April 2004 Toddlers Part 2!

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ooo Good luck , miss have and have fun

ooh Chuffed - GOOD LUCK!!! Still can't believe you're doing it! Maybe we'll hear from you sooner via an internet cafe?!

I'm getting over the fringe trauma - trying not to scream every time I come across a mirror!

Took the kids to Gay Pride in Manchester today! Mainly to see the parade, which was great, and ds's lasted longer than I thought they would - helped by the fact that there were fire engines, police cars and ambulances in the parade!! Ds1 now has an obligatory rainbow whistle, which started to annoy us about 2 minutes after we'd bought it him!

P.S. - HM - have the found the source of your ds's problem, or just ruled out UTIs? We're so lucky we've not had any overnight stays for our ds's (yet) - must be very scary...

Hi Ladies,
Juts a quick note form Seattle. Our wedding is this afternnon. Poor little dd has been awake since 3am! She did sooo brilliantly yesterday, we arrived here at midnight Friday night (it would already have been 7am on the morning with you) but she finally crashed completely at 6pm. I couldn't wake her for love nor money so I put her straight in her cot, however she was WIDE awake at 3 am!!!
Flight was okay, Phernergan didn't work for us but I was very glad to have Piriton yesterday when I discovered she has a peanut allergy!!!
Maybe catch you soon ladies!
Byeeee

have a great time all of you off to exciting places.

dot1 we nearly went to gay pride but chickened out cos I always worry about losing them in crowds (mainly cos I DO lose them fairly regularly, though usually just momentarily).

Mrs d that's bad news about peanut allergy. was it the first time she had peanuts?

hello
having NIGHMARE w/end glad made no plans ds been child from hell , maybe last of the teeths ?
high temp , sceaming ab dabs , refused any fluids fo 8 hours , dh and I completely knacked and seen non of the lovely weather !!!!
rrrraaaaahhhhh

glad you arrived safely Mrs Doolittle. Sorry to hear your ds is under the weather dolbear

p.s. all the best Chuffed

Dolbear - our weekend's not been much better and we've done TONS of things..! ds2's back in a pattern of waking up at 5am - 5.30am and it's driving us doolally... Sooooo hard to get through the day when it starts that early! Today we attempted some controlled crying, but that just means he screams until gone 6am, so no-one gets any sleep and he'll often wake ds1 up.

Seems like there are no answers - other than planning for him to stay at his Grandma's for a night in a few weeks time..!

Congrats MrsD - hope all went well for the wedding.
Poor ds dolbear - 'its only a phase' remember.
I got used to ds sleeping till almost 7am the past week or so - but back to normal this morning - 5.50am!! tho dh may have woken him when he was in the bathroom getting ready for work.
We did swimming and animal farm at the weekend - interspersed with Dora and the All Star Golf on TV.

We went to a teddy bears' picnic yesterday - only it was pouring down for most of the day, so we were sat on v. wet grass, feeling v. silly - only in England..?! Lovely day though - went on a steam train there and back so the boys were in heaven - and ds1 hooked a duck at the fairground and got to choose his prize - a GUN...! I suppose I could have been strict Mummy and said no, but he's been mithering for one for ages, and was soooooooo happy... I'm thinking it could be good for his temper - now instead of pushing people, he can just shoot them instead!

dot1 - a GUN .

tracyk - is that Dora the Explorer? have heard of her but never seen it - which channel is it on?

dolbear i hope ds is better. dd3 also teething (numbers 15 and 16) but they are mostly through today. what you describe sounds a bit worse than teething though.

Yes fennel - Dora the explorer. Its on Nick Jnr at 8am and 5pm and also on ITV - maybe at 9am? ds aboslutely loves it and will be speaking spanish before long. I have to tape it and play it at various times of the day to let me get stuff done. ds is glued to it!

tracyk, thanks. will try and find it. tho dd3 doesn't watch tv and the others watch too much, or do when i let them.

thanx for all your wishes , maybe also tummy bug
won't go into details but not pleasant smell round here lately
dora the explorer -ds loves , do yourself a favour though if you have no desire to learn spanish or repetitive learning does your head in do NOT watch it with the kiddies
dh off to brighton for stag-do and the off to boger next weekend with in-laws - I know , I know , but its FREE and ds loves the beach

Fennel - I know! I second that (for an 'alternative' family we're not very PC...)

Dolbear - my lot are only just recovering from a particularly virulent tummy bug thing, that came accompanied with a horrible cold/virus thing. Not pleasant...

We're off to Brighton on Monday for 5 days - flying to Southampton and hiring a car to Brighton! Dreading the flight - even though it's only 50 minutes - how will we keep ds2 still??!

we have water pistols do they count?

which is worse, Barbies or guns? hmm.

A 50 minute flight will be ok you just take off and then you're landing again. can you just feed him throughout that? otherwise, what about plasticine. the air crew won't thank you but it keeps them going for a while. or reading about 20 million books....

Dolbear where is bogor?

am busy filling in scrapbooks for dd2 and dd3 tonight after a thread last week about neglected 2nd and 3rd children. dd1's goes up to age 3, so I feel compelled to do the others too.

sorry fennel bad typing skills strike again thats Bognor as opposed to anywhere exotic

ds was fine on his flight to glasgow which was about an hour - he just chatted to the lady next to him. Tho on the way there the flight was delayed by 2 hours so he just slept the whole way there. I don't think I'd be brave enough to try and entertain him on a plane for much longer than that tho.

Hi all

Feeling completely miserable at the moment - crap day in a crap week at work and I don't like having to go there every day and have horrible days!

Ah well. Could be worse..?

Hope you have a better day today Dot1 - it's Friday - so nearly over for another week!

dot , hope you are enjoyiong the w/end after a pants week !
my parenst split is becoming exhaustimg ! seem to spend all time calming mum down after he has commited yet another crime , real or imagined !

Off on hols tomorrow morning - flying to.... Southampton!!! Spending 5 days in Brighton with friends who've got a ds who's about 14 months old. Am v. nervous about the flight, but it's only about 50 mins - how much can go wrong?!

Back next week!

hope you're having fun Dot

Hey guys just checking in from Vilnius. Having an awesome time dd is being a gem. No probs so far with pregnancy but clothes keep falling down as only have maternity clothes with me and although I am definately looking pregnant they are still a bit big. I'm sure they will fit when I finish in 8.5 wks.
The only real pain is staying well hydrated as that makes needing to go to the loo more necessary and I hate having to find wc's all the time while travelling.
dd is loving animal spotting out the windows of buses and does the noises at the same time. Her talking is coming along and she now knows the colour yellow she has now got a thing about flowers. If you ever get to the baltics don't bother taking small wheeled buggy we have been so grateful for the mountain buggy the cobbles are a killer and I can probably tell you where the children's playgrounds are too.
Hope all is well, will check in when I get another chance!