dec 2008- Who will stonk it in & be crown queen of the thread?

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He we are ladies though I may need to change my name as royal title may be stripped.

I didn't think you were pushy Effie we have a bit of a volcano and tetonic plates thing going on at the moment. I know the penis thing you are talking about but I'll let you explain.

Just got screamed at for 20 min solid for presenting "slightly textured" food. Not lumpy, I repeat, just slightly textured. So shoved it down her gob while screaming. In return I got gagging like I'd given her a 2 inch piece of apple, followed by the the entire days worth of what little smooth food she did eat thrown back at me.. If it wasn't for Ellas kitchen stage one food, the child would live on milk forever I reckon!
thanks effie which reminds me, the little treasure will be ONE on Tuesday, and we can't get past pureed food which MUST contain fruit, and yogurt.
The child does not sleep or eat but grows painful teeth four at a time. somebody throw me a lifeline.........

Rubes: it's still very early days on the food. DS1 was well past 1 before he would eat much. Not nice when they're screaming at you though!

Fact: echidnas have four-headed penises. No-one knows why.

Right, I have just put her to bed after she finally had 3/4 of her favourite Ella's and 6 oz of Goodnight Milk - what a crock that is - good night my arse.
i think most of her problem today is she only had one long nap and not 2 medium one's which she normally gets therefore has been up since 1pm ish and was shattered. She went to sleep without a sound - poor love.
Meanwhile ds is refusing his shepherds pie, becasue (and I quote) "it's not like Great Nan's" She'll be pleased. To be honest though, he has had loads of food today.
Right, dh on call again, so back late there isn't enough wine in this house!
On a brighter note, I have found the most amazing Thai dressing in Waitrose today for my King prawn Salad i will be making after I get ds off the ipad fed and sorted!

4 headed penises? really Effie? I bet the lady echidna's know why! I've clearly missed a chapter....

Yes but they don't use all the heads at once. Effie I was just reading the boys an Australian poem at bedtime called 'the great possum creek drought' and was thinking if you want to get into some Aussie kids literature I can give you some tips. We have quite a rich poetry history, in particular Banjo Patterson. Also Mem Fox is a great children's book author. Also in think on the Cbeebies site they have in the story section a story of Tiddalick the frog, its one of loads of aboriginal realtime stories, along with the Rainbow serpent. If you can't find it here is an abridged version.

SL I think we are in sinc with each other I've got tummy ache and I'm in a foul mood. DH is coming home with takeaway. I'm letting the boys natter away in bed, they'll fall asleep eventually.

I'm not sure if I'll come over or not Rubes. DH has to fly straight from the conference to Stockholm so we can't drive over together and flights over are quite expensive due to the holidays. I think I just fancy a few days access to waitrose, M&S & Clarks, in a posh hotel and a catch up with you would be a bonus.

Rubes Roomba (or as we call him Wall-E) is vacuuming while I sit back and type I love him. ZJ a virtual wall is basically a little unit that you place in a doorway or somewhere in the room that emits a little signal that tells the vacuum not to go past. It basically makes an invisible wall. We have 2 but could do with another as we have a big long livingroom that then becomes a kitchen.

Oh and Trudy I think your a saint for putting up with the SKIDS I have very little patience for most teenagers except close family. Surprisingly I find them ok as patients at work but generally I find their self absorption irritating. I swear I wasn't like that, I was pretty much oblivious to the need to tidy stuff and was a bag of hormones but I'm sure I was respectful.

Four-headed willy. Crikey. I can barely be bothered with one, let alone four. How many fannies does the female have?

Rubes - you sound like you're having a shocker with the food. I wonder if you kept on insisting on introducing the lumps (after obviously making sure she eats something with the smooth stuff), if she'd eventually get used to it? Has she got many teeth? I am with you on the struggling with second child thing, although mine has more to do with incessant screaming and general vileness than with food. She ate the most enormous spag bol for supper tonight and then strawberries. She doesn't usually eat much, so it was a break through! DD2 is really quite vicious though and regularly attacks DD1, which causes terrible traumas and tantrums. From both. And she still doesn't sleep through, so my patience with both of them is very very thin in the day time. I fear I have not been a nice Mummy of late.

Spent the afternoon with a friend and her two. Both of them are born within a week of mine, so it was smashing. Did supper bath and bed there and the girls just loved it. Got home just before 7, put them both to bed and immediate sleep. Knackered!! I'm now tucking into a 2nd large glass of rose. Yummers. Feeling a bit pissed.

Waiting for DH to come home - 45 mins. And I've made spag bol, but no tinned tomatoes - balls. He's bringing them, so supper not for nearly an hour. Sob.

Have just had ds read FOUR Peppa Pig books to me! he can recite at least one sentence almost every page but makes most of it up. Not sure if he's got a photographic memory or we have read too many of them he still screamed out that he wasn't tired but has since gone to sleep after a hug.
Yeah trying times with little miss number 2 Beans but she has been high maintanance from the beginning compared to ds so I am quite used to it - it's just wearing thin! I still refuse to give her milk at night and she is doing ok-ish about that, just teeth at the moment I think. She has 8 teeth through and another 4 on the way. they only come in groups of 4 apparently poor love is in so much pain but is quite fond of teething gel fortunately, unlike ds wasn't.
Had someone come just now to pick up a BF cushion I sold on eBay - and ds had only just stopped yelling bloody murder about not being tired from his room!
Oh and yes the HV suggested I just keep trying her on the textured stuff, and I do, but every day I try, I cop a gut full of vomit then have to spend the rest of the day getting more milk / food down her so she's not hungry! I'm not too bothered as she's been weighed etc and they aren't worried, although she has only put on about 300 grams in the last couple of months. She prefers cows milk to formula too, but I'm giving her that Goodnight stuff too for her last feed which helps.
I've just realised actually that she just had 3 injections on Tuesday. maybe that's what's up today as well - didn't even think of that

Aaah, I see Vag. Where do they put dh up and when is he coming? You mentioned Reading - is he in a hotel there or in London? Love to see you if youre over this way! opps gotta go - forgot about boiled eggs....

Rubes DS1 would still eat puree only of I let him, it why I did no puree for DS2, his brother pureed me out. I did ask a doctor about it once because at 4 he was still gagging on some foods and the GP said some kids just have a really sensitive epiglottal area and it can feel like a pea is more like a golf ball. I do find now that he is still better with domtjinh he can bite off and chew, rather than spoonfuls of things. I don't think BLW would have made it a lot better but I think I would found it a much less stressful experience. You have my thoughts.

Spot, you can't just come on here say a little then scoot off, get back here.

Oh and Rubes, DS1 used to get fixated on the same book and we read so many over and over again so that he could sit down with the book reciting it word for word. We have a video of him at around 2.5 fluently "reading" where the wild things are.

I couldn't do BLW even if I wanted to Vag, Any type of finger food at all just gets hurled at the dog or the wall. it's so funny how different they are. DS has ALWAYS hated mess or anything on his hands yada yada, but dd is one of those total grabby kids - reaches out to grab anything, plays with food but won't eat it. Should have seen the state of her and the kitchen when I put a bowl of very overcooked mac n cheese infront of her. DS was hysterical - "get wipes Mummy! get wipes - look at mess! Look at DD!" She's food everywhere" just horrified he was, but she screamed at me when I tried to put it NEAR her mouth!
Right, dinner ready - DH arrival imminent.... cannot believe how yum this dressing is!

Awww, we have had a newsletter from the current reception class at DS1's new school telling him all about the class and their activities ready for September. Under 'favourite things to do' one child has written 'you can dror dragnz'

Morning.

I start my driving course today and I'm terrified. Probably not the best way to feel really. But I've got til 3 to calm down.

You'll be fine, Kayz - don't fret.

Effie - I love that one. Very sweet indeed.

Vag - I don't know if you can help, but DD1 still has diarrohoea. She's not constantly doing poos, but when she does them, they're such a sloppy consistency and really disgustingly smelly. Plus she has to wake me up in the night to do them, while complaining of her tummy ache. She hasn't really eaten properly since Monday, although she is now eating a few bits and bobs. She hasn't got a temperature, but is clearly a bit below par all the time. I'm loathe to take her to the doctor as I seem to spend so much time there and she's not actually ill. Hmmm. Any suggestions? Sorry to ask you, but you are our font of all knowledge on illness front!!! Oh and she does have milk. And I've reinstalled her 3pm one as it's some fat going into her. I know it's not meant to be good for tummy bacteria etc, but it's one of the only things I can get down her.

Another rubbish night in beans household. Thankfully DH did the first two. We were asleep by 10.30 and he did the 11.30 and midnight run, then nothing til 4.30, then up til nearly 6. Thankfully then neither woke til 7 so I got a bit more sleep. DH also had tummy cramps last night and I had them the other day, but they've gone now for me anyway!

How is everyone this morning? WG? How's your sleeping going? Any?

Right, coffee. Have to get through morning somehow!!!

Good luck kayz, think calm thoughts!
S just spilled her milk on the floor [sigh] but before I could be cross she said quite correctly 'look, it's a turtle' and lo it was shaped like a turtle... How could i be angry after that?! Meanwhile e crawls across the floor to eat the stereo cables. Ah, mornings!

Mornings are heinous, aren't they JJ? Especially as DH having to leave for work at about 7 at the moment, and not home til about 9 most nights, so am doing WHOLE day on my own. Poor guy even has to work tomorrow afternoon. He is gutted as he misses the girls so much.

I had a bit of a breakdown yesterday morning as the girls just wouldn't stop screaming and I joined in with a spot of crying. Thank goodness for the drycleaners with the labrador!

Well I know it was hard for you Beans but hearing you talk about your breakdown yesterday makes me feel a little better about going postal with DS2 most mornings. On the diarrhea thing, it can take a couple of weeks for their bowels to settle down, they can get quite a beating up there when they are sick. It may be that she still has a bit of the bug in there, hence the smell, but each poo is extracting that. Don't worry about what she eats, basically give her what she wants as she will crave what she needs. As far as gut flora the gastro is doing more damage to that than milk. There has been cases of kids becoming dairy intolerant after a bout of gastro but I think you are giving formula which I think the milk proteins are broken down in formula. Anyway if your concerned about all that you could get some acidophillus powders in her milk or get some live yogurt from the health food store. As long as she has no temp and seems to be improving all is fine, you just need to manage the poos. It's been 2 weeks since our gastro bug here and DS2 is only now having normal poos again. He likes to announce to us if it a diarrhea poo or a snakey poo, nice.

JJ very sweet on the turtle shape, and how are the cables.

Rubes your poor long suffering dog.

Vag - thanks so much for that. I really appreciate it. She's not having formula as she won't drink it, but loves whole milk, so is scarfing that. I guess it's not as good, but it's better than nothing. You're a star. x

I've just dropped DS1 off at nursery for his last day. All the parents had put money in to get the teachers presents. So the teachers were crying so were loads of the kids and parents. I managed to hold on til I got to the car. But then I blubbed like a baby

I don't know if I'm cut out for this mothering lark if I'm going to cry every time they change classes

Beans ds had the runs recently it lasted about a week. he had a cough at the same time which is what affected it I suppose. Cough went and poo firmed up. With you on the dh working loads thing. DH has also got loads of stress at work at the moment and it isn't helping. he needs a break and altough I don't think a quick jetlagged trip is the answer, he is insisting as he wants a change in scenery.
Much better night here. Did a dream feed at 1130 and quiet till 5am thatnfully - then back off with some gel on the teeth. Both slept till 8 when the recycling truck woke us up
Yeah Vag the only thing suffering with the dog is her weight
Right, off to get sorted as have to make dd a cake tomorrow. We have bought her (them) a big swing set for the garden. ds was beside himself when he saw the man drop it off. it will not be able to stay in the garage much longer I'd say since the slide part is unboxed there's no hiding what it is. When it arrived he said "look mummy build it, build it, we need daddy's screwdrivier" The poor boy thinks Daddy can do everything and Mummy nothing. To be fair he isn't far off the mark
Good luck Kayz

The man is here doing the valuation on our house. I'm hoping it's going to be worth enough for us to be able to get that house that needs the work doing on it.

Oh how lovely! I want a swing set for our garden! DDs would be in heaven. One day when we move into a house with a decent garden... Must say, I always pictured myself living in our permanent home by now. One day...

Just dropped off a present for DD1's nursery school teacher. Went to collect her on Weds and they announced that as of Tuesday, DD1 will be in pre-school because all of that class have left, so toddlers have to move up. V sad as DD1 only there for a couple more weeks and not with her beloved Shereen any more. When we left on Weds, she said "I'll always have my Shereen". I nearly wept. I think it's a bit naughty of them to just tell us a few days before the move. Eviltons. Never mind. We got her a really pretty necklace from Oliver Bonas. this one - Rather lovely I thought.

Right, must go and get some lunch sorted. What on earth to give them day after day eh?

Sorry for not getting back sooner, the thing with DP's job is basically that it may go under (or he leaves) pretty soon, so we are drastically scaling back on what we thin we can afford, house-wise. He is also thinking of retraining, which would obv put a great deal of pressure on us, money-wise, but at 43 it's probably now or never to get into a new career.

Beans that's a real shame about DD1's nursery, they really should have told you.
Ours is slack to the point of T's keyworker leaving, and them only telling us a few weeks later. I assumed she was on holiday! Hope DD2's runny botty clears up, it's so horrible when it knocks them out like that.

Glad you had a better night, Rubes.

Kayz, how was the driving lesson? I had a week of intensive lessons, I found it great for mastering the car itself but it took me 3 attempts before I passed my test! I think it was because a week is not very long to get road sense. I didn't have any more lessons after that, just practiced in my mum's car and took my test on it. Not sure what I'm trying to say here other than don't put the pressure on yourself if after a week you don't feel like a pro. Or maybe I'm just projecting my own experience waaay too much there.

Can I ask your advice on something? It seems as though T is undergoing some major separation anxiety of the second time round. He's suddenly got teary when I drop him off at nursery, and only wants to play with me, to the exclusion of DP. I know he's trying to be grown up about it (DP, that is) but I can tell it hurts him what T says he doesn't want to play with him and he just wants him to work all the time! I've asked him why, but he can't articulate it. Is this a common phase? And how should I deal with it? At the moment I just say 'it makes daddy sad when you don't want to play' but I don't kow whetehr I should ignore, or actually try to make myself more unavailable so he's forced to play with daddy or nothing. I can't even shower on my own any more without him wanting to be there.

On another note, he said forlornly this morning, looking at his nipples, 'I got no pecs, I got no boobs, I got no anything '.

How the tum today, SL?