Oh well... I guess you gotta live in hope: I've just finished washing the main living area floor boards. Wonder how long before something gets spilled on it. I give it 24 hours.
I also discovered that dishwashing machine powder in hot water in a bucket works wonders on floors. You don't get the annoying suds and it has remarkable dirt shifting power LOL I sound like an ad chick! I usually use a special floor cleaning liquid... won't bother doing that anymore... good ole Savings Brand DW powder is the best!
Ho hum... what to do now? I've been so good today... guess I could bring in the washing? Nah... might retreat to the nursery and fold some nappies while Wade is watching ABC kids.
Cee Cee - I had some terries in my stash, I just hadn't started using them and I only had 8 coloured terries (now I have 14, yay!), and four borrowed ones. Hence my need to go out and get some more terries. I actually started using that new fold of yours when you sent it with my flannellettes and really liked it (using the Puppy Winks nappy snaps) and I pulled out my limited supply of terries last week. I'm going to phase out the flannels so that as they come in from the wash I will fold them up neatly (saving some to make some nappy boosters with my overlocker...once I've threaded it!) so that I am forced to go and buy terries if I haven't done so by tomorrow! But I love that fold! And the snappis are great with terries (absolutely no hold on flannels, so glad I didn't buy any before). Good one on the 45 mins of sleep! Neeny - I'll email you my address (not afraid of stalkers, even if they do live hundreds of kilometers away!)...
Had my first mum's group thing today. I can take it or leave it, quite frankly. It's either stuff I already know (not being ****y, but Oscar is the oldest baby there, so I've learned by experience already!) or stuff that I decided ages ago not to abide by (feed, play, sleep routine, settling techniques - I just use the HAB or the boob...not advice given by maternal nurses). The girls seem nice enough. The icebreaker was to tell the group what we find challenging. I honestly didn't have any challenges to share, being that our big single challenge was the tongue-tie. I don't have sleep issues with him cos I don't bother trying to get him to sleep on his own at night, or insist on leaving him in a container during the day if he's not happy in it. So, not only do I have the oldest baby (by a whole month), but I also don't have any questions I want answered by a maternal nurse (she's very good and nice, but my instincts have sorted out our 'issues' to date), although I may have later. And I don't think I would engage very evenly with the other mummies - I'm a lot more assertive than they are and I think they might feel intimidated by my confidence (or ****iness, depending on how you see it!). We were talking about advice and offerings from family and strangers and from me they heard a lot of 'bite me'... I couldn't help myself, it just came out! But I'll keep going to be part of it.
Tonight is the BabySwim introductory lecture. I'm so tired now, I hope I can get in a nap between now and then...but then I have washing to bring in and put out, so it may not happen...
I don't feel bad when Oscar watches me put food in my mouth - my GF started her boy on solids cos she felt guilty when he would watch her, so maybe I'm just a hard arse! Nah, really, he's watching everything I do anyway, so if I started him on everything he watches me do with interest, he'd be walking the dog, lungeing my horse, wrapping the HAB around himself, brushing his teeth...oh, and drinking beer! There's a photo in my PhotoBucket October album of him grabbing hold of a beer bottle - he's just mimicking adult behaviour and I think that's healthy, but not a sign that he's ready for it. Spiders - I've got them in my house but they help us with the other bugs, so they can stay. We don't use insect spray (last use was just before we discovered the dead yabby that DP had had for a couple of years before I came along and sprayed for flies in my first summer in the house), so they are our bug collectors! And I can handle spiders, it's the unmentionable cousin of the snail that sends my spine into convulsions, my toes curling tighter than tight, gag reflex in action, and hyperventilation commences. And it's worse if they ever find their way inside - DP knows better than to think I'm being melodramatic, the look in my eye is quite genuine! Other than that I fear nothing else. Oh, I lie, leeches come a close second. But other than that there isn't anything else I'm scared of!
Ok, washing out and in before the sun goes down.
Cee Cee - you're quite right, we didn't have snappis, but I had another type of snap so when you sent through the new fold I unfolded all my flannel squares and refolded them. Last week I decided to finally pull out my coloured terries and the borrowed terries and fold them, too. I was using the snaps on them until I got the snappis yesterday and that's made it even easier to use as a fold. I've just folded a whole heap of flannels - maybe my denial extended to nappies, too, cos the terries are a good size for him. I'm really not fussed that they bulk out his bum,I think it's cute and I can pat his bum a bit firmer now! I love having an easy fold (kite fold was crap for me and not absorbent enough) like this one so that if I need to go out and I've just changed Oscar I don't have to unwrap him and put a travel nappy on him. The only thing is that cloth nappies are bulky to carry around when out and about and I never seem to be able to take enough and end up brining Oscar home in disposables! I might have to use disposables when we go camping in a couple of weeks.
I watched a Baby Swim class tonight and it looks really good. Can't wait to start on Saturday morning.
Thanks, Nic, I think I will go to at least a few more mothers group sessions. I probably have a mission, too - two of the BFing mums were talking about comp feeding because they feel their baby isn't getting enough and the nurse's advice was a bit off. Lucky, with my ABA meetings, I've got a bit more education about this, so for this reason alone I might keep going! I'd hate for someone to have their BFing go wrong because a maternal nurse gave bad advice.
Oh, well, better get this monkey ready for his bath and then me for bed. Got our immunisations tomorrow
Good night girls!
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