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!

Pepper - ouch!!! Good luck :( Maybe tell him metal hurts and please use a plastic one?

Ronshar: I know it will so strange having him in another room! Although I've wanted it for so long I also have been secretly quite happy with him right there next to us iyswim. He keeps telling people that we are buying a new house and he is going to have his own room. I seriously doubt he really knows what that means.... because now, he calls our bed "mommy and daddy's bedroom" and his bed "Q's bedroom"

He's much more excited about the enclosed garden. As are we.

To answer your other query from before, we don't seem to get as much in terms of tantrums and "no"'s as others with 2 yo's around us, but there are definitely times where I am very frustrated and nearly lose patience with Q over silly things that he won't do or resists doing. It always makes me because I am quite a patient person in general and have a plethora of patience with my students.

I'm meant to be cleaning up my classroom and getting last bits done, but taking a break instead :) SO nice that the school year is all over now!

I did mean you really HP. I'm sure that give Q a few days in his new bedroom and he will be very happy. I was more concered with how you will adapt to going back to just you & DH in your room. I know how much you both love having Q in with you. It will be a big shock I think.
Lucky you for starting your hols already. We still have 6 weeks. I am looking forward to the holiday this year. Normally I dread them. Kids round my feet all day.

DCs have chosen the wrong evening to mess me about. Emergency dentist and pre-menstrual. Bad choice.
In approx 7.5 minutes they will all be in bed.

Q has been in bed for about twenty minutes. I can't wait until Wednesday when I don't have to work for a long while and will be less tired! But today there were no kids so feeling a bit more rested than usual

What happened at the dentist?

Well he didn't fall out last night. We did put some pillows down as it's a solid wood floor but it's not very far to fall. He's stayed put so far, for all of 5 minutes. I can hear him singing along to his music. Let's see what happens when that finishes... LOL at the not so silent returning Ronshar. I was hissing at dp, telling him not to make eye contact or talk to him. He found it really hard not to tell him off.

Pepper - How did it go at the dentist?

V of you finishing school so soon Star. We're absolutely manic at the moment with tests/parents evenings etc etc. I'm really looking forward to the holidays.

Ronshar - S is testing my patience more than he was, definitely. He's not too bad though, just testing boundaries really. I know some friends have got it a lot worse.

Took me longer to get them to bed than expected as I couldn't leave any of them together due to the stupidity levels they were at. Had to put DS1 in my bed as the boys share. Grrrrrrrrrr.
Anyhow, after DD pooed in the bath as well. I've had enough. DH is home, gave the boys a complete bollocking and is now cooking dinner (sausage and mash with onion gravy) which would be lovely, except the first thing DD said to me was "look mummy, a sausage!" in the bath
Dentist was actually ok. He completely understood about the no metal thing and used a plastic sander type affair to clean off the top of the filling and said it should settle down. TBH I'm not going to check. And I had to hold the suction thing myself as DD was busy entertaining the nurse! And she got bubbles and I didn't even get a sticker for being brave

ronshar - meant to ask - why exactly are you looking forward to the holidays this time - do you have A Plan?
This evening has reminded me why I dread them....

Oh pepper, sorry to hear about your day and especially the evening.... Ds is being really naughty at the moment - hitting dd all the time and ignoring everything I say. He missed out on half of dinner today as he decided to get down from the table, then spent the evening moaning that he wanted cake!

Dd has also decided to start the whiny phase, and as I'm getting to the tired grumpy stage of this pg, I am spending a lot of time being cross mummy and then beating myself up about it later (at how I'm wasting this precious time when there are only two of them and I should be enjoying giving them loads of attention before the baby comes).... I did this before ds was born too I blame the hormones!

Ronshar, you sound really positive about the holidays, I hope they are fantastic for you.

Star, how is everything going with the move? Keeping my fingers crossed it all goes smoothly for you. How lovely to be on your holidays already! Ds is in an adult bed with no bed guard - he's not fallen out yet and it is quite high, I am sure that when you take off the bed guard Q will be just fine, but it makes sense to leave it there till after he's settled from the move!

Can't remember all the news I've read but 'hi' to everyone else!

oh my goodness, pepper! How awful. If I were you I would probably just go to bed
That sounds like a lot to deal with. Glad they didn't use metal on your tooth, though.

Ekka - things are going ok. Just s-l-o-w-l-y. It is frustrating that everything is done by post. And Stamp duty makes me sick.

cf - glad to hear he didn't fall out :)
End of year stuff is so stressful. I hope it's all over quickly for you!

We have to return mid august for meetings and getting our rooms ready...etc. but not full days and no kids present then, so not exhausting work then. Kids return the last week in August I think. And I have to do Q's two nursery settling in sessions that same week... it's going to be quite confusing and involve a lot of juggling.

Q did two poos in bed this evening. ughhhhhhhh. He was wearing a pull up both times, but still!

I've cut down on his iron intake quite a bit and I do think it is helping a bit. He's also drinking a bit more. It's still not quite "right" yet, though.

That sounds like an easy dentist visit Pepper

I have no plan for the holidays. We are so not going to MIL this year so thats a load of my mind. We are trying camping for a few days at the beginning of Aug. If successful I will take them all again.

DH was moaning that he didnt like coming home from work to a messy house full of people running around and shouting I told him to go off and find himself a nice quiet flat somewhere and that it would do us all a favour Did I over react?

Nice that he is finally going though HP.

cf are you in the strike next week?

DH feels badly and like he's letting the union down, but we really, really can't afford to lose the pay :( His school will close because there won't be enough staff, but teachers not on strike can go in and work anyway... so he will do that and get some planning done. I haven't really read much about it or discussed it much with him as to the reasons for the strike...etc, but he's hoping to move to an international school soon anyway (probably either mine or one of our other campuses nearby), so it won't affect him personally for the long term. I know that he should still do it for the others, but what are people supposed to do who can't afford to lose a day of pay?

Sorry, maybe I'm not making sense.

Ronshar, did your dh think having 3 children would mean coming home to a spotless, quiet house?

Maybe he was sleepwalking when he said that... those words could not have been uttered from a sane person, fully awake, surely.

Maybe you could say, "Ok, then clean the house and get the children to be silent. Go ahead. I'll watch."

oh we have a deal ronshar - first one to leave has to take the kids with them. It's like a cold war
Knowing we don't have to got o the inlaws again this year having done our barn duty already is quite reassuring, so I get where you're coming from there.
star - well done to Q for pooing not in the bath in pull-ups.

pepper - Q once pooed in the bath and picked it up and said "look mommy, a rock".

I took it out of the bath with a wipe, drained the bath, disinfected and soaked Q's hands in very warm water, washed them a few times with antibacterial soap and gave him a new bath after that. yes, I over reacted. But, bleurrrrrrghhhhhhh. blick. yuck.

as I fished it out i was saying out loud "don't think about it, don't think about it. don't think about it"..... DD was looking at me like this .
Then I anti-bact my hands obsessively, bleached the bath, showered it down and then re-coated in bleach for dH to have another go at when he got home. So no, you didn't overreact!

So, a lovely relaxing evening in the Pepper household then?

Can I just say we only had to return S to be twice tonight. He was happily listening to his music and then dropped off. Long may this last....

Star - the strike actually falls on a day when I'm not at work anyway but my union has voted in favour of strike action so I would have been on strike if I was at work. At my school they only plan to shut the classes of the striking teachers and the rest of the school stays open. I'm very happy to have just found out that I'm staying in the same yeargroup again next year, which means I don't have to change classrooms and can reuse some of my planning. Bliss. That doesn't normally happen, but we're expecting Ofsted soon so our head wants to keep everyone where they're comfortable.

I like staying with the same age. Part of becoming a better teacher over time is doing things better each year and building on existing planning... Healthy to move over years but every year? What a PITA (IMO only of course!)
Hold on... Dh's union has voted to strike. But they can't force him to strike, can they?

cf can I ask if the parents have been advised? We've heard nothing from the school at all and it would be nice to know....
Actually, the evening was quite quiet with all the kids being in bed by 6.55!
Am now eating one of their Easter Eggs with childish satisfaction.

Oh and congrats on S settling! It really really does help to totally ignore and put back in until they don't come out again. Any small slip up and back to square one -ahem... Hence why it took us so long at first! I messed it up after about 40 mins the first time by saying "arghhh Q! Just go to bed and stay there! This isn't a game!"... Well... That started the clock all over again because he got some attention from us.
The 5 min shifts helped me keep my cool much more. Dh was so annoyed. I can't blame him.

Hi myjob congrats on the preschool space

We bought our first place with a 100% mortgage. That is the only reason we've been able to buy now as we're already on the ladder. If we had tried to buy once 100% mortgages were all taken away (there are none now, even 95% is difficult to find), then we wouldn't have been able to buy.
We thought about renting now but rental prices are double our mortgage repayments. Crazy!!