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

[DesperateHousewife21]

Welcome back everyone!

cake I think I'd still go and see what the situation is like once there. F will be more entertained there than at home and A could be miles better.
It's hard to know what to do but if I were you I'd go even if A is still a bit under the weather you're not missing out on going to cp.

memphis yes I heard lidl were good, shame I can't get to aldi now.

x post memph. Yes I do pretty much all my shopping in Asda and Aldi. I'll only ever buy free range chicken and our local Asda is too small to stock it. In Aldi free range chicken is £3.99 for two breasts and £4.99 for a small chicken! It's certain things like that, and eggs that I prefer to Asda. I'm just finishing my cuppa then will be off there. Oh and they do a spinach and ricotta frozen pizza that is gorgeous for £1.49

I think I'd go if I were you cake - just take tons and tons of spare clothes and accept your washing machine might be a bit busy when you get back! Good luck.

I wouldn't go. I like to have all my home comforts and everything (esp. washing machine) available when someone is sick. But I can see I'm in the minority. What have you decided? Was bad enough here where we have nearly everything available.

How strange memph that they sent an ambulance for you and here they told us to wait when her temperature was 40.2

viks Totally get what you mean. M has been awful lately. She is so demanding and angry and tantrummy. I watched a bit of Supernanny US the other day and I thought that these children weren't actually so much worse than M. Am really at a loss as to what to do. It's not just cos she was sick either. She was a bit better for a while but is quite quite bad atm. Friends who came to see us on Sunday went away rather shocked

Had to cancel our night out last night cos I thought M was still too poorly. She picked up as soon as we decided not to go and slept through Luckily SIL and MIL have agreed to babysit tonight, so we'll try again...

Things have been so stressfull lately that all me and DP seem to do is fight That's so not like us and I feel awful. It's a mixture of M being so demanding and ill, DP's dad dying and being in someone else's house, having somebody with us the whole time without being able to talk properly. It seems to be one misunderstaning after the other and then we end up not talking. Oh well.

F is up, gotta go.

mlic never tried that pizza but I think there other stonebaked pizzas are gorgeous! I never buy a whole chicken as I never eat anything but the breasts.
trudyla even the doc surgerys around here (which is a different area to where we were) send you straight to a and e for under 3's as the risk of seizures is a lot higher, its 40 degrees for over 3's though, L was convulsing in the ambulance with a temp of 39.6 and they had the sirens on as he was close to a seizure.
went to see mum at work and L refused to hold my hand, tripped up some bashing his cheek, head and ear on the floor, so a lump on the head, grazed cheek and a weird blood blister on his ear!

See we were told when we took S in with a temp of 41C that children deal better with high temps than adults do and not to worry too much I'd always thought what memphis said about seizures. Great that they all agree on everything...

trudyla S is being a horror too at the mo. I remember with L I absolutely loved her 18 month stage, definitely not with S. He tantrums at everything, has no patience, I have to fight him into his car seat every.single.time, he won't walk holding my hand so when we cross roads and I take his hand he flops to the floor, he grizzles almost constantly for no obvious reason. DH finds the weekends such a struggle cos we want to unwind but we just can't with this boy. Fingers crossed it's just angst til the baby gets here and things will settle down

Had to go and pick L up mid-nap cos she was crying so much, she was up every 2 hours last night but I still sent her to nursery cos it's only eczema playing her up. Feel a bit dopey now.

Did you go in the end cake?

I'm tired and grumpy, L just wants to sit on my knee and there's no space with bumpling too. Roll on the 13th.

chulita crazy how people in the medical profession have such different views!
Hopefully S will settle down once number 3 arrives L wont hold my hand, he hasnt ever been given the option to cross a road as he bolts once he has freedom!

I think you're right about S settling down a bit when there's a new baby on the scene

It's funny how they're so different isn't it. Mad to think E was younger than W now when W was born, yet E seemed so much older at the time. He was talking more and just seemed generally more mature than W is. Yet E still is was Mr Independant and Would Not Hold My Hand At All, whereas W always wants to hold my hand. In that sense he's much easier

What a lovely afternoon we've had. Hope everyone's weather has been as nice! Had a lovely afternoon at the park. W is just starting to whinge now but I'm hoping it's just hunger...their tea will be on the table in a few mins :)

Cloudy ish here but still v mild, took to the park as well this afternoon he had a great time.

I let him have a nap from 11:45 til 12:30 thinking he needed it and now he will NOT go to bed.
Dh is reading to him in his darkened room atm, I think he's ready to not nap if this is what happens at bedtime.

I wanted some time with just dh as I haven't seen him since yest morn grr!

More vom here just now Guess I'm not going to my craft group this morning then :(

tsc my opinion is it's lovely to go on holiday but when it boils down to it, there's nothing to 'keep' afterwards, yet spending the money on the garden (or something) will make you much happier for longer iyswim. So I'd plump for the garden.

You popping the question today then? [wink}

Where is everyone? I need cheering up :(

Im here, Im always here, rocking in the corner!
tsc nice to get a bit of money unexpected like that!
mlic is it still vom central at your place?
We were suppost to go to the awful chavtastic soft play today but I cancelled, I just couldnt face it, its alright for the other 2 mums who's kids are clingy and dont go more than a meter away but L wants to go on everything and this one they picked is more geared to older toddlers! so been to do the food shopping and L is now in bed, also took my lovely waffle maker back as it broke after 2 used so need to find a different one!

No sick since this morning. But had a mare with E this morning which resulted in him smacking me repeatedly in the face on the way to school - I couldn't face taking him to nursery in the end so he got his own way and stayed off because I was in tears and couldn't face the teachers :(

He has not been allowed to watch his tv (ie CBeebies/Nick Jnr) or play on the computer all day. I put the tv on but have only had my 'boring' programmes on which has done his head in. He slept on the couch (so did W) for an hour and a half at lunch time though, so I'm hoping the bad behaviour was down to him feeling unwell and nothing more.

But all in all I feel a bit deflated tbh. A definite 'wish I had a job' day

mlic hopefully he is in a better mood for having a nap, I really struggle with the smacking, as I just dont know how to get it into his head how naughty doing it is, if I tell L off in any manner ATM if he is in a mood he eyeballs me and goes to smack me but then will lightly tap my leg or will smack the wall, himself or whatever is next to me.If I hold his hands, get down to his level etc he thinks this is highly amusing!
Did they just fall asleep on the sofa or do you tell them its naptime, L falls asleep on sofa at mums and sisters but wont here!Did you make that veggie crumble? if you did, did DH like it? would you serve it with anything?

Ive just made a cake, like the old school tray bake with jam and coconut on top, and a lancashite hotpot. never.again, it told me stewing lamb which is the neck, so I had to hack around the neck bone, I was actually heaving, a day I wish I didnt try new meat ideas for me!

No he's not really. He was but then has been fighting with W since and getting me pretty mad.

It's totally different dealing with W smacking, to dealing with E. E went in a strop because I told him he couldn't ride his bike to school. Which is a new school thing, not just me being a bitch. Anyhoo, he then refused to go. I tried picking him up as he was stuck to the spot and then over the road I put him down again. So he threw himslef on the floor. So I picked him up again and he started lashing, hitting/slapping/pulling my hair deranged child. So he won, and got to stay off school. But he also gained a stint in his bedroom and no 'fun' for the day. Except I couldn't move all his toys so he has been playing with them when he hasn't been too busy winding W up

And W has not been off me All. Day. Not even to sleep I love parenthood I do

The veggie crumble was the shits. Wouldn't do it again.

Memph wouldn't the butcher you know take the bone out for you if you wanted to make it again? I think it'll be high calorie, stodgy, comfort curry for tea tonight. And I have cocoa powder, eggs and flour so could probably knock up a chocolate cake too.

He wasnt at work yesterday but the other butcher cut it into cubes for me, having never had it before I thought it would be off of the bone, next time I will just buy cubed casserole lamb if its nice, I could do with a superduper knife but then I look at prices and think maybe not
Im not surprised you went back home, I dread those lashing out tantrums starting, L was bad enough in currys when he wasnt allowed to run around while I queued earlier, he will do anything to get from my grasp, I had hold of his wrist like a mad women as the queue was huge and I wasnt leaving it again! then he cried because they have one of those bloody cars outside, I never put him on them but mum does and I said yes hecould go on if he was a good boy, then told him he wasnt good so it was a no! I know he doesnt understand much, my mum would call me cruel and 'he's only a baby' if she was there! so he cried, and an old lady tutted at me!

I have also had a wish-I-had-a-job day, and I do have a job... Wednesdays are my only totally free day so I feel bad when I don't enjoy them. J woke at 5.50am and wouldn't go back to sleep, just cried at singalong so we left early, wouldn't let me put him down for his nap and when he did sleep it was only for about 10 mins, had a massive tantrum about the cosy coupe at toddler group, has generally whinged and now is way overtired and it's not bloody well bedtime yet.

'I have also had a wish-I-had-a-job day, and I do have a job...'

Oh and btw memph I always put W in his bed for a nap. I wouldn't dream of putting him on the sofa for a nap - nor E - but W fell asleep on me and then within minutes E flaked out on the other end of the couch! So apart from the twice W woke, cried and then went back to sleep, it was a lovely peaceful hour and a half. Although I have no doubt I'll regret it when I try to put E to bed at 7pm

mlic shame it was a peaceful hour where you couldnt do anything for W lying on you! hope you had crisps to hand!

We are watching the Gruffalo for the 3rd time in a row, L will not stop moaning today, so not like him, I hope this tooth will actually pop today! we had another incident with the bloody ready brek and 2 pints of milk on the floor! grr, bedtime is happening at 6.30 in this house, I cant take much more of it!

Wish J liked the Gruffalo film - we have it on DVD but last time I tried he just wasn't interested. Baby Jake is more his level...

My day was also not improved by going to Sainsbury's for one thing, spending £26 and realising when I got home I forgot to buy that one thing. Grr. Not sure what to do for dinner, FIL is coming to spend the night. DH would be happy to cook I'm sure, but he's been out at work all day so I feel bad.

I did buy beers in Sainsbury's and as soon as J is in bed (and DH is home, better not drink alone) I will be cracking one open.

I just moved quicker than I thought possible to catch J who was falling head first off the sofa. He just thought it was funny. My heart is still pounding!

If it's any consolation to anyone, I'm currently having a "Wish I was a SAHM" period with my job! Looking after M is easy compared to it at the moment.

I have however just applied for what could be a dream cushy civil service job, so if anyone has fingers they can spare to cross on my behalf for that I would appreciate it! :)

With the stress of jobs, the kitchen and all the associated stuff recently I've gained over half a stone in a month. :( So no more comfort food for me! I will console myself with some cherries and burn off frustration with some sit-ups, I think.