New West London Meet Thread

[Paddlechick666]

Wow! We filled a thread!

Hope you all find this new one!

Our evening was great, had a lovely time. kids were all very well behaved. dd sleeping in our bedroom is a nightmare tho - she's sooo noisy!

we need a 3rd bedroom

we're off for Sunday lunch at The Botanist later YUM!

2cute, we're scheduled to have skids that weekend but not confirmed yet. if we do, not sure if i could come and don't want to invite 2 extra kids and dh as that'd be rather cheeky! if we don't then we'll be there

it's far too early for a Sunday!

Not sure if I'm really doing controlled crying - or at least not consciously. I certain wouldn't let him really scream for very long at all probably only 5 mins, but I now have a bedtime routine which 90% of the time winds him down so much that there is rarely any crying to deal with at night.

Bath 6.30-6.45 depending on how tired I think he is
Bottle of milk with a slow flowing teat at 7-7.15 in nursery with lights off but door open so its light enough to see
Bed 7.15 to 7.30

Kiss, rub back, "night night", leave.

To be honest I think I'm just lucky, not really anything special I do, I have just tried various things until it worked then stuck with it like glue

Daytime is more difficult but I have recently found that if I wrap him in a soft blanket (almost like swaddling but not so tight) and cuddle him on my lap for 5-10 minutes that he will go down in the cot and doze off. Only recently discovered this so don't know if its a fluke or if it works.

The trick with D is a bit like Quokka says - no eye contact or talking as that perks him up no end!

Morning all. I have woken up with a streaming cold courtesy of ds (aren't they so kind the way they share). Typically dh is away tonight so will have to deal with children on my own and no chance of a lie in. I have to drive to Stanmore tomorrow for a children's birthday party, then lunch with IL's. At least his trip to NY for next week is cancelled as I have several "jobs" I need him to do before my sister comes to stay next weekend.

D also has dummy but have never known him to cry if he loses it. And I put him to sleep on his side (but he is over one)

Plus ds decided to wake us a 4am because he had a dirty nappy. DH got up and dealt with him but he still didn't settle for over an hour. I think an early night is in order.

Thanks Sue and Quokka - will try that. He normally has no problem going off to sleep after his bath at 7.30pm it's just the 12.30am and 4.30am feeds that I'd like to get out of his system. He can do it and has done it loads of times before. I just worry that I'll wake up dh and he has to work so I give in to ds and feed him.

I'm here. My boiler is fixed. Has been since Monday. We just needed a new fan and all is well now. However, the stupid British Gas nam did leave it on constant instead of twice a day and we only noticed this morning.

DD woke up at 5:30am screaming. She had wet herself and the bed because DH didn't put a nappy on her last night when he put her to bed. And guess who tended to the screaming child at 5:30? (which admittedly was past time to get up anyway) But, you know, sometimes HE could get up, especially when it is he who created the mess.

Looking forward to my man-free weekend.

fox and sfx - am very excited about it all as have not been on a holiday in the sun for a very long time although it is balanced out by the guilt of environmentally sinning! I do claim afterall to be a greenie!

sfx - yes am indeed a sci-fi and also fantasy geek. Was very sad when buffy left our screens!

comeO - hope you manage to get a little respite today. I always dread being ill & alone with the kids and as a result I seem to get ill only when my dh's term comes to an end, he thinks its a conspiracy!

elusis - don't get me started about british gas - they can be such crooks.

t2bg must met up sometime and talk geek

re boiler mine is due for service but am inclined to wait until the end of summer since we have made it this far and it's less than 2yrs old. will try to steer clear of BG they are usually useless expensive bu**ers

MN seems lively today off to the lynching thread before dd wakes up

MrsR I have no idea about weaning off breast feeding during the night as (obviously) I didn't. D did start waking for a 3am feed due to jetlag which became a habit. I decreased the amount of milk I gave him each night then when he was down to 3oz I switched to water - he didn't bother waking for the water the second night! Obviously it wasn;t worth the effort for him!

and have just been out with my mum and brothers family for pub lunch, mum was great and had D most of the lunch BUT then towards the end when he was getting a bit impatient and grizzly fed him sugar cubes and teaspoons of her latte to keep him quiet!

Soooooo..... you had the sugar bowl out on the table, eh?

yes but not because I'm fat but because ummmm....

the stupid thing is that I don;t fundamentally disagree with a few basic points in that thread

1. a nanny who is not fit enough to keep uo with you child is no good if you have a particularly active toddler
2. you are entitled to employ whomever you like

But...

1. some of the sweeping statements about fat people are so mindnumbing it makes my head hurt
2. if the nanny is so fat that she cannot get on and off the floor easily then surely it was pretty obvious at the interview?!

afternoon all

sorry, haven't really had time to do a big catch up.

hope everyone's well.

just thought i'd let you know i've had a complete sh*tter of a day.

i'm going home shortly and after I put dd to bed I am going to get rat arsed.

i give you fair warning that i may well talk utter tripe later....

Hey, Paddle, if you want you can bring DD over and we can get rat arsed together. You can both spend the night. DH is on a plane to India.....

PARTY!!!!!

Oh, I mean poor DH, how will I get through the weekend without him.

lol @ you! you're so bad!

i fear I am going to be a morose drunk and just get totally rat arsed and cry a lot therefore can i postpone a visit to you for another time when i feel like getting happy drunk?

also, my mother goes home tonight and i am desperately looking forward to

1. having house to myself
2. having dd sleep in her own room instead of mine!

btw, why's he gone to India and for how long?

Work. Until Wednesday.

The invitation is still good (if you want it). Crying is in fact permitted in my house. If it wasn't, I'd have to send the stroppy 3 year old away.

Paddle can I join you in getting drunk and cry a lot? I'm defo not cut out to be a sahm... they are driving me totally insane and I want to sit here weeping. I go into the garage at least once a day just to scream! I think I could cope with one of them home all day but both of them... how can I sum it up??? AAAAAAAAAARGH. I mean how am I to react to the following beside going mental because of attitude...
dd: mama I want something to drink (with her lunch)
me: what would you like
dd: Milk... daaah! (ya know that condecening teenager expression no idea how to spell that)
me: mind your manners!

This is after having been to see a new acquaintance and dd being a right little prat over there. Very unusual as dd normally is a total angel when we are at somebody else's place.

That in combo with ds being extremely difficult and not listenting to a single word I say...

I know, I know it's probabl move related ... but... I've had about enough.

sorry for rant... shall now go and play taxi for dh as he's too ill to walk back from work...

The invitation is good for you too,MrsigD (unless you have some infectious disease to spread). But if you want to drop the kids in DH's lap and run to sunbury for the evening you are welcome.

oh so tempting eleusius He'd probaly kill me. then again he'll get some free time tomorrow when I'm going to Foxie's for the book swap...

He can't kill you if you're not there.

Party? where where?????

MrsD - you have a garage?

How can you complain about life when you have a garage?
(To be said in Maurren Lipman type Jewish mother accent)

Where is everyone?

At a party I'm not invited to?

ah yes but you see the garage is full of boxes muffles the screams