Oct 08 - It's all about weeeeee!!! Hopefully in potties but who knows!

[50ftQueenie]

Hello! It's me. I thought I'd start a thread which is VERY cheeky for someone who's not been around for AGES!

Ksal. Go next year. Go on.

I sterilised for the longest time. Tedious, tedious work!
I don't have a desire to go to a festival. Am I odd? a concert, yes. I would love that. But not an overnight festival in a tent.
I am SO tired this week. Unbelievably exhausted. It's last week of school but I shouldn't be this tired. Must be getting ill. Perfect timing
Cake did you find the books you were looking for, for DS? I stumbled on some very early reading books today while reorganising my classroom and thought of you and was going to pass on titles/series. God only knows if I'll find them again tomorrow, though within the mountains of paperwork! I will look though, if you're interested still.

yes, sterilising food things doesn't make much sense... its funny, its like the pregnancy food rules - I was very anal about sticking to them... so will be sterilising Orin's cups for formula til a year... then stopping.

funny thing is I am all for germs in general, I think they make you strong, but there is a risk assoicated with the preparation of formula that makes it slightly different for me. can't wait to ditch it all and get to the straight up cow's milk!! It does annoy me that DH keeps dropping emma's cups and cutlery into the milton... wtf? i guess its just easy cos its there but it riles me for some reason.

Orin is now weaned off me and fully cup fed. All it took was doing it in a different place in the end . feel a bit sad about the fact that i'll never do it again, but also pretty proud of myself for making 8 months. I'm sure that's part of the poor sleep not that he's upset but i don't have my magic way of settling him anymore :)

The pressure is off me bit now and I am going out(!) after work tonight... because I can!!

sorry I will learn to read, edit and punctuate at some point!

As an aside, I just ordered DS1 some wellies from Amazon (it being June and all ) and the "customers who ordered wellies also looked at" suggestion thing was ....... waterproof mattresses!!! Have I been using wellies inappropriately for all these years? or is there a seriously anti-water movement out there!!
Just thought I'd share that

pistachio - most of my friends seem to think that tights are the problem on PE days, that and forgetting to put a pair of socks in the PE kit so they have to wear plimsolls bare foot
I agree, suddenly they look really grown up in uniform!

Also you might need more than 2 cardies if that's the warmest layer, I find they trash the outer layer depending on the season, so the DS's can easily get through 3 sweatshirts each a week in winter but only 2 polos, but probably daily polo tops in summer. If there's a dark top option always go for that! The boys only wear the white polos in winter under their sweatshirts, but the red polos in summer to avoid looking like grubby urchins!
Of course - girls might be different fragrant clean things!

dd only has 2 cardis and that's been fine. She loves pinafores and chooses them regardless of PE. But get ones with zip fronts if you can.

pepper - I bought wellies last week too! I always get crocs ones, but there were no 2nd hand ones up on ebay the week I decided to buy, so I got the newer crocs style from Amazon. They have a big hole in the top outside - what's that all about?!

CSWS - A big hole on the top! that sounds like a design fault to me in a welly!
Myjob, glad she's excited, DD has no idea at all about pre-school. She has a morning there this week that they have during an inset day for existing kids, so the new ones go with their parents to have a look round in peace. She's going with my sister as I'm working. The school have Sports Day, Community day, Meet the new teacher and Summer Fair on 4 consecutive Fridays. FFS. What about parents who work?

la la la

star yes please re books. i've been looking but haven't found anything which jumped out at me yet.

re festivals - we've been to a festival just for the day (with the children) and then went back in the evening on our own. it was only a local one but it's pretty big and well organised - actually had some well-known bands. we all had such a good time.

dh and i go to lots of gigs but on our own. my father is great for baby-sitting so we get out quite regularly

csws are the holes to pull the wellies up with?

crazy hailstones and bucketing rain here today (is it really june?!) - had to run back for our wellies, by which time we were soaked thru

i've just booked A's nursery place at the same nursery F's at. what with her being there and the fact they got an ofsted rating of Good in every category has confirmed it for me that he'll stay on there for pre-school.

mad busy this week packing for hols (going to sicily for 10 days tomo morning) and also getting my cv sorted and emails written to apply for new roles at work. i so need a holiday to recover

hope you all have a good couple of weeks - catch up when we're back.

Evening all. Been AWOl for a while. Sorry. We've taken the side off S's cot and he's driving me bonkers. Keeps coming out of the room and shouting "boo!" We've returned him more than 20 times so far and no sign of him settling. Any tips please???

Off to read back now.

Just keep at it. It took dh and I about 2 hours the first few nights. We just kept returning him to bed without speaking to him at all (after the first two times). Dh and I did 5 minute shifts. That kept us going. It took about a week. Exhausting, but worth it. He never gets out now.

It's like watching water and waiting for it to boil. It takes ages. But he will get the point (and get tired of getting out only to get put back in with no interaction from mom/dad) eventually. 5 minutes was perfect because it's just long enough for one person to not get too physically tired and DS sees both of you doing the same exact thing. And it kept us going. If I had done it alone, I would have given up after about an hour. Or probably less!

Thanks Star! He's asleep now so, although it was quite hard work (we must have returned him at least 50 times, I lost count after 30-something) it did work eventually. Shift work is a good suggestion. My next worry is that he's going to fall out without the side there, although fortunately he's not too high up...

Did you put pillows on the floor? We still have the mesh TOMY rail on Q's toddler bed. A friend told me she kept it there for hers until about age 4-5. I just feel safer with it. Although, you're right - it would cause no damage if he did fall out.

It did take about a week of returning to bed for us. He would just laugh and think it a game for the longest time! Sometimes he'd cry. He tried it all. But as I said, now we just put him to bed after stories and he doesn't get out.

A side on the bed until 4-5 years old. OMG how will that child ever learn to ride a bike? Go on a climbing frame etc? At the worst they wake up! The height of most childrens beds are not high enough for a proper injury to happen.
Sorry. I am a bit grumpy tired this morning. Candle burning at both ends is catching up with me.

CF pillows on the floor is the best thing to do, just in case. I second HP approach but I will say that W still plays up alot. We do lots of silent returning. Unless I have had a bad day then W gets a telling off as well as being returned.

Is anyone else's child being a massive pain? I am finding it so very hard to control my temper with W at the moment. He is so difficult. Everything is an argument. He just say's no all the time and refuses to do anything I ask him to do. It is so much worse than I rememeber the girls being.

DD had a screaming fit this morning because the cat "looked at her funny".
So, yes.

oh, and I read that about the bed guard and thought !
I'll move DD into her cotbed bed bit fairly soon I suppose, but a couple of weeks with a pillow will be all she gets to catch her if she falls. otherwise how do they learn?
I f we stay over somewhere and the boys are on a "wrong side" bed I'll put some cushions down maybe or for a concrete floor like the barn..

well it made me feel better about still using it.
Q can ride a bike, climb a climbing frame... All of those things and has taken tumbles...etc. If I'm honest it's probably more a fear that he'll wake up. He has fallen off our bed a few times and sometimes it's difficult to get him back to sleep... Then when he does go straight back to sleep I panic about head injury. I'm going to keep it on until a bit after the move because I don't want to introduce any other big changes until he settles from that. I want to move, but it's hard to say goodbye to this place - we lived here when we were married, when I got pg and all of Q's life so far...

star - Q is still 2 - that's a world away from 4-5 and it's absolutely fine to use a bed guard if you want! DD is still in her cot entirely for my convenience, and with the builders due, I like to know she'll stay where I put her for safety sake.
I'm off to the emergency dentist in a mo my filling from 10 days ago is hyper-sensitive to metal, and I'm a bit cack-handed with my right hand not working at present, so when a spoon or fork goes near it, I shoot about a foot in the air... . Suspect he'll want to poke it with the metal pokey thing, suspect this will be deeply truly unpleasant.
Must be a grown up and agree to open my mouth......

Pepper do you have wrist splint? Hit him with that if he hurts you Good luck.

Star. I def meant a 4-5 year old. Lots of people have children our ages in cots like Pepper said. How will you cope with Q in his own room? It will be a massive change for you all. But a good one. You will all be able to get some proper sleep. What a big adventure for Q as well. He looked very regal in his Tudor robes