Good morning ladies
Sorry I have been MIA, I was feeling a little down and not up to posting after my visit to my friend. Thank you all for your kind inquiries
Just briefly then, Andrea was operated on for 7 hours which was a lot shorter than expected. But the op went well and she is now in an artificial coma for 10 days to 2 weeks. The only problem is that her liver and gall bladder cannot cope with the intravenous food as it is too fatty. So she will likely lose more weight and she cannot afford to. But there is hope, as she wants to live and that is what matters.
Clio first of all how cute is that pic of J in your siggy!
Is he about to bite your knee?
As per your suggestion we have been trying to be strict with Dominic when changing him and I think it may work. We keep telling him to lie still and look at him sternly when he tries to turn over. He does cry but hopefully he will soon be happier. His bottom is not so raw and red now so I am also thinking that cleaning him might no longer be painful and therefore the whole process not such an ordeal. Thanks
As for who has been calling Sebastian a girl, lots of ppl. In cafes, at the checkout etc. We get asked If they are a boy and girl and when told no both are boys they always point to Sebastian and say Oh he looks like a girl.
Mind you, OH thinks it is flattering cause he sees it as a confirmation of Sebastian just being so gorgeous. He is very biased in regards to his boys and always thinks that everyone out there must secretly envy us for having such gorgeous boys lol.
As for the misnamed UglyDolls, Sebastian loves them, especially his Tulu. I think Dominic likes his Groody too but he is more focused on balls and rattles and his books at the moment.
What you say about your Pake's "Bah" would irritate me to the blood! I hate it when ppl dismiss me. By all means argue your point if you have one but don't just dismiss what I say. And when it comes to my children I think I would hit the wall. And I have. I hope you can either keep calm or talk some sense into your mother and father in law. When we were kids and my mum said no to us we just went to my dad and most of the time he gave us what we wanted (probably to keep us quiet and occupied) and that was so wrong cause we just disregarded her verdicts a lot! Poor mum!
Love the story about how J tricked you lol How cute that he likes to romp on your bed though
And my golly him reading to his grandmother is so cute! I bet she melted
Sabrina thanks for the suggestion of a toy when changing the boys. We too have done that but both find it more amusing to drop it to the floor with a thunk than play with it, sigh.
I hope F is not feeling too bad with that bug he picked up? Poor little thing!
As for the shed, well that only qualifies as a shed cause it is wooden but for the size I would say it is way more like a little house! I'd grumble and complain too! I hope they cannot use it commercially if they aren't forced to take it down completely.
Claire I would love to meet up sometime for coffee but I am not sure I can do that date. My mum was supposed to have come visit last Saturday till yesterday but of course had to cancel as I had to go to Zurich. So she is planning on coming over around the 20th instead. She hasn't specified when exactly so there is still a chance she might either be gone by the 24th or not yet here. I will let you know if that is ok?
Hope L is over her cold and that last night was more restful.
Storm I hope you and L are recovered? Yay for the washing machine
Sorry your first attempt at ttc failed, although I guess you aren't, if you are so scared. Are you sure you want to go through it all again if that is how you feel about pregnancy? I know you have talked about it before but I forgot what made your pregnancy with L such a horror to you? Were you very sick throughout?
Borboleta I am so sorry the thing in your hand turned out what you feared. But the fact that you found out early and that your doctor isn't worried too much must be a good sign and I hope you can get it under control very soon
My boys don't suddenly cry as such but sometimes when I leave them alone in the sitting room they do get fed up and start crying for me. but I guess this is different. I agree with
Kosh though. From what you say I think T gets frustrated and that is why he cries? Unless of course it is much simpler and he is just tired? I really don't think that T has autism cause as far as I understood one of the early signs is delays in development and milestones. I looked up a list on the internet about early warning signs and T has none of those as far as I can tell from your posts. Also, there was a sentence there that I thought was significant: "The earliest signs of autism involve the absence of normal behaviors—not the presence of abnormal ones..." So while I wouldn't say that T's sudden tears are abnormal they certainly do not point to any severe problem
I haven't worried about Autism much myself (except when my brother harasses me about the dangers of vaccinations
) but there is always something for us mummies to go crazy over isn't there? I think it is one of the things that mummies do.
Kosh and
Sabrina about the vaccination, I thought the ones at 12 months are just MMR? What other vaccs have they? Oh golly I hate the thought already! We are booked for the 21st as my GP was swamped till then, probably cause of that Measles outbreak everywhere. Kosh you delaying G's?
Charlie it must be kind of good that you now know for sure what you have and that it can be treated. So a little yay for that. Hopefully it won't take long till you feel much better
I hope your milk supply will get back to normal soon. I don't remember but have you tried taking Fenugreek? A lot of ppl swear by that for upping their supply. I tried it for a while while I was pumping and I do think it helped a little. The only downside is that it makes you smell like maple syrup, which is a lot less pleasing than it sounds lol.
Kitty_love that sounds so cute, you and Blake blowing raspberries at each other! And yay for baby giggles, best sound in the world isn't it?
All that interacting also sounds quite advanced considering his adjusted age so yay for Blake
Jules you are probably too busy to come visit here but just in case you do, I just wanted to let you know that I come and check your FB page almost daily to see if there are new pics or updates on how you are. William is adorable!
Not a Shrekbaby in sight! Just I knew there wouldn't be lol I hope you are recovering well and manage to get the occasional sleep.
As for us: I don't know if I mentioned it before but Dominic has been biting us for a while now. He gets very exuberant and then suddenly bites. It isn't done in a mean way but simple joie de vivre, much like Tomcats bite out of love and excitement too I think. Usually he bites our legs arms or knees which doesn't really hurt through the clothes. But yesterday he bit my poor Sebastian on the cheek and left teeth-marks! They are still a little visible today! He bit me on my collar bone the other day and it hurt like heck! Not sure how to stop him from doing that. I think
Sabrina you mentioned that F bites too at times? What did you do to make him stop or was it just a phase and he stopped by himself? Anyone else's LO do this too?
But what is also now obvious is that my boys understand more than I thought. They like to be on the sofa and from there stand up and play with the huge painting that hangs above it. It doesn't hang very securely. It won't fall by itself but might, if they move it too much back and forth. So I have been telling them No! And they know what I mean but test me by putting one finger on it and looking at me in an assessing way! Cheeky little things! lol And of course Dominic knows Lie Still! They understand wave and clap too but I think I mentioned this before? Oh and Sebastian knows what OH means with Ai-lie-lee (which is the first "word" from a Greek nursery rhyme I think and doesn't mean anything) but he then does this thing with his hand. He holds it up and turns it at the wrist back and forth, a bit like belly dancers do if you know what I mean. So OH just says that line and Sebastian does the hand movement
These are just a few examples, there are more but I have to go and give them a nap they are whining. So I hope all is well with you ladies. Sending
ETA: Bitemarks and today hanging out on the sofa watching tv with Groody and Tulu
. But she told me not to worry so much because the pictures you see on the Internet are the worst cases. So I have to put two creams in my hand ( one with steroids) and go back there in the beginning of September. Hopefully my coloration will be back by then. And thiago had another crying spell when my OH took him to an eletronic store today 
. They were just watching something in a big scream tv and he decided to cry. But then stopped when a clock showed up on the tv 
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S sounds awesome, by the way. I think she's going to take the world by storm! Gosh these babies grow up so fast!
! But sometimes I forget and if he gets close to my leg I just push his little face away from my leg 
and yes, we delayed the MMR as it seems that measles part takes better after 15months.
blush: okay, this story is not showing my finest parenting moments) and toppled head first off the couch. I ran to him, he cried, and never did it again. It's a rite of passage, I think. Just more bumps and bruises. Well, maybe a bigger bump on this occasion. And otherwise, J can now get down off the couch on his own. I think that T is taller than J, so he could probably do it safely, too. 
Proper slimy snotty noses and a bit of a cough too. They seem not to feel bad though and are their usual selves. I hope they shake it off as quickly as the last cold they had. Which I think was in November or December. I don't know how it comes that they are so rarely ill but I am not complaining 
