Asleep over with my friends

Took this picture just after i got home last night from work, he always sleeps with his bum in the air - cant be comfy!

Been to weight watchers this morning not good news gained a pound! GRRRHHH! The ladies at WW love Billy, its like a competition as to who can get to hold him while i get weighed, then they try and feed him crap like jelly babies and biscuits. He refused the jelly babies, anyone who knows me reading this, will be wondering if he is really my son, as crap and sweets are my favourite foods, so for me to have son who doesn't like sweets is absolutely bizarre! He took the biscuit quite happily and beamed at them all, showing his one tooth smile. He was dressed all smart and now his car seat and clothes are cover in mushed up biscuit, not impressed.

Sleeping like a baby!

We've cracked it! YAY last two mornings he's still be in bed asleep at 730am! I sneaked this picture of him just as i was going to bed last night - dont they just melt your heart when they are laid so comfy and calm.

Its time to get up at 5am Mummy & Daddy!

I haven't mentioned it for a while as thing aren't bad, we have been using controlled crying and with persistence its worked a treat. He's pretty much always gone to sleep at bedtime no prob, he still screams during the night if he looses his dummy but once the plug is in he's gone again. I've had to use it for his day time naps, as shush patting doesn't now work since he can move so quick and then be stood up in a millisecond. Never really agreed with CC but since he's no longer a little baby i thought it was worth a try and persistence has paid off he now goes in his cot for naps screams for about 30seconds, moans for another 2mins and he's gone. BIG BIG ISSUE now is that he gets up at 5am most mornings, which really is not good! Tried making the upstairs darker and his bedroom darker which did work the first day, he stayed in bed until 715am the first morning but since then he's been up anything between 5am-630am. Any suggestions welcome! I know I've had it pretty good and some people never get a nights sleep but when its not what your used to its a pain!

What a crap Mummy today! Feeding him fish & chips!

After a last minute night out, last night I'm feeling rather rough and hungover! We've been to the supermarket for a change this week rather than internet shopping and bought lots of nice healthy food. But at tea time i really couldn't be bothered to cook so we've had good old fish, chips and mushy peas for tea. I know some Mums will be disgusted with me doing that! I added no salt or vinegar to his food and i removed the batter off his fish, it all went down a treat. He's been a bottomless pit all day, had porridge from a spoon YES I SAID SPOON and even eaten all his afternoon bottles!

On Wednesday night he woke up in the middle of the night and when i went in he was sat up as per usual, i tried for 20mins to get him to sleep and even resorted to rocking him, he was nearly asleep and i put him is his cot and he sat up again! By this point my patience had gone, i left him sat in his cot and went and got back in bed, we were listening to him crying and i asked my husband to leave him to cry because i knew he was dying to get up and cuddle him. We listened to him cry for what seemed forever but in reality it was 4mins and he went back to sleep in his own! First time ever, just to add i was only planning to leave him 5mins crying - not into controlled crying but i was knacked and fed up. RESULT!

How things can change over a few days!

What a little monster he's turning in to.......

Sleep - Now he doesn't want a morning sleep, but i don't want him having a afternoon sleep or he wont go to bed at night. Oh what fun! When he's put in his cot he sticks his bum in the air and rolls over then kicks his legs laughing! He's been up during the night loads, he's generally sat up in his cot waiting for one of us to come in - really pi**ing me off now and then he wont go back to sleep, so after I've been up 2hours he ends up in bed with us, where he sometimes will sleep.

Food - He will eat bread, pasta and generally any carbs but no chance with fruit and veg at the moment. I am getting rather fed up with making a meal and him hardly eating any. He has 3x7oz bottles per day. Breakfast, 2pm and bedtime. The last few days hes been eating less and less, 5oz breakfast, 2oz afternoon and 5oz bedtime, think i might just give in a drop the afternoon one off, think i don't like the change!



Mobility - He's off..... everything is now fair game, he will chase everything crawling. He's pulling him self up on everything and standing very easily but he forgets to hold on! He also now like to walk round with you holding his hands - poor Mummy and Daddy's backs hey. He can now get over the door step so need a gate for our back door! Couldn't find him this morning and his was hiding in the long curtains in our lounge, which he thought was very funny!



And he's also turning into a tele addict, don't want him watching too much. I know they say is not bad for children but i think in small doses is best. I've heard people comment that their child wont eat unless distracted by TV, i really don't want to end up in that situation.

Last night he was giggling like a proper little person, he couldn't stop, the type of giggle that hurts your tummy. Well it hurt Mummy and Daddy's laughing at him which just made the giggling worse - it really was fantastic! I'll post it if i can catch it!

He may be a little monster but he's a lovely monster!

Sleeping like a baby or not as the case may be!!!!

A very busy few days - i have plenty to tell and catch up on.

What shall i do with his sleep???

He normally gets up 630-7am then goes back to sleep at 930-10am for up to 2 hours and then mid afternoon has a 30-45min sleep but the last week he's not been sleepy at bedtime so wont go to bed, the worst its been was last night he was up until 1030pm!

He always goes to bed in his cot but yesterday i had a major hangover and let him sleep on our bed with me, as i was been a lazy Mummy! (the picture)

I've tried no afternoon sleep and he was a nightmare at bath time, I'm gonna try getting him to go to sleep later in the morning. Any suggestions are welcome!

loads better today

Another full nights sleep and I'm feeling more tired??!! Yawn yawn!

He's back on food and milk a little bit, no breakfast threw it on floor, some dinner in fact a scrubber unhealthy baby dinner of potato waffles, fish cakes and spaghetti hoops - you should have seen him with the hoops he found the best way to get them was to wear them as ring and suck them off his fingers. Break through came during the afternoon when he ate a 6oz bottle, not tea tho but he did have some bedtime bottle, do think he'd would have had more if he could stay awake!

We went for a walk today at Thrybergh Country Park, we set off thinking that it wasn't far, we turned a corner and there was a extension to the lake you couldn't see from the start so there was extra to walk, after walking the extra bit we came to a fence about 3/4 of the way round and asked the oldies sat on the bench what was happening??? its apparently closed for the winter!!!!!!!!!! So we had to walk back the whole way we came - well p****d off!!!! Closed because during the winter there is a crocodile apparently the old man told me, said I'd be glad to keep my fingers and toes - his wife told him off and corrected him, its for the birds to nest. Bl**dy birds!!!

A whole nights sleep!!!!

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Yes as the title says a full nights sleep, off he went to be no problem as usual then he stirred at 8 for his dummy so i put his dummy in and this time i turned him on to his tummy as he'd been asleep that way yest morning and we'd had to wake him or he might have still been there at lunch time! Off we went to bed as usual, early but this time not having to give him a 1030 bottle so sleep! I woke at 1230 and jumped went to check on him and he was fine, we both did this a further 3 times during the night, then he stirred again at 5am for his dummy and then again at 530 when he was bought into bed with us where he slept until 720!! I know that doesn't sound amazing but believe me its great for us!!!

Sleep Why do Mummy and Daddy need that??