SS - I'm totally grateful that he did a big clean up. He does most of the cleaning and leaves pretty much all the baby stuff to me. If someone else in the house did something to help with the h/w that'd be great but if Jesse or I don't do it nothing gets done. For example the carpets hadn't been vacuumed for a few months because neither of us had time to do it. It's just wrong. Theres 5 adults living in this house and were the only ones who do any housework Granted the others go to work but still we are busy and get tired too
it just annoyed me that he refused to wait until Isaac was awake. It's not like we were going anywhere or had anything we needed to do.
I agree it would be alot harder if she was crawling. We're going to have to move early in the year, not looking forward to that. Moving house is stressful enough without having a baby rolling around the place.
Can't wait to see the pics, the house sounds lovely.

Jasp - As long as she's happy and looks healthy then no need to worry IMO. OMG! I can't believe she's getting up on all fours already.

Cate - I definately find the arvo sleeps harder. Actually everything about the afternon is harder. I dunno if that's cause I'm more tired or if Isaac's harder to settle.

MammaPan - Isaac seems way behind the others too. He's only just managing to roll on to his side and gets stuck because his arm is in the way. He still doesn't tollerate tummy time for too long either. I'm starting to wonder if he'll ever get there. lol.

Jetta - Has it been that long?! I can't believe it either. I was just saying to someone the other day, it feels like only yesterday that I had Isaac, but it feels like he's been here forever.

AFM - I'm getting a little worried that Isaac seems to be falling further and further behind your little ones. He has stopped saying speech sounds like he was a couple of months ago, now he just makes noises, IYKWIM? It seems like a backwards step.
He still doesn't tolerate tummy time very well and gets really tired and cranky after just a few mins.
It's probably fine but it just doesn't seem like he's getting anywhere. :S I'll have a talk to the doctor about it at his 6 month check up. He'll probably just say it's normal like every other concern I raise with him but still.

I'm getting really sick of the IL's not respecting my rights as a parent. I told FIL I did't want Isaac put in the bean bag and he did it anyway when I wasn't there. It's no so much that specific thing that is angering me. More the fact that both MIL and FIL are quite happy to totally ignore anything I say and do what they want anyway. FFS I'm his mother, if I say don't do something then DONT DO IT! It's not that hard to comprehend. It's not like he needed to be in the bean bag.
They had thier turn to be parents, now P off and let me do my job. If I can't trust them to respect my wishes when I'm in the house, then how can I ever trust them alone with him? I bet when it comes to them wanting to babysit him I'll be the unreasonable one not trusting them to look after him.

I hate feeling like a prisoner in my own house. I can't wait until we have a space of our own. MIL is talking about the next house having a granny flat or seperate area for us. I really want our own kitchen (The communal one is just disgusting all the time, food gets left out no-one cleans up after themself, flies and roaches everywhere, etc. How am I supposed to prepare food for Isaac in that environment?), bathroom (even though we have our own everyone uses it anyway because it's the only downstairs bathroom), living room (because I can't just put Isaac on the floor and expect him to stay there more than a minute someone always has to come pick him up or play with him. I want him to learn to play on his own a bit too otherwise he'll always need entertaining and nothing will ever get done) and two bedrooms. At the moment I feel like If I want things to go my way I have to pretty much lock myself and Isaac in the bedroom. Although even that wouldn't stop MIL. She's quite happy just walk into our bedroom and talk to or play with Isaac when I'm trying to get him to go to sleep. Helpful.
Doubt we will get our own space, she said the same thing last time we were house hunting, but I can dream, right?
I know I should be grateful, we pay the least rent and all the amenities are provided for us, but I can help but feel trapped and DF doesn't know any different so he doesn't really care.
sigh another whingy post. sorry. until next time xoIt's not unreasonable to aske for some respect as a parent ad a person is it...?