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

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Welcome back everyone!

Amsterdam doesn't appeal to me at all.

Dublin is nice and you could visit kk wouldn't cost much wrt flights.
Barcelona is somewhere else I'd like to go.

I don't remember Venice being smelly when I was there (in the height of summer), it was 20 years ago though . It was lovely but busy - we were only there a couple of days, we stayed at Verona which is an hour by train or something.

I went to Amsterdam a couple of times when younger, my memories are a bit vague but there is loads of nice stuff away from the seedier districts - lovely art galleries etc.

Florence is beautiful but especially if you are into art galleries/old churches etc.

Never been to Spain, which I'm sad about (would like to see Barcelona and Madrid).

Loved Prague but quite busy these days I believe. Really liked Copenhagen - small, compact city to walk around, very clean, nice buildings, very civilised (mind you, when I got there I had flown in from Nepal, so just being somewhere with flushing toilets and drinkable tap water was fantastic).

Lots of France is lovely too, especially the south.

I love France, since being small, been all over and love the south but think its too much travel for a weekend, dh wants to go in 4 weeks but think i will put it back a bit. D
Would love to go to Florence at some point but think it will be Paris, im very nervous about leaving L for 2 nights and looking into it I can be home in 2 direct trains if needs be. I know that sounds lame writing it down!

Oh fuckety fuck. Week 4 of my new job and both boys aren't well.

What the fuck do I do? W was sick before bed and once in the night (although didn't wake/cry so I didn't know until I went in this morning - had to cut some of the sick out of his hair ) and E has been up since 5.30am with a temp of 39.5c

They both seem absolutely fine atm. W's chest is still noisy so decided yesterday I was going to take him back to the docs after work today anyway and E has a cough but is chirpy/playing/eating. W won't eat but is drinking.

I have training today and dh can't take the day off either.

I think I'll take it on face value that both their temps have come down quickly/easily with paracetamol and they are happy in themselves so will send them to school/nursery and see what happens.

I'm one of those mothers, aren't I :(

Don't beat yourself up about it mlic. It's one of those difficult situations every wohp finds themselves in sometimes. It's one of the things I'm not looking forward when/if I ever find a job!

Oh and does anyone have any DVD recommendations?

Dh has just signed us up to one of those online DVD rentals things and I'm really out of touch with most films of the last few years as I hardly get to the cinema these days.

I used to watch loads of arthouse/foreign stuff (though dh doesn't like them much) but also like a good comedy/thriller/etc. Don't like most horrors. Anyone seen anything good lately? We have 10 films to get before 16th June, may as well use up our free trial's allowance

mylife how's today been? Hope the boys are OK.
wss look up IMDB if its got a high score on there u can usually be assured that its a good film. We watched john carter last night, don't bother,i wasn't keen really.
D hasn't slept! I hope this isn't the start of nap dropping coz he can just bugger off! F has drained all his bottles today and yesterday and fed twice over night, I'm thinking he's making up for not eating for 48 hrs in the week. I think its gona be one of those afternoons, I'm gona pile everyone in the pushchair and go to the park I think.

E has tonsillitis (but no antibiotics) with a NONSTOP cough and W has more antibiotics for his chest but his ears have cleared up so that's good.

I watched The Round Up last night (french film - you can probably guess it was about Jews in France being sent to camps) and bawled my little eyes out.

Films I've watched recently...
Taken (thriller) - was quite good (if not a leeetle far fetched)
Larry Crowne - utter shite
Crazy Stupid Love - thought it was v good and I love Ryan Gosling
The King's Speech - good
The Town (thriller) pretty good
Big Fish - good. Weird. But good
Shutter Island - didn't read any 'spoilers' and it kept me glued until the end
We Need to Talk About Kevin - you've read the book so don't watch the film, it's shit.
The Black Book - Dutch war film, I really enjoyed it
Amelie - awful. No further comment required. Just awful.
Warrior. Loved it (but you've got to appreciate martial arts/cage fighting)
Gran Torino - good
Water for Elephants - good
Seven Pounds - loved it

The film that sticks in my head the most is Cell 211 if you can get that. I watched on tenterhooks - it's a spanish film about a prison guard who ends up inside. Very gritty.

That'll do for now

My lovely husband had left a bunch of flowers in the kitchen for me when I got in from work/the doctors from the kids that said 'thank you for looking after us'. Such a lovely gesture :)

my life It would appear that we may have simalar taste in films. Cell 211 was good, Taken, was that with Liam Neeson, if it was it really disturbed me and i never want to see it again, i have watched it twice and thought it was good but disturbing. A film i wana watch again soon is Pulp Fiction, i love that film and resevoir dogs, great films! Also any jay and silent bob films i.e Mall Rats, Dogma, Jay and silent bob strike back.
Shit about W and E what happened today, did they stay in school/nursery all day? Very lovely of ur dh, good that he realises that thats the case.
We we had melt down this afternoon on the way back from the park D bawled his head off which set F off, i got annoyed with D and really told him off, i felt bad but my god he was pushing my buttons! He went instantly to sleep in the pushchair so i left him for 10 mins out side the house. When he woke he was evil, he bawled for ages and wouldnt be consoled, just tiredness im sure but poor boy he was a right state. F had 8oz at 6pm and a further 4oz after his bath! fat boy! Did everyone dream feed? I really dont think it makes much differance, so far hes woken for a feed somtime after 3am weher we have dream fed or not, havent done it since wednesday(hospital night) but last night he woke at 11.15 and took 6oz so should we do it or not??

mlic Ha ha I saw Amelie years ago, loved it!

Liked Gran Torino too and the Kings Speech. Will check out some of the other suggestions thanks.

Lovely about the flowers - so nice to get a bit of a token of appreciation now and again.

vik I love the Kevin Smith films too (Dogma etc) ever since I saw Clerks many years ago. Clerks and Clerks 2 are particular favourites. Good suggestion re IMDB too - I look at Rotten Tomatoes too (website that collects all the published reviews of a film and come up with a score based on the reviews - also has viewer reviews).

I never did dream feeds, I tried with A but it didn't make her wake up less in the night (she never woke up that often anyway) so I didn't bother.

I am interested in how long tsc's ban is going to be for...

Did we get a link for the petition for tsc?

I think she's been "unbanned" stac, I just saw her post on another thread

Yeah saw her wss after I posted, typical of me to be slow :S

Hi girls

How is it going?

I've still been reading but didn't want to post and drown you all in my sorrow and self pity like always

Life's been a bit rough but hopefully we're coming out the other end now.

The bleeding has finally stopped, after nine weeks of constantly worrying whether I will have to rush off to A&E again and whether I will make it. It's been horrific. Turned out to be some blood disease, hopefully only connected with this operation, and not a genetic thing. I had to take some pills that sorted me out. Unfortunately that meant the end of breastfeeding. I'm still quite surprised how hard I took that. I never thought I would be sad to give up bf, but it was pretty tough. He was six months by the time I stopped but so, so tiny Oh well, he's taken well to bottle feeding and we're battling on with weaning as well.

The kids are all good. Will post some photos on FB later. They are growing up so fast and it's great fun with them. Mostly. Not the other day though when they were both screaming bloody murder in one shop so people gave me looks that showed horror and pity at the same time and relief when we left

Our business has taken a hard hit. So much that at the moment we can't live off it any more and are digging into our savings. We have therefore hurried the decision along to go back to the UK to find a job for DP or possibly both of us. Job market is still a lot easier to get into in the UK than here, despite the recession over there. So we've had an offer on a house accepted, eeekk and are keeping our fingers crossed for the mortgage to come through (based on the good performance of our business in previous years...). However, we just had the survey done and there are some severe issues so I'm really scared. DP is convinced that this is normal for an older house but I find it pretty scary. We'll see if we have to renegotiate. Will post location of house on FB. I know cake lives pretty close but maybe someone else so we could arrange a meet up.

Sounds like some of you had a pretty tough time.

Viks Poor you and baby having to stay in hospital. Not nice at all. Hope he's better now.

Mlic Congratulations on the job. Fantastic news. Sorry the boys are poorly. Are you staying home with them? I'm shocked you don't like Amelie btw. It's my all-time favourite feel good film. How can you not like it? Have to remember to never listen to your film recommendations

tsc Banned? Whatever happened, I'm glad you're back. How is C these days? Is she still getting very tired?

Stac Nice to see you here as well. How is it going?

Chulita How are things your end? Is everyone healthy? I had our thread disappear once and it had something to do with me accidentally hiding it. Check whether you've done that.

Wss I don't have any film recommendations, I can't sit through many these days, it's all 30 min comedies here But I can tell you which one not to watch. I don't know how she does it with SJP. Awful, awful, awful. Almost as bad as SATC2.

Memph Fantastic news about your dad. I'm really pleased for you all. Sorry you have been feeling a bit down. We've all been there, don't beat yourself up. And don't worry about being mean mummy and not letting him have sweets all the time. That's what us mums are there for.

Sorry for anyone I've missed. Will try and be on the thread more regularly now, hope some others are, too.

Laters.

Morning all! Things have been manic here lately, but I've been doing my best to keep up with reading. Glad to hear the bleeding has been resolved, Trudyla! Well done making it to 6 months with BFing. :) Has it been that long already?? Good luck with your move!

Can't really help with film recommendations, WSS. Our tastes seem very different... The ones I've watched recently have been fantasy/sci-fi/family/animated/adventure/superhero.

Things are going ok here at present. Started my new job a few weeks ago and it seems to be going well. :) I was chronically shy to start with, but I'm beginning to settle in now. I get paid tomorrow for the first time, woo!

No joy in house selling, so M's room is being completely refurbished at present as we try and make it more appealing. Hers is the smallest room in existence and we needed to move the radiator in order to actually fit a (junior) bed in it.

We discovered the carpet was over 20 years old and not held down, the paint has been peeling off the archaic plaster for a while, there was one whole power socket and the light fitting was incorrectly installed. Yeah... It needed doing!

Hopefully it'll be done by the weekend, and we've ordered her a junior bed that should hopefully arrive for then too. We're finally going to have to bite the bullet and move her from cot/sleeping bag to bed/duvet...eek!

Lovely weather here today, hope it's the same for everyone else! I'm working, so I'll be watching it from inside.

I was really looking forward to Amelie but was sooooooo disappointed!

Glad to see tsc is reinstated. There wasn't really looking a petition stac I was just messing.

Nice to see you back Trudy! Glad the bleeding has settled, good luck with the house. pics of the kids are lovely.

Spirael I changed W's cotbed to a bed on Sat and it's been fine apart from the vomit

I tried dreamfeeding vik but didn't feel it made much difference so didn't do it for long

Aaaaaaah!! Just had a call to say a couple are insistent that they want to come and view the house this evening, 10 minutes after I get home from work and just before a whole load of friends are coming over!

M's room has no carpet and the painting is being done today so the house is going to reek. M is currently based in the spare room, which is filled with all her stuff as well as all the stuff that's normally in there.

And I have the animal wall stickers from her room all over the wardrobes in the master room, to keep them safe until we could reinstate them...

It's not going to look good, is it? [weeps] The second viewing we've had in 9 months, and it had to be today with 4 hours warning while I'm at work!!

spirael It will be fine, just explain the situation, say what the plan of action on M's room is this weekend and theywill probably be more keen as you are doing work to a room so it saves them doing it.

Spirael I do like quite a lot of older sci-fi, stuff like Blade Runner, Terminator (espec the first one), Silent Running, Running Man, Total Recall, original Star Wars etc are some of my fave films...I just can't think of any recent sci-fi type films to watch i.e. in the last 10-15 years. Not so much into the fantasy stuff though dh loves Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones etc.

Trudy nice to see you back, I agree SATC2 was awful. Do you have a date for moving back?

How'd it go Spirael?

DH managed to get the afternoon off to clean up, so the house was immaculate, though cluttered with furniture in places due to the decorating. The painting was finished, so even the decorated room looked good - although missing carpet. :P

It was an older couple, presumably downsizing, and they made the right noises. Unfortunately, sounds like they haven't sold their house yet, so I fear we were just a scouting mission. :( So I'm not expecting any offers.

The only one of those films I've actually seen WSS is Total Recall. And that scared me half to death! I fear I'm a bit of a coward... My Sci-Fi films would be things like Serenity, Star Wars, Fifth Element, Back to the Future, etc.

Ooh it's gone quiet again.
I am just trying out mn on the ipad, we got one yesterday. Only had desktop before so v useful for how portable it is. A is an expert on it already.
Had her speech therapy yesterday and one more appt then she thinks we can have a break for a few wks then reassess her and she is probably all done.
Lovely sunny day here but coooold, I hear you are all in the middle of a heat wave

Yeah wss its been gorgeous here for a change even in my neck of the woods. Have you noticed any difference with A's speech since the therapy started?

trudy I can't believe your lo is 6 months old already, its flew in. You looking forward to the move?

spireal any word from the viewers?

mlisc trust me to be the thicko lol I thought it was a great idea. Was joining the campaign with gusto. How's the boys?

tsc did you find your way back to this thread?

How's everyone else? All good I hope. I'm on the final stretch for college, I'm going to be lost :(

stac what wil you do from here regarding college? Another course?
wss its lovely here but hoping its here for the duration!

Dh had day off weds as it was 27 degrees so we went seaside ...and it was freezing!

Wanted to take L farm today but mil is coming. I cant cancel as i moaned she doesnt make an effort

memphis the follow on for this course is the degree in additional support needs which would be ideal but its only done in one uni in scotland which is in fife. Some of the girls are commuting but with the kids its not feasible for me. So I'm going to complete my degree with Open Uni then I'll have the option of doing a phd in teaching or social work. The job fronts pretty slim so may as well keep studying.

Does mil not see L much? That's rotten you need to miss the farm, could she not go with you?

Thank crunchie its friday :). My aunts neighbour is throwing an impromptu garden party tomorrow and we're all invited, should be fun.