D'y ever wanna stop the world and get off?

[MarsLady]

Nah!!!!!!!!!!!!! Loving it too much at the moment.

Those stereo moments with the DTs though..... they make me want to put the world on pause occasionally.

Had a fab night out dancing. Saw that IAMF filled the thread and didn't even start a new one

So here it is and if you don't like the title.... well it's almost 3 in the morning. What's a Mars to do?

Chuffed!! Congratulations and welcome!!

I have triplets who are four years old now
There are other mums on this thread who also have triplets too,so you are in good hands!!!

So lovely to hear from someone that is pg with triplets...ahhhh takes me back

Oh wow a new lady due with TRIPLETS! Congratulations chuffed and welcome to the thread! I am expecting twins on 2 Feb, and have a DS who is 20 months at the mo.

CAT, am so sorry you feel it is somehow your fault. How can it possibly be? You managed to carry three, and you are doing a fabulous job now with these two. I spend most of my time worrying that my two are not growing as I have not gained any weight in three weeks and am still looking pretty small, but am hoping that it is just my build and keep reminding myself that triplets herself only gained a stone and a half or something similar. As long as they are keeping an eye on your DTs you will be fine, and what the others have said is very encouraging, esp pixi whose DTs took it in turns to grow.

oooggs, think I may have mailed hotmail.com instead of co.uk so will try again .

crypletsandtwins, so sorry to hear you had a bad scan, fingers and everything else crossed that the dt tucks in and puts on some weight before the next one. I'm not a very big fan of scans really. Mine got completely mixed up at one time and they starting muttering about stopped growing etc. It was all fine for the next scan. When are you going back?

welcome and congratulations to chuffed, how amazing! all these triplet mummies are starting to make me feel very inferior for only having twins.

agree about the jane powertwin too, it is a great pram for newborn dts. I didn't find it so great when mine grew though. They hated the tandem style once they were bigger and whoever was in the back would torment the one in the front.

oh and egg, you need to stop worrying too! I actually put most of my weight on in the past two months of the pg, that was when I really ballooned.

Quality street, hmm, the dts aunt bought two tins for the dkids for navratri. The boys took theirs too school, tradition to give out sweets at navratri. But a class of 2-3 year olds could only eat so many. So the rest keep calling me! And I only made it to the gym once last week.

Have only had 4 quality street so far today.

I know I know, in two months time I will be moaning that i have gained four stone in two months or something similar. I never got huge with DS so I really should just be thankful.

Looking at powertwins on ebay. Really want to get one second hand so I wont feel so bad trading it in when DTs want to be side by side (which seems inevitable from what most people say).

Am at John Lewis in Southampton next Sat for my nursery advisory appt thing, so will check it out properly then. Had a quick push of one at our local baby shop but I think the owner hates Jané as she kept trying to put me off.

Hullo Chuffed! Come aboard and fly with us We are growing at some rate atm so don't worry about your tummy size [grin

Crypletsandtwins (normally Tripletsandtwins) has triplets and is pg with twins
Triplets has 8 yr old triplets
TrickorTripletEm (normally TripletEm) has 4 yr old triplets
Mars has 5 children including twins
Chopster (Kelly) has 4 children including twins
Largeginandbloodpunch (normally Largeginandtonic aka LG&T) has 6 children including a set of twins

I could go on and on and on but I think that covers those with triplets and/or large families to help you feel you know who to panic at at ease

In here, sometimes we wear make up and look like divas, sometimes we wear crap clothes for days, sometimes we cry a lot and our mascara comes tumbling down, sometimes we eat cake, sometimes we laugh til our rippling tummies ache and we always take turns in holding the babies. I always clean the loo as I have a compulsion about it. Come in, stay a while and you will be made very welcome

Oooh and not to forget piximon(ster) has 4 children including twins and is pg

I have DD1 who is 6 and DTs who are 3.

Right, I can't wait a moment longer, I have got to get out of this name, its driving me bonkes!

Ah lovely, its like an old friend

Oh chuffed, I never do any cleaning round here, I can't bake (too embarrassed to try as others are so good at it ), I rarely wear any make up, don't even wash my hair as much as I should etc etc. And I never wear my f* me shoes anymore, unlike some of the others on here who seem much more glam than me .

FG, good to see you back in your old clothes again .

Egg, I can't bake/cook/blend/freeze/boil/mash/roast/lightly toast/whip/pour or even stand up straight sometimes! I try hard. Its the taking part that counts isn't it? I am having very small kitchen victories though and that is seeing me through.

Somehow all of my children are going through a turning up noses phase at anything I put in front of them. Even bloody fish fingers, even soup, even maccabloodyronie

"Mum, what for tea?"

"Curry" - "it hurts my throat"
"Maccaroni" - "its too runny/too thick/ too cheesy"
"Pizza" - "I prefer the shop one/I prefer homemade"
"Soup" - "I don't like soup
"Tuna and sweetcorn pittas with fries" - "we always have pittas"
"Kedgeree" - DT1 "I don't like fish"
"Savoury rice" - "thats boring"
"Salmon" - "do I have to eat the potatoes", DT1 "I don't like fish"
"carrots" - "is that it?"

Meanwhile, I am sticking to the one-meal-for-all theory of you eat what is in front of you or you eat nothing. Its just not kicked in yet.

tonight is warm chicken, potato and bacon salad (rocket) with spring onions and baby plum tomatoes and if I hear one word of complaint, its porridge for the lot of them.

I figure there are enough bits for everyone to pick out something they like. And no, they cannot put the bits in the middle of the table

DS has a few meals that, unless unwell or very very overtired, he will eat without fail.

Sausage and mash.
Salmon steak and mash.
Cottage pie.
Fish fingers and beans.
Spaghetti bolognese.
Peanut butter on toast.
Quiche (shop bought, never made my own .
Beans on their own. Any meal. Any time of day.
Last night I whooped as he ate and enjoyed cod and mash, and I sneaked some broccoli into the mash .

Anything else is touch or go. He wont even try any kind of pasta except spagbol. He used to love fish pie, but now is wary of it. Have been meaning to make kedgeree for months, still not tried it with him yet.

He would eat chips every day, but we never have them. He disovered them on hols.

He used to love broccoli and asparagus, since going on hols when he didn't like their broccoli, he wont even pick up the veg.

He did eat some roast chicken the other day, but usually wont touch it. What a monkey.

I have now eaten 10 quality street and 3 maltesers...

Why do children take the bits they don't like off the plate and put them on the table / on your plate / in your hand? Where do they learn that?

White wine. Ugh... Since being pg white wine is the last possible thing I would want, although had a sip of DH's red last night which was yummy.

Hmm, food, my fav topic!

stick to it fg!

If mine really don't like something, I won't serve it again, but they will eat whatever is in front of them. If I threatened mine with porridge they would laugh at me - they all adore porridge! It is a sat morn treat.

what is kedgeree?

If curry is too spicy for the kids, add yoghurt.

I refilled the freezer at the weekend, so am feelign very virtuous! Made courgette and aubergine lasagne, chilli, apple and blackberry crumble, indian style rice pudding, jerk chicken, chicken in black bean sauce, paneer tikka, chicken tikka, mushroom stroganoff and roasted cashew nut rice. The best bit was that I didn't see the kids ALL MORNING!

Kids seem to love lasagne, might be a way of sneaking in more pasta?

dt2 is like that with food. He doesn't like brocoli, and it was in with his mixed veg. He couldn't bear to have it on his plate. Picked out all the bits of brocoli and put them on the table. I also have a wall plastered with cornflakes. He LIKES cornflakes, but he likes pelting them at the wall even better. For a 2 year old he is disgusting!

Oh yes, DS loves dry cereal. He has some in his snacktrap every morning. But then I always have to go round picking up all the bits he has removed and scattered...

He does like lasagne, he eats it at nursery. It is just too much hard work for me to cook it . I don't like cooking. Notice how nearly all my meals are easy prepare ones, what could be easier than sausage and mash????

if you cook a ginormous one though, and then freeze it in meal size portions it is a lot easier though. I made about enough for us to have a portion each and the kids to have 2 each. And it only took 15 mins or so of prep. Easier than making mash IMO!

But you can't go wrong with mash tho [scared emoticon].

Do you have a nice recipe for lasagne? I did say to my mum last weekend that i think it is time I started doing it. Cottage pie is a piece of cake now I do it so often. I have a nice lasagne dish, wedding present from 6 years ago, never used .

I jsut buy either fresh or dry sheets, and layer them with whatever I fancy. The one I made sat was aubergine and courgette. I layered thin slices of aubergine and courgette with tomato, basil and garlic sauce (tinned toms, dried basil, grated garlic) grated cheese and pasta. Then chucked cheese sauce over the top.

Another one the kids love is mexican black bean and salsa style. It's a bit weird, but actually very tasty. I use black beans, tinned toms mixed up with a jar of salsa and alternate with a mix of mozarella and ricotta cheese. One sheet las, one layer beans, lasagne, cheese then repeat. cheese sauce on top, and on our half I also stick in jalepenos.

for bog standard lasagne, like the top one but with mince instead of courgette, and stick a layer of white sauce in the middle somewhere too. I don't eat beef, so don't tend to make it very often. I have made chilli lasange though, with chilli style quorn mince and kidney beans in it.

lasange is very versatile and pretty much impossible to get wrong!

Egg whats wrong with the lovely Silver cross i linked for you They need to be dressed in 1950's pram coats and bonnets too

Mine will eat whatever is in front of them or starve, simple as that. I do have strange children though, they list olives, mussels and squid along with their favourite all time foods One dt doesnt like salmon and the other lamb, one likes marmite the other not!

FG much better..... lovely to have you back

WeLcome CHUFFED!! Join in the fun I have made some carrot soup today.

Blimmin baby up again! He has so far screamed all round Asda this morning, i got to the checkout only to have my farckin card declined DH's mess bill cheque has come out So now i have to wait till he gets home from work and do it all again

Right i think you should know that I need quantities or I can't cook. Don't worry though, will just get my mum's recipe as hers is undoubtedly the best lasagne in the world . My lovely MN friend Squonk gave me three great recipes a few months back, one was beef stroganoff that DS loved, but then he started refusing it. Might start making it again as it was so easy, and he can like it or lump it.

LG&T, I feel for you. I once drove to Asda, got DS installed in trolley and then realised I had left purse at home. That was bad enough. To actually do all the shopping and then fall at the last hurdle would be a killer, esp with a screaming baby.

Bugger, not long til I have to pick up DS from nursery. Have just hoovered house, and hung up washing, so feel morning has not been spent entirely on MN.

ooh my dts love olives, from very small they have screamed ollie, ollie at the supermarket! I get some very strange looks. They also like squid, and mussels, though mussels def aren't a favourite. ds1 likes escargot too!

how awful at asda! Couldn't you go get the money off dh? I've forgotten my purse before and had to go back home to get it. Have done that with petrol too, and they acted like I was a mastermind criminal! Were most upset because I couldn't leave my driving license with them - because it was in my fecking purse with my bank cards at home!!

I wish now I hadn't juiced all my carrots.

Oh and I do actually like the Silver Cross... I really do. I was admiring the one in Bringing Up Baby, but it's just not practical...