July 2010: Warning, this thread contains offensive language; 1 wedding, --d--jogging and some Creme Eggs (although we don't know why). Oh and some babies who are nearly 1 year old.

[CakeandRoses]

See? Panicking works!

i don't think i'll ever be ready for three year olds!

i already have to disguise the utter horror and disgust dripping from my voice when F investigates his various bodily functions and he's not even that bad

yesterday's was funny tho...

F (clutching willy whilst sitting on loo): What's this Mummy?

Me: Your willy

F: NO, Mummy! What's THIS?

Me: Your willy

F [infuriated]: NO MUMMY! What is this??!

I go over, he shows me the end of his willy

Me: The end of your willy

F: Oh! The end of my willy

Me:

Ha ha im in stiches laughing at the toddler antics!! poor A will miss her cold when its gone!
he's putting on my sporty new bumpers and spoiler and lights and i've new wheels to go on too!
def up for another survey although it could be friday by the time i do it cos quite busy tomorrow. Just had a lovely bath. Bliss!
Two questions i've been meaning to ask you for ages cake...are you still doing curly hair thing? And you said ages back that you were going to clean before the cleaner came- do you seriously do this?! random questions i know but they keep popping into my head!

kk ah, you wait til it's E doing your head in with toddlerisms :D

has the car been pimped up sufficiently?

Curlygirl method - was doing it right up til brushgate. Due to having a bit of a crisis after that - I started blow drying my hair straight more often again and that makes it greasy if you're not shampooing. But I'm thinking I might go back to it again, my hair was never in such good condition as it was then.

Cleaning for the cleaner - I don't clean I just tidy up (a lot) before she comes so that it's easier for her to do her job.

Urgh. Shred day8. I feel sick. Everything hurts. I've pulled muscles I didn't even know I had.

We got things sorted here, thank you to everyone for your support. After avoiding me all day he finally admitted that he was embarassed because he'd overreacted, and actually I was right, he probably wouldn't be able to come as it's the weekend before we're supposed to open. Not a grovelling apology, but good enough for me.

TSC, you are a saint! I am dreading when Gwiffle is big enough for men to start checking her out. I remember when I was a teenager and I was desperate for men to look at me- when I think about the way I used to act and dress I want to die. I was sooo precocious. Will you post a picture when the big day finally rolls around so we can all check out dd and her shoes?
Maybe we should all post our prom/ ball pictures to our FB group?! I hat looking at mine, I was such a wierd teenager. All my friends looked totally cool and sexy (in an Essexy way) and I looked like something out of Jane Austen.

I had a good giggle at all the toddler fun and it reminded me. Those of you with little girls, do you find that they (how can I put this delicately?) fiddle with their lady bits a lot? Every time I change G's nappy her hands are straight down there and she's started crying when i Say "no" and take them off. I don't know if this is usual for babies of her age, or whether she might have thrush or something. Can babies that young even get thrush?

We went to see DH's parents tonight, as it was his mother's 80th birthday. they're both soooo old and frail- his dad is 90. I don't think either of them will make it to the end of the year and on the way back I could see DH trying to reconcile himself with the knowledge that it might be the last time we see them. His mother had a heart attack last month and had to have major surgery, and his father was barely concious the whole time. I feel so useless, because I've never lost anyone- his parents are older than my grandparents and my parents are younger than two of H's 3 brothers. I so worried that when the inevitable happens I will fail to support him the way he needs.

TSC Saturday night sofa/ bed sounds lovely! I used to love watching films with my mum and my sister. The last time we got to hang out just the three of us was when I was about 37 weeks pregnant and we watched Juno. It makes me want to cry when I think about how we;ve all been scattered over the country.

kk good to see you back and well done on the run. Loving the sporty car, will look forward to pics.

cakes slightly on the same vein my ds told me he has pubic hair tonight, I thought he was joking so he showed dp. Embaressed didn't come close, he however loves embaressing me but his time will come when I show the naked pics to future girlfriends. Yeah I'm up for a new survey, I like seeing where everyone is?

wss had to laugh at A, your so right 3 year olds are fab

tsc I 2nd what cakes said, if anyone should have been getting designer shoes today it should have been you. Very of K's shoes, I adore shoes. Very tempted to ask you to post a pic . My cousins fiancee works with vivienne westwood, pity I don't get her discount.

Meant to say I got off my bum and joined scottish slimmers with my friend tongiht. I am on a mission for all these social events and the bridesmaid dress I have to get into. We're going to look at dresses next week.

tsc the couch night and K linking arms with you is lovely. That's the thing with children isn't it? One moment you think 'this is all so shit, why would anyone want this life?' And the next 'god, they're so lovely, it might be hard work at times but it's all so worthwhile'. I do that about 20 times a day.

I can't get my head round this prom thing at all. Just seems so copycatting americans. Am I just being old boring?

Pleased you've made up needle

fiddling with their bits is way normal!

Sounds tough re dh's parents. I'm sure when the time comes it'll be a consolation just having you there.

Sorry xposted with you needles yeah R plays with bits all the time. Drives me mad but boys are the same. Glad you and dh have resolved things. Sorry to hear about his parents its very hard to watch them getting frailer. Hope your ok.

tsc your couch/bed night sounds fab, can't wait to do girlie things with R. Sounds like K enjoyed being with you as much as you did with her. Seems to have made your day end nicely.

Knackering isn't it, mlic. Though I'm quite impressed at you thinking 10.20pm is an early bedtime. I haven't seen 10.20 for a long time.

Just at the end of a hard day here. Both up at 5.15am. Both knackered now. 30 mins ish till bedtime. Thank God for kids' TV (and I don't mean that in a blasphemous way, I am literally thanking God for it at the moment)

We didn't have a prom either. Im my day we had a school disco and I didn't even go to that .

Ours was a "leavers ball" (i went to a convent school)

I need your thoughts and prayers ladies. I'm going to oxford st.

cake You got me - ex veggie. I gave up as I shared a house with an uptight vegan and it got too competative. Her: "You can't eat Skips you know." Me: "Well I've eaten half of them now..."

We had another ridiculous night so I've started a thread in Sleep although it just seems to be full of unanswered threads right now.

I've snapped at him twice already . I've got my support group this morning - I've just started going and last week they weren't very supportive. Plus an older boy deliberately chucked a toy cash register in ds's face as he was being told off for hitting another boy. Is that to be expected from 3 yr olds? I'm giving it another go this week. Part of my problem is being over-sensitive and over-protective so its hard for me to see objectively if I should keep going.

ds likes to have a fiddle and streeeeetch in the bath, think its normal when its tucked away in a nappy most of the day.

We didn't have a prom either needles ds has one in two weeks and he's only 12. When I was his age we had a primary 7 celeidh so no pivs from me I'm afraid. Anyway I was a child in the 80's and a tenn in the 90's my dress sense consisted of coloured jeans, dodgy perms and about 20 hair scrunchies[blus]. Good luck in oxford street.

Thanks mlic sorry for another early wake up. There seems no happy mmedium with our lo's at all. Is E in nirsery today?

wss goodnight hopes your not back up too early.

We had a school dance every Christmas time the last 6 weeks of p.e. before the Christmas holidays would involve been taught the Scottish dances again and then on the night all the boys would dress in kilts it was fun.

I think the prom thing puts such a pressure on girls in paticular now to try and out do each other.

needle was your convent school in or near Southend? My best friend at uni went to a convent school near there - think it was somewhere called Highcliffe? Way before your time there though.

Albrecht just read your sleep post. Is he on one or two daytime sleeps/ G was waking lots at night a couple of weeks ago and putting her onto 1 daytime sleep helped (though I've gone back to 2 at the mo as she is sick with a cold and v knackered).

And no, throwing things in babies faces is not to be expected from 3 year olds. Obviously some 3 year olds will do stuff like that some time but they should be told in no uncertain times it is not OK and not to be repeated. You are not being over-sensitive, no one wants their baby to have things thrown at it.

i'm with you on 6am being too fucking early mlic, we had a few weeks of that and that was enough to last a life-time, i don't know how wss even stays sane with 5am starts. F's still waking up at 6am but plays/goes back to sleep in his room til the sun comes up at 7am on the lie-in machine now, A still isn't up.

i must be on theatre hours like needle as midnight is my usual bedtime too, which means early starts really do me in. i always get conned by the time difference and think wss is up with us too

aha albrecht as an uptight vegan, I have a nose for skip-eating veggies. those things HONK, how could you?!

talk to us about your lack of sleep - we have some twice-decorated veterans on here so might be able to offer advice.

sorry your support group wasn't supportive. don't they have a creche for cash register boy and his ilk? your poor ds memph didn't like her support group to begin with but ended up finding it really helpful once the group had settled down and bonded, so it might be worth trying again as it might well improve.

I stay sane by going to bed at 9pm

memph really pleased you went ahead with your support worker helper person thingy (what's she called?!) and she was lovely.

Sorry about the pirate tho!

stac how did it go at docs?

this is mumsnet mlic you can't tell people not to co-sleep or not to bf until 21. we should be all trying to out lentil and liberal each other, it's the rules, see?