Vic, that's great. Our cot converts so it's just a matter of taking the side off and lowering the base. But I'm still not sure... At daycare they use mats in the new room (toddler room) so no more cot. And she sleeps fine on the mat. Maybe I'll try in the next 6 months.
At 3am this morning I went into check Jack as I couldn't see him on the monitor. He was curled up under the bed. I dont know when it happened. I checked him at midnight and he was in bed. I pulled him out from under the bed and he barely woke.
vic & tasha - this pregnancy has gone quickly for me too, its not just you.
eeek, big boy/girl beds! vic, that is so funny about jack asleep under his bed... what a little monkey. hopefully it was a one off.
ds is going well, he's starting to have more tantrum type things atm (not really tantrums), but its hard not to giggle bc he's doing the stamping feet thing when he's cross. adorable, but i guess its the frustration coming out so i don't want to laugh & make it worse for him. its usually that he cant do something (putting a lid back on something, putting his shoe on etc). he's discovered where i put my chocolate in the fridge too so gets a bit whingey when he finds it & he cant have it. ive forgotten to get his 18 mth immunisations too, must book that.
Andie, oh gosh don't even get me started on tantrums! DD has them every night we get home from daycare at about 5:30pm. Because she knows I go in the kitchen and cook. So she stands at the baby gate and howls, throws herself on the floor, kicks her legs, rolls around wailing. Tonight we got home and she followed me to the kitchen and I closed the gate, but came back into the lounge with her. Well that was it, she just broke down screaming. She stops for a second to watch the tv and then remembers she was having a tantrum and continues hahahaa. Annoying, but you gotta laugh. I wonder what out neighbors think
Tantrums here too. Or frustration moments as I like to call them. We too have a safety gate on our kitchen. Its ok for one of us to be in there but heaven help us if DH and I are both in the kitchen and he is locked out. I now let him in to get his weetbix out of the cupboard, get the milk out of the fridge, find his cup and plate and help make his breakfast. He can put the toast in the toaster, push the leaver down and get the margarine out of the fridge (if its down low enough) I find if kids know how to do stuff they rarely get into things just for the sake of it. Of course that doesn't stop him getting in the kitchen if we leave the gate open and help himself to the cupboards. He is still a toddler lol.
We has a horrid night last night. He has hand, foot and mouth at the moment. Not a bad case and only just at the beginning so only a few blisters. My BFF looked after him in the morning while we worked and I took him to work with me in the afternoon and he normally sleeps in the porta cot in our back office. He fell asleep in the car on the way to work back from my lunch break and and I put him in the cot and normally its a non event. But yesterday he sat up and howled. The girls in the office all started clucking around him (bless them) and that was the end of that! I had to ring DH to come pick him up. So instead of being asleep by the latest 1.00pm its now 1.45 and DH doesnt get him to sleep until 2.15pm. Normally we wake him at 3.00pm if not awake and when I get home at 4.00pm he is still asleep. So come 4.15 am this morning he is wide awake and crying when I leave him. And now he is in a big bed he gets out of the bed and bangs on the door. Lots of cuddles later, some panadol, nappy change and more cuddles still wont sleep. So for the first time ever at 5.10am, I get into his bed and try to co sleep with him. What a nightmare that was. Who can sleep with their toddler moving, wriggling, chatting and then eventually snoring on them??? I try to sneak out of his bed only to have him sit up and grab me. How stressful!!! We both end up twilight sleeping and DH comes in at 6.20am to say its time to get up. Jack is now snoring his head off and I have to wake him at 7.30am to get his day started back on his normal routine.
Working and having a sick bubba is hard work. I hope that my getting into his bed will be a one off and wont be happening again. I cant cope. My deepest respect for the ladies on here who are struggling with sleeping issues.
Oh Vic what a sucky night DD had hand, foot and mouth last year. Hopefully tonight is a better night for you all. I moved DD into her room very early because I couldn't sleep hearing her noises. So I would be totally useless with co-sleeping Maybe just totally wear him out so he'll just pass out at bed time
vic - big hug. that sounds like a horrible night. for you & jack. I really hope you get a good solid 5-6 hours tonight. if not, could you take tomorrow off work at all? xx
tasha - poor dd, sounds like she does not cope too well waiting for her dinner...?! I don't either atm, so I can fully understand her tantrums.
ds is currently doing another few days of getting up at 5/5.30am. he's also taking at least 30 mins for me to get him to sleep too, which is pushing his bedtime to more like 8pm. I think its a bit late for him, but he just cant seem to switch off past couple of days. maybe he is working on some words?!
Last night was good. Back to normal I put him to bed at 7.30pm. He rolled around and chatted to himself until 8.15pm then fell asleep and stayed in his bed all night. He woke at 6.20am probably as our alarm went off and it was a bit loud and he is in the room next door. I feel like a new woman I woke at 4am and contemplated going in to check on him but thought better of it Best not to chance him waking up.
I think he is not using enough energy as he is used to being at daycare 4 days a week and now has been home since Friday last week. My BFF who babysat him this morning said he was a lot more energetic today and a lot hungrier. I bought him to work with me and he is fast asleep in the back room. Win!!
Tasha - Jack was in his own room at 4 weeks as none of us could sleep with his barnyard noises. I think we were all waking each other up
Andie - That is a really early start for you both. It must feel like a long day. Do you need to put him to bed or does he just go to bed and chat to himself? Sometimes Jack can roll around for an hour yammering away to himself. I would push his bed time back but on a weekend if he gets to bed later and it still takes a bit to unwind, so figure at least 7.30pm gives me time to unwind before I go to bed.
good news, vic! it's amazing what a good nights sleep can do for you. :-)
I have to put ds to bed atm, I hold his hand until he drifts off. while he was bf'ing he would just fall asleep on me & is pop him in to bed. so I'm kind if teaching him to be in his bed awake again, which is going well, just taking a while. he'll get there. next step is to just sit next to his cot without hand holding. ;-)
Morning Girls. Jack is back to daycare today. Thank goodness! Life can return to normal. Its stressful having only 1 person to call on to babysit whilst we are both working. My BFF is awesome but its limiting. I walked into the nursery this morning and his team leader has left whilst we have been away. We knew it was coming and sad by it. The new team leader seems nice (she is from the kindy room) and has definately made her mark on the room. Everything has changed and now it feels weird in there. Jack was fine, I was having more of an issue. I am sure it wont take me long to get the new system down. Its like missing the first day of school and feeling all out of it.
And to top it off, they had a confirmed case of German Measles last week I did google and see that Jack should be ok since he has had 2 lots of immunisation of MMR. Fingers crossed. I really dont want him to get that!
glad jack is feeling better, vic. poor little guy. I need to get ds's immunisations, there's a session this week ill try to get to. he's a month overdue already.
ds is going through a clingy couple of weeks, wont let dh help with dinner, getting him up, comforting him when he falls etc. poor dh, hopefully it doesn't last for long. on the upside I am getting all the cuddles, kisses & attention... which I love! except when I am trying to cook dinner, read a book, clean my teeth etc. then all I hear is 'mamma, mamma, MAAAAMA!'. he's just learnt to yell, which is both hilarious & loud.
Good to see Jack is well again Vic The only con of daycare is the germs But they just love it so much it's worth it.
Andie, oh the yelling drives me nuts dd is sooo loud it leaves my ears ringing. Your poor dh missing out on all the action!
DD is fine (apart from the meltdowns, which we ignore now) Every time I play with her I realize how smart she is getting and all the things I thought she didn't know, she knows! I keep forgetting how big she is getting now
I agree tasha, they are getting so smart & I am surprised at some of the stuff he can do/try to do. The other day while dh was in the shower, ds went over to the toilet, pretended to pull his pants down & squatted as if he was going to the toilet! Lol, I wished I'd seen it. :-)
He's trying to put his shoes & socks on, wish frustrates him no end, but he tries. He's always getting my things (undies, shoes, tops) and bringing them to me & trying to put them on me... so gorgeous. :-)
Jack is not really trying to dress himself yet. I think he is a bit lazy and likes mum to do it lol. I have noticed when we are out walking for a while he wants to be carried. At little effort as possible. He much prefers to sit on the floor and play with toys or read books than be really physical. He will play outside on his slide and use his outside toys but gets over it quick and comes inside to go to his playroom and amuse himself in there. He would sit and watch TV for hours if I let him. Yesterday when I picked him up from daycare he was sitting a table drawing with textas and all the other kids were outside and I asked why he was inside (thought maybe he was acting up) but she said he wanted to come inside for some quiet time and wanted to draw. He then proceeded to throw a tanti while I was talking to her and emptied the box of textas on the floor and get his grumps on. His educator said she has never seen him do that before. I said "what? never?" and she said no, he is always so polite. He must save all his tantrums for me!! Last night he was in such a poopy mood and was so grumpy (I could see he was tired) and he pulled our dogs hair. She yelped and he burst into tears. They are usually the best of friends. He cried for ages. We had a big talk about it and it took him ages to calm down afterwards. I can see that I am going to have to watch him a lot more closely with her. I thought I would have to watch the dog!
vic - it's funny how different all our little ones are. ds is definitely not a 'sitter', he never stays still. i struggle to take a photo of him bc he's always moving, they all end up blurred. he much prefers to be out & about, although still likes to be carried after a while too.
had ds's immunisations last week, all went fine. i cried before them, he cried briefly after! no reactions/temps, just quite wakeful during the night. he slept in my bed, but still woke every 1-2 hours, calling for me but then going straight back to sleep once he realised i was right next to him. little monkey. he's still super clingy to me atm. if im not there, he's fine with dh but if both of us are there, he's like velcro wanting me to do everything for him. unless dh tries to have a nap on the couch, then ds will quite happily go and poke him in the eye, mouth etc!
ds has been a bit average past couple of days, one night of wakeups and coughing up mucous but then ok. still not 100% energy levels, but not sick. I've been a bit the same (minus the coughing up stuff...). Probably just tired and run down after our house move.
I'm trying to organise ds's room atm, what do you guys keep all the mountains of toys in? I've culled quite a bit, put away the baby toys, but still quite a bit. was thinking of getting one of those ikea cube shelving things with baskets, that would stow away books & few toys. Or maybe just a big toy box. Not sure. Also got his kitchen to fit in, which is quite big. :-/
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At daycare they use mats in the new room (toddler room) so no more cot. And she sleeps fine on the mat. Maybe I'll try in the next 6 months.
DD had hand, foot and mouth last year. Hopefully tonight is a better night for you all. I moved DD into her room very early because I couldn't sleep hearing her noises. So I would be totally useless with co-sleeping
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