that’s abt right phil, and no matter what people say babies DO sleep through the night from day one

Don’t go too far Jamie, you won’t hear your mommy call you in for food.

I am amazed you Neanderthals have learned to read and write let alone use key boards..

-Phil- back in the Uk 3 weeks before birth

no sorry, tho it does run in our family I seem to have lucked out this time

…his Mrs could just be reading all of your ‘thoughful’ responses…

mmmmmm Yum yum yum. The only pie I can have more than one slice of at a sitting…

today seems a good day…

Only when pregnant…then anything really

One of my best suggestions is to go out and sit in your local coffee shop on a busy Saturday and watch all the parents out there with their kids/pushchairs. Notice how they’re working, if you can ‘burden’ the chair with shopping, how happy the children are sitting in them, whether or not the parents struggle with them. Notice the brands and the styles (if you can which seem to attract you the most. Debate, compare and contrast what you see with what/how you think you’ll be using the chair. Think about how you intend to raise your child and how the pushchair will fit in to that life you intend to create.

I was adamant abt having a stroller where my young baby could see me -when awake (and I would/could see them) because at first you are the center of their world and they don’t give a damn abt what else they can see/hear. However we only really got that chair (instead of waiting until 6m and ‘just’ getting a super lightweight stroller) because I was quite ill after the pregnancy and couldn’t carry lilgrips very far in the sling. Had I been feeling better we’d not have that one and simply would have had the sling because that was the ultimate closeness and ability to relate to the baby even when out and about. -But these decisions were made by me and Molgrips when we discussed what we felt was important about raising our children during many long coffees at our local ‘bucks; they may not factor as strongly into your life as they did in yours. (And as we learned- after the birth you may find your needs have changed as the ‘ideal’ may simply not be possible…so be prepared for that too)

Being in a similar situ as your Mrs. I shall say sometimes I want sympathy which can be shown in getting little gifts of food or drinks for me from the cabinet, or a special treat from the store.
Sometimes I want a good back rub, sometimes I’d rather not be touched however as my skin is often irritated.
Gentle encouragement to get out for walks in the sunshine (for endorphins and vit-D).
A shopping spree for lovely preggy clothes which fit well and feel good (bamboo shirts are lush against the belly).
Ask if you can rub her belly (and maybe get some Lush massage bars to help moisturise as well as make it easier/gentler to rub). If you’re ok about feet ask if you can rub her feet.

Best thing to do tho is talk talk talk. Listen to her talk about this ache and that ache (think about the new brakes you want to get -but be there enough to respond properly), ask if there’s any solution she knows (but solutions are not always what’s wanted, sometimes just the listening is enough).

And while she may forget abt how awful pregnancy is…she may well not (it took me about a year to forget how ‘lovely’ it all was) so be prepared for her saying hahahahah NEVER AGAIN! 😉

I am a bit worried about the carrying issues as it’s likely to be me carrying it a lot if we’re going out daily…and things are definitely not getting easier to carry long distances at this point in my life…give me another year and I might be more able again.

What’s it like for instance carrying a bike AND two bags of groceries while herding your child down the street while they scream?

lilgrips is currently 93cm and weighing in at at least 17kg… she’s not a mite…

Well not exactly a kid, but when I was 15 I was really into collecting porcelain dolls (I know -weird) and my grandparents got my younger sister a porcelain doll, beautiful girl in a gorgeous tan tartan dress and matching hat she had lovely red curls (my sister didn’t collect them!!!) and I got a Mickey Mouse sweatshirt -I was 15 and Mickey Mouse was for little little kids, bright pink -a color I never ever wore, and a size too big -great they thought I was fat too!!!
I was so gobsmacked my jaw dropped and I had to leave the room because I needed to cry I was so upset.

Yeah, I’d need to use the beta and found even the tutorial on that to be a bit…vague.
I was thinking it might help me organise as I’m not a chronological writer and tend to write ‘chunks’ of stories which I know the relative place in the storyline, but do not have specific places until more of the story is finished.
I also do a lot of side research and exploring side ideas which never really are a part of the story but form the back-up information/history of the story. So I tend to have a lot of papers and various bits of ‘hard copy’ which I flick through when I need to remind myself or want to clarify where I was going.
I did wonder about the program maybe bogging down the process (of writing) rather than helping me be able to do things more efficiently.
Suppose the only way I’ll find out is if I plow through the tutorial and see how I get on…

Watch the most sappy annoying ‘chick flick’ you can find about 100times, learn the name of all characters and sub-characters, who the actors are and the intimate details of their last 10 ten years. Compare it to the current most popular Chick Lit book (go ask your bookstore assistant). Use the word ‘lovely’ a lot…
Talk about how you like to multi-task in the kitchen and always will clean up after cooking supper -that’s the kicker!(someone find Molgrips and point him at that sentence) 😉 😈
I’m sure you’ll be fine.

Well, I’d disagree abt kids under 3 use the same sort of techniques that the birds use, they don’t make fun of others or talk abt them behind their backs; they’re rather physical instead, taking toys, pushing, hitting.

At the end of every episode of Shawn the Sheep Lilgrips looks at me with a big grin and says. ‘It’s Fun Momma! Fun!’
And when she laughed at the episode where the farmer waggles little Timmy’s bear in front of the cat…she thought it highly amusing all on her very own… 😆 🙂 Sweetness.

Well we Paypal ourselves money all the time…but maybe it’s because we have accounts on both sides that it’s cheap?

Penderyn is my fav, tho currently abstaining.

+1 CaptJon

or rather 😉
Quite a few of them have beards tho…

Oh the Pack has cheerleaders!… they just sit in the stands and drink lots of beer [wink]

🙂 I walked out of the room and then sat down on the couch for a break, then it occurred to me what I had done… I pretty much sprinted back to the kitchen. Lilgrips gave me her ‘Mom’s a crazy woman look’

GO PACK GO!
Not sure I’ll be able to stay up tho…

Lol. Sorry. I’m fully expecting this to occur in my house in the next couple of months.
I’d say introducing a potty could help. For the future talk about how really happy you are when she tells you she needs a poo or wee and then start asking her (maybe before a bath, or before bedtime pjs) if she wants to try to go on her potty. Praise her for trying even if it’s only for a moment. (But no treats or over the top praise unless she actually goes)
If you have more episodes on the carpet explain that once again you’re happy she told you and that you ALWAYS want to know (so she doesn’t feel she has to hide it leaving you a surprise), but that toilets/potties are the place for poos and she should go on it rather than the carpet where it makes an icky mess.

Ah yes I think you’re right (all of you).

lol
6months…yeah I remember when Lilgrips was a new born and everyone said things would defo be better at 6months and I said yeah right as I struggled to feed her and to personally get enough sleep and health to feel positive…It was the longest 6 months of my life… tho looking back six months now it’s hard to believe how quick it has gone.

Button fly pants/trousers are sexy. MMMmmm 😉

You bought one did you?

And what did you buy your lovely wife?

The hot fudge brownie is nom nom too I agree.

I didn’t have any strawberries and it’s better than that strawberry syrup.

lol TSY

Noticed you didn’t deny the girlfriends! You can move to that lovely flat in Germany by yourself I’m going off you flirt with TSY…
<<Mrs Grips cranes neck whiplash style and licks lips and bats eyes while playing with hair in coquettish fashion as she stomps off>>

filthy aye?? attacking your person??? explicit comments??? hmmm sounds high inappropriate and not the sort of thing a well-bred girl from the Midwest with a Catholic mother would be doing. You must have me confused with one of your girlfriends.

Yeah can be conscious or subconscious, depends on how aware of herself she is. I tend to play with that one button on the top which if undone accidentally (or not) ends up exposing bra… but I’m not always aware of such things…
If I’m ovulating for instance Molgrips says I send off all sorts of clues, but I’m pretty much oblivious to the clues I’m sending.

Potter is too grown up for 7yrs old in my opinion as some words and ideas are more advanced (and the books quickly progress into even more ideas death/murder which you might not find appropriate), but you could perhaps read them together.

I’d say Mr. Gum, Raold Dahl, Spiderwick Chronicles, Flat Stanley, Horrid Henry, Captain Underpants and Magic Treehouse (an American Import)

Well in the Grips household the first couple days were hard with lilgrips asking where the ‘tat’ was. But besides still leaving the doors open occasionally (forgetting that it’s not needed) we’ve settled into a non-cat house.
Hope Kennedy is doing well with his knew peeps.

Depending how big…you could use 3M Picture hanging strips. No holes and very easy to use.

I’e been thinking that too 😉

happily I cannot tell you what the tune was as I tuned it out because it was so strange (it’s the Midwest in me…strange is bad 😉 )
Tho lilgrips kept looking up at it while we were building with lego bricks and frowning slightly…so we might end up watching it again.