Any March & April 05 mums/moms want to chat?

[FrasersMum]

Hi Haley

I just worked out how to do an avatar last week!  The important thing is the size of the photo.  If you want, you can PM me your photo and I'll resize it for you.  With the lilypie - it's so long now I can't remember which code you need to use.  There are instructions in one of the forums - hold on, I'll see if I can find it for you...

http://www.babywhisperer.com/forum/want-to-know-how-to-get-a-ticker-heres-how-vt38171.html

There you go, see if that works!

Cheers
Jo

[kq]

Hi all,
Just had to pop in and tell you all how much I love your new pics.
Nikki-Danielle has sure grown since her last photo and both your kids are gorgeous!
Ditto to Judy, nice to finally be able to see all your girls.
anyay, am scrolling through and looking at all these gorgeous children, Naomi, love the new one of both Jay and Riley! BTW, saw your pregnant belly pic, you looked stunning! I think pregnant women are so beautiful!
I am too much of a technophobe to even contemplate attaching a photo of any kind!
Hayley, once you have figured it out, would you mind telling me how you did it? It all seems to foreign to me!
Big hugs, James' mum about the weaning! It is very sad and I have decided that I want to continue doing both the morning and evening feeds when I go back to work. I am too sad to even contemplate not BFing at this stage so will keep doing this till he is closer to a year old.
Must dash, ds is having his afternoon nap and we are at 1.5 hours and counting...
Take care all,
Karen

[FrasersMum]

Hi Karen,

My offer is there for you too - if you want help with the avatar photo I'd be happy to assist.

BTW, I also love all the new pics - what a stunning bunch of children we have!

We had a great sleeping breakthrough yesterday - first nap 1.75 hours second nap 2 hours!!  Hopefully this was not an anomoly and is the start of a new trend.  I read another thread which commented that naps settle down at around the 6 month mark.  Hopefully prophetic for us all! 

Hugs Lisa, I can imagine weaning from the breast must be so hard.  I think I would be sad too.  But then, on the flip side - I'd never have to see that nasty pump again either! 

Cheers
Jo

[Arwyn's mom]

I love everybody's pictures. Judy... great to see all your little ones. Naomi... great updated pic of them. Nikki... I get to see your older one!

I'm gonna work on getting one up of Arwyn soon. Jo... you may be getting a PM from me... a techno-peasant married to a techie!

Lisa... HUGS to you. I can imagine how you feel. Each time I think about weaning I get sad. A friend of mine told me to start soon because it could take up to 4 months to wean... I nearly started crying then. I am a little concerned that Arwyn is starting to wean herself (is that what your lo did?) because she drops feedings every now and then.

We are having a VERY CRANKY evening. Arwyn was great all day, got her naps in when she was supposed to even though we were out and about. She had her catnap at home and woke up cranky! Still cranky now... wouldn't take her solids, didn't want to b/f and now DH is trying to settle her down. (I think he holds her to sleep... although he tells me he doesn't.) Oh, here he is and the lo is asleep...fingers crossed for a good night.

[Little Bear's Mum]

JO - thanks for your offer, I nearly took it up. But look, I managed to figure it out. With hubby's help of course!  So there we go, you now all know my name and what our beautiful big boy looks like.

Karen, I changed the photo size in Adobe Photoshop under Image/image size after I'd cropped the photo down.

Arwyn's mum, hopefully your night goes well. Sometimes it's best we don't know what the daddy's get up to with them. :wink:

Our day was starting well with a great wake up time and 1 hour first nap, but the second nap went out the window at 45 mins. Not sure if it was the very icky poohy nappy, or DH making too much noise when he came home for lunch. Daniel would not resettle and he's now happily playing with his toys. Looking rather glazed though. :shock:

Oh dear, grizzle grizzle. I think he may be ready for another feed then we'll go for a walk.

[kate585]

Hayley,  How adorable!!!  Glad you figured it out. 
Ankie, can't wait for you to get Arwyn up there!!!  Get that techie husband of yours on the case.

Well...quite a night here.  Nearly 1.5 hours of fussing, moaning, and crying.  He was pursing his lips and saying "Mmmmammmm"  (No, not "mama" yet!).  After about 30 minutes of this, dh agreed with me that Ryan seemed in pain, so we gave him a shot of Tylenol.  Another 30 minutes or so of walking, rocking, snuggling, pd, and he's finally asleep.  Naomi, I thought of you doing the same with Riley last week and it made me feel better.  Solidarity, sister!

Off to watch my videotaped copy of "Lost!"

Edit:  Had to update Ryan's pic since you all inspired me!

[Little Bear's Mum]

Kate, I love the piccy of Ryan. Great hair colour (the same as mine). Funny you should mention the MMMMMMM. Daniel does that too, but he also says "mummmm" he's been doing it since early on, so I have a feeling it's just coincidence. Nice to hear though.

[Arwyn's mom]

Okay, got the techie hubbie on the case. By the time most of you see this post, it should be up.

I love all the pictures! Kate, great picture of Ryan... is this one from his 6 month pictures with the grandparents?

Judy... thanks for the link to the wearable blankets. I've looked at some Grobags and yes, they cost a fortune. I don't really want to spend that much just to try it. What if Arwyn doesn't like it?

To those of you who address me by name... how the heck can you remember? Thanks for remembering BTW... I'm gonna put it in my signature now. I need to match children to mommies each time and sometimes I need to scroll back to make sure I am addressing the right person! (Except for Judy cuz she has the number of children I want and still finds time to visit here!)

Hayley... I just read your post... you are already on the next day!!!    Don't know why it struck me now but I just realized that as Arwyn is settling down for the night, you and Daniel are up already for the next day. Yes... I'm a little slow sometimes.

[Taylor's Mommy]

4 pages since I posted on Friday!!!  Wow a lot going on that I won't ever be able to catch up, so HI for now!

I love all of the new avatars!  Judy-the girls are beautiful-you should be so proud!  And Little Bears Mum-what a cutie!

I'll catch up tomorrow at work and post tomorrow night.  have a good day everyone!

BTW-we tried some rice cereal today and she did okay.  very watery consistency, but it's a start!

[Little Bear's Mum]

Ankie, I'm with you, can never remember anyone's name unless it's on the signature or in the username area. And yep, we're awake over this side of the world before your side. So as we're now getting ready for bedtime soon, I guess your morning has/is just beginning.

Daniel's had another not so good day. Started off great, but gone down hill. DOn't know what's happening, maybe it's the solids, or else teeth. Very red cheeks! Just when I thought we were coming right Oh well, times are a changing again I guess. Actually, they've never really stopped changing :oops:

As you can tell by the number of posts I've done today I've had nothing much to do. The weather is yuck, my neighbour who I normally visit once a day is away, and my darling Daniel is become quite the little independent player! I'll try not to go on so much tomorrow though :oops:  :oops:

[Jayri]

Well just a quick post to say crikey we have some gorgeous children, and they all look so happy to boot.
Nice to see everyone figured out the lilypie's as well. It is hard to believe that something that is supposed to make our lives easier, a computer, can be so complicated.
Well I am off my day is just beginning, enjoy yours.
TTFN

[Colesmom]

wow, our children are all so beautiful!  I was expecting one or two avatars this morning and was happy to see even more!  I just did mine a little while ago so I'll update once he looks a little different.  Maybe once he's sitting independantly. 

okay everyone, i have GREAT news.  Yesterday and last night were our best EVER.  (well, after yesterday's 5:30 wake up)  Here it is:
6:00 out of bed.
1:45 A 1 hour nap
2:10 A 1:30 nap
2:25 A 1:15 nap
NO intervention on naps at all
2:35 A (was winding down for 2:25 A but he had a huge spit up so I had to change him)
bed at 6:05 down in 10 minutes by himself

feed at 9pm, right back to sleep
feed at 2:30am, right back to sleep (this is a first)
woke at 6:00am and played until 6:15     :shock:  :wink:

YAY for my Cole

I actually had the time and energy to make a roast beef dinner and two loaves of banana bread!

okay, off to enjoy our crummy day in Toronto...it is POURING rain.  But I certainly won't complain given other areas of the world

Traci

[Erin M]

Hi everyone -
LOVE the new Avatars - all your LOs are gorgeous - Ankie, Hayley, Nikki, Kate, Naomi, Judy - just beautiful 
I must update mine and get on the Lillypie as well.

Traci - excellent news - I'm thrilled for you 

In exciting news around here, I couldn't get Katie to take the DF last night, so I just put her back to bed and she slept through anyway  :shock:  Perhaps I'll try again tonight without and see if we get the same results.  That would be exciting!

Looks like rain around here too.
Take care!

[Arwyn's mom]

Well, no rain here... surprising as Vancouver is known for the rain!  :?

I've been riding out our short nap stint (albeit a long one). I still can't get her to go longer than 45 minutes. However, I have been reading BWSAYP (just arrived, YEAH!) and feel a re-newed motivation to try again... but not today... I want to go to the drop-in mom & tots.  But at least I am thinking about trying!

Does anyone change their lo in the middle of the night waking? Arwyn always has a wet diaper, not dirty and I am wondering if I am encouraging this waking by changing and feeding her. I am also going to work on getting rid of this waking... I'd like DH to start it first because Arwyn really starts to cry when I go in and try to pat/shush... I think she smells the milk?? She does take a full feeding here though... 20 minutes, both sides... is it habitual or does she need to eat??

Well, off to get Arwyn back to bed for a nap before the drop-in! She looks very tired this morning. I wonder if she was up at 7 and I didn't hear her until 7:30??  :oops:

[Colesmom]

Arwyn's mom

Cole is also very wet in the middle of the night.  One night I didn't change him and when I got him in the morning he peed and it leaked all over me.  Last night I didn't change him and he was fine.  maybe double diaper?  I've considered that.  A wet/dirty diaper doesn't bother him so I am lucky.  I always feed Cole if it's been 4-5 hours as I feel he still needs this feed regardless of the BW advice.  He always takes a full feed.

HMMM...he's up after 45 min.  :roll:   but maybe he'll settle himself...nope.

gotta go, he's up!