D'ya ever wonder how life still carried on like this?

[Kelly1978]

A new thread!
Especially for throckenholt

I was hoping the original one would go to 1000, but it was gettign a but annoying scrolling all the way done, so come over here instead.

How is everyone coping with the school holidays?

I'm fed up with the rubbish weather, as we're stuck in the house too much. I daren't take them to soft play as it packed during the hols and then I can't watch all four of them. Plus it costs a fortune.
Mine are changing so much. Rav is becoming a right wuss, scared of new places. I suppose it shows awareness, but it is annoying when I've driven miles for a nice day out and he just wants to sit and whine because he is too scared to go on anything! Shay is developing his houdini skills, and now has a tendancy to bolt out of parks so I have to watch him like a hawk. I must dig out the reins before we go on holiday.

No babe. I dance on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays!

Tonight I shall pretend to study and also I will teach my french girl how to cook a meal.

Right now I have to give up the computer to the kids for homework reasons. (I swear I'm gonna get me a wi-fi laptop..... and Jamie Foxx nekkid will be my screen saver!)

oooooohhh Overrun - sounds nasty you poor poor thing - you have all my sympathy.

DT2 got up at 5am today - joy! So am going to watch Trin and Suse and then slink off to bed (if I dont get ensconsced in Mumsnet in the meantime..........)

Everyone alright????

Hi HM, I'm ok. My DTs are really going through a hideous phase though.

DT1 behaves the worse and then DT2 decides to do copycat behaviour and all hell breaks loose. Today she would not eat breakfast, preferring to run about the room taunting DT2 and DD, pushing them, chucking her breakfast things on the floor, screaming etc etc. Since DT2 and DD were behaving impeccably but were about to deteriorate and copy her I had to swiftly end her breakfast time and pop in her the car (in the garage which is accessible from the kitchen) to wait for us to get ready for school. She cried and cried and cried and I hated doing it, particularly as I know she is still in recovery from the pox BUT there is big time pressure in the mornings and I can't afford any of the balls to drop. They are being very hard work atm. They fight, they scream. She is quite a bully to him and then he eventually fights back and then she's hurt. It goes round and round. Then....at bedtime....they get each other's favourite teddies, cuddle up together, kiss and cuddle before bed and it makes you melt again.

Their behaviour is also rubbing off on DD. She is a lovely kid but gets mouthy and shouts louder to be heard when they act up. She ends up having to leave the room to play somewhere else to get peace and feels horribly left out while the trouble makers stay in the family room with me so I can cook etc.

I know its a stage but it seems like its been going on forever.....

Anyway, that was a long way of saying I'm fine .

I am about to eat dinner and then slip into bed myself. I'm trying to be strict and get my light out BY 10.30pm.......

Hows your tummy?

Poor FrumpyGrumpy, it sounds horrible. It's one thing knowing that something is a stage and another coping with it at the time isn't it?
Its so wierd with twins, mine too can be a logger heads all day and then they will start cuddling and its so sweet.
Sorry to hear about your migraine. They are the absalute worst. I wonder if mine are linked with my cycle, can't detect a pattern. Know I am starting to slip into pmt mode.

Mine dont ever cuddle! When does that happen then...??!!All they seem to do is fight, try and bite each other, take toys off each other and push each other around........exhausting but it sounds like we are all in the same boat.

Tummy is moving around a lot! Very uncomfortable but not painful so thats good. And not had any more of the agonising pains that I had last Tuesday night thankfully.

Right - off to my pit - got to make it first.......yawn. See you all tomorrow!!!!!!

Overrun, mine happened just before my last period and lasted days and days, then I got my whole period in one day (lovely). Its worth watching your cycle.

My DP used to get them regularly and, for him, three regular meals a day put him on the right track along with regular sleep. I have just had a thyroid test and a few hormone tests to see if there is anything can be done about it all.

I'll survive the DTs I'm sure, you're right, its just about coping with that moment. Thanks for the words and take care of yourself x.

HM I'm right with you honey, budge up, I'll bring my own duvet .

Keeeeelly, oh Keeeeeeelllllyyyy......when you don't post there's usually something up .......share, share, share......

Nite all, peaceful sleeps to you x.

What a morning - DT1 decided to stick his fingers down one of my lipsticks, got it all over his hands, head, hair and...do you remember I said I put clean sheets on the bed last night....well guess what colour they were....white/cream. Guess what colour they are now?? STreaked with Bourjois something or other. Hooray.

And DT2 had ENORMOUS paddy over breakfast - asking for more toast when there is a great big PILE of it in front of him.

However all is now well ... just got to get them to nursery and its raining.

Anyone want to go one up on me and tell me about their worse morning? Overrun, if yours involves poo then I bow down and let you take the winners crown with no argument..........

HM: When's HD coming for supper again. I've a lovely chicken dish to make for him. And of course more LDC!

Actually I have some good news. Scan yesterday showed T2 had more fluid so consultant says he is reassured enough not to see me for two weeks (usually once a month). They are also now both head down although still early days. Feeling so grateful they are staying put for a while longer.

DH came with me in case it was bad news. Instead of discussing birth plans, doulas etc, he and consultant launched into the economics of transferring the hospital software from DOS to Windows while I was escorted out!

Have appt with HomeStart co-ordinator next week to see what help they can offer.

good news piximon. Never sure whether all this monitoring helps or just worries us unnecessarily. On balance though - I think I am glad of it.

Thats great piximon, I'm really pleased for you.

No worry about the bed HM, its very Marilyn Monroe .

I flirted with a man......no......boy....in a shop this morning . I'm so shocked at myself, I never do that and he wasn't even my type, he was young, very young and skinny and boyish and had floppy hair. I think the hippie side of me got drawn to him. He was extremely helpful and I bought a snow coat and he said I got a free t-shirt with that . Then he wished me a happy day and I resisted all temptation to say "oh, I already did".

I'm feeling so much of a happier person than I did a year or so ago.

Well, as of yesterday, DT1 has the chicken pox and DT2 has a high temperature and will no doubt be inflicted with the pox shortly. Also, we are doing potty training. Who says that motherhood is boring!

My DT1 has just crusted over from the pox and DT2 is being moany boy from hell but no spots yet.

Aqueous calamine was great and a friend gave me Rhus Tox homeopathic stuff which seemed to work overnight (or maybe it came to a natural calm). You have to shovel it in every two hours for the first wee bit but its like little tiny sugary balls so mine quite enjoyed it. Boots do it. Don't touch it, just click it out the tube onto a medicine spoon.

fg, you really are a dirty stop under it all aren't you!

overrun that sounds horrendous! Giving me the shivers thinking about it.

I dread going up to the dts room most days. I heard a bloody curdling scream a little while ago and ran up to find dt2's fat little body wedged between the cot and the wall with just his head sticking up above the top of the cot! They are supposed to be napping but will not settle. Bad babies!

I was in a Very Bad Mood yesterday. I had a call fromt he HV because my cm had reported to her that dt1 had nappy rash. Fgs! Babies get nappy rash. I have a wierd cm who thinks that if you use sudocreme every time they are changed that they will never get so much as a spot. but dt2 has very sensitive skin and gets it quite easily especially when he is teething. I was treating it, and told the cm when I dropped him last thurs that he had a bit on the top of his leg that looked quite nasty, so i was using antibiotic cream (which I gave her) on it jsut in case, although it was dry and not so much as a sniff at any infection. But she reported me to the hv and the hv insisted on coming over to check it. Of course, since I DID treat it, there was nothing to see, it is all better now. The Hv was lovely and was fine about it all but I was jsut furious, I am so sick of being questioned and distrusted, when I haven't done anything wrong I was sooo cross, I threw a few things and punched a wall and have a nasty bruise now. I really am so sick of the lot of them though, I don't need the stress. I ahd the Hv roudn when the dts were supposed to be napping then the sw doing his routine visit at tea time and then stoppign them from going to bed.

ds is all better now and back at school thanks. He was singing his christmas songs in the car, praticing for his part as Joseph - I melted! He only actually sang for the first time 6 mnths ago, so i am a very proud mummy. I'm going to need a 12 pack of andrex for the nativity.

I'm actually putting DT2 into DT1 clothes thoughout the day to help speed up the process for him to catch chicken pox

Thanks for the tip speedymama, will try to get my DD (5) to squeeze into her little sisters (2) to try that .

Kelly, what can I say! I used nappy cream on all of my children and it doesn't stop nappy rash happening. With mine it still comes and is usually a sign that they are coming down with something. (I take it you have Metanium?). I'm sad for you, keep focussed, it won't be like this forever. Take care.

I've tried metanium, didn't really help. We use sudocreme. It does clear up pretty quickly, but there isn't a lot I can do to stop them getting it in the first place. It's usually teething or something unusual they have eaten. The daft hv turned up with one of those little sample pots of sudocreme as if I had never heard of it . I'm a mum of four, I buy sudocreme by the bucketful!

thanks fg, that's what I have to keep thinking, it jsut gets on top of me sometimes.

Metanium only really works if you dot on just a tiny tiny bit so it is a really thin layer. it has to let the skin breathe as well as sticking to the dodgy bits. dot around and pat to spread.

fell free to roll your eyes if you've already been there, I won't get offended, you know all my secrets

the bottom should look like you've dusted it with talc/chalk

great news piximon!

I have good news too - have just got back from dropping DTs off at MIL's as both DH and I have meetings tonight so she's having them - that in itself is good news, but...she then said why don't we keep them until Saturday, we'll bring them back late morning!!!!!!

Kelly, ffs, all children get nappy rashes, no wonder you are furious. I would be too. I know exactly what you mean about those ominous sounds from upstairs, dt1 managed to pull the bottom of the cot up today, but then did go to sleep. So I got to spend some quality time with dt2 which was lovely, we had such a giggle.
Frumpy you wicked woman, not frumpy or grumpy today were you
Piximon, glad the scan was good news, I well remember lying there watching the sonagraphers face intently to try and see if there was anything wrong, concentration can look like worry, when you yourself are worried iyswim
Marslady, you sound very tranquil today!
And Speedymamma, lol at the swapping clothes things.
Sorry if there was anyone I missed out, but once again thanks for tea and sympathy every one. I feel like part of a club
Lastly I was at a music group today and the woman running it got the wrong names for the dts during the goodbye song, where you sing the childrens names. She came up and apologised, which I thought was nice, but I wasn't worried. Then she said, she had got it wrong because she thought that I usually dress one in red and one in blue and today it was the other way round.
Now I am trying to think if I do this, I certainly wouldn't want to confine them to one colour scheme (seems a bit limiting to me). dt1 does have red shoes and dt has brown shoes so that might come into it.
Thinking about it, they have all sorts of colours in the wardrobe, she must be mad Like the time she only gave them one musical instrument because she thought that as twins they would like to share pmsl at that one

a music teacher said something similar to me once - I have never knowingly colour coded my kids. Usually they get whatever comes to hand - having clothes on is the main aim - what coour and if they match is very much secondary

Crazy isn't it, but maybe some one on here will say thats what they do, so shouldn't really judge i suppose

respect to anyone who is organised enough to colour code their twins .

I have often wondered what they do when one gets dirty - do they whip the clothes off the other one so that they still match ? I dread to think how big the bag is when they go out for the day. And how does potty training work ?