Archive for January, 2010

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Sunday, January 24th, 2010

Oh dear! I am getting very bad about posting on here. Maybe I’ll make it a big weekly update from now on? We’ll see.

Anyway what’s going on with the William? This weekend is his weekend down in Worcestershire with his Nana and Grandad Geoff. Grandad Ian drove me and William down there so I could drop William off with his Nana, then I went on with Grandad Ian to Worcester City and finally got back our house deposit from our previous property! We left in July, can you belive it’s taken this long to get it back? I spoke to my mum last night and she said he had been a good boy, apart from a temper tantrum in Tesco because he didn’t want to go in his pushchair. Nothing new there. Apparently he likes playing with mums kitten and even attempted to feed it some bagel. I don’t think the kitten likes bagels as much as William does. Mums next door neighbours came around and played with William too so I think he was very busy yesterday.

Matt and I enjoyed the peace and quiet by having an evening out together, something we haven’t done in ages. We had a nice meal at Nandos (does great flamegrilled chicken!) had a coffee and Starbucks while we waited for our film to start and then saw Sherlock Holmes. If anyone has a chance to see the film – DO IT! It was freaking amazing.

William and I have a busy week this week. Tomorrow we are off to a baby group down the road. It was packed last week so I’m hoping it’s a little quieter as the room got very noisy and hot. Tuesday we are seeing Louise and Owen who we haven’t seen in two weeks. If the weather is good we are going to take the boys to the park. Wednesday I have to go in to school and do some research for my dissertation. Thursday we are taking the train to Nottingham to see Sally and take a walk around the Aboreteum and Friday is our free day but I really want to go to the bank and open Williams saving accounts. When he was born the governemnt issued us with a £250 saving bond for him to open one but it went AWOL in the moves. Luckily it turned up yesterday and I want it banked before it goes missing again.

So that is how our week is looking for now.

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Long time, No update

Friday, January 15th, 2010

So it’s been a while. Sorry about that ;-) I was bust getting ready for placement – which then didn’t happen. my police check didn’t get completed in time so I am now due to start placement after Easter. I’m not upset about it really as it’ll be much nicer going to and from work in the daylight, plus my father in law will be back working in Derby then rather than Leicester so hopefully I can get a fair few lifts to work from him which will make life easier all round.

Life has otherwise being going along – same old, same old really. William was quite poorly last Thursday, he was sick Wednesday evening and then 1am that night. When he got up Thursday morning he ate some fruit and then went back to bed. He woke crying at 10am so I got him out of bed and my poor little man just flopped against me and went back to sleep. He only woke for about 30 – 45 minutes all day and that consisted of drinking a bottle and throwing it back up again. I was just about to ring the doctors when he suddenly seemed to perk up. Ate a bit of food, drank an entire bottle which he kept down and then went to bed. He was still a little off his food for the next couple of days but he seems totally back to his normal self now.

The biggest news is we finally have a sitter – YEY! The boy can sit unaided. I think he’s a sneaky little wotsit who could probably sit unaided a while ago but hey? Why bother if he doesn’t have to. The last few days I have been sitting with him propped up against my legs or on cushions. That was fine but the all he would do was sit up to grab a toy and then leisurely relax back against me or the cushion. So today we plonked him in the middle of the floor and left him there! That did the trick. He sat for a good 10 -15 minutes with only two little tumbles. Now all my friends can stop going on about how he “should be sitting.” I keep telling them but they won’t listen that he’ll do what he likes, when he likes and no sooner!

I am slowly convincing him that he likes home cooked food better than the very expensive jars. So far mashed potato is a big hit, so is bagel and clementines. He loved clementines!

Anyway it’s late (for me!) so I am off to bed. I’ll update again soon!

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Lots of shopping

Monday, January 4th, 2010

William was in a much better mood today. We were out most the day with Cheryl and Evie shopping and he didn’t complain at all. We went for lunch at a chinese resturant and William was a good boy, sat in the highchair and ate his sandwiches very nicely for a change. He isn’t great at eating finger foods and things that aren’t pureed or mashed but he did really well today. I’ve been making sure that his lunch is always finger foods so he has more practice eating them and he seems to be doing better now, which is making life a lot easier for me. We then hit up all the charity shops (I’m informed in America these go by the name Thrift Shop – a thrift shop over here is slightly different!) and I got some nice things for William.

2 t-shirts and a fleece  for 2.25

2 toy cars for £1

A clicky clacky toy for 99p

I was very pleased with how cheap things were in the charity shops, in Worcester they were so expensive I might as well have bought brand new items but in Derby I actually make a good saving. The clothes are really cute too which makes a change. Shops usually have tons of girls items and only one small rack for the boys – so annoying. Don’t they realise us mummys want to dress our boys in cute clothes too.

William is working on his sitting. He still won’t sit unaided for long but if you let him lean back againtst you and put a toy he wants in front of him he will pull himself forwards and sit to grab it, of course he then hurls himself back ASAP to minimise the amount of heart wrenchingly awful time he must spend sitting *rolls eyes* that boy sure knows his own mind.

Tomorrow I need to get up early, clean the house, go to town and get the weeks shopping and then Cheryl and Evie are coming over for lunch. Busy.

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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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The Year of the William

Friday, January 1st, 2010

2009 was most definitely the year of the William. I finished university for a year in December 2008 and then it was all about the William. Hospital appointments, dr appointments, midwife appointments, a 4 day rather epic labour lol and then he was here. Since then it’s been nappie changes, bottles, weaning, mummy and baby groups, mummy meet ups, soft play areas, toys, mess, sick and so on and so forth. So if 2009 was the year of the William then 2010 is the year of the Mama and Dada. This year poor old William has to fit in with us. Mama has a teaching degree to finish by May and Dada – well he’s the brainbox, he’s really close to finishing his PhD which means – job hunting. Thing is the job hunt could take us anywhere at all. So far the place names of Rome, Paris and Colorado have been thrown around and of course many different cities in the UK as well. So by the time 2010 is done we could be living just about anywhere. Exciting and scary all at the same time.

On the William front next week is my last full week with my little guy before I head back to finish of my degree. It’s only 8 weeks but it’s going to be a long 8 weeks. usually on teaching practice I keep hours than look like this:

Up at 5:30 – 6

Out the house by 7am

TEACH!

Leave School between 4:30 – 5:30, unless it’s staff meeting which could make it a LOT later

Home by 6 – 6:30 (Will goes to bed at 6)

Evening meal 7

Work until 10 – 10:30

Bed and repeat!

It isn’t going to leave me any quality William time in the week but fingers crossed this schedule (which was always fine in the past!!) will free me up totally on the weekends. To me working crazy week hours will be fine as long as I can spend my weekends with him.

A couple of weekends in there I won’t see my little man because he is going to his Nana and Grandads but hey – they live so far away they see him a lot less than I do ;-) I’ll cope. One thing for sure though Grandma and Grandad don’t get a look in on weekends until this is over. Grandma is going to look after him a couple days in the week while Dada goes in to university himself so that should be more than enough for her!

As soon as placement is over I have my operation to have my gallbladder removed. Fingers crossed it will be keyhole and I can be in Friday morning and out Saturday. If it ends up being open surgery then its 5-10 days in hospital. I have arranged for William to be with my parents for the weekend of the operation just so I have time get over the general anaesthetic and everything. THEN I need to write my dissertation which will be in early May.

FINALLY lol once May comes around I can go back to being Stay at Home Mummy. A job which drives me crazy and makes me insanely happy all at the same time. It’s going to be 5 months of hard work and squeezing as much time in with William as possible but the one thing I can tell myself is that at least William isn’t going to remember than mummy was more than a little absent for those couple of months. it’ll all be done and dusted quick enough and I’m sure I’ll miss him a lot more than he misses me!

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