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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

ohh just managed my first smiley face since joining Mn!!! How sad am I!!!

LOL fleecy re the watering can incident - DD1 has eaten soil, crayons and sometimes I fin something unusual in her mouth like some foil, or a fifty pence piece.

Loucee, yes totally understand you just have to go with it for now. My tips are these:

1. Give all feeds in day. My first is 0600, last is 1030.
2. Give fruit and veg for all day solid feeds except dinner where use carbs. This reduces chance of dirty nappy in night.
3. Izzy has 3 naps a day; 0800-0900, 1145-1330 and 1530-1630. I plan my day around these.
4. I use a size 4 nappy on izzy at night even though it is really quite large on her! But, it does stop her feeling wet so quick thus no baby waking because she is wet

Hope these help? But, DD1 slept through from 5 months but DD2 has only just really started in the last 4 weeks (she is 6 months) so - even with me following the same thing, did not work the same with both DDs.

makka pakka would definatly be handy around he house JKS, with that sponge (for cleaning the bathroom/baby sick off walls etc) and the og pog for doing the shopping. Pilates is good! I really look forward to it and can see my shape changing and just looking more fit really (not as in fit - fwwwoooarrgh but as in sporty fit)

I do hpe we do get out for a nice lunch because that would be nice for her to get out. I just worry that she has unrealistic expectations about what it'll be like. Imean, on TV babies are always happy to sit in their infant carrier and be placed on tables, left to it and are quiet and fall alseep and do not have colic, or wind pain or just fancy crying sometimes. And I have to admit I thought it was a bit like that, and got a bit of a shock. Just don't want her to get such a shock too.

Night-night

morning all

I didn't want to drawn into a discussion on the merits of Makka Pakka as a household cleaner, but the more of I think of him turning up on that little Og-pog and giving the house a good clean and tidy, the more into the idea I get...

(Then I wake up and remember that the Pontipine children didn't really get stuck in the Tombliboo trousers...)

Back in reality, I didn't have the greatest of days yesterday (as almost predicted)... Among disasters, DD dived head first off the sofa (forgot about the edge ) and DS grabbed a (thankfully cold) cup of coffee and poured it all over himself

Those of you with chicken pox in the house, hope your LOs are recovering.

sleep, perchance to dream fecking well sleep! Blardy DS2.

i have fallen asleep twice today already...short lived mind you. Oh well, wine and chocolate tonight, gym tomorrow.

Pinches self....must stay awake.

cazwa - welcome back go on tell us about it, so we can live vicariously...

simpson - how went the next sale? i'll pop along on tues when ds1 at nursery tho most will prob be gone but i can't face crowds.
re smiley face - is that because you've just figured out how to do it?! or because it's the first time you've felt happy enough? hope not.

glass of red tonight, yum

jewels - oh i would so love to see my shape changing (whilst hiding the chocolate, ahem), will get some other mums to join me i think.
tell your friend there's always takeaway!!

chaotica - oh i wouldn't want those pontipine children underfoot, always running off and getting lost, then flying about through the air...mind you surely they would entertain each other
hope you are having a better weekend so far.

grrl - sleeeep, sleeeep, go to bed now!
i'm off any minute, tho i will read my book, dh out so i'm enjoying the peace

got nct reunion tomorrow, hope sun shines, house looks tidy enough, and kids don't hate each other...

TG bad night? My DS had 4 night feeds but he went back to sleep really quickly so I didn't feel too bad this morning and when they both got up at 7am DH took them downstairs and I slept til 8.45 - fantastic!

DS is much better, thanks for your good wishes. Hope the other little ones are feeling better soon.

Cazwa have you been on holiday? I've never been to Norway but my Auntie was from there, sounded amazing.

Some *&&%^^£@er scraped my car whilst we were at a shopping centre today, didn't leave a number or anything - I'm so annoyed. We'd gone to a newish shopping centre near Glasgow to look in the sales and only managed to get 1 top in total so it was a wasted trip anyway.

Jewels thanks for the tips they have given me some things to consider. He's such a wee sweety that I feel quilty contemplating CC but a whole nights sleep would make me such a better mum!

Hope you're all having a nice weekend, we're going to put on a film and crack open a beer (JKS nope I don't care what colour my wine is, nor what type of beer or spirit it is!! )

Yes do tell is cazwa! (I have been to tromso, where I spent most of the weekend drunk on some drink called Red Square, but did see the midnight sun, and went trawler fishing. You can imagine that did the hangover the world of good [projectile vomit emoticon]) sorry girls that was definately TMI please forgive me

loucee I would totally try every other thing before CC. I mean, there is a baby yelling and a baby crying and where I can leave her to yell a little bit, if I hear her cry then I am right there. We have the webcam wired up so, for daytime naps, after laying her down (she self settles) then I can see how she is doing. If you can do this I do advise it, plus really cute to see her sleeping and moving and dreaming.

I also drink all alcaholic beverages - red wine great in winter, white great in summer, I do love the sparkly rose jacobs creek though, and champagne is good ANY TIME! Beer-wise love peroni but not that fussy - after a hard day house-wifing, is nice to relax with a drink (though from my previous paragraph you may be getting the impression I am a little too unfussy regarding alcaholic beverages aaah the days before children....[wistful emoticon]

Hi all

Looong day today Ds wingey saying he is bored etc.How am I going to cope with another 6 weeks? He was doing my head in from midday today!! DD little star though.

JKS - yes only worked out how to do smiley faces!!! Got email from shoe people and will have them before we go away.Looked at Next online but did not have the sizes I wanted so may go to shop on wed.

Jewels - I only like red here although quite like beer too: bud (but only from a bottle!! or peroni) not a spirit drinker though. But in my yooof drank anything

Loucee - glad to hear DS better. Pain in the bum about your car. I would be fuming

Chaotica - Pontipines - too blardy many of them!!

Tattooed Grrl - Hope tonight is better for you sleepwise. Fingers X

Had great day out today went to kew gardens and had picnic. Ds loved it, loads for him to do there, climb trees etc. DD was a star and beaming away at everyone.

When we got home it went tits up. Shouted at Ds for not eating his tea, made both Dcs cry Very cross with myself but i guess tiredness is getting to me

Evening, Ladies. Hope your weekends weren't all too similar to the week (mine was)

Simpson Kew sounds great for kids - and don't beat yourself up too much about the shouting (damn - we've all done it ). DD has gone off her food this weekend and I've managed to remain strangely calm (quite how, I don't know maybe there's something wrong with me -- but I presume she'll start eating again in time).

Off to London tomorrow on the train with DS (aka Shouty-Man) wish me luck (although the other passengers might take it worse than I will). I wish I could take DD instead she'd have loads of fun getting there (had to take her up an escalator twice yesterday because it was so exciting) but DS is still not eating much solid food and bf a lot as a result, so I can't leave him all day with my childminder and DP.

Don't know whether I can manage with just a sling (he's over 10kg now) probably better not or I'll be crippled by the end of the day. (He still prefers being carried on the front so he can see what's going on don't blame him really.)

Grrrl -- hope you get some sleep. (You must be slightly alert if you can still quote Shakespeare...) (or can you do that in your sleep?)

hello all. I know why DS2 has been so bad sleep-wise...he now has chicken pox too, and really badly. He's covered- eye lids, scalp, between his bum cheeks He was puking last night, but have managed to get his temp down. Rang CM and she's taken DS1 for the day, and doc's said they couldn't do home visit until lunchtime- so i'm taking him down to the surgery in 20mins (they'll put us in our own plague waiting room)

Hope you're all good.

Tattooed Grrl - Sorry to here DS2 has now got chickenpox too bless him. How long do the spots last?

Taking Dcs to the zoo tomorrow, going to use kellogs zoo voucher thingie

DS is very excited about going, talking about all the animals he is going to see!!

Then Wed it is cold turkey with the nappies. He will be 3 at end of Aug and starting pre school end of Sept so really needs to be out of them by then. Am dreading it though, but needs must.

about 5-6 days of blistery rash, then scabs. Once they're scabs it's not infectious.

He looks like a burns victim I've never seen chicken pox like it.

Oh Grrl, what a nightmare, I had chickenpox really badly when I was a teenager and had it in my throat and eyes, it was horrible, your poor little boy, I found the calamine with glycerin worked really well on dd2's bum, when she had it, because the spots were huuuge there.

Day started off horribly, dd2 screaming after waking up at 5, and not having a nap until 1.30! Dd1 tipped a bucket of dirt on her head, which meant I had to give her hair a really good wash (she hates hairwashing with a passion, and has made herself sick in the past with the fear of it), after which she sat on the sofa sobbing into a cup of milk watching Dora. When the girls fell asleep in the buggy, I ate a bag of pick n' mix white chocolate mice (I have a real addiction to cheap chocolate), and then felt really sick - oh dear!

Dh did girls tea tonight so I could go and have my haircut, it's so lovely to spend an hour on my own, I think it's the only time I really relax.

So with my hair feeling all lovely and sleek(for once!), I am going to pour a glass of wine and have a bath, and keep my fingers crossed that everyone has a peaceful night!

Sorry to hear about your DS Grrrl, how horrid.

Anyone know how to get your lo's out of the habit of pooing in the night? The last three days I've gone to change DD's nappy in the morning and it's been full - but the poo is obviously quite old so she's going early on in the night and it's sticking to her skin. After 3 days of this, her bum is so sore it's bleeding - this morning I had to put her in the bath and soak it off while she cried Have been using sudocrem but it's not enough! Don't want to have to wake her to check her nappy when we go to bed as I don't want to get her into the habit of waking up but not sure what else to do?

Fleecy - How old is your DD? My DS (now nearly 3) did this for ages and kept waking up with red sore bum but I changed what he ate and he had no fruit at all after 4pm ish and it helped LOADS I still stick to that rule now 2.6 yrs on!!

glad to hear about the hair do hazey

horrendous here, i feel like a shit mother. DS2 been screaming for hours at a time, and had me crying too. I've given up and left him crying in his bed- he's going beserk if i comfort him / pick him. Doesn't want to be fed or changed, and he's just had max dose of all possible medicines. Letting him cry for a little while to see if he'll sleep.

Grrrl what an awful time you are having right now. But, just think they say there is a certain amount of bad times we have and then they are gone! So, you should be in for a really really good patch soon (fingers crossed and hug emoticon)

Fleecy I can second what simpson said. Give fruit and veg up until 4pm and then afterwards only carbs. You know the trouble I was having with my DD2 (she is 6 months old) and this is the only thing that worked. She does still have the occasional poo in the night, but hardly at all compared to the frequency before. (but it does take a few days to bed in, so expect a week of doing it before you see results)

Hazey bet your hair is looking all swishy and swooshy. Can;t say the same! Mine needs cutting and I have decided to go for the kate moss fringe. (infact, posted in style and beauty and the majority voted for the KMF so I am going with them!)

DDs are in bed, am taking DD2 to doctors about that rash on her face and - as usual - it has cleared up alot now, but sod it Iam going to keep te appointment anyway. DH coming home by 2, and then after that it is a mad rush because I have bodybalance class tonight [exhausted emoticon] mind you, DD2 slept til 0620 this morning so I have no need to moan about being tired! Some of you really are tired!

speak later!

i hope so jewels! Have fun at your class- i missed the gym this weekend, and have eaten nothing but crap for days, so i feel like a blimp!

Leaving DS2 cry last night was for the best- he slept for 1.5hrs in his cot after 10mins of crying. I'm dreading tonight

Hi everyone- haven't been on here for AGES!

Loucee- where are you from? Were you at Glasgow Fort?

Fleecy- my dd (was 2 on Friday) eats everything- prittstick, playdough, dirt, cat food...and she loves dipping things- like a piece of toast in a bucket of stagnant water and eating it- YUCK. She's always dressed beatifully but tends to take her shoes off so she's always wandering around outside in filthy socks, always has a snotty face and her hair is uncontrollable!

I never bothered about the toy thing. I just let them get on with it. Anyway if she ever had anything in her mouth it was normally something else- like a penny she had found, blutack, a window key- and once a razor blade from DH's razor- EEK- but we got to her pretty quick and she was absolutely fine. Now who sounds like a bad mother

pmsl at razor blade - but only because nothing bad happened!

Thanks jewels and simpson, DD is 22mo and eats loads of fruit and green veg so I'm going to try cutting them both out after her afternoon snack and see how we get on...

Hi everyone

Soph I was at Silverburn

Sorry to hear your DS2 has chicken pox Grrrl, thankfully my DS is on the mend now but that's been a week of sleepless nights and him being quite poorly. Was it on this thread earlier to put bicarb of soda in the bath to help their itching? I literally covered DS in calomine lotion too which seemed to help.

Oh Soph my DD (2.5) is the same with taking her shoes off. She does it in the shops, at toddler group and everywhere and ends up with filthy feet or socks. To date we've lost 2 different Clarks shoes and managed to get one back from phoning lost property

I took them both to softplay this afternoon with a couple of friends and it went surprisingly well. First time I had ventured there alone as DD has no fear and will climb really high and go down the steepest shutes, I'm just scared she gets hurt by one of the bigger children. DS loved the ball pen too

God am I tired!!

Had a great time at zoo and weather was fab. V busy though. DS loved the monkeys, penguins, giraffes + zebras. He is totally shattered

DD was good too considering she spent ALL day in buggy Although she did poo all over her clothes LOUDLY in the middle of the gorilla enclosure!!

Must dash DD demanding bottle then bed...

(Waves Hi to everyone on way out!!)

loucee - bad luck re the car i noticed a scratch on our newish car the other day, was pretty sure i hadn't done anything, told dh and he went err, yes that was me! i was relieved!!) well done on braving the soft play. i haven't been since having ds2, thinking of trying on a rainy day over the summer (sure there will be one!).

chaotica - how went the trip to london? thanks for post on other thread, kind of lost it with dh again last night, need to keep an eye on things i think...

grrl - your poor ds2 and all of you really, having sick kids is exhausting. you are having a bad time of it atm. how was last night?

simpson - good luck today with the potty training! glad the zoo trip went well.

hazey - hope the hair is still swishy

jewels - i need a haircut big time too. must try and get it sorted soon, thinking of having more cut off than usual - i always just get a trim - it's just too hot atm.

fleecy - don't know about the poo-ing in the night thing, the others advice sounds good. if it doesn't work, maybe go in at your bedtime and check, you could prob do a quick nappy change without her waking up?

soph - hi your dd sounds like my ds1, into everything! i like hearing about girls that aren't all perfect and dainty as so many of my friend's girls are and it makes ds1 look like a thug!

um, is that everyone? haven't been on in a bit and lose track.

ds2 had slept through 3 nights in a row and i was so sure we had it cracked....then up at 4.30 today fed him but he was NOT going back to sleep, so came downstairs with him until he got hungry again, fed him, he fell asleep, took him upstairs to bed, then ds1 up, so brought him down - he's watching nemo [again] - so dh can sleep.
we have house guests too, they are moving into new house near us today, had a nightmare with packers yesterday so only got here at midnight. dh stayed up to let them in, but i couldn't sleep last night anyway, too hot.
so we'll all be tired today....
hope everyone has a good day

Wow I go away for a day and all hell breaks loose on this thread (or maybe it's like that every day quite hard to keep up).

Trip to London went great -- DS was a star and really enjoyed himself which was good so I didn't feel bad about not taking DD. All he needs to keep him entertained is expensive day trips it seems...

Hope your DS2 is a bit better, Grrrl.

Must go to baby group now (more entertainment for DS) -- or I'll end up with him screaming in frustration.

Too hot and sticky today!