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Grumpy grumpy boy

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

Oh William was in a foul mood today. I don’t know quite what the problem was but he was nasty. He got himself all overtired and refused to sleep. He finally dozed off at about 3pm on me but then half an hour later, the bad mama that I am, I needed to go to the toilet so had to move him over the Matt. Bad choice. It was all downhill from the on. In the end we put him in the bath at 5:15 and to bed at 5:30 because nobody – including the boy himself – could cope with the extreme amount of screaming going on. Then the silly boy went and perked up after he had his bath. He lay on Daddy’s lap and giggled at me while I read his bedtime story. Who knows what was so funny about the bedtime story – it was all about stripey animals. Apparently they give William a good giggle.

We have a few plans for this week but not many so this is how it looks so far:

Monday: Dada is at university, mama and Will are meeting Evie and her mummy Cheryl

Tuesday: Dada home. Mama needs to work on her dissertation

Wednesday: Same as Tuesday

Thursday: Dada at university, Mama and Will are meeting Owen and his mummy Louise

Friday: As Tuesday and Wednesday

I haven’t quite decided what to do with William this coming weekend since I start placement in the middle of the next week and won’t see him much from then on I might keep him home and not let him go to Grandma and Grandads. The weekend after he will definitely be away as he is going to Nana and Grandads – he’s going there every third weekend of the month from now on and I’m not changing it even while on placement. So he might go to Grandma and Grandads and he might not! Depends on how I feel and how much work I have to do.

Oh and before I forget – William sat himself up. The boy who refuses to sit even for a second because well – that’s just a big effort. He was lay on the bed leaning against his Daddy when he grabbed Daddy’s leg pulled himself up then let go and just say there. He hasn’t repeated it since but it is William. It might take him another month before he does it again lol. I’m not pushing him, he’ll do these things when he wants to and not before.

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mummy, I’m not sure about this!

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

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Check out big boy William on the swing, he wasn’t too sure to begin with but he did end up smiling, I just wasn’t quick enough to get a picture of him doing that. Look at that hair – it gets sillier by the day, honestly.

William has been out with his grandma and grandad today (Matts parents) funny how they are so keen to have him and want him all the time but after 4 hours they were back on our doorstep handing him over lol, not as easy as they though he was maybe, lost of people make that mistake.

Tomorrow Matt and Will are going for Sunday lunch at his parents but I’m staying home and having a little mummy relaxation time. Sounds good to me.

Monday, Will and I are off on holiday with my old housemate Rachel to Great Yarmouth. Matt can’t come because he has classes to teach and we need the money from that. I’m looking forward to it but also bit concerned as it puts William in just my care for 4 nights which I’ve never done. Don’t know how single parents cope, or people who don’t have other halves that help them out as much as Matt does me.

Todays foods:

  • Fruit for breakfast, Daddy doesn’t know what type he just “grabbed a pot off the shelf”
  • Parsnip for lunch
  • Porridge for tea – he was in a big grump and this is a favourite which he always eats

Todays cute moment:

  • All wrapped up in a towel and smelling good after his bath

Tomorrow:

  • Will has Sunday lunch with grandparents, great grandparents and Daddy

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A good read

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

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Here’s William kicking back and reading a book. LOL couldn’t believe it when he took the book and held it up just like he was reading, cracked me up and for once the camera was handy. Today has been a pretty slow day, William has not been very happy at all, quite sleep and crying a lot. I think he was up a lot in the night chatting to his ceiling so that’s probably why. He went to bed about 6:45 so fingers crossed he’ll get some much needed sleep.

I can’t remember if I mentioned last post that I had ordered William a new pushchair – the one I wanted rather than the one my mother in law bought. It arrived today which was quick as I only paid for it yesterday (£60 off ebay!) I just love it. Three wheels, very sturdy, huge shopping basket and a lovely red colour. Faces parent or outwards too. I plan to sell the old one and fingers crossed it will fetch over £100 which will make me a tidy little profit. William seemed to really like it and I have to say it looks a lot more comfortable than the old one. So very very pleased with that purchase.

Yesterday William seemed mostly keen on his milk rather than solids in a turn around today he was all for the solids. He couldn’t get enough of them. It’s so cute when I feed him, he sits in his high chair with his little mouth open panting like a dog lol. He sure does love his food.

Todays foods:

  • Apple and pear for breakfast
  • Parsnip mixed with baby rice and formula followed by a petit filous for lunch
  • Rice and veggies by Heinz for Dinner

Todays cute moment:

  • William having a go on the swings in the park – pictures to follow

Tomorrow:

  • Mummy meet up at soft play – 10am
  • Buy ice cube trays and blend up some more parsnip to store in freezer

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A short break

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

There will be a short break in updates here as we move house tomorrow. We will have to wait a while for phone lines and broadband to be sorted out. I’ll try and get online at the library and update from there to let you all know what’s going on.

William hasn’t been himself today at all. To be honest I think the manic packing has scared him a little, he keeps looking really puzzled and has been very clingy and cuddley, not unsual for most babies but William is like me, he doesn’t love cuddles.

Yesterday Will and I met our friends Louise and Owen and went to Messy Play at the local surestart centre. Wills is a bit young still for the sand, water and glue play but we did some hand prints and then he lay on the mats and played with the baby toys that were there. He was a big fan of the caterpillar, which we have at home but at home he NEVER pays it the slightest bit of attention *sighs* go figure!

Sleep wise he thought it might be funny to have a little chat in the middle of the night, from 3am-5am and also demand feeding at either end of that time scale. He did go back to sleep at 5am and stayed down until 8:30. That was a nice treat, he’s usually up and ready to go by 7am at the latest. Just a shame he needed to be awake for 2 hours in the night to acheive it.

Todays foods:

  • Apple and rice for breakfast
  • “Grandpas Sunday Roast” jar by Cow and Gate. William loved this. I’ve tried him on a couple of jars before and he usually will take 3-4 baby spoons at most. He ate 1/4 of a jar today so it must have been tasty. Smelled good too.

Todays cute moment:

  • His big gummy good morning grin

Tomorrow:

  • Mummy, Daddy and Grandad to letting agents at 10am. Wills to stay with Grandma
  • Mummy, Daddy and Grandad moving stuff in to new house
  • Mummy and Will go to Sing and Sign 1:45 – 2:45
  • Wills moves to new house – YEY!!

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Sleepy boy

Monday, September 14th, 2009

William is a grouchy sleepy boy today, he’s mostly slept, eaten, slept eaten and it’s 1pm. Maybe he’ll perk up this afternoon. It would help if he hadn’t spent half the night talking to his ceiling again! We haven’t dont anything today which is very unsual for us. I was going to go in to town and pick a few bits and pieces up but haven’t got around to that yet, I’ll see what mood he is in when he gets up from this nap.

As you may have noticed each day I’ve been listing Williams food. The current advice from doctors is to give milk exclusively to 6 months and then begin weaning. Yeah right. My kid is HUNGRY. He can down 50 oz of hungry baby formula a day if we let him. So over the last week or two I’ve been giving him tasters of food. I haven’t replaced his milk yet, he has his whole bottle and then I give him food. I let him take as much or little as he wants and then when he’s done he just clamps his mouth shut on me. At the moment he takes usually a few teapsoons full but it seems to work, he’s going 4 hours between feeds again. Just a shame it isn’t helping him sleep through the night. I don’t personally agree with this 6 month rule. Apparently it’s because they believe weaning earlier can now cause allergies and IBS. Really? Well why is that my parents generation who were weaned at 3 months don’t have high cases of IBS but my generation who were weaned at 4 months do? I don’t think it’s to do with the AGE of the weaning but what they are weaned on to. Diet is our problem not weaning age.

Todays foods:

  • Apricot and strawberry puree with baby rice for breakfast
  • Tomato and haricot bean casserole for lunch – he liked this one a lot, might have to get some more, picked it up in the pound shop, 2 pots for £1

Todays cute moment:

  • William snuggled up in bed with me this morning giving me those big gummy smiles.

Tomorrow:

  • Aunty Rachel is coming over and we might go to Twycross zoo or Chatsworth house, we’re not sure yet.

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Routine

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

So today I have started trying to get William in to his routine, I’ve already had to jiggle it a little but we are doing well, milk feeds every 4 hours and two lots of solids done and dusted. I tried him on a milk feed every 3 hours but he wasn’t interested so why bother, I shifted it back and hour and he took it then. I think I’ll try sitcking to his 4 hour pattern for now.

We took William in to town today as we needed to pick a few things up, namely boxes for packing for the move (5 days to go! woot!) and as we were waiting at the busstop to come home a woman in her fifties was waiting in front of us. She was so taken with William, she was troking his hands and chatting away to him and he was just lapping it up, grinning and cooing at her like crazy. It was so sweet. Usually I have a problem with strangers touching my child but this woman was so nice it didn’t bother me in the slightest.

Todays foods:

  • Fruit puree and baby rice for breakfast
  • Mashed potato for lunch

Today’s cute moment:

  • Williams beaming smiles for the lady at the busstop

Tomorrow:

  • Daddy is going to university, we might go to the park if the weather is good

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bokbok

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

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Have you ever noticed when you have a child you start to call things by stupid names, or is that just us? Bottles are no longer bottles they go by the name bok bok. “Do you want your bokbok William?” “mummy fetch a bokbok” and on bad days you forget that they are called bottles, for instance “I’ll have a bokbok of pepsi…darn it, I said bokbok!!” Bokboks are bottles, napnaps are nappies and even William goes by the dubious names of Nibsy Noodle Man or Ninja Bill. Poor lad.

Today was not a good day for William. He spent half the night have a nice little chat with his ceiling so by the time baby massage rocked around at 10am he was grumpy and tired. Luckily he managed to cope with the massage and then fell asleep at the end. We then went on an epic house hunting, house renting afternoon. Oh..it…was…bad. He was too hot, he was too cold, he was hungry, he was thirsty, he was tired, he was dirty, he was tired again, hungry again, dirty again. All in a very short space of time. All this time we are walking miles across down to reach various houses because we can’t drive and then filling in a ton of paperwork. He managed to cope fairly well, it was mummy who got in a big strop in the end. On the upside – we have a new house!! No more living with the in laws. I’m so pleased. William has his own room and it;s big so his cot and all his toys will fit in nice and easily. There will even be floor space to lie him down and let him play. We won’t have to trip over his stuff in the living area. Sweet.

Todays foods:

  • Apple sauce for breakfast

Todays cute moment:

  • William zonked out asleep on the mat at baby massage

Bizarre nappy changes of the day:

  • On the floor of a house we were viewing but didn’t end up renting
  • On the desk in someones office at the estage agents – bet they just loved that!!

Tomorrow:

  • Drop in paperwork to estate agents
  • First Baby Sing and Sign class

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Naptime

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

Sitting up like a big boy in his pushchair

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Ugh, we are having a major problem with daytime napping. For the last two days William has refused to sleep unless he is glued to me, not only that but he screams bloody murder for ages before I can sooth him off and if we are put him in his cot…I’m surprised the police haven’t been informed of all the noise. I thought he was poorly and that was the problem but he’s fine at night. At 6pm we bath him, read him a story, give him a bottle and put him to bed awake, he settles himself to sleep. In the night he is fed and returned immediately to the cot and he settles himself back off. In the day – no way. He’s even taken to sleeping on me but waking the moment his head touches the cot mattress. This morning is the first time in 2 days I’ve managed to sooth him to sleep and get him in to the cot without complete hysterics following. it’s tiring. So much for me getting a lie in..again!

Tomorrow:

Take the train to Worcester.

Play Date with Rosie and James.

Visit letting agent.

Mummy meeting with Robyn.

Home to see Nana, Grandad and Uncle Dave.

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Grumpy boy

Friday, September 4th, 2009

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William has been having a bit of a grumpy day. This morning we went to stay and play for a couple of hours. He slept for 45 minutes and played for the rest so that was good. He even spent some time on his tummy without yelling. Makes a nice change. However when we got home he just wanted to cry and sleep and cry on me and refused to feed at all. Finally got him settled for a short nap on the bed with me and he seems better now, has taken his bottle too. I think it was probably a slight reaction to his injections yesterday. He’s currently dividing his attention between the light fittings and Phantom of the Opera, he has very mixed tastes in entertainment ;-)

Todays food will be:
Apple sauce
Mashed potatoes

Cute moment of the day:
William and Euan eyeballing each other and giving each other big ear to ear grins

Tomorrow:
William will probably go out with Grandma and Grandad shopping, I plan to sleep.

Take care all
Love William and mummy
xx

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