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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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Long Day

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

I have a few long days coming up. Matt is at some conference or other and he is going to be out until late in the evening. This morning he was meant to leave the house at 8am but the silly man didn’t set an alarm and trusted William to wake him up. Yah. That worked. William decided today was the day to sleep until 8:15am. Although Matt was up and out by 8:30 so very impressive. He should be back by about 8pm, maybe a little earlier if he’s lucky.

William and I spent most of the day with Louise and Owen. Louise is the best friend I’ve made in Derby and we always have a good time when we meet up. We don’t really do much, lately I go up to her house for lunch, the children play on the floor and we have a good old gossip. Everyone wins. Today we did take Owen down to baby clinic to have him weighed and looked at by the health visitor because the poor little man has been really quite poorly lately. I also stopped off and picked up an anniversary card for Matt since..ummm..yeah..we have been married 2 years today lol. We forgot! I doubt I’ll get a card since Matt won’t have had time to get one but it’s hardly a big deal. Matts parents gave us £50 so we got a Wii game for ourselves and then I might have spent the rest on William :-) I couldn’t help it. I wanted to get him a set of stacky cups which he loves and some nice soft blocks for an extra christmas present from us.

On the topic of presents William now has some under the tree that aren’t from mummy and daddy. Louise gave him one this morning and when I got him I got a surprise package from a lovely girl I used to work with who had posted a present for William and a card for me. I was so pleased as I didn’t expect her to send anything more than a christmas card. I wasn’t very excited about christmas but now some presents are arriving it feels more fun. We also got our first three christmas cards today as well, I thought we weren’t going to get any the rate we were going lol.

William is now rolling master extraordinaire, unless of course, he doesn’t want to. In which case he doesn’t. However he does roll well enough to jam himself under the sofa lol. And this evening while I was running the bath for him I put him in the middle of the bed and put In the Night Garden (GAH!) on the laptop for him to watch. When I looked back he’d rolled over and spun himself 90 degrees and was merrily “typing” away on the laptop. I wish I had the camera to catch that moment, it was so cute!

William is also eating like a trooper. Today he devoured 22oz milk (probably have 30 by the days end) half a rush mushed with milk, a slice of toast, a jar of lamb stew, two pots of apple and strawberry, nearly a whole jar of casserole and a fromage frais. He seems to be over his sicky stage although he did hold a mouthful of apple in his mouth and then kindly deposited it on my shoulder! Nice!

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My Nibsy Noodle Man

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

My poor little man has the misfortune to have a mothere who nicknames him rather too frequently and never uses hi full name if at all possible. His current nickname in full is “Mr Nibsy Noodle Man” but we call him Nibsy for short. It came from when I was pregnant and I would refer to him as His Nibs, then we moved on to Nibsy and who knows where on earth I got Noodle Man from but there you g. Poor lad.

We’ve had a busy week of it this last week. Monday William went to his Grandmas house, Tuesday my parents cam over and we took him to Carsington water, Wednesday we met up with ur baby group at soft play and then went shopping in town with some of the ladies, I got William a very cute little shirt and tie for him to wear at chistmas and a grey jacket with tigger on the back which I just couldn’t say no to. Thursday I met up with my friend Louise and her three children – I never met the girls before but they were such lovely polite chatty children – a pleasure to be with and today we’ve been over to Nottingham to meet a long time online friend in real life. Will has been very well behaved.

Updated later since I ran out of time last Friday when I was typing this up!!

On Sunday Will went to Grandma and Grandad again since most times he goes Grandad is at work and they don’t see each other. I picked Will up this afternoon and took him to our mother/baby group. He didn’t nap at grandmas…again so he slept through the whole thing. *sigh* at least I was able to have a nice chat with some other mums.

This week is packed up again, tomorrow me Will and Daddy are going to the big park, then Wednesday is our mummy meet up at soft play as usual, Thursday we are going out with Louise and Owen (maybe even swimming!!) and Friday I want to make a stat on xmas cards – that is if William will let me paint his hands to get prints – wish me luck on that one people.

Please excuse spelling errors – I can spell I promise it’s just that Matts keyboard is toally useless and half the keys don’t work unless you take a sledge hammer to them!!

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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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Back online

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Yey, we are back online!

I am intending to do a nice long update but William is resisting his naptime so it will depend on how long he will tolerate being left to settle himself before he decides to have hysterics, or maybe I’ll be lucky and he’ll give up on his groaning.

It’s been just over a week since we moved but it feels a lot longer, the downstairs rooms are still a big mess *sigh* it’s driving me crazy but moving is a lot harder when you have a 4 month to care for as well.

The kitchen in our new place was pretty nasty so we have painted it up fresh and my dad came up Saturday and fitted in new shelves and worktops. It looks great :-)

William on the whole is doing well. He is now taking three solid meals a day. I am still giving him milk first followed by food but am going to start doing it the other way around soon. With solids and then milk to finish him off. I am also trying him on water and juice from a sippy cup rather than a bottle. He is a little bemused by the whole sippy cup thing but I keep trying and he seems to be getting somewhere with it.

The other day he manged to sit up unaided, not for long though before he realised what he was doing and fell flat on his side lol, he hasn’t really managed to repeat this feat since but I keep sitting him up surrounded by soft things and letting him try. I must try and snap a picture next time he does it. the camera never seems to be handy when I need it.

We have been busy making some new mummy friends. We see Owen (9 months) and his mummy Louise a lot, in fact we met up this morning for coffee and a wander around the local shopping centre. We spent about 3 hours in town and it flew by – we never stop talking. We have also met a new mummy and little girl called Stef and Lottie. Lottie is about 4 weeks younger than William and Rhian and Sophie, Sophie is 6 months. Together we are going to to be running a local mums meet up on Wednesdays at a soft play area.

Monday afternoons we have astarted a year long PEEP course which is basically a social and creative activities group for mums of babies 12 months and under. As well as attending group we can put together a portfolio of work based on the session and send it of f to gain a college certificate – how cool is that? I’m really looking forward to it. Today was our first session so it was mostly meeting each other. There seem to be some really nice people there. The oldest baby was 7 months and I’m telling you William is pretty much the same size as him(!) my kid is HUGE.

Todays foods:

  • Heinz oat and apple baby cereal
  • Haricot bean and tomato casserole (dude this is just baked beans I swear!!)
  • Cheesy Vegetables

Todays cute moment:

  • William making eyes at Lisa who runs the PEEP course

Tomorrow:

  • Puree up some veggies and freeze for Williams meals, no more jars now our kitchen is sorted
  • Ironing

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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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Late summer

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

Phew it’s warm today and not a cloud in the sky. All through August we had clouds and rain and now Autumn is arriving the sun comes out, typical British weather. Usually we don’t have William saturdays because Matts parents take him out since we are living with them currently. However they’ve gone on holiday :D so we took advantage of the nice weather and took William down to the park. Except William didn’t want to take advantage of the nice weather, he wanted to fuss and moan and be generally grumpy. I don’t think he’s a big fan of the heat.

Once we are in our house I am going to start working Will in to some sort of schedule if I can. I think he’s at the age where he can cope with that. I’ve been watching him the last few days and he has a loose sort of pattern so I’m going to try and us that to make his routine. At the moment it’s going to look a little like this for the first few days, I’ll tweak it as necessary.

7am – out 0f nursery + milk feed + solids

10am – milk feed

1pm – milk feed and solids

4pm – milk feed

6:30pm – bath, bedtime story, milk feed

7pm – bedtime

I’m not sure about naps yet, he’s just so hit and miss. I’ll try and work those in as we go along

Todays foods:

  • Apricot and Strawberry puree with baby rice to thicken it up

Todays cute moment:

  • William taking a snooze on me while watching One Tree Hill :)

Tomorrow:

  • Still no plans, maybe a walk to the woods

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Baby Sign

Friday, September 11th, 2009

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Today was our first session of a 12 week baby sign course. As per usual William got about 15 minutes in before he started crying and then zonked out asleep for the rest of the time. Now we’re home he doesn’t want a nap – typical. I’m leaving him in his cot for now because he really could do with 30 minutes. He’s not distressed, just chatting to himself, sometimes he chats himself off to sleep. The baby sign was fun. We learnt the signs for milk, food, pain, more and all gone. pretty much key things for babies ;-) not that I think William is going to be signing anytime soon, even if he were old enough he’d have to be AWAKE to learn the signs. Got chatting to some really nice women after the session had ended (another Debbie strangely enough). It cracks me up how we all share these details about our labours and births, stuff you just would never consider sharing until you’ve been there done that then it’s like some weird badge of honour. :-D

Todays foods:

  • apple puree
  • fromage frais – we did not like that at all!!

Cute moment of the day:

  • William isn’t bigging up the cute today, more of the – I’m gonna whinge at you all day

Tomorrow:

  • Nothing planned so far, how odd! Enjoy the peace and quiet of an empty house

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What a good boy

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

William on the whole was a very good boy yesterday, especially when you consider that we were on a train from 8 – 10:40am, then he had to stay in his pushchair while I sorted my things out, back on a train at 4, visited my parents then back on a train from 7:10 – 9:10pm.

We put him to bed when we got home and didn’t hear a peep out of him until 6am, YEY! The first time ever that he has woken up in daylight. It was lovely. He’s back down for a nap now and guess what…no crying. A little shouting but he soon settled off.

Today:

  • Visit estate/letting agents and book some house viewings
  • 12:22 train to Nottingham, meet Sally at 1pm for lunch

Todays food:

  • Rusks for William. Mexican for Mummy

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