Feb 2010 - we're stroppy, sassy and splendid (and that's just the mums!)

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BG

PA I completely agree I either smile or want to pull my hair off as he's grumpy/having a tantrum - but I won't change him for anything (even DH has decided not to sell him anymore ). Have you found an accommodation yet? Can't you register to a GP using our parents/in laws address?

Urghh have had a tough week. Separation anxiety... DD seems to be making up for 17 months of not saying mummy. She looks at friends/nanny/grandad and points at me and says mummy. Wants me 24/7.For example if DP announces time for a bath she wails mummy!!! I have been sleeping on her floor and getting little sleep. Last night I went in at 2am and last time i looked at the time it was 4.15am. She has been waking on average 4 times every night.

Tonight we started (reluctantly) CC. 1hr of crying, a vomit and bed change.
This is my only hope of retaining some sanity.......off to bed. Night all.

Hope you are all ok. Fuck, she has just woken. She only has been asleep an hr.

DD has clung onto me atm. Does DP going in not work? I really feel for you your situation doesn't sound sustainable at the best of times, let alone with your other worries thrown in.

My parents live 2.5hrs away from Oxford so completely different area. I think I'll register with GP in Oxford once we have applied for somewhere, then even if we rent somewhere else because it falls in we're in the PCT system. MWs normally cover a few different practices anyway and the hospital won't change (are you keeping up? ).

Just had a few emotional goodbyes, but ran into my old boss who reminded me why I was leaving.

LBH good luck for cc tonight, it did work previously so hopefully it will work again.

PA okay I understand.

BG have a good time at your parents.

sorry realised (as normal) i left out half of what I thinking, so even more impressed if you kept up. If I hadn't have missed the OB here I wouldn't bother as next check up would have been over a month away anyway. Would help if different areas in the UK even had same style of notes.

DD slept until 7:30 :) so of course our routine is all out, no morning nap we haven't gone to the shops and probably shouldn't until she's slept. Assuming it will be a one nap day. Just when you think you've cracked the system...

I was planning to put DS bare bum and to put him on the potty but he's had some temperature (going from 38C to 39.3C) today so I postponed it for the moment. I think the fever is due to his 4th canine and the outside temperature. He still enjoyed playing in the paddling pool.

IC how was Womad?

PA when are you flying home? Good luck for the journey

BG is your DD2 doing okay?

BG how is DD2? That would happen when DH isn't around Hope she's ok.

LBH we have extreme mummy-clinginess here too, it has just started in the last two weeks and is most unusual for DD. She wants to be held the whole time and wails if anyone else tries to take her, even DH. I'm hoping it's a very short phase. How has the CC gone this weekend? FX for you.

PA when do you fly? Good luck!

SB I will watch your potty training (if you manage it) with interest. Cloth nappies are supposed to help as the DC can tell when they are wet. I was hoping to potty train DD before newbaby arrives but I really don't think she's ready yet. She will happily sit on her potty and say "wee wee" but has never yet managed a wee in it.

Oh and I have FB messaged you the recpie for courgette cake! Made another one today Like I didn't eat enough cake at a child's birthday party yesterday (four slices )

IC hope WOMAD is good. Great weather for it.

DD's sleep has improved, thank goodness, and go away MN jinx. She stayed at my Dad's (without me) for the first time on Thursday night and only woke up once - phew! Did I have a good night's sleep without her? Did I f*, I woke up every 2 hours for a wee grrr Lovely not having to get out of bed until he brought her back at 8.30 though ahhhhhhhhh. Today she has napped for a total of 4.5 hours I hope she's not going down with anything.

BG I hope you've all recovered from your shock

scones If only you knew it was coming. We're just trying to get her down for her second nap.

We fly tomorrow evening, flight is at 6:30pm so it should go alright again. Depends if we have a plane with a skycot at the right limit (they have two different styles with quite different weights). Land in the UK Tues lunchtime. We're pretty much packed.

Speaking of weight DD appears to have lost weight (but also grown in height) and I'm trying not to freak out about it. I'll be glad when we're more settled and can stock a fridge etc. I think she's changed the times she eats and it's taking a while to work out when to feed her i.e. if she has lunch late then she's not hungry for dinner which comes from the fact that she no longer wants breakfast as soon as she wakes. Speaking of which she's grumpy for the whole first two hours she awake before we put her down for a nap .

Well, for those you haven't looked at FB yet, dd2 managed to hit her head on a cast iron fireplace grate and needed to have an inch long cut on her forehead treated. It looks a little alarming and I think she'll need to keep a fringe for now... . She's been quite tearful today and spent most of the day on my arm or lap. I would imagine she has quite a headache and her knee is also quite bruised. dh was in tears on the phone last night partly because he felt awful that he wasn't here and partly because she will have a permanent scar... Well, I have flashbacks of her fall and am grateful she didn't do worse damage. And the scar is fairly high up on her forehead and she is young, so hopefully it will heal and only leave a faint line in time.

I had wondered why our neighbourhood is so eerily quiet this week (park, post office, GP surgery, local shop... all deserted). Realised last night it's because everyone and their wider families are at A&E ...

and you'll be surprised at how scars can fade, I had a massive one from a dog attack and I would hardly know it's there now. It will take you adults longer to get over it.

PA thanks . I have a fair few scars myself because I was quite a tomboy as a child and they aren't noticable either. dd2's looks dramatic partly because the glue forms such a large scab over the cut...
Oh, and I took great pains to explain to dd1 that this was special medical glue - just in case it put ideas into her head on how to treat herself and her sister in the future

I too have a scar on my cheek which Idid when about 24 months by falling on a cast iron lamp. It is now barely noticeable for people, I see it because I know it's there but anybody else need to stare to notice it.
at you explaining to your DD1 about the gluing. She could save you on hospital bills!

BG so scary for you! I can only add to the scar stories, as I have a small scar on my forehead from when my sister bounced me off a bed when she was 6 and I was a few months old. I cracked my head open on a radiator. Sisters, eh?!

PA good luck with the flight.

LBH how are you doing?

IC stories of WOMAD please!

Here we have had a nice weekend with just DD2 as DD1 went to a christening oop north with my ILs. It was fabulous to spend some time with just DD2 as she is at such a lovely stage of staggering and chuntering. Especially as her sister has been a beast to me recently (the pinnacle of which was hitting me three times and throwing things at me while on a picnic at the park on Friday - I ended up literally carrying her out, which was no mean feat as it was a few minutes walk, and I had DD2 in the pushchair as well).

But disaster has struck on the home front. We've been having a few bathroom related issues and got our bath repaired last week, with our other bath and shower due for repair this week. So we started reusing the repaired bath yesterday, having given it a few days to dry out. As I'm cooking dinner last night, I realised I was getting wet. Looked up to discover water dripping from the ceiling in about seven places. Aargh. Called out a plumber who was unable to isolate the problem so turned off our water at the mains (though neither our internal or external stopcocks proved very good). So today I am working at home (and I really needed to be in the office today, but DH's inadequacies in this arena are well documented), having placed calls to the plumber who did the work, our emergency repair service, Thames Water and our insurance, with no blimming water available!

How's your DD2 been today, BG? And your jangled nerves?

Ah, BBB - that sucks. Really sucks. I hope things have improved now. You sure realise how much we take water on tap for granted when you don't have it any more, hey?!

Happy landings PA!

WOMAD was ace, thanks to all who inquired! DD was on good form throughout, obligingly napping in her buggy in front of various stages (near the back - she refused to wear her ear-defenders this year..!) and grazing her way through the food we had packed up for her. SIL and PILs were also at the festival at various times, which was great because it gave DD some different adult attention and DH and I a moment to have a dance or two. DD is clearly fairly secure, as she was happy to wander short distances away from where we were sitting and make friends with other people around us. She has this endearing habit of catching people's eye and giving them an ear-splitting grin, which not surprisingly tends to elicit favourable responses. That, and her general dinkiness. Funnily enough young boys of the 5-9 age group seem to be very taken with her, she charmed a few by throwing her inflatable ball at them and encouraging them to play catch with her.
So, yes - a success, I'd say! Pix on the blog, if anyone's interested (I tried to upload a couple to the FB group, but failed miserably)

Bc your pix from Camp Bestival look great! Let's have a quick rundown, then...!

IC dd2 has been pretty okay today. Still a little tearful and tired (concussion?) but also cheeky. She's getting better at keeping a sun hat on. I told her the doctor said so (to stop the scar pigmenting) . As for me, I feel awful, sleep badly (flashbacks of her fall - it was quite dramatic and I had to mop the kitchen a second time to get rid of all the blood spots...) and obviously blame myself... (Having said that, I can't wrap her in cotton wool either)

BBB Hope you have water again. Awful situation! Clearly remember having no water for days when pregnant with dd2 (and needed to pee a lot!!). Had to go and knock on friends' doors to use their facilities . Oh, and as for your dd1, do you think there is some sort of growth spurt going on at four years old (physical and intellectually). Mine has turned into a little monster, very disobedient and opinionated. Two friends have said the same, with one of them almost getting a referral to a psychologist because her ds was behaving so out of character (very aggressive). Do you think it is an intellectual growth spurt in the knowledge of starting school in September?

BG poor you.

BBB hopefully your water will get back soon. It is such a problem when you don't have any.

PA and bc great pics

DS spent his day yesterday with no fever but had 38.9C at bedtime I'll see how it goes today and may need to take him to the GP.

Time for work. Have a good day

CB was great. DS loved it, really enjoyed toddling around and playing with other kids. Loads of bubbles everywhere so he was very happy.

BG SO sorry about your poor DD2's head. I hope it is healing well.

I am in a mood because MIL has just rung and asked to come and stay Thursday night even though DH is away at another festival. I would like him there as a buffer and I would like more notice and, well basically I'd just like her not to come but I had no valid reason to say no.

SB Hope DS doesn't need a trip to the GP and his fever settles.

Hope all those LOs are Ok today?

Our water is back on, thanks to my lovely local plumber and not thanks to the dimwits at British Gas Plumbing Service. I feel a strongly worded letter coming on...

Ah, BG - you wouldn't be a mum if you didn't blame yourself for what happened. But you're absolutely right - we can't wrap them in cotton wool, and for all the vigilance in the world, unless you never let them do anything accidents are bound to happen. DD's had most of her best bumps while I've been watching her - ahem!

Ah, SB, poor old DS - I hope he feels brighter today.

Bc Awkward one. Not sure what you can do about it. Maybe make the most of it and send her out on a long walk with your DS and you have a chill out... And do loads of big meaningful yawning so she'll eventually plead with you to get an early night and leave her to watch Inspector Barnaby on DVD or something...

Good news on the water, BBB!

IC have you lost weight lately?

I'm back, haven't slept yet nor read posts properly. Only a few hours to bed time.

Welcome back, PA!

I dunno, I don't weigh myself - clothes are fitting okay, though

will catch up later properly hugs to LBH and BG
Glad my DD2 is completely "normal" despite my family point of view on the matter...

Hey, mous welcome back. Did you have a good break? I'm off tomorrow and not quite sure about the weather forecast of 30 degrees and thunder storms when we get there...
PA also welcome back. How was the flight? Hope your jet lag is not too bad. When does your dh start work? Does he have a few days to settle in?

Waving at everyone else... and preparing myself for an early start tomorrow to get to Stansted on time . Hopefully I'll be with my parents in time for coffee and cake and it will be lovely to see my younger brother again (we told him not to visit at Easter because he was about to submit his PhD and could do without D&V and flu bugs...)

mous looking foward to your catch up

Dh starts work on Monday so we have a few days. Need to spend two days at his parents, buy him a load of new office stuff and order him some new glasses (his broke on the road trip and are being held together by superglue).

DD just had a bad few hours so now I'm wide awake and very hungry. Think I've had 3 hours sleep over the past 48 hours. My Db brought his DD round earlier and then announced she has just got back from the doctors and has hand, foot and mouth. Obviously I know we'll likely catch stuff but i would rather not have DD exposed to illness at the first oppurtunity and get through a few days first. He has however just broke up with his partner so is not thinking clearly at all atm.

BC I don't think I would even be invited without DH and him not being there would be enough of a reason tbh