Due April 2009: Episode 9 - April Mums with Guns: Rise of the Fanjo Warriors?

[BabyBolat]

Here we go again....

That and the attractive wind I seem to have regained!! sorry if TMI!

Yes kitty, definitely the first! see my mind is as clouded as those first three months too!

Nutty i LOVE that thread title!!!! Makes us sound kinky and slight mad at the same time... spot on, then?

Right - I'm off to bed, all that relaxing this weekend has tired me out... {huge yawn emoticon}

See you all in the morning!

Evening all. Just nipping in to catch up. I feel rotten and should be in bed but i'm having MN withdrawal.

Nutty - I saw that thread. It really cheered me up. Would you like an autograph?

DD - Sorry to hear about your FIL. What is wrong?

Boff - I'm going to bookmark those links for my ster. She's always burning herself. She was once ironing whilst wathcing telly and put the iron down on her bare leg instead of the board. This is quite typical stuff for her, bless her.

Bleu - I hope your sciatica ease ups. Poor you.

Auld - Gosh, I just read your house dilemma, that's a tough one but I agree with what GingerSarah says.

KittyCat - what a fabulous weekend! you must be a totally wonderful, adored wife - definitely doing something right!

Who else has a thick, fluffy carpet of snow outside?

I have had a lovely day today with only a little gentle cooking and definitely feel the benefits of not doing much and have much less pain. I did not go to the gig last night - sadly - but did make it out to the cinema and a restaurant which I was pretty chuffed with.

Tomorrow I am going to open negotiations about working from home and am going to try my best to be tough.

Boffin - well done on the shagging, keep up that healthy oxytocin!

Springy - glad you are better.

Nutty - hope you got the soft play thing sorted. How did you get on in the big wide world?

AuldAlliance - solidarity for the strike [workers salute]

mathsmummy, glad to hear it's a false alarm.

Boffin, I can imagine it would be. I hadn't even considered anything like the London aspect - that really does make it a lot worse. Awful...

Nutty, McDreamy & McSteamy are two excellent reasons to watch Grey's Anatomy. There are many excellent reasons, but I promise you they are good ones

Haha, oh God, parental sex giggling... Poor Boffin! (but also laughs lots at Nutty's Beauty & the Beast image )

BB, that picture of Patrick Dempsey & his babies made me swoon. I do love him

Oddly, I do think that McSteamy could cope. Not many men could, but I think McSteamy would be okay

I can't even slightly explain how I am of you, Kitty! Honestly... You're so lucky! What a fantastic husband you've got there! I shall be telling DP of your escapades

BB, mitts off my McDreamy. You can have the Purple Suite if I can have McDreamy. That's how much I love him. I wish he was real

Boffin - Just read your shagging post. You are wicked.

Nutty - We have snow too.

Kittycat - Wow, you lucky lucky woman. It looks and sounds amazing. I have book marked the website so I can badger DH to take me for a dirty weekend some time. Have you heard of the Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo, California. It's a similar sort of place but less plush. I have stayed there.

Shagging? Purple Padded rooms? There have been about 400 posts since I last logged on and feel v. much out of touch.

Bit confused by the new layout. All looks very slick but I can't find the pets threads. Cat is more disfunctional than ever and I need to see advice.

Gosh - still only managed to catch up on 5 pages but to answer a few questions before I forget:

BabyB - My ModernBaby have been pretty good for night times with the following exceptions:

• During the first few weeks as others have said they do really need a change after pretty much every feed, and as they are feeding during the night..... I did out of sheer exhaustion let her go to sleep in a dirty nappy once or twice but the guilt was so horrendous that I didn't sleep anyway, which kind of defeated the point.
• Around the age of 8 months DD was imbetween sizes. The smaller nappies were not absorbent enough for the volumes of wee and I couldnt' get a good 'seal' around her legs. She is pretty long and thin and I gather babies with chubbier legs are easier when it comes to avoiding leakages around the legs. But I have heard quite a few mums say that they have trouble around that age too. So for 4 weeks she was in disposables.
• around 19/20 months I started having to put her in disposables for night time as I wasn't quite getting enough absorbency to see her through the night. Very few people seem to have this problem, so perhaps it's just ol' spaggetti legs who gets a bit leaky. Or the fact that she drinks loads and loads of water.

Puzzle - I've worried about DD getting confused by the two languages, but she seems absolutely fine. At the moment she cherry picks the easiest word to say in each language, so her chat is a bit of a jumble but she understands both. For example - she was watching Star Trek with DH the other day when during a battle one of the characters exclaimed "We're sitting ducks!". DD chuckled, pointed at the screen and said "Pato!" (which means 'duck'). Also if someone asks if she would like water she will nod and say "mmmm - agua".

I have interrogated my SIL about it all as she is French and nephew (aged 6) is bilingual. She said he was the same at first, spoke a mixture of languages and appeared to have a slightly smaller vocab than some contemporaries at first but that he separated the two languages out fairly easily before long.

Puzzle - what language are you wanting your DD to learn. If it happens to be Spanish I would happily lend you plenty of books for bedtime stories etc (once we get them unpacked again that is).

Right- back to catching up with all the weekend chat.

Mornin' all. Rant alert.

Had pg insomnia last night and needed a hot chocolate and a biccie to keep me going at 4.30am. Dodn't go back to sleep until 5.45am and then DH had to get up for his intrepid journey to London at 6.30am. So I am very grumpy. And I mean very grumpy.

Children on the other hand are apoplectic with excitement, because there is lots of snow. The AP came to wake me up again to find out whether the school would be closed. Now how I am supposed to know if I am asleep in a darkened room, bearing in mind I don't personally run the school is beyond me.

So I tell her to put Radio Cambridgeshire on to find out (I told her last night she would have to do this, and last time it snowed as well). Note: We have a digital radio in the kitchen that is very easy to use, precisely for moments like these.

So the dozy cow does not put Radio Cambridgeshire on, but brings her own radio down from her bedroom, and puts on the commercial station Star Radio (which she prefers to listen to because of the music). So by 8am I stagger down there realising what she has done (din is under my bedroom), and finally, by snarling nastily at people generally, manage to stop the children running around and shouting for long enough to listen to Star's obviously incomplete list of closed schools. I then point out that this is the wrong radio station and I instructed her to listen to the correct one. She says she can't tune the digital radio (Duh! She manages to put it on Star Radio often enough!) I then tune it in 2 seconds flat (double duh!) and realise we have missed most of the official announcement about closed schools. It then takes me 10 minutes to log onto the Radio Cambridgeshire website to find out if the kids' school is closed because the world and his wife are logging on.

Now I ask you all, and particularly Springy because she is a year younger than this AP I believe, is it really beyond a 21 year old's capability to follow instructions and tune into the local radio station ON A FRIGGIN DIGITAL RADIO WHICH NAMES ALL THE STATIONS IN TEXT ON THE FRONT to get the necessary public service information? AND EVEN SHOW A BIT OF BLARDY INITIATIVE FROM TIME TO TIME???

Why oh why am I surrounded by these idiots??? Take me away from all this!!!

Morning Lulu - French at first, but thank you for the kind offer. I think I will start after the baby arrives and things have settled down a bit. DH actually started using words with her yesterday and it was so adorable to hear her repeat them back in the right context.
Are you enjoying the snow? I have a horrid cold and was supposed to go and see a client today but this has given me the perfect get out. It's about a foot deep in my garden.
DD's class has been camcelled as well so today is a pajama day for certain.

Holy shit, good morning Boffin. Can you go back to bed and hide from them?

I am in bed with my coffee. I may be some time, as they say. Children are still beside themselves with joy at missing school.

The only good thing about my venture downstairs was that I found my SPD was a bit better temporarily and I was able to bring myself a breakfast tray upstairs with proper food on it. This is a big event for me at the moment.

I know AP jobs aren't necessarily taken up by the world's most go-getting and driven of people, I really do, and I appreciate their help and all that, but sometimes I get fed up of sharing my house and privacy with adults who behave like my 11-year-old half the time.

Lulu

pets here

Awwww, DS2 is in the garden properly dressed with ski gear on saying "Mum! C'est the neige!" how cool is that! I think they must have done weather in French at school. I was talking German to him and telling him it was Pulverschnee (powder snow - nice for skiing) so we were at cross purposes for a moment while we established a joint mode of communication. But I am pleased he has learned something at that place.

Bit sad I can't take my skis up the Gog Magogs and have a bit of a slither downhill, but I think that might just set my SPD off big time and hospitalise me (although it is only 2 minutes from the hospital ....)

Snow?

What snow?

Where I am in the West Country we haven't got any and DH has managed to commute all the way to West Bromwhich without seeing so much as a flake.

Talking of west country - where are you Nutty and Bleu? I'm currently holed up nearish to Bradford on Avon (if that means anything to anyone).

I've been thinking of venturing out to Cribs causeway to go round John Lewis but I'm not really sure I can face it. I'm not really that near and the whole Cribs Causeway thing just freaks me out. Think I might just go to the one in Kingston when I'm next in town. I know the delivery options are excellent but one of the things I need is a ball of wall which doesn't appear to be available online.

Boffin - I think you need to put masking tape over the controls on your radio so that it remains on your preferrred station. I get verrrrry annoyed if anyone tunes me out of Radio 4.

Boffin - I hope your DH manages to get where he is going in London, especially after such an early start.

That whole radio saga is exactly the kind of thing that drives me nuts. I used to have someone at work like that. I have no idea what you do with people like that.

BB, aren't you supposed to be going to London today? good luck with that...

Some random physical pregnancy observations:

Yes, small stomach, and have to lie or stand after eating because when I am folded up sitting down I feel like there is no room left to breathe.

Fingernails like little chips of marble - I have never ever had nails strong enough to grow them this long before. I am even considering having a manicure for a laugh before it's all over!

Does anyone blush a lot? Is this to do with having more blood, or something? I hate it when I am going to say something a little cheeky and I flush like a 15 year old instead of being suave and insouciant. It is really cramping my sardonic work style. (another reason to work from home and make all barbed comments on email)

Things I do not have: heartburn, indigestion, piles, constipation, swollen feet. Always something to be thankful for!

have a good day, snowmums