The Christening Weekend

So Friday was a crazy day and if I listed everything I managed to do noone would believe me, suffice to say there was shopping, and cleaning, and laundering and some work, and nursery runs and orders of service printing and so on. One of the main things I realised on Friday though is how difficult it must be to be coeliac, or to have to shop for and feed a child who is, its so limiting and expensive and you can’t rely on a product type to be wheat and gluten free, you have to look at the ingredients – so hellmans mayonaise – not good for coeliacs but sainsburys mayonaise – fine. Fortunately one supermarket has their act together so Sainsburys actually label, suitable for coeliacs on some of their products where it could be ambiguous and hats off to them it makes a big difference when shopping not to have to go through all the ingredients.

Saturday was a general cleaning and preparing day, although Ted had swimming class in the morning so that and his nap took a chunk out of the day. Robb and Lindy arrived at 5, shortly after a text from Tashy to say was it still ok for him to come stay – first I heard of it but apparently Ry invited him when they were out drinking on Thursday – thanks for the heads up hon!! Fortunately I had plenty of dinner so it was fine. We had a lovely dinner catching up on news and then all crashed for an early night.

Sunday I woke before Ted – who clearly wanted to demonstrate to our houseguests that ll my complaining about his lack of sleep in the morning is all lies – he slept through until 8! Bacon rolls all round and then menfolk were banished to the conservatory (allbeit for Robb to crudite a whole bunch of fruit and veg!) and Lindy did sandwich fillings while I operated the gluten free table – sandwiches and pasta salads – which all had to be prepared before there was a crumb of regular loaf in sight. I was totally focussed on making sure I didn’t do anything to make Isabel poorly, bless her. Ted was a gem and went down for a nap in his cot with no fuss around 11. Granny W, Grandpa and Lola arrived around 1145, Barn and brigade at midday and Mark and Emma shortly after and then it was off to the church on foot for them as it was a lovely day for a walk.  I got Ted up at 1230. Got him dressed and in the car before realising Granny W’s car was blocking the drive. Kicked off my heels and grabbed my trainers, buggy out of the back and Ted and I did a quick march to the church. The ceremony was lovely – Robb made it very personal and all the kids running around gave it a wonderful family feel. Ted objected a great deal to being inverted over the font – he hates to swim on his back too so not a huge suprise but he did full on rage and wrestling so all credit to Robb for getting the job done. Back to the house for some lunch and chat and it was wonderful not to be barbequeing as I actually got a chance to catch up with most of the guests. It was great to see Annelies even though Alex is in Afghanistan, and the girls are so pretty – Elenor looks so much like Annelies when I first met he it is uncanny, and there is a pic of Elenor and Isla (beckys daughter) together where they look like Becky and Annelies when I first met them when we were 8. The kids all had a riot running around making the hosue a pigsty and trashing the gym, suffice to say the cleanup took some time. It was nice to have all the smaller ones too – Nathan is growing up fast now, and Guy fo course who is just a month older, and Daleen brought baby Evelyn – the youngest at only a month. Lovely day. Lots of pics, some better quality than others as some I took from the website so already smaller files but hopefully enough to get a feel.

Here they are….

Life has been pretty busy

The weekend was busy with swimming, shopping, chores and spending family time together and for Ted an outing to Granny W’s to see the bedlam brigade – yes that is Barn and Claires brood. We had a great time although the general levels of noise, mayhem and non stop demands and activities does take alot out of you! Ted got to spend some time hanging out in the woods, doing the swing, in the tee pee and on the jumping log (great pics to follow). Since then its been all work, chores, and working out – this is especially necessary since over the weekend we had a curry, a fry up and a non trivial barbeque. Ted has slept through for the last two nights, so in the end it took 5 nights of leaving him to cry, but it got less and less and by night 5 he woke once for a couple of minutes. I am now a convert – although as Ry said if he hadn’t slept through before, ie if it was more than just having to get back to being used to it it would have been much harder as he may well have cried more.

Work has been pretty busy this week – well its busy every week but my team are out this week so I am having to do more and delegate less! Bummer! Also have had to do a grocery shop, a trip to the chiropractor, change a pair of trousers, collect the dry cleaning, finish the landry and other family stuff, oh and prepare for the christening on Sunday. I am still clear on Friday at the moment so I can drop Teddy at nursery then work from home and get some of the other things done – get the food in, change the beds, clean the bathrooms – Ry likes a clean house when people are staying over and although we could do it Saturday I am sure there will be other things to do.

Anyway – all going ok. Heres some lovely pics of our boy – but more of the bedlam brigade

Cometh the hour, cometh the Mum!

So its day 2 of ‘crying it out’ – have to say last night was a triumph. After settling himself a twice around 920 and 940pm in less than 5 minutes he slept through until 406, he cried for about 10 minutes, although with nowhere near as much gusto as when I used to go in and out doing the controlled crying and went back to sleep until 6. It was hard not to go to him, but at the same time he actually sounded less distressed and angry (which is what he sounded like when doing the CC) and more tired and like he was just sounding off a little. At 6 I figured we were done for the night and got a bottle and got him up, he came in for a cuddle but new rules are that light has to go on and we talk about it being morning so he understands we are done with the night and thats why Mummy responded to the crying. Got to be clear about the messages. It was the best night either of us had in sleep terms for a while and it wasn’t as hard as the controlled crying, seemingly for him or me.

I was concerned it might impact on his confidence at nursery but he went over fine this morning and was fine when I got there to collect him – he had avery good day. Rationalising it I supose he is learning that crying doesn’t fetch Mummy, and is not thinking that if he cries I will come back which might have been why he was more upset before.

Tonight he went down awake no crying, Ry is out again and staying away overnight so I am going to have to hold firm if it gets bad – although if its like last night I will manage. I have ear plugs which take the edge off too. If we can resolve this sleep issue it will be such a relief, it is so much easier to do my job, and stay on top of everything else that needs doing when I am not tired and drained.

Work was busy again today although all my meetings were cancelled so I was able to clear a whole bunch of stuff and get my inbox under control, and prep for a session I have tomorrow. I am glad the weekend is rolling round, swimming on Saturday and I need to get something to wear for his Christening, Then Ted and I are going to Granny W’s house on Sunday to see the crazy gang as all 4 of B&C’s brood are weekending with Granny W (brave Granny W!!) so we will leave Daddy building his heli and drop in for brunch and some play. Then back to get the house sorted ready for next weekend on Sunday.

Feel abit more in control now – when I read in the book about the situation Ry and I were in with respect to T and his nightime habits it said ‘ whose in charge’ and we were letting him run the show, so it is good to feel like I have a meachanism for getting some control back while parenting in a responsible way and helping him learn some boundaries. This parenting malarky is pretty tough! Fingers crossed we both have a good night and get plenty of sleep.

Reaching meltdown and coming back again

Up and down week – Ted giving us a run for our money at night which is making the days a challenge for us although he is happy as a pig in mud! (bless him). Sleep is still an issue, and things seem to be getting worse. He is still going down alright, but when he wakes he wants out and into bed with me, and its getting earlier and earlier – so last night 930 he woke only an hour and a half after going to bed, I did controlled crying and he went back after 1 visit so less than 15 mins, but then again at 1150 he woke and Ry went in and he settled right away, finally at 130 he woke and i went and got him and he came into the spare room with me – i looked at the clock at 2.30 and 4.30 which were the two points at which he kicked me as he stirred, but he did go through til 6 in the morning. That was a good night. Monday night he woke at 1230 and was awake until 330, got himself overtired and wouldn’t settle, – 3 bottles, 2 doses of medicet and several trips up and down stairs and walking the floor and I finally got him back to sleep, I was in a criminally uncomfortable position but didn’t dare move so I slept badly when I finally went off and woke up with a crick in my neck feeling knackered – that was a nightmare, I felt like a zombie at work on Tuesday and had a big meeting in the morning. Ry has had big meetings about his new job this week as well. Clearly taking him into the spare room is not going to be a long term solution, as neither he or I sleep well. I think we are going to have to go back to leaving him to cry it out, and my latest book says don’t go in at all as that just makes it worse, as long as they are safe just let them cry and in 3 days they will know that crying is not a means of getting you and that they can go back to sleep by themselves. I think Ry will have to sleep downstairs and I will need ear plugs but it is reaching a point where desprate times need desparate measures. Now he seems settled back at nursery and I don’t think his teeth are bothering him I think we are developing habits that are going to be hard to unpick – I have to discuss it with Ryan and he is out tonight so we will see.

Work has been busy and looks set to continue to be so which is great as I am enjoying the new job and my team are really doing well now. Ted as I said is settled in nursery and back to his normal happy self so long may that continue. And Ry is energised about his new job and lookng forward to the new challenge so its all good on the day front, we just need to figure out the nights. At this rate Ted is going to do himself out of any chance of a sibling – and I had brokered an agreement on that front as something that might be an option in a year or so on his behalf. Fortunately he knows how to charm his Dad – shouting Dada every morning and rushing off to find him – very cute.

Well I am going to try and call Ry (for the 15th time – he never hears his phone in the pub….) and then post some pics from Sunday and then hit the hay.

Ted just woke, I followed what it said in the book and didn’t go in, he cried for 5 minutes and now I think he has gone back to sleep, maybe it might work, I wonder if I would be able to do it if he woke up in the middle of the night when I couldn’t do other things as a distraction, or if he cried for longer, the danger is if you last a hour then give in he will cry for an hour net time, I wonder if Ry can hack it. Its so hard to know whats for the best. I re read this and it seems I am obsessed! I guess I should cut myself some slack – sleep deprivation was a form of torture once!!!

Happy birthday Suzanne

Lovely day today. Ted was in the waterbed with me by 1230 so that wasn’t brilliant but then he slept through so that was brilliant, I know I am setting up bad habits though so thats not so good, but what can you do…. I would love to follow the books which say, let him go back to sleep then put him down, if he wakes hold him until he goes back to sleep then put him down, repeat until he doesn’t wake – but I did it for half an hour and then thought, on a week night there is no way I could do this, it would be at least an hour and I can’t even doze whilst doing it because the adrenlin of wondering if hes going to cry when I put him down is too much, and I am too buys trying to figure out how to move him from where he is in my arms over the side and into the cot! Anyway, as I said week nights wiht work theres no way, so its either leave him to cry which we have already established isn’t working and is having adverse side effects, or take him into bed in the other room, which is the best sleep solution but not what anyone recommends doing when it comes to helping him leaarn to sleep on his own ….. sigh

Anyway, because he slept through I didn’t object to getting him his bottle at 6 adn we then dozed til 730 and then he went to see dada for half an hour so late start for us considering.

Up and chores and breakfast and so on and we managed to leave for Zanas on time at 1130, despite Ted throwing a glass bottle from the recycling onto the kichen floor where is shattered into a million piecesa which all needed sweeping up. We got there for 1230 and had a good chin wag, Ted played in guys playroom which is lovely, and Guy and I had a cuddle which was also lovely, then we had a great lunch with some super cheeses, including a brie which was better than anything I have had for a long time – which given the number of times we have been to france of late is saying something, I ate too much of it though and have had a bit of a tummy ache tonight (greedy). After coffee and cake we headed off as there were surprise birthday plans of Patricks which needed to be fulfilled. Home by 430 so we did some more chores and Ted had a runaround in the garden. He then presented us with his bike helmet so I took him for a spin around the block before coming back for tea – which went really well – at least the food situation is excellent at the moment, then more play and a walk to the shop to stock up on milk, then bed – where there was a little more fuss than normal but nothing that required me to go back in. Probably just a complaint at being put down after such a nice day.

Ry adn I spent 45 mins in the gym doing TaeBo, fun to do together, then in to do some online orders and the like, this blog and bed by 10 – thats 5 mins away so I am off!

Friday night – write off, but a good day today

Last night was terrible, well it was fine until 315 then it was terrible til about 530 then it was fine again! Ted woke up and I sent Ry in – I am worried when I go to India at this rate Ted will be only wanting me in the night and then Ry will have a terrible time getting him to go back, but he didn’t want to hunker down with Ry, so I took him but he wouldn’t hunker down with me either, it turned out he didn’t care who he hunkered down with as long as there was a bottle involved. So he had a bottle and tried to get back to sleep with me and was quiet for an hour, he kept going off and then waking again though and moving around the bed so I spent the whole time trying to stop him rolling out of bed. By four he was not settling well and getting overtired so he started climbing out of bed, but then sitting on the floor crying so I tried to settle him down some more but no success and he was just getting more agitated. By 430 I was going nuts so I went to get another bottle and took him into the waterbed so he could go between me and the wall so if he settled at least he wouln’t be able to roll out. Unfortunately I didn’t screw the lid of the bottle on properly so as soon as he turned it upside down the milk went all over him and the sheets ….. not my finest hour. Ry went and got another bottle and after changing him out of his milk sodden jamas I gave him the bottle in his room. He went to sleep but as soona s I put him down he cried. I took him back into the spare room to lie down but he wasn’t having any of it so I rocked him on my shoulder for 10 mins, then sat and rocked, then lay with him on my chest and once he realised I wasn’t going anywhere he slid off and went to sleep, right on the edge of the bed. I didn’t dare move him right away in case he woke up again so I waited 20 mins until about 545 before moving him across and putting pillows down the side, then I went back to sleep. Horrible. Can’t wait until these teeth are through as I think thats what is causing the problem. (horrid nappies – very unusual).

Woke up feeling groggy but late enough that it could have been worse, Ted had swimming so we went off at 945, he had a pain au raisin daddy bought the night before for breakfast in the car and did so well at swimming, going under, jumping in and hanging onto my neck while I swam around. It was great fun and made up for the horrid night. We coffeed with Ellie and Emma and then drove int the west end at nap time to meet Ry who went into work this morning to do some upgrade or other. We got there around 1 and had a quick look at where Daddy works which was fun and then went shopping for something special for Teddy to wear for his Christening. It took a while but we found something, although there was a debate about spending alot on something that would look very very smart and expensive, but only get one outing, or getting something just smart but expensive that would get several outings, we opted for the latter, a 15 month old really doesn’t need £100 worth of pinstribe trouser and waistcoat combo however adorable, we still got him some designer threads, just a little more versatile! We went to Yo Sushi for lunch and Ted did great enjoying salmon sashimi, sticky rice, chicken yakatori, california rolls and having a go at some chopsticks. Ry went off on his bike to see Jacques and Ted and I cam home where Ted had tea and did some play while I rushed to tumble dry monkey and lion who both went in the wash this morning, in time for bed. Bedtime was uneventful – a few more tears than normal (still less than a minute) but I put him down a little more awake to see if that helps. Cooked us some simple pasta supper and now brief update to blog before bed. Couple of pics to post too from the last 24 hours – including some odd ones I have been meaning to post for a while – Ry and Jacques a long time ago and Ry with his biggest catch of the holiday.

A day in the life of your average superwoman

Ted woke at 1230 (am) at which point I had been asleep for 90 minutes, and didn’t settle until 230, lots of crying, climbing out of bed and rolling on the floor, getting frustrated and tooing and froing between Daddy in the bedroom and Mummy in the spare room – his teeth were clearly bothering him, you an feel two are now through the gums one at the top and one at the bottom on opposit sides, and he was hot and flushed, when I tried to cuddle him he pushed me away, when he was away he jsut wanted to be picked up.. in the end we walked the hall until he calmed down then had a 10 ounce bottle and curled up in bed. Thankfully he then slept through until 7. Woke feeling knackered , got bottle for T and put him in bed with Ry then fell into the shower, slapped on a face, dressed, got ted dressed brushed my teeth, helped him brush his teeth and brushed his bed head. Picked up him, my shoes, his dirty nappy, the 4 dummies and wo empty bottles and went downstairs to leave. Put dummys in the steriliser, bottles in the sink, his shoes and my shoes on, grabbed bag and left. Dropped him at nursery (minimum fuss again so that was a huge relief). Back to the office, stopped on way to grab M&S sandwich, pain au chocolat and large latte from the BP garage en route. Got to work at 840. Sandwich for breakfast while reading overnight e-mails, looked at calender and did an hours work before first two meetings, 11am quick earl grey and into another session to run up to lunch. Upstairs to grab some quiche and salad to have at the desk then back to chase Sutton Housing Support about late rent from tenant, also called to chase estate agent as we want to formally take Brighton off the market. Looked online for outfit for T for christening. Finished lunch at desk and worked on presentation for next week. Another meeting and impromtu session with one of my team then more e-mail and small tasks before final meeting of the day at 5. 540 just enough time to lock laptop in desk before rush out to get to nursery before 6 and hopefully before all other children have gone. Arrive to find T has had another good day (although has filthy nails and green paint in his hair). We go home singing Old MacDonald all the way and barking like dogs to avoid tantrums in the car. At home and start to sort out some tea for Ted before realising entire contents of handbag are now strewn across the hall, Ted has tampon in his mouth – thankfully still in wrapper – looked liek he was smoking a cigar (refrained from taking picture). Remove and replace with set of keys?! Put away dishes until T decides to climb into high chair for tea. He had cold pasta, a whole oatabix, strawberries, blueberries and a yoghurt. Its no wonder I worry when he is off his food – this is on top of the three meals he ate today – and at lunch he had double helpings as it was his favourite cauliflower cheese. Ted got down and it was into the playroom to do drawring. Danced together to the night garden music and played with clicky clack track which has come into its own. Ry out for drinks so managed to smuggle bottle upstairs in back of trousers while counting our way up the stairs for a bath at 745. Bath including hairwash to remove green paint a triumph but Ted had to be enticed out with a bottle. Put into jim jams while having bottle. Story. Down awake no fuss (thank god). Upstairs to update monthly company accounts for flats and calculate how late the wallington rent is to guage what course of aciton to take – actually not as bad as it seems so felt better about that. Put slip together to pay in Brighton rent cheque, filed some papers and put some others on Rys desk for review. Downstairs to tidy the playroom, toast a sandwich and clear the dishes. Rubbish out as bin men come in the morning. Into lounge to do accounts on downstairs PC, update housekeeping and write cheque to pay credit card bill. Clear home e-mail and check calender dates to see when if I need to I can reschedule my India trip and write my blog. Now its 10 and I am off to bed so I have enough energy to do it all again tomorrow  ……

Midweek special

Well its been an interesting couple of days. Monday morning I woke up feeling terrible – nauseous and just quite unwell, I thought it was dehydration and drank plenty of water but I dropped Ted off and went in to work feeling grim. Ted was not very settled when I dropped him off either so that is always difficult. I left work at midday and was quite sick in the afternoon, Ted was also upset when I collected him from nursery – even though I got him early. We came home and got round to bedtime and once he was down (which was pretty straightforward), I went straight to bed, he woke in the middle of the night but I felt alot better so it wasn’t so bad, although settling him was really difficult and in the end I after an hour doing the controlled crying and of going in and out, and him settling then waking I took him out of the cot and cuddled him til he went back to sleep then put him down, he fussed for a minute then settled and didn’t wake until 630.

Tuesday I felt much better so went to work, drop off was tearful again – for both of us – which is horrible, and although I had a productive day pick up was awful as I arrived to find Ted all flushed and crying and when I took him from Andrea he was hanging on to me and was really upset, they said he had been crying everytime a Mum came that wasn’t me – how bad did that feel. After getting home and having a chat with Ry we agreed that maybe doing the controlled crying in the night is creating some anxiety for him that is carrying over into nursery, so we decided that although it has worked for getting him going down awake in his cot at bedtime, its not an approach we are going to use in the night for now. So last night when he woke at 345 I took him out of the cot and sat in the chair with him for 15 mins straight away, he dozed off but when I put him down he came round and started crying so I took him out and into the spare room and we both slept until 7 this morning. It was a much happier and less stressful night for everyone. Then when I dropped him at nursery this morning there were no tears, thats the first time since holiday that he has gone over with no fuss, which makers going to work so much easier to handle. Then when I collected him, no tears, he had been much happier all day and not fussed at all through pick up time, no dummy in the afternoon – it feels like we might have got to understanding what has been going on with him. Home via the supermarket for 10 gallons of milk and he had banana, strawberries, cold cooked plain macaroni?! (his latest favuorite thing) and a yoghurt, so it seems like he is over the tummy bug and his appetite is back too.

I have had some soup and Ry and I have had our 5 minute catch up and now its 10, I’m tired, work is busy and demanding at the mo so its bedtime. Since Ted goes down aorun 815, and by the time I have eaten its nearly 9, and at work I have no time to do anything but work, there is precious little time in the day left to do anything else!! I guess lifes going to be alot like that for a while…..

Sunday night, all quiet on the home front

We have had a good long weekend. Thursday night was awful, won’t go into too much detail but we were controlling the crying alot on and off between 4 and 515am at which point we gave up and Ted came in with me

Friday Ted was fine and there seemed to be no resurgence of the vommiting whihc was a plus. I took him over to Brooklands in the hope of using some of my Mothercare vouchers to buy him some clean new dummies – they have stopped selling the kind he likes – are they even allowed to do that?!?! Fortunately I have also been able to get the same shape and style from Tesco before so I got some there later but it could have been a nightmare scenario! We had some lunch but Ted was really off his food – even fruit so he snacked a little. I made the mistake of not putting him in his buggy when we went to Mothercare – won’t be doing that again he was everywhere – and impossible to manage due to screaming and squirming if I tried to carry him away from whatever it was he was enjoying so it was a short trip and I didn’t manage to get the new grown up pyjamas I wanted although I glanced at the ones in Mothercare and they all seemed to be Thomas or Night Garden or Spiderman and £10 per pair, and all I want is regular jamas so not ideal. Ted slept on the way home and we did a transfer and both slept on the couch when we got home.

Ry came home early with a horrible cold, and Mum arrived to babysit at about the same time so there was alot of activity late in the day – so much so I almost missed my chiropractor appointment, but I made it just in time. Ted went down without much of a fight – more of a 30 second protest before he decided he would rather sleep then Ry and I went out for dinner, my shout to celebrate his promotion. We went to Chez Gerrard in Egham which was great, food was good, service was excellent, they do waggyu beef there but at £28 a pop we setteld for their regular beef ribeyes which were cooked perfectly – my rare was rare – a frenchman could have verified! I am not sure we will go back to having medium steaks now we are more used to rare ones.

Ted had nmot a bad night, needed settling at 12ish and came to bed with me at 530 with a bottle. Saturday Ry was going to stay in bed most of the day to try and recover from this cold so Ted and i went to swimming class in the morning, then to Sainsburys where we got a twin pack of jim jams for £5 (thats more like it) and I ended up getting him a couple of other staples too. Back home and he was asleep so we did the transfer again and settled down to watch Pirates of the Carribean 3 (again for me!) Ry fell asleep and Ted woke up halfway through so it wasn’t quite the movie experience I was lookng for.

Thursday, Friday and Saturday Ted was not eating much, I know he has two molars coming through as I can see the tips coming through the gums and there are two lurking at the bottom so it may be the gums are painful, it might be that he has got a little bug and thats why his appetite seems to be down, or it may be that he is not eating as a way of getting to me as he senses its something I worry about – which it is as if he doesn’t eat enough during the day he gets hungry in the early hours! I am waiting to see what happens at nursery this week, maybe he will eat fine there and then I will know its a home thing. We shall see. We had abit of a scare though as he was playing and he brought up a little bit of ick and Ry said that while in the garden Ted had handed him some berries – which look like blueberries but come from one of the plants. Well I looked it up and its a virginia creeper whic has purple berries which are poisonous and can be fatal ….. Ry said he had checked Teds mouth when he gave him the berry and there was no residue there and they do apparently taste horrible so it would be unlikely someone would eat enough but it just makes you think and at least now we are aware that we have a toxic plant in the garden – great! anyway I looked through the ick and I think I identified caremalised pear from his super haigh fat yoghurt so that might have been abit rich – although he ate all of it with gusto so I am just glad to get the calories down him.

Saturday night was new jimjams night and Ted went down with very little fuss and slept through until 4.30, because he didn’t eat much on Saturday I figured he would be hard to settle in his cot as he would be hungry so I got a bottle and took him into the front room. He drank the bottle and went back to sleep – althuogh he is such a fidget it took him at least an hour to settle down which was a shame but he went back to sleep before 6 and didn’t wake until nearly 8 so that was ok.

Household chores this morning, laundry, ironing, family breakfast (T had half his oatbix), Ted had a play outside with Daddy, then more chores before lunch (T had some melon, half a banana and a cereal biscuit), nap, then Ry and I had a late lunch at 3 and Ted ate all the leftover mash potato from last night and a whole load of macaroni so that was great. T and I went to Ellies naming ceremony in the late afternoon which he was brilliant at, all good behaviour, looked so smart and did some grazing on the buffet (2 mini sausages, bites of corned beef and egg sanwiches, tortilla chips, carrot wotosit type kids crisps and a mini sausage roll.) Its like the list from the very hungry caterpillar!! Maybe his tum is feeling better. We got home and had some play, I gave him a couple of fruit sticks to balance out the carbs and protein and then after some time hanging in the gym with his dad he went to bed, 2 or 3 protestations after I left the room then asleep. I wouldn’t call it controlled crying anymore. Ry and I agreed the other night that anytime he wakes before 5 we would try and get him to settle back in his cot, so we shall see if he is up again at 430 wanting a bottle.

Back to work / nursery tomorrow, hoping it will all go well.

heres the pics

Projectile …. milk ….. full bed and clothing change …. 5.30am….. nice

Ted woke in the night at midnight but settled ok but then at 430 which is abit unsual although he settled himself with only one visit from me so less than 5 mins, but then he woke at 515 and was not going back to sleep so i got his bottle and took him to bed. He was heaving abit and brought up the obligatory piece of carrot – not sure where that came from, but he settled so i gave him his bottle. Schoolboy error. 15 minutes later it all came out – everywhere. So we got up, stripped the bed and of course he is out of nursery for 48 hours – so rest of the week basically.

GW came and saved my bacon minding him while I did the only important call I had today, but otherwise he was fine all day, no more vommiting, no dodgy nappies – consistency anyway they do smell particularly grim… This morning I took him into the office when I went to pickup laptop and paperwork and he was fine, then we went to Tesco to get bits and pieces and new dummies and he was fine, then he came home and ate and was fine, so I have no idea what it was.

Played all afternoon – did a little cleaning and laundry, and then he went down after a long bath in less than 2 minutes – although I felt rotten as I had to wake him just so he would know I was putting him in the cot and leaving. Still it will help him when he stirs in the night.

I am keen to put the monitor on motion sensor but he has taken to sleeping right at the bottom of the cot and it goes off by mistake sometimes when he is there so I am not sure whether to turn it on or not. We don’tuse the monito now for sound other than for me to hear when I am in the gym – in fact the sound reciever is permenantly down there now so we can put him to bed, workout and hear if he wakes up.

Hopefully he will have a good night and we won’t have anby repitition – I think Ry is planning to sleep downstairs as it has been a tough week on the sleep front – although I think easier than when we were on holiday!

Nighty