?s for nighttime ? so she?s still in sleep shorts, I hate to admit. Going to work on in the next few months though!
Rainbow ? congrats on the boy!! So pleased all going so smoothly for you ? you deserve it having to be away from home so much at the moment.
Cityangel ? I hope you managed to enjoy Christmas? Not long until the 11th now!
Firsty ? glad you getting somewhere with Ty?s feeding ? sounds like he?s doing great at it now. Suppose I ought to start thinking about it all with Toby now, but just don?t want to rush him. I waited until 20 weeks with DD and I?m determined to make it further this time around. Nativity tableau was in our local town ? very very cold, but fun!!! Sorry you didn?t have a great Christmas. I agree though, I love the hype and build up and then it is over and January is such a grey month ? but it?s my birthday at the end!
Bodders ? you?re pictures are adorable ? you really do have 2 beautiful girls and that cake looks delicious!!! When you put it like that we do sound like breast-feeding is not best, but it is so much easier. I don?t want to say anything to jinx my happy little life, but so far Toby has been fairly well ? bit coldy while we were away, but not too bad (still able to feed quite well). Although he was waking up a bit more often while we were away, he?s settling much easier in the evenings than before. So hoping his sleeping through will come back with time (it is so dehydrating up in the mountains that I?m hoping he was just waking for a quick drink, as he?d only have a few sucks than settle awake happily back in his cot. But now I?ve said all this, it will all go horribly wrong (probably when I finally give in and put him in his cot in his nursery!!). Poor your DD1 with her ear infection ? it is so horrible when they are ill. I?ve never seen DD like she was on Saturday ? she just sat in her seat on the aeroplane staring into space, dozing on and off. None of the excitement about anything that normally accompanies a trip on a plane ? but it did make it much more relaxing for us, I hate to admit. I?ve never had to use Calpol and Calprofen with her, but had to on Saturday to get her temperature down. Thankfully she is better today though. By the way, I?ve had up the back poo explosions in every single make of nappy, so I think it?s in the putting on technique and poo consistency rather than the nappy brand!!! And I?m obviously rubbish at putting them on!! PMSL laughing at the skinny jeans/diamante comment ? can?t see Toby in that outfit, even with the smallest nappy in the world! He?s a real boy?s boy! Going to be huge ? not chunky, but tall ? already in 6-9 month vests etc, but in 0-3 mth trousers, so definitely long body!
Chooster ? you?re Christmas sounds fantastic. Max seemed to have as good a time as DD did! As she is the only talking, walking grandchild/neice she gets spoilt rotten for attention when we are staying with my family! That necklace sounds so very special ? I can well imagine the emotions attached to it. What a fantastically thoughtful present. Well done Theo on taking the EBM from a bottle ? Toby doesn?t like formula either, if it is any conciliation! Chooster ? don?t you worry I weigh more than DH too at the moment! I was less when we got married, but 4 pregnancies got in the way of that!!! I was supposed to be less than him for me to get my eternity ring, but since I?ve already got that, what?s the incentive?!! Poor little Max at the soft play centre. DD always wants me to play with her too at the soft-play centres, but with Toby, I just can?t do it. She then asks the mother?s of her friends to come with her, which makes me feel a real failure!!! Although I have been in a couple of times, while leaving Toby with some of the said mothers (there was a big improvement in how well I could climb and slide between 3 weeks post birth and 10 weeks post birth at different parties!!!). Theo sounds like DD was ? she was eating really well during the day, but still waking every night and either devouring a boob, or a full 8 oz once on formula until she was at least 18 months and we decided we had to stop it (it was a long and painful process, but worth it now as she generally sleeps 7-7 most nights (although we still have duvet malfunctions pretty regularly! How old will she be before she is capable of pulling her own duvet up off the floor!!!).
Honeyapple ? poor Dexter with his excema ? think Toby may have patches on his forehead and cheekbones ? going to ask the HV tomorrow when I take him to be weighed ? E45 cream doesn?t seem to be clearing it up much at the moment. Glad that he seems to be a very happy little boy though. Ooh ? just read on ? poor boy on the antibiotics. Not fair really on these poor little babies ? he?s had a lot to deal with since he entered the world, poor little Dex. How did DS?s birthday go?
Mrsmc ? by the time I?ve caught up, you?ll probably have had your little one!!! Hope you are managing to relax some now ? money worries are not fun.
Beansprout ? great to hear from you ? where has the time gone?!!
Iampg ? you?re sounding quite relaxed for all you say you;ve lots to do ? it will suddenly be 40 week don?t you worry!!! Also you?re due on my birthday ? so that?s obviously a great day to aim for!!!
Seaside ? You?re sounding so excited ? I?m so jealous of all you ones with new babies on the way. My little Toby is not so little anymore. Fighting DH over moving Toby out into his big cot (he really is too big for the moses basket, but I don?t want my little baby to grow up too quickly). Anyway, wouldn?t worry too much about perineal massage ? never did it with either of my two births. No problems with one and needed a episiostomy with the other.
Love to you all ? (if you are still reading!)