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...

L only started keeping them in when she was about 2.4 tbh, she's had quite a bit of hair for a while. I insist on ponytails now when we go out or she's not allowed to glue or paint so that gives her an incentive to keep them in!

I distracted S by popping over to the neighbour's for a bit and harassing her He's alright now after a couple of weetabix, but it's not going to last, DH is at work so I'm about to get cracking and pop them in bed then watch a chick flick. Can't do it when he's home!

Trudy A has only just started being interested in hairclips, at age 4. She never liked them before so I just never put them in. She has her hair cut in a short bob so she doesn't need hairclips to keep her hair out of her eyes. I hated hairclips etc as a child - just because she's a girl doesn't mean she'll want things stuck in her hair. A is getting into them now so we've bought some pretty ones, most of the time she prefers looking at them to actually having them in her hair.

But, but, but, I was gonna play hairdresser with her right now!

I can just imagine her not liking them until she is so much older. Oh well. Maybe babyboy will be into it

Well toddlerboy is almost three and won't keep his bobbles in for long

I just asked him if he wanted me to put a bobble in and he said no mam I'll look like a girl

Lol at bobbles

D had an hour nap at 12:15, he's still awake now but I'm going to take him to bed in a sec. I'm just so hoping he had another good night, I feel like there's more pressure for him to do it because he's shown me he CAN do it.

Oowwwwwwwwwwww all this talk of girl hair makes me a tad sad, do u recon this is why devon has loads of hats, its the only way i can accessorise!!
Wellllll i have tried small changes to his routine today, i was a bit annoyed with myself cos i didnt give him the early lunch that i promised myself, i was out too long and he fell asleep in the car for about 7mins due to no morning nap, so he had lunch at 12.15 and was in bed by 1 but didnt settle for at least 20mins, i think his brain thought hed slept already. But i did get him up at 2.30 rather than 3 so he had a longer afternoon. I also gave him his milk whilst night garden was still on and only gave him 3oz, doesnt sound a lot but he had at least two oz in his doydy cup at tea time so hes had enough today. So we will see if any of these minor changes will make a differance.
#2 is squashing my bladder horribly, who was it tht had that terrible pelvice thing during pregnancy, my bum cheak and pelvic area are so painfull the only thing i can sit on is big ball and lying down really doesnt help.
cake i work tues/wed/thurs and it works really well imo, i can get stuck in to the beef of the week and not have to deal with the monday shite or the friday tiredness/cba crap from anyone. Also i can do a shop on a monday for the week and friday for the weekend, and get chores out of the way of the weekend so we can go out or whatever.
mylife I wouldnt cut E's hair its beautiful, i dont want to cut D's but might have to soon, its growing into a proper mullett.
trudy i have a half glass of a tiny glass of wine at the weekends, it amounts to about 4 mouthfulls, if that, but i do enjoy it!! Did u feed M your self, i cant remember, what will u do this time do u know?
chu very difficult about ur dad, looks like ur going to have to take a hard line with him when u move in there!
Any one doing anything for bonfire night??

You can't do anything with little little ones imo. Well I wouldn't anyway. All the loud noises and surprise bangs are too much for little ones I think. So, we're staying in, which suits me just fine :)

I had his hair trimmed yesterday vik. You wouldn't know it though it's still really long! It just needed a tidy up.

DH is getting pasta bake for tea. Because it's what I wanted.

We're off tomorrow to spend the weekend with the inlaws, as they have a big fireworks display in their town that we can see from their house/garden. :) So the plan is to get M ready for bed and in her dressing gown, then we can sit by the window so she can watch the fireworks while she has her milk.

M seems to understand the idea behind hair clips, but that might be because I wear slides in my hair, which is usually tied in a ponytail. Mostly because I have loads of short bits at the front where M use to pull my hair out when she was tiny. She now pulls the hair clips out of my hair (ouch!) and tries to put them on her head.

Unfortunately, her genetics appear to have doomed her to fine, wispy, straight hair that clips and bobbles fall straight out of. So until it gets longer and (hopefully) thicker, nothing will stay in at all.

However she is very good with wearing an alice band. :) It took a week or two of training ahead of DSIL's wedding, since she had one to wear as a flower girl, but now she's fine with them. In fact, if she finds any laying around the house, she puts them on!

I had mild SPD with S viksam and it was agony. Flaring up already with this one so am dreading the next 19 weeks...

S loves wearing necklaces, more than L. She's got a long pink ribbon for her hair that she flatly refuses to wear but S drapes it around his neck and chuckles gleefully to himself. He also brings me her flower girl headband, navy with a biiiiig rose on it and wants it put on his head. Very funny but I don't let him go out like that

DH is on his way home so I can't tuck myself up just yet. I was going to go to bed having watched a film for the first time in ages, a proper girl's film which made a nice change from the war/thrillers that DH chooses. Thank goodness for friendly neighbours with an extensive chick flick DVD collection!

What did you watch chulita?

Toddlerboy wears his amber necklace all the time. Nursery haven't even bothered taking it off him the last two weeks. Interestingly, they have Amber Pumpkin leaflets on the door now, so maybe now they believe me when I say it's a teething necklace, I don't think they did before :)

The Ugly Truth, not uproarious or particularly original and highly predictable but still made me snort. Just the sort of thing DH would hate :)

Evening everyone!
wss poor you, but wanted to say when I was about 3 they found a simular thing in my eyes, I had to go hospital to eye clinic for 2 years, My left eye is colour blind and I get double vision in it when im tired but when I was small there wasnt much action going on it, I drive, ride a motorbike and never have any problems.
chulita I would actually kill my dad if he did that! I would be at the very least getting the money for the car and the price I would get for the fireplace.
trudyla im going to struggle to get on here for next week or so but will have fb on my phone, so wanted to say good luck, and some one let me know on fb when you have the baby?
cakes thanks for heads up on paper, Ive actually ordered a new paper that has been released on next (it isnt very next -y) website, looks like Laura Ashley but a lot cheaper, fingers crossed its the right colour!

Move has gone ok, we have got 99% of stuff over there, but unpacked nothing we want to clean carpets first, house loked really clean but on closer inspection it was gross, pee behind the toilet and on door frame, and pubes all over bathroom, my sister spent 3 hours cleaning the toilets for me, and I cleaned the kitchen (its a man living on his own before!) I have started painting L's room and putting our bed up and tomorrow we want to finish L's room as we want him to have an easy transition into his new room, but L is staying at mums tomorrow, every room is painted in silk! so its too shiney for me its going to take a while to do but will be lovely! i feel very calm and happy tonight! probably wont be able to get on here from now but will get on facebook

glad the move has gone ok memphis! good luck with the decorating.

Have had a lovely meal out with dh tonight, a friend babysat and we'll return the favour in a couple of weeks. Not planning to go out to the fireworks tomorrow - J is no good at staying up past his bedtime and the forecast is rubbish anyway. Maybe next year.

DH has said he'll buy me a new outfit for Sunday! Hooray! Just need my hair cut now.

Glad the move has gone ok memphis

Not doing anything for bonfire night, kids will be in bed, we will prob see a few from our window. When A was born the maternity ward was on the 9th floor of the hospital, I was still in there on Bonfire Night after having A and saw a huge fireworks display in the park next door from the window of the room I was in, it was great.

We have had her opticians appt today, she is very very slightly long sighted in both eyes but not really bad enough to need glasses or further treatment at the moment. She may just grow out of it or it may get worse, we need to keep having check ups to monitor it. I am long-sighted and have better sight in one eye than the other so she has obviously got it from me (though mine are much worse).

I am very relieved and quite a bit at the pre-school teacher who told me about it by saying "Her right eye is hardly working, her left eye is completely compensating for it" as actually both eyes are working nearly normally...

Well in one way it's better the school say something if they thought there was an issue. But in another way how bloody irresponsible to make you worry/panic like that when there was nothing really wrong. Imagine if you couldn't afford the private appointment and were sat worrying for up to 6 months before she could be seen

I changed ds1's gro clock last night to 7.30 and he was asleep at 7.45. Babyface woke up at 7am but was just chatting away and laughing so I left him until ds1 woke at 7.25 and then we all sat in his room until 'the sun came up' Think I might do that of a weekend from ow on, it was nice not to be pounced on (literally) at 7am on the dot.

How did he do dh? And vik/chul/others with bad sleepers, how was your night?

Do you remember me telling you about an old school friend of mine whose daughter died at 27 days old last year? She had a little boy yesterday. It's made me a little warm and fuzzy inside

Asleep at 8. Awake at 8:45 due to being too hot. Awake at 3am then 5am then up for the day at 8.

Not brilliant at all and def not like last night but it's still better than when he was in with us and that's all I want.

Night from hell! 4 of us in 'sleeping' in the bed (we're at MIL's) but A wouldn't sleep in the travel cot. Have no idea what we'll do tonight.

Dh, F and A have gone out for breakfast with MIL to his sister's deli/cafe. F's at his most loopy - literally bouncing off walls and furniture. MIL's already commented on how hyper he is. I keep reminding myself of what trudy said before that he's just like I was but I turned out semi-normal :) it's reassuring tho still very tiring dealing with him. It worries me more what others think of him as he's such a sweetheart really that I hate to think of others just thinking of him as hard work.

wss I woke up thinking about you and A, intending to wish you luck and then realised it'll have already happened :-/ so so pleased that it's nothing awful but how bloody irresponsible of the pre-school teacher to say that and worry you sick for a week. I would complain as they need to improve how they communicate test results. Anyway, hope you're feeling much happier.

memphis hope you settle in well! So exciting but such hard work moving house. Looking forward to pics of your new rooms :)

trudy I woke up thinking about you too. All ok?

mlic that is super duper news about your friend. I hope she has a smooth ride of everything from now on.

tsc so WHO did you show your scratched breasts to this year?!

On bb so can't easily scroll up to see other posts so sorry for everyone I've missed.

kk, melissa, stac, dylth hope all is ok with you.

I love James Corden. Soooo jealous if it is him!

cake re the hyperness, it's impossible to try and make you feel better without actually seeing the hyperness but fwiw, L is too. From the moment she's up she talks non-stop and requires responses (most of the time), then there's the bouncing off the walls/furniture. We have a small living room but have opened it up through the dining room and she'll spend ages running from bashing into the patio doors to bashing into the sofa and back again. She's usually shouting silly words at the top her lungs at the same time. My mum is quite patient but even she's made comments about her energy, I think she's forgotten what livewires toddlers can be. I know what you mean about not wanting people to think they're hard work, I hate it when people seem to assume she's naughty when she's just got lots and lots of energy that she needs to expend and if I don't give her the chance to do it safely/constructively, she'll do it any means she can!

wss that's great news! how stupid of that teacher to put all that stress on you when she had no medical knowledge at all.

I'm tired, going to doze on the sofa, last time I had a nap in the day (monday) DH took the dc out to the park so I could sleep cos I felt rough but then he held it against me for the next few days so I'm not sure I can be bothered to go to bed now...grumpy git.

You know when you get into a debate on here and you really can't understand why you bothered? I dipped into the FC is a lie thread and really, I care so little I just can't work out why I keep reading it...must go and find something to do with myself.

Just a quickie from me! Everything ok just mega busy getting my business started! Decorating the salon today and tomorrow and officially start on tuesday!
Will catch up as soon as I can but i've been reading in dribs and drabs

Good afternoon all,
An ammmmmmmmmmmaaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzzzzziiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggg!! night here, D slept from 7pm till 6.40am without a peep!!
Now i will say though that he has been as clingy as hell this morning and he seems to be developing a cold and isnt into his food today so it could have been an incubatory sleep iyswim.
Anyhow we have moved the bedrooms around and he has had a nap in his new room, i had to go off for my flu jab so dh put him down with no problems at all so thats good.
cake sorry to hear about ur crappy night, hope things improve for you today and tonight.
wss really glad its turned out to be nothing to worry about, i would have to say something to that person from nursery, how did she get to that conclusion anyhow?
memphis really glad to hear the move went well, i bet it was hard work, it was hardwork just moving two rooms around.
Feel so sorry for my little dog, he hates the fireworks so much, i really hope they dont bother D in his new room!

vik I think that's exactly why D slept so well the other night. Hes got a bit of a cold too :(

Dh has had him all day today, I went shopping with my mum then went to see the nutcracker ballet, 'twas v good.