Jan 2008 - I´m 3 and I own the world

[mixedmamameansbusiness]

It was getting desperate and since MrsMCJnr suggestion came in last and I was being lazy I just went for that - hope that is ok.

Good luck for the party Simps.

Party went well

M had a good time, and pretty much all her friends came.

A friend has just popped in for wine coffee, so has been a good day!!!

Glad it is over though, don't need to do it till september for J

Anyone there?

yes me x

me too

Oops, lost you all for a while!

Not much going on here, we went swimming as a family on Sun at a special needs session at the pool - H didn't get in but happily sat on the side and let DH splash him lots :)
We'll go again but hoping to feedback that the pool needs to be shallower (we were in the diving pool which has an adjustable floor) as even T couldn't stand up which meant lots of work for us.

H is fine, no more seizures since that odd one, did come out in hives after a visit to soft play, not sure if it was there but it is not the cleanest-feeling of places so who knows. yuk. It is our closest place and i think it's worth persevering with H - he currently screams when we go in and won't take his shoes off (I clean them beforehand in case!) - so he can enjoy it more.

M is good too - though definitely teething right now and has discovered her shouty voice not fun in the evenings when she's tired too.

I feel for you JKS.

I'm glad H's fit seems to have been a one off. Do you think he'd go for slippers for soft play, either to wear there in the car or put on? Perhaps it's not too much of a problem but it crossed my mond.

I want to take S and D swimming but they only have mid week sessions at inconvenient times (S is at preschool and D falls asleep on the way there or at 4pm on a Friday. Not good with a 40 minute walk home at the end of it). I'm planning to make a much bigger effort at the weekend instead. S used to be a really good swimmer but will hardly do it now. D hardly knows what it is.

Thinking of a couple of mornings for D at nursery. I don't particularly want him to go but he complains like anything when S goes off in the morning and heaven help me if I let him get out of the pushchair at pick up time. In the morning he picks up his shoes and waits at the front door saying 'scoo' 'scoo'. Of course he doesn't know that lovely mummy won't be there. Went to see one today and suffuce to say he didn't wish to leave.

Things with DH are on hold really. I'm giving him some time to recover before 'talking' or anything like it. It's awfully frustrating for me as I have very little idea whether he actually likes me, but as long as I vent at friends during the day I manage to be nice enough in the evenings.

Feel free to vent on here LaT, if that helps....

Still fighting our way through the packing cases here, but slowly starting to make sense of the chaos. Wish I could spend more time at home getting things sorted rather than being at work, though!

LaT - sympathies re the DH thing. Hope you can sort something out, it sounds like not much of a fun life right now :(
H won't wear anything other than his shoes at the moment. No slippers, boots, etc.
His are falling apart so the trauma of the shoe shop is beckoning...
We try and get exactly the same ones for now, a battle to be fought in the future maybe. Or when he decides shoes are not a big deal and doesn't care less & wonders what we're fussing over!

The added complication is that his school have their own soft play but their rule is shoes & socks off, dunno why. So if we get him calm enough to take the shoes off then the socks will come off too. Not sure what the soft play people would rather...

Oh & Filly - must be tough trying to juggle work with sorting out house. How are the DC coping with the change?
Can't imagine moving house ever again yet at the same time I've already lived here longer than I've lived anywhere and would love a change, sometimes.

Filly - I'm feeling your desire to sort the house from here!

How is everyone getting on???

Filly - hope you are unpacked/settled in. Is it near your old house so DC don't have to change school??

Lat - How are things with DH?? Vent on here as much as you want, that is what we are here for I have

JKS - I have to say I loved the FB pic of all your DC on various lap tops!!! Brilliant!!

All good here, M being a little madam handful, so nothing new!!!

She wants my undivided attention all the time and I seem to have a little shadow everywhere I go (even to the loo FFS)

Joshua is being an angel as usual and seems really happy atm he has got really into football and plays it after school on a tuesday and now goes to a youth club on a friday for a hr (I stay and help) which he loves.

Cannot believe I have a positive message for once long may it last!!!

Simpson Nathan follows me too - if I'm alone in the house and leave the door open and he comes in after me. It's a good thing he can crawl backwards on his tummy as he is now far too long to turn around in the loo . If I lock the door he will bang on it with his fist shouting Mummyyyyyy?????

He can walk holding just one hand now!!! As long as he takes it slow and doesn't get too excited because then he goes all over the place.

That's great Madmouse. I bet he DOES get excited though

Another follower here. Actually, I'm feeling a bit bad now as she had stopped doing it and I thought it was just her being difficult but obviously it's a 'thing.' She's also hit a phase where she cries at the drop of a hat. I was of the school that says if they're crying there may be a reason for it even if it's not the apparent cause but it's so frequent that I'm beginning to bring her up on it. It's wearing! She also wants to pretend to be a baby all the time.

Was rather sweet though: we went to see a nursery for Danny and afterwards she stropped about it and seemed to want to go. It turned out that in fact she wanted D to go to her pre-school so she could teach him everything. Aww.

laTrucha Nathan is a very chirpy little guy but can easily cry out of impatience, eg if I take his tablet computer away (a big hit and he's totally autonomous with it! ) because it has crashed and needs rebooting or I tell him xyz will happen after I've been to the loo. We also had a recent spate of tearfulness as soon as we were somewhere he cannot follow like upstairs when he's downstairs or out of bed when he's in bed. We put that down to realising he's disabled . It seems to have passed again though. Seems small things have helped like helping him climb into bed so he feels less helpless in bed.

What sort of tablet is it?

It must be rustrating for him but good he can 'get it' in a way and get it out of his system [hopeful emoticon]

Well, saw the weirdy bloke again today and he is definitely weirdy though probably harmless. Also, seems to be somthing about me not the children. I went in to a long, thin shop today and didn't notice him at the back. I asked an assistant halfway down for somthing, which she had to go and ask the owner at the front about. He walked down the shop and started discussing it as if he was with me, as in, 'We were thinking of buying x. We thought it would be good for y.' I was as distant / vague as possible and then Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh I hotfooted it out and went in the opposite direction to the one he expected (owner had suggesed another shop close by to try).

this one LaT. DH says it must be a capacitive touch screen for small hands to use it well. He's tweaked it so that we can access the Google Android market place with it, which has lots of free and cheap apps.

A typical Molly ism:

me: Molly if you have 5 sweets and you give me 3 how many will you have left?

Molly: 5

Me: Err, why??

Molly: Because I don't want to give you any, they are all mine!!!

Haha Simps, hilarious

We definitely need a new thread ladies....it's taking me forever to scroll down to post after catching!

How about something like "Jan 08 babies turn 4 - tantrums and tiaras, pirates and princesses ahoy"??

Oh, I don't know...

Anyway, um, yes, we're in the house, slowly getting it under control, but not fast enough for my liking ...so I'm driving dh mad with massive long lists of jobs to do in the evenings, which is especially unfair as he's working stupendously hard and not getting home until v v late most days.

The weekend was luvverly though - hung out in the house, various friends came by to take a peek, my parents came for a meal....just very chilled.

We've only moved about 1.5 miles down the road, so no change of school or nursery, or anything really. Some of A's classmates live on this road and the ones parallel, so he's looking forward to being allowed to visit on his 'own' (with me watching closely from a distance of course!) and quite a few of T's friends are close by too....the slight adjustment is just that T's 'best' friends were all in (literal!) spitting distance of our old house, and none of them have aupairs/nannies who can drive, so that's going to affect some of her regular after school playdates a bit.

But the dcs have taken the move really well, and are definitely enjoying having more space, although Mia has got lost a few times around the house!

Simpson - I love that Molly-ism!! :) :) Brilliant! Great that J is more settled again - it sounds as though it was a combination of the hand problems and (maybe) ex-h's impending visit that was upsetting him a little while ago?

LaT - interesting that S was so focussed on D following in her footsteps...and v cute :)

JKS - that pic was utterly fab!

Madmouse - I've missed you :) :) Very impressed by N's walking - that's come on brilliantly :) :) Interesting that he's getting frustrated, although, as LaT says, it was going to happen at some point and maybe better to get it out now? Love the mental image of him crawling into the loo after you!

T isn't being extra clingy, but definitely more tearful at the moment - it might be a bit of an age thing, as I remember A being similar around this point. Its hard to get the balance right between sympathy and 'pull your socks up' though....

T is enormously brave about proper things. She got a huge splinter in her finger yesterday and the last bit got stuck when I pulled it out. Even though it was sore, she managed to ignore it all day, then gave it a good soak in the bath and let me prod her with tweezers. When that didn't work I produced my emergency kit (needle, matches, lollipop) and she didn't flinch as I got the last bit out.

But she bawled her eyes out this morning because A pulled a face at her over breakfast....

Right, am home from work, dcs are in bed - time to unpack some boxes!!

New thread over here just for you Filly.