DS made me cry. I am a nobber.

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DS who is 4 has this book. For anyone who is unfamiliar with it, it's a book where the reader chooses from a page full of pictures i.e which house they'd choose to live in/who they'd choose for family and friends/which bed they'd sleep in and so forth.

We get to the page where the book asks who they would choose for family and friends and DS points to the picture of a princess with long blonde wavy hair and says "she should be my mummy" I asked him why he chose her for his mummy and he said "because she is beautiful with beautiful hair" I said "Do I have beautiful hair?" and he said "No, it's hugly (he says ugly with an aitch ) and your eyes are all funny" :( My eyes started welling up and I had to bite my lip to stop the full-on boo-hoos.

I am a nobber for a) being so shallow, b) for being jealous of a drawing of a princess, c) for being bothered about what a 4 year old thinks of my appearance

My DS is too young to talk yet, thankfully. But once my nephew was watching me getting ready to go out, looked at me appraisingly and then said "Put more make-up on, Auntie Fetchez!" That did my ego no good at all.

Bupcakes, you are beautiful, your DS has no taste in women. Sorry.

Bupcakes you're gorgeous!

YABU for being arsed about cartoon character

Ah, Josh Homme

Please expand on that photo bupcakes, how it came to be, what he was like etc. Please

(yes I may have thrown thread off topic. But its josh homme fgs)

Are you still reading Alone in Berlin?

What do/did you make of it?

Aww. Ive had a look at your pics and not only are you very pretty but i had no idea you live in Stourbridge. Small world. I used to. Isort of float about there from time to time.

Haha, is that Brody Dalle on the poster in the background? :)

Agh honestly Bup - you must know from previous responses to your profile pics that you're a pretty good looking woman!

I get the snivelly thing when due the monthlies - I'm getting jealous of DD choosing to snuggle with DH instead of me.

But I don't think you have anything to worry about, in reality your DS wouldn't swap you for the world and would be pretty miffed if he woke up to a blonde princess but no mummy tomorrow.

DS tells me I'm gorgeous but generally it's just to butter me up for getting something. And I'm not half as pwetty as you.

My DS once asked me (aged 5) in a rather wheedling and self-conscious way, "Can you change your mum?". He wanted to swap me for his friend's glamorous mum, who always tottered up to school in the latest fashions, high heels, a glossy mane of hair and full makeup. I had to inform that sadly, no, he was lumbered with frumpy, ungroomed old me. But at least DH found it hilariously funny and still likes to remind me of it the bastard.

I feel your pain, OP.

If it makes you feel any better I actually look like a hobbit so he clearly has no sense of what beauty is!

My 2 year old finds it extremely amusing to tell me I am "fat mummy" and "mean mummy".

He is absolutely right on both counts

Oh GOD, now I feel needy because it sounds like I was giving you cue to look at my profile and big me up and that isn't what I was angling for HONEST

I've finished Alone... now tethersend and I bloody loved it. Honestly could not put it down. I've subsequently bought it for two people and loaned my copy to a mate who also really liked it. I'm assuming you've read it too? What did you think?

I may have misled you on the Josh picture It's actually the excellent photoshop work of a mate of mine who did it in a tribute to my Homme infatuation. Sorry to Brody if she's a MNer and reading this

"My children have been taught from an early age to tell me I'm 'young slim and beautiful' about 3 seconds before asking me for anything...works for me, works for them."

I once overheard my mother training DS to say "nanny is a pretty young lady" WTF?

Loved it too- read it a few years ago and had to hunt down a copy from afar, then saw it in WHSmiths last month. Was talking about it on another thread yesterday. Great book.

Can your mate do anything with a picture of Eugene Hutz and yours truly? Like a wedding photo

bupcakes, you got what you deserved for asking a four year old if you had beautiful hair

They don't do compliments to order

But when they do come they are all the more precious

Yes, I've been foisting it onto anyone who can read I am getting frustrated with DH for not being enthusiatic enough about reading it.

Eugene Hutz? The crazy man from Gogol Bordello, yes? I might be able to do you a very crude weddingy type picture.

Have you considered adoption?

My 16 yr old regularly tells me I look 30 (I am 41) and that I don't need make up. It's worth the £5.

"bupcakes, you got what you deserved for asking a four year old if you had beautiful hair"

I know. I knew I'd regret it as soon as I asked.

I am also loving the nanny is a pretty young lady thing!

My two favourite of DS's remarks on me, are
"mummy, you have a booftul head"
and "mummy, why have you got two tummies?"

They can make you feel ten feet tall, but oh yes they can cut you down

HahahaHA! At your mum, bupkins.

Never mind you, gorgeous creature, your son, in his little hat, has made me melt.

Your lovely little boy. Mine is SO grown-up now.

LOL at two tummies. No, really, I am creasing up

DS often demands asks me for a foot massage. I oblige and I say to him "I love your little feet" he asks why I love them and I say "because they're all little and soft and smooth" THEN the other week, I asked DS to rub mummy's feet which he did. I said "do you love mummy's feet?" "yes I lub mummy's feet" he said. Then he looked all serious "oh sorry. I mean no. I don't like your feet they're all rough and bready"

shame that innocent sroties already leave an impression :(

i would not take it too seriously and look for some other books, less with barbie doll princesses in. ds is 3.5 often tells me he loves daddy, nana, granny, great granny and others and leaves me off the list