September 09 - Hello world, we're here to destroy you!

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So the last thread could be used as proof that September 09 (and an August!) parents were kept far too busy by their babies to talk about them very often! Shall we see if we can get this one done before second birthdays (eek, 2 is so big) are upon us?

he he, that sounds hilarious Ladyem! Aled Jones always brings Bill Bailey to mind 'I'm Aled Jones, it's all gone wrong for me!' glad you had a good holiday!

sleep is back to ghastly here, silly child. it took an hour to get him down yesterday, but he did sleep until 4 - but that was it. I'm almost looking forward to going away tomorrow, but am going to miss him so much.

Haha, I love Bill Bailey with his 'Argos laminated book of dreams'!! Seriously, I always have my bad parenting moments in front of the wrong people!!

Sorry sleep is not good. How many days are you away? Hopefully you can catch up on some sleep and if you are anything like me, although I hate to leave them I quite easily slot back into child-free living and make the most of it!! And the welcome you get when you come back is lovely!

Have made a start on the washing mountain! How come I have so much when we only went for a few days! I have no idea how we will get everything we need for a week into suit cases to go on a plane in June! I am rubbish at packing and have to pack for every eventuality, so that means clothes for all weathers and lots of extras in case of spillages or illness! Need to get this capsule wardrobe thing sorted for all of us!

hi all, I'm sitting at the back of the conference room, on the most painful seat in the world, and ignoring a very tedious talk at the moment. missing Oli like mad - I spoke to him and DH on skype this morning, and he was waving and grinning at me, and kept saying 'mummy!', so he recognised me :o can't wait until wednesday! my boobs are so uncomfortable too, keep hand expressing when I get a minute, but it's not the same as actually being able to feed him!

still, I got 5 hours of uninterrupted sleep last night, and will hopefully have a little more tonight, so it's not too bad! although I just found out I need to give a short demo of our database tomorrow afternoon, when I was planning on going shopping - so am technically prepping my demo at the moment

hope the washing mountain is diminshing Ladyem! my capsule wardrobe is jeans and a t-shirt, all the time - but it seems I'm not alone in my field, as everyone here is wearing jeans and a t-shirt :o met so many people I haven't seen in years, which is nice! plus I keep making them feel old, as a lot were post-docs when I was in my undergrad days - and now I'm a post doc, and they are still post docs too - it's fun!! :o

right, best get back to my demo, joy!

have a lovely sunday!

Ooh I love your easter name Baz.

I had a brill bad parenting moment at the doctors last week lazy, where I had to bribe Gabriel with chocolate in front of the horrified doctor as he had complete and utter hysterics when she tried to listen to his chest. He was trying to run out the room, was opening the door and giving all in the waiting room a nice show. I ended up fishing out half a finger of fudge as I couldn't hear a word the doctor was saying to me. She was quite young and looked like she had never seen a toddler tantrum before

brilliant :o I had the opposite at one GP visit - I'd given him a breadstick and the GP said 'is he eating toffee?' - yes, I'd be giving a 13 month old toffee... now I carry chocolate buttons with me at all times!

hope Gabe is ok?

I think Gabe is ok. He caught a cold end of feb, caught another one the next week and hasn't shook off a cough ever since. It is slowly getting less, but is there occasionally at night. Doctor said no infection but he was kicking and screaming whilst she tried to listen He also had a terrible eczema flare but that has gone now.

Have I mentioned we think the milk and egg allergy is suspect? It has made no difference, just deprived him of food he loves so we have reintroduced them in small amounts. His eczema is so strongly linked to teething, it only flares the week before a new one arrives. Teething is still torturous, can't believe it is still going on, he must have at least a hundred in his mouth by now

This week we have nearly got him to wave, he has starting scrunching his fingers and wriggling his hands when we wave at him. It has only taken me months of waving frantically at him

Hope everyone enjoyed a lovely sunny weekend, and that you have survived your conference Baz.

Morning all! Hope you are all ok and the coughs and colds are getting better. We've had them here and the DCs have really suffered with them for a couple of weeks. Probably hasn't helped that we have been so busy over the last couple of weeks that they haven't had time to rest!! Am keeping DD off nursery today as it's the last day anyway and she wasn't right yesterday, so Easter holidays start today!!

DD's birthday was good and she ended up having 2 party teas as we were having her 2 friends off the street over and one got the wrong day, so we had to hastily put all the banners and balloon back up the next day and drag a pizza from the back of the freezer to make another party!! DD wasn't complaining,though!

Then we went on a day out with Thomas the Tank Engine on Saturday which J loved and was shouting 'oooooo ooooooooo!!!' at all of the trains, but DD was in the worst mood, probably because she was not feeling well. Sunday was spent in the garden and Monday was the Easter Bonnet parade (for which she wanted a bloomin' Minnie Mouse Easter bonnet!) at nursery which was very sweet, but by the time I picked her up at 3pm she was very tired and cold and just wanted to sit under a blanket which is very unlike her.

Also turns out that the neighbour's little boy who came over friday came out in Chicken pox so we are on the look out over the next couple of weeks! At least it will be over with if they do get it.

J had his first visit to the dentist on Monday, too which was good as I had been worried about how his teeth were coming through, I had very over crowded teeth and had to have braces for years and J's are coming though a little crooked on the bottom (so much for straighter teeth with BFing!), but she said that it didn't matter with the milk teeth and just to wait and see as the big teeth come through. Fingers crossed that they haven't inherited my teeth!

Oh yes, forgot I had been playing round with Easter names!! couldn't come up with much else!!

I like it ladyegg

My decidedly difficult child has decided for the first time in months to go down for a nap in his bed at 12 and then stay asleep more than twenty minutes. He is still blissfully slumbering. Normally I would be utterly delighted but toddler group started ten minutes ago and I want to go there for a piece of cake and cup of tea! There will be no cake left if he sleeps much longer

Hi feel I have been a bit of a stranger here. Things Ok I suppose. Zoe is doing well, lots of words coming now, lots of them are still indecipherable to anyone who doesn't know her well. It also looks like she has inherited Grandma's amazing memory (Like DD1) as she when she strokes the cat she (zoe) claws at her arm - her way of telling me Maisy scratched her!

bump!!

we need to start thinking up a title for the next thread! 'Hello World, we've mainly moved this discussion to facebook'?! :o

I love that title

I am totally not starting the next thread as I always feel bad that I forgot we had a July baby and some October ones as well.

Gabe finally has some words! We have 'nana' for banana and 'up' which is shouted when climbing the stairs, sofa, chairs, unsafe high things.

I had an absolutely terrible evening and night with Gabe, I have no idea what on earth is going on with him. I am so tired and have a horrible headache and Gabe is in full on devastation and destruction mode. I am trying to lie down on the sofa at the moment whilst he empties the bookshelves. I feel awful that I am basically wanting today to be over. It is an absolutely beautiful day though and I hope it stays for the weekend as I have plans to take a paddling pool round to my mums. Sadly can't have one here as have a pebbly garden and think it would be a bit uncomfortable!

Sorry I've not been on for a while. Things plodding along here and not much to add!! Enjoying the Easter holidays and have been out in the sunshine today and yesterday. All the kids on our street seem to be either away or ill with chicken pox, so DD is a little bored having only J to play with!!

Have also been avoiding FB as a friend on there is getting on my nerves constantly moaning in her status updates. Doing my nut, but she is that sort who is never happy!! I have been sitting on my hands to not just type "SHUUUUUUTT UUUUUP!!!!!"

Hope you all have a lovely easter!!

you need to hide her on fb Ladyegg :o I've done that with many people, especially the 'I'm drunk lol' types. It's bitten me on the ass a coupe of times though, when something happens and I don't know anything about it. Oops.

Anyway, hello everyone :)

Yes to that title, I love it!

Still awaiting exchange and completion on the house Am shattered by this Easter holiday business, J is ike a hoover, every five minutes 'I'm hungry/thirsty Mummy'. Although he shocked the hell out of me yesterday morning with a request for a glass of water and an apple

LOVE this sunshine, we've had a couple of jaunts to the beach already. This will probably be the extent of our summer though

WE'VE GOT A HOUSE!!!! :o :o :o

Yay! Think that calls for

yup! and I've got a nephew too - weird day! definitely needed!!

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Busy day for you Baz - cheers!

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Happy Easter everyone! [bugrin] [bugrin]

did everyone have a good easter then?

we were so bloody busy with house and visitng family - but Oli got to take a dog for a walk, so was absolutely delighted - he has been walking around going 'WOOF WOOF!' ever since :o and DH and I managed a trip to the cinema, my parents kindly babysat for us! film was rather silly, but, god, it was good to get out!

sis and baby Alexander are both fine, but will take a while to recover - he's on SCBU for the forseeable future, but not there 24/7, he's spending some time with sis too.

house remains a massive money pit - I suspect it will be for many years hence! we ordered a new bathroom yesterday, and were flabberghasted at the cost of installation, but there's not a snowball's chance in hell we'd be able to do it ourselves, so better to pay for someone who knows what they're doing and doesn't have a toddler to contend with whilst they're doing it!!

how are the houses OriginalBaz and Chutes?

I loved the photo of Oli and the dog, was going to ask if you could remember where his dinosaur t-shirt was from? Also your new garden is amazing and I am jealous.

Easter passed by like any other weekend really, we spent most of it outdoors and that was lovely. Gabe was lovely and exhausting, he doesn't seem happy to play with his many toys, he is only really interested in dangerous things So it was lots of shouting distracting 'don't play with the electric fence, don't eat cat food, don't try and dunk your head in a large bucket of water' and so on. I came inside in a strop earlier as I was trying to garden and he was eating huge mouthfuls of sand. I decided it was safer indoors as my nerves were frazzled and next door were probably sick of me shouting. How I am going to pack up the house, clean it and also sort out the garden with Gabe in tow I have no idea.

When the post gets here (sometimes this evening, probably) we should receive our house contract and all the bumf. We will need to transfer our deposit to the solicitors this week I think. Hopefully we can get some dates for exchange and completion sorted, and Si and I will be less worried and grumpy about it.

Also waiting for the pox to strike. A little boy that Gabe was following around last Thursday came down with Chickenpox on Saturday so I guess it is inevitable really. Can't wait!

t-shirts were from sainsburys - let me know if you can't find them, and I will see if our local store has more :) they were in a pack of 3 with the lion one too.

Oli keeps doing the stupidly dangerous stuff too - little idot is always climbing into his trike, and then climbing back out, and we're constantly telling him off for it - so on saturday he did it and managed to tip the trike and mesh his face nicely with the very rough wall in the garden. great fun explaining that to nursery this am. also, I'd put his highchair outside to clean in the sun, and he was climbing into it, so after a few 'I've told you NOT to do that' exclamations, and me getting louder and louder, I lay it on its side, walked back into the house, turned round and he had lifted it back to upright and was climbing into it. how he'll make it to adulthood, god only knows. My parnets were minding him on saturday eve, and as we were about to leave I noticed they were in the kitchen and he was 2 rooms away in the garden, and eating a handful of stones. Felt great leaving them in charge after that!! :o

pox sounds horrendous chutes - but maybe some heavy duty drugging will help him sleep? good luck with the house stuff! :)

:o at your parnets but at their observational skills!

Madok is a bit on the adventurous side too. He likes to play with things in the manner they weren't intended, i.e. climbing up his slide with his lawnmower and sliding down the steps Also, using the door to the playhouse in the garden is a little too pedestrian for him, so he climbs in and out of the window. Nice one. His little legs are a criss cross of scrapes and cuts at the moment.

House deposit transferred today, so hopefully exchange will happen within the next couple of days and we'll be on course for completion sometime next week. Yikes! Am mentally planning my Ikea list, but perhaps won't inform DP of this just yet. With all the large sums of money flying about I think he's in need of a lie down :o

Ok, so I know it's not a popular view, but I am really excited about tomorrow's Royal Wedding!! [cgrin] Have got my tea towel, tin of commemorative biscuits and DD and I will be making red, white and blue cakes tomorrow!

DH is away Saturday over night, then on my Dad's Stag-do on Monday, so I am desperately trying to come up with things to do this weekend with the DCs that are easy for me to cope with on my own and not have me tearing my hair out by 2pm Saturday! [cgrin] Will be worth it though as I have a spa day planned with my Sis for the weekend after so I will get a full day off!

Good to hear the house plans are going well for everyone now!

Nothing much else to report. Been having a lovely easter holiday in the sunshine. J has been a bit ill (we think with tonsillitis) but seems to be feeling a bit better now. No chicken pox after all of that, so that's twice they have evaded them!! [cgrin] What's the betting that they'll catch them the week we are due to go on holiday!