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Empathy from Joanna79 ^Pro 23 days old

Our new next door neighbours have a seven month old baby boy and since we moved in a month ago (a month! Where does the time go?), we have barely heard ...

Nursery changes, board game etiquette and a worrying obsession from Joanna79 ^Pro 233 days old

[ ... ] to start crying. I did the official bit first and spoke to the nursery manager privately. She was sad but fine. I asked if I could tell C, G's ...

Sleep update from Joanna79 ^Pro 255 days old

[ ... ] upset or crying. Not quite as good as the previous night, but certainly an improvement on earlier in the week. My current bedtime is 8.30pm, with ...

Being grown-ups from Joanna79 ^Pro 258 days old

[ ... ] so much crying and asked how we all were. Dh said they were really nice and asked after the girls. However, it doesn't really excuse some of ...

Don’t let the Gracie stay up late! from Joanna79 ^Pro 351 days old

[ ... ] tears from crying and smeared with snot and dribble. Her eyes kept closing. She was utterly exhausted, but determined to stay awake. I stayed with ...

Déjà vu from Joanna79 ^Pro 479 days old

7.15pm. The girls are in bed screaming their heads off. Again. I’ve just sat on the loo and had a good cry. I’ve been in to see them twice. I’ve turned ...

Ladies and gentlemen… from Joanna79 ^Pro 523 days old

…allow me to present to you the latest cry/scream from G from her Summer ’08 collection. It goes something like this: WOOOOOAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHH RRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH OAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGHHHHH (pause ...

The great escape – the nursery settling process, part 2 from Joanna79 ^Pro 576 days old

R and G did their second settling-in session at nursery this afternoon. We dropped them off and left them there for an hour. I took dh to the café that ...

They aren’t newborns any more from Joanna79 ^Pro 583 days old

R and G are four months old tomorrow. I was going to say something glib like ‘where has the time gone?’ but I only need to read back through my journal ...

Little lady, hard to please from Joanna79 ^Pro 614 days old

R seems to think she is 13 going on 30 as nothing seems to make her happy at the moment. R has always been more demanding than G food-wise and it is ...