Children At Play or Who Moved the Cheese

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Hello.

Oh Bibi - big big hugs to you all.

Merlion - With DD2 I saw a HB at 6ish weeks but they said because she was so little the HB is not audible until later on at 9w we saw her and heard a HB but it was very quiet by 12w it was very easily heard.

Admin - cakes sound yummy, we have brownies here and I have a suagr hangover.

Silk - school plans sound exciting.

DH laid our cat to rest in the back garden this morning whilst DD1 was at nursery, he is taking it very hard and is very distant with a sad look in his eyes. DD1 told her teacher the kitty has gone on a journey to fetch his twinkle as he is going to be a star. I have no idea where that come from but it is a perfect explination for a 2 yeaar old.

oh blue am so sorry about your cat and that I didn't read the posts before I blurted out my woes. lots of love to you all

Oh you two, I recommend a nice warm bath and a good cry.

oh bibi i am so so sorry [hugs] please be kind to yourselves hugs..

that was so lovely of dd1 blue hugs again..

good news on the school silks ..

your baking sounds great admin, send some my way .. yes it was a fibrous lump last time, hoping the same tho it hurts this time around which is a bit strange.. thanks for your thought re uncle, my dad went to see him today and its just a waiting game.. h wants to hold onto me v tight, is v worried about all the stresses he is putting me through along side everything else but as the famous song goes "words are not enough"!

admin dd also suggested some others one but i forget now. What is she like with fact-y stuff? dd LOVES the guiness book of records .

some of the stuff i suggested MAY be a bit old in content. We have the problem that dd is reading at a good 4-5 years above her age, but getting the right level is hard. some of the Jacqueline Wilson ones tackle tricky issues but i made the decision that i never had my reading censored so I don;t intend to do the same for her, as i would rather she was not bored at begin kept to too tame stuff.

merlion sorry i missed you earlier. I am feeling for you, but surely the foetus being the right size is a good sign and the heartbeat may be just as blueberry says. Hugs.

Bibi - what a desperate thing to happen. Love to you both.

Blue-that is the most lovely way of understanding it. I've never had a pet, but it must be very sad to lose a member of the household like that.

Strength to you and yours too Enya.

Bibi I am so sorry :( Hold on tight to each other tonight. Life is so precious :(

blueberry i love that your cat's gone to get his twinkle so he can then become a star, such a sweet sweet way of looking at it

bibi words, yet again, don't seem to be enough. i want to come up there and wrap you all up in a big warm blanket.

Oh bibi I am so sorry

Oh Bibi I am so so sorry. How wretched. His poor family. Do what Star says.

Enya - I hope this turns out to be similar to last time.

Oh dear can't really post much after that.

Hello all
Bibi I am so sorry to hear your news - how awful. Hope you are ok.

Doesn't seem right to say much else as would be frivolous so I'll be back another time

Hope you are all behaving

Oh goodness what a sad day . {{{{hugs}}}} to all those who need them. And Merlion, i have often heard that a hb is not always audible until a bit later. I would imagine being able to see it beating though is a very good sign.

I have just got back from London. VERY weird day and have lots to digest and think about work wise

Here's hoping tomorrow brings calmer, happier times . Night. xxxx

Oh my goodness. What a day. Thoughts and love for all Bibi, Blueberry, Enya - but everyone really.

Nursery still pretty rubbish. I think that I am going to stop trying to get T settled, M is great with the nanny and I will overuse the good will of my inlaws to look after him a couple of days a week. At least then I will get some work done, which is more than at the moment. School starts properly in March - hopefully by then he'll be a bit older, his Spanish'll be better so that he actually understands the teachers and all the children start at the same time, rather than having to learn the routines that all the other children in the group already know. I don't think that the problem is separation, but more how to cope with being in a group and doing the group activities at nursery. I think that he would be fine pottering around with lots of cars and a garage, but it's not quite that kind of place and anyway, he gets more than enough of that at home.

So what makes your children cry?

Apart from the normal, sharing, head diving off furniture, wanting to do something, not wanting to do something DS also cries at:

1. The apples falling off the tree in the baby einstein old macdonald DVD

2. the picture of the car crash in Richard scarry's things that move book and

3. something in the Backyardigans this evening as I was putting the washing on "oh dear mama wheels." Inconcolable sobbing. I think that a carriage had fallen into the river. Must censor my children's viewing more carefully.

Crispy - interesting wierd or not good wierd?

Work a bit crap really as I don't have enough time to do it. And then I get distracted anyway.

Love to all.

PS my parents are both vicars and they are very good at doing praying, so if anyone ever specifically wants some good prayers I am very happy to ask them (I mean of course pray myself, but you know, asking my parents to pray for me is something important for me, so I was kind of offering it in this light)

Oh and merlion thoughts for you and baby too

Bibi what desperately sad news.

Salta DS gets upset by things like that too. Even when there's a crash on Thomas and Friends which I'm pretty sure is age appropriate. I understand that boys can be very sensitive at this age though. DS also gets concerned when we're in the car and it's raining because the car is getting wet

I decided to take the day off work today as am feeling rubbish. I called the doctor as was still a bit worried and she's somewhat reassured me and said can bring the scan forward by a week if I want to as should be able to detect by 8 weeks.

merlion T is exactly the same re crashes in thomas the tank engine and with DH's car! He really doesn't like it when it gets wet!! its quite freaky how similar they are sometimes
when's your scan going to be?

i'm not here really and i'm definitely not watching the chile miners...i'm fast asleep

morning,

take it easy merlion and rest up on your day off, bringing your scan forward i hope will make the next two weeks go by quickly hugs..

hope you are ok bibi thinking of you xx..

hip sounds like P was on party time last night!! Hope you have managed to get some sleep!

Crispy echoing salta good/bad news re work???

Salta i have tried three times to get dd2 to nursery and all times have failed... now just taking her to toddler groups but like your ds she will start preschool in March 3 times a week!

Thanks as always for your good wishes, i long for the day when i just post a lot of happy thoughts.. fingers crossed they will come soon and you will be yawning with boredom

Hippo haven't changed date yet but will let you know when I get a new one.

enya I too can't wait for the day when you only post happy things but not because I'm in anyway bored but because you bloody well deserve it.

Merlion sorry the doc's visit was a worrying one. I don't know much about it but it sounds as if the fact that they could see the heartbeat is something excellent to focus on and that perhaps was only because the baby is still so tiny that it wasn't heared? Glad they've brought the scan forward, anyway, so you can have news more quickly.

For anyone looking for new ways of entertaining your 2-y-o I heartily recommend Buckaroo, we got it out of the attic - ds1 had it ages ago & I occasionally trotted it out for nieces, nephews. ds2 loves it! It's good for teaching turns, and for hand-eye stuff, but apart from that he just thinks it's fun.

I agree enya you definitely deserve a break. REALLY hope one comes asap .

bibi {{big hugs once more}}. There are no words to make it any better

Job stuff i can't really discuss on here, but not great news, making me feel a bit uncomfortable tbh . I need to have a couple of difficult conversations

Swimming this morning - DD1 lost her priviledge of joining DD2 and I after DD2's lesson for a splash around and DD2 was hauled out of her lesson early for misbehaving (no extra splash time either). I suspect they may be brewing an illness as it is very unlike the two of them to be SO whingey.

Friend and DCs coming over for play and tea

Oh and ursula, i thought you meant proper buckaroo - ie a rodeo horse being trotted out! I could imagine you would have great fun having a go on that

merlion agree with others who have said that seeing the heartbeat at 6 weeks is v good news, fingers crossed you can relax a bit and the next scan brings more definitive news

Have been on a work training thingy today so had a nice trip out to York, saw the lady who played Gita in Eastenders many years ago in a bizarre play thing about how to communicate with staff , met some nice people, swerved the buffet sweeties, feeling temporarily better about work which will prob last until around 11.30am tomorrow...

Crispy you shouldn't think of them as difficult conversations, rather constructive conversations on difficult topics

Re games, both my two like Tummy Ache, although to be honest DS mainly likes pretending to eat the cards and yelling 'Tummy Ache' at the top of his voice

evening all
dh on ds bedtime duty... they've spent the last hour running round racing in their pants (yes, both of them,well ds has a nappy on but you get the idea!). ds is as wound as he's ever been, dh has a friend arriving in 12mins...what's the betting that i'll be entertaining his friend?!
dear goodness, i can hear they're still racing

dd is being particularly adorable tonight and we're having a lovely quiet feed upstairs

sounds like many hugs are required so everyone who wants one, pop round and form an orderly queue. if you're quick you can have some casserole (followed by brownies and posh vanilla ice cream)

LOL sorry but I just read that as "form an elderly queue".

Crispy sorry you have work crap, you think when you're on your own you'll be able to avoid it but sadly it sniffs one out. Hope you have good RL advice on handling it - that's the other thing about being out of an office most of the time, I find, that you don't have the on-hand understanding & advice. Good luck.

Hips I like the sound of your casserole and brownies. Here is smoked haddock vol au vents and no pudding. We are channelling 1975 I think.

Fyjgyghgh... hotsy - yes work training days can seem marvellously civilised and easy going sometimes, can't they? Well done for avoiding buffet temptations. They were probably horrible.

Bibi ducky hope you are ok-er today after shitty yesterday and horrible news.

think i'll stick with my casserole and leave the vol au vents for you if that's ok ursula

DS now running up the road with DH trying to find his lost friend. I really hope they've both put some clothes on first!!