D'y ever wonder which DT pulled over the Christmas tree and ate all the mince pies?

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Well... we needed a new thread title and that was all I had! lol

How tall are you Chops? I am a feeble 5'4 if i stand on tip toes

5'11, and I hate it!

he's one of those bad lad bosses - you would but you wouldn't cos you wouldn't wanna be another notch if you get me. He has a naughty twinkle in his eye and he dead easy to flirt with - harmless really. He's settled with missus and kids now but he still has a roving eye and one can;t help but feel silly and girly when he smiles at yer.....

ooh nothing wrong with a bit of flirting. I not done that in ages now.

I've just remembered - I wanted to slap some silly cow in the supermarket. She had one little angel sitting in a supermarket trolley while I was trying to rush around with two. They were being pretty good really, helping me get the shopping. dt2 nearly walked into her trolley a couple of times. She turned to her dd and said 'that's because he is a pain in the bum'!!!

I'm sick of the looks off ppl in supermarkets. They dont seem to realise that putting toddler twins next to each other means that one at least will be bald and covered in teeth marks by the time you reach the checkouts. If you put one in, they scream with rage at the injustice of it, before undoing the straps and diving headfirst into the cakes in the trolley. Alternatively, they empty the trolley as fast as I can fill it.

What am I going to do when preschool closes!

Meeely he sounds like my old boss (the fanciable one, not the William Hague one). Except he was always a bachelor and is finally getting married in Feb (I told him I wanted to be a bridesmaid, so I think he chose Feb so I can't even attend in case I make an arse of myself).

LG&T, fabulous baking! I am at your skills.

Also 5ft 31/2, 5ft 4 if I try hard.

Chops, that bch in the supermarket was clearly not worth worrying about. I at the moment only have one DS, and he is usually quite good in the supermarket, but I would never say something like that, even if the kid in question was rolling and screaming on the floor. I in fact followed a lady round Tesco the other day as she had twins in a trolley and I wanted to bump into her "accidentally" so i could tell her I was having some too!

was that you egg that kept skinning me ankles in every aisle in tesco!

oh and i'm 5' 2", i win

Ah no, these were still babies, but big enough to sit, maybe a year old maximum.

And both were girls.

And I am down south, and you are a bit more north.

Otherwise it could have been you though .

Chops I used to stick my dx3 IN the trolley if it was a small shop . Agrrhhh.....drives me mad when people comment on other peoples kids loudly,what's the point?!!! I am sure that karma will come round and bite her and her little angel on the bum soon so don't worry!!!

I am 5'3 as we are all comparing!!!!

Meeely,don't worry!! Egg's is much worse Sorry Egg but it is!!!!

I flashed my tiny Norks to the whole row of life gaurds who were sat by the pool having a chat!!! I was wearing a swimming costume that tied up around the neck and as I pulled myself out of the pool the force of the water pulled it down!!!!!!!

thinking about it i have done worse

Don't do it meeely!!! You will regret it!!!

phew that was a close one

aww tripley, did you have to!

I was waiting here.

i have no desire to feel humiliated all over again.

Hiya,

I've come for a moan. DP has really annoyed me.Last night I did both the midnight and fouro'clock feeds for both babies. Woke him at seven when they were crying again(he seems to have developed sudden deafness), he was trying to feed Ella and she was really crying, sounded like she had wind, and he just gave up, shutting his eyes and leaving her wailing pityfully in his lap.I was breastfeeding the other twin and snapped at him "don't just leave her to cry", he snapped back "give me a f*ing break" and stomped off to the spare room and went back to sleep. Leaving me to feed them both again. He is working in his studio today and barely talking to me.
He is usually brilliant with them and we have a great relationship. Feel angry as I can't just sleep through them crying or stomp off and leave them when I am fed up.

Worried I'm becoming too controlling and think nobody can look after my babies better than me. I feel isolated today, don't want this to become a regular thing.

Please share your wisdom with me

I'm 5' 5 1/2" The 1/2inch is very important!

over the drunken antics of the multiple mums. Being a drunkard teetotaller myself I'm

oh lindy, this will be familiar to quite a few of us. You are both tired and snappy and feeling unappreciated. get the twins into bed tonight and sit down and have a chat with dp. Explain you didn't mean to snap, but that you are finding it quite hard with the pair of them day in day out, so could you maybe agree to an alloted feed where he always helps. He would be able to relax as he would know when he was needed and you would know when you were getting his undivided attention.

Also you need some baby free time to help you get your head round your new life and also help build your dp's confidence with the twins. Start small, if you are breast feeding i guess you can't go away over night, but maybe choose a saturday lunch time to meet with girlfriends and make it regular. Something for you to look forward to each week.

Me and dh went through snappy tension, we went through ignoring each other, he would just up and leave to go to pub if the boys wouldn't stop crying, he NEVER got up with them......3 years on and obviously night feeds no longer an issue, but he's the one that gets up with them IF they need it, he gets up on a saturday morning while i lie in, and he gets a lie in on sunday. we alternate nights out for socialising/exercise/time off and all in all, we pretty tension freee in our house now.

Hello all you kind multilples mums! I am happily plodding along here - 16 weeks PG now, I think I am beginning to feel them moving around now!

I have a question about car seats - obviously I would like to save some money so thought maybe the car seats that you can use from newborn to 4 yrs might be good. But my sister says it will be a nightmare cos I won't be able to carry them into the house from the car in their seats if they are asleep. The 0-4yrs seats stay secured in the car at all time.

What did you gusy do and what would you recommend with hindsight?

Thanks!!

i had a jane powertwin so had baby carriers cos they both clipped into the buggy - i went against all recommendations and they were defo in those seats for more than 2 hours a day (bad mummy alert, but no way i was waking sleeping twinnies just to get em to lie flat!)

Lindy, my DH is also wonderful but we had times like that. Somehow guys see the whole thing as optional - 'I've tried and it didn't work' - but as women we can never walk away. I'm the most lazy laid back person on earth, but for the first few months of dts I was permanently tense and unable to relax because I couldn't switch off from them, even when they were with other people.

Tripley, mine have just died down from the whole 'I'm first' thing. At first I thought it was wonderful that they were racing to go upstairs / brush their teeth / get in the car, but after a while the fighting and tantrums of the two that 'lost' were so much I couldn't stand it, and it made everything take longer because of the consoling and refereeing that had to be done. Like you I did a lot of 'he didn't loose, he was third', and actually holding ds1 back so he wasn't always first. But after about four months, it all seems to have gone away again.

Cue the mantra -

"this too shall pass, this too shall pass, this too shall pass....."

And I'm allowed to be too as a teetotaller....

Actually, the reason I am a teetotaller is that I'm too afraid of what I would do if I ever got drunk.

I have a very vivid imagination and who knows what I would be like without restraint.....

Hey, I've missed so much in a day!! It's just take me 20 mins to catch up so...... here goes

Meely, Only one thing to say really and that is it could have been much worse!!

I have never had a boss to fancy so am

at Eggs revelations! I thought we were all well rounded and responsible adults, now I know we're not I can show my true colours!!

Great to hear news of new babies... makes me broody every time

nh100, it will be much easier to get seats with carry handles.. I used Jane car seats, one of the lightest on the market and very good imo!

Oh and just for the record I'm 5' 3"!!

Infant carriers definitely seem to be the strong favourite of MNers - which is annoying cos it seems to me that this baby business is a bit like getting married - everything costs a fortune and you can't help feeling you are being totally ripped off!

DH wants ISOFIX if we have infant carriers - £400 altogether and they'll only last a year! But I suppose we'll probably have more kids so we can use them again.

Ack when is the sickness going to leave us? Friday DT2 came out in a rash all over, viral infection apparently. DS1 unusually docile so knew something had to be up with him and true to form he was up all night in my bed with high temperature, sore throat and headache. Today is DD1's turn, made all the worse as she loves to whine on a good day. So I'm expecting DT1 to be suffering tomorrow.

I have finally gotten the package together for the mumsnet christmas appeal and my mum is posting it off today so at least I've done something good even if my mum is footing the postage.

DT2 very grumpy at disturbed sleep so screaming now to go to bed and DD1 crying at their noise. Off to sort them out.