William's World

My lovely Noodle Man is spending a weekend with Mummy and Daddy. We are even taking him out too lunch lol well he’s coming to lunch with us because he doesn’t have any other choice in the matter.
Our weekend plans haven’t worked out as they were meant too. First he was going to be going to my parents from Thursday – Sunday since mum was on holiday from work which was going to give me some extended, relaxing Nibsy free time. But then Dad had to work overtime which meant mum had to get up earlier so we cancelled it down to Friday – Sunday. Still nice then it snowed so it got cancelled all together. The next plan was his usual weekend retreat of spending either Saturday or Sunday with Matts parents. Except now Matts mum is ill (AGAIN!) so they cancelled too. Poor Nibsy. Poor mummy. LOL. I’m not moaning being with my boy he is lovely really I’m just bemoaning my loss of plans. It’s ok though, I’ll just have a lovely not so relaxing weekend with both my boys!

The plan so far is lunch out today and thentomorrow if we can persuade William to play nicely is to give the house a good old spring clean. Whether this will happen quite as I want is questionable as William has hit the “don’t leave me” stage. He needs someone to sit by him or hold him constantly. We used to be able to flit in and out of the room he was playing in – he doesn’t move yet so he was safe to leave unattended for a few minutes with his toys – doing jobs and keeping an eye on him but now he must be attached to someone at all times. Makes housework kinda tricky!

Dear Brickwall,
Why do I continue to talk to you? I appear to be getting no response. However, I get more response from you than I do from the in laws so that’s a bonus!
Love Debbie

GAH! I’ve had enough. William stayed Saturday night with his grandparents Saturday night as usual and for the…god knows what number time…they got up to him in the night and let him have milk feeds. No 9 month old needs a middle of the night milk feed, he can go through from 9pm – 8am without anything at all perfectly well. So when he get the boy home last night – what do we get? Screaming and fussing at 4am, then 5am, then 7am. He is so tired. He had a major melt down at 8:30am. I put him back to bed. He wouldn’t eat breakfast. Wouldn’t take milk. Wouldn’t allow me to comfort him. He screamed and screamed and then collapsed in a heap and went to sleep. My poor little man. I’m not having that. Being slightly grumpy I can forgive but reducing my poor little boy to hysterical sobbing. No way. enough. I rang matt, told him what happened and told him I want William with us at night. That his parents can have William either Saturday or Sunday but they can’t have him at night, not for the foreseeable future. He will still go to my parents overnight, the in laws can’t moan about that either, my parents live 180 mile round trip and I’m not asking them to do that everytime they want to see William. They will have him over night because my mum doesn’t feed him in the night. My mum asks for his routine and sticks to it. My mum feeds him what I say he likes. That’s the other thing I’ve been saying over and over again – sandwiches for lunch, cooked meal for tea. They fed him a puree for his lunch yesterday. PUREE? He hasn’t had puree since he was 6 months old. I’m trying to encourage his chewing, he has finger foods, his cooked meals are mashed with lots of lumps left in. Who gives a 9 month old puree? I have a sneaking suspicion that when I sent some food like this over the other day they must have put it through the blender before they fed him. I’m not an idiot, I know how my son likes his food! Grrrr.

Right, rant over. Our week looks like this:

Monday: Meet Cheryl and Evie and go with Cheryl for her blood test at hospital. Meet up with Charli and Frankie and hopefully Lucy and Oscar at softplay

Tuesday: Daddy at home. Weeks shopping

Wednesday: Possibly softplay with Louise and Owen

Thursday: Take William to his Nana and Grandad

Friday: Mummy day

Saturday: Mummy and Daddy day

Sunday: William being brought him by Nana and Grandad

Well our little man is still sleeping through the night. That’s about 3 weeks now and it’s lovely. He usually wakes between 6am – 7am for a bottle but often has a snooze for another hour before he is ready to start the day. Apparently last night at Grandma and Grandads he woke at 3am and played in his cot for half an hour. They said they didn’t go to him….maybe! I’m not sure I believe that, grandad didn’t sounds very convincing to me! Plus he took a HUGE nap when he got home even though grandad claimed he had slept for 3 hours total already. Yeah. Unlikely. We’ll see how he goes tonight!

William is a champion sitter now and seems to perfer it to lying on rolling. The only trouble is he can’t get anywhere from sitting, he’s still really unsure about how to move to his knees etc. so mummy has to help him. Hopefully he’ll be brave and get the hang of it soon so I don’t have to keep rescuing him.

He’s a really big fan of finger foods as well. He loves cheese, clemetines and cake(shhhh don’t tell!) – maybe he just likes food beginning with C lol. He has a finger food lunch and then mashed up foods for tea. I’ve been slowly making the mashed foods lumpier and he is doing really well with them. I can’t wait until he can just eat a meal that’s been chopped up for him. Mashing or blending is time consuming – and messy!

The week ahead:
Monday: Cheryl and Evie are coming to play – unless mummy manages to get a Dr appointment about her gallstones – stupid gallstones!

Tuesday; Should be going to Nana and Grandads, depends on the snow – stupid snow

Wednesday: At Nanas

Thursday: Coming home

Friday: Meeting Louise and Owen

Things are still pretty much the same in the land of mummy and William. Will is sitting and rolling like a trooper but seems uninterested in crawling or pulling to standing, that’s fine with mummy at the moment, he can get in to a little less trouble this way.
As it was the weekend William went to his Grandma and Grandads as per usual. Yes – there is a moan coming! When he stayed with Nana and Grandad (my folks) they followed his routine to the letter including not going to him in the night but allowing him to self settle. So I told the same things to Matts parents – he sleeps through now, he might moan a little in the middle of the night, leave him, he’ll settle back off 99% of the time. His grandad brought him home yesterday and started going on about how he is really good at fake crying and he did it at midnight and how easy it is to tell it was fake. So stupid Debbie thinks “oh they left him and he slept through” Yeah! Stupid! They went to him and soothed him back off to sleep. GAH! I might as well talk to a brick wall. I don’t care if they don’t agree, this is MY son and they should be following MY wishes not agreeing to do it and then do whatever the hell they want! I give up. I seriously don’t know what to do. Who the hell do they think they are? Agghh!
We have a fairly busy week this week, it looks like this:

Monday: Soft play area from 10 – 11:30 then meet Cheryl and Evie at 11:30

Tuesday: We are meeting up with a new mummy and baby friend – Keeley and Chaise. Chaise is close to William in age, in fact he was born on Williams due date

Wednesday: I have to go in to school for an hour so William will stay with Daddy.

Thursday: Nothing yet but I’m sure there will be something or other – maybe swimming!

Friday: Daddy is home so we will probably to something with him