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Comment on Counting down to One by KB

KB — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 06:43:15 +0000

Nice post! Party here for our one year old too, weirdly stressful! Do you do a party for a child who’ll just be overwhelmed and not understand, or do you not and live with the guilt for the rest of their life?! Knowing they WILL bring it up constantly!
Baby/child/toddler not so nice, that Wonder Weeks app you mentioned in your Essential Mums blog is bizarrely correct on moods etc……
Baby + work is hard, well done managing so far. Hope you’re enjoying your lunch breaks!!

Comment on Counting down to One by Geoff

Geoff — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:15:52 +0000

Don’t stress the party. In the end, the 1st birthday is really for the parents as a 1 year old doesn’t know what’s going on or make any connection to the celebration other than there being lots of people and more interesting food than usual.

Comment on Counting down to One by Jane

Jane — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:26:50 +0000

He is huge. Like a proper little kid now. But really, still a baby. He’s caught in that weird limbo of babytoddlerdom. I think he calculates – and not in a handy tally-up-the-prices-as-we-go-around-the-supermarket way.

Comment on Counting down to One by Jane

Jane — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:25:44 +0000

Yes, yes you do!!

Comment on Counting down to One by Good GraveyGoodGravey

Good GraveyGoodGravey — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:23:37 +0000

So good to see you writing again Jane. Dammit, though, now this means I really HAVE to write something.

So much love for you all, as always.

Comment on Counting down to One by Bede Dwyer

Bede Dwyer — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:22:07 +0000

Good to see you back champ! He’s looking huge (and strangely calculating.. He can’t be calculating yet… Can he?).

Comment on Beside the seaside by angelswings07

angelswings07 — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:55:45 +0000

Stunning!

Comment on A change is as good as a holiday by Cyberaxx

Cyberaxx — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:58:51 +0000

Good luck with your first big trip.
I have found that travelling with young children is just like a normal day in that you don’t know what’s going to happen until it does and you work out solutions as you go along with whatever is available.
I don’t have a lot of words of wisdom about travelling with kids but before my son was two years old he had been on 27 international flights (UK, Hong Kong, SIngapore, Australia) and 7 regional flights and it is much easier travelling with an infant than a toddler.
We never book bassinet seats as they have TV’s in the armrests so you can’t lie the child flat across your lap to sleep. The baby can’t sleep in the bassinet when the seatbelt sign is on anyway. We take a pillow/mattress for our kids to lie on you and a dummy on a string for ascending and decending to help with equalising the inner ear pressure (the first time you drop the dummy you’ll be glad of the string). Everything else on the trip is like living an a very tiny house with one chair that reclines in front of the TV so you have to be compact and organised.
Cars are much the same except we plan for many stops and consequently take much longer than normal (i.e. Auckland to be Taupo takes about 6 hours with breaks for a trip that I can do on my own on three and a half).

Comment on I woke up today feeling very excited by Cyberaxx

Cyberaxx — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:15:03 +0000

I can’t remember if PBTM was here before M2 but it was a while ago…

Comment on Beside the seaside by p1ll

p1ll — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:11:54 +0000

what Amy said ^^^ +1