Blimey - not posted for nearly a week.....what can I say? It's been a lovely week -Rob's been off and we've been doing lots of family stuff. Swimming a lot at the leisure centre, going to the park. Weather has been glorious!
It was Rob's birthday on Friday - we went out for dinner at Sapporo on Thursday night (they don't do the cheap buffet on a Friday) which was lovely. First time we've been out on our own since Toby was born - we've both been out independently but not together. Had a really lovely meal as always and great conversation. Very important to feel like a couple again.
We woke Rob up with breakfast in bed (toast and honey and cake!) on Friday morning. Oscar ate the toast and demanded cake! I'd bought Rob some old fashioned sweeties from AQuarterOf.co.uk for him to open in the morning. His main present was to go into town with his mate Rob and hit Charing Cross Road second hand bookshops and then Waterstones by the University of London. He got some books and had a great time. Oscar slept over at my mums and we had Papa Johns pizza and watched Pan's Labyrinth on DVD in the evening - amazing, if slightly disturbing, film.
In other news - Toby's sleep is geting better. Dare I jinx it? The last four nights he's slept from going down at 7.30 until 2am, then waking again at 5. He's usually awake again at 6 but if I take him into bed he'll doze with me until 7ish which is much more civilized than waking up 6 times a night! PLEASE let it last.....
Ok - Rob's arrived with fish and chips. I'm off to scoff....
Ok I scoffed and now am back...forgot to update on the elder child...he's been his usual schizoid self - angelic one minute, satanic the next. The naughty chair is failing to have any effect today so he was sent to bed with no bath-time fun - just a shower and no toys, no story and no stickers. About the worst we can do as far as punishment goes. Rob felt wretched enforcing it but Oscar has to learn that he can't push boundaries as far as he wants. He's been hitting us all for the last few days and I hate that. He actually slapped Rob's face (Rob was behind him on the stairs). But where stern voices and time outs used to work, he now laughs and runs away. Or sits on the naughty chair and burbles happily away to himself.
Any ideas for further punishments gratefully received. We don't spank or hit btw so anything apart from that (though I have been sorely tempted today!!! Bad mummy....)
Right. Think that's us up to date. Hope you all had Happy Easters and ate lots of chocolate.
Monday, April 09, 2007
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Toby the bloater...
Tobes was three months old yesterday (blimey where did that go...) and so today I trundled off to baby clinic - to think that I used to go practically every week with Oz - anyway - he had his jabs and was immensley brave - didn't even whimper! He made more fuss about lying on the weighing scale.....
He's 16lbs 13 oz!!! On the 98th Centile! I compared him with Oscar and Oz wasn't that heavy until 25 weeks....so he's ahead of his bro in one thing....pure lard!
I know I'm not overfeeding him - supposedly you can't over-feed a breastfed baby and if you do feed too often, they just poo more. Toby currently poos once a week (sorry if tmi) so he's absorbing every drop almost. Of course when he does poo it's quite copious (again tmi).
He's just a big boy. Rob was a fat baby. I was a skinny baby. I became fat from 9 onwards...Rob got skinnier.....hmmmm. Oz is currently a long skinny boy - his trousers always fall down cos to get the length we need, the waist is always way too big. Toby is a little buddha.
I'm a porker myself (especially so at the moment...baaaad sally has put weight on again since birthing and I'm really pissed off about it - but comfort eating is my only...well...comfort at the moment so I'm trying to be better but slipping a lot - another post I think). Rob is tall and getting skinnier as he cycles to work. I wonder what shape our boys will end up....
We all just sat down together and ate dinner which is rare - it's because Rob is off work so I could get it all ready while he looked out for the boys, and we all ate at 6 which I really liked. Sausage, mash and courgettes. Not exactly low fat.....ah well. At least I'm eating before 8.30pm so I'm actually going to go to bed at the same time as the kids - I'm shattered.
He's 16lbs 13 oz!!! On the 98th Centile! I compared him with Oscar and Oz wasn't that heavy until 25 weeks....so he's ahead of his bro in one thing....pure lard!
I know I'm not overfeeding him - supposedly you can't over-feed a breastfed baby and if you do feed too often, they just poo more. Toby currently poos once a week (sorry if tmi) so he's absorbing every drop almost. Of course when he does poo it's quite copious (again tmi).
He's just a big boy. Rob was a fat baby. I was a skinny baby. I became fat from 9 onwards...Rob got skinnier.....hmmmm. Oz is currently a long skinny boy - his trousers always fall down cos to get the length we need, the waist is always way too big. Toby is a little buddha.
I'm a porker myself (especially so at the moment...baaaad sally has put weight on again since birthing and I'm really pissed off about it - but comfort eating is my only...well...comfort at the moment so I'm trying to be better but slipping a lot - another post I think). Rob is tall and getting skinnier as he cycles to work. I wonder what shape our boys will end up....
We all just sat down together and ate dinner which is rare - it's because Rob is off work so I could get it all ready while he looked out for the boys, and we all ate at 6 which I really liked. Sausage, mash and courgettes. Not exactly low fat.....ah well. At least I'm eating before 8.30pm so I'm actually going to go to bed at the same time as the kids - I'm shattered.
Monday, April 02, 2007
Monkey Boy
Oscar loves to climb and clamber on things....this is his latest trick - hanging around on monkey bars....I have to keep remembering he's only 2 and a half!!! He has NO fear...and very strong arms! We had a lovely time this afternoon along with every other family in the area it felt like, in Dulwich Park....
Ice cream, 
climbing,
swinging....
all jolly good fun...
climbing, swinging....all jolly good fun...Toby wasn't that impressed..
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Nice weekend
...for a change! Spent yesterday in Bromley in the morning eating sausages for lunch and buying stickers for Oscar. In the afternoon I "escaped" for an hour and did the shopping. How sad is my life (I'm sure I've said this before) that an hours peace in the supermarket is a treat? When doing the weekly shop used to be a chore....
Today we took Toby for his first ever swim! (I would have taken pics but we aren't allowed) They've opened a new leisure centre just up the road and it's amazing - it has a library in it and best of all, a Costa Coffee! So we all went in the pool - put Toby in a little inflatable seat - Oz in armbands. We had a blast. I got out early and had a coffee and Toby had a boob. Then we went to MaccyD's for lunch (such a good mother am I). Spent the afternoon at a friends house.
I feel remarkably relaxed for a sunday evening! Had a rough night with Tobes on Friday - from 9.30 till 1 am he wouldn't settle. I ended up in tears. But on Saturday morning I went back to bed for a couple of hours before we went to Bromley so that was cool. Last night he was great - went from 7.30 till 1 (might have something to do with the medised I gave him as his nose was so bunged up - which was the problem on Friday night). He then woke at 3 then at 6 but that was Ok - we'd both had a chunk of sleep.
He's started with real tears today - they kill you don't they - somehow eye moisture wrenches at your heart more than just wailing!
Oz's nursery is shut this coming week for Easter. Normally that would send me into a jibbering puddle of doom and dread....but Rob has the week off!! HOORAH! Or I really couldn't have coped and would have ended up in the Priory. No idea what we'll do as cos the schools are off, all my usual haunts will be full of big kids. Definitely visit the pool again. I'll keep you posted.
But I'm feeling quite chirpy at the moment and I'm determined to record it instead of just the negatives!
PS - Ursula - nice recommendation of Chardonnay. I do like Chardonnay now! I'm turning into an alky! (It takes me 3 nights to get through a bottle - if that changes I'll panic!)
Today we took Toby for his first ever swim! (I would have taken pics but we aren't allowed) They've opened a new leisure centre just up the road and it's amazing - it has a library in it and best of all, a Costa Coffee! So we all went in the pool - put Toby in a little inflatable seat - Oz in armbands. We had a blast. I got out early and had a coffee and Toby had a boob. Then we went to MaccyD's for lunch (such a good mother am I). Spent the afternoon at a friends house.
I feel remarkably relaxed for a sunday evening! Had a rough night with Tobes on Friday - from 9.30 till 1 am he wouldn't settle. I ended up in tears. But on Saturday morning I went back to bed for a couple of hours before we went to Bromley so that was cool. Last night he was great - went from 7.30 till 1 (might have something to do with the medised I gave him as his nose was so bunged up - which was the problem on Friday night). He then woke at 3 then at 6 but that was Ok - we'd both had a chunk of sleep.
He's started with real tears today - they kill you don't they - somehow eye moisture wrenches at your heart more than just wailing!
Oz's nursery is shut this coming week for Easter. Normally that would send me into a jibbering puddle of doom and dread....but Rob has the week off!! HOORAH! Or I really couldn't have coped and would have ended up in the Priory. No idea what we'll do as cos the schools are off, all my usual haunts will be full of big kids. Definitely visit the pool again. I'll keep you posted.
But I'm feeling quite chirpy at the moment and I'm determined to record it instead of just the negatives!
PS - Ursula - nice recommendation of Chardonnay. I do like Chardonnay now! I'm turning into an alky! (It takes me 3 nights to get through a bottle - if that changes I'll panic!)
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