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[francagoestohollywood]

Everyone's welcome

ahhh makes sense now. a bit confusing with the names and that.

we seem to have the same mum. no def now that we will have a spare room she can stay. last time as well I think we did want to be on our own in a way to bond all togethere and to learn things our way. i think for DH was important, he would have felt a bit left out otherwise. this time we don't care, she can do everything while we're down the pub!!

DD and I went to have a nap at 2 and woke up at five!! I def needed it. We'll be dancing tonight!

I'm pretty sure dd will def need an overdose of cuddles, both from her grandmother and from you and dad, when the little one arrives . It's good to be in tanti per farle tante coccole. Hai fatto l'eco?
Yes, I see what you mean about being on your own. We went the complete opposite direction. When ds was born I had lots of friends around and our families rallied around to help a lot (my aunt mi portava il brodo di pollo, which she reckoned increased my milk supply ). I really needed that, I needed people around to keep me company, as all I seemed to do was b/feeding the whole day . I think really it saved me from being depessed, as I really think the whole giving birth-having new baby kind of shocked me, more than I believed so at that time.

sorry for the rant, I've been re-elaborating my first birth experience lately...

well tbh I think we really underestimated the impact. I even decided I did not need a cleaner anymore as I'd have sooo much time in my hands.
It was a shock and I was depressed (I think) and exhausted. I really did it all on my own, which was bloody hard. i think I started to really enjoy it at around 10 months, which is a shame.
this time I'll play my cards different.

sorry for my rantS I am re-living mine too.

DD is going for her first haircut ever today. From MOP to what?

please tell me your house is always a mess!!!!
I've had enough!!

yes, house is a mess. I have piles of stuff that need to be ironed, and no, I'm too anal, I need things to be ironed.
I found it easier to enjoy babyhood the second time around .
First day at the hairdresser, let us know how it goes.

l've got piles of everything: clean clothes, dirty laundry, toys, books, boxes... aarrghhh. and I relly do not feel like doing anyhting today.

you are pg, you have a good excuse not to do anything. If you can afford it, hire a cleaner. It's money well spent. Stop being so virtuous ! (mind you, I'm the same... actually I'd like a housekeeper, someone who thinks at the meals, cook them etc)

jane4 I had the same with dd, she had a few months after she turned two when she was a bit ehm, moody. She's quite sweet now, she's 3.

oh I am not virtuous at all. I will hire one. it's just I haven't found one yet in the area and as the house needs so much work I thought I'd wait till it's done. changed my mind however and will get one NOW!!!
mighty upset now as DD has weed on the floor again!

are you pottytraining ?

If so I don't envy you, we've had a fair share of psicodrammi with it...

kind of. I can only do it on thursday and fridays as childminder will only take her without a nappy onc she's 'done'. she's very good with the poo as she tells me all the time even with a nappy on. re wee wees, it's fine most time (we even went out without nappy) but I have to be on the ball as well. I wasn't today and here we are!a14ehngjfjewwe4rt4rfds2aq (this is DD)tv

and she got me when in a bad mood, so not nice reaction to it.

sounds like she's doing well . Good thing about the poo, mine both had incredible problems with that.

she kind of likes it I think (takes from her dad! ).

After getting over the shock of pooing in the toilet, ds listed "having a poo" amongst his favourite things/activities. It came just after eating pizza...

have you done your ironing? well done for doing it...my profound respect!
I am going to put a note up for a cleaner today.

question: when you've got DC's friends over, do you speak to your kids in english to include everybody and not make them feel different or you just keep speaking italian and repeating in english for the others?

macche'!!!!
me and dd got dressed and went to sainsburys... she's now watching the aristocats and I should be downstairs making her pesto. Instead, I've been lured by evil MN again...
Depends. I talk to them in English, but sometimes I'm lost for words and switch to Italian.

i'm supposed to be cleaning while dd is asleep and i'm here messing about.

still in pj as well.

I am not giving you a very good picture of myself today!!!

All you people with ironing to do. Just buy lycra. I haven't ironed for years, I find a small amount of fabric softener and I nifty flick of the wrist when hanging out works wonders. Apart from shirts, but then DP does his own and I haven't owned a lycra-less shirt since 1993.

Keep up the potty training Pippi, DD was a nightmare the firs week and I found it so hard trying to remain calm (I'm not a patient person), but she cracked it on the first day of the second week and we haven't looked back since. No problem at all with the poos, she loves doing them and takes the potty to her Dad to show him, then they discuss it at length:

DD: Daddy, daddy! 'atto cacca!!!
DP: Hai fatto la cacca? Oh che cacca grossa!
DD: Sì, gwossa!
DP: Quanto puzza!
DD: Si, puzza (screwed up nose and waving away gestures). Puzza e gwossa. E' mia la cacca.
and so on and so on. In the meantime the smell invades my sitting room and someone rings the doorbell.

I'm also still in pjs and I've got to go and meet a client in an hour. I suppose I'd better get dressed...

Ironing? You make me feel so guilty! Ironed the other day for the first time in 4 years, took me ages to do a couple of shirts, never again!
Have had a lazy day because of the latest tummy bug, what a bore.
Pippi will you want to find out the gender of teh baby?
Feeling sooo broody, waiting for dh's return to procreate...Do get a feeling of dread when i think about spending time with a baby again, till I remember that I actually loved being with ds when he was a baby, he was ssooo goood, such an easy going baby. Loved spending time just looking at him and chatting and singing.....

we always end up talking about cacca!!!
No, I won't buy lycra, I'm a fabric snob you know? And I can produly say that the other day I handwashed 4 jumpers...
I do feel broody. I actually think that I'm pretty good when they're tiny. I start to get extremely bored when they get to 8/9 months and they are less portable.

produly? proudly obv.

no ironing here either, that's why i'm proud of franca. DH takes shirts to be ironed at the drycleaner, everything else is crumpled as if we are teenagers!!

hotmed I cannot wait to find out the sex. I am not one of those that want the surprise, it is a surprise anyway. at the moment we think it's a boy so we have a boy name. but I truly do not care.

brang same conv go on in this household.

ps I've booked the hotel in bath:

receptioninst ' is it a special occasion?'
pippi ' no not really, just a weekend without kids, hold on saying that yes it is def a special occasion!!'
(teenager receptioninst thought I was insane!!)

Lol!
Bath is lovely. Lots of lovely restaurants, I seem to remember.