Shirley's party advice part 4 - Better at party planning than Pippa Middleton

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New thread :) Everyone welcome.

Oh good lord - guess who's in the "contact your GP urgently if you've been in contact with someone with slapped cheek syndrome" list??

Those with a suppressed immune system - ie me!

Oh good god yes you!! Not to worry you but risk groups may require a blood transfusion.

My dh is a supply chain manager.

This is my REAL dh...
motobike no 46! Of course!

Ah that Doctor!

He is rather nice :)

I forgot all about me until i got home and looked up Slapped Cheek on the NHS website. Yes, high risk groups may require hospitalisation and a blood transfusion! Doctor is going to ring me. I haven't had a blood test recently so I have no idea what my WBC levels are. They may be fine. I haven't been feeling too run down recently.

Bugger. Strike out my comments about slap cheek being preferable to ear infection. Fingers crossed that your immune system has bucked it's ideas up since last inspected.

Sometimes motogp fans recognise the link and call me senora rossi!

Hopefully you'll be fine but i bet tomrrow your off getting tested etc.

I used to watch the MotoGP. I once went to Donnington on the back of DH's bike. Those were the days :)

I'm hoping my immune system is behaving too Stealth.

Right, the Doc doesn't seem particularly worried so we just carry on as normal and I hope I don't get it/have had it before and am immune.

I shall party plan my way through this

Good plan. Where were we before we were rudely interrupted by slap cheek? Encouraging you to buy a complete set of paste colours, IIRC

Just popping in to link to this

Some really good ideas here. Think I might do Dr Seuss next year for DD's 2nd birthday...

You were but I think what with it being Christmas and birthday, me bank account might not appreciate me spending £35 on gel colours :)

Kids seemed to be better by the time DH got home too. DD's red cheeks faded completely which means it's not slapped cheek and I'm safe.

The link doesn't work for me MBJ. I like the idea of Dr Seuss though. You could put your two in 'Thing 1' and 'Thing 2' T-shirts. I'll ditch Mum's birthday and come too

We have thing 1 and thing 2 tops. Sadly, having started in thing 2, DD has grown into and back out of thing 1 now .

Link doesn't work for me either. A Dr Suess party could be truly chaotic .

Guess what I just found in the scrap store?

Peg dollies - with bases - 30 for £4.05!!

That would have been cheaper than importing them from the USA

Oops.

Now you have the hang of it, maybe you should make them for all attendees ?

I scoured the internet for dollies with bases in the UK when I was looking!

Ah well, I know for next time I guess.

And these ones don't have the hole for the arms or the little bead hands #brightside

I really wanted to make more and i couldnt find them either. I was gonna get fil to turn some on his lathe. Did they have loads?

Think we caught lurgy from u. Dd2 has a fever of 38.6 but no other symptoms. Shes happyish in herself but i cant get it down. Shes teething but i wouldnt expect a fever that high from teeth. I know mil will nag me to go doctors but im alternating calpol/ibuprofen and shes not distressed just a bit quiet. My instinct says shes prob got a virus esp after a party of 22 kids but i just know dh/mil are gonna start panic stations.

They had loads and loads. Packs of 30 though. Do I need to do another trip? :)

Our lurgy left my two bloody miserable! DD was randomly breaking into tears at the silliest thing for a couple of days before the fever hit.

On the plus side, she was totally back to normal this morning and begging to be allowed to go to pre school - we had tears when i suggested she stay home - so I took her She's been fine all day

Oh god thats weird cos dd1 is like a coiled spring at the moment. I started to think something must be wrong with her cos shes crying at the drop of a hat over ridiculous crap. I put it down to overexcitement if birthday, then thought maybe all the talk if being a big girl now was too much. She keeps crying or flying into rages.

Today at dinner she said shes finished. So pushes her bowl to try to make it fall off table. Three times and three warnings and shes yelling no at me. I put her out in the hall after the third time and chucked her dinner. Then shes screaming like a wounded animal that she wanted her dinner afterall. So then she pushes dd2 in her highchair skidding it across floor. So i shouted. Then shes dissolving into tears asking for a cuddle.

Im at a loss. I hope she is getting ill cos im starting to think i birthed dr jekyll!!

And yes u may need to go back to the shop. Let me do the first one and i'll tell you.

Sounds about right. Massive, end of the world tears about the daftest of things. She did that for a couple of days before the fever started. But then it was all over in about 12 hours.

Dd2 still has a fever. Dh put her down in travel cot in our room. Ages woken again crying. Go up to her and he has one blanket folded double and another on her!!!! She now has temp of 39.1! Just warned him about febile convulsions. Apparently he was concerned cos she didnt have her grobag on. Now im panicking, did she fit and thats whats woken her?

On a positive note. My tree is up! And my xmas village. Because my elf on the shelf has covered a mini pink tree in loo roll for the kids. He has written them a poem and tells them to visit the zmas tree festival tomorrow. I hope to god dd2 rallies because dh is out tomorrow night too.

I finally got a proper night's sleep last night! Didn't even wake up when DH came in late. I really, really needed that.

My jobs this morning are to create a huge santa face with a wide open mouth that's not going to scare the crap out of a bunch of pre schoolers for the ladies I do the parties for as they want to do a bean bag throwing Christmas game in their classes and to make a start on the huge rainbow for DD's party. Now that I'm feeling better, rested and a bit creative, I'm hoping the peg dolly and dragon might get some attention too 'cause I'm running out of time!

Hoorah! Time to break out the Christmas names.

Love the name!!

No sleep here. Dd2 has disturbed sleep whimpering and never really getting off. Til 3.30am when she dropped back to normal but then bigg'n woke at 5.38!!!! Dd2 was then fever free until about an hour ago when it shot back up to 38.6!

Love the craft plan blathers. I really cant wait to sit down n do my dolly. But i want everyone out so i can really take my time. Make sure you post pictures.

Apparently we can post pics on the threads now but I'm not sure how and they become MN property if we do.