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!

Thanks HP you are right and I have to remember that. It just seems hard now I guess getting back into the routine. I'm also very conscious about being organised at home and not spending weekends doing house stuff so I'm rushing around each night to try and get washing and ironing done and probably making myself more stressed in the process. I am very lucky that we can afford a cleaner so I don't have to do lots of cleaning but it still seems to take a lot of hard work to keep the place tidy and surfaces clean and hygienic (particularly after dh cooks). Generally I'm just having a good old grump about the change and fighting it instead of accepting it. It won't last, by next weekend I'll be too tired to fight

Did Q go to the CM on Friday? If so how was he at drop off?

Pistachio I completely forgot at ds had chicken pox, I'm glad to hear he is better and you are free to be with other people again! I'm really glad ds had it early on in life as it wasn't too bad and now it is out of the way. Has dd1 already had it?

We had our School summer fete yesterday which was postponed at the end of last term due to rain. We ran it as an inflatable day and parents had to pay for a wristband for their children which then gave them unlimited turns on the inflatables. It went really well and we raised over £1000 which for a small school in quite a poor area is fantastic. I'm chair of the PTA so spent all the day running around organising things. Every muscle ached last night so I'm hoping I burned some calories

Today is a pure family day though and we are off to meet friends at the park for a picnic.

Aaargh, just typed a huge post and the bloody laptop dropped the connection .
In brief:
DD started preschool this morning - she was i was !
Wedding last Friday was lovely, bride was I was , there was a lot of
Pictures on FB of both DD in new preschool uniform and me in my hat.

Hi all, I have read up to date but only on my phone so just a short one.

I've started weightwatchers, lost 5lb in my first week . DS is 25 weeks on Weds!! He is showing all the weaning signs bar sitting unaided, my gut instinct is that he's ready but he will only sit unaided for about a minute. It's so hard to practice it with him as he just vomits. Any thoughts about weaning when they can't sit properly? I asked useless HV this morning and age said "have u considered topping him up with formula?"!?! This was at a Breastfeeding support meeting at a children's centre!!!

Poppy is much more settled now, bedtimes are fine, we're going to move ds's cot into her bedroom on Friday though so that'll be interesting.

Oh and taking both DS and DD to swimming lessons tmrw, wish me luck!!

Glad to hear from you, HMM. :)
Are you moving ds out of your room or do you just want them to share?

We haven't done swimming lessons for Q . a friend from home is a swimming instructor and she told us what we should do with him for now so I didn't want to pay for it. We go swimming with him all the time and he's really confident in water, kicks his legs, blows bubbles...etc so I think we are ok. But people here seem really into it... Do you all think I'm nuts?

I'm with you pistachio - we don't do anything with ours that eats into weekends at all though I can see a point where the boys will need more structured exercise.
You can't take 3 children to our pool with only one adult, so TBH my rarely go at all, though both boys can "swim" with armbands as you say.
Of course when DS1 was a pfb I took him loads till a terrible incident involving being very shortsighted, parking my car in the wrong place, the lifeguard, and my knickers left me somewhat scarred...

You can't just drop in a comment like that pepper and then leave!

No swimming lessons here either, for various reasons, not least of which being that they get booked up at least months and often years in advance, and I don't do forward planning.

PP - no decision on SW yet. Am going to see what diff the gym makes first I think.

I'm not sure about lessons yet either - both have been going weekly to the pool from a v young age and Emma is just about to start swimming lessons at pre school. I am also reluctant to do anything structured at weekends until I really have to... dreading that to be honest.

anyway DH suggested we put Emma down on a waiting list for lessons at the local pool, mainly because the list is so long, but if she's getting lessons at pre-school in term time it seems like overkill to me... I can remember learning to swim, so I can't have been as young as her. She quite happily swims around with arm bands - they are probably only just physically capable of swimming without armbands at three anyway aren't they??

I lost a stone and a half on weightwatchers earlier in the year (and have kept it off.) Would highly recommend, but does involve a high effort at the start to get to know how many points each bit of food is worth.

Emma is 3 on Friday (Orin is 1 the following saturday!!!) and I have spectacularly failed to organise a decent present - she currently has a tutu I made, a tiara that I wore to a hen do on saturday night and a rucksack for preschool.... any ideas for something small but exciting would be much appreciated!!

We have 3 bedrooms HP but the third is a study and I think it's nice for them to share anyway. If he keeps waking Pops up we'll have to rethink. I'm soooo tired today, DS is such a terrible sleeper compared to Poppy!

Maybe he will sleep better in with her. I hope so, for your sake!
Q is a great sleeper in his own room he has been waking a bit lately but just needs to find blankets...etc.

Evening ladies.

HMM, Congrats on SW success. Will ds sit in a high chair with straps on? If so he can probably eat sitting there. Silly formula pusher! At a bb support meeting. I despair. Try small bits that ds can hold himself at first. I'm not a fan of bumbos as in my small experience they make small bodies dependant upon the support rather than training their back and tummy muscles.

Pepper did you leave your pants on ther floor of the swimming pool???

HP yipee for everyone happy in your new house.

CSWS did you find a mothers help? If yes is she worth her weight in gold?

Pistachio nice dress

Ksal. Thats loads of weight to lose. Well done. I would suggest stickers. You cant go wrong with sparkly stickers

I did find a mother's help ronshar, yes. She started on Monday. It's been a fairly easy week for everyone with dh not working yet either . Has freed up more time for me to go to the gym too :). And the kids love having her here, so yay all round!

CSWS I want one of those for myself I would have to get a job to pay for one though, not quite the point really!

Pistachio dare you to put on the green dress Bumbos, devils work. Dont do it. You just have strong children, built for rugby apparently!

There are bumbos at local play cafe. Q thinks they are potties

Hello- no swimming lessons here because lists are so long but it is something I'd like to do at some point. HMM how did the lessons go?

CSWS glad to hear that the mum's help is working out for you. It must be so nice to escape! I'm not a lover of SW at the moment, I'm eating all the recommended food and nothing nice and I'm still not losing any weight. I'm very

Myjob glad to hear that the dc's are settling well into school again and pre-school

It's been a long week here, we started settling new children into Nursery and most have done brilliantly. I was drawn on and kicked by one delightful child yesterday. He's now doing very reduced sessions and I'm considering shin pads

DS seems to have grown up in a week. He had a football lesson at Nursery today, apparently you have to "run fast and stop". He has also decided to wipe his own bum after a poo which I discovered tonight meant he put toilet paper in the loo to wet it and then wipe!! This is my fault (confirmed by my helpful mother) for buying those toilet wipes for him. He also started telling me that I'm a "parent" and that "parents" can't do football or have cake at Nursery

Where did my baby go?

Emma is 3 today!!
seemed to involve her stropping a lot
Orin is 1 in a week... where did the time go!?