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April 2009 - Chapter 3 - Let us round up the stragglers

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PuzzleRocks · 01/07/2009 22:16

Ta da.

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PuzzleRocks · 01/07/2009 22:19

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PuzzleRocks · 01/07/2009 22:21

There are a lot of names on the list that we have not heard from for some time.

[pops on a deerstalker and grabs a rifle]

Maybe we could check on our buddies?

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AuldAlliance · 01/07/2009 22:22

Checking in to mark the thread before I totter off to bed.
Hope this thread is full of longer nights, fewer worries, more cooing and smiling and maybe even a spot of rolling over?
And we all know what we do in July, ladies .

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PuzzleRocks · 01/07/2009 22:24

What? Get pregnant? Nooooooooooooo!

Right, I need my sleep. Night night.

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mumblemumhome4lunch · 01/07/2009 22:30

oooh, think I might have got the last post on the old thread, that would be a first for me
incase your still about puzzle here's what it was...
thanks for asking Puzzle - he's fine, just a little scratch in the crease around his nostril. Poor thing had been fast asleep and I guess he was screaming at the shock of it as much as anything. You can hardly see anything now.

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Swaliswan · 01/07/2009 22:33

Marking thread for a time when I have a little energy.

That will be never, then.

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PuzzleRocks · 01/07/2009 22:36

I am Mumble. I'm glad he is ok.

Hi Swali - How is Beth getting on with the Pavlik harness?

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mumblemumhome4lunch · 01/07/2009 22:48

Thanks for the advice on the sleeper train.

Unfortunately I don't think the logistics will work - was hoping to get up to see my mum on the cheap and once took a sleeper train to Italy when I was a teenager and loved it. Problem is I then have to get from Inverness to Ullapool to get ferry over to Stronoway. Was planing to go by bus/coach but the train gets in at 8.30 and the bus leaves at 8.15 arrgh ! No bus again til 13.30, how crap is that. Don't fancy having 5 hrs to kill even if it is much cheaper than flying !

Was also thinking I could do it without needing any ID which I have to have to fly - only form or ID I had was my driving licence and I managed to lose that last week......I'd put it in an open envelope with my marriage cert and application form to change name on my licence and was carrying it about to fill in when I got a spare moment then OOPS can't find it anywhere, must have dropped out my bag somewhere

If you see anyone pretending to be Mrs Mumble don't be fooled

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mumblemumhome4lunch · 01/07/2009 22:52

Am actually quite worried but not sure what I can do. Have applied for new driving licence so old one will technically be invalid but who'd know looking at it??

I'm usually sooooo careful with identity information stuff

I am officially an idiot

want to go to bed but better do the dishwasher or DH will get the hump whe he gets in (usually his job but I said I would as he's out tonight)

night night everyone

hope it's not so hot and sticky tomorrow for you all

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BoffinMum · 01/07/2009 23:05

Purple It will all be OK. You can do this. Thank goodness for modern medicine, eh?

Stuff fans, I am currently topless in front of our portable air conditioning unit. Yesterday I drove to Norwich and back in a car without aircon, with Felix and DS1 in there as well, and I thought we were going to DIE!! It must have been 40 degrees in the car. Suffice it to say that the car is going to the garage tomorrow for a very expensive aircon repair.

I went to the hospital for physio today, and the man did various manipulations and so on, and things do feel better because of it. I have to go every week and also start some special exercises tomorrow. The thing I like is that he seems thoroughly committed to getting me better. My secret back up plan is that if this fails, I will become a yoga teacher and by giving up a sedentary job I will get a new lease of life. However having trained to be a Boffin for 10 years it would be a real shame to have to do this 'cos actually I am quite good at the Boffin stuff really.

Re: food. Don't bother giving them solids before 5-6 months because they only spit the stuff out anyway. When DD was little they said we should wean at about 4 months, and frankly it was a total waste of time, because I spent ages pureeing lovely things only to end up chucking most of it in the bin. I think there is a certain logic in waiting until a)they have some teeth and b)they start trying to grab what you are eating, as this to me seems to indicate a suitable developmental level. FWIW I have weaned my others later rather than earlier and all mine eat very well, had no problems with lumps, eat their greens and so on. I start with a spoon of baby rice, then onto mashed up banana, pureed apple, and after that mashed potato and carrot. Cottage cheese comes next mixed into the potato and carrot, and then yoghurt into the apple puree. Then gradually we open things up to cheese, meat and fish, and wierd veg. By a year I am basically mushing up family meals (we don't use salt much in cooking) and shovelling that in them. I was given a teeny little food processor for DS2 and it was very useful, more so than the Mouli Legumes I brought back from France to feed the others with.

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BoffinMum · 01/07/2009 23:08

I would just add those weaning foods are not meant to appear in the same meal.

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purplemonkeydishwasher · 02/07/2009 07:03

Morning everyone!

thanks so much for all your support. I wish that I was being brave and strong by going to the docs but the fact is that the only reason I'm going is because I've almost fainted a couple of times rather than the depression. But i figure while I'm there...
TBH i think it's my iron and i'm just hoping (really really really hoping) that once that's sorted I#ll feel good again.

but anyway!

On a good note...I put Isla in the sidecar cot last night and she didn't wake up until 5:30!!!
She fell asleep on DH a little before 10 as well! this is too good to be true and i'm just enjoying it until it all goes to pot. (which i hope it doesn't but i always say hope for the best but expect the worst!)
so DH and I had a little 'mommy and daddy time' start July off with a bang!

he was awesome yesterday. came home from work, made an awesome dinner (barbecue steak!!) and dessert. so he deserved a little action!

Boffin - totally agree about the solids thing. I started DS when he was just shy of 6 months but he wasn't really ready yet (despite being HUGE!) and it took him a year to start really eating.

AULD - I'm totally with you on the behavior thing. DS has turned into demon child lately. and like you i'm hesitant to go anywhere. i have to weigh it up whether it's worth it.
We are trying something new today. we have a very basic chart. it's a rocket ship that moves up along the stars. at the end of each day we talk about whether or not DS's behavior has been good enough for the rocket to move up or if it has to move down.
my friend saw it on supernanny (i know, but if it works...!!) and is trying it as well. she's got a dd the same age and her's is a fairy that moves up a flower leaf to leaf.
so the idea is that if he gets to the top (there are 10 stars) he gets a special treat. i really really really hope it helps. really.

as well we are having issues with DS holding in his PEE now. grrrrrr! He's had 3 accidents lately. so we have a deal that whenever the alarm goes on my pohone he has to pee. so far that's been working. there's been none of the usual fuss.

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Schulte · 02/07/2009 08:31

Morning!

Bad night here - I am worried I might be developing insomnia again. Hope it's just the heat, or my daily dose of thyroxine being too high now I am not pregnant any more, and that it won't develop into full blown, madness inducing insomnia like it did after DD1.

Purple - that chart sounds good, did you make it yourself?

Boff - hope the physio helps!

Puzzle - glad you're feeling better!

Mumble - sorry about driving license, no idea if it's a problem or not. My credit card just got cloned but somehow I don't care - DH is dealing with it Normally I would be furious!

Juw - if you're around, can I ask you a question? DD1 has had sticky eye about once a month for the last 5 or 6 months. Because she's over 2 (just), I just go and buy over the counter chloramphenicol eye drops but is it problem using them so often? Pharmacist here clearly seems to think so, hence the cross interrogation every time I ask for the drops. What's your view?

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PuzzleRocks · 02/07/2009 08:31

Boff - My air con is broken too. I couldn't even contemplate a trip like that with the girls. Did you drive topless?
I'm sure you will not need a back up plan. But if you do I hear this woman pays well.
What's wierd veg? this sort of thing?

Purple - I like the chart idea, I hope it works for DS.
Big hooray to Isla for giving you and DH some time. I'm delighted you had a good evening.
Fingers crossed for you just being a little anaemic.

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PuzzleRocks · 02/07/2009 08:33

Morning Schulte - Hopefully it is just the heat.
How did you find out about your card?

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Schulte · 02/07/2009 08:37

It got rejected in the supermarket. Basically the transactions were so dodgy that the bank froze the card straight away. That criminal spent several thousand pounds in a very short space of time.

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PuzzleRocks · 02/07/2009 08:46

It happened to me last year. I was trying to use my card in M&S and ended up on the phone to the cc company for half an hour to prove who I was and that I hadn't been on a shopping spree in Australia.

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WhatFreshHellIsThis · 02/07/2009 09:19

Hello, just marking spot in new thread! DS1 still off nursery ill, which means I spent yesterday juggling Orbit, DS1 and some work DP has got me doing. Cbeebies may have been employed as babysitter for a good proportion of the day

He is ill....

Anyway, must go finish stuff before Orbit wakes up again

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NuttyTaff · 02/07/2009 09:47

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SpringySponge · 02/07/2009 10:03

I was just about to make the 'cocks leg' joke, but see Nutty beat me to it. But yes - just marking for later xx

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purplemonkeydishwasher · 02/07/2009 10:35

WFH - I don't have the 'he's ill' excuse and DS STILL watches TV all day. and then i wonder why he's got behaviour problems!

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WhatFreshHellIsThis · 02/07/2009 11:03

Not sure how ill he is, to be honest...he's spent the last twenty minutes jumping off the sofa onto the spare cot mattress, going 'Wheeeeeee!'



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NuttyTaff · 02/07/2009 11:16

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Am supposed to be going out to lunch today with my NCT ladies, but I really don't think I can face it. It's probably a 40 minute walk with the buggy, which would be fine if it were just a few degrees cooler. I know I should make myself get up and go, but I just can't be doing with going out. I really should learn to drive, shouldn't I, not that we could afford a second car. Plus, I'm feeling grotty after a not-great night. H seems to be developing a new routine, and it's leaving me knackered.

Hugo's paed appt has come through for end of August. I avoided weigh-in again this week, on the basis of not going out in the heat unnecessarily. He has reduced his poo frequency - I suppose this must be an indication he is absorbing more goodness, so fingers crossed. DH is off next Thurs so will take him for weighing then, followed by a smear and round two of his jabs. What a fun day we have planned!

Have just been informed that the wedding we're going to at the end of the month is 'no kids'. Grrrrrr. Would be fine if I were an expressing machine, but I can't reliably pump enough to last him.

Schulte - if you're having to use the drops repeatedly, it is likely that they are not active enough against the relevant bug. I would see GP and get some gentamicin drops to try instead. Chloramphenicol is a pretty toxic drug, though the amount absorbed systemically through topical use is small, but this may be why your p'cist is getting a bit . The risk of any of the serious side-effects with the eye-drops is small, but possible.
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