Good morning ladies
Claire you are probably already in Cork now and I hope the drive went ok. You are a sleep deprived hero! I don't think I could do such a long drive with so little sleep. I find driving at night soporific as it is and doing it while tired? I remember once driving back to Switzerland and falling asleep for a few seconds behind the wheel. It was the most frightening experience ever! Needless to say I pulled over into the next petrol station and had a rest.
Hope to hear from you and that all is well with your and Miss Lucy.
Storm there was a time when two wake ups at night were the dream come true for us too lol. But now it would be bad cause we have gotten so used to being able to sleep through. Also, the boys wake at around 6ish, maybe 6:30 when we are lucky and my OH hates going to bed before midnight. So who ever has night duty, will get a maximum of 6 hours sleep and to me that is the very least I need to not be grumpy and tired all day. I'd rather have one stretch of 6 hours uninterrupted sleep than say 12 hours broken sleep.
Great news about your friend and his scan! I really hope all continues well for him
But another 9 weeks of chemo do sound gruelling. How is he taking to that? Is he very ill with it or is he one of the lucky ones who does ok?
Sorry nights have been so bad with L but maybe last night was better? On top of your sickness, pain in your leg and general pregnancy blah this must be soo hard to take! Is the leg pain still there? Might it be sciatica? I had that too and only found out after that I could have had physio for it. Maybe you could too?
How did it go with the other sets of cousins? Did L take to them right away? She isn't shy on the whole though is she?
How is L eating? Any better?
And as for No way and bum hurt that made me laugh! How cute though!
Oh and I meant to ask, will you find out the gender of your bean at your 20 week scan or will it remain a surprise? Also how are you doing on names? Sooo exciting all that
Borboleta I loved the pictures of T at the beach! He is such a cutie!
The room in the video of Sebastian with his walker is our sitting-room. There is no room at all in the boys' bedroom as there are already two cotbeds, a single guestbed, a chest of drawers/changing table and a desk with OH's computer. It will get better once we don't need the guest-bed any more. At the moment we give the boys their morning and bedtime bottles on there and my OH prefers changing them on that rather than the changing table. Also, when the boys are old enough, they will get bunk beds. But we make a point of clearing up the sitting room in the evening so that we can have an adult room for when they boys are in bed
I am hoping your friend will have good news with getting pregnant this time. Fingers crossed.
How is T eating now? Any better? I am so impressed that he knows his letters already! What a smart little man he is!
Fingers crossed these head hunters will finally find something for your DH!
Leeze yay for STTN! I hope she has done it again since? I bet you felt like a new woman
Finsbury Park is actually quite close to where my OH's mum lives. She is in Haringey.
Going to see her feels like more of an effort than flying home. Mind you, I haven't flown anywhere with the boys yet so I am probably talking blithe nonsense lol
How lovely that Kia says Thank you Mummy and appitty! Soo so cute!
I cannot imagine that my boys will be there when they reach Kia's age but who knows, they might yet
Sabrina hows the situation with the neighbours now? Still as noisy? Poor Finn getting scared and growl that you cannot use your own garden. What hell!
As for Finn biting and hitting you, mostly I manage to stop Dominic biting me but he does sometimes hit me and I think he must mean it cause he frowns and pouts while he does it. Not sure what it means as I am not aware of "deserving" it at that moment lol
Also I wanted to ask you about Finn running, how long would you say did he start actually running from when he first started walking unaided? Dominic is not running yet and I am not anxious for him to start lol.
And how cute that Finn says goodie!
Clio how lovely that you will get to visit your beloved Toronto in Autumn! I bet you are looking forward to it. What kind of car seat do you have? I cannot imagine taking our huge bulky car seats into the plane. Is securing it with just the seatbelt safe enough? I miss our maxicosies, they were so handy and compact. But of course they would be far too small now.
You mentioned not fighting in front of J and I think this is a good thing. But sometimes OH and I do argue a bit in front of the boys and we forget. Do you strictly keep your tones calm and loving in front of J always? I really must work on my tone. But like
Leeze, I kinda think getting and accepting a tongue-lashing from me from time to time is my OH's duty
Kitty_love sounds like Blake is doing excellently well.
I loved that age too when they starting rolling all over as a means of getting to the other side of the room
How is he liking the playpen? For a while ours was invaluable to us but that was before the boys started crawling cause after that we had to give up our sitting room to them lol. Now the playpen is a safe storage place for things such as their high-chairs and toys they aren't allowed to have (cause they are noisy and drive me crazy
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We have a toy shop here that also sells those Green Toys and I was telling OH that we should really look into those more rather than the plasticy things we have. never really thought about it before you mentioned it either
As for which ones are favourites among the That is not my... books, I don't really think that the boys have a favourite unless maybe That is not my Monster cause one of them has lovely fluffy pink eyebrows. I think usually they like those the best that have lots of textures. The one about the kitten sadly has fewer textures than others cause for example one kitten has a smooth nose and one has a shiny bell but neither of them are therefore textured. I think That is not my Baby is another favourite cause the last page is a mirror cause it says That is my baby, It is you! Which is really cute I think. The boys like looking in the mirror
Indigo I am so impressed that Nico is almost over the stage of putting everything in his mouth! Dominic will pick up pebbles and bits of wood and even plastic pieces whenever we let him crawl on the lawn in the park. It really is bad with him! Wish he would stop already too!
Charlie when are you off to Oz again? I forgot.
Kosh glad G wasn't badly hurt! How scary!
I am so sorry about the tenancy problems. But you know maybe she doesn't know this law and you could still get her out - if you can reach her? Can't you go and knock at her door in the evening?
As for G loving to clean! Long may it last lol. But how utterly cute that is!
Oh and I meant to say, I haven0t done anything about Sebastian's lip tie so far as there was a thread in Baby Club not long ago about it, which made me think I didn't really need to since it doesn't involve BF
But next time we are at the doctors I will ask him. Not that I am too confident about him being that knowledgeable about it mind you
Squiggy congrats on 35 weeks
I saw your post in the toddler section about heights and weights. You really do want to be prepared don't you lol. But even if you are the most organised person ever, having a baby will be like nothing you ever expected
Hope that doesn't scare you too much
As for us: Dominic's walking is coming along and he does it more and more unprompted. He is still very wobbly of course but really is getting there. And in gymboree on Tuesday for the first time he was able to keep up with the other toddlers when pushing the air-log along
I think Sebastian might be close too to walking as he did a few steps unprompted here and there. I think with him it is merely a lack of confidence as he can do it very well with the walker. The walker is not very heavy at all and easily overturned so not much weight can be applied and is therefore not much of a prop. So I am thinking he is holding on to it more for the security than cause he needs to.
Feeding Sebastian is still a real problem. He refuses to be spoon-fed anything except his breakfast porridge/muesli and his yoghurt dessert in the evening. But he also refuses to chew. Yesterday evening OH made the boys white fish cause we thought maybe without the crust of the fishfingers he made before, Sebastian would find it more soft and dissolvable. He refused to eat it after he tried and just chucked it on the floor. Same with the sandwiches we gave them for lunch, although there he did lick the hummus off first. I tried ricecakes but it took him 15 minutes to eat half of one and then he chucked the rest. I am really stumped. We tied everything we can think of.
I really hope he gets that molar soon. Yesterday when brushing his teeth there was a bit of blood so I know he is teething. So maybe it is that too.
Oh and I meant to ask re
vitamin D, do I need to give them that even though they still get formula? OH bought some and we put some in their bottle but that already has loads of vitamins doesn't it?
Got to go they are yammering!
Hope all are well, sending
!!! Can't wait for when thiago says that!!
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by the time we got home. He was exhausted today and didnt last 2 1/2 hours this morning 
