Hi Dee! How exciting, even for a small wedding! My BIL is getting married next weekend after 12 years together, and even though it's a small garden wedding, we're all excited and I have got my outfit together, with a wet-weather tweaking already considered!
About Lachlan, I don't know what you could do, sweetheart There are nights when Oscar will stir and feed more than usual, but the co-sleeping means we go right back to sleep (and don't fully wake), so I deal with it quite well (as well as the fact that we're BFing, so I don't need to get up and prepare bottles). So, being that all I can offer is that anecdote for night times, I'll try another tack - what are you guys doing during the day? What kind of activities do you do? Are there things you could schedule for the days like a regular walk in a local park, a weekly visit to the library for a babies session, just things where you get out for a little while to give his mind something to chew on? You are doing such a fantastic job with him, though! How is DF helping out these days, if at all? Mel - great news about your dad getting better and back into his own place! Chelsea is such a doll - you and DH are pretty constructive people, though, so it doesn't surprise me that she didn't panic in the hospital I can imagine her getting precious about her stuff - my brigade friends' kids are about her age and doing the whole 'can you keep Oscar away from (insert whichever is toy of the day)?' or the sly shoving that I see and pull up straight away (Friday night I caught one of them getting physical with the younger kids and told him it wasn't nice and that he should apologise - he didn't, but he had the sulks with me because I 'told him off'!! I think it had more effect the way I did it, because I was so nice speaking to him that he felt worse than if I had yelled at him and made him defensive!).
Anyway, I finished my stats weekend school and I actually enjoyed it because...I actually took in information! My tutor was excellent and combined with not having baby brain, it was a far different experience than my first attempt at the subject last year.
Oscar's getting needy again and DP isn't home from brigade yet, so I might get us out of here and over to my parents to get his mind off whatever is up with him. I don't usually do this, but my brain is fried (despite enjoying the class yesterday, I'm still recovering from two days' worth of information) and I can't do Oscar alone today!
ETA: Heaven - the blood lip is more dramatic because blood flows so easily from the mouth, for the smallest cut! Oscar's had a fair number of incidences, the falling from the box is probably the most dramatic because it's from a height and is onto hard floor! Because he's getting taller, too, he tries to stand under the table and when he wants my attention he comes over and bumps his head on the table. So, not so much a 'first of many more to come' scenario, as a 'growing collection' of spills!
Last edited by Smoke Jaguar; April 1st, 2007 at 12:58 PM.
There are nights when Oscar will stir and feed more than usual, but the co-sleeping means we go right back to sleep (and don't fully wake), so I deal with it quite well (as well as the fact that we're BFing, so I don't need to get up and prepare bottles). So, being that all I can offer is that anecdote for night times, I'll try another tack - what are you guys doing during the day? What kind of activities do you do? Are there things you could schedule for the days like a regular walk in a local park, a weekly visit to the library for a babies session, just things where you get out for a little while to give his mind something to chew on? You are doing such a fantastic job with him, though! How is DF helping out these days, if at all?
I can imagine her getting precious about her stuff - my brigade friends' kids are about her age and doing the whole 'can you keep Oscar away from (insert whichever is toy of the day)?' or the sly shoving that I see and pull up straight away (Friday night I caught one of them getting physical with the younger kids and told him it wasn't nice and that he should apologise - he didn't, but he had the sulks with me because I 'told him off'!! I think it had more effect the way I did it, because I was so nice speaking to him that he felt worse than if I had yelled at him and made him defensive!).
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