A tag team solution…for now?

Tonights bedtime was a lot better we decided to do it as a family, something I don’t really want to get her used to too much for the one reason is we can’t always do it because we are not always all together at bedtime but for now its tag team time and it worked.

We spent the hour preceding bedtime playing and talking and occupying her time, then while I set the bath running mommy breast fed then she went to make bottles 2 x 4oz one for before which we gave her now and one for after so when we were all three ready mommy got Reagan ready for bath time.

I participated in actual bath time very little but was on hand as soon as it was finished to talk to Reagan and take her mind away from what mommy was doing and before we knew it she was lotioned with nappy on and in her onesy snuggled into her sleep bag without a murmur.

Mommy finished off the evening nursing Reagan with a bottle and very soon we were both down stairs cooking tea and enjoying our time without the stress of just calming a screaming Reagan down.

Bliss….!

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Reagan waking and smiling (Video’s)

Every morning I go into Reagan’s room and when she see’s me she miles and I am set for the day.

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

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Reagan talking to "Quackers"! (Video’s)

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Night-time stress

OMG Reagan has started screaming the place down between being lifted from the bath until she is fed.

We have always stuck to the same routine nothing changes, at 19:45 we take her upstairs and start the bath running while we prepare her for it. Next we bath her with calm words and suds galore then place her on a towel and swaddle her up to keep her warm until we get her to the bedroom where we dry her put her nappy on and then lotion her up before putting her in her ‘jamas and sleep bag. All this is followed by a lovely warm bottle and some booby milk if mommy’s doing it then she drifts off with a fairy story…!

The last couple of nights though we have had wailing tears and banshee like screams from when she is lifted from the bath until she gets her bottle and we can not fathom out why? If you heard her you would think she was being murdered but we are so gentle and loving but she has this thing now and when you are in the middle of it your stress levels are on EXTREME HIGH and it is just so tiring… but give her a bottle and she is happy. (I must add here that we have tried bottle before bath and that doesn’t work)

As I wrote this she has just settled for mommy after her latest bought of the screams and is restlessly sleeping in to a slumber….

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Dentists?

Went to the dentist on Tuesday and he said you need to come back next week because you have an awful lot of plaque built up between your teeth and need a scale and polish? That’s fine because that’s why I have gone to the dentist every six months for forty years, the thing is he mentioned gum disease because its bad?

For the last 6 years I have gone to the same dentist, who has now retired, and have NEVER spent more than 2 or 3 minutes in the chair where he would count me teeth and say see you in six months. Now the new dentist is saying the plaque build up is so bad that I have gum disease? I think I need to ask some questions when I go on Wednesday after all I paid for a scale and polish everytime I went I just assumed I didn’t need one as he must know best!

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Project Loft Part I

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The loft this morning
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Skype

Jamie and I did our courting using Yahoo and were very happy with it but it did have its let downs on the video side but always assumed it was our hardware not Yahoo until yesterday when the arranged video link with Pam was grainy and jumpy to say the least.

So during our video chat we both downloaded Skype and switched over and I have to say it was a revolution on the video side the picture was really good and the synch was perfect…why hadn’t we changed sooner? Doh! Things move on and you find new software I never thought I would move from MySpace.

The video chat was great and although Reagan was oblivious to it all she was the star of the show! Jamie was really looking forward to seeing her mamma and was so happy afterwards I know they talk on the phone a lot but it means a whole lot more to be able to see her as well.

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The Third coming

Another frog was spotted last night…in the corner of the living room this time?

This is beyond a joke, and not helping my frog allergy

..or was it just a bad dream?

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The second coming?

The frog’s back…
Cleaning out the under stairs closet this morning and I was startled by a frog heading past me in to the closet running from the cat! Of coarse I ran, like a girl out of the closet and asked the cat to clean up the mess it had caused…she walked out the door into the garden?

So again it was left to me who has an “alergy” (ahem) to frogs to go and find it amongst all the shoes I had just straightened while Jamie watched standing on a chair laughing.

With some nervous picking up of shoes and torch pointing I spotted the critter and proceeded to shepherd it to the door and out into the yard

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Arranging the house

“Let me start by saying Reagan is much better than a couple of days ago, mommy was with her constantly and as normal Reagan was happy. She’s still teething and gnawing on anything you give her, she still has a rash but the calamine lotion helps that but apart that a content little girl again!”

I had the idea that this weekend would be a good time to sort the house out, with that statement I do NOT mean it needed sorting I mean I had a couple of ideas firstly we had to give the mattress we borrowed off me mum when Grandma Pam visited, so I dreamt we could move the armchair by the window in the living room up to Reagan’s room so we could use that to rest on and feed her at night before bed. I suggested it to Jamie and she thought it was a good idea and we did it.

The other thing I wanted to do is get back up the loft and start work on the conversion again which I have wanted to do for a while but the loft was a complete tip and needed sorting out and tidying before any work could start so I had put it off, so once we had done the heavy moving in Reagan’s room I disappeared up the loft and blitzed it making a working area and set about picking up where I left of a few moths ago.

For those of you who don’t know about my loft project I have been converting it into a usable room for years just chipping away at it when I can but got side tracked a couple of years ago revisiting it recently with a vengeance but Reagan happened and again I got busy elsewhere? Here is the project so far….

….just a few “in progress” shots!

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