July 2010 - Next thread, cba to think of a title

[Chulita]

I want to witter away to you lot and none of you have come up with the goods so this will have to do...

Seem ill*

I hope all the sick dcs are better soon...

I'm off to bed, I'm knackered, I've just iced a birthday cake, wrapped a fairy dress, wand, shoes and halo, sorted out party bags and games and made loads of littel jellies in orange halves. A's 4th birthday party tomorrow (though not her actual birthday till Wed)

Oh no, poor sick babies! Get well soon everyone. Hope you get to go to the wedding, mlisc.

Hope the party goes well WSS! Sounds like fun. WIll look forward to seeing pics on FB.

J was awake at 3am (gave him teething gel and rocked him) and 4.30 (when I fed him, couldn't be doing with waking in another hour or two!) and then up at 8.45. Not too bad at all!

I have got J a toy remote control and am trying to make it look like I'm using that and keep the real ones hidden by my side. It's taking a fair bit of coordination!

Just lost a big post!
cakes the woman in the Blind Side had really bad hair, yellow must have been in her colours! I cant believe how much money they had but no one said to her yellow as a hair colour doesnt look natural
mlic hope you manage to get to wedding!
viksam I really like Clayton and Flynn, a chavvy family we know of are having a baby and calling it Lyndon, I was a bit gutted even though I know we dont own the name!

L has toncilitis, well the end of it, he has had it and I missed it (bad mammy) I just thought it was his teeth! but she said he was ok to go out as it was at the end of the ilness so we went to the halloween party and he loved it, we left at 11 because we were tired, he was still dancing! we are just painting, packing and getting rid of rubbish today!

Well I feel pretty bad but we're going to go. He's really pasty and I feel bad for taking him to my friend's as she has an almost 4 and a 5yo but I can't discuss it with her cos she's asleep! And he knwos that's where he is going while we go to the wedding and he's desperate to go.

There is always a slim chance this is teething too, he is getting one of his molars after all.

We will just leave if he's ill or upset that I'm not there

Hope the party goes well wss!

Poor L memph, so many poorly LOs on here :(

Well D has managed to keep down food today. All he's had is a banana and some plain baguette. He's having a big nap now, I should be too really but I can't get to sleep.

mlisc hope the wedding goes well.

My goodness i could sleep for england! But #2 is kicking the crap out of me and just wont stop so im awake! D is still asleep though so at least i get a rest. Went to check out the soft play this morning, my god those places are depressing and ours is £6! I think thats loads D would only be able to stand it for an hour tops im sure.
I feel really guilty as i have forgotten to post my dads birthday card, i have quickly moonpigged one but it wont get there till tuesday and its tomorrow. Moms going to be very unhappy with me, i really hate parental dissaproval!
mylife hope the wedding is nice and W is ok with ur friend, could well be teeth.
memph poor L, hope it clears up quick now.
dh glad hes chirpy with it, i think thats what got me down when D was sick he was proper whingy and fed up with it.
I feel really fed up today, i think im probably just tired but i just feel like everythings a giant struggle atm.

Yeah he's v tired but other than that he's alright. Hadn't been sick since this morning and is eating and drinking as normal but I'm still giving him plain things.

vik it's horrible when u feel like that isn't it? Hope things pick up and u feel better.

Hiya ladies, sorry about all the sickly babies horrible when their ill. Dp is going out tonight so I'm home alone with 3 kids and mega tired. Think I'll get madam to bed then go too.

Wow chu can't believe your 20wks already or that you vikare 32wks its been flying in :). Not be long till we're seeing pics of trudys baby boy.

Hope your having a nice time mylife poor boy being ill.

tsc has dp accepted what's to happen with the finances?

dh my boys play the ps3 all the time but I've just been told their games are crap :(

memphis how soon till your move? Hope you perk up

mellissa how's L since his op?

cakes is A better?

wss how was the party?

stac the games aren't cheap either unless you get the pre owned ones but even then they can be around £25.

D took 15 mins to go to sleep, he's so tired. Someone has decided to let off fireworks near us though. It's amazing how much you hate them when you have a baby!

Party is later today stac, when I posted it was Sat night and I was doing prep for it. Now it's Sunday morning and the party is at 10am (2 hours).

It's been predicting rain all week but it's lovely and sunny! Yay! I was thinking I was going to have to have them all inside and play loads of fucking party games. Now they can play outside, do a treasure hunt in the garden and play on the trampoline while I have a beer

wss hope the weather stays good!! And you all have a fab time.
dh thats good for D hope he stays asleep for u.
I have given ibuprofen tonight so its really anyones guess what will happen, i fear we are in for it again though as his gums are really bulging and i can feel tiny spikes coming through so they are defo on their way.
Im off to bed, i recon it will be an early morning! night night everyone, hope all the sick babies are feeling better! xx

Weather stayed lovely, party was great, they all bounced around on the tramp and we had a treasure hunt and an egg and spoon race, food and cake and that was the 2 hours filled! A has had a great day and she's still got her actual birthday to come (which will be considerably more low-key).

This time 4 years ago I was shitting myself about going in to be induced and hoping no one came trick or treating at Halloween as I was going to slam the door in their face in a heavily-pregnant hormonal rage

Hope you all survive the clocks going back (it is this weekend isn't it?)

stac L seems much better since his op thanks. A month on and no ear infection yet and all looked good when we saw the consultant Wed. How was the party? Hope the weather held.

mlic how is E? Hope u enjoyed the wedding and he was well while at your friends.

Hope.dh's and woodland's dcs are ok.now too.

Just been up for 2 hours again with L. This last pesky canine is causing more grief than the others put together.

Hope everyone else is ok and had good nights

Crossed post stac Glad it went well. Sounds lovely. Yes it is this weekend that clocks go back. We let E stay up a little later, and L had an extra couple of stories from dh. As he's been up in the night I'm hoping he'll sleep late. Hopefully E will sleep late too but even less chance of that but can guaranteed we'll have to wake her for school on Monday

Oh melissa i share ur pain, hope L is settled today, what time did they sleep in untill.
I have just lay there for 40 mins listening to D talk to himself and whinge hoping that he will drop back off but no luck this morning, so we are up, its not so bad i suppose it was 6.15, so according to D's time clock it was 7.15. However he was awake for 2 hrs in the night, i did everything i could thing of include medicate and feed but nothing worked, he just went back to sleep from exhaustion i thing n the end, bloody teeth!!!!!!!!!!!!! He looks absolutly knackered, i wish i didnt feel responsible, i cant help it if he doesnt sleep, just makes you feel like a faliure, the two things i hate most are him not eating properly and not sleeping well, the eating part is great atm but the sleeping is a nightmare. Another day of dragging my tired ass about just fills me with dread.
Is chu in Devon this weekend? Hope all is well.
mylife How was ur day yesterday, i hope u enjoyed it, hows W today and what time were u up?
stac did u get an early night? I hope R slept well, how is she doing atm?
dh is D well now, how did he do last night?
cake is all well with A now?
Whats everyone doing today?

We did go and he was fine, thanks to all for asking.

They didn't get to bed until 9pm. Got to my friend's at 6.45 and she was cooking tea She'd gone upstairs with the 4 kids and all 5 of the fell asleep 3 to 5pm. I was gutted, thinking they wouldn't sleep but they both did, til 8.20 (7.20 corrected) So they ate tea and played a while longer

Glad the weather held for you wss and that you had a good day.

All I have planned for today is going to the new (smalll) Asda at the top of my road

sounds like a great party wss!! egg and spoon is the best. tis amazing to look back on what you were doing and feeling around their birth date - shocking how the years fly by tho.

vik oh that sounds crap it's exactly what my pg was like with A as F was teething and therefore sleeping so badly. the only thing i can say is to try not to feel like a failure over it. it's just a challenging time but will be over soon.

bit late re clock strategies but we've never found it an issue. we just move to the new time from the first morning and it's never been a problem. i think in the spring we do it in 30 minute chunks over 2 days tho.

great to have you back melissa, was wondering how you all were the other day. so pleased it seems the op was a success.

hope you had a quiet night stac

how did the wedding go mlic and how's the boy?

has D been ok overnight dh?

all ok there memph?

can you check in with your status please trudy?

A's STILL sick. we thought she was over it so she was back on light solids yday pm but she was up throwing up really badly in the early hours and then would only sleep on me again so feeling shagged with a terrible back today. she's still as cheerful as anything tho and has been keeping bm down which is a step forward.

had to cancel going to a 2yo's birthday party today as the rest of us could be carrying it and don't want to risk passing it on as it's such a horror bug.

Oh cake thats exactly what happened with D, i thought he was over it and clearly he wasnt, my bug manifested a week after D started to be sick and D was poorly for a good 5 days.
Im starting to feel like crap now but we have just agreed to go to the seaside for a few hrs even though the weather is poo! Need to do something though, cant bum around the house for another day.
D's gone down for a nap at normal time so hopefully his time clock will be ok from now.
mylife a successfull day and a great night for you then, good decision to go, hows W and his teeth?

He seems fine thanks vik, other than a burning cheek this morning. Toddlerface who was very unwell yesterday seems (almost) totally better today, thanks cake.

Poor A cake

Gosh tsc, that nearly made me puke [henvy] (that's me feeling sick, not jealous [hgrin]

Still here. Due today. No signs. Have to go in for monitoring every 2 days from now on. Have been today, all OK, heartbeat fine, 2 contractions while I was cabled up, but I couldn't feel them, so they were just practice ones.

Having second thoughts about Frederick now should he be born tomorrow on Halloween. (Freddy Krueger)

Quick question. How much can your smalls concentrate and focus on something? M has no patience for anything whatsoever and I'm starting to worry about it. She brings me a book, climbs on my lap and I start reading and after 1 sentence! she goes off to find something else to do. Same with toys, she gets one out, shows it, when I try and get her to start playing she has already lost interest and is pointing to something else.

We hardly ever have the tv on when she's around, only Saturday mornings for Saturday Kitchen [hblush]. I put on a cd with children's music once a day in the afternoon, but it's not on all the time to act as a distraction either. On Friday I have taken away most of her toys, to get her to try and focus a bit more but so far to no avail. In the living room, where she plays most of the time, she has 5 toys now and 5 books.

Not sure what else I can do really, but it does seem so weird, that she can't play at all, just scatter stuff and then frantically point at other things going da, da, da.

I seem to remember that all of yours (especially chulita's S and memphis' L) listen to stories and play properly a lot. Is that the case for all of yours? Did you somehow pursue this? I'm forcing her to stay on my lap now to listen to a bit of a book before she goes off, even if she cries and squirms, and I make her finish a horsey song, before she is allowed off the rocking horse, but she's not happy and it hasn't worked so far...

Sorry for the epic post, just thought I should explain in detail what I mean.

I really hope all the sickly babies are better soon. Seems like a bug is making the rounds. Hopefully it doesn't reach the continent.

Gonna go out for a Vietnamese meal later, really looking forward to it. It's such nice weather, we might even get to sit outside.

Just a quick one as the dog has just pissed all over the back room so I have to clean it up

Trudy I don't think it's an issue she doesn't want to do things for any period of time. Not at all. And I wouldn't take her toys away as I would think she would get bored of the few she has even quicker, but that's just imo. I don't think 'forcing' her to do things will help, and may well hinder your efforts by making her more angry. She is developing normally, don't worry.

Babyboy will sit still and watch a couple of cbeebies programmes (Baby Jake and Mr Tumble) but little else holds his interest. He will not listen to a book, but Toddlerface didn't either until he was nearly 2 and he enjoys books now.

I think you're worrying uneccessarily

Hello, I'm back!
Just cooking DH's birthday roast so will be on to chat later.

It's a boy btw [blatantly going to attempt another girl in a couple of years emoticon]