Oct 08 - On our way to the terrible twos! Noooooo we're not ready!

[50ftQueenie]

Here we go ladies.....At the speed we've been moving it might be the terrible twos thread! It's the final count down.......

My 2 DSs regularly trash the house downstairs on a sat and sun morning while DH and I pretend to stay asleep. I think we all regard it as a treat! DD just chats away to herself or goes back to sleep in her cot.
I'm in no rush to move her to a bed that's for sure.
DH is out again tonight - that's last Fri away all night, mon out till midnight and tonight as well. Bit cheesed off TBH.
DS1 has been hideous this week, reduced me to tears on wed they were so awful and they laughed when i cried.....
I sent him to his room and he trashed it pulling all his clothes out, we had no car so i couldn't even take them anywhere to let off steam.
I really really don't understand all these people who think the summer holidays are great.. (grown up people that is!)
Thank goodness I get to go to work...

oops! didn't mean to scare everyone away with my depressing post!!!
Happier today - promise
DH is home and has read riot act in no uncertain terms to boys, so all is calmish.
If only the sun would come out - I had to put a scarf on yesterday working from home - I got sooo cold sitting at the computer

Pistachio bless your DD :)
Myjob I can't believe it's so close either! Are you having a party? I think we'll just do something special together...

Pepper :( :(
You poor thing!!! I hope you've had some time away and are feeling refreshed. That sounds horrible... Like one of my bad days when I was teaching in an inner city school in a very rough area. But I got to go home afterschool.... How are you now?

Evening. Nothing much to report here - busy busy busy. First big smiles from J over last couple of days, which is nice :).
New helper starts tomorrow.

Wow that's great that she's back at nursery already! :) Does your ds watch an entire dvd - like just sit and watch, pistachio? I keep wondering when Q will do that at home... I know it's not great to watch TV but it will be nice to sit and watch with him... his energy is boundless at the moment. I put Cbeebies on and he likes it and will sometimes sit and eat a snack with it but not for long. I get all cozy cuddling with him on the sofa watching big barn farm or something and after 3 minutes he's wriggling down to run around again and of course wants me to follow!

During the school year we are ready and out the door by 7.20. I've been leaving at 6.15 lately just to get in really early and get some stuff done in my room (there's SO much to get ready right now!) while James is home and I have the opportunity.

I hope you like your new helper, csws.

Oh diggers looks cool! Q Bob the builder followed by Thomas the choo choo on tv/dvd/whatever works for Q but he won't sit!!!

Do you like having her in mornings or do you prefer afternoons? I notice our programme for under 5s fills afternoons first.

That does sound nice to be able to spend the morning just with one. Does he nap still? We are limiting Q's naps to 2 hours but he's not happy about it. Spending loads of time with dh recently as I'm at work preparing and at meetings for a while each day. Dh loves it but house is a mess when i get home, Q gets to eat a lot of treats, and today he was wearing bright orange green brown red dinosaur swim shorts (long ones) with a red blue and White striped long sleeved shirt (???????) it looked ridiculous. I had to take him to the dr like that!!!

Burst eardrum and ear infection :( :(
He says "mammals" for animals. I keep telling dh he must really be saying mammals

Hello. How is everyone?

What a crap summer we're having! I like the rubbish weather but it is severely limiting my ability to sling the children in the garden and ignore them get on with something else. DS is going to London with my mum tomorrow so I will get some time with just M which will be nice. I'll have to think of something to do..... Our days have mostly consisted of M and DS arguing, M trying to put the telly on, DS asking to play the Wii and me starting off being strong willed and ending up saying 'meh, do what you want' which makes DS feel guilty and then they play with bricks together. Result!

what an empathetic child, 50ft that he would feel guilty because he knows you don't want him to do that!!! Beautiful boy :)

Myjob I hope your nights get better! That is not nice. Glad to hear you're having good days, though!

Q just chased his own shadow for 20 mins. Hilarious.

Awwww how cute Star! funnily enough, M noticed hers for the first time the other day. She spun around looking over her shoulder like a dog chasing it's tail, then gave up.

Evening ladies! CSWS - I've just seen your update on FB. I'd been wondering when J's appointment was. You must be feeling so relieved.

Well, we're back. Had a brilliant holiday and the weather was nowhere near as bad as I'd been dreading. S had an absolute ball. He loved the camping and going on the back of my bike and all the general running around outside made him sleep really well. The return leg on the ferry was quite choppy and I discovered that dp has absolutely no sea legs. He'd been worrying about being ill and I have to admit that I thought he was exaggerating, as he's prone to hypochondria. The poor thing threw up all the way back! This was his face:
I took S to the on-board cinema to pass the time while dp puked and was amazed when he sat and watched the whole of the new Shrek all the way through.

It's really autumnal isn't it? I'm quite looking forward to getting all my woolly tights out. I look so much better in autumn/winter clothes.

Hope everyone's OK!

Oh poor DH. I can sympathise. I get sea sick, but not to that extent. My body does not like getting rid of food so I don't tend to actually throw up. Glad you had a good holiday. I am very much enjoying the autumnal weather.

SIL went in to be induced yesterday. She is in the states, has mild GD (which they are controlling with insulin even though it's mild ) and they insisted on her being induced on her due date because of the GD. The US way of doing things seems so extreme to me. I have ranted about it to her which she probably felt was aimed at her, but of course it wasn't, I just find it so frustrating that they are so intrusive with everything. No wonder their c-section rate is through the roof. I did have a little chuckle when she said she would be expressing from the off so she could introduce the bottle from 3 weeks (as that's the optimum time she tells me). Tee hee.... I don't think she's prepared for the fact that she won't have time to wee in the first few weeks, let alone time to pump. I did say to her that she might not find time, she pointed out that she could pump for 5 mins after feeding.... Oh dear oh dear.

50ft - if that's the US way then it's more relaxed than here, as induction at 38 weeks is standard for anyone on insulin.
Is there actually such a thing as 'after feeding' with a newborn? I suppose that right now could be classed as that for me, but I'd find it pretty hard to express whilst holding ds on my shoulder because that's where he will sleep. I am hoping to get him down for a few mins shortly, as I need to prepare lunch things and finish prepping some bolognese to go in the slow cooker, but I don't rate my chances of getting more than 10 mins, esp when he has his first cold, so is all snuffly when laid down.

CSWS - The thing is, her GD was so mild they almost didn't detect it, so why they put her on insulin is a bit of a mystery. BUT... if she didn't do what they told her and something went wrong she wouldn't be covered through her work related medical insurance. And yes, that's what I said to her.... plus I had flippin' loads of milk but 5 mins after feeding would have yielded...... nothing. Poor J, if I could drive I'd come and give you a hand. I have no DS today as he's out with Granny.

Yes J likes the close carrier (I use) and the baby bjorn (dh uses). I did put him in it whilst I sorted dinner, and then just held him whilst I sorted lunch (he had a little dopey feed in between).
If only I could have him in a carrier in the car. I even sat in the back next to him for our hospital trip yesterday, and he still screamed most of the way .

Keep in mind ladies, the "US" is a big, big place... not everywhere are things done exactly the same... quite different from one state to the next, actually. Different laws in different places.
Having said taht, I do think that a lot of places are quite intrusive... the TV programmes and articles produced aren't great, either as everyone is so dramatic and over reacts in them. That's the "American way"... haha.
I have 2 friends in America who bf until 2, one 3 years old, had natural births, no drugs, eat healthy and naturally, homecook everything, ban McDs...etc, don't vaccinate... etc etc etc and their groups of friends there also have the same values. I have another friend who ff from the 3rd week, had a c section by choice just because she preferred it and isn't as careful about diet (though I don't think I know anyone in the US anymore - of my friends/family - who approve of or frequent fast food or crappy eating practices - however there are many others who do live off of crap... and many here, too).

Also... I used to pump from one breast while feeding with the other from quite early on as I was so sore and bleeding and feeling like a million shards of glass cutting at my nipples every second of a feed and desperate for just an hour of relief. It also helped build up supply in the freezer and in my breasts :) It's not easy. But it's not impossible.

Thank you Pistachio. I was starting to wonder if I was being a loony as I was horrified at SIL's maternal care. MIL defended it to the hilt and I just can't see why!!! She does drives me MAD and because I ranted at her about the terrible care in the US she has very obviously been bitching about me to SIL. I am so sure that she'll end up with a c-section which obviously she wants to avoid. Things would have been very different here.

I am seeing very clearly a big difference between boys and girls. When DS was little he was quite old before he could grasp the concept of happy and sad. M already knows is someone is happy, sad, grumpy.... actually that's the limit of her understanding. But..... today I was listening to some fabulous folk music and M said "lady sad, lady singing sad" and she was right! It was probably coincidence but, I'll pretend for now that it's not.... like mammals....