Children At Play or Who Moved the Cheese

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Hello.

I thought you were going away crispy??? bugger off

Never out of sight

Also drinking wine

Hullo... ummm, I have crawled out of my cardboard box and unpacked a new nickname, whaddya think? How are you all?

evening Perty - please ignore the squabbling rabble, some things never change

Hullo Bibi, how are you? How's your hand, sorry, why were you stitched up?

Evening all :)

just a small lump removed - nothing serious

evening bbbb may I say how adorable P is looking with her pussycat face

and can I show you the latest person we're schmoozing to have her work in the shop

here FAB love them all!

Oh Bini that looks fab! DD1 did look rather amazing and she got lots of attention when we wnet to Pizza express for lunch.

Bini - WTF is Bini????? Bibi

I thought you'd like them, although I'm going to have to cut you off at some point of mr boybait will never let you visit
just waiting to hear back from her to see if she's interested but seeing as now she's a TV star she might not be!

Good Bibi, hope it heals quickly. I love those toys!

BBBB, it's true, P looks amazing in the pics. Bet she enjoyed being out and about in kitty mode

goodnight lovely ladies, I haven't baked/iced/tidied/washed or showered and I should have been in bed hours ago - someone tell me why I persist in doing this please?!?!

Fjorgyn I was talking with a friend this week about cooking with your children and she said that her daughter helps preparing the evening meal and likes peeling onions. This might be a good strategy?

We got counted today and the ex-president (husband of the current president) died.

DD says auto now, and agua and mama, and maybe door. Interestingly these probably all came from DS rather than me, as they are probably his favourite words and I don't talk to the kids in Spanish. Interesting. She also does declarative pointing which DS didn't manage until 17 months. they are soooo different.

Anyway, wise women,

I am thinking about potty training (thinking note ... not actually doing anything) and was wondering about the night nappy thing.

OK, - so just potty training in the day, but DS usually wakes up at about 5.30am, comes into bed with us and pokes me in the eyes until I kick DH out of bed to take him to the living room, where they play and eat breakfast until I emerge or until DS jumps on me saying "Mummy see-saw". At some point an hour or two after getting up he gets a new nappy. When I do the potty training thing am I going to have to put him into pants straight away at 5.30am when he wakes up?

DS coughing away which is all a bit stressful as his testicle op is Monday. Lets see how it goes.

Love to all.

Salta - I wouldn't try him unless you are sure he is ready, we left the potty lying around the house and offered it to her everytime one of us went ot the loo and she looked at us like we were nuts. If left naked we ended up with puddle everywhere and she never told us. When she was ready she asked to go to the pottyand only then did we start with pants. I would say when you do decide to try yes when he wakes offer the potty and then pants and make sure he know where you/the potty are all times so he can ask you and the potty reminds him to go in it.

Stupid o clock wake up here with DD1 I gave in at 5.30 and came down, DD2 was awake at 3am having a shuffle about and singing away to herself then obviously got bored so wanted a feed. She has discovered that she can get places but rolling when naked and by pushing oon her feet when on her back and thumping her feet on the cot mattress makes a good noise!

Morning ladies,

Merlion so so pleased that you saw a lovely heatbeat and June is a lovely time to have a baby fingers crossed it goes by fast fast fast!

bibi so sorry to hear about your dad, hope he takes any advice he can, also that d has recovered and your hand is feeling a little better today ..

crispy hope your trip is going well, your dad is on good form and well done on work ... i would like to be in croke park on the 18th june ..

watcha hots/bbbb/hip/new legume/star/and anyone else i missed ...

back from Dublin, twas v v sad and my poor old dad is a bit of a mess.. thinking i need to step up to the plate a bit more and try and get him over here/us go over there alot more... so frustrating when i have a brother and sister who i think live in Ireland and could help but refuse to have anything to do with us ...

DH was amazing, v supportive and looked after the girls brilliantly ..

dd1 didn't go to sleep til gone 11 last night with a sore ear and then a tantrum that lasted 45 minutes.. then woke again at 2 and i had to lie with her for over half and hour.. welcome home mummy!!!

Just v quickly to say thank you all for your continued support.. i really don't know what i would do without you lovely ladies and i love you all so much xxxxx

remember me? missing in action again!

Hope all is good, will try and catch up. Nothing new here, O has a few more words eg "mummy doin?" being the most persistent!

Got to take theboys into town as am seeing my uni supervisor today, that'll be fun!!

enya welcome home

and my mind's gone blank... i came on here to tell you something.... nope...no idea, i'll pop back later

If we're emabarassing ourselves with bands we've seen:

Wham!
Take That x 2
Wet Wet Wet
U2 x 2
Christy Moore
Wood
Maroon 5
Richard Hawley

shiney... i feel a pushchair with tight restraining straps will be your friend today!

Enya welcome home and glad you got to go see your Dad and say your goodbyes to your uncle. See - told you the DDs would be fine.

Anyone have any tips on the hairdressers? DS and I have just had an abortive visit as he tried to scream the place down. I really don't know what else to do they had thomas on dvd screen he had a packet of smarties and promise of going to soft play afterwards and still it was dreadful and we only managed about 2 snips before we had to leave.

Merlion I just cut DS's hair myself these days as he refused to let the hairdresser touch his hair either. It does involve following him around with the scissors and snipping at whatever long bits I can reach, but it seems to work okay. Worth investing in a pair of hairdressing scissors, although I must admit I'm still using our kitchen pair.

merlion...if you solve it please let me know! i'm currently using star's method and its not working so well for us!

our visit to the hairdressers got progressively better but today i am actually having a lady come to the house to do both dc's hair as she is going to be waaaaaay cheaper. I can't really do ds's hair myself as it is dead straight so any bad snips would notice. He quite likes it (when we walk past the normal place he points it out) but i will report again tonight!!!!! The last few times dd has gone first and he has been keen to do it having seen her sit still etc....

If you can stand the 'lovely girl' comments just let it grow I just do DS' fringe whenever it starts getting stuck in his eyes, and if you cut it nice and high it's ages before it needs doing again (poor DS )

Yes, DS's curly mad-scientist hair does make it easier to do a home trim, I must admit.