Its been a dull dreary day here and left us all feeling a bit flat. DH and I had a falling out the night before so weren't speaking this morning - the lack of communication was not a good way of achieving anything on my to-do list though. He woke late, didn't do half the jobs on the list then had to rush off to work.
Lucas was a proper misery guts all day and got on my nerves quite frankly. He is just so frustrated with everything right now. He wants to hold/reach/touch things and screams when he cant. Now he can roll over he wants to crawl which isn't going so well. He rolls onto his front, slings his arms backwards, pushes onto his knees then moves along face first - funny to watch but uncomfortable for him. He can sort of sit but he screams because his toys dont do what he wants them too, and he likes to stand but hates that he cant walk. He is just so eager to get going. He made us laugh tonight in the bath though because he was sucking the rubber duck like a pacifier - he was very cute.
I discovered I didn't need to have the Father Christmas conversation with the kids after all as Abi told me that the girls piano teacher had told all last Saturday. Not sure Im happy about that but, well, it saves me the job. They are happy to play along though and Abi did say that even though she knows, she still likes to listen for sleigh bells on Christmas Eve. It led to a nice conversation about the spirit of Christmas so it was good.
Seb, Lucas and I nipped to Tesco this morning in between sleet showers and picked up a few bits and pieces then it was home and I walked with Lucas whilst the kids watched Incredible Journey (the original) which got the thumbs up from them because it made them cry. O-k-a-y, weird children!! Lucas finally crashed out at 2 and slept till 5 but it didn't stop him screaming and stropping from 5-8. DH took Seb to his Beavers Christmas party whilst I ....yep, you guessed it, walked with Lucas. I finally bathed him at 8 and he is now sound asleep beside me.Peace! (well for an hour or so, anyway)
eldest was very grumpy!! got better as she was able to do more for herself (sit, crawl,walk..) youngest was the same... day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute if you have to!! getting out for walks saved my sanity with eldest!!!
ReplyDeleteBoth mine HATED being babies. They wanted to be into everything (so no change there.) and if they couldn't be into everything then they wanted my undivided attention. The good news is that they grew into independent, self-motivated children who are never bored.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, it must be tough being the youngest and seeing all that good stuff going on but being constantly too small to do it. And it's even tougher on you, so relax as much as you can and bear in mind that soon the carpet will be invisible beneath wrapping paper and no one will know if you vacuumed it or not!