Beach Bump Graduates!

[caz_hills]

Oh and his parents get home from their holiday in 12 days..... I love it just being the three of us x

 

[Hann12]

Thanks Caz - I know you understand from one annoying MIL and mummy's boy to the next lol! I text him as he's gone now and he replied that he's really sorry and just feels embarrassed and that it won't happen again. I'm not sure if he's embarrassed because she's a royal pain in the bum or because he didn't realise what he was doing and chose to speak to his mum over spending time with us! I do think he gets it, I just hope that it lasts and we don't slip back to such long skyping as I have said it before ages ago and it's like he's forgotten it! I told him to call her during the week and get her 'news' then so that we all don't have it for hours over the weekend - not that anything she actually says is news as it tends to be about very mundane what she's eaten that week etc but hopefully talking to her more might help!!
And I feel for you so much with yours coming home, I bet it's been such a treat having them away, plus when they get back they are bound to want to come over because they'll have missed him. I don't think any of us begrudge grandparents spending time with them it's just if its at the expense of our own family time that its not right.

Looks like we are both on our own this afternoon and heading to the park! Boys and their sports! Hopefully the afternoon will be okay and not drag too much. We haven't even had lunch yet so that little activity will take up some time! It's sad that I'm wishing the afternoon away, I'm just exhausted and have no clue what to do with Annabelle at the weekend without Greg as there's no where really to go!

 

[caz_hills]

I know what you mean Han. I need to wake Ajay up now as he's been asleep for 90 minutes and it's 3 pm! But I just need a rest. But hey ho -we'll go for a little walk, then a snack, then playing until daddy gets home. I do really love Neel's parents but it has been nice just having the three of us. They are back on a Friday and then they will definately want to see Ajay that night I expect and then over the weekend. I think what I need to do is leave him with them for a few hours and I'll be on my own as it's easier, they drive me mad! But if we saw less of them it would be easier - who knows.

Hope your afternoon is ok too Han. It's horrible when we want time to fly by but it's hard by yourself sometimes. xxx

 

[Hann12]

I think the idea of you getting alone time while they see Ajay is a good one! I'm going out in the evenings when mil is here in feb just for some escape plus I get to see Greg and my friends. You can always use uni work as your excuse!

We walked to the local shops (8 min walk away) unfortunately Annabelle got cold so wouldn't walk back so I had to carry her home as she cried all the way! We are now snuggling on the sofa watching waybuloo.

 

[mummySS]

Aah we've been to the park too today! Was a nice sunny day but omg freezing! Hann i don't blame annabelle for wanting to be cuddled up with you!

We've done lots of skyping with leo's grandparents and paul's brother and his family, and have visited my parents and sister - leo had his dinner with the twins and gobbled it all up! He's had a lovely day and seen everyone who cares about him which is nice.

Caz, ohhh the PILs coming back, i can see why you're dreading it a bit. But hopefully it will give you a chance to have a little break from it all at home, and as Hann says, uni work is a great excuse! Sorry to hear you have a cold, hope you feel better soon. It's horrid to feel poorly over the weekend.

Hann you must be knackered, especially after carrying A back! hope you got through your dreaded saturday ok. I'm glad Greg apologised to you. At least the day is over and greg's around tomorrow. No more skyping!

SB lovely hats and great pictures of katie!

Bec, we are still in clarks shoes too, i think we'll probably stick to those until he's a proper kid. It's weird though if I had a girl i'd probably be tempted to buy her other brands and go for the pretty shoes, but with boys i kinda think clarks are ok! They are bloomin expensive though aren't they.

I too can't bear parents that don't tell their kids off, it's so rude! I fear Leo is one of the feisty kids... But I always apologise for him and watch him like a hawk. He does tend to snatch things and not share. I think it's partly because he has two older cousins who he learns this stuff from, but also because he's at nursery so he's had to learn to fend for himself a bit. I think it's really unacceptable when parents let their kids get away with it though.

 

[caz_hills]

Urge feel like poo so off to bed. Neel has been wonderful bless him and I hope Ajay doesn't get up too early as Sunday is my morning! Tomorrow we are getting a kitchen quote at 3 an before that I was due to have a massage which I got as a Xmas pressie. Hoping tomorrow is better.

Simmy bless Leo, he is a sweetie. So lovely that he has seen everyone today and spread Leo love around glad to hear you sounding better too I hope the worst is well and truly over now for you.

Han when does Greg get home? I hope he isn't too drunk xxx

 

[SugarBeth]

Re Shoes: Katie seems to have tiny feet! She's still in 4-5. Her little cousin, when turning one just before Christmas, was a size EIGHT! My goodness! Katie was always on the larger end of the percent tiles, but I guess not in feet size! lol. It's so hard to find her shoes, most places don't sell much lower than a size 8, and she will only agree to wear sneakers if they light up! lol

Anyone else's toddlers changing up their sleep schedules? Katie is driving me a bit nuts, she now fights her one nap a day (even when she's red eyed and can barely keep her eyes open, she still fights it!) and is trying to stay up later and later every day. This only started last week, but I'm already tired of it! I've been needing to take a nap with her every day because of how bad she is at sleeping. Late to sleep and early to rise just isn't fair!

Jealous of everyone going to the park! It's below freezing here and been snowing for hours. I SO long for spring and summer so we can go back to picnics at the park every day and afternoons in the pool! Seems so far off yet though.

 

[Blue_bear]

Sleep is a sore subject here at the moment. I'm currently blaming the 18month sleep regression.

 

[caz_hills]

Moan alert! I'm feeling awful think I might have flu or something. I got up with Ajay this morning ad woke Neel at 9 as I felt so rough. I've slept four hours since then and now on te sofa. There is no way I can go to work tomorrow feel like poo. I feel so bad for Ajay as I've literally got no energy x

 

[Doodlepants]

Oh I hope you feel better soon Caz!

Happy Birthday Georgie! I hope you get some proper sleep soon xx

 

[Hann12]

Our nap times have changed in the past week from 2 naps to the one lunch time one. It just happened so means we have also dropped a bottle. She's been hard work at night though - up a lot between 10/11pm - 2am, mainly waking wanting to play it seems. It's frustrating but just doing lots of quiet talking and explaining its bed time. I haven't left her to CIO, let her come in to our bed and play for 20 minutes then put her back in her bed and most of the time she seems satisfied and goes back to sleep. It's very tiring though!

SB - Annabelles feet are teeny too. But she's pretty small all over and I have small feet for someone of 5ft 9 (size 4-5).

Caz - feel so bad for you, really hope you have started to feel better as the day has gone on.

Georgie - hope you had a nice birthday

Had a good day though busy as went to earlsfield to the pub for a friends birthday. Exhausted now!

 

[caz_hills]

Hope annabelle sleeps well tonight Han you deserve it. Night girls x

 

[Hann12]

Hey Caz how are you feeling today? I hope much better but I also hope you got the day off work to recover.

I've had a lovely day so far - Annabelle slept all night (thank goodness!) and woke at 8am! Then we had a bit of time with Greg as he had a doctors appointment, then had monkey music - got told by the other mums that they hadn't realised I was pregnant until this week, it must have popped out in the past week! Then home for lunch and Annabelle has been sleep since 12! So I had an almost 2 hour sleep myself and she's still going. Wow. Sorry if it sounds like bragging but this rarely happens to me, and I'm sure I'll pay for it for the rest of the week but I really needed som rest so I am over the moon!
If only every day consisted of mammoth daytime sleeps. Must be a growing thing I suspect though. Still it's been lovely!

 

[fifi-folle]

Hi ladies just saying hi, I read regularly but don't often have a hand free to post.

 

[caz_hills]

Hi Fi ! Hope all is well with you.

Han - wow A is such a good girl! It's not bragging, we all wish we had days like that! The days when they don't sleep and nap for like ten minutes are awful!

Thanks for asking after me, to be honest I still feel terrible. I'm sleeping in the day - yesterday for 4 hours today for 3 hours and I literally can't keep my eyes open and feel awful. Neel is continuing to be fab. The only plus side is that I'm not hungry so hopefully am losing weight but I just want to feel better now.

I've got tomorrow off work and Wednesday but I feel so crap that we are asking nursery to have Ajay tomorrow as well. I just hope I'm better on Wednesday

 

[melissasbump]

Hi all

Caz, so sorry to hear you are poorly, how good that Neels been great though with both you and Ajay, really hope you start to feel better soon!

SB, forgot to mention, yay for Katie walking! Bless her little feet too though i guess American sizes are different to those over here. Its still cold here but with the odd nice sunny day.

Hann, yay for the great night from Annabelle and the long nap! Glad for you, hope you are feeling better for it!

Georgie, hope you had a lovely birthday, love the image of your neighbours being led away in handcuffs!

So AFM, We have had a nice weekend despite being tired, we ran a few errands sat morning then after Hs afternoon nap we went to the park to feed the ducks , H loves doing this, we also took his Thomas the tank push along to see if it would help with his walking as although he can walk perfectly well when we are out he often just wants to be carried. Anyhow it worked a treat and he was racing around with it it was so cute!
Yesterday we went to friends for lunch which was nice and today I had a chiro session then we went out for lunch and H had a nice long nap whilst i made a mountain of bolognaise sauce to freeze. We then got his new trainset out for the first time which was good.
On the sleep front, well we have good and bad nights. we had a good fri,, think he went right through till around 6am, but then sat night he was up 3 times and just wouldnt settle at all (teeth i think) Last night he woke up at 4am and i went and kissed him and laid him back down and he went straight back off to sleep till 610am which again was good but i couldnt get back to sleep again! So its all a bit hit and miss still but hey ho! My mum is having him tomorrow night bless her, they are going to come over to watch his swimming lesson and take him sometime in the afternoon, we are going to use the time to get the rest of the baby bits down from the loft, the moses basket, carrycot, car seat, play gym, steriliser etc so over the next few weeks i can give them all a good clean and see if anything needs replacing. Am also going to buy a few bits for my hospital bag tomorrow too. Although ive still got a few weeks left, with Alan going back to work more and more hours now, we dont have as much time to sort these things.
The other good thing is we appeared to have finally cracked the bottle! H is now having milk twice a day out of a cup finally! yay!

Oh Simmy, you mentioned how did we get rid of the dummy last week i think? Well in essence we pretty much went cold turkey on it and just his them all from view, H was never totally reliant on it anyway but if he saw one he would automatically put it in his mouth. There have been some times though over last few weeks ive been tempted to give it back but have resisted! lol

 

[caz_hills]

Mel yay to ditching the dummy and also the milk in a cup - what a big boy he is! Off to bed now so chat tomorrow x

 

[mummySS]

Hi all

Mel, thanks for the info on the dummy, i'm glad you resisted giving it back to him, it'll be better in the long run! We're in two minds about whether to ditch Leo's dummy yet. He only uses it to sleep with, he never has it otherwise and i'm quite strict on that. But like Harrison if he sees one lying around then he automatically puts it in his mouth, so i'm worried he'd do that with the baby's dummies. Oh and well done on ditching the bottles too, we're still far off on that one!

Caz, how are you feeling today? Hope you are feeling better xx

Hann how's Annabelle's sleeping been? We have the same problem, when Leo wakes at night he just wants to chat and play, we tend to just ignore him if it's right in the middle of the night, but this morning he started his chatter at 5.45 and by 6.45 he was crying and asking for his milk... Sigh. It's exhausting!

Georgie, hope you had a good birthday x

Fi - how are you getting on? Do we have no chance of keeping this forum going once we all have two kids????

AFM busy day yesterday it was my mum's birthday so I gave her the day off looking after Leo, but we all went for lunch instead which was hectic but fun. It's the first 'outside food' that I've had, and I was ok with it. Felt a bit sick at the smell of garlic bread but generally I was fine so that's good. Just exhausting though.

Today i'm STILL trying to get my remote access sorted for work, and trying to get a bit of work done too.

Hope everyone has a nice day x

 

[Hann12]

Maybe the getting rid of the dummy has affected H's sleeping Mel? If Annabelle could suck her fingers she would be really sad and would def wake up at night more. I hope the sleep improves, it seems like they are all having sleep ups and downs lately. We had another wake up night last night, not too bad actually just the once at 3.30am but then I'm awake and I find it hard to get back to sleep as my hips are killing. Really hoping the new mattress makes a difference.
Also well done on getting rid of the bottle! We have dropped one but I can see no way out of the others at the moment. I might try a cup at the weekend and see where it gets me. I still give growing up formula instead of cows milk too eeek!!

Simmy - glad that things are on the up, and only a few days to go until the big gender reveal!! Can you tell I'm excited lol! By the way just don't give the new baby a dummy then Leo won't have one to pick up. Problem solved I know easy for me to say as Annabelle never took one but could be a solution. By the way I'm not adverse to dummies was just an idea.

Caz - really hope that another day in bed is helping. Its so miserable feeling sick. Maybe its the thought of the MIL returning?! Hope you feel much better anyway.

Hi Fi - I need help on ring slings - if you get a chance to read and post, I'm looking at a ellaroo, Storchenwiege, or maya - any ideas which are best from a comfy perspective? I want to use it to feed the baby in so I have my hands free for Annabelle. Hope you are doing well - and Cam and Cassie!

Georgie - are you hanging in there?

Ah mind gone blank, hope everyone else is doing well!

Meant to be at a friends at 3 but Annabelle is still asleep, she seriously must be growing as this is day 2 of mammouth daytime sleeps. Shes being so cute at the moment too - she climbs onto my laps for cuddles and kisses all the time and copies me, so if I lie down she does too. She also picking up a new word or two a day (yesterdays was cake lol) so I'm less concerned by speech now. Going to be so weird when the new baby comes as we have so much fun now and are so close I really don't want that to change or for her to be upset by having the new baby here. Scary

 

[mummySS]

Aah that's very cute of Annabelle! I know what you mean re worrying about the closeness when the new baby is here... I guess it's something we're all going to have to get used to. But remember once they get over their initial jealousy, they will have a new playmate too! (probably just something to prod at first lol).

No you're right ideally i'd try to avoid giving the new baby a dummy, but if it's anything like Leo who was a really sucky baby, I might struggle without one.

Good job on Annabelle's sleeping too! I'm jealous! We're def going through a 'sleeping is for wimps' stage. Leo had no nap at all yesterday (yup, exhausting!) and then didn't get to bed til 8pm and then woke up at 5.45am this morning. I'm hoping he'll have a growth spurt soon...