Posts Tagged ‘Sleep’

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.

Tags: , ,
Posted in Moods, Play Dates, Sleep | 1 Comment »

A good read

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

DSCF0986

Originally uploaded by Williams_mummy

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

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in Moods, Sleep, Weaning | 1 Comment »

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!!

Tags: , , ,
Posted in Baby groups and classes, Moods, Play Dates, Sleep, Weaning | 1 Comment »

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.

Tags: , , ,
Posted in Moods, Sleep, Visits and trips, Weaning | 1 Comment »

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

Tags: , , ,
Posted in Routine, Sleep, Weaning | 1 Comment »

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

Tags: , ,
Posted in Sleep | 1 Comment »

Naptime

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

Sitting up like a big boy in his pushchair

Originally uploaded by Williams_mummy

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.

Tags: , ,
Posted in Moods, Sleep | 2 Comments »