How did it all change ???
A little while ago I posted about the sleeping dramas with Rat_girl. It's just now this week become apparent to me that we haven't had a bed time argument for awhile, Concrete_man thinks 2 weeks since our last bed time fight.
Just out of nowhere she is putting herself to sleep with no arguments and I don't have to sit with her and she doesn't cry it just kind of works.
She's still not sleeping in her bed all night every night, but there have been some childless bed nights. And the nights she does come in I carry her back to bed once she is asleep.
Even her moods and behaviour during the day are improving.
I must read back through my old post to see exactly what it is I'm doing differently...and make sure I keep on doing it.
October 06, 2009
Hmmmm am I becoming obsessive ????
Do you think that perhaps Concrete_man and my mother have noticed I'm starting to become a little obessessed about where things go??
Mum came over today while I had a massage and she said to me "I'll do a couple things around the house for you as long as I am not going to get into trouble for putting things in the wrong spot" I told her just to look and she'll be able to tell where things go, just use some common sense.
Anyway I went to bath the Rats tonight and their dirty clothes basket was missing from the bathroom, I asked Concrete_man if it was in the laundry to which he responded "Damn it, I thought I had put everything back where it should be so you wouldn't get made at your mum, I miss one damn basket"
See he tried to change it back before I saw it because he knew it would send me over the edge.
HAHAHAHA
He still won't tell me exactly how she got it wrong.....
Mum came over today while I had a massage and she said to me "I'll do a couple things around the house for you as long as I am not going to get into trouble for putting things in the wrong spot" I told her just to look and she'll be able to tell where things go, just use some common sense.
Anyway I went to bath the Rats tonight and their dirty clothes basket was missing from the bathroom, I asked Concrete_man if it was in the laundry to which he responded "Damn it, I thought I had put everything back where it should be so you wouldn't get made at your mum, I miss one damn basket"
See he tried to change it back before I saw it because he knew it would send me over the edge.
HAHAHAHA
He still won't tell me exactly how she got it wrong.....
The adventures of Rat_girl
My daughter is clumsy, she is 4 and she had been walking since before she was 1 yet she still can't seem to go a day without falling over or hurting herself. Here is a recount of the last few days.....
Thursday - Playing at McDonalds playgound she 'broke' her wrist, well not realy she hurt her wrist on the slide and she couldn't use it, couldn't even wriggle her fingers. I never know what to do when she hurts herself because I can never really tell how bad it is as she gets so upset. SO I told her she could only have a dotti (smartie) cookie if she could hold it with that hand. "Oh mum it's ok my wrist is all better look" ** waves hand in my face** I have no doubt it did hurt, but I have to be sure it's not really broken!!
Friday - Phone call from kindy, which is never a good sign! Thankfully this time though it wasn't so bad. A friend of her had accidently shut her thumb in the door. So really more bad lucky than clumsiness, the top of her thumb was actually cut open a bit and there was a tiny bit of blood. Still a little sore now. Later that night though she managed a MAJOR stack on the living room floor. I swear her head bounced, she bruised her head, knee and elbow. However was more concerned she lost her Batman swapcard. We searched for hours only to find she never had it with her in the first place it was in her room :-S
Saturday - At the shopping centre she was playing in a little makeshift playground, she came to be rubbing her knee but said nothing. Next thing she was sitting on the ground and couldn't get up. Again I tried not to worry too much and see if I could coax her to walk on it. She wasn't crying or upset this time but did seem to be in pain. She decided not to play anymore and we walked/hobbled over to sit and wait for Nan to show. When Nan arrived and Rat_girl didn't jump out of her seat and run to her I thought she must really be hurting. So I offered to put some money in a ride and let her on only if she could walk there. She tried but limped there and back...hmmmmmm. We rested and had something to eat. Then a dance show started she wanted to join in. I said she could but only if her knee was ok at which point she jumped up and said "look mummy I think it's all better now" and limped ever so slightly to go and dance. After that I never saw her limp again.
Sunday - Playing with her new toy wheelie bin, being silly as usual and doing something Mummarat had said not to do. She ran over the back of her own foot with the bin and cut her heel open she screamed from the sight of blood. She did a good job of it I must say.
Monday - Scrapbooking with a friend at a hall, first she runs around like I tell her not too and lands on her bum. Then she some how manages to bump her shoulder on a table and ends up with a bruise on top of her should and a little cut. I'm not even sure how it happened.
So now today she is at kindy and I'm dreading the call...surely she has nothing left of herself that she can hurt...well lets hope that is the case!
Thursday - Playing at McDonalds playgound she 'broke' her wrist, well not realy she hurt her wrist on the slide and she couldn't use it, couldn't even wriggle her fingers. I never know what to do when she hurts herself because I can never really tell how bad it is as she gets so upset. SO I told her she could only have a dotti (smartie) cookie if she could hold it with that hand. "Oh mum it's ok my wrist is all better look" ** waves hand in my face** I have no doubt it did hurt, but I have to be sure it's not really broken!!
Friday - Phone call from kindy, which is never a good sign! Thankfully this time though it wasn't so bad. A friend of her had accidently shut her thumb in the door. So really more bad lucky than clumsiness, the top of her thumb was actually cut open a bit and there was a tiny bit of blood. Still a little sore now. Later that night though she managed a MAJOR stack on the living room floor. I swear her head bounced, she bruised her head, knee and elbow. However was more concerned she lost her Batman swapcard. We searched for hours only to find she never had it with her in the first place it was in her room :-S
Saturday - At the shopping centre she was playing in a little makeshift playground, she came to be rubbing her knee but said nothing. Next thing she was sitting on the ground and couldn't get up. Again I tried not to worry too much and see if I could coax her to walk on it. She wasn't crying or upset this time but did seem to be in pain. She decided not to play anymore and we walked/hobbled over to sit and wait for Nan to show. When Nan arrived and Rat_girl didn't jump out of her seat and run to her I thought she must really be hurting. So I offered to put some money in a ride and let her on only if she could walk there. She tried but limped there and back...hmmmmmm. We rested and had something to eat. Then a dance show started she wanted to join in. I said she could but only if her knee was ok at which point she jumped up and said "look mummy I think it's all better now" and limped ever so slightly to go and dance. After that I never saw her limp again.
Sunday - Playing with her new toy wheelie bin, being silly as usual and doing something Mummarat had said not to do. She ran over the back of her own foot with the bin and cut her heel open she screamed from the sight of blood. She did a good job of it I must say.
Monday - Scrapbooking with a friend at a hall, first she runs around like I tell her not too and lands on her bum. Then she some how manages to bump her shoulder on a table and ends up with a bruise on top of her should and a little cut. I'm not even sure how it happened.
So now today she is at kindy and I'm dreading the call...surely she has nothing left of herself that she can hurt...well lets hope that is the case!
October 05, 2009
Rat_boy starts on slop AKA solids
I had been getting a lot of pressure to start Rat_boy on solids the day he turned 4months old and even before. Just because he was such a big boy born everyone I guess assumed I wouldn't be able to keep up breastfeeding him....Well news for them, I did and I do think I could possibly keep him fully exclusively breastfed for another month and a bit until he is 6months old. But I thought I'd just see what he did if I put a spoon infront of him...well he grabbed the spoong from me and stuck it in his mouth the looked at me as is to say ....UMMMMMM something is missing!
So i tried some rice cereal and he seemed to like it. Each day for the last week he's had just a little bit, like 2 teaspoons of cereal with either breastmilk or water just once a day. And in the last 3 days he's tried banana and pumpkin (not together) in his little mesh food feeder thingy. Basically it's a little mesh baggy thing you put food in and they can chew and suck and get the flavour and the juices without worrying about choking. THIS HE LURVES!
I'm trying to get a bit organised and doing up some food now so that once he is well and truly eating I'm prepared. So I've been boiling, pureeing and freezing. I use ice cube trays for portions, cover with a plastic bag and pop in freezer once frozen I then pop out the little ice cubes into ziplock bags.
Right so I've done the normal, pumpkin, apple, pear. What else to do, it's been so long I can't remember. I'm thinking some peas, carrot maybe even some zucchini and squash. It's no big deal if he doesn't like it, whatever purees he doesn't like I'll use the fronzen cubes to add to cooking.
I'm hoping it might be good for Rat_girl also, hoping she might want to try what he's trying and perhaps eat a little bit more...wishful thinking realy!
So i tried some rice cereal and he seemed to like it. Each day for the last week he's had just a little bit, like 2 teaspoons of cereal with either breastmilk or water just once a day. And in the last 3 days he's tried banana and pumpkin (not together) in his little mesh food feeder thingy. Basically it's a little mesh baggy thing you put food in and they can chew and suck and get the flavour and the juices without worrying about choking. THIS HE LURVES!
I'm trying to get a bit organised and doing up some food now so that once he is well and truly eating I'm prepared. So I've been boiling, pureeing and freezing. I use ice cube trays for portions, cover with a plastic bag and pop in freezer once frozen I then pop out the little ice cubes into ziplock bags.
Right so I've done the normal, pumpkin, apple, pear. What else to do, it's been so long I can't remember. I'm thinking some peas, carrot maybe even some zucchini and squash. It's no big deal if he doesn't like it, whatever purees he doesn't like I'll use the fronzen cubes to add to cooking.
I'm hoping it might be good for Rat_girl also, hoping she might want to try what he's trying and perhaps eat a little bit more...wishful thinking realy!
October 04, 2009
What is the last thing you want in a house of rats
.....................A CAT
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Incase you can't tell she is the cheshire cat...
Menu plan 05/10/09
Right I'm doing it, I'm going to add this weeks menu into
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This is very scary as up until now I have had no readers at all of my blog, well none that I know of, I guess I'm kind of hoping that my menu will get lost in the 400 or so that get posted each week and no one will actually see mine :-) Plus I hope that Laura doesn't mind that I
I did ask Rat_girl what she wanted for dinners this week and she said "nothing. Oh and spaghetti". Concrete_man was no help, though he did ask for a chicken salad as he enjoyed the one we had this week and spaghetti. I feel like I've cheated this week as I have 2x mince meals and 3 x steak meals but I really wanted to try the Cheesy Meatloaf and I have some crumbed steak and rib fillet in the freezer that I want to use up. Bought it on 'bulk' special last week and after sharing it out with the exteneded family I still have plenty left over!!
So here it is for this week...note no roast this week, BBQ instead...it's getting to be BBQ weather.
Menu plan 5th Ocotber 2009
Monday
Spaghetti Bolognese, garlic bread and green salad
Tuesday
Crumbed Steak - Parmigiana style with mashed potatoes and salad
Wednesday
Chunky steak and vegie pie with chips and salad
Thursday
Chicken ceasar style salads with croutons
Friday
Cheesy Stuffed Meatloaf with steamed potatoes and vegies
Saturday
Free
Sunday
BBQ Rib Fillet, sausages and salad might even try this Easy Marindae
October 03, 2009
Menu Plan 28/09/09
Right as I've posted this so late (my apologies busy busy busy) I can actually post what I had planned for dinner and what we actually had as there were some changes.
Monday
BBQ - Rib Fillet Steak, sausages, salad and fresh bread
Tuesday
Chicken Primavera Fettucine
Only thing this needed was maybe some bacon, but was great for getting vegie serves, HEAPS of vegies
Wednesday
Crumbed Steak, mashed potatoes and steamed vegies - PLANNED
Rat_kids and I went to a sweet 16th bday party and had pizza
Concrete_man had lenards filo chicken pastry and vegie
Thursday
Chicken BLT salad (didn't have last week) - PLANNED
Actually had Wednesdays planned dinner as the steak was already defrosted
Friday
Homemade BBQ meatlovers Pizza, garlic bread and salad
(I didn't make based just bought lebanse pizza bases)
Saturday
Free - PLANNED
Thursdays Chicken BLT salad. I didn't actually follow a recipe for this in the end. Basically BBQ chicken, some bacon cooked, salad vegies, some corn & 4 bean mix all thrown together with some mayo and salad cream for dressing. Was very very yummy!
Sunday
BBQ Sausage Hot Dogs
It's grand final day you gotta have hot dogs
Monday
BBQ - Rib Fillet Steak, sausages, salad and fresh bread
Tuesday
Chicken Primavera Fettucine
Only thing this needed was maybe some bacon, but was great for getting vegie serves, HEAPS of vegies
Wednesday
Crumbed Steak, mashed potatoes and steamed vegies - PLANNED
Rat_kids and I went to a sweet 16th bday party and had pizza
Concrete_man had lenards filo chicken pastry and vegie
Thursday
Chicken BLT salad (didn't have last week) - PLANNED
Actually had Wednesdays planned dinner as the steak was already defrosted
Friday
Homemade BBQ meatlovers Pizza, garlic bread and salad
(I didn't make based just bought lebanse pizza bases)
Saturday
Free - PLANNED
Thursdays Chicken BLT salad. I didn't actually follow a recipe for this in the end. Basically BBQ chicken, some bacon cooked, salad vegies, some corn & 4 bean mix all thrown together with some mayo and salad cream for dressing. Was very very yummy!
Sunday
BBQ Sausage Hot Dogs
It's grand final day you gotta have hot dogs
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