"D'y ever wonder what Paolo would look like in my shower?" <<because I do>> For FG xxx

[largeginandtonic]

How are the pox today HM???

Glass of white anyone? I'm having a bit of a busy time right now (for lots of reasons) and I'm feeling washed out. Need an early night, desperately, so if anyone sees me here after 9pm, do push me in the shower and turn the bed down.......

Mars, I won't email you darling, its not important really. I just like to know if someone in the clan is needing supported but I'm thinking that all is well and that no one needs my size 5 and a bits thrown in for good measure

Jeez.....I am staaaaarving, don't want to cook, trying not to eat crap and half a stone over where I wish to be. Its not an easy life this one I'm coming back as an elephant, they look fantastic, no one has a go at them about anything and the more they wrinkle the more attractive they become.

What will you all come back as?

hello frumpy!

I'm on vodka and red bull, not got any wine in the house. I must stop at one tho, bloody sw coming round tomo, and I need a nice clear head in order to scream at him without swearing.

dt2 has been throwing up for the past two days, poor boy. He is sooo quiet, not like him at all.

I wanna come back as an eagle. Imagine the freedom! Or maybe a dolphin, swim in the ocean, have fun, not even a shark could bother me. Ooooh the possibilities. I really should work harder at being a good hindu gf.

Hi lovely girl , we always know when something is not right in the Kelly household. I was about to post earlier that something must be up as you hadn't posted for a bit. Shame about the vomit, I wish it gone soon. And would you like to share the precise bit of why you need to scream at the SW? I need updating there........

I may be sometime. I'm trying to persuade some chicken to jump up and cook itself. I thought if I sang some James Brown (y'know, gedupgetonup, gedupgetonup, iwishicouldjustgetrightonupandcookmyself) it might work.

But apparently not.

Oh jsut the usual crap. Everything is going wonderfully, but as usual they want to push us back a step and are muttering about unnanounced visits at weekends. I'm going to tell him where to shove his visits...

Did it work? You really should try the birdie song!

Hello all,
Good luck tomorrow Kelly

It worked so well the chicken turned itself into a potato, jumped in the oven and I've just sat down to eat it with tuna .

Unnanounced visits? Do they not understand that is the height of bad manners? Really. 20 minutes notice please. I mean, you can hardly burn the curly wurly wrappers and coke cans in that time but you can at least shove all the dirty pants in the cupboard and bleach the loo. I despair.

Message withdrawn

Hello my dear and do tell me, how is it all going? Have your DT's fallen into a better sleep pattern? Are you getting a slither more sleep? Is your helper woman helping?

don't ask cod. Unless you are prepared to change your pants twice in quick succession........

when one has looked life straight in the eye, one needs to know that corrupting a nubile gent is never off the menu

lol, fg, thanks, once again, u've put the smile back on my face. Ive a good mind to show that to him tomorrow!
I love u frumpy!

and two more have come down wiht it

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bah! Up in the wee hours again (from 1am this time) with pains....Typical, as ds starts a new nursery tomorrow so am going to look like dogs dinner when I drop him off....Am seeing consultant on Thurs if babies don't make an appearance before then. Am now convinced they don't want to come out...(37+2)....and are in it for the long haul...hurumph.

Nice clip of Paulo though cheered me up no end.

Argh, thats who he is, he is indeed yummy, and what a voice. I knew and liked the song, but I very rarely know who is singing what iykwim

Cricket, hang in there. People never expect dts to go full term, but they do,suprisingly often (lol, that is probably not what you want to hear )

Hang in there Cricket! How are you planning on having them?

ooh keep going cricket, and rest as much as you can.

I want to scream I really do. Fecking sw. Fecking bugs. Fecking everything!

I was up til 4am with dt1 throwing up, started throwing up myself abt 2am. ds1 had a bottom explosion and soaked his pants and trousers. finally got to sleep abt 4.30 and then got woken at by dt1 who was covered from head to toe in runny poo.
DP called the sw and told him I not up to a visit today, and he moaning abt that and asking if he can come at 8pm tonight instead! No he fecking can't, I can't even get my head out of the bloody loo! Aaaaaaarghhhhhhhhh.

Now breathe...

shud have put a rant alert in there.

is it normal for a toddler to want to see the same dvd fifteen times a day?
dt2 is obsessed by disney's cars.

Ooh, ds was obsessed with Cars at Christmas. Watched it so often, I nearly cried! Now he won't go near it and is Lunar Jim mad. The twins have bought him a DVD as a present when they arrive...

Thanks for your nice messages of support! was a bit down in the dumps in the wee hours...Still got the pains, am wondering if I will make the consultant appointment tomorrow....Well, hoping is more like it!

Took ds to nursery and he was a dream - no tears, nothing. Just said "where you going mummy?" when I got up to leave. Think I was a lot more upset than he was! My little boy, all grown up etc etc.

Aw Kelly, you let that social worker visit, whenever he likes. You let him see the real side of life. You let him see that you are stripping beds and washing clothes like nobody's business keeping your ill children comfortable and you let him see you hanging your head down the loo. You let him see that life is not peachy and that you are doing a very good job of keeping it turning over. You let him catch the bug. Let him come. You don't want him to think you are hiding anything from him. Let him see it in its most raw state. And perhaps he'll never want to come back

Cricket, here, I've poured you a deep bath with inflatable cushions and have warmed the robe and the towels. Sounds like you are getting ready my love, twinges and broken nights......

Glad your ds settled well at nursery, and long may that continue. I still get sad dropping dd at school , I haven't got used to other people being responsible for my children. My dd hadn't long started nursery when I had my DTs and it was a bit of a life saver though as the day had some sort of routine I had to follow and get out the door for. Keep us posted, we get terribly excited when the little bundles start appearing. Makes me hideously broody.

So keen to hear from Leo.......girls, 5lb3oz and 5lb 5oz, £2.50, thats my bet and no one else seems to be joining me.

It's all go in the pixi household.
Firstly the twins finally got named. Made the shortlist the night before the appt and decided about 20 mins before registering them.
Kelly I love many Indian names but they've already been used up by the family (I'm half Indian) and I wanted something not already in circulation among us.

DT1 has been diagnosed with reflux. It's been pretty terrible. Spend an hour feeding her only for her to bring the whole thing back up again. HV was useless and said to just leave her to grow out of it. Awful watching her in pain. Got so bad she aspirated on some milk and had to spend some time in hospital. She now has gaviscon in every feed and seems to be much better. As long as she doesn't lay flat she seems to keep her feeds down but how on earth to let her have tummy time? She had five mins earlier and can't stop crying now.

The Homestart volunteer I had since the new year proved to be a waste of time so I've been back on my own again for the past few weeks. She wouldn't keep to the arranged days so I could never plan anything and completely cancelled 3 of the 6 appts she had with us.

We're going to be moving in the next few months. DHs job is now relocating to Maidenhead at the end of March, we found out at xmas and have been so busy with the twins we've done nothing about it as yet. It's a huge thing for me as I've lived in my house since I was 4! I have no idea about moving etc or which areas are nice around there.

It's just typical that today the local collecge called to offer a student after easter. I've accepted for now in case something happens and I'm stuck here selling the house or something.

I'm still on a high over our day out for DS1s birthday. Was such an achievement for us to brave an outing. DH and I more or less stopped going out when we had two so to tackle London during half term with four was a big deal for us. And gave us heaps of confidence.

Having twins has made me feel like superwoman. I look at what I manage to achieve (ok so it's prob just the feeding, cleaning, nursery run etc) but I fell apart when I had my first so I'm amazed I can find time to get out of bed and get dressed.

DS1 had his first play date this week. A friend from his nursery popped over with his mum for a few hours. It went really well so we'll definately do it again.

I'm still surprised by how much negativity there is surrounding my "big" family. The number of people who wouldn't want to be in my shoes or would hate to have twins. I would never make comments like that to someone. And they seem to especially hate that I'm so happy and feel blessed to have them. I always wanted at least four and am generally not falling to pieces or tearing my hair out so maybe that's what they resent.

Tomorrow the twins have their 8 week check. The doc has agreed to do it along with their jabs at the local surgery. (the baby clinic has now moved a 30 min walk away not easy with two others to drag along).

Anyway how are the rest of you doing?

Kelly you have my sympathy, we all got it one after the other and it was one of the worst weeks ever. Only seemed to last 24/48 hours each tho, but that's a long time when there's so many in the house. Doc told us to avoid milk products, toast and water seemed to do the trick.

Leo-congrats, hope everything went well and can't wait to hear all about them.

Mars- did you get your essay done? And do you want a yoghurt maker? My mum really doesn't need two.

Cricket-as Kelly said keep going and rest up. They'll be here before you know it. I gave in to induction at 39 weeks.

FG have finally looked Paolo up-hair too short for my liking so he's all yours.

And hello to everyone I've missed, trying to feed, cook, and type at the same time.

Pixi; yes have done my essay. Am so so pleased with myself. I've even finished my french assignment. [smug] Here's hoping for good marks.

Yes I'd love the yogurt maker.

I can pop over to see you next Tuesday for a couple of hours honey. I'll bring some recipes shall I?

Kelly..... what a nightmare! Don't give up though babe. You are doing so well considering your load. I'm sorry that there is so much sickness in your house.