Feb 2011: the one where the babies are destruction machines

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...or is that just mine?

Honestly ponyo if you knew me you'd be even more shocked!

deb well done you (and a little and in a good way). It was going to the gym that got me to lose 2 stone in the past. Btw - do you take the girls in a buggy on your runs or dump leave them with someone? I had to stop ct5k as my ears are dodgy and I can't wear headphones . I've stocked the fridge with so much fruit and veg though and am hoping to make some veggie bolognesey type bits to go in the freezer for when I"m back at work

ledkr we claimed once when some windows in our old place got smashed by freak hail stones . I seem to remember they sent someone out to assess the damage and make sure we wern't lying and then organised a company to do it for us. Maybe it depends on how nice your insurance company is. Oh - and I claimed a couple of times on the contents (a laptop I spilt water on and a gold watch that went missing that a few years later I found again ) and be warned our premuims went up massively after we claimed and every time we filled in a form to apply for insurance we had to write details of our claims on (which was really tiresome [lazy] )

blizy that trip sounds so great. I got scared by the first hostel film, but then in my old age I am now officially a horror lightweight

Baby sensory? I spend most of the class now running around the hall retrieving alice from all the other babies so never concentrate on what's going on anymore . I was sitting next to a lady who kept being really touchy about when alice got vaguely near her ds (and I'm really careful about watching and taking her away) and I was a bit and when Alice barely touched this babies hand and she looked appalled and wiped his hand clean! We had some bubbles, shakers, dancing and singing today. I asked DH if he wanted to come with me but I'm secretly glad he said no as he would have hated it!

Quick hello all.....I'm still here, just a bit chaotic till next monday when school starts again (which is also Josephs 7th birthday- he is so excited).

blizy honeymoon sounds AMAZING

deb massive well done you. Yeah yeah.

ponyo I liked District 9 too, I read Let the Right One In and it scared the pants off me, not sure I could cope with the film. Mr W got a load of DVDS for his birthday/Christmas. We just finished working our way through Modern Family Series 2 .

blizy lovely trip, Mr W booked his birthday present - his flight to Washington the other night. A whole week in March, I've already booked the time of work, a whole week to myself, no dinners to cook, no shite on TV to watch, bliss, I'll really miss him. But don't feel too bad for me, I'm already working on a list of presents he has to bring home

debka wowzer, well done x

Firstly,bloody hell Debs! Well done! Hope S isn't going to be poorly.

Ledkr, we had a tile come off our roof in the wind last year but our insurance wouldn't cover it as it apparently wasn't that windy (enough to blow a bloody tile off our roof tho), and our insurance with the NHBC will only pay claims over £1400! We still haven't had it fixed!

Wiggles, I've been reading Diane Chamberlain, she's really good isn't she?

Blizy, wow NY and Las Vegas! I would love to go there! Am planning on taking dh to NY for his 40th birthday in 3 years.

There was more I wanted to comment on so will check and post again in a moment........

blizy - I was thinking about Zoe's tree today as well. The wind was atrocious - 100mph gusts!

wiggles - Is that Washington DC or Washington state? I do the same when DH is gone.

reastie - When are you back at work?

L has never eaten bland food, he seems to like really strong flavours. I gave him a bit of gorgonzola last night, his reaction was hilarious but he took 5 more bites before I cut him off. He was on 3 naps a day but has gone down to 2. He's still waking at least twice during the night to eat though, we keep trying to pump him full of food during the day but it doesn't seem to be working.

I'm back at work tomorrow. DH is staying home with L this week then he's in nursery full-time starting Monday. I'm feeling fine about leaving him at home this week but get a little wobbly thinking about leaving him at nursery.

deb congratulations lady you shall soon be mini deb! Honestly v amazing esp in the season of junk food! (I bagged all our leftover Christmas biscuits crisps etc up today and shall be palming them off to DPs work....)
wiggles you are a nice wife but quite right on list of demands... :)
reastie baby sensory lady sounds like a bit of a douche tbh!
blizy honeymoon sounds amaze, bet you cant wait! Eeeek to horrors tho, I even had to stop watching the delish Luther cause it was too scary (wuss)
borg yes my AIBU derailed somewhat.....!
Ladies I am so angry with DP. He was meant to be home to take Joe to football training at about half 5 - he didnt show and wasnt answering his phone so I had to schlep over there, rushing obv... football wasnt on so came back, no sign of him. He eventually texted at about half 7 - hes only in feckin manchester at the Liverpool game. Apparently there was an issue with some tickets hed booked for his friends and he had to go in person to get them. Utter b*llocks of course. He went to football on boxing day AND last Friday - these are whole day affairs btw. And hes going on Friday - so basically I think he just didnt want to ask me if tonight was ok and just went, deciding to deal with the fallout afterwards. We have had so many rows over his football obsession but I have had it now. I am putting the chain on the door tonight and he can stay at his mum and dads - his dad eggs him on to go so he can bloody well have him to stay. Grrrr. Im sorry to rant but I am so fuming. (Oh btw he also knew that Joes training was cancelled and didnt tell me.) The only consolation is that Liverpool lost.....

I'm back....

Debs, we had a mouse in the loft in our old house. Only found out because dh hid a Thorntons Easter Egg up there and when he went up to get it out we discovered bits of it had been nibbled away!

Brilliant news about Stephen Lawrence. His poor family have been through hell

Ponyo, I am also a fan of Got To Dance, especially Ashley and the other guy, yum. Ive Sky Plussed it so will hopefully get a chance to watch it tomorrow night. By the way, I quite often used to book a Weds off work when Ben would be at nursery so I could just chill out and watch tv, it was bliss! Definitely don't feel guilty about it!

Right that's it from me. But can I just say I am led in bed, dh is watching something on his iPhone next to me. Would I be unreasonable to bash him over the head with something heavy if he breaks wind or laughs to himself one more time?

mizk I would be furious, I cannot bear men and their stupid childish obsessions, I am getting very angry for you. And I quite like football.

deb nobody loses weight at this time of year, I'm not talking to you anymore. Mice chewed through a lot of our electrics.

american good luck re work! I have only tried putting N in an hour long creche at church, he lasts about 2 mins before I have to come and rescue him. I have to put him in nursery soon and am dreading it, L doesn't sound a total wimp like Nate though.

44me Happy 7th birthday!

reastie that lady sounds unhinged unless Alice is really smelly in which case fair enough Just kidding, she sounds bonkers.

ledkr I claimed last year when our guttering fell down with the snow, I just rang them and they believed me.

ponyo TV fwend, I love let the right one in, have only seen the scandi one though. BTW did you see Killing 2?

Poor DH is poorly with D&V, I have retreated to the attic with Nate. Really wish we had another bathroom....

Ive been on a diet of Zombie films and books since xmas.The pil must have thought im bonkers whn they saw my list
I must admit i dont like torture type films such as hostel and saw i prefer fantasy like vampires and zombies.

reatsie Remember annoying colleague who i actually have warmed to?Well she is like that when Dilly approaches her pfb,snatches back toys that she nicks and gets all panicky and laughs like a horse when D gets too close.
My baby groups have finished too now im working Mondays,im going to have to brave a new one on Thursdays.

D waves all the time but today said "bye bye" too.Of course she wouldnt repeat it again.

wiggs whats in Washington??
deb well done you xx how many dress sizes have you gone down now?

mizk Im with you on the footy obsession,dh cant even carry on with his life if he sees any footy on tv.His brother is the same,i find it really off putting and childish tbh.I like the football-IM A LIVERPOOL FAN ACTUALLY_ but i can take it or leave it.
I liked the name Luca for D if she was a boy,dh said i couldnt or people would think he was named after some player.I told him that most people didnt think like him. His brother was also proper angry and i mean proper angry cos i had Dilly in a liverpool shirt
Yes lock the fucker out,i would

Mizk on your behalf. Dh is a bit like that about football too, I agree with ledkr lock him out. Hope you are ok?

MizK as ledkr so beautifully put it - lock the fucker out. Seriously well out of order, I'd be spitting bricks. Mr W has started playing scrabble or feckin' words with friends or whatever shite its called, at home on his phone with his work friends. He spends triple his amount of time at work than at home and then at home he nerdifies himself with them. Terse words have been hissed .

Mr Ws younger brother the nice one is in Washington DC, there's no chance of us all going over so it makes sense for him to go on his own.

Oh Annas turned into a bit of a biter .

Wiggles sorry but I'm laughing at mr wiggles playing scrabble! His street cred has went down a notch with the feb girls!

American, I hope your first day back at work goes well. I'm sure L will be a star at nursery next week.

I just remembered an old mindee (18 month) used to come to me with mussels and whelks for lunch, she didn't have bland tastes either.

Right I'm off to hopefully catch some Zzzzz

Hi ladies,

Just checking in, didn't get chance to post much over the Christmas hols, so off to catch up now.

Miiiiiisssssed you all tho.

Dx

Thanks for all the well dones- I am uber smug now, be thankful you don't have to talk to me for real . Gone down 2 dress sizes (ish) so far, I'm back to the weight I was before I had Imy. Long way to go though.

Poor little Bean coughed from 4am till 6am this morning, didn't cry, didn't really wake up, just cough cough cough. Poor sausage, there's nothing I can do is there?

mizk he has been totally unreasonable, how did things go last night and this morning?

blizy mussels and whelks? weirdos

wiggles I am at your hissed terse words!

Feeling Olympic today, had a 1/2 hr swim this morning, out for run 3 tonight!

Yay Deb am v impressed with your weight loss. Are you going to be in one of those magazine 'before' and 'after' articles?

Poor Bean re coughing, C was exactly the same pretty much all night, cough cough cough. I felt really mean not giving her anything, but she didn't really wake up either, so I thought going in and yanking her out of bed for medicine etc. would be more disturbing (to her) than the coughing appeared to be. Poor baby tho .

C is in other respects fine though, still stuck in reverse gear with the crawling, but I think it will become irrelevant as she is intent on being on her feet all the time. She walks everywhere with her little truckie thing, and likes letting go with one hand and giggling at how clever she is - she sometimes stops to give herself a round of applause, if DH and I have not clapped voluntarily.

Still no actual words here, but lots of babbling, she won't shut up!

We actually had a lovely Christmas break, mostly relaxing, very little stress, so all in all, I was pleasantly surprised, as I had been expecting it to be a bit 'much', but in the end it wasn't (lowering expectations worked reastie !). I know this sounds a bit odd, but it's the longest time we have all had together the 3 of us, ever, so I wasn't sure if we would be climbing the walls or not, but it turns out it was fine!

MizK I would also be fuming re DH and football, it's just so completely not on.

reastie LOL at Alice and you at baby sensory, a bit different from when she would just lie there looking and listening hey? Have tried to catch up on some of your recent backstory re MIL etc. and I agree with I think it was Ems who said maybe some (not all) of it can be linked to your PND. I mean, when I was bad early on, I was much more 'suspicious' (for want of a better word) of MIL and her antics (when DH used to take C round on Sunday afternoons, I was really uncomfortable about what went on when I wasn't there), and felt much less able to manage it for my and for C's good. Now I'm mostly better, I am much more able to handle things in a way that results in what I need or want for C, without the stress/angst of previously.

blizy sorry you had a tough time over Christmas & new year, I can't imagine that it would be anything but really really hard. Hope 2012 brings you what you are hoping for.

That's it for now, being back at work feels a bit...well...blank really. Hope those of you just going back for the first time are doing OK.

Dx

delia I feel oddly relieved that you left C as well- DH kept saying give her some water, some calpol, but I thought that would disturb her more than the coughing. Glad your Christmas was better than expected too :)

Got a curry on here and smells gorgeous, hope it tastes as good (SW recipe and reastie knows what they can be like!)

deb we went to bedgebury (sort of between where we both live again) - another potential hotspot for a potential meet up not that I'm hinting . Great playground for Imy there . I keep meaning to ask you a few sw meeting questions via pm but not getting around to it (if you don't mind). I'm tempted to officially join a local group once I've been back at work a few weeks and got in the swing of things - you are such an inspiration

delia glad you had a good chrimbo. We had a nice one too (overall). DH is still off work and I think tbh we are starting to drive each other up the bend - it could be a good thing in this respect I'm back to work next week!

On this topic, dh is driving me a little mad - 3 times since christmas he's left his tea where Alice could get it and she's nearly got it all over herself. This afternoon she was playing with the mug on the floor and nearly tipped it on herself - I was on the phone and DH was supposidly on Alice duty and I screamed to DH to move the tea - I think my mum on the phone may have lost her hearing temporarily . ANyway, each time he's got annoyed with his stupidity but he doesn't seem to learn as he keeps doing it - it's like I'm used to making things baby friendly but he hasn't adjusted yet. Then I realised earlier he's never had so much time at home with alice EVER, so I guess while I find things ten times easier having someone else around at home, maybe he is still adjusting

Going into work tomorrow for 'fun' to catch up

mizk completely with you - that's totally unreasonable

Oh - we went to John lewis earlier and bagged some bargains of half price christmas wrapping paper for next year. Only thing is I didn't realise until we got home it says 'christmas 2011' on it

Oh, and could I add re: my to dh leaving his tea around that once Alice did spill his tea all over her but thank goodness it was only tepid so she was fine - but it could have been so so different [remembers wiggles and 40s stories]

reastie we had a tea spillage incident a few weeks ago. I was "aaargh the carpet!!" rather than "aaargh the baby!!" much to my shame. at your bargain wrapping paper.

delia hellllooo. are you skiing this year then? We're trying to decide.

blizy the idea of a baby bringing his little lunchbox with whelks in it really makes me laugh for some reason

ears prick up at wiggles mention of a younger version of mr w who lives in washington. I could cope with that

at ledkr being a liverpool fan

I, or rather my car had it's MOT today. I need to spend nearly £800 on tyres. In the words of delia cr@ppity f**k.

Hello there ladies...lots to catch up on!

We had a lovely Xmas...but lots of running around to see people/had people staying, so come New Years eve, dh & I were both knackered. And glad to get back to work for a rest .

ponyo I'd have done the same to that wee shitbag! But hope you find somewhere lovely & safer to move to.
borg N is the same re: destroying things...& he has an obsession with doors, handles & hinges. He keeps trying to shut the door on me when I'm in another room so I can't get back to him!
debka you are a superstar re weight loss & getting fit! I went to spin tonight but could not be bothered. But you inspired me to download a 10k running app & I've just had confirmation of a place on the bupa 10k in London, for the lily foundation, for mitochondrial disease. Dh has been diagnosed with this & it's quite rare. No going back now so I'd best get on with the training!

reastie I was thinking of visiting bedgebury sometime soon...haven't been for a few years. Re: sensory-are you continuing with the younger class or moving A up to the toddler one? I'm not sure what to do...
ledkr dilly sounds so funny!
wiggs hope you survive the last few days of the hols!
mizk fuming is putting it mildly re: dh...locking the door should be enough for him to get the hint!

Hello to the rest of you fab ladies...my fingers are hurting typing this on my phone & I'm tired so off to snooze land...night nightxxx.

Borg yes we're going on March 3rd for a week. We're taking my parents (we have holidayed with them a lot in the past, but they don't ski), for babysitting. Planning on having decent skiing in the morning and then meeting them for lunch, a shorter afternoon, then down earlyish for playing and walking round town etc. We have our own apartment and a studio next door for the GPs so there's plenty of room, and we'll eat in most nights (as DH and I do often anyway).

Only thing I'm mainly bothered about is the car transfer, as it's about 2.5 hours and at the moment C is very much disapproving of being in the car, but that might have changed by then...

Really looking forward to skiing but very about fitness and even just getting back into skiwear! 8 weeks to go, I could make a substantial impact on both by then, but I would have to start now.....is that likely....errmmmm?

Dx

Hate to disppoint you Borg but Mr Ws elder and younger brother look a like, Mr W is nothing like the other two Apparently Mr W looks like a great great grandfather on his Mums side Oh I think there's family secrets lurking a plenty there!!

I was in Mothercare yesterday and a lady refused to believe that all 3 girls were sisters - she could see that S&O were but apparently it was so strange that Annas eyes were such a different colour As you know this is not the first time I've heard this , if A wasn't the spit of Mr W I'd be panicking!!! I bought Anna a little Miss Sunshine backpack in the sale, now that she's on her feet she can carry her own bits and bobs! Its so cute.

Am actually trying to get Dr to see Anna, we have an appt for Mon anyway due to consistent nappy rash/irritation, but she had a miserable night, she ran a temp, couldn't sleep, was in foul form and has a few spots round her mouth this morning. Bloody Drs been engaged for an hour.

Oh God, look at my "me me me" post

D you will look gorgeous on the piss piste. to your trip, C will be fine in the car - has she discovered chocolate buttons yet? - just sayin'! Anna is a dream in the chocolate dispensing machine car!

grannyapple wow at the 10km, good for you.

Borg I had to spend £400 on brake stuff at the beginning of Dec for our MOT

Having a lovely morning, Olivia is back at school , Sofia, Anna and I went to M&S - Sofias school uniform is too small for her "that's not a skirt, thats a pelmet"

Ps Got A a GP appt for this evening with the hunky compassionate Doctor! Now what shall we wear?