'd'ya ever wonder how many times you will be asked if they are twins?'

[MarsLady]

C'mon girls. Got bored of waiting and started the new thread!

Hello all!

How are you all tonight? I didn?t get a book by Richard Ferber, am I missing out???

LG&T - I do need to sit down for 5 years!!!!!! Took a sneaky look at your photos and your kids are gorgeous!!

GodzillasBumcheek - So sorry your neighbours are awful. Sadly my family aren?t around, they live in England, I live in the States (hardly readily available!!) but my dh?s husbands family are quite close, and they?re always willing to help thankfully!

Ooggs, I can assure you, that I will forever more be celibate! At least, until I get broody after these twins

I have a question to everybody who has 5 (or more) kids?.what cars do you have? We need to get a new one because our current one just wouldn?t fit 7, no matter how much we squeeze....

Found out the sexes today, and am very happy . The dr is quite reluctant to say anything though, because on my last lot, within 2 weeks I?d gone from having single, to twins to triplets, and then they said that they were 99.9% certain they were all going to be girls - and I had Ben of course - they nurses still haven?t stopped teasing dr for that one I hear! They just never seem to get it right with me

go on - tell us the sexes - you know you want to

Yeah you must share

We have a Toyota Previa, 8 seater. I love it, the seats all swivel so the kids can face each other. I used to have a Seat Alhambra but needed an extra seat with having Beau.

Why is it raining again, grrrrrrrrr

glalaxy mummy, if you are still reading.....the Dr Richard Ferber book is here

I found it a really good help for all sorts of stuff. Its broken up into different sections so you can just focus on the bit you need or use it to help you diagnose your problem. Had interesting pointers of stuff you might not have thought about.

I used it for similar reasons to Mars and also my dd1 is having a tough time with sleepwalking (crying and screaming along with the actual walking, she set our alarm off a couple of weeks ago). Its helped me understand whats happening and how to handle it.

What ages are your children and what is the problem?

Hi dingdong, did you love being close to nature? Did you pee under the wall in the middle of the night? Or just keep a special wine glass of your own? [innocent, wide eye and sincere]

Went camping in France many moons ago......there was an almighty thunderstorm and our tent broke free and started to disappear up the campsite. Two hunky frenchmen caught it and dragged in a beer barrel to keep it in one place, whilst my uncle attempted to re tether it.

Of course, they (and me and my female cousin had to sit inside as well). I was about 13 and in drooling hormones-a-popping heaven I so wished the thunder had lasted all afternoon. Hot and steamy, hot and steamy and I still get shivers when I hear thunder, it always sends me right back [sigh]

Of course, I also remember my dad's pants floating up the campsite too

and Steve Winwood was playing on our cassette "Valereeeeeeee, call on me". It was my dads cassette but it was the old version. When the new one came out it too sent me back to that day......

I'm tidying the house. Can't you see? DP has DT2 and DD1 swimming and DT1 is with my mum.

After a monumentally bad sleep night I spent hours, I mean hours, standing outside DT1's bedroom last week. Everytime she left her bed I put her back. She woke the entire house with her screams. she has now slept through every night for the last 7 nights!!! A first

And another thing..........

I visited my gran today (great granny to my kids). She is old and struggles with a variety of illnesses. But she is as sharp as a pin. She kept me a poster she got free with her paper at the weekend. "Its a popstar hen, I don't know who it is but I knew you'd like it".......its my darling Paolo Love her to bits.

FG - your gran sounds fab

I have got something that I have never had before. All three kids are asleep on the sofa AT THE SAME TIME!!

Off to read a chapter of my book before they wake up.

she is truly fab, don't know what I'll do when her time is up, she says the most hilarious stuff too and is wise as well

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hi all my internet connection is buggered am on dialup at the mo - not sure how I'll cope

I do like camping tbh, I spent a couple of summers as a student working on french sites and we have taken the DTs every summer since they were 8 months... I prefer quiet sites and the one we've just been to promised to be but wasn't, so we won't be returning. We were near Weymouth though so had a jolly english seaside time of it. Off to Rome on Sat to compensate

oh, meant to say I have tried 'how to talk...' and 'unconditional parenting' and some things work well, but occasionally I have to say that only a good shout will get through - esp to DT1!

glass of white dingdong? have just poured a thimble...

ROMA! With or without kids?

sorry frumpymummy its taken me two mins to scroll down this thing to this tyoing box thing is that because the page is so long

sorry frumpymummy its taken me two mins to scroll down this thing to this tyoing box thing is that because the page is so long

and then it posts twice and thats before the glass of white thats beckoning form the fridge, actually trying valiantly to leave it in their as need to be alert as dst need calpol/calprofen every three hours at the moment and we are all so tired we cant think staright anyway. he had tonsils and adenoids out and grommets in yesterday and although seemed ok for a bit is getting poorlier by the minute at the moment, and by the smell his throat is getting infected. really weird as ddt is at my parents and its the first time they and we are apart. they are 4 and 4 months

Thanks frumpygrumpy for directions on amazon to richard ferber. You must be techonologically able to insert hyperlink I always fail. Need book for my friend with 1 year old babies.

with, alas but better than nothing. I'm on the red tonight, a light and fruity little number to get me in the italian mood (although its actually aussie )

samanthar - why don't you just select 'add' then it takes you directly to 'that box'?

It is a long thread now - we can't half talk

Im on anything i can find.....bad day in the largegin household. Hug's has been up to his usual antics, i have a pic of the latest one on my profile, sudocrem should be banned. The DTS spread it all over a couch i loved many moons ago. At least Hug's had the decency to strip first......

He is trying me beyond belief, couple that with baby B who is deciding sleep is not necessary and it's f*ing raining again im on my knees. I can barely lift my head to type.

We were camping a couple of weeks ago FG, it was fab. No hunky men around though, well except my DH Plenty of awful people screaming at their children and drinking alot though (not us i promise) Why have children if yuo speak to them like that, horrifying.

HM did you take a photo? How lovely, hope you managed a few chapters. What are you reading?

Roma, oh heavens above please oh please can i come IAMF? It sounds lovely.

Am off to find a beer and some food.

aha!! thanks oooggs

was reading Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, very behind the times, I remember Mars reading in on here AEONS ago. Still, I managed to finish it, but DT1 woke up in a stinker of a mood and was hysterical for an hour, unable to "use his words" to tell me what is up.

And ladies, yesterday they were 2 years 9 months and still refusing to go near potty. WHat do I do, how do I do it, I need HEEEELLLPPPPPPP. At this rate the crazy Madster (aka DD, aged nearly 9 months) will be potty trained before them.......

harrogatemum, er what can you do ......nothing!!
i have boy girl twins
she did it by the book in 3 days at two and half ..he refused point blank until a week before his 4th b-day. we tried at 2 and half and three anf three and half but he was upset and hanging onto wees all day and then doing them at 7pm in night nappy. i just said it was his b-day and he cd have his main present but that he wd need to do wees in the potty if he wanted any other little ones from us. i know this is very mean but i was advised by doctor freind not to leave it til this summer as the pressure of starting full time reception still in nappies wd be worse. it worked and he was dry in 3 days, only ever had one accident and now 4 mths later goes standing up and is dry at night whereas freinds with boys who trained at three are still battling for dry nights. he still needs the seat insert thing for poos as is frightened of falling down toilet