Good morning ladies! So much to catch up on! Might be another long post
Thank you all for your compliments about my boys
Borboleta yay for T feeling and eating better! And double yay to getting money back from your taxes! That is always a lovely feeling!
As for my boys eating, yeah we have decided not to worry too much and just wait a bit longer with most of the finger-foods and more solid things. Might try again in a month or so, except for occasional treats like biscotti and puffs and such things.
How is T's cold? And did he sleep ok last night? I hope another sttn?
Claire I know you probably won't be able to read this but I hope you got to Ireland safe. Sounds like a nightmare driving under such conditions! Hope you get to sleep and recover plenty when you are there.
Jules first of all lovely neat bump! Maybe your boy is lying traverse and that is why you feel that your pump extends to the sides?
And please tell me that the room in the background is a hotel and not your home? Cause if it is your home I officially hate you for being so elegant and tidy. Not to mention for what appears a dressing room
Sabrina the hand holding sounds adorable but I can see how it would be tiring too, especially if F then wants to play with your buttons too lol. But your description of the scary movie made me grin! And my boys like to claw my face which is not much better than being hit I think. They tend to grab my lips and try to turn my face to the side so they can get at my hair and pull it out in great strands. Owie. Still, at least I don't have glasses to protect like you do.
I have been meaning to ask, do you think that Finn will find it hard to sleep when he finally outgrows his Moses basket and has to just lie in the cot? I wonder cause I think my boys actually sleep better since they can move around their cots at night. Mind you, we put in about 6 or 7 dummies so they always can find one when needed.
Would love to see a pic of Finn in dungarees and overall. I bet he is adorable!
As for the alcohol... this is obviously what a lot of older ppl did cause I got that comment a few months ago though sleep related and not about teething. This old woman told me she put alcohol (I think whiskey or brandy or something) in the bottles of her children. Sadly I wasn't as quick witted as you to ask how many of them are now alcoholics. lol
Kosh sorry we weren't able to solve the mystery why G is waking every hour. I am so sorry that you got that MOTP too. It sounds just too exhausting for words I hope he has now stopped waking so often?
Clio your sister sounds odd, like she regrets admitting something that seems like a weakness to her perhaps and then she regrets opening up about it and denies it ever happened? But if being worried or not sure what to do with a little baby means weakness then I do think most mothers are weak!
As for the omelette, Dominic snaffled his up no problem. Shoved the whole bits in his mouth and tried to swallow in one go. Couldn't though and then chomped as best he could and swallowed as soon as he could! Greedy piglet lol! Sebastian seemed to like it but again most of it ended on his lap. He just refuses to, or cannot, mash it down mash I guess. I guess the biscotti and carrot puffs melt in his mouth and that is why he likes those. And he does take forever on one of those which also points to him letting things melt. Maybe scrambled eggs would work better but then again I can just see them hit at the scramble and make mush
. I am thinking we will wait a bit and try again.
As for Amazon Prime, I thought their thing was delivery free and the next day. But maybe this is only in big cities such as London and perhaps Toronto? But yeah the clicking of only one button and not having to enter your details every time is definitely another reason why I love it so!
As for your question about the 4am bottle. Yes we did wean Dominic off that by replacing it with water. It took a long while to work but he was younger then (I think 9 months but I am not sure now) and had never STTN. But at least he only woke the once for that bottle and not again and again which convinced me that it WAS habit rather than real hunger. A gentler method would be to water down the milk more and more till it is mostly water and he thinks it isn't worth waking any more.
Btw re snow, you aren't the only one to suffer with it cause it was snowing here too 2 days ago! I couldn't believe my eyes but there were huge fat white flakes. They only lay for about an hour and then melted so I am guessing not quite like what you got but still. Enough of winter already!
Do you prefer lecturing to exams and essays? I think lectures sound easier and less involved and busy but I might be wrong?
As for the hand holding with J, I don't think he rejected you, he just wanted to let you know he didn't need help. But I can totally understand how it could make you feel rejected. Dominic is still in a whiney phase at the moment and at times me being in the room with him is just not enough and he bawls his eyes out for daddy. The other day I was trying to hold him cause he was crying and he shoved me away and crawled to the door, grabbed the gate and bawled. OH came into the room and picked him up and lo and behold, huge sunny smiles! Hm.
Charlie congratulations on S's christening!
Did you have a special dress for her? Would love to see piccies
And I SOO know what you mean about family dos being exhausting! My boys christening was like a lead cake in my belly for months before lol.
I am sorry you are so tired. Do you think it is a late 4 month sleep regression after all? Or maybe just a wonder week? I hope she sleeps again better soon you poor thing!
But so YAY again for the rolling over. I love how when they learn something new they then do it all the time
Leeze hope the teeth come in soon for Kia and that she then gets a little break - and you too, you poor tired woman!
Storm hope all is well? I am guessing you are in the middle of moving? Hope L is ok too xx
As for us: we weighed the boys yesterday and yay Dominic has come down a curve, though he hasn't lost weight as such, he just stayed the same. But that is all good. Sebastian has lost weight although he didn't need to. He dropped down almost two curves
. He is still not skinny but according to the doctor he was ok before so hm. Not sure if it is him being more mobile or our experiments with solids or what. But unless he drops further down I am not too worried.
Dominic now takes every opportunity to stand. Yesterday he was really upset when his daddy left the house and he was crying at the baby gates like a little prisoner. So I went into the room even though I was eating a bowl of porridge for my lunch. He immediately came over and stood up at my knee making begging puppy noises till I would give him a tiny bit. Of course one tiny bit was not enough and I ended up giving him 3 small spoonfuls. All that time he stood by my knee! Of course Sebastian wanted some porridge too and I gave him a little spoonful but he spat it out and then tried to eat it off the floor. Lovely lol.
Nothing much else really. Except that my back is killing me. Went to the park yesterday as the weather was nice and thought I'd cart them around for their 30 or 40 minute nap. But sadly while Dominic fell asleep immediately and slept for 40 minutes, Sebastian literally fell asleep only 5 minutes AFTER Dominic had woken up. So I was pushing that buggy for over an hour and a half and I seriously thought my back was going to give. If only I knew that the pain was muscle fatigue, I wouldn't mind cause that would mean I am strengthening it. But I think it is not the good kind of pain at all. Oh well. Mummies must suffer
Hope you are all well. Got to go give breakfast to my lovelies
xx
Oooh, yes please! Turns out he's not as fond of my turtle as I'd hoped, but I don't blame him; the scratchy wool didn't make it the cuddliest of toys. But he still loves anything turtle.
!! Then finally OH put his humidifier in little T's room with Vicky's strip in it and he slept till 6:30am. I am little tired but I guess I try to sleep tonight. T does not have a fever or anything and he seems to be doing better today 
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