Springing into Summer with 2 (or more) pre-schoolers!

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Here we are ladies- our old thread was still the Xmas one!

Join us here if you have 2 or more pre school kids.

Current hop topic is tantrums, but feel free to chip in about anything and everything!

GYA what a nightmare day, so pleased to hear you took a day off for yourself, you deserved it!

Tracyface, i really feel for you with all the sick, it's so horrible isn't it. DS2 had some bug a couple of months ago and I felt like I was washing sicky stuff for ages after, and it took AGES to get the smell out of the carpet.

Wow J&G, sounds pretty daunting! Hope you find somewhere to rent soon, everything feels better when you have somewhere to live

No real news here. The Ds's are ok, ds2 getting heaps of new teeth so not sleeping well, but hopefully if he gets them over and done with things will improve! Ds1 has creche 1 morning a week now and is loving it. And i am loving only having 1 toddler to manage, even for just a short time

Gya - well done you I wish I had the guts to sometimes run away - I could really do with it too.

Still unwell here - I thought it was too early to have milk . Melissa still got sickness and diarreah (sp?) and so I still have loads of washing to catch up on and carpets to Fabreeze!

I think Isaac is over it now but still very wobbly at meal times and is still only eating toast and bread and watered down skimmed milk!

I too have only eaten rich tea and toast for days which hould do wonders to get my diet kick started but stating to feel a bit weak now.

I even fell over last night in our garden coming out of the garage as doing more tumble drying and thought I had broken my ankle - Infact I was being a big woose and had only sprained it but I just lay their imagining the worst and crying till my oh came to look for me. After screaming for him for ages lol! I just was too scared to get up and of course was thinking now how am I going to manage to drive and do school runs etc,

Its all very pathetic - Im fine really just a little limp

Evening all.

You poor people with all this sickness going around. It sounds like these are really long-running sickness bugs. I hope you get over it soon (and that it doesn't come anywhere near me).

J&G - loved your description of Freya dressing herself. I suspect that might happen around here (we still have DS in Freya's skirts every now and then and he does look lovely )

Must go and sleep (had a day of kids work kids work and must add bed to that list...)

GYA - well done for escaping

Morning all

well I had laid out the clothes before I left so no random combos but there definitely are when he chooses!

House was a bombsite and he gave dd2 cereal for dinner..

Feel he doesn't have a handle on what she can and can't eat.. He knew the cereal was safe at least.

I left him the clothes to dress them in to meet me a kids party a few weeks ago. He muddled them up so dd1 had dd2s dress on knicker skimming Kylie effect and dd2 had dd1s skirt round her ankles.

Tracy- ankle sprain hurts more than breaking it ime so you're not a wuss.

Would recommend escape to you all btw. Afterall the men seem to do it frequently enough!

Now have a kidney infection so am feeling bit rough.

Such is life. Have a good day all.

Hi all- wont bore you but they are still ill .

Thought we were getting better but Isaac was sick all over his bed again this morning poor thing its been 6 days now surely they must be over it soon?

We were hoping to go away for weekend but Im not sure we will manage it if they are still poorly. Cant imagine dealing wtith puke and poo episodes in a hotel.

Catch up later - Melissa is obsessed with snow white dvd as she is stir crazy from being home all week. She is almost work perfect for Hi Ho Song!

just a quickie girls are having 'hair showers' in bath qith DH. And I am 'tidying' the house

Freya has been a knightmare today after returning from nursery and shouted to Izzy that she did not want Izzy to be her sister any more, that she wanted a better one. Izzy stuck her little bottom lip out and cried!!

tracy so sorry you and the sick are still an item, poor Isaac. I thought Freya was bad having it for 5 days/4 nights but even lnger is just horrendeous for you. Agree re the hotel, can you phone, explain and change for another wewend?

mu8st go, screaming children../..

Hi Gya - I hope you feel better soon - have you got antibiotics for it?

J&G - thats really sad about Izzy poor thing - hope she gets her own back. Surprisingly my two have been quite nice to each other today - I think it must be because they are both feeling so poorly.

I found them on the sofa and Isaac was stroking melissa's hair while trying to say aaahh. So sweet!

I can believe it now melissa after having upset tummy/bottom at lunchtime she then was sick again this evening. Its awful I really am going to have to starve them till at least tomorrow evening to see if I can get it out of their system. All they have eaten today is toast rich teas and water so hopefully it will have nothing left to be ill on.

Both have even stopped looking for milk and their bottles so in a way it may now be my chance to actually throw all their bottles away finally.

I Know its high time they didnt have them anymore but they both get such comfort from them at bedtime (and when they get up and also when they come out of nusery)
They drink loads of milk. which cant be bad.......

But it will make my babies seem so grown up if they dont have them anymore. I think Im hanging onto them as much as they are

We havnt booked the hotel but it was the only chance to get away for more than a weekend as the older kids were away doing their own thing - so not likely to happen unless I can cure them by Sat

OMG tracy I bet you are sick of the sick!! I hope things ahve settled a bit now?

I received a baby jogger footmuff for my baby jogger city mini today and it does not seem a good fit. I need footmuff advice! Anyone help? I was recommended buggysnuggle from a friend, but I have had a look and there are none that match my buggy as well as I would like. But, I am not discounting alltogether. Really, any help appreciated!

We are looking at a rental house on monday, and I asked mum if she and dad could have the girls for 1 night, whilst we drove to yorkshire to view properties. Mum took evasive manouvers and changed the subject. I was a bit . Then I asked dad, and he said 'yeah fine!' So, I broached the subject with mum today again and guess what? Yep, she started to prattle on about Fern Britton. Arrrrgh!!

Izzy is not sleeping well at lunchtime and I think I am letting her sleep too late in the morning. Think I may have to start setting the alarm at 0645, for getting her up at 7. Currently, I am letting her sleep til she wonders out of her room (usually about 0730) but clearly she eneds her nap in the middle of the day, but is not tired enough. It means by the end of the day - without the nap - she has very grumpy and yawns lots. What do you think gang?

Off to read Twilight (the best book I have ever read - I recommend it)

xx J&G

Morning all. yes have antibiotics starting to kick in now but am ratty due to no exercise since Monday.

Sorry to hear so much illness I had my niece yesterday and have both my nieces today as my sister got viral/swine flu poor thing.

Tracy- good opportunity to give up the bottles. Our dd1 only would drink out of one specific bottle and it got left at my sister's house one day and that was the end of that! Also know a friend got her dd off dummies when she was sick one day and thought it was the dummy that made her sick.

J&G- how long does she nap for? maybe let her have a 30-40 min one instead of long?

dd1 says she wants a big girl bed for xmas so we have that to deal with.. She'll be 2.4 nearly by then..

Hi All

I second giving up the bottles, Tracyface. I actually threw ours out the other day and it's cleared loads of space. (I'm culling baby stuff for all I'm worth at the mo')

Hope you're feeling better, GYA.

I need to get a big bed for DS. He is so sick of the cot (and starting to climb out). A trip to ikea is in order, I think.

I went down a lot of slides today (went to adventure playground and DS couldn't quite get up the rope ladders to the big slides - so I went to help him and that was the easiest way down...).

I'm so glad it's half term -- DD seems worn out with nursery ('distant' and 'tired' keep being mentioned by the staff - she seems ill there, which is worrying me a bit).
J&G - How is Freya dealing with it? (Do I get worried?)

Hi All

Hope you early risers didn't have to get up an hour earlier this morning (that would have been 3.30am for some...).

chaotica I have also culled some baby stuff. Freya has not had bottles for ages - literally years but Izzy still has just one at night. Think you are right about moving your DS into a bed - or another alternative is to take one side of the cot off, changing it into a day bed - I much easier transition we found for Izzy.

No, I didn't realise ths clocks changed and wondered why the girls were playing in their rooms at 6am - I was like 'go back to sleep!'. And then got them up at 7. They went to bed very easily, but were a little overtired I think - took them longer than usual to calm down for bedtime.

GYA she only has about 40 mins anyway (about 1330 til 1430, for which she spends time before dropping to play) She did nap today though, maybe she was having trouble dropping off for some other reason (like her final teeth coming through?) who knows! certainly not me!

Still reading twilight books and am totally in love with Edward Cullen. Honastly ladies, these books are hot stuff - very sexy. I am going out for halloween with the girls from yoga. I am going as a vampire

Good luck with the house search, J&G

Is there anybody there? Or am I the only one left...

Hi chaotica, no I am here too! But we used to be a big group, and now there is just a few left!

Yes J&G - it was never going to be easy to keep a thread going when everyone on it had more than one toddler. How did you get on on the house search, btw?

Chaotica - You are not alone!

Im still here , we were still recovering and Melissa has been having such awful tantrums that I havnt had time to get on here. All because she is still ill and lost her appetite so has no energy and is just plain grumpy.

Been watching I can cook which seems to be doing the trick as we have been cooking three days in a row and carrot & courgette muffins (sounds horrid but quite tasty) have worked really well and she has asked for them breakfast dinner and tea so what with tiny amounts of fruit I think we are getting there.

THank goodness its half term as I dont think she would have coped with nursery, although Im looking forward to her going back next week just for a break from putting her on the naughty step.

Doing a little halloween party for her and her friends on Saturday so that will be fun .

Yes J&G how is the house hunting going?

Hi Tracyface - glad to see you're still around too.

I've found Freya really needed the week off nursery (keep wondering whether it is all too much for her going every day) - she's still not quite well either although she seems a lot better while at home (or out) with me than she is with nursery or CM, even though I know she likes both.

Glad to see that 'I can cook' is working - is there anywhere you can get the recipes? (i never take note of them.) I bought some gingerbreadmen biscuit cutters (and a T-rex shaped one) at the weekend and then forgot to buy ginger... [Doh! emoticon]

How is Isaac now, Tracyface?

Tracy glad the illness is gone now and ou are all starting to get back to normal. The tantrums are awful aren't they? I mean, you want to implement dicipline when needed, but when they are ill even the slightest thing can end yo being a major crying session

When ladies the house search is not going well - we have to be out of here very soon and it looks like doing the move to yorks right now is out of the question; we do not have time to do down to look, and my parents who were supposed to look after the girls for 1 night to help, have had a case of flightyness and are not willing to help (is this just a plan to make sure we stay here with them, til there house is sold?]

So, we have seen the perfect house but as always it is too expensive. But did I mention it was perfect? Well, we shouldn't have even seen it, but we did and now it's all we think about. the girls love the fact it has a playroom too [destined to be skint emoticon]

We have a party at Freya's nursery tomorrow and my mum seems to be going through an opinionated phase (honastly, it's like the menopause all over again) and she had a go at me because the stripy halloween tights I bought for freya are massive around the ankle but Freya wants to wear them. Mum asked me how I could let her gho out looking silly! I mean, yes a 3 year old dresses as a pumpkin does not look silly at all, non? Grrrr!!

We are looking at another more reasonably priced house tomorrow. I am kinda hoping it is shit, and that is me being bloody silly

Sorry for typos am eating a magnum whilst typing

Hiya - having a better day today thank goodness.

Helps that my eleven year olds homework has been finished and that was a whole new experience of tantrums to deal with. Although very similar in length to Melissa's you would think he would have grown out of it by now.

Pumpkin crazy in our house we now have five carved in different designs and the kids are still looking to do more only Im fed up with the whole slimy pips thing that is enough!

J & G - the whole house hunting thing is so stressful . We looked for nearly two years before we found the house we are in and we still keep looking every so often and always its out of our price range but we still go and have a look just to torture ourselves!

I can cook recipies are on cbeebies website and because of the one on this morning I am now going to have to go out and buy tinned mandarins .

Isaac currently crying at Makka Pakka's trumpet noise I think we may have to watch it on mute from now on.
He is so sensitive to certain noises especially elephant type noises its very strange poor boy.

Melissa trys to make him cry by making quite a good impression of an elephant . She is rather cruel to him

Isaac is much better but not enjoying being dressed as a pumpkin bless him he looks like a cross between boris Johnson and Mr tumble but Melissa is insisting he wears it because she has her witches outfit on - all be over tomorrow and she can go back to being tinkerbell !

tracy that chocolate and mandarin pudding looked amazing on I Can Cook!

We saw a house last night and it was not great - was a large looking detached but the inside space and layout made it a no. We have gone back to another house we loved (the perfect one) and said we will take it but have said we will only pay a lower amount for it (this house has oil central heating and it is on sky high council tax band, so costs are high) and let's see if they go for it! [wishful thinking emoticon]

I have a driving lesson today and then - I can hardly even bear to think about it - my test on thursday [gulp]

Then night out tonight with the girls. You know, I am really looking forward to the night out, but it means that tomorrow is just a haze of hangover, and it feels so wasteful. I am considering (when it is my turn to buy drinks) asking for my 'sambuca' to be instead water, in a shot glass. Do you think that would work? Do you think the others would notice?

DH has taken Izzy shopping so freya and I can lounge around and watch some TV.

The rain has stopped! yay!

Evening ladies. My hangover is only just gone and last night was just ok - every bar/club was packed, and in the end we did not go dancing

Anyway, DH has kept the girls asmused today for the most part whilst I watched hollyoaks omnibus, eating toast and groaning lots.

Was just wondering what you re all doing with regards to fireworks displays; we are definately taking Freya to one, but do you think we should take Izzy? (2 at christmas) Any helpful experiences ladies? Would not want to take her, fr Izzy to be scared, and us having to go home - followed by a very sad little Freya.

Wishing you all a good evening,
J&G

Evening, Ladies

Hope your hangover is fading, J&G. (I would be but I got to go out with some old friends from work last week, so I don't have my usual cabin fever.

We're not doing the planned firework display thing this year - we did it when Freya was 2 and Connor a baby and Freya got really scared at the bangs (it was loud). It was really not worth it with a 2 year old. Whether it is worth it with a 3 year old depends upon the 3 year old, I suspect. (Last year we had a box of very cheap fireworks in the garden and they were perfect for the DCs.)

5 Pumpkins, Tracyface? - I bow to your halloween prowess. (I failed dismally with ours - we had some lovely pumpkins from my CM and they seem to have gone off before last night... eugh. Not pleasant (and no good to put candles in either). I should have lit them the night we got them I think.) [Bad mummy emoticon] We did have some scary ghosts come around for trick or treat though.

Back to nursery tomorrow. I'm waiting to see if Freya comes over all tired again...

BTW - Connor is really sensitive to noises, Tracyface. (Rattles and bells, mainly.) We didn't have this problem with DD.

J & G - thats exciting about your Test Good Luck with that!

Our Pumpkins went off really quickly too and yes they are now all in the bin taking up loads of space - silly collection is every other week so they will be stinky by then.

Melissa pleased to be back to school this morning all though we were late so need to try and get a bit more organised and back in to the swing of things.

Thought I would get all thrifty and try to make christmas pressies for melissa's little friends to save money.

Started making little aprons last night (hope the 'I can cook' popularity lasts still christmas).

Bit of a disaster so far as havnt sewed for ages and cant get my machine to work properly - so really frustrating. Cant be bothered to sew them all by hand that would be tedious. Melissa got all excited so ended up hand sewing a bag for her to take her doll to nursery in.

Hope they dont all want one of those!

I have cut Isaacs hair and now regretting it - im going to have to keep going until I get it right or take him to the hairdressers for them to rectify - but thats just embarrasing