Sept 2005 (thread three) - Our little darlings just get cuter!

[KiwiKate]

Here we go - New Thread

It's weird - I grew up here and have vague recollections of getting dressed in front of fan heaters or the knackered radiators downstairs,and wearing loads of layers. Now we've bought my mum's house, it'sall come flooding back. Have plans to install heating to the individual rooms upstairs as we go - dd has heating now as does Tom's future room. I'd actually rather not have radiators on in our room - have never been one for a warm bedroom.
Downstairs has heating, not that you'd know it.The only room that seems warm is the sitting room, which also has an open fire, so the back room gets very little use at the moment.
Really must buy some new jumpers and fleeces.
Hope you had a good weekend Cabe. I'm still recovering from this wretched cold, but otherwise, managed to get loads done. Seem unable to be dynamic round the house when dh is at work - how do you manage, on top of studying? Take my hat off to you!

Morning everyone - what lovely pictures of our babies there are (and what lovely babies there are whose pictures we haven't seen yet )

Had haircut which isn't that different from before but now has a bit of shape to it that was lacking.

DS had a lovely birthday party for his friends on Friday afternoon (there were seven 2 or nearly 2-year olds and two babies) and DH was there as well . The weekend was full of family coming to see the two year old boy (and also the small girl )

It is quite nice now Alice and I are the only ones here (and she is asleep at the moment so even nicer for me )

Does anyone else's baby have no routine? Alice has gone to cot in the evenings twice but I think this has been a novelty rather than something that will keep happening.

Morning all, hope you all had a good w/e. mine was frantic as usual with school fetes and sick children but joy of joys Naomi slept 8 ish til 5.30 two nights running . should i get excited or is it a fluke? she is such a peach. means i may still get to go out even though she isn't taking bottles (still). this cinderella shall go to the ball - he he. feeling quite good this am, still debating the medication route for the pnd - any advice anyone? days like this i think no need but last night could have done with something. still a good nights sleep seems to have helped.

hello all - hope everyone is keeping warm! Had a long weekend away - great time. ds4 watched his big sisters swimming with big smiles.

cabe & pooka - I also grew up in a house with no heating. I'd sometimes have to scratch the ice off my bedroom window to see out! freezing cold.

pc - ds4 doesn't have any routine apart from fitting in with the family routine of to & from school & going to bed when I go to bed.

mummyhill - good news on your thyroxine levels. Think my levels are keeping me bigger than I would normally be. I have a check up on the 14/12 so hopefully might get some more info on this.

My sil's have given loads of clothes for ds4 - some my dd1 wore 8 yrs ago!! - all the kids in the family have worn the clothes - some are on their 11th baby use!!I love using clothes like this. Brings back memories, saves cash & is good for the environment.

jdlady - glad you got a good nights rest.

best wishes xxx

ITS SNOWING

Sorry for shouting but we are all excited here.

just been snowing here too, had dp's sisters family from Oz over... first time their son had seen snow!

Milward - yes it used to freeze on the window panes in beautiful leafy patterns...

I love the snow too, can't help excitedly squeeking 'It's Snowing' as soon as I see it out of the window... think my visitors thought I was a bit bonkers!!

No snow here. But it is cold.

Alice and I were ladies who lunchtoday. We went to Cafe Rouge and enjoyed ourselves. And then spent lots of money in the Early Learning Centre (Alice felt a little annoyed that none of it was on her).

we also have no central heating, so it's a bit nippy at night! Poor Elise has to sleep with the gro-bag + 2 blankets, plus gloves on . But she seems nice + toasty when I get her up to feed, so think shes ok. Am now looking for bigger flats with central heating, so hopefulyl it won't be for much longer...

Has anyone heard from Kiwifruit? Wasn;t she moving back to NZ at the end of November, perhaps she's already gone...?

hi everyone, wow what beautiful babies we all have. i'll try to get a new pic of mia on some time today
BEATIE, your dd1 is so cute and alice looks really long all beautiful
With you all on the hand me downs, so long as they come from someone who's not a dirty skank LOL rules out most people i know LMAO
I am so gutted, i bought myself a new jumper last week and when i've washed it i didn't realise that my fave top and mia's coat (both white) was in the bottom of the washer and has ran and turned them both a dark grey/bluey colour. i'm totally gutted STUPID BLOODY PRIMARK TOP!!!!! anyway, rant over. i went to blackpool on saturday night, just myself and dp, it was so lovely but i spent half of the night on the phone checking on my dds. when i got back, i realised my mum had fed mia READY BREK!!! i was not a happy bunny, and that my 10 yr old nephew had let go of her because she was sick when he were holding her, luckily my sister caught her
On a brighter note, it's only 26 sleeps until xmas, and most of my presents are bought and wrapped, just 2 left to get. Is anyone else excited?
Hope you had a nice thanksgiving jessinwa, and had a nice holiday rh

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hi all, yes it was a fluke !!! last night Naomi was up at 3.00 . I was getting used to 5.30am. never mind maybe just a small set back. Has anyone any info on the pros and cons of anti-depressants? am seeing the counsellor/hv today so i want to chat about them. any views?

Hello!

Bubbles - I know there's a product you can get that will get the over-run dye out of your whites... I think it's called 'colour rescue' or something very similar - any supermarket should sell it - by washing bleaches etc in laundry aisle HTH

JDL - sorry no knowledge of Anti-depressants

LL - No news of KF but have to admit I was wondering where you were too only the other morning! If she's organising a big move I'm sure she'll make contact with the thread when she's something like back to normal - busy girl though, isn't she running her own business too? in Law?
How's your writing going? I'd love to know what kind of novel it is.

Conrad had his first innoculations yesterday - first night in ages he's not slept through... he seems healthy, just unsettled and was awake pretty much all the way through from 2am

Hope everyone's enjoying today

Hello everyone

I currently have rwo children asleep at once .

Jeedaylady, I am currently taking ADs (have been since March). They took a while to help but definitely have made a difference. They gave me the ability to be able to work things out for myself - I would say they're not the solution but have been helpful for me.

Alice only woke up at 5:20 . But I'm not being consistent about her going to bed before us and DH is feeling that she just cries when he comes home. I think it could be that she is tired and just needs to go to bed, but if she does and cries, then it seems to wake DS up. Hmmm.

bubbles, mia looks so lovely

Hola! I'm back had a great time - dd was an angel - son was a herbert (cant type ds as he was not dear! - he was over excited!)

Fantastic pictures of your children - they are all so very cutexxx

Mummyhill - I really found counselling useful - talked and talked about my worries concerns etc, most AD's effect thyroid - your doctor sounds a worry!

Hi all,

Thanks for all of the Thanksgiving wishes. It was fabulous. So much yummy food and wine. Dh is now home and we have had a great time together this weekend. He even took Monday off of work to hang out with Max and I. Now he is back at work. But at least he will be home tonight instead of at a hotel in Germany.

We really do have a bunch of gorgeous babies, don't we?

Jaam - Little Britain is not on tv here. My friend from London thought I might like it so he showed me a few shows and I loved it! I can't wait for it to be on American tv. I'm sure it will be one day.

PC - Max doesn't have any daytime routine at all. I never know if/when he will be hungry or sleepy or cranky or whatever.

Jaydeelady - I am on Ads now and have been for about two months. They have been such a help to me. I also went to one counseling session, but it was too expensive for me to keep going. I think I just needed to get it all out to a stranger and then I felt way better. Ads might not be for everyone but I had to do something about the way I was feeling and I didn't feel like I had the time to find alternative therapies. By the time you read this you will have already gone to the doc. I hope you feel good about the advice you received. Also, never underestimate the power of a few sleep filled nights. That helped me just as much as the ads I think. Good luck.

Max had his jabs yesterday. poor little guy. He did really well and seems to be over it already. They weighed him and I was stunned to find he only weighs 9lb 14oz. I have to bring him back to get weighed again in a week to make sure he is gaining. I really feel low about it. How am I supposed to know he needs more if he is almost always happy and eats as much as he seems to want? They want me to feed him a couple more times a day and see what happens. I guess we'll see.

Sorry if I forgot anyone.

Hope all is well. Enjoy the snow.

Quote from my rant on the 24th "Then to cap it all went to have davids 8 week check yesterday and although i was early for my appointment the gp had left and there wasn't another one available to do his medical so now he has to wait another week and go to a different surgery as there weren't any appointments left at ours for next week before he can have his immunisations. " Well he finally got his immunisations today. Had to wait for 1/2 an hour though as the meningitit had been dropped to the wrong surgery. The nurse wanted baby (his name is David not baby you silly woman) to wait another week for it but I got stroppy as it's not my fault that they have such poor organisational skills. If he had needed to go back next week then I would of had to wait 5 weeks from today for the next set of injections. Personally I would rather get it all over and done with as soon as possible instead of distressing my baby even more. HV weighed him and frowned I was waiting for her to accuse me of over feeding again but then she measured his length, did a double take and told me he is fine. So what made her eyebrows raise i hear you ask!! He weighed in at 15lbs and is 68cm long god knows what that is in inches but he is over half of his sisters height and she is nearly 4. He has been really unsettled since his jabs thoug poor little love.

Glad you had fun at Thanksgiving and that your dh is back at home now Jess.
Please try not to worry too much about Max's weight. Just feed as much as he wants and solong as he's still prducing wet nappies and seems settled I'm sure you'll be OK. He's quite a good sleeper, isn't he(?). I'm sure dd only put on pounds and pounds because she was having 2 feeds plus per night for ages. Ds feeds less at night, but is generally chunkier than she was and perhaps more voracious during the day to compensate. HTH.
Mummyhill - glad David finally got his jabs (sort of, IYSWIM). I also hate it when people refer to "baby" when they have said baby's name right in front of them. How lazy can you get!

So far this morning my son has been virtualy ignored, my daughter has been relegated to the setee for no apparent reason then shouted at to shut up. And I have been spoken to like a piece of dirt. Why is it that when men get of bed on the wrong side we all get moaned at? Root cause of the problem is that car needs taxing this morning and guess who got the blame for a lost insurance cert and a missing wallet? You got it the wife. FFS if he put paperwork back where he found it I would of been able to put my hands on the insurance cert witin 5 seconds of him asking for it. As for the wallet if he put it in the same place each night then he wouldn't lose it. So far when he's gone of on one about it I have found it in his trousers from the night before, in his coat pocket and this morning it had fallen on the floor between the toy basket and the table which means the culprit must of been the cat. If you leave something on the edge of the table you must expect the cat or a child to knock it off or wander off with it. Why do men think taht it is enough to go to work each day and that it is ok to come home and do nothing to help with the house or the children? I am feeling very taken for granted at the moment and if he moans about the mess anywhere inb the house I think I will probably cry cause I am tierd too. Looking after the children is a full time job in itself let alone the house work, I am dreading going back to work I really don't want to but financially I have no choice. So I will have even less time to do anything for myself. I am struggling to think about the last time I did something purely for me.

I am still waiting for my referal to come through. The health visitor hasn't heard from homestart yet either.

OK I have got it off my chest now. I promise my next post will be more positive.

Men!

DH has a cold and has been grumpy for a couple of days - there is no excuse for it - we all just have to get on with it- exhusted, ill and everything!

It's cold here in blighty!

hugs mummyhill xxxx

Big hugs mummyhill.

I have no idea why men believe that we are capabel of finding everything. DH will say he has lost something and when I ask if he has looked everywhere then he hasn't looked anywhere.

Hope your day gets better.

Should I get in touch with one of my friends and go and see her? I am feeling the familiar feeling of greyness descending and know that I need to do something about it. Hmmm

morning all, another fab night from naomi, 8 - 6 wot a star!!! hv quite helpful about AD's but did say that they take a while to work so i may feel worse over xmas and this is not my plan. need xmas to be great for all the kids not with misery me snapping and crying all the time. what to do ? maybe wait til the new year and just drink lots of wine in the mean time. anyway trying to organise myself to go xmas shopping this am, i'd forgotten how long it takes and that i have to time it between feeds etc etc now i've psyched myself up to go out i feel like i'll never get there.

Picadilly make that call and get out of the house honey. Know what you mean by the greyness get out and lift it.

hi girls havent been on for a while but feeling abit down today and didnt know where else to post, everything is ok with Jess but i guess im just feeling lonely and fat, i walked out of the school playground this morning and just felt awful about the weight i have put on, i've been trying to be good with what i eat and have been doing an exercise class once a week but im going out for my birthday in about 3 weeks and i know im going to feel even worse as last year when i went out for my bday i only weighed 10 stone and was a size 12 now i weight 13 and half stone and am a size 18!! i know i shouldnt feel bad and i shouldnt moan because i've got gorgeous children and thats why we put ourselevs through it but i cant help feeling a bit peeved that i couldnt keep my body and have beautiful kids - men have it so easy!!

im so tired i feel i should be doing mmore to sort out my weight to make me feel happier but all i wanna do is sleep (dont think the winter helps i always wanna hibernate in winter)

sorry to moan!! i really hope you are all ok x