Fab Feb 2009: things that go bump and "mummy, mummy, MUMMY!!!" in the middle of the night

[dinkystinky]

New halloween inspired thread (in honour of this time of year) to talk about our little jekyll & hydes [hgrin]

Is anyone going to be taking their little ones trick or treating this year? We'll be at MIL's for Halloween and she's already told me she has both Danny and DS1 costumes -so it appears that decision has been made for us

SR But it'll be a good thing in the long run won't it

SR I'm sure he won't feel / remember a thing - it'll be you that suffers...hopefully you'll get an appointment quickly and get it over with really soon.

Just made a pile of pancakes - kids not interested so had to eat them myself

calico... A is the only one in our house who doesn't love pancakes. The older two had four each and dp and i had tonnes... 6 eggs, 750g flour and a litre and a half of milk to do pancakes in our house

Yeah, the op is for the best in the long run but he's so little for GA. I just wish I'd mentioned the tongue tie when he was little enough to have it done non surgically.... but he was bf-ing fine and he's had such a rough start I didn't bother and by the time it started causing difficulties he was too old (hindsight is a wonderful thing )

SR - you couldn't have foreseen that he would need surgery for the tongue tie, don't be too hard on yourself. I guess it'll be a really quick op so he won't be under GA for long - even so, I know I'd be stressed about it too.

Anyone got any good suggestion for party games little ones? DS has persuaded me to have a little party in the village hall for his 4th birthday in a couple of weeks time - most of the parties we have been to recently have had either a children's entertainer or bouncy castles for the little ones...I am planning on a cheaper more traditional approach but apart from pass the parcel and musical bumps I am a bit stuck as to what to do with 15 kids ranging from 2 to 5 years..... help!

Not a clue for party ideas calico.
I'm hoping to have jacob's 4th birthday at the local football club. They have a massive outside area and I'll hire a bouncy castle or something.

I can't risk the weather - end of March can be lovely or miserable weather, so we have to be indoors anyway.

Quickly nipping on - been off boards as in work all hours god sends for the past week - to catch up with you and saw your posts SR. Sending you huge hugs. A will be FINE - he'll only be under for a short period of time and will have forgotten the whole thing in no time at all. Bet he'll have the nurses on the childrens ward doing his bidding in no time at all too, being the toddler overlord he is. And he is sooooooooooooo Danny's spiritual twin as Danny isnt fussed by pancakes either (strange child) - I have to appease him with a boiled egg and soldiers so he can do "dip dip" instead

Calico -at 4, wtih 12-15 kids, you need to keep it simple. Try Teddy's pants (was a huge hit at DS1's 4th birthday party), pass the parcel, musical bumps and a treasure hunt (for party bag items - you can stash them around the place while they're having the birthday tea) - and otehrwise let them run around like loons. Blow up loads of balloons and let them kick them about/pop them and have someone i/c bubbles for the really little ones. Have fun.

Right back to the grindstone

Bloody chicken pox. Luke's got it.
Not sure what the done thing is in regards to taking jacob to school. I'm staying off work, so do I send jacob to school (he doesn't have it)? I'll have to take him and take luke along. Is it a no no to tale luke out at all? Or is it ok if he stays in pushchair??
Wwyd?

oh no silverymoon - that's rubbish

think when DS1 had the pox we were told not to take him out till he was scabbed over (by which time he'd be well over the contagious stage) - I guess if you took Luke out in buggy but put the rain cover on he would be less contagious...

Oh dear SM that's not good. Hope the little one is ok and not too distressed.

Thanks dinky for your thoughts - what's the teddy's pants game? I googled it and got some odd websites!

Have a search on MN in the parties section Calico - its where I got the idea and it went down a storm. Basically find the biggest teddy you can, 4 different coloured pairs of pants that fit teddy and draw some pants the same colour and put them in corners of the room - then get all kids in the middle of teh room, go out and put a pair of pants on teddy, stick head round the door yelling "what colour pants do you think teddy has on?" and the kids have to run to the colour pants they think it is - then bring teddy in and whoever was right gets a prize (sticker or sweetie). Hours of fun at that age...

Calico, at four i'd keep it very simple. I've been at a couple of parties where the mothers (usually English oddly enough) attempted games and honestly the kids weren't really that impressed. They much prefer to just run around like headcases and shout a lot

Two ideas though: firstly, my friends rented out their village community centre (25 euros for two hours) and hired a bouncy castle for there to avoid the unpredictable weather at this time of year. second, at dd's birthday i baked tonnes of plain gingerbread cookies and plain buns and gave the kids a few boxes of those writing icing tubes and it was a massive success. Even the football obsessed, 'we don't do art', tough as nuts 6/7 year old boys were mass producing iced cookies and buns and two little girls went home with several extra party bags full to accommodate their artistic edibles. It was easy to clean up and didn't take much effort on my part to facilitate and every single child her (19 of them) really enjoyed it.

SM.... I just commented on your FB about the pox but i'll post it here too. The mothers i know whose kids have had CP recently all swear by some chicken pox lotion they get in the chemist... no calamine, it's a lotion so not sticky and awkward like alamine and it apparently works better. I read (on here) recently that calamine can cause the scabs to scar.

Dinky.... thanbks for the kind words. Toddler Overlord doesn't like being fiddled with so I think he'll be too cross to charm anyone (although at least he didn't bite the doctor this time) but you're right... it's a day procedure, 10/15 mins for the op and 30 minutes to an hour to come out of the GA so it should all be over with very quickly (touch wood)

SR Thank you.
The calamine is a pita to get on him. have bought the gel so will give that a go in a bit

Looks like j's getting it too.

Poor thing although at least they're getting it at the same time... less time stuck at home in the long run. Mine seem to have avoided it yet again... this is the third time it's been in the school or playschool and they just don't seem to catch it, at this point i'd rather get it over and done with tbh!

SR I know exactly what you are going through as dd had it then the other 2 boys got it together. HELL. Gel much better that calamine and piriton was good.

Calico - dts are 4 in a couple of weeks - dd wants a party ds2 isn't bothered - hoping to get away with it!

Ahh - thanks for the explanation dinky!

oooggs - I am beginning to wish that I'd ignored DS's demands for a party - he keeps telling me what he wants but it changes every 5 mins.... all invites have been sent but no replies yet - ah well I have a couple of weeks to sort it all out.

DH has just announced that he doesn't want to get involved with a kids party will have to work that day now. I am really cross, especially as he has invited his parents down for the day, so not only do I have to organise for a party for 15 toddlers but I'll have to look after his elderly (and mad) parents too !!

SM how are the boys?

Oh dear Calico I'm sure the party will go well and the lo's will have a fab time no matter what you decide on.
I'd be livid if I was planning a full on party and dp worked. Livid.

The boys are ok. Jacob doesn't have it. Luke is covered but I think he;s coping ok.

hi guys sorry i have abadoned you all for the feminism board and been doing lots of selling on clothnappytree too

will catch up soon hope your all ok xxx

Gosh its quite on here.

Deal from hell finally signed so life my own again - sort of - so though would check in on you all.

Calico - I would be insisting that DH takes his parents to work with him on that day! Hope the party goes ok.

SM - hope Luke is all better after the pox now.

hey dinky... hope you enjoyed a few s to celebrate the back of that deal. Tis very quiet here, have been lurking abit but not posting on MN much as I have 2 assignmentsd due this week so trying to behave and get some work done.

My friend who had her little girl 6 days after I had A has just told me she's pregnant with her 4th, due in september Can't say i envy her going through it all again but I will be very of the newborn cuddles in sept

Thanks Summerrain - yes, drank rather alot of champagne last night to numb the pain of all that work - and have the hangover from hell to show for it today. Doh! Hope your assignments are going ok.

Wow, a 4th child - so could not imagine having that many kids around. Though with Danny and DS1 yelling and storming around our flat it often sounnds like we have at least 10 in our flat. So pity the poor couple who are living under us. However, their misery will be coming to an end soon - we're moving back into our house at the end of April (and keeping our fingers crossed the builders will be done by then!). So cant wait!

4 children are fab!!!!!! all depends on the age range, I have 5.1yrs between my eldest and youngest. The youngest 3 have 21mths between them which is fantastic and they get on so well.

But I still hate the school run

dinky - glad you will be home soon, would love to see some pics, property porn is right up my street

I would love to have four children or more but would def want big age gaps in between

Have stopped demand feeding Izzy it was getting ridiculous she is having 1-2 feeds a day now and tahts that no more mrs boob-lady I feel a lot freer and will eb stopping completely soon. I wanted her to self wean but its never goign to happen without a big nudge from me

well I have been dicussing porn on here instead of catching up with you lovelies have got a bee in my bonnett about it dont know why its just bugging me. Anyway sorry for going missing.

Also greenabubs is going well too so its good taht i am spending lots of time on that. I may disappear off the face of the planet again got NATIONALS this weekend

Cannot wait but frantically stickign on diamontes and sequins, printing out running orders consent forms,rules, regs ect ect plus dealing with the usula shite i have thrown at me

All in all though life is good

SM hows your little man now?

DINKY hows the head ?

typing is shocking! sorry

Hangover finally cleared thanks Littlesez - now just cumulative sleep deprivation to deal with. Its a little big like jetlag - takes a week or so for your bodyclock to return back to normal. Glad to hear you're having fun on the feminism board and busy wih work - good luck for the nationals. Re giving up bfing - Danny decided to drop evening feeds by himself (more interested in bedtime story) which was great - but then at the weekend after not seeing me all week he was asking for boob at bedtime which I had to say no to and he was so sad - however really cant go back down that path again. God only knows how we're going to manage to drop the morning bfs.

Ooggs - will definitely post some photos for you when we're done. Went over there this morning and its looking brilliant! Kitchen not in but bathrooms half tiled and looking fab - the next 4 weeks till moving day are going to drag and drag...