Sept 08- The threenagers have arrived - Advanced negotiating and crowd control skills required

[DebiTheScot]

Sorry Meglet if you wanted to start the thread with your title but I thought I'd best do it while there was still one space to post the link to this one on the last one.

Sorry - had to put the birthdays in order, Bec we'd make a great pair

birthdays
MrsArchchancellorRidcully - DD - 17 Sept 08
Debs75 -dd2-19 Sept 08
Ninja - dd2 - 23 Sept 08
Becaroooo - ds2 - 25 Sept 08
CappuccinoCarrie - DS1 - 25 Sept 08
Pacita- Ds - 30 sept 08

babies

Pacita - dd - 22 jan 11
CappuccinoCarrie - DD 3 Apr 07, DS2 28 Aug 11
Debs75 -dd3-14Aug10

Sorry - had to put the birthdays in order, Bec we'd make a great pair

birthdays
MrsArchchancellorRidcully - DD - 17 Sept 08
Debs75 -dd2-19 Sept 08
Ninja - dd2 - 23 Sept 08
Becaroooo - ds2 - 25 Sept 08
CappuccinoCarrie - DS1 - 25 Sept 08
Pacita- Ds - 30 sept 08
Lollyheart - ds2 4th sept
babies

Pacita - dd - 22 jan 11
CappuccinoCarrie - DD 3 Apr 07, DS2 28 Aug 11
Debs75 -dd3-14Aug10
lollyheart - will update when s/he pops out

Sorry I've mixed up the order again but on my phone and couldn't work our how to start from the top

Carrie fab birth story - I'm guessing Elliot hasn't read GF yet!

birthdays
MrsArchchancellorRidcully - DD - 17 Sept 08
Debs75 -dd2-19 Sept 08
Ninja - dd2 - 23 Sept 08
Splishsplosh - dd2 - 24 Sept 08
Becaroooo - ds2 - 25 Sept 08
CappuccinoCarrie - DS1 - 25 Sept 08
Pacita- Ds - 30 sept 08
Lollyheart - ds2 4th sept
babies

Pacita - dd - 22 jan 11
CappuccinoCarrie - DD 3 Apr 07, DS2 28 Aug 11
Debs75 -dd3-14Aug10
lollyheart - will update when s/he pops out

Tip of the day; if it's your DD's birthday in the morning you should probably wrap her presents up and not be catching up with last weeks Reading Festival that you taped.

ninja are you back from hols? How did it go?

Happy birthday to your ds Lollyheart

And to meglet's dd.

I'm off to find the old birthlist to nmake sure we don't miss any out

Happy b days to mini lolly and mini meg :)

How were the hols ninja ? Was thinking of you!

Tobys b day gift is still in the amazon box it came in Must buy some wrapping paper! We are taking him and ds1 to great central railway for his b day treat

Kids squealing....driving me batty

leonie Tell me about it!!!

Toby will sit on the potty but only after he has weed or pooed...so pretty pointless really!

Toby also doesnt like the toilet so we got him one of those pottys that is also a removeable seat and step stool (was from tesco I think)

He also goes in a corner to poo and will deny he has done one til he is blue in the face

Luckily his pre school are happy to change pull ups so no rush for us.

I wouldnt send her in pants tbh..she may get sore from the urine on her skin and, frankly, I am surprised the nursery suggested it!

You cant force it, as annoying and frustrating as that may be

leonie I'm quite relieved there's another child who goes into the corner to poo. DD knows she's doing it, and tells me / nursery, but 9 time out of 10 she refuses to go to the potty or toilet and we just have to change her once she's finished. I think I'm going to put her in pull ups (instead of nappies) and see if that helps her feel more like a big girl.

When DS was little they had the Pampers feel 'n' learn pull ups which let them feel wet but kept it all in. They seemed to work for him but I can't find them in the shops anymore. Might search the internet for some.

Awwwwww belated congrats Carrie!

We went to Center Parcs in Holland last week; so much cheaper than the UK ones and DD1 had a fab time in the pool and generally meandering around.

DD1 is up and down with poos in the potty. She will be great for about 5 days and then suddenly poo in her knickers. She will deny it and run off - most frustrating.

birthdays
MrsArchchancellorRidcully - DD - 17 Sept 08
Kagey - DD1 18 Sept 08
Debs75 -dd2-19 Sept 08
Ninja - dd2 - 23 Sept 08
Splishsplosh - dd2 - 24 Sept 08
Becaroooo - ds2 - 25 Sept 08
CappuccinoCarrie - DS1 - 25 Sept 08
Pacita- Ds - 30 sept 08
Lollyheart - ds2 4th sept
babies

Pacita - dd - 22 jan 11
CappuccinoCarrie - DD 3 Apr 07, DS2 28 Aug 11
Debs75 -dd3-14Aug10
Kagey - DD2 27 March 11
lollyheart - will update when s/he pops out

Back and fine - holiday was a bit of a trial but we survived exH tried to suggest that we holiday together next year in front of DD of course.

Feeling very tired and have lots to do to sort out house.

Keep finding little things missing and trying not to get too annoyed (facewash, hoover, scales, portable DVD player, ...)

Must go to bed and hope my energy returns soon

Oh dear....Toby cried and cried going to pre school today

So now I am sat here all nausous and shaky til I pick him up.

ninja Glad you got through it ok x

Very busy week coming up....ds1 has lots of appts - optician, dentist, paed but school still havent contacted me about the EP...sigh.

Seem to spend a lot of time on the phone atm........

..and it would appear I cant spell "nauseous" either!

Bookmarking. Need to catch up.

ninja have you done the locks?

We just had a 3 hour walk round town, big play in the park and up to the school to pick up the last bits of uniform before DS's first day tomorrow. I figured I needed to exhaust the kids so they get to sleep at a sensible time tonight.

Meglet i hoped to tire kids too - met up with 7 other mums from dd1's class with their kids for a picnic and play in the park for 3hrs earlier - there were 3 others all same age as dd2 so they had lovely time - but dd2 got too tired as just fell asleep on sofa when we got back at 2.30. Only half an hour but i love it when she gets through the day without napping and is asleep by 6.30...

Potties! Yesterday dd2 suddenly decided she wanted to use it - however she wouldn't sit on it for longer than about 10 seconds at a time, and i am not exaggerating when i say she did a small amount of poo on it on about 25 separate occasions. Plus several wees - i was trying to plait dd1's hair at the time (takes me an hour as I am rubbish) and I was hating the potty by that time.

Today she says she does not want to use it and wants to wear a nappy.

Maybe it's like when she learned to walk - she mastered it one day, showed off proudly, then went back to her 1 kneed upright crawl for another month - right,. I can do it now, but I don't actually feel the need to prove it again thanks.

I just made flapjack - didn;t have a recip so chucked ingredients in according to my liking for them, and is yum. It may be finished by the end of the hour day

Glad you survived the holiday Ninja - hopefully you can start enjoying having your home back, and not having to endure his lack of respect and undermining behavior all the time

I think DD is channeling Sid Vicious . At bedtime she was running around naked, drank water from her beaker and spat it out on her rug, laughed, then started singing 'Paradise City'.

I've created a monster .

DS starts school tomorrow so I'm going to turn the laptop off now and sew a couple more labels in before bed.

Good luck to everyone starting school this week!

OK, I'm a hormonal pregnant woman about to be hit by seasonal depression, but I'm really worried about ds's birthday party! We were away over the weekend which was lovely in some ways as A stayed with his grandparents and had a great time, but very tiring and A is even more clingy now he's home and tired. I didn't set an alarm this morning so it was 9.15 when I went to check (and panic that it was so late he must have choked to death or something) - he was lying vaguely awake, playing idly and not caring about a wet nappy. Don't get Sainsburys own-brand nappies - they are crap!

So he had breakfast before nursery for the first time in 18 months! Was then happy though, which was good - yesterday was wailing DADDY! all the way there and trying to fight his way out to go home, and then refusing to leave and clawing the door down to get back in and shouting "Want go to nursery!" all the way home when I got Daddy to come with me to pick him up...
We only gave invites to nursery yesterday and some of the kids had already gone home so I'm worrying no-one will come. :(
And we haven't bought him a present at all and the house is a state and I have no idea how to make a Numberjack 3 to go on his cake. All he says is he wants a pink cake, which at least I can and will do but I'm worrying other parents will tut and think we're wierd.

[and breathe]
And nursery, in their wonderful way with communications, have just told us A will be moving up to pre-school this week - after telling us not two weeks ago that he'd be in Toddler Room for another year and only in preschool for one year. If he weren't being so clingy atm and having really bonded with his new key worker, I wouldn't mind, but there's only 1 worker for 8 kids in preschool, and some of the kids are 4 and rather huge and rough. Gah.

And I hurt all over from the hospital's antenatal exercise class yesterday. What with that and all the exercises I'm meant to do I'm thinking ending up in a wheelchair isn't such a bad option. Bah. Time to go shopping and experimenting with making pink 3s out of marzipan...

(ds 12th Sept 2008, bump due mid-Feb 2012)

How did the first day of school go, Meglet?

and how did the numberjack experimenting go NC?

i'm a rubbish mum, never had a party yet for the dc other than picnics with family for dd2, and family round for dd1... am a complete coward. And when I made a cake for dd1's 5th birthday, and decorated it with my niece, dd1 was just upset she hadn't decorated it herself and still mentions the horror of deprivation she faced now