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!

What can't you find in the UK PP? One of my friends made them the other week and found them time consuming, but she got everything she needed.

And good luck Ekka, for sometime in the next month! Remind me, you don't know whether this one is a girl or a boy do you?

Our hol is to the Isle of Wight, going with 50ft and her family. Should be lovely as long as my children sleep.

PP - What are cake pops?

Ekka - Very exciting!

Can anyone recommend a particular portable potty? I was looking on Amazon and they seem to vary a lot in price. Not sure what "features" I should be looking for...

CSWS I wanted a different kind of candy coating as I am using Wilton but read on a forum that it is quite thick when coating which was my problem last night. I did find a Merken one but it is really expensive over here, well imo for 24 cake pops. How did you friend do them? Did she just use normal chocolate coating that we have here or an American candy covering? CF have a look here My friend makes chocolates though so I've arranged to go to hers next week for tips on dipping. I really want to crack it as they are so pretty.

Have a fab holiday CSWS, if your children don't sleep can't you pretend to not hear them and see if 50ft gets up ? We're off to France on Sat 6th Aug for a week, can't wait. Hope the sun comes out

CF my friend lent me her pottette (sp?) but the bags for it seemed really expensive so as I am tight I have just been carrying round a potty under the pushchair in a bag. I have to say now that J is properly trained and dry I don't take the potty out too much as I just put him on the adult toilet and hold him so he doesn't fall in.

pp. To be fair, Mr50ft is very good at sorting out the eldest 2 (one theirs one ours) and ds1 will prob be delegated to dh, but that still leaves me with J (who I may well be sharing a room with), and our previous experiences with holidays have always included whichever is our youngest screaming randomly for half the night and only finally settling once in bed with me and latched on - eek!

Potty-wise we have the potette. You can save money on liners by using a carrier bag with a sanitary towel in (we haven't tried this, but it used to be a common recommendation on MN). It's been handy to carry in the car for those times when you actually aren't near a toilet, so using an adult one not an option.

I'm not sure what make of coating she used PP, but I know that her first trial with normal choc didn't work, so she went to hobbycraft to get whatever coating she did finally use.

I have the potette, cf. It worked ok for us. If we ran out of the liners when we did need it a lot, I used a carrier bag with some wipes in the bottom of it. I have it in the car now, but rarely use it because Q can hold his wee now until we find a toilet (usually). And he can certainly hold his poo , which is still causing loads of problems for him.

I've been stuck a couple of times without the potette or a toilet and he went well within a thick bush where no one would wander in. (I know, I know, I know... but sometimes it needs to be!).

PP good luck with the cake pops. I have no advice, but best of luck :)

csws - enjoy your holiday! We still haven't made it to knebworth! Someday.... say hello to the 50ft family :)

There are some days where I think I want to have another baby, then other days when I think about them at ages 10 and 14 and think, NO WAY. I know it's all worth it sibilings...etc., but I really don't get along with my sister at all and she has caused so much pain and hardship in life. I feel badly saying that - of course I love her as she's my sister, but it's not the sort of relationship I'd wish on Q.

Dh is off work, we've been having some lovely family days and I've started jogging again, which is helping me to feel less tired and more in shape. Our solicitors always ring me at 7.30pm on Friday and nothing has progressed but maybe teh one thing they said they'd do the previous Friday at 7.30pm . I email them and ask for updates and offer to do anything, I try to ring them... it's ridiculous. The buyer's solicitors are asking so much of us and picking at the stupidest things. I know they have to, but it's getting so silly. BUT, we can't afford to lose this buyer and I just want it over with. Q is now excited to move and have his own room... but it seems like a distant dream at the moment. ugh.

We have the potette too, used to put a couple of sheets of kitchen roll in a carrier bag when we ran out of liners.
I'm so so so glad I'm going to work tomorrow. Day 3 of potty training, stuck in the house with all 3 of them. DD was kind of ok yesterday, a couple of successes, today a complete disaster. Roughly 50 trips to the potty, sit down, spring back up wailing, refusing to stay there for more than 30 seconds and wee'd everywhere except the potty. And she insisted on holding on to my leg while sitting on the potty .
Add to this, the fox in the house and 4 hours with a BT engineer drilling/disconnecting/reconnecting wires and phones and I have simply had enough.
I was practically in tears by the time DH got home .

CSWS I think that sharing J would be the fairest solution though of course only you can provide the comfort of feeding to sleep. Holidays certainly aren't what they used to be are they? I remember when we went to Cyprus when ds was 6 months, he screamed the first two nights so we had no sleep. We were with the and I remember sitting with him by the pool and watching my SIL lounging around reading books and seething with envy! Holidays are totally different now and of course fun in a different way but I do miss being able to totally switch off with a book on a sunlounger!

Pepper I was so at your fox post on fb. We have loads of foxes round here but I would never expect them to actually pop in. Brazen creatures! I hope you get some peace at work. I know the whole fox/BT man must have been incredibly stressful but your fb posts do make me laugh- I love your dry style of writing.

A fox in the house pepper? Ugh that's horrible. We have foxes in our garden and they wander down the steps near the back door at night but I'd always assumed they wouldn't actually come in. How did you get it out?

PP - that cake pops link opens up a whole new world I never knew existed.

Thanks for all the travel potty advice. A potette it is then I think. We had a moderately sucessful first day yesterday. We even managed to go out for the morning. There were a few accidents but at the end of the day S took his pants off and did a wee on the potty with no prompting from me. I have to say I'm not filled with joy at the prospect of doing it again today.

PP - whereabouts in France are you going? We're going to south Brittany for the second half on August.

Cf best of luck. PT has been my least favourite aspect of parenting thus far.
The only thing about potette is that I had some difficulty snapping it together in a hurry as it folds. I just left it snapped securely open most of the time.

I took Q to dr today. He's still unwell and now has that chesty barky cough that he gets in winter and fevers...etc ugh.
He's happily playing one minute then collapsed on my shoulder the next. Not himself at all (rejected chocolate buttons today ).
Dr gave ab prescript and said to fill it if he gets worse over weekend. I hope he doesn't get worse. We still go out, he has a good time but it's very off and on and from 1pm today he was a basket case.

Poor Q. He really has had more than his fair share of coughs hasn't he.

Well, day two went OK. We went out twice and only had two pairs of wet pants all day. We haven't had to deal with any poo yet though. I'm quite looking forward to handing the problem over to nursery on Monday though...

Pepper how is your dd getting on?

We now have a huge poo problem because of the pain and tear thing. Lactose helps a bit but he still holds it in and refuses to push it out and tries to keep it all in eventually it comes out against his will, he cries and complains of pain and maybe half in pants half on toilet. Fortunately it's solid so not too messy.
We've tried prizes sweets stickers but he just doesn't want to do it because hrs afraid it's going to hurt. I have no idea what else to do.

I am glad wees are reliable, though. I didn't enjoy that phase.

*lactulose

Well done cf. 2 isn't bad at all. Will nursery help with it?

HP Sorry to hear that Q is unwell, I hope he picks up over the weekend. I see from fb you are banging your head against a brick wall on the house front. We also had a nightmare when we moved, took ages to exchange etc. We had also booked a holiday to India which then turned out to be right around moving date as it had taken so long. We exchanged the day we flew away and then moved the day after we came back...just a little stressful. Will save the moving day story until after you are happily settled in your new home!

On the poo subject did the Dr give you anything for the tear? I had cream which healed it within a few days. Maybe once it is healed and Q realises it doesn't hurt then he will find the whole thing easier and be more inclined to go.

CF we are going to Pas de Calais, staying in Etaples which is near Le Touquet. Do you know the area? We used to have holidays in France a lot, in that area and Brittany when I was a teenager but I haven't been since then. My parents and brothers are coming too and I picked the place as they aren't very proactive about booking things so I hope it will be ok or I will have a week of moaning from my brothers who love a good whinge!

I'm glad potty training is going well. I don't blame you being happy to hand back to Nursery. When we trained J he pretty much decided himself on a Sunday that he was using the potty all the time, was dry at Nursery on the Monday and then his Key Worker told me to just send him in pants on the Tuesday. I would never have been so brave and was really relieved to have a more experienced person instruct me in what to do and take over

Had a lovely day today, J and I went to an NCT picnic with some friends from the antenatal classes. Because of working and life etc we hardly meet up anymore but it's great when we do as we can all pick up where we left off and so do the children. Jack had the best time hiding in trees and chasing his friends. I love holidays

There's a cream?!
No. Dr gave us lactulose and said it would make his poo slip out so the tear could heal and he would see it doesn't hurt. it obviously still hurts him.

Yes. Solicitor taking f* ing ages! They've called me at 7.30PM for the past 3 Friday evenings with an update of little to nothing. Now this week I've emailed a few times with questions and asking for updates. NOTHING. I understand they have other cases but they shouldn't take something on if they don't have time for it! Arghhhhhh.

Glad you had a lovely day, PP. Isn't it blissful being home with just one child instead of a classroom full for a bit? I want this to last forever. I adore my job, so I will love it as well when I return, I just adore Q more

I got a cream but can't remember what it was called sorry. It had to be kept in the fridge though which I thought was quite and also I found this on the web here it does say about laxatives as treatment but also mentions various creams. In my case I don't actually think that softer poo would have made things any better- sorry TMI- because it was really painful. It might be worth asking for a cream. I always assumed the cream I was given healed it but it could have been an anaesthetic- it was all in the midst of early parenthood sorry!

My advice on the house too would be to ring the solicitor and estate agent every day or every other day, just get on their case and annoy them so much they sort out things for you at twice the speed!

Thanks, Pp yes I think even though IRS softer it still irritates. I'll ask for a cream.

I do email them loads. I try to chase them up all the time. They ignore me. Not state agents. They are keen to exchange.

*it's not IRS. iPhone must know I'm from the US

Well on my moving day things all got a bit messy so I ended up running to the estate agents (not a pretty sight when I got there, very unfit, looked like a red faced wild woman and could hardly speak I was so out of breath), phoning the top solicitor man from their phone and sobbing/screeching/wailing down the phone to him. Within 15mins we had an agreement to get the keys and we could move in. Tears and screams- a very stereotypical female approach but sometimes it works

Glad you're having fun, myjob!
Over the past 2 weeks, Q has been randomly talking to kids he doesn't know when we're out and about, telling them things like "I am going to the trains today!" or "I would like a turn please"...etc. As if they care
We havent done a good job of socialising him this summer so he's better with adults atm. Hopefully preschool will help. We've been selfish

Yes pistachio that's exactly it! Other kids same age(2-3yo) it is all parallel play (mostly) but Q engages in fantasy and role play with DH and I, making up his own stories and characters and events...etc or adding on to ours... He can also do this with older children we've been around and can take charge of a game with a younger baby. It's kids his own age where the PP exhibits most. Maybe because it's developmental that's what they do together?

He'll be the youngest in his preschool group so I hope that works well, then. And he has all of his playgroups...etc with the cm. CM says he's very social with other 2-3 yo's, but He's always different around us! Oh well.

How's that lovely P doing, pistachio? Looking beautiful on fb