'October 2009-chattering and on the run, our toddlers are such fun'

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Right ladies, off we trot into the next stage of our gorgeous toddlers lives.

HC
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Congratulations Iggly good size.Hope you are all well.Will be thinking of you.xxx

Off for a snooze having done early swimming run with 4dc

first Christmas party tonight

Hi all
Calypso Congrats on passing with only minor corrections - am not on fb so hadn't realised. Good luck with revision, how are you feeling? Your London run descriptions made me smile

Iggly Congratulations, good weight and hope all is well.

Scout Welcome back, glad you had good time

littlepea Is all ok with you?

wave to fidelma - I bet its starting to get busy in your house!

HC Emma's friend sounds horrid. Hope the night light helps with Matthew's bedime, we've had trouble here too.

We've managed to make this thread last almost a year!

Huge congratulations Iggly-take care, can't wait to see the pics.

Hi to everyone else. Matthew has gone straight to sleep.

I have terrible rashes on my arms, my skin is crawling. The Dr said it is dry skin but it is red raw and sooooo itchy.

Get you fidelma- a Christmas party! Enjoy!

Have put the tree up at DH's work today and will be putting ours up tomorrow. Have bought some mulled ready for the occasion.

Big wave!

HC
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Yay! Congratulations Iggly, I was thinking of you on Friday :) Hope all going well, looking forward to hearing how the birth went when you have time (hoping you say faster/easier than first time round) and the battering/bruising has healed now.

Ouch about the rash HC hope that clears up

Fidelma party sounds fun

scout hello! welcome back :)

littlepea & HT hope you're both ok

A v. speedy drive-by post!

Two years...TWO YEARS of me gently calling the "Mummy milk" or boob and what does Joe come out with yesterday in Asda as he's trying to lift my top and give everyone an eyeful? "Want TITTY!"

He's found his voice but alas, not the volume switch. Very, very frustrated at the moment, lots of screaming. I may have to send consolation bottles of wine to the neighbours at Christmas. Two year check went ok btw, we mentioned we were a little concerned about speech development but then he started calling out the names of the animals/cars he was playing with and hv said he was bang on target. Had huge tantrum because he didn't want to go. One of many. odays have all been about not having the raincover on his buggy so we have both been caught in 2 hailstorms-he loved it as was wrapped up well, I got soaked to the skin and 5 hours on, still feel freezing

Littlepea Have you left the thread? We're all dying to know how you're getting on

HC Lush dream cream will work like a well, dream on your arms. Hope its all better soon.

Calypso Scout and fidelma wave-hope all is well x

Hello

HC how is the back now? Hope your arms have stopped itching, nothing worse. Feel very angry at that girl, little cow. Did you say to her mum?

Scout great news on getting your camera back.

Calypo so at you going to France! Well done on your exams, now you can chill out

Iggly well done

Fidelma I read that as booze instead of snooze! lol....are you running arround like a crazy thing yet?

HT I do love hearing about what Joe is getting up to lol...bet you just wanted to faint when he shout that lol. Faith is also taking tantrums, its like another child! She is also hitting, pulling hair & bitting my DS1 is so scared of her now. If you put her on the naughty seat, she laughs at you, no fear and loads of fight, Im in trouble lol.
How is your stomach?

My sister had IVF but started bleeding on Saturday morning, its been terrible for her, she was at A&E for 2 days in a row. They ended up having to put a camera in through her belly button. They said the lining in her womb is coming away???? Not to sure I fully understand.

I have moved in, and can find nothing! lol....Its a lovely house and a lovely village. Being Irish, its also an open house, so ladies, feel free to visit!!!
DS1 is still not in school....not a good subject.

Had Christmas Ball on Saturday night, I had to wear a ball gown with heels!! Had such a good night, DH took me back to the room at the mess, about 2am, breakfast was at 4am but I didnt make it, out cold when I got to the bed. Woke up with such a sore head & then sick had to be back home for 9am as MIL was flying home. Thank goodness it didnt last too long! But it was great to get out. Next big night will be in Jan for my 40th boo hiss!!!

So stuck on what to get Faith for christmas! Any ideas???

Its cold!!!

Feel so alone....so alone.....hello???? Anyone?????

HELLO!

Hello littlepea and everyone else, am just so busy trying to squeeze thesis revisions in before Xmas, one last correction is a monster and I'm meddling around the edges of it rather than just getting stuck in

HT Titty?! omg how funny-but-mortifying! The tantrums sound really exhausting, I'm in awe that you parent full-time, I'd be run ragged and packed J off to childcare for 1 or 2 days a week. Well done!

HC How is the rash?

littlepea how is your sister? I hope the baby made it? and bummer DS1 is still not in school, that must be stressful. Glad you had fun at the ball (not so much afterwards!)

scout hello back to you! All well?

Iggly hope that the first week with Emily has done well, she's so adorable!

fidelma are you snowed in? I hope you still have power and haven't had bits of your home / school blown away.

Regarding Xmas presents DH and I are complete sci-fi nerds and could not resist the temptation to buy a HappyLand Martian Moonhouse - with aliens and space rocket yay!
But aside from that as we're going to France without a car we're only giving her some very small light things to open on the day; Miffy cookie cutters (she loves Miffy more than her mummy I think ) for playdoh, a French Noddy book (he's called Oui-Oui in French which is most confusing if she wants to watch Oui-Oui DVD or have a wee-wee on the potty!). Also bought her a Hello Kitty face towel and lots of stickers (2,000 for 99p in Brixton, bring it on!), a box of 3-piece puzzles of animals and Muppets Xmas DVD. Thinking about buying her a bear dressing puzzle like this one but thats it. Sounds like a lot! However we don't ever buy her toys as she's at nursery a lot so its about 6 months worth...

What's everyone else thinking as presents is nosy

Hello

"mummy milk really tasty :O)" !!!!!

"mummy your lamps are really beautiful"

"Janes horse has laminitits :0"

Life is non stop at the moment.

Love all your posts. Have a mice pie on me

Hello - sorry to disappear littlepea - after my soaking in the hailstorm on Monday, I went down with a cold...which turned into a chest infection yada yada..dh had to take Thursday off, I was so bleugh. Feeling much better today but yesterday on my own with Joe was v v hard. Lots of TV - Waybuloo and Same Smile are firm favourites. Joe has now caught the cold as well-dh next, I suspect!

I have been ever so good today and given 4 black bags of toys, books etc to the charity shops. Alder Hay and the RSPCA love me . Cleared some space for the new stuff. More to go tomorrow as well

Re Joe's Christmas pressies - we've got him an ELC kitchen and kettle/pans etc, a rocking horse (really lovely old one bought for a bargain £10 and lovingly restored by yours truly), Red Rover game,some cars, a button board and an Octonauts playset. Family (my family is massive) have bought him Melissa and Doug stuff - the bug catching game and giant fire engine floor puzzle I think. My mum has knitted the pandas from Same Smile for Joseph for Christmas, she made up her own pattern and they look amazing! She's also got him the Martian moonbase and rocket, looks great.

Gotta go, dh says I'm hogging the laptop!. Back in a bit

Hello again, back for personals

littlepea You sound like you are settling in well. Had to laugh when you mentioned Faith's reaction to naughty step-Joseph does exactly the same, laughs then makes a run for it. Little monkeys! How is your sister now? And what is going on with ds1s school? My stomach is slowly getting better, I think. I am a big fan of juicing and I think it's helping-I juice a concoction of fresh carrot, apple, massive handful of kale,parsley and fresh ginger each day. Its nice, honest!

fidelma Glad to see you survived Storm 1. I was following #Hurricane Bawbag on twitter, so funny. Great name for a hurricane....even before I looked up what bawbag meant! Pmsl at ""Jane's horse has laminitits"

Calyspo Hello from one sci-fi nerd to another You are so close to getting all your corrections done, hooray! Will you get it all done before Christmas do you think? Love the list of gifts, I bet A will be thrilled.

waves to Scout and HC

Iggly I didn' know you had chosen the name Emily-lovely name. Hope you are all doing well.

Right, off to put up Christmas tree. Dh ans I are taking bets on how long it will take Joe to try and pull it down...

HC so sorry about your Grandmother, my thoughts are with you & your family xxx

Hi everyone

HT how are you feeling now? Did Joe take the cold? Gabe is also loaded, cant sleep at night because he has a wee blocked nose.
Also got Faith a kitchen, scooter & baby born walking dog lol.....and little stocking fillers. DS1 just wants guitar hero & DS 3D games.
Yesterday Faith put the house phone down the loo! No phone now. She takes no naughty step....what do you do with Joe?

Im a Sci-fi nerd too!

Calypso how are you feeling??? When do you leave for France??

Fidelma are you snowed in?

DS1 has no placement in school. They have tried 4 schools, but not 1 has a place. We think this is a lie, they just wouldnt be able to cope with him. So DH phoned up the last school, who hadnt gotten back to the Council. They said they had gotten their papper work back, but couldnt talk about it, as it states on the top of the papperwork.....not to be talked about with parents! But they did say they couldnt take him. So that meant no school. My DH then phoned the council and found out that the boss who was dealing with it had left, the other ladies said she didnt know we had asked for Special Needs school (lie as I told her in July, and on different phone calls after that) and DH asked why could he not go there when mainstream cant cope with him. We now have to wait till the new year to hear about a school.....

Off to the post office to post some presents back home....

Hope everyone else is ok xxx

Hi all - how did Christmas manage to creep up on us so quickly eh? Joe has not yet pulled down the Christmas tree-he's too busy trying to do the splits instead.

I'm sat here in tears after just watching The Truth about Adoption. Felt awful for the family that had to say goodbye to their children then felt equally awful for Conor's adopive family. And the huge delay in placing children with permanant families(and the damage it does) is awful. It's made me think about retraining as a social worker, somehing that has been on my mind a lot lately and I was suprised by how strongly I reacted to this programme. I had a friend at school who was in and out of foster homes and kept running away from care homes -at 15, children's services had long given up hope of having her adopted. She died in very sad and suspcious circumstances just shy of her 16th birthday. It breaks my heart to think of the pain some of these children go through.

HC I must have missed something you put on fb but I am so, so sorry to hear you grandmother has passed awy. Thinking of you all x

littlepea My cold is some sort of virus that's going around-I think we picked it up off someone at playgroup last week. Joe got it but hasn't been too bad, more bunged up really. Me-I can't stop ruddy coughing! As we are in a shoebox of a house, I wake everyone up so have been going to bed at silly times. Very wheezy and a 5 day course of steroids hasn't sorted it yet! Grr. MIL has it now

re Joe and the naughty step, no he won't take it either, also laughs then crawls through my legs and runs off. Sometimes I'll just cuddle him through the tantrum. If he hits me with a toy (be warned, ELC Happlyand stuff is suprisingly robust), then the toy leaves the room until I get a sorry hug. Much throwing on floor and screaming of "bad mummy noooooooooo" but I do eventually get my apology. Lol and at Faith and the phone. We have had 2 ipods broken and the t key on this laptop has disappeared...

at the mess over ds1's schooling. Why on earth are schooling issues "not to be discussed with parents?" Sounds barmy. There must a place somewhere, surely. If not, what will you do-homeschool?

Right, better go-trying to get sorted for the weekend because we are going home to Wales for 2 days! Yay, lovely mountainy home. Not excited at all, honest!

Morning all,
HT Argh I have the cold-turned-to-horrible-coughing-wheezy-asthma thing too, totally driving me (and the rest of the family) MAD. At least Annalise is at nursery today (they have the Xmas concert which I'm going to later, cute!) but she's had a on of Xmas parties I've been ferrying her around to, and feel like I could sleep for a month (provided I can breathe ). Ouch about the HappyLand stuff, thats a serious weapon! Have lots of fun in Wales!

littlepea I can't imagine how frustrating it must be to be in education limbo with DS1, and how unhelpful are the council staff! . Hopefully in the new year something good will turn up, I'm don't expect with a toddler and a newborn that long-term home schooling would be something you would want to do!
Off to France Friday night, arrive Xmas eve morning (5:45 UK time!!)

HC Also haven't seen on FB, but condonlences to your family xox

fidelma are you ok?!

scout hellooooo

Hello to everyone else xx

Boo everyone!

What a trying couple of weeks with one thing and another. Thank you for you kind words, the funeral is on Tuesday at 1pm. Current problem is the battle with the PIL about me taking the children to the funeral. Dropping them off for a sleepover tomorrow and really do not want a lecture. Dad wants them there, I want them there, the Vicar wants them there and they want to be there.

Am relieved school has now finished so that Emma can escape the bully girl. Luckily, or unluckily, the bully took a christmas present off a 6 year old girl today and opened it so naturally the 6 year old's mum is fuming and is going to tell the school. I am also friends with her and she is a strong character who won't be put down unlike me so am hoping something can be sorted.

I must catch up with this thread so apologies for lack of personal replies.

Love to all.

HC
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Oh dear. We saw a very,very um large man in Tesco today. Man bent down to pick something up and his shirt gaped a little. Joseph (with a happy sigh) "Oohh look, a titty!" I wanted the ground to open and swallow me up, I have never beat such a hasty retreat from a shop in my life!

He's got a thing for hats at the moment- "Wear a hat!" so I have been made to wear a big floppy hat all afternoon while constructing a long tunnel made of lego for his ambulances to go through. He won't call me mummy at all unless in a tantrum-calls me darling instead! Despite being trapped indoors due to the weather (dh has car and J won't have the raincover on his buggy), it's been ok-hard being ill but quite fun doing stuff as well.

Calypso Oh I'm sorry you have the annoying wheezy virus thing, what a pain. Hope it heals quickly. A sounds very busy with nursery and parties-good social life! I feel terribly guilty sometimes that we can't afford to send J to nursery-despitte the groups we go to, I'm worried he misses out.

HC So sorry you are having all this extra stress to deal with. Can you very bluntly tell your PIL that the children want to go to the funeral and that you don' think they should be denied the opportunity to say goodbye? And poor Emma sounds like she could do with a break from school bully. Glad another mum is getting involved to back you up a bit.

I have done no packing or wrapping for tomorrow so better get a move on-we are leaving at 5am!

Hi all

Sorry not to have been on but life is a wee bit full on!

How much swimming,parties and school concerts can one family do (ALOT!!!)

DD1 and DD2 performed in the Usher Hall in Edinburgh with the school on Tuesday.Amazing, I cried through it

DD1 has fallen out with her friends, it has been no nice Why is it your first dc takes up so much energy.

I am also now teaching pilates twice a week.It is keeping me sane.

The school have asked if I would be interested in choreographing Cats for them next year.I would love to but I think my dh may have a hairy canary! (waiting for the right moment)

School doesn't finnish until Thursday. I don't know weather to laugh or cry

Drumming last Tuesday at 8am nearly finnished me off.

Waves to all and sorry for no personals but thinking of you all. esp. HC on Tuesday XXX

whether not weather but it is freezing up here.

Good god Fidelma were do you get the time to do all this?? Not good with your DD1 and her friends, I remember that happening when I was at school, was like the end of the world lol. x

HT LOL....at Joe, god I love that child! I hope you got packed, and remember....have a great time darling LOL.... Dont worry about Joe not being at nursery, Faith isnt either. She hasnt been as sick since I took her out. We will start her again with Pre-school in 6 months, untill then, mother & toddler groups. x

Calypso I hope you are feeling better, nothing worse, but you have it before leaving for France, my luck would be while I was there! Not long till you go!!! Exciting!!! x

HC thinking of you tomorrow xx

Iggly how are the sleepless nights going? x

Scout come in Scout!! hope you are ok xx

Hi to anyone else out there x

Going to get my xmas food shopping today. Bugger forgot to switch on my freezer in the garage....maybe do shopping tomorrow

HC I hope all went well XXX

Today Connor at music party, ds1 in The Night Before Christmas afternoon and evening,DD1 forgot costumes for school (had to take them) physio,swim and party, dd2 and Connor tagged along!

Tumble dryer broken

Dishwasher wouldn't drain dh fixed it

Washing hung up

Packed lunches made

me time oh it's 22.42 night night LOL!

Yes I do feel like a hamster in a ball. However if I stop I may bang my head!!!!!

Hello , it's rubbish-at-posting-on-MN Princess here :)

Huge CONGRATS to Iggly on your baby girl!

:( sorry for your sad news HC

We are all ok, almost ready for xmas. F understands about it all and calls santa 'Father Mussmuss'!! He is hoping for some Fireman Sam toys :)
ds and dd are getting micro scooters. F got one for his birthday and he ADORES it. He is so fast on it though, it's terrifying !!!

I'm working part time now and on the days I'm at work, he is looked after by 2 of my friends , who both have 2 year old boys :) It's working out really well :)

F is really cute, cheeky and very chatty. He loves seeing his friends on the school run and at toddler groups and play dates etc.

Hope you are all ok xx