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...

Yay chulita :)

Defo do the lamb one in the slowcooker tsc. Not the veg one. I use curry paste and chopped tomatoes/coconut milk so no idea about curry powder, sorry.

Quorn sausages, mash and onion gravy with sweetcorn tonight
Homemade quiche
Quorn spag bol with garlic bread
Veg pie, roasties and roast sweet potato, veg
Curry
Rest of the week will be a bit 'play it by ear'!

trudy D is the same really, he will sit and play with duplo, if im building something he can then smash up. He will play on his own but not with one toy, he just dips in and out of the toy box, but today hes a proper whinge bag he had an hours sleep this morning and fell asleep in the car on the way home from the beach for 15mins, we carried him in but he hasnt slept since, he just rolled around in his cot, nightmare, i was hoping to get some shut eye myself. We have now got Toy Story 3 on, but it makes me cry!!!!!!!!!

chu xposted! So glad all is well and its a boy huh, good luck on the name front!!!!!!!!!! fab news though!
D is sat in his chair eating ginger nut bicci and watching the film. I think his teeth are really bothering him, he just wants to chew his fingers, its such a shame, im soooooooo going to bed early, i think we are in for it again tonight!
Does anyone still use a dummy? I feel like he really shouldnt have one still but can not face the trauma of taking it off him, what with the change of bedroom coming and the baby coming i think its too much for him really.
Is it really only 5.15, holy crap its been a long day!!

Sorry meant to post earlier. Had an awful night, I was up being sick this time! D still woke up a few times but when it got to 3am he wasn't going down without a fight and I was being sick whilst he screamed so he came in our bed for the rest of the night.

I really hate being ill, we were planning on going to the zoo today. Instead I spent basically the whole day in bed, dh took D to the park for an hour and with the clocks going back its been the longest most boring day.

I still don't feel 100% now I'm just hoping D has a better night.

wow - congratulations chul. how bloody exciting!

get well soon dh. tis short changed being ill on a weekend i always think

trudy just to echo the others - really don't think there's anything to worry about with M at all - sounds v typical for this age and is no indication of what she'll be like when older. i'd just relax and go with the flow.

A will play on her own for quite a while (usually pretending to cook, looking at books, stacking things, or playing musical instruments) and for ages if F's with her (playing with his trains etc) but nowhere near as long as Mr Concentration did at a similar age - he was happy to sit thru a whole film at the cinema or 'read' book after book but he's def not the norm. my close friends' dd of the same age as F could never sit and watch films etc but now she will no probs at all. she'll be having pizza and movie nights with her mates before you know it

vik yes - will still use a dummy for A when sleeping. have no idea how/when we'll take it away now as she (and I) got so upset when i tried before.

it never leaves her bed (other than to be washed obv) so it doesn't bother me as much i i thought it would

Congrats on the boy chul!

Yeah it's horrible being ill at the weekend, we've done nothing of any worth.

Luscious-locks is almost 3 and he can't / won't / doesn't want to sit through a film!

Hope you're 100% in the morning dh

Oh dear dh thats shite, it took me a few days to get over my sickness, do u think its a bug? U dont remember how bad it is to be sick untill u are, its truly vile isnt it. I agree about a long and boring day, we even went on an outing but it didnt make it much better it only succeeded to tire us all out even more. I have just cried at DH cos i feel so tired and rancid, i have to go to bed and D HAS to sleep better tonight!!!!!!

really hope you get a better night viksam!

sorry to hear you've got the lurgy dh, hope you feel better in the morning.

Took J to the Docklands Museum this afternoon - it's free and it's got a kids' gallery with soft play and all sorts. J had a great time!

He then scarcely ate any of his tea, he didn't seem to like it. He had a banana (and bloody DH didn't give him any yoghurt as he didn't eat his main, when will DH understand the yoghurt is an integral part of the meal?). I gave him a bit of porridge while he watched ITNG but he didn't have much of that either. I so hope he isn't up hungry half the night...

why tsc?

memph i forgot to say that i liked your yellow hair comment

that would really annoy me re the yoghurt woodlands

dh accidentally called ds 'a naughty little boy' yday which enraged me as a) he wasn't being naughty just hyper and b) i manage never to call him names despite being the one who's at home and regularly being driven to insanity and beyond. dh wouldn't usually say something like that but only really because he's tried to follow my lead about 'naming the behaviour, not the child', it doesn't come naturally to him.

it's hard sometimes melding 2 different parenting styles, isn't it?

Yeah tsc, why? If she's still in f/t education doesn't he have to pay until she's 18? Or did it stop at 16?

Cake did he call it to his face you mean? Whilst what you wrote doesn't look that bad to me in text on a screen, in reality I do get annoyed that dh and I sometimes having different opinions re parenting.

Did he sleep ok woodlands? Sometimes I find they're just not that hungry so don't eat much but still sleep well. Bigboy is a perfect example of that and he can easily skip meals yet still sleep ok.

It felt weird to see light when I woke up this morning! Won't be long before it's dark again.

Happy halloween everyone. I hope nobody comes trick or treating

vik it certainly is vile. It just makes you feels washed out. Luckily D slept better last night but came in our bed at 5.

He went to bed at 7 and woke at 10, 2:30 and 4:30 but to him they were all an hour ahead so his usual waking times really. He woke at 7 this morning for the day so not that bad overall.

I don't feel 100% so annoying I'm meant to be going to a baby group then a Halloween party today but don't know if I'm upto it.

No one has come trick or treating here thank fuck

Meant to say, sorry you're having such a shit month financially tsc. Did you do your big supermarket shop to get through the month? We had to get money out on the credit card one month to meet our mortgage payments - the worst thing you can do with a credit card, get cash out with it. Thankfully things got better reasonably quickly and we were able to pay it off before we incurred a ruinous amount of interest.

Congrats on the boy chul

Trudy, had that baby yet? (I know, the most annoying thing you can say to a heavily pg woman...)

Anyone read We Need To Talk About Kevin? I've just started it and am enjoying it. I've read a couple of others by her and I quite like her writing style.

Hope everyone else is well.

Happy halloween everyone!

Lady A slept thru in her own bed for the first time in weeks/months

She seemed better (again) yesterday and kept everything down she ate and then promptly spewed up bm first thing this morning. i guess it might have just been a combo of lying down+too much milk+sensitive tummy rather than the bug tho i've cancelled seeing a friend this pm in case.

mlic he said it to his face as in 'Come here, you naughty little boy'. i know he didn't mean to say it but it sounded horrid.

i've not read that *wss but isn't it a sad one? i might be getting it mixed up. i try to avoid those as they really affect me, big wuss that i am.

Yes I think some people find it quite disturbing - it's written from the POV of a woman whose teenage son went on a big shooting spree on his school. I'm only a few chapters in, apparently there's a big twist at the end which I dont' know yet.

It's just been made into a film but it's not out over here for a couple of months - I figured there would be a lot of requests for the book at the library once the film is out so I got it out now (I still had to request it as all copies were out). It was written 8 years ago so must be fairly popular to still have to wait to get it from library.

Gracie123 read it recently and loved it too wss. In fact the two of you saying you are enjoying/enjoyed it have made me think I should read it next. I bought it years ago and couldn't get into it - well baby's big accident at the library the other day meant I didn't get any books out, so maybe I was meant to read that instead! I should read it before everyone starts talking about the film and gives the twist away.

Well done on the sleeping through Lady A. Sorry she was sick though.

I watched Australia last night. I took me ages to get into it as it was a bit too much lik a Western at the beginning. But then it turned into a war film, and a romance and I quite enjoyed it by the end.

MLISC yeah he did sleep through fine in the end. I need to learn to trust his appetite - sometimes he's just not as hungry as other times!

Well done on the sleeping through A!

ah yes, i read an article about the mother of the story the other day wss. just unimaginable stuff.

i haven't got around to watching australia yet mlic, i think dh never fancies it. so you say it's worth a watch then?

talking of australia, dh has a job opportunity in melbourne - oz has never appealed to me however he used to live there so has seen the benefits of that lifestyle for families with children. tbh, i just wouldn't want to be that far from family and friends. something come up in NYC last month which i was a tad more interested in but not seriously, maybe pre-DCs i'd have been up for it.

If it was Italy then I'd give it serious thought

Oz doesn't honestly appeal to meal, I have no idea why. NYC though? I'd have packed my bags in an instant. I love it there and would live there tomorrow given half a chance.

Australia is a long film, and it feels like one type of film at the beginning and another type by the end, but I think it's worth a watch. Not the best film I've even seen but it's certainly not the worst

I answered your question with 'I've never used curry powder'

Hope he comes up trumps for you/her. Does she want to meet him?