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Now she is Five
… nearly six actually. Now that she is five she is at school from 9am until 4pm everyday. She has had her first solo playdate in the pueblo with a boy from school. She tells me that they fight “but not hitting”. OK, great. They mostly play Barbies.
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Glamp Lamp
Looks gorgeous, right? Butter wouldn’t melt? Wrong. She has just handed me the biggest bogie ever to have graced this house, wearing exactly this expression. Stay alert, people. And beware 5 year olds bearing gifts.
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Bella Vista
The view from Bibsey Towers
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On motherhood
All my glorious triumphs in motherhood and some minor hiccups...
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Sleep

Breakfast at Bibsey’s

September 20, 2011 by bibsey mama Leave a Comment

Mmmm. Sunday is the morning that I get to lie in. Mr B and Bibsey have breakfast together. On a good Sunday this might give me two whole hours of extra sleep. The good kind. The kind of sleep that you know is not going to be disturbed by the baby waking because she is … [Read more…]

Posted in: Apropos of nada, Occasional confessional, Sleep Tagged: Bibsey, Breakfast Club, Mr B

I am drunk… with sleep

May 12, 2011 by bibsey mama 7 Comments

Alternative post title: MY BRILLIANT BABY My brilliant child slept until 7am this morning. She has been ‘sleeping through’ for a little while now, by which I mean not waking in the night but waking for the day at any time between 5am (horrible, just horrible) and 6.15am (barely sociable but acceptable). So this morning … [Read more…]

Posted in: Baby, Sleep Tagged: baby, Bibsey, sleep

Nanny McThurerford’s famous patented Bum-slap and other ways to get your baby to sleep

April 22, 2011 by bibsey mama 5 Comments

Right, does anyone else bum-slap their baby to sleep? In this house we have moved pretty neatly from a bed-time boob dependency to a bum-slap dependency and I just don’t know how it happened. And before you all send round Social Services, by slap I of course mean pat. PAT. P.A.T. We call it the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Baby, Motherhood, Sleep, Weaning Tagged: Bibsey, gina ford, Parenthood, sleep

The morning after the night before

February 16, 2011 by bibsey mama 2 Comments

OMeffinG there is a cacophonous racket going on outside our house and my baby is trying to sleep I am trying to get my baby to sleep. I have more or less tolerance for noisy, noisy, noisy Spain depending on the day. We have car horns bibbing, the ¡frutas! lady shouting her wares, the builders … [Read more…]

Posted in: Baby, Sleep Tagged: routine, sleep

Moving on

February 15, 2011 by bibsey mama 2 Comments

Right now as I write I am sitting outside the bedroom with the baby monitor (hardly necessary as I can hear the little whimpers and calls through the door), wanting and willing and waiting for  Miss Bibsey to go to sleep. Hang on… *returns from visit to the bedroom* This is her morning nap time … [Read more…]

Posted in: Breast feeding, Sleep, Weaning Tagged: boobs, breastfeeding, sleep
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