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.