snowboarder

..snowboarding is the winter x games on extreme sport on the tv...:-(

Little sb started off hating his high up seat...but I told him he was the buggy driver and he needed to be high so he could press the button on pedestrian crossings to find the green man. He fell for it. And got cross when we recently changed it.

Cool thanks. Am torn between R&R (so pretty) and a beco gemini (fwd facing carry an option). Tough!

We do little kickers at the community centre on darrell rd - saturday mornings at 8.30am - sounds bad but the best thing is football obviously is something daddy and small one have to bond over, so I get to loll around with the baby.... little h our boys sound like they might get on!!

Jess what age can you use the R&R slings from? Is Merry go round on half moon lane - kind of east dulwich side of herne hill?

Just v quickly - got to run - but little sb got funny with food around that age (not due to bug though) - the ellas pouches and pouch yogurts from sainsburys saved us somewhat as he would't take me spoonfeeding him and wouldn't really pick much up. He sucked them straight from the pouch (but just the fruity/veg ones). Worth a go?

I have one of these too. Nursery 2 mornings a week is great and saves me somewhat. He does 'Little Kickers' football sessions on a saturday morning. There is also a mini rugby class on a saturday at Belair park - Rugger Beez - but clashes with football sadly! We also do tumbletots (organised climbing) and go to toddler world at Crystal Palace. I thought the swim lessons at Dulwich pool were ok - mix of splashing and swimming - but can't go atm because of having young baby in tow. Haven't tried the 'gymboree' classes advertised on the rhs of the forum page - worth a go? A proper gym class would be great - let me know if you find one!!

ps I have never tried this!!

I think I once read you should shoot them with a water pistol?!? But hide it so they don't know you did it....or am I imagining things?!?

Ours do this too. Doesn't help that at night the only part of the house they can access is the kitchen, so they think it is their domain. One in particular also loves to sleep in anything soft and lovely like a moses basket/pram/cocoon/on a sheepskin (who wouldn't?). In desperate times I have even found him in the bumbo. In addition to this despite being treated/special vaccine etc they seem to have fleas. Found one on the baby's head this morning. Marvelous. Anyone want two cats?

I think the p&t get better the older the younger baby gets - so handy to essentially be a single but with the option for the older child to grab a ride in the back. I'm finding mine super heavy already though - but admittedly do have 14kg worth of toddler sitting in the front!! I don't think the fold is anything like as easy as the baby jogger though - and you have to take the doubles seat off before folding (on the explorer). Sure you can find comparative dimensions somewhere(try www.bestbuggy.co.uk?).

Not me sorry - 2 yr old having his first haircut!!

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Yep we're around tomorrow morning as usual!

Hmm h maybe it's one of the many reactions to a new baby. I do feel really sad for him when he skips into our room in the morning and there's the baby snoozing next to me. We have just bought a new cotbed for his new room so he'll have to have that with the sides off....ok project new room new bed shall commence!

One of the things mr snowboarder does that pretty much makes or breaks my day is take our 2 yr old and baby down for breakfast every morning and I get 20mins to have a shower and get dressed ON MY OWN. Sounds ridiculous, but my heart sinks when he has early morning meetings. He struggles to get home for bath/bed (but has tried over last couple of months with new baby arrival) so this morning stint means he gets to spend some time with them too. Otherwise we're not that organised - apart from I do the night wakings (but b/f, so have to anyway). Mr S has recently taken the ocado order on (think he could see it wasn't getting done in new baby haze!) and does the rubbish. I do ironing (again, not recently really though!!).

Ok so having said I wanted to keep little snowboarder in his cot until he was 12, he is continuing his great escape project and now has vaulted (actually he dives) out of his cot a number of times and made his way to visit me (down and up stairs) in his sleeping bag. So I'm thinking he needs a bed. How do you go about doing this - especially as he's already an escapee type? And from experience how long do they take to get the message STAY IN BED? I'm thinking it's going to be tricky as I currently put him to bed then go and feed the baby - so am not really in a position to keep marching him back - so will need to do at the weekend when husband is around I think. We're also about to move him into a new room - what do you think - new room and new bed all at once, or is that asking for trouble? Do people use stair gates at the door? Think that would really stress him, but maybe not if all part of new room moment....And keep in sleeping bag? It doesn't appear to impede movement...

The issue I have with the baby jogger (single - never tried double) is that it has a fixed height handle and it is fixed pretty high - as a 5'4" person I found it a bit high. I keep hearing about the sling/light buggy combo but have to say it hasn't worked for me at all - I'm not majorly into sling wearing though, so it could be that am just a bit rubbish. I find it really hard to control/strap in a wriggly possibly protesting toddler with a baby strapped to me. Had an awful journey home from the park last week with baby in the close sling and toddler half on scooter, half in buugy, and pushing a mostly empty phil and teds. I was totally stressed, hot, and both children were screaming!! The p&t I thought wasn't too bad when baby was really new and tiny and slept loads and didn't care about being in the cocoon. I can also see it will be ok when baby is much bigger and sitting happily. For now, with a sturdy 4m old who has outgrown (physically and developmentally!) the cocoon and underneath space, but who is too little really to sit up and still wants to sleep in the buggy, i think it is AWFUL! I'm holding out all hope for the new mountain buggy - same width as a single but side by side comfort. I'll let you know - it will hopefully arrive by the end of the month...

Hum, I've spent the last year trying to combat early waking! This time last yr I was blaming the morning nap etc...but I think some little ones are just larks. Our now 2yr old still wakes between 5 and 6 (if it's nearer 6 I rejoice). He is sooo tired by lunchtime and I often have to wake him from his nap. He did get better in the winter and we had a few 7am starts. I really try not to obsess over it and turn the monitor off so I can't hear him - we have a no socialising before 6.30 rule, so unless he's properly screaming we leave him to sing/grumble. I recently bought a monkey asleep/monkey awake alarm clock - he spent 2 nights keeping us up to date with monkeys progress ('monkey asleep still..'). Then took a dislike to him and banished him to the spare room. All very tedious. My only hope is that he won't be a lie in till the afternoon teenager (actually I won't let him - I regularly promise myself I will get my revenge...). Ps - he plays in the garden every evening after tea - so gets his late sun...to no effect. I've fiddled with bedtime etc - makes no difference.

I've taken my 4m old and 2 yr old - I put them in little wetsuits as it is a bit cold. It's nothing like the hydro pool at peckham. I got the baby's wetsuit from water babies - he's really snug in it.

If she's comfy/happy I'd def say keep her as she is. My eldest practically had a seizure every time he went in the car as a baby so we put him in his gp 1 fwd facing as soon as we could - and it did improve things - but he was sturdy. Littlest is mostly more chilled and happy in his rear facing so I'm going to keep him that way for as long as possible.

..is one where you don't get covered in spaghetti hoops vomit....(yup there's no doubt wheat last meal was)

You don't find cat food (dried, at least) in your wellies..

I revel in my evenings too much too - baby two only settles by 8/8.30 and doing a feed at 11ish at the moment so don't see any point going to bed till then. Hard when baby stirs early...but baby one trained me well...sleep..ha! Who needs it?

Sorry - me AGAIN - for anyone feeling the love for the mountain buggy see this super cool promo movie!! I will have one...if I can persuade mr snowboarder...