June 2009 - terrible twos here we come

[bigcar]

Here we are ladies

gauchita how awful for you, I hope this woman apologises to you personally.
snow You have to start really slowly with the running, 1 or 2 minutes at a time, then some walking. It is harder at the start, but so worth it.
sorry not actually got time to post much as supposed to be working.
We had a lovely weekend at centerparcs with our nct friends, so lovely to see the kids together, they absolutely loved it :D

Hi all!

Not much time but want to catch up a bit.

June, glad you had a nice time at CP with your NCT friends Any other races soon? I didn't text you on Mon-Tue because things were insane (see below )

Skillbo, ohhh that sounds like bliss! 24hs sleep Glad to hear things are getting better at bedtime at home. How are you feeling? Cold all clear now?

Hi to everyone else!

Insane days down south. Endless wait at the consulate with M and D in tow. And for the first time lots of red tape and general thickness shown by them. We finished really late, hadn't even had lunch so we went to the hotel and slept.

THEN I woke up shivering with fever and a rock-hard sore right breast = mastitis. As we were far from home calling the out-of-hours service and actually getting to see a doctor took 3.5hs DH decided we should head home as soon as we checked out from the hotel but between that, lunch and dealing with the kidlets we ended up setting off at 3 Now on antibiotics and getting better, fortunately.

I won't stop being surprised at how awful traffic is down there HOW do people manage not to lose it every day!?!?

Anyway, we sent a formal complaint to H&M, no reply yet but things have got moving quite a bit thanks to having ccd breastfeeding organisations in the email as well Hopefully this bad experience will have a good ending if they realise they need to train their staff properly so that this doesn't happen to any other mother.

D calls, waves!

Girls,I'm bloody hopeless atm. Cannot seem to get anything done in the day. gauchita sorry the London trip wad such hard work and hope the drugs helping with the mastitis, chicka,you are incredible. Hope h+m drafting a bloody good grovelling apology.
june so pleased you had a lovely break. Which cp did you go to again?
skillbo wonderful you got a chance to rest. Sounds like something that needs repeating soon
bigcar how things at your place?

Waves to everyone

afternoon all

snow, no not hopeless, just moved, 2 under 3s and work and you have no time, ummm, hardly surprising Hope you're settling into your new place Have to agree that Jason was good, still think Nancy or Lulu should have gone, travesty!

gauchita, well done you on your h&m campaign, hope they learn their lesson and train their staff properly and send you lots of vouchers with their groveling apology I didn't think we were still living in the dark ages! Ah yes, London traffic, my friends who live closer in than us don't own cars, they reckon the tube gets them everywhere although I hate that too. But you do get used to it pretty quickly, either that or your head explodes, not pretty Hope you're feeling better, not what you need when you've got to sit in a car for a long journey.

june, pleased cp was good, I think it takes a lot to beat their pool complex, when we went a few years back the dcs would have happily stayed in the pool the whole time.

skillbo, sleep sounds fantastic!! Must have needed that, how long have you got left now?

well, we've made it through to half term [yay] ds1 and dd3 seem settled into their new schools. Dd3 had a big assessment on monday during which she was an absolute star given how many people were there watching! We had a couple of wobbly days with her when her 1:1 was off sick but she's back on track again now thankfully. E told me he'd banged his head again at preschool, hohum, at least it didn't upset him this time.

enjoy your weekends juners, waves to all

Heya, sorry to hear you're having a rough time gauchita :( hope this weekend brings you a little bit of respite...
snow don't be tooharsh on urself, you have just moved. When i wentto seemy friend who had just moved, a month later her place was still in utter chaos with shit stuff all over, toys and clothes strewn everywhere. A complete nightmare. She too has two under three.
There has got to be some good points about having two close in age?? So far whenever dh has hinted being broody I shiver, it sounds and looks like so much hardwork I'n in awe of all of you who are doing it!
goose have you got any plans for half term? Here it usually means that the activities and baby groups are closed so im not a big fan of the holidays. Might go to softplay once or twoice, invite some playdates over, any other ideas welcome!

I wonder if vene is back from her trip in france!

Hi ladies,

June, how are things? Oh don't worry, you'll get broody in due course Hope work is not too bad these days.

Ninja, I swear we were sitting in traffic, literally! We've always used the tube before but now as we had two buggies we thought the car would be better/quicker, the fools!

Snow, Oh I could have written your post. These days it's the reality I live in Hope this week has started on the right track.

Right, if you didn't know me I'm sure that I'd tell you about more things crap that happened as of Thursday and you'd say "nope, don't believe you, no one can be that unlucky in only a week" Thursday night - and bear with me as I'm still traumatised - DH goes downstairs to clean the hamsters' home after M went to sleep and he comes back upstairs white in the face... He told me one of them had killed and was eating the other I couldn't do anything but start crying How how how how??? WHY??? There was food, there was water, so I ruled that out. I just couldn't understand. DH was in shock, but of course had to "deal with it". I can't stop thinking about it, what if M had discovered them?

Then on Friday morning I gathered courage to ask for a callback from the surgery. I now always think I'm paranoid so I didn't want to waste anyone's time with an urgent appointment. The lovely dr who called me back said she wanted to see D as soon as I said two sentences. Off we went, she checked him and transferred us to hospital as she wanted a paediatrician to see him. His breathing was not completely fine and although she wasn't overly concerned she wanted to make sure he was OK. The infirmary here has a paediatric A&E, everyone was brilliant, we were seen straight away, he was observed for a few hours and then they decided to admit us as his oxygen levels were not ok. We stayed in all weekend, his o2 levels started perking up on Saturday except when he slept, so they kept us in until this morning. He's much better, looks like the usual baby again

With that, and I mean this very seriously, I hope last week's streak of bad luck is finally over for once and for all. No more bad/sad/horror incidents for me for a while, please

Hope everyone's ok. Waves!

Quick housekeeping question, ladies. DH did the laundry while I was in hosp and left two red socks in the load... everything is pink now, of course. Any chance of getting rid of the pink now? Any products that you know?

gauchita I use vanish powder, you have to soak your stuff in it first for half an hour or so then put a scoop with your washing. hope your laundry returns to normal, otherwise hope you like pink!!! utter at your cannibal hamster wtf??? that must have been awful.
So sorry little D has had problems and had to stay in hospital, it must be so worrying for you, do they know why his oxygen levels were not what they should be? Fingers crossed this is your streak of bad luck done now and everything will be ok from now on. {{hugs}}. you must be exhausted, did you manage to sort out a cleaner yet?
We had a lovely dinner with our friends but I got food poisoning I think (shellfish :() and spent all of sunday in bed (well between bed and bathroom..), perked up this morning and stayed up and kept food down but only had porridge and a banana so my energy levels are way low, going to bed early I think...hopefully back to normal tomorrow. Still can't really face food or drink, yuk!!!

What are you guys up to during half term? I need some ideas.
I always try and set something up with other toddlers to "replace" the baby groups but have not had time or energy to organise anything over the weekend.
I think maybe we'll try the local library tomorrow morning.

take care juners!!!

evening all

gauchita, dylon do a colour run remover, not tried it though. Big yay for being home, hope D is on the mend now. I think you've had your quota of bad luck for the next year!! Have you asked on the pets board about the hamsters? We had gerbils that did that when I was young, think it may have been a stress thing, can't remember that well.

june, no ideas I'm afriad, I'll be spending most of the half term playing taxi driver while they cost me a small fortune Today it was fleecy pyjamas from primark they all wanted, classy eh?! The rest of the week ds1 and dd2 are in and out with various friends, dd3 and E will join in and enjoy the fuss.

waves to all

Evening ladies

Hope everyone is feeling ok - things around here are pretty normal for a change. Went to Poole yesterday to see my best friend who I haven't seen for 6 months which is daft really - was great though... we went to a soft play and her eldest and J just played and we got to keep up (her parents were visiting so were on youngest duty!)... gave DH some peace for the day as well - well deserved!

Gauchita - what a run of bad luck... as you said, you couldn't make it up. Glad to see that D is back at home now though - it is such a worry. Do they know why his breathing is a little erratic at times - can they offer ways to ensure it doesn't happen again?

And like June said, wtf with your cannibal hamster? A friend's rabbit ate her babies once and I got to see the aftermath of that so can understand why your DH is a bit [shocked] still - it's horrid! Have you decided whether to replace the departed one?

June - we have a similar situation here in that everything shuts down for half term (as a lot of the groups are held in schools!) and DH is trying to find things to amuse J. A few visits to the park seem to be in order although he does that most days to be fair - J climbs the wall if she's not out for at least an hour or two every day! We're lucky in that we're near quite a good common with duck pond, play park and lots of open space (the wooded bits are a bit dodgy though) - we tend to head out to the New Forest if we want to do the nature thang! Do you have anything similar near you - we just let J run around in the leaves and puddles and she loves it... grotty but happy!

Sorry to hear you've been ill as well though - did you tell the host? Hope you're on the mend now though - food poisoning is truly horrible!

Ninja - hope you're having a lovely start to half term, must be nice if a little crazy to have them all around you again.. doesn't seem that long since they started though but perhaps I have a distorted view of 'how it used to be' as it always seemed AGES until any holdays when I was at school.

Snow - as everyone has said, you are a busy busy lady so don't worry at all about the little things... if it's any consolation, our flat looks like we're in the middle of either moving in or out and we've been here 5 years... lo's just make things even harder. BUT - bet it's totally worth it!!

Anyways - have a lovely week ladies... am going to have a cruise around AIBU, not going to post as always a bit chicken and find some of the posters soooooo scary but it is addictive... always makes me what people get wound up about...

Night all x

is there anybody theeeeerrrrrrrrreeeeeeee??????????

skill, once it's your kids at school, you'll be surprised how quickly the holidays come around but how they seem to last forever especially when it chooses to rain! How long have you got before mat leave starts?

gauchita, how's D doing, hopefully much better

june, hope you've managed to keep C amused this week.

snow, how's the house coming on?

zhen, hope you've enjoyed the half term.

HELLO!
[hgrin]

ninja It's been all right really. C. properly started doing 5 half days a week at nursery this week so it wasn't anywhere near as hard as I thought it would be which was good as I had food poisoning last weekend so I was quite tired this week and also had quite a lot of work on.

What have we have been up to... visited a newborn (nope, still not broody!), lots of pretend role play for sure (cute!), park, library, also went to the bank to take C's piggy bank there with her, she loved it!, also to church this morning for a relative's memorial, where I embarrassed myself going up to communion when I shouldn't have and couldn't in fact be given communion because I'm the "wrong" religion for the church. Just goes to show how much I go really....ooops!

This morning C. told me "you're the best" which brought tears to my eyes, I thought it was so sweet, then she asked me to "put Noddy on"...

gauchita How did you get on with the red laundry? Is it all back to normal now? How are M & D? Hope your week has been ok and nothing else bad happened. How's the new place?

snow How's the new place too?

Where's everybody at with the potty training? We kinda gave up, but now whenever we go to the restaurant C. gets up and says "i need to go to the toilet" and insist that she is taken there and sat on the toilet, where she does nothing but wait a little bit, then I ask her if she is finished and she says yes, we wipe, put a nappy on, wash hands and go. . When I can see she is about to poo I ask her if she wants to go on the potty but she always says no.
Two of her friends the same age is potty trained, the others we know are not, nor are they showing any signs. (but at least one of them was not showing any signs when they started.)

She has also started "talking back" which I'm not sure what to do about, when they start talking it's just cute but it really needs to be nipped in the bud doesn't it? For example she wants to watch telly, or wants an ice cream and for whatever reason we say "not today, it's enough for today, we can do that/have that tomorrow" she turns round and says "don't say "no", we do it TODAY, NOT tomorrow". Of course we don't give in but I'm not sure how to handle that. Any ideas?

Right gotta go for now! well at least the thread being quiet means it's easy to catch up with ;)

[hgrin] hi girls, sorry to be away from the thread again.
been in Europe for work this week.hired a nanny,she was brilliant and the kids were good for her.
Dh had a bit more of a difficult time,z got 2 new teeth and never slept more than 3hrs st a time. Was v educational for him. Perhaps gave him better understanding of how tiring it gets.
ninja enjoying strictly?I've got it on and a pizza in the oven. Dh away so tv to myself.bliss.
gauchita how are d+m?he recovered now.how is your mastitis?feeling ok?how is the daily chaos going?
june A enjoys wearing undies but is nor really ready yet for full on tt.we are off home in Nov and I cannot be arsed to deal with accidents when I hv the kids by myself on a long haul flight. He uses the toilet every evening and has a wee and poo.
Going to post now before I lose this

skillbo how things?thanks for supportive message. House coming along really well.everything unpacked except out clothes-no wardrobe.but I have just won one on ebay,so that will help. DH at his parents and collecting more of our furniture,so tom night our house will be looking much more full and I will have a desk to work out instead of the dining table!

How good was holly tonight.looking forward to Jason too.

Night girls.thinking of you all

Snow - Holly was amazing and my favourite although still soooo happy to see Jason on my screen every week.. he's just lovely! Glad to hear things are getting there and for some reason (as I don't use ebay) I thought you'd won a competition but you mean you won the auction, I think... [hconfused]

June - we sort of gave up with TT as well although we tried for a while.. from what I've read and people have said, they have to be ready and I just don't think J is yet.. we've only managed to catch one wee in the potty and that is it.. she seems happy to sit in her own filfth for hours though - seems worse than she ever was as a baby! Spoke to my DM this evening and she pissed me right off saying she's getting too big to not be trained and "Will you take some advice?" followed by telling me to do things I just don't agree with - force her on it, don't let her off till she does something, don't let her have a book or anything to amuse herself, you can't be kind to her all the time - made me quite actually but probably explains why I had issues for a long time! That's the other thing, I have heard there is some heriditory link in that if the parents weren't that great, it can take a bit longer... ah well, she'll get there, she's only little!

Have managed to get her into a dreamy pre-school - we're really lucky - it's set in some woodland that they go out in and has a big play area and veggie patches and loads of stimulating things. We've managed to get her a place from 2.9 as well which is great although it's not cheap and so we've got to fund her for 6 months before the Government stuff comes in from September. She'll only go for one day until then due to cost but also to slot it round my work (it's just round the corner from where I work so I'll be doing to drop off etc but can't really take too much time out to ferry her round and this way I can drop her off on my way in and get her on my way home)..

Ninja - got 6 weeks left at work and then, hopefully, a week before my due date... has come round real quick!

Gauchita - hope things have calmed down for you now and your mastitus has cleared up!

Right, sorry to post and run but am going to try and take advantage of the extra hour this evening - don't forget ladies! - and get an early night...

Hello everyone, finally got some internet access and time when DD is asleep to post. This is third time lucky as lost last two long posts so here goes!

Gauchita you poor thing, I hope D is better now and that you are over your mastitis. The gruesome hamster discover must have been traumatic, I have heard of that happening with rodents before when there is a territorial dispute, were they the same sex? Very glad M did not witness .

Ninja how was half term? Hope you can get to sit down with a well deserved soon!

Snow don't beat yourself up, you do a fantastic job as a working parent of two under three who does the majority of the childcare. It is normal to be disorganised after a move (says she who has just moved again for the third time in a year).

June thanks for the tips :) I completely understand about the refusal stage, N is in full swing with no's and has also started asking why after everything. I explain calmly once, then ignore. If she says no, I ignore unless she is clearly in pain or something. I refused to be bossed about by a 2.4 year old so what I say goes. If she tantrums I ignore unless she does something which is likely to get her hurt in the process at which point I tell her off/grab her to stop her hurting herself.

N is fully potty trained in the day now and only uses two nappies at night. I am aiming to tackle night training soon once we have settled into new home as I want her to be out of nappies by the time DD2 arrives. I found poos a lot harder as N preferred to do them standing up in her nappy, so I bought a 99p Morrisons potty that brings her knees up quite high when she sits and it was a success. She now asks for that one over the £30 Fisher Price potty, typical! I also found that having no nappy time made her more aware of needing a wee and although I had to take lots of outfits around with me at first, she soon got the hang of it and now rarely has an accident. Every child is different though and they all get there in their own time in the end so wouldn't worry too much.

Skillbo 6 weeks to go, you must be :)

AllOverIt nice to see you back and glad to hear you are all doing so well. We were going to get a puppy until I looked after BIL's for one night. It was like having a baby, the puppy cried constantly and was not toilet trained as we had been told so we are getting a kitten instead that will be fully litter-trained by the time we get him.

Well I have had a nightmare month, hence not posting. Neighbours had been threatening us with violence after we complained about their noise/behaviour so we have been staying away from old home since the end of September. Got an emergency move from the council and with only five days to organise and move 2 bedroom flat we moved in last Monday, only to find that they hadn't got a gas meter installed so no heating/hot water. We went away again until Friday when engineer from gas supplier was meant to come and fit meter. They turned up with an electric meter. Now the energy supplier are saying they cannot fit a new meter until the 7th so we have no heating other than our electric cooker and no hot water unless we boil kettle and/or pans of water.

On a more positive note when we went away last week, a friend organised through a charity for us to stay in a country house and we went http://www.alpinesnowsports.co.uk/ donutting which was great fun. I only went down twice as didn't want to bounce baby too much, so spent most of the time dragging N up small hill so that she could slide down screaming all the way!

Hi all!

One day later here I am for a bit of a catch-up.

Zhen, what!!?? Oh my God, poor you! So sorry to hear you've been through all this, and it's still not over Really really hope the whole electricity/gas thing is sorted for you soon. Do you have any family near the new place so that you can borrow their bath? It's getting colder, I can't believe these people "forgot" such an essential detail (((hug))) Glad you managed to go away for a few days and have a nice time, far from it all! How's the bump?

Skillbo, yay on getting your chosen pre-school! That is such a minefield for me, I'm still getting to grips with understanding the whole system Six weeks to go!! Woo hoo!

Snow, we had the same thing, most things unpacked except our clothes as we had no wardrobe for like a week! Then it took a few more days for DH to assemble it as usual. You're such a busy mum, lady, you're an absolute star, chin up Glad your DH had a bit of a hard time at home (sorry!), these things help give them a TINY idea of what our day-to-day is with the DC

June, poor you with the food poisoning, it can leave you so weak... Glad to hear C is doing fine at nursery. Potty training in this house was strange; M started telling us "caca" (poo) one day so we started taking her to the potty. I think maybe seeing some of her friends at nursery going helped her. She mastered the poo bit about two months ago, but wees are still very hit and miss. She sometimes goes if you take her to the potty but (my fault of course) I keep forgetting to ask her if she wants to go So I think we still have a bit of work to do there. Re. behaviour, I decided to buy "how to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk" after a few Mnetters recommended it on the thread I started about M's behaviour at home about a month ago. I like the approach it suggests, and with M it seems to work Still have 80 pages to go!

Ninja, hope you're enjoying term break. How's DD1 doing at uni? I didn't find a product by Dylon, they only had those colour catcher thingies, but that's to prevent runs, not to mend them I bought one by Dr. Something, expensive for only two small sachets, AND it didn't work Grrr... I'm so cross as they were D's clothes and muslins mostly! I bought some new bodysuits today, and DH is under strict orders to LOOK before doing the laundry

Right, mastitis has cleared, fortunately. D is doing much better as well, thank God. The cursed week passed and life has gone back to normal We ended up taking the other hamster back to the place where we got them. They were sisters, and aren't supposed to be "alone" but DH said he didn't want to get another one, and to be honest, I wouldn't have wanted to risk another similar incident I guess that's nature but it was too much to take. But anyway, they accepted her back and even apologised for what happened bless them.

A few rough nights here, M's waking up again but not to eat or play but with bad dreams She woke up a dozen times last night , tonight it's been 3 times already, I'm bracing myself.

Off to bed, I need to make the most of whatever sleep I'll get

Waves!

gauchita I hope the sleep situation has improved and M is not having so many nightmares. It is awful when they have them. A has only hada handful but was so distressed for ages, it took a long time to get him back to sleep.
I am so pleased that D is better. It has been such a stressful time for you. How is the H+M saga? Sorry, I haven't been back to your thread for a while. Did they offer a public apology from that bitch of a woman?

Am currently listening to the 'talk' to each other across the hall while they are supposed to be going for a sleep. Just gorgeous.

zhen that is just awful about the neighbours. Some people have such a sense of entitlement don't they. I really hope you have been able to sort the meter in the new place. How can they house you without one?? Really awful time for you and I hope the new place works out well.

skillbo 6 weeks. Great! I am counting down with you, as Z is a Dec baby. I cannot believe this cruising, happy little person will be 1 in a few weeks. Are you looking forward to finishing work? Yay to the pre-school too. Sounds like a wonderful environment. How long are you going to take in mat leave?

ninja how is everything with the kids. E ok at nursery? Not too many more accidents? How is his language coming along? A is doing really well, finally. DD3 ok and school working well?

vene if you are lurking, let us know how the trip went! Hope the new business is going well.

alloverit how is DD settling into nursery? So pleased that your job is going well. Is it very flexible around the school run?

june loving C's language! The good and the tricky! I have no idea about the speaking back, I guess just ignore. But I love the mummy you're the best. Lovely!

Well, Z not going down so I will sort her and then hopefully get some work done. House is good. DH got some of our furniture on the weekend and the wardrobes, so very few boxes left to unpack. Loving the spce.

I know it is a little way off, but what are you thinking about getting your kidlets for christmas? I thought about some brio train set or maybe a balance bike for A

Waves to everyone

Morning ladies,

Snow, glad to hear the house is coming together now, it's such a relief to stop seeing boxes everywhere, isn't it? Mmm let me think, Christmas... M got so many things these year because of our friends moving away and leaving half their house lots of toys for her so I don't think we'll go down that route too much. A few small things I'd think. Z's bday is on 16/12, right? H&M saga, they sent another email reiterating more or less the exact same things they had said on the first one. She was a PR lady so I guess that's her job Hit a brick wall there so I don't think there's much more to expect from them now.

It's been quiet here, everyone's busy?

Well, if you want I can share another soap-opera-like story of the Argie household You're not going to believe it, trust me...

Remember DH went back home to process his visa back in July? I was heavily pg and struggling with M? Well, our solicitor (from a reputable and expensive firm) told us he could go on his own and then I could just join his from here. Well, he was wrong I happened to ring the UKBA to ask whether I needed a new passport as mine expires early next year and by pure chance I found out I had to go BACK HOME to process mine, and the DC's visa.

Panic attack alert of course You know how in movies when things like this happen suddenly lots of images from hundreds of things are shown at 100mph to portray the thinking process of the character? Well, that was me I started thinking of ALL that this implied. Travelling on my own with both as DH cannot possibly take 4-5wks again! Staying with both DC in tow with either his dad and his partner or with friends as my family doesn't even live there! Panic indeed. Not to mention the fact that MIL was going to have 4-5 weeks to torture me

I calmed down hours later and went into problem-solving mode. I've got the tickets now, going from 20/11 till Christmas eve so that at least the DC can spend Christmas day with DH. On top of all I need to start the process at the embassy as soon as I arrive and then wait, but I might have to move the flight forward if I don't get the passports and visas before our travel date (they never give you an exact date when you'll have everything back). Man! Not running with much luck lately, huh? If we had known we all had to travel we'd have done it back in April when I could fly or now but all together! Of course said solicitor now says he never said that and as there is nothing written, there's nothing we can do. He even made sure he looked up at all correspondence with DH and clearly mentioned that in yesterday's email so he has covered his ass

Anyway, now I'm getting things ready, thinking of everything I have to do before then and buy before going. My mum even took my large suitcase, she was sending it back with my brother when he comes in January... so now I need to buy another one

Hope I've at least amused all of you with yet another story drama. Hope you're having a nice day ladies

Waves!

Oh my god gauchita what a total farce. Your poor thing. I do not envy you on the flight.

I'm off to oz with the kids by myself around the same time. I got a script from the GP today for Phenergen for A. He tolerates it well and it is good on night two when the jet lag is the worst.

Bloody ukba.why didnt someone pick up on this when dh was iin arg? You going to be in ba.can recommend a lovely babysitter.

Very quiet again.is everyone busy busy?
gauchita how goes the trip prep?I hv managed to get everyone's passports,book car seats in oz,get travel cots and a high chair, oh and request a basinette on the flight.hope you are making steady progress.

Does anyone have one of those wheely bugs?thought it might be a good first birthday present for z.
Must go ,said child eating a magazine

Snow!
I think we're doing the same things these days huh? You reminded me to book a cot for the flight! Thanks for that Car seats are taken care of already, no cot yet but will look into that, I'll see if someone can lend me one while I'm there. Passports check, flight meals check, buggy arrangements for flight check... I think I'm making progress. Glad you have almost everything done, lady!

M has a trunki, we got it for her bday not even having any travel plans so now it'll be very handy indeed. She LOVES it. I used it as a M-bag for when I was heavily pg and DH away in case she had to stay with someone else. I just got her the pillow and blanket from Trunki as well as the wash bag. Now I have to see in-flight entertainment stuff. Stikers, colouring books, etc.

Mad days here but at least I've stopped crying Dreading. it. though.

Got to go, M's craving attention. Waves!

Hello?

What's news juners?

I love my MIL. Not only has she looked after the kids so I could work today, I have just got into bed and there is a hot water bottle keeping me toasty. Bliss.

Funny (not) TT story from last week.A getting adept at own nappy removal. In an attempt not to poo in his nappy,he removed it during arvo nap, shat in the cot and then tried to clean up by throwing poo onto floor. He then managed to step in poo,tred it all over cot sheet,and I guess tried to clean his hands and smeared shit on almost every rung of his cot. I was SO happy to be greeted by that one.

Z is pulling up,cruising across gaps and generally v v happy. Her latest trick is a revisit of the high pitched squeal. Everyone is going to love us on the flight.

gauchita the south Americans on my flight to and from ba couldn't have been more friendly or helpful. I am sure you will only have to look at someone and hey will help. Another thing for the flight-get M's meal first,and then get them to clear it away before you get yours.just means you can use her tray as you,sling, D and trying to put down a tray doesn't work.
And yes to trunki.when I had kids by myself,a was a star and either scooped or was pulled along. I heart his trunki.
I meant those sit on lady bird wheely toys for Z.anyone got one?
Bugger,time for dream feed

Night girls