Anyone else have funeral experiences with their kids? Oscar was completely unaware of the occasion, and though GFIL would have had a laugh at Oscar's 'irreverence', I could feel the judgement thick in the air. I heard my SIL's mother say (none too quietly and probably a bit smugly), about my niece, 'she was very good, wasn't she?' to my SIL. Bite me; her kids are ALL very quiet and compliant by nature - a funeral is a HUGE ask for a kid like Oscar and the fact that he didn't bring the casket crashing to the ground is a GOOD thing, considering that he is well-capable of such a thing! Anyway, the whole thing was weird because I felt that even DP left Oscar-wrangling to me. I'm feeling very displaced ATM, yesterday highlighted this! Felt like my SIL was distancing herself from me and Oscar, too. Hope it's just my persecuted imagination...
Oscar has been VERY cute and showing concern for me. When I'm having a more severe coughing fit (I don't feel sick anymore, it's just the cough that's abating daily), he comes over to me and says "Mummy, you ok?"...how can I not smother him in snuggles when he does that? He's actually asked it, too, when DP was tickling me and I shrieked - I had to start laughing, instead, so that he could see DP wasn't attacking me! He's such a good little buddy
As for my Huggies Pull Ups samples, I used the first one last night as an overnight measure and it worked fine - FYI if you were thinking of using these I'd rather not use them, let alone promote them because I hate to throw disposables in the bin (and the idea of adding to landfill for more than my minimal household rubbish purposes irks me no end), but I'll continue the trial and maybe give some away.It feels a bit of a waste, because when he's not wearing the PeaPods, he wears undies and doesn't need these 'trainers'. Oh, well, I'll have to answer these screening surveys even more cynically to avoid being selected to trial things I don't really believe in! The upshot is that overnight, for an overnight breastfeeder, the not yet released design works well thus far.
Better get back to this online lecture I'm listening to, then go get my mini-monster from childcare.