December 2009 - We'll be having Terrific Twos, thank you very much!

[LifeOfKate]

New year, new thread :o

Welcome all :)

6.45 here but it was my day for a lie in so DH had to get up with them instead

I was up at the same time yesterday and all through the week though so it's not all smugness. Did give me time to make the aprons and party bags ready for DS's birthday party though. I put some pics on my profile for my party planning thread if you fancy a nosey. I have to say, for cheapo Baker Ross aprons and transfer paper, I was ridiculously proud of them once they were done.

I've finished my abs but still have a sore throat and a slight lump on the RHS of my neck. It's not tonsillitis sore but it's definitely not right. Having been on abs for about 15 days straight though, I don't want any more and have spent £22 (don't tell DH!) on some poncey probiotic immunity boosting tablets from the health food shop which I'm taking with some high strength Vitamin C + Zinc and some multivitamins in the hope that boosting my immune system might have better luck fighting this thing off. 9 doses of abs haven't worked and the doctor is referring me next time I get it so this is my last chance to avoid surgery and lose the protection of my tonsils for good.

Wish me luck!

Bumping.

So far, the expensive probiotics seem to be helping. I definitely don't feel 100% well but so far - no sore throat..

Yes, my tonsils have mutinied

I'm really quite scared of the idea of laryngitis or lung infections instead though and read something yesterday that linked tonsillectomies with weight gain so I really want to do all I can to avoid it.

I've got less than 7lbs to go to get to my goal weight now. I don't want to have worked this hard then put it all back on!

My cousins wife has just been told she's having hers out so I should be getting a RL story soon. I started a thread on here and got nothing but positives too.

I'm just scared because I've never been into hospital apart from to have the children and with Alex that wasn't a nice experience at all and I certainly didn't feel looked after. The visit to have Catherine was better but not great. I know the general hospital is not meant to be as bad as the maternity unit but it still doesn't fill me with confidence.

I promise if the probiotics don't work, I will go and see the doctor.

Hi everyone! Sorry for the radio silence but I have been manically busy at work, DH was away for the week and I have had a cold and lost my voice so all in all been great.

Blathers - I know a few people with tonsils out and have never heard anything negative about it either - of course that is in no way a medical view!!! I reckon though that if having them out stops the tonsillitis recurring and the repeated used of antibiotics then that sounds worth it.

Lee hope you're feeling better now - the sore and swollen neck sounds a little similar to what I have/have had. Sooooo annoying I find.

Nothing much else to report here - Imogen still funny and will not count (which for me as a Maths teacher is sooo frustrating - everyone else thinks it is hilarious and that she does it on purpose!!!). She will start at either 2 or 4 and then skip to 6 7 8 9 10!!!! She also received two party invitations on the same day this week, one from a little girl that she goes to the cm with which was lovely.

Right off to bed now - hope everyone else is well and enjoyed some sun this weekend!

Well, mega probiotics and vitamins seem to be working so far. Fingers crossed it's gone.

Busy planning Alex's many birthday celebrations at the moment. My family came from Up North at the weekend to see him, He's going to Pizza Express with his school friends on Thursday, soft play with our other friends on Friday and Legoland for the whole weekend!!

I know it sounds a bit OTT and I'm not entirely sure quite how it got this mad - people kept saying "will see Alex for his birthday" and it went from there - but I think it's going to be fun.

Hi, started a post and then DH rang and bloody phone lost it! Argh!
Anyway, hope you are all ok and blathers it sounds like good news on the tonsils. Hope you are both feeling better too Hercule and Lee.

Anna is being a real handful at the mo. Everything is a battle and she is really wilful at the mo. If she doesnt want to do something she will not do it and if I try to make her, we have a full scale meltdown. Tonight she has gone to bed in the t-shirt that she's had on all day at nursery snd would not go in the bath, brush her teeth or Put her pyjamas on. she was a bit smelly as we are potty training so I guess she's not as clean maybe as she would be if we were wiping her after every nappy change. So I said to her that she really should go in the bath as she was a bit smelly, but she was having none of it. Any advice? Is it just what toddlers are like?!!

It's just 2 year olds I think.

The best advice I think is to pick your battles. The less fights, the more of your sanity to save and they learn that you mean business when you do put your foot down. As long as she's not filthy then she'll be fine unwashed for one night.

No, it is more wee related I think. I will try to give her a good wash tomorrow morning before we go to nursery. You are right blathers, I need to pick my battles. It's just so wearing sometimes...

It's very wearing. Some days when mine are both at it, I could happily go out and leave them to it!

Catherine shocked us by asking for a shower tonight. She got right under the water and stood there for ages letting it wash over her head. Might be worth trying Anna in there to see if she prefers it. Make sure to sell it as a "Big Girl" thing :) We absolutely could not get Catherine to go in the bike trailer until I christened it the "Princess carriage", now she asks to go in there!

Alex always refused to do any sort of painting or drawing or craft as a toddler. He's not keen on it now either. As a designer, it was really frustrating. I'd take him to messy play and he'd tear round the edges while I did the crafts with friend's children!

Luckily, Catherine is much more into it. We went to messy play yesterday at the Art Gallery and she made me a Mother's Day card, a gift box and painted me a flower

We're going to Legoland for the whole weekend but aren't staying in the hotel. We've got a travel lodge nearby instead as it was much, much cheaper. Feeling a bit wobbly about money at the moment as it's looking likely that DH's company might get bought out and his job is looking under threat. Not good when he's the only wage earner in the house

Legoland was really, really good.

I now need to sleep for a week though!

Lullaby worked. I was in bed by 9.45 and asleep before 10pm!

Catherine had a monster nap this afternoon and Alex burst into tears not long after getting back from school because he was so tired!

I think it's going to take us a few days to get over last weekend

Hi all

Hope you're ok and that you are still snoring blathers!

We have had to resort to text books with Anna as she is just being a little monkey all the time. So got out my copy of the toddler taming book to see if the author had any helpful advice for me (and more importantly DH). have been trying a few of the suggested approaches and fingers crossed she has been slightly better behaved.

We went to see the Chris and Pui (from
CBeebies?) show yesterday at the theatre in Leeds. It was actually quite good and Anna sat all the way through it, which I was amazed about! It didn't last for long though, we went to an Italian afterwards for lunch and sitting quietly was seemingly the last thing on her mind!

Hood you all enjoyed mother's day?

Morning all. Finally had a nice day with Catherine yesterday so I'm hoping that she's caught up on sleep and I'm going to get my lovely toddler back soon.

We're supposed to be having terrific two's not terrible ones after all!

She never did follow through on that promise I'm afraid. Ah well, too late for them now.

Or start saving now and just buy my own. Probably easier

I have a problem and need some advice but don't want to start a whole thread about it so thought I would ask you guys....

Background - while at uni and for a while after, I was in a relationship with a guy called Dan. One day, after about 5.5 years, he decided he was leaving me for a mutual friend and left. I was distraught at the time but obviously got over it as I met and married DH about 3 years later - yey :)

When Alex was almost 2 (so about 6 years after break up) both ex and I were invited to a friends wedding. I can't say I was keen on seeing ex again but I really wanted to go and celebrate friends wedding and was taking DH so I figured I'd just have to get over it.

Ex had other ideas and threw a strop. Told friend he wouldn't be attending the wedding if I were going to be there! Friend had organised 2 receptions, 1 straight after the wedding and 1 once they got home from honeymoon to which we were both invited. He ended up having to ask me whether I'd mind not going to the 2nd reception so that Ex could go to that one. He was obviously embarrassed at having to ask and I agreed not wanting to make his wedding planning any more difficult. As it was, ex didn't turn up to the 2nd reception anyway citing expensive hotel rooms as his reason

Tonight, another mutual friend has sent me a message asking me if I'd like to go to his wedding reception. I really would as it's not often I get to see this group of friends because they live so far away. I've said yes but then thought 'but what if Ex is still playing silly buggers?' As far as I know, this is 2nd friends one and only reception and I'd hate for it to be made complicated because of me however indirectly.

So, my question is - do I say nothing and see if Ex is going to cause another song and dance about being in the same room as me or do I warn friend and give him plenty of notice to potentially uninvite one of us?

I don't want to be the one causing problems but I would rather save friend 2 the hassle of sorting things out at the last minute if Ex does play up. It wasn't my fault last time but I still felt awful at causing friend so much stress in the run up to what was such a happy day anyway.

What do I do?