The Sparkly New 2 (or more) Under 3 Thread- Join us!

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Hello!

Post here if you have 2 or more kids under 3yrs.

We were formerly the 2 under 2 thread, but some inconsiderate DCs went and had birthdays.

Commence rambling / ranting / updates etc

Hi everyone

I am just out of hospital with my 4th boy so that's me with a 3 year old, a 2 year old, a 1 year old and well Harry was born on 4th July so he's just a couple of days old.

So I guess I come under the category 4 3 and under!

Hi Paris and Scout. (Scout, are you nuts?! )

Awful here- DS1 almost delirious at night, whimpering my name and calling out all night (every 10-15mins) He didn't have a temp though, and had already had max calpol dose, so nothing i could do. DH and i are getting a bad cold too, which makes looking after the kids even harder, and also makes him snore like a f**king drain

Jewels- you're going to have an arse you could bounce pennies off at this rate! I've just signed up to do a 10km run for Cancer Research in Oct, so i'm off down the gym Sunday (hopefully) I might go even if i'm ill...i'll sit on an exercise bike with a magazine and some lucosade!!

Sorry about the ear infection Chaotica- i hope they sort everything out for him.

hi all, not been on for ages.

welcome Paris & Scout

Paris - don't envy you living with in-laws full-time, mine are v helpful but still i like my own space!

Scout - well i guess you know what you are doing by now...
so what are the gaps? 12 months?

not much happening here really, ds1 has stopped waking before 6, most days anyway. latest has been 6.45 so that's ok.
ds2 is all over the shop with sleeping & night feeds.
up to as many as 4 some nights
and then next night will be 7-5, but he won't go back to sleep after 5, so that's when my day starts
last night was 4am feed then 5am wake up. tried feeding him, he was snoring in my arms in about half a second so i put him down, then he woke up instantly, so brought him downstairs to lie on the floor while i dozed on the sofa for a bit, and waited for ds1.

currently both watching beebies, ds1 never watched this much tv so young but ds2 does seem to enjoy it telly addicts the pair of them...

grrl & chaotica- sympathies
we've all had coughs and colds here, i nearly lost my voice which was infuriating when ds1 threw a car at my head and i couldn't shout at him!

right, must get breakfast started.

www.run10ksponsorme.org/RunningSiany

You can sponsor my run here if you like guys- it's for Cancer Research. Hope the link works!

The gaps vary bewteen 11 months (I know madness!) and 15 months so my eldest and next eldest are the same age for the first 2 weeks of October!

Definate. madness scout! But, when these things happen, you just have to go with it!

LOL grrrl Trust me, it will be a while before I invite people to bounce pennies off my arse! Though I have always been quite an unfit person, I think I am actually fitter now than I have ever been (since been like 17 anyway - where we are all fit at 17)

DHs car was in for a panel repair today so I have been on my own with the DCs from 0500 til 1800 today and I had had ENOUGH! I had had enough of Freya's constant 'mummy!' 'mummy!' and of Izzys grizzling. But they are tucked up in bed now and I am sipping peroni watching location. Bliss!

I have joined the postnatel thread for Dec 07 and there is already talk on there about when the 3rd child is planned for! YIKES! They are braver women than me! (hats off infact to those of you with 3!)

Anyway, am typing on my new laptop, bought from new york no doubt. But, the enter key is small and other things are moved around - taking some getting used to so sorry for any mistakes in advance.

Bye for now, sweet dreams.

Greetings, Scout -- you're brave or crazy (I can't decide which).

All this talk of fitness is worrying me -- we're just trying to book a holiday and I've realised that I'll might be seen in a bikini in the near future. (I s'pose I could book a holiday in Afghanistan... )

(I'll sponsor you, Grrrl - hassle me if I don't get around to it.)

Have flu or something close as do everyone else in the house (seems to be provoking me into wanting to start a load of AIBU threads -- think I might be delirious ). Must be on my best behaviour tomorrow when I have both (sick) DCs... (Wish I could stay in bed instead.)

Hello everyone, have been rubbish as usual, will try and catch up by reading thread, whilst girls trash kitchen.

Hope everyone is ok

Well dd1 is asleep in the pushchair and dd2 is loading and unloading the washing machine, so I've finally caught up.

Sadly dh didn't whisk me away on a romantic holiday (in fact ha ha ha at the idea of dh whisking me away to romantic destination, a timber yard maybe ...), but fortunately senility hasn't set in (think my brain is too fried too notice anyway! )

Birthday was a nice pub lunch followed by huge tantrum from dd1, horrible helicopter ambulance drama when some poor bloke had a heart attack outside pub, and nice quiet afternoon with girls in paddling pool.

Sorry to hear you lo has chicken pox Grrl, my recommendations are :

bicarb and oats in the bath/paddling pool (depending on the weather)

dermol or aqueous calamine

CBeebies and Piriton

I'm going to try this 'wake to sleep' thing (there is a thread on it somewhere), with dd2, because she has started waking every morning between 4.30 and 5.30. Apparantly if you wake them gently just before the time they usually wake up, and then resettle them, they should go back to sleep until later. It sort of happened by accident this morning, so I'm going to try it tonight (ulp!)

Jewels I am terrified by your exercise regime, I have so many baby pounds to lose (although i've lost a stone since having dd2 on the 'stress and exhaustion' diet), that I don't really know where to begin.

I managed to put some photos on my profile (note, photo of me is small enough that grey hairs and wrinkles not visible)

Sorry to hera your poorLy Chaotica, its a nightmare being ill with kids, and you can get into a bit of a rundown spiral i think.

There were other things i was going to say, but this has turned into 'War and Peace' so I will stop here.

Ooh hang on forgot to say hello to Paris and Scout (Yikes BTW)

Hi Hazey glad you are ok! Your children are very gorgeous and you look pretty fab too!

To be honest, the exercersise is as much about me having time away from the children, as fitness. If there was a local painting class I would have been interested in that - just something to do that is for me, by me, just envolves me. But it is handy with the pilates and stuff I feel more confident in myself too.

Big hello to everyone else, and hoping you had a good day. Mine was quick; parents came around after I had returned from my morning walk and stayed all day, we went to the park, had dinner, babies to bed - all calm.

How do you all go about disciplining other peoples children? Because when we were at the park, there was this family there and DD1 was on the swing, DD2 in her buggy. This little girl wanted to push DD1 on the swing and DD1 did not like it (I think this other girl was about 2/3 but alot more forward than my DD) the carer was the grandmother I think who kept taking swigs of something from her bag. Anyway, my mum just moved infront of the girl and continued pushing DD, whilst I was with the buggy. Then, the little girl notices the buggy and started touching DD2 and reaching in to the buggy. I keep some things DD2 likes to play with in her buggy (scunchy book etc) and this girl was covered in sand, started touching all her things. Anyway, I explained that these needed to be put in the bottom of the buggy because of the sand and this was fine. Next thing she had removed DD2s dummy and covered it in sand from her hand. So, I took it off her and told her not to do that, because sand does not taste very nice! Anyway, then the girl wanted to go on the swing and we weren't going to put her on it - the grandmother just kept on drinking and then we left.

Hi all, welcome Scout are they all planned?? Are you going for a football team? Give us your top 5 tips for surviving please!!

Okay, you are all going to be so jealous, so stop reading now.
I am going to Norway tomorrow for the whole weekend ON MY OWN. Im going to a friends wedding, and staying in a single room, and theres a free bar, and I get to wait around at Amsterdam airport in a bar for 5 hours and IM SO EXCITED!!!

Sorry for making you

Jewels, I try and avoid disciplining others kids other than saying no and removing my child from the situation then ignoring the offender. Ive seen a row at playgroup over one mother overly discipling another womans kid. Its hard though. How about the grandmother.

Had a nice time with my mum last weekend, we got on fine after our pre-trip row, but had a v annoying time staying at my aunt and uncles. Didnt get offered breakfast or a cup of tea or any help with the kids

DH and parents are doing all the childcare this weekend, bless DH is being so organised hes washed blueberries and strawberries and put them in little snack pots in advance and is making a pot of coffee to heat up tomorrow morning seeing as Im leaving early. Awww. Have written an essay about their routines, likes and dislikes, sorted out clothes to wear etc. Need a break now!

HAzey cute pics! Im about to upload the sweetest picture ever of my two. The pic doesnt show the wet patch they both left on the sofa from their overnight nappies that I hadnt changed yet .

Hi Ladies - Just sitting here chomping some ice-cream before bed (my fitness regime continues...) and getting a couple of minutes to myself.

Not a good day: me and the DCs all ill at once - I wondered about whether I could decorate myself suitably and lie snoozing on the floor like a barely living activity toy, but it was too much effort so I switched on beebies. Then I took them to playgroup and for the first time regretted it: DD was really clingy (whereas last week she couldn't have given a damn whether I was there or not) and by the sing-song at the end I had not one but two frantic children disturbing the rest. (I could tell DD was ill by the way she decided that her favourite game was making a bed in the baby corner and sleeping in it. ) It was a little better after nap time though -- maybe tomorrow will be better.

All these cute pictures! If it wasn't for the text on this thread, you'd think butter wouldn't melt in these little darlings' mouths . Hazeyjane - your two are cute as well.

Cazwa: ! Enjoy!

Hope you all start to feel better chaotica and I am very at you cazwa, but have a grrrreat time!

well exactly, I did try and just ignore her and hope the grandmother would step in, and it the end I just used a firm but quiet voice, and knelt down to her level and explained that sand tastes nasty. Infact she seemed rather shocked that I'd said anything to her at all (the family did not strike me as the talking kind - the other of her brothers and sisters were running wild in the playground kicking sand at passers by) god I do hope my children don't turn out like that

Tomorrow I have a dilemma; I can either go on a shopping tripto glasgow with my mum and not the children. Or, we can have a family day out at the summer fete nearby. What shall I do? I could go shopping on sunday but we have a large garden and - when it needs mowing - it takes DH hours and hours so that's not really such an option.

Oh and naughty DD2 woke at 3am this morning - I gave her a cuddle and she was all soft and sleepy, and kept stroking my face, and tickling me with her eyelashes. Honastly guys I didn;t want to put her down. And obviously she realised this because she was up for another half an hour! naughty monkey.

bye for now babes and speak soon.

oh Cazwa I haven't even left the house since Monday Have a great time!

I've spent most of the morning so far shouting Cabin fever i think. Thank god for Cbeebies and Piriton.

shopping in Glasgow is great Jewels...that's where i'd go!

Shopping in Glasgow, Jewels! (After all, it'll probably rain on the fete.)

BTW I'd probably have done the same as you with the girl at the park. (Poor girl... I think the same about some of the kids I meet.)

Poor you and your DCs, Grrrl. Can you just go out for a walk (avoiding crowds)? (Or is it pissing down?)

...Am just trying to decide if I could go out myself and avoid the rain (at least, not get soaked)...

it's mostly been pissing down, although it's not this afternoon, but i think i've got to the point where it's too much effort at the moment. When DH gets in from work, i'm going in the bath with a book for an hour, then i'm going to put a dress on...i'm not actually going anywhere, but it'd be a nice change from pukey jeans and vests.

Grrrl a dress? holy shit don't remember when I last wore such a thing... Good idea though.

Aaah Cazwa, your lo's look so lovely, who would guess at the sogginess. (My 2 wee for England, so this happens a lot here too!)

Dd2 is poorly (not sure what, temperature, and very floppy). When I asked what she wanted for lunch, she said "strawberries and television"

Jewels, this has happened to me at the swing park, slightly older, over-forward children, and parents that just try and avoid getting involved. It's really awkward, and we usually end up leaving. Oh and I'd do the shopping in Glasgow too (but I do love a good fete, especially the cake stall)

Chaotica, hope you all feel better soon

Grrl, hope the walls aren't closing in on you!

Cazwa, I can't bear to talk to you, I'm so jealous!

Hazey- i like Eels too! Not 'met' many people who do.

Have put up a picture each of my boys.

I like Eels as well, can I join this thread?

evening girls, had a lovely day shopping in glasgow and bought some high waisted wide legged jeans, and some tops from Mango sale. And the cutest clothes from Gap for the girls

A good day but feel knackered now! Izzy slept til 0610 this morning which was great, let's see what happens tomorrow.

Am letting DH go out for a drink tonight since I have had a day of indulgance. Lets hope he doesn't roll in really drunk and attempt to have sex with me (which is what usually happens)

hoping you all had lovely saturdays and recommend the indulgance shopping day

x

Aah, have just been listening to Eels (Daisies of the Galaxy) while trying to do some work (gave up on work and decided to mumsnet instead). I certainly don't think I've met anybody at the many, many toddler groups I've been to, who likes Eels, but then I find its hard to talk about non-baby stuff with them, I think I'll have to start making more of an effort.

I'm very excited about your bomb shelter, Chaotica, could it be converted into a cool, bunker style wendy house?

Dd2 has temperature tonight and I could feel a tooth coming through, so I could be in for a long night, I may well be mumsnetting at 2am!

Glad you had a lovely day Jewels, I must remind dh that he owes me a couple of child free days.

Hi, I haven't been on for ages (joined then didn't post again ) so have been catching up.

Am settling into life with 2 - dd is now 22 months and ds 3 months. Some days are great, others I have to chalk up to experience! But can't be too bad as I'm already wanting no.3. DH not so keen...

Anyhoo, Scout or any others with three or more, was it harder going from 2 to 3 than from 1 to 2? And what about being pregnant while looking after two los?

Oh and Paris, 19mo is a good age gap - I've found it's helpful because DD is still young enough to nap, is in nappies, goes in the buggy a lot and has a bottle before bed. So she hasn't 'regressed' or anything and has accepted her new baby brother surprisingly easily. So far...