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!

Helloooooooooo

Lol at the potty stories, how gross can kids be!

I can see how those rearfacing seats would be heaps safer, but to be honest i don't think they'd even fit in my car! Not to mention the expense obviously, plus bet you can't get them here in NZ where i am!

My 2 boys have had tummy bugs, but thankfully neither dh or myself got sick. They were only sick 1 day each so not too bad, but a bit of a shock for poor ds1 who hasn't thrown up since he was 10 months old! (now 2.5)

Life still fairly crap here, still no job for dh, and we will be running out of money at some point
I have started doing some relief work at a cresche, but it's only for when they need someone extra if a staff member is sick. Plus i am unqualified so pay is crap, but hey ho, it's the occasional bit of money coming in.

ds2 has just woken up so better go get him up.

Hope everyone is well

hello all
I have 3 reschoolers so can I join
I'm away at the moment and only have one of them with me and its very odd

Hi All and welcome, Bronze

LOL at 'eau de Melissa' - that is so gross (I have problems occasionally with DS, but he's never actually made it to the potty) (I think).

Hope you get a better job sorted soon, Kaybee - it is brave of you both to take the plunge. (And they have cars in NZ? Really? )

It's a pity about the car seats too, Loopy - I think the expense fairly well limits it (but as I have another gangly-legged toddler, think I'd have to redesign my car). The picture shows it's not too bad, but I seem to have the amazing growing girl at the moment - this is no surprise really as I'm very tall. (DD is 3 btw and currently complaining that I never feed her )

DS totally charmed the bin men this morning and they gave a special 'rubbish truck demonstration' just for him (and his panda)_

Hi Bronze!

Kaybee- that sounds hard. But i do admire you for going for it. I'd love to live in California, but i'll probably never even look into it!

the youngest Loopy (8 weeks)

I can't believe ds2 will be starting in september either. Its gone so so quickly

Hi All

Just got everyone in bed after a long day (with me at work, so quite easy in comparison to toddlers-run-wild) and I'm knackered. As was DD who had quite a meltdown before DP managed to get her off to bed (although she may still get up).

These late bedtimes will have to change once everyone has to get up for school... DD starts preschool in september and we have to get there by 9.15 - unlike DS she's really not a morning person. (Must be a real wrench when they start school, Loopy - I really don't want DD to go which is silly, I'm sure).

Hope you're all OK. Must go and find some food now...

Girls wait til you hear this.

Yes, we have just come back from holiday and we all had the sickness bug. Izzy started Tuesday night (when we had a babysitter and were out having dinner) and then we the next day (sick til I could not be sick any more) and then DH and DD. We are home now and DH and I still feel shit. And we had such a good time before the dreaded bug downed us all like a sack of spuds.

Thanks for the swimming advice, will see if we can start taking her each week - hope so.

All I can type now, as I would not want to send my sick vibes through the internet.

Evening, Ladies

Jewels. Hope you're all feeling better soon. And hope you all had a good holiday. I'm going in July and I can't wait...

And Loopy - I should be glad that my two have never quite got that destructive. I'm waiting for DS to get a bit older though... I have a bad feeling about what a little crazy boy he might become - he's lovely at the moment though (although I suspect that the people in the queue at B&Q didn't think so when he had a minor meltdown).

DS freaked his grandad out tonight when he told him that he saw an owl in the woods (his grandad isn't really used to DS being able to talk at all )

Loopy - All three by 6.30pm You are supermummy!

Evening, All

We've had an evening of meltdowns round here; right from the cm's to bed with only a few breaks in between - trying to drive a car with two screaming toddlers in the back is not easy (I didn't even dare open the window in case someone thought I was doing something terrible to them, even though I was obviously driving...). At least they both went to sleep quickly

Hello ladies

sympathy chaotica with your car meltdown, and lol at your not wanting to open the window.

We had Freya's last ballet class today as they break for summer. She loved it even more than usual and I did not have the heart to say we are not coming back next week...[bad mummy emoticon]

Well lovely day spent in garden, and off tomorrow for a picnic with my parents in their local lovely park. Am going to have a beer now, and then may have a turkish delight.

High five y'all and wishing you all long luxurious sleep-filled nights.

xx

Morning, Ladies

Eugh - I feel grim: pmt and bad headache. This does not seem like good news for my parenting skills... (watch this space )

Actually, the headache feels like it is the start of the cold that the DCs have right now. If that is what caused the tantrums the other night, I completely understand

Hi all and hope you are still well chaotica.

Izzy was a knightmare last night and was waking every 5 mins screaming, so eventually at about 8.15pm I went in and in a I-mean-business voice told her to go to sleep. And thankfully she did.

But we are going to put her bed back to a cot. We thought she was ready, amd I am not sure. Especially after last night. So, we are going to go back to cot for a few months at least and take from there. How old are you changing your cots into beds? With Freya she was 18 months and she was fine, and we thought seeing as Izzy is now 18 months she would be also. I guess we need to stop applying what worked with Freya to Izzy.

Other than that loving the sunny weather and feel like we have eaten nothing but BBQ food for ages! Saying that, I do love bbq food

Hi All

Strangely, I had a fine time despite the pmt and the cold - maybe posting on here helped me keep a lid on the inevitable shouting mummy.

Jewels - DD was 22m when she went into a bed, while DS gets into her bed every night now and screams when we tell him he has to get out and go into his cot. I suspect he could go for sleeping in a bed right now (that said, he is 21m, so not that different to his sister). He even said 'I want big bed' tonight [guilt emoticon at having to put him in the cot anyway].

How's the rain where you are? We got caught in it yesterday when we went for a picnic at a local country park (lots of slides and stuff too). Fortunately, they have a cafe, and then I remembered that they now even have soft play (although no-one else seemed to have realised so the DCs had it all to themselves ). I was mightily grateful not to be stuck in my own living room with some out of control toddlers .

Jewels - strangely, I just remembered being moved from a cot to a bed myself (at about 19m I think). And then I was moved back again after two days. (I did fine at first and then I went in and jumped up and down on my parents in the middle of the night thinking it was morning and they were none too pleased...) (Sorry - I have an absurdly long memory.) I'd move Izzy's bed back to the cot if she's not comfortable.

Jewels - i'm with the others - move her back into her cot.

Im not putting melissa into a bed until she can get out of her cot! She is currently 2 years and 5 months and will probably be about five by the time she gets her own bed. She does not go to bed well so I know she wouldnt stay in bed at the moment. She only cries for a little while but I think she knows she has no choice but to stay put. (Mean mummy that I am)

Well we are off on hols to france this friday for just over a week and then the following weekend the 18th its the Wedding - EEek! I could really do with staying at home as I have got so much to do but it was booked before we decided to get married so cant change it. I will either be completely chilled or stressed out while we are away.

Enjoy the lovely weather everyone no doubt it will rain soon

Jewels I agree too, I'd move her back into a cot. We moved ds1 into a bed at about 2yrs but we had to put up with a couple of months at least of him getting out ALL THE TIME. Drove us both crazy, so poor ds2 will be in a cot until he leaves home . We had just arrived here and had given back rented portacot so didn't have anywhere to move ds1 back to so just had to put up with it really.

Dh is out tonight working. Not that he has found a proper job, its just a temp stocktake job for one night only.
I am feeling really depressed about our whole move here, and blame myself for our crap situation at the moment . i really wish we'd never even left the Uk now. But flights were booked before this stupid recession and now we are stuck here jobless, freezing as we can't afford the heaters on (except in the kids room) and driving each other crazy. Dh blames himself for not being able to get a job and I blame myself for dragging us over here (by the way I am originally from here so didn't think it would be quite so awful coming back as it has been).
Not sure how long we can stick it out for, and then of course there is the problem that if we come back to the UK Dh might not find anything there either, though at least we can live with the inlaws. And maybe he could beg his old boss for some work. But all that upheavil again for us and the kids............

Sorry for the moan, its hard to talk to anyone in the real world about all this as people here say to stay and people in the Uk say come back!

Hi All

Kaybee - Have a hug! You sound so down. (Not that that is surprising in your position.) I don't know what I'd do myself - the job situation is terrible in the UK too. (I'm in danger of having a spell as a SAHM against my will and I've been in my career for years ) I really hope it works out for you. (And don't blame yourself - how could you have known that this would happen. And who's to say that it wouldn't have happened if you'd stayed in the UK?)

OTOH - Tracyface: I can't believe that your wedding has come around so soon. I suggest enjoying the holiday and forgetting about the wedding while you're there [impossible advice emoticon]

We're off on holiday on your wedding day (to France too) and I am so excited already...

BTW - Loopy I'm fine, thanks for asking. Well, I permanently feel like I'm fighting off a cold but I don't really have much to show for it. Unlike DD who seems like she might be getting a chest infection The legendary tantrums give it away... If her cough doesn't shift I think i might have to take her to the GP.