WEST LONDON MEET-UP THREAD - SEPTEMBER 2006 - EALING, ACTON, CHISWICK, KEW, RICHMOND, ISLEWORTH, KINGSTON ETC

[MrsBigD]

Let's start a new thread the old one is getting too long

I'm off travelling 22-29th but before then I hope I'd be able to 'find' some time but probably not in the week leading up to 22nd as dh would probably divorce me

i googled "2 years old & stuttering" and amongst others found this

most of the sites returned are American but it would seem "normal"

hth

in the meantime please keep "glorious day" posts to a minimum when i am stuck in office!!!!

compounded by mother informing me she's taking dd to Kew G for lunch

have fun, hope to meet you tomorrow am at Lollipop!

well I'm stuck at home potty traning today , so no lovely Kew Gardens for me just cleaning up huge puddles of wee before ds1 can jump in them and ds2 crawls through them .

Hey, is there a new emoticon? Haven't notice before.

Sorry, Quokka. Doesn't sound fun. But, it will hopefully be over soon. How old is DS1?

ds1 is 2.5 he has been showing the signs and I use cloth nappies so after a horrible nappy yesterday (which I dropped on the way to the toilet) I decided it was time.

So, he is without nappies today? And you let him inside?

I have a love vision of one boy stomping on the pee, whils another crawls through it.

no nappies but he is wearing undies (or pants as the english call them). He has been wondering in and out all day, but I have wooden floors so not too worried about the floors. He would deffo be outside if I had carpet .

hello all
tackling the big poo, eh quokka. Good luck.

Am knackered today: ds started preschool yesterday, dd started nursery (2 afternoons/ week). Don't know if I'm coming or going. Routine is gone completely. I'm sure I'll suss it out just about the time they leave school.

My babies are growing up

You could always have another one, OXO?

Nah, too tired for sex.

Hello, hello everyone! I'm thinking about getting a bed for 21 month old dd, do you think it's a bit early? Just wondering what you think! Hey, I know it's the wrong message board but I'm a fellow West Londoner so thought you wouldn't mind

I think it's fine if she wants one. My DD got a bed at 24 mths because DS was coming along to take her cot 2 months later.

Did you go for a regular single bed with saftety thingy on the side - or a cot-bed?

depends on the child I think. DS has been in 'normal' bed for ages, and he's 2 now. At 1 year he was so strong/heavy he could topple his cot so in our case single bed was safer!

just thinking... how am I going to cope for 8 days without access to mn? or more so the West London threads? They move so much each day I'll be there forever and a day who's going to do a synopsis for me when I'm back?

Thanks, that's exactly what I've been thinking re: bed - can't see the point of a toddler bed! Mrs Big D where are you going, somewhere exciting?

Island hopping in Greece with my mother

Oooh lucky you - I could do with a week in Greece leaving right now!

I would probably do the normal bed. I never really understood the need to buy a toddler bed just so you could go buy a bigger one when they outgrow it in a couple of years.

Although, we did actually buy a junior bed at Ikea, but only because it was the cheapest bed we could find.

Bunyanvillas did your read that last half of the sentence? The one where Big D says, "...with my mother".

Bunyanvilla: we have a spare ikea kids bed, if you want it. We also have the mattress although it's been tucked behind our sofa for almost a year so is a bit dusty. Have been saving it for a friend but her move has been put back for ever so am happy for you to have it.

My sister bought it for her dd when she came to study for postgrad, but missed her mummy's cleaning too much so went back. Bed has been used for 7 nights at most.

Quokka - how's the potty training going?

Uwila I have not met Mrs Big D's mother, what is she like xoxoxoxoooo what a spiffing offer of bed! May well take you up on that one. Where do you live? [too lazy to visit stats board

Twickenham. Next to Marble Hill Park.

potty traning driving me potty! He has been happy to sit on potty in past and even done a poo, but today has been in total refusal .

To top it all off he called 999 and I got into trouble for it.

lol: my ds' ds (iykwim) dialled 999 twice in a row. My ds was told by police that they then had to call out at the house to make sure all ok! She apologised profusely and then offered to put the kettle on!

oh well after a day of hell (potty traning) ds rewarded me with a poo on the big loo before bed . I think he has been torturing me all day and when he saw that he'd broken me he just sat on the loo and did it!

I've had a bottle of Veuve in the fridge for ages and I'm going to crack it open - not even going to wait for dh