July 2010: Their speech is improving but it's sleep we're still losing

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Welcome back everyone!

How many more babies this time next year...? Something to tell us tsc

mlic they don't have open days as such at the schools, one of them (the one I think I prefer) the headmaster meets you and shows you round. The other one I think somebody shows you round there too.

I'm pretty sure I know which one I want - they don't have "scores" like Ofsted do so I've been reading the reports and asking other parents whose dc go there. I've even done a list of pros and cons of each one

Hi all, I'm still around. Reading semi-regularly, but not had time really to post. Sorry! Life is still a bit up in the air here and doing its best to kick DH and I in the teeth at every opportunity!!

No one thing in particular, just the regular woes of my company still being generally crap. Then there are the interviews where they then change their minds about what they advertised as being after, assuming they actually provide any feedback at all.

Chaos with trying to sell our house too. We'd found a lovely new build in a perfect area that they'd part exchange on, but the offer they made for our house is verging on insulting and they won't negotiate the price of theirs! So no-go there after having run around trying to get that sorted.

So no imminent baby plans here... Our three year gap plan is shifting to a four year gap thanks to job/house/ecomony woes. :(

M, at least, is pretty much fine. She's a had a bit of a cold, but on the whole has been lovely lately. :) She made me a card at nursery, which I was given on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, she was so excited. I also got a bit of a lie in for an hour, as DH took her downstairs. Lovely!

Looking forward to next weekend too, as the final part of my birthday present was a weekend away. My parents are looking after M while DH and I are staying in a B&B and seeing Twelfth Night at the theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. My favourite Shakespeare play! I can't wait!!

A quick toddler related question... Is anyone elses toddler obsessed with the toilet, or 'Potpot' as she seems to have dubbed it? We've had her in pull ups over the weekend because it was easier as every hour or two she demands to go and sit on the training seat on the toilet, then go through the whole motion of cleaning up after, flushing and washing her hands.

Obviously she's not producing anything, I don't think she's ready for toilet training! But I'm confused over whether her 'playing' at it is a good thing or a bad thing.

Of course if she does manage to toilet train herself in this way I'm not going to complain... Though I fear I might have to run really fast!

E is doing the same spireal! I'm presuming it's just her practising for the big event!
Tsc what a worry about C :( can imagine you just want answers at this stage. I know post viral stuff can be shitty but it's still awful to see her like that.
Lovely weekend here. Mum came up and spent the weekend and we went to the paddys day parade on Saturday and dinner after and then spent yesterday being waited on by dp! E made me a lovely card and gave me flowers and a voucher for a half day spa! She was very generous!

Afternoon peeps, Been out all day, we went for lunch in my favourite tearooms, L was really well behaved and charmed everyone in there saying bye and blowing kisses as we left! then went to docs as I have been up all night with awful earache, was convinced something was in there as it came on from no where, but its an ear infection, inner is is so swollen its closed up so thats why I cant hear! Typical when L slept all night!

spirael thats a shame about the house, is yours still on the market? L loves the toilet (weewee as he calls it) but has only wanted to sit on it once, pulling his bits saying 'no wee wee' and straining!
Past few days he has drank more than he ever has and he is filling a nappy with one wee! he had a nappy on for less than 3 hours yesterday and it leaked as the padding was totally full and leaking through the nappy wall rather than out the sides!

I've just had an average day of sitting opposite Ben Fogle

DS1 eaten all of his tea after a trip to the seaside/playground and ds2 been very unwhingy today as we've been too busy for him to get chewy apart from fighting him into the buggy but we''l ignore that

Spirael ds2 started going to the toilet lots a few months ago - even having poos and wees on the toilet, but has completely lost interest now. Everything's a phase

mlic what? really? I love Ben Fogle, well I lost a bit of respect for him with his cheesy Typhoo advert (but I will ignore that!)

Really :) We didn't realise before we went (we went to see something else but couldn't as it was closed for filming) but he was filming where we went today - see the link on my fb timeline

I am v.v.v jealous, I think he is wonderful! :)
L cried for his Daddy for 30 mins in bed tonight :( :( He hates me taking him to bed, wont let me read him a story ever and now the sobbing for Daddy has started, come summer when he is never here its going to be awful, and I have no

Looks like most have stopped coming on the thread to post :(
Hope everyone is ok, im feeling terrible, L fell at baby gym, cried for 20 seconds and has a terrible black eye so thats us stuck in the house for a few days, feel like a very bad mummy!
gorgeous weather here hope your all enjoying the sunshine.

Stuck inside here too, at work, memphis. Having a bad Mummy day as well! Just had to shout be forceful at my epic useless doctors surgery in order to get an appointment for M, then arrange DH to head out of work to take her after nursery informed me that M has an infected finger that I totally hadn't noticed. :(

She now has to have antibiotics four times a day, between meals, that apparently taste revolting and we should try bribing her to take. Bribe her how? She barely talks, I doubt she's going to understand "Take this nasty medicine now and you can have a chocolate button in an hour."!!

At least the toilet thing seems to be nothing to worry about. I'll just let her keep playing at it then until she either gets bored or toilet trains!

My bad week seems to be getting worse here! Work just politely informed us all that us plebs won't be getting a bonus, though by the sounds of things the managers will as they're on a different scheme.

Still a long way to go until o'clock!

hey memph i'm here too. poor L and how's your ear?

ouch to infected finger spirael! what caused it?

A likes to pretend to use the potty too. i wouldn't worry about M doing it or expect it to mean she'll potty train soon - like mlic says - it's all just a phase!

your bloody work sound awful. hope you manage to escape them soon!

how's C doing now tsc?

I'm quiet just cos everything feels a bit tits up at the mo - F & A both were vomiting over the weekend, work is manic, have had to swap my work days this week so i can go to a meeting tomo so that means the children are at home today - but i'm so busy at work that i'm trying to do emails etc round the poor, neglected children and then my boss's boss wants me to talk her thru our marketing (which isn;t even my area) performance at 1pm. and so i've spent this morning having to read reports to understand where we are. fed up.

spirael wha caused it? what about waving a piece of her favourite cheese in front of her as you give her the meds?
cakes still cant hear anything from the left side, but not as painful today.
I felt even more guilty as the woman who organises the gym said you should have told us, and I said there isnt any blood so there was nothing you can do and said not to worry and she walked off saying well if your not bothered...then trailed off, its ok but he wouldnt sit with a bloody ice pack on his eye he was tearing around pushing a pushchair at full speed within a minute.
tsc how has the appointment gone today?

Going for a facial this afternoon while my sister has L

she'll probably get fussy and start only doing it for paneer

enjoy the facial memph lucky thing!

Im here, just hard to find the time to post every day! Just put D downt to the sound of F screaming so i will be stunned if he sleeps....at all. He's been awfull at night again, waking several times and crying, i really thought we had turned a corner and he was just early morning waking but noooooo, silly me! Im not sure the child will ever sleep through, F didnt wake for a feed until 4.10 last night but D had already been up twice! Surly it should be the new baby keeping me up! So frustrating and annoying. F is not feeding great the last few days, i think its just a strange blip i dont think there is anything wrong.
Ok, Weaning, when did everyone do it? F is 12 weeks tomorrow and i know its not yet but did anyone do it at 4 months? Its just something im not looking forward to so im thinking about it loads.
Its half hour later and D went straight to sleep and so did F when i came down so i have had a chance to clean the kitchen and fold the washing, now im drinking coffee and eating custard creams!
cake I really dont know how you get anything done at home, i hope you managed to get the marketing stuff on board, was it a phone call u had to do?
spirael Your work sounds shitty, how did the finger happen? Dont sweat it man, life is busy and if it had been hurting her she would have let you know.
memphis Dont feel bad, D fell out of the front door and landed on his face on sunday morning, now thats bad!! Hes got a bit of a grey eye but nothing noticable so we still went to group this morning and he had a lovely play out side.
Looks like we are going back to brum on the weekend before easter due to the memorabelia fair at the NEC, id rather go easter weekend but dh wants to go to the fair, bummer.
dh How u feeling?
chu hope all is well with you all, are u able to put B down any more at all? F seems to HATE going into the car seat and every time we leave the house he screams, the neighbours must wonder what the hell im doing to them.
mylife E sounds like hes doing better hope it continues. I love Ben Fogal too, how did you not realise while you were there?

No idea what caused it... The doctor couldn't see anything in it. I trimmed her nails though at the weekend and she was wiggling away as I did. I don't think I nicked her, but maybe I trimmed a nail too short and it was something to do with that. :(

Cheese unfortunately won't work... She's not allowed to have the medicine for two hours after eating, and isn't allowed to eat for an hour afterwards! I imagine she'll get rather pissed off if I wave cheese in front of her nose, force down some yucky medicine, then put the cheese away for an hour...

Didn't get the job I was drooling over, but I had another interview last week for an interesting sounding position. Still waiting for feedback, but I was told to expect some at the start of this week, so I'm guessing it's not going to be positive now.

I keep getting interviews, doing loads of prep and they seem to go really well, but ultimately I keep getting rejected for really random reasons that I have no control over. It's getting a bit soul destroying. :(

Vik I didn't sleep through until I was 6yo. That's not helpful is it

I'm around just busy. Especially since I'm out and about much more since E started school and the weather has picked up.

Poor M and L. Hope they're both better soon.

Thinking of you over there tsc

Oh and vik I didn't know before we went that he'd be there, but I knew who he was when we were there, yeah. Unlike some...my friend's dh and sister said who?????

Rejected again... Came across really well with a fanastic skill set, and they can't fault me as a candidate in any way, but they've decided they want someone less technical for the role. Grr!

Having an epic fail week here, all in all. And it's only Tuesday!!

:( Spirael

vik I'm doing ok just trying to get to the 12 week scan without thinking Bad Things.

D is doing alot better at night, slept til 3am last night before coming in to us then slept til half 7! Unheard of!

You sound v hectic atm tsc, really hope C's scan goes ok. D is cutting teeth too and he's being a little bugger day and night.

After posting all smug last night about how good his sleep was. It seemed it was an incubatory sleep as he woke at 8:45 last night crying and chewing on his fingers. Bloody teeth, he hasn't woken that early in literally weeks hope he gets all his teeth before this new baby comes along.

Sorry about the job spirael

It does all sound busy tsc will the scan not be for a while then?

dh any morning sickness etc? I found the first trimester quite hard second time round with a toddler, A ended up watching lots of TV while I lay on the sofa feeling a bit queasy.

It has rained for three days here, thank goodness for preschool and playgroup where they can burn off some energy.

G is having some cracking tantrums, she cried for half an hour today because I dared to take a DVD out of its case (she wanted me to leave it in there). But other times she is funny and lovely and cuddly.

FWIW Spirael I didn't realise that ds1's antibiotics were supposed to be taken on an empty stomach until this morning but they are 4x daily and taste revolting so probably the same ones - I have been letting him have them at mealtimes etc and they have worked. He's almost finished the course and hasn't complained for days now about it hurting.

So a sip of milk to wash them down probably won't do much harm is what I'm saying :)

wss I've got a pic on my phone of W havng a screaming fit yesterday, because he wanted to walk in the opposite direction to me on the field. Life is hard at 20 months isn't it

Well, at least something has gone 'right'-ish. M apparently thinks the medicine tastes delicious! She's happily taking her dose whenever, without any bribery needed. [relieved]

She's a strange child.

wss nope no sickness yet, in fact I don't really have any symtptoms! Could easily go to bed at 8pm but that could just be looking after a teething D all day.