April 2004.... count down to the second birthday!

[Yorkiegirl]

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Newbury is fine but I want our own house and it's simply unaffordable around here. I like Newbury but I hate my commute to work, dh is 7 miles away so he's happy!! He says but you'll only be working 3 days a week. But 4 nearly 4 hours on each of those days will be commuting. He just thinks I'm being unreasonable.
We've been out to look at chicken houses today, dh thinks this might take my mind of it.
Maybe I'm just tired, ds is feeding all the time and I'm getting miserable and very fed up with dh. I can't stand him at the moment

you have to keep remembering it was always going to be a stressful time and can only get better

we are also taking our minds off housing quandry and instead managed to buy an oversized hamster palace today. plus a hamster. the rodent palace now swamps our modest rented house, there's nowhere to put it. i don't know what we are doing, we are in chaos in small house so we extend our family how stupid are we?

dp thinks we are displacing our desire for a large nice house onto the new hamster's abode.

That's makes sense to me Fennel

I'm huntimg for my rare breed chickens now

isn't bird flu stopping people bying pet chickens at the moment? or will they have to live indoors with you if there's an epidemic?

i hate commuting to work too. here I have 3 mile cycle ride and dp has one mile cycle ride. but if we move to idyllic rose-framed country cottage we get a commute again. at present we are living in between an industrial estate and a supermarket - very handy for everything! but hardly scenic.

Hello Fennel!!!!! Glad to hear you're getting settled - it sounds lovely .

ds2 is certainly pushing at those toddler boundaries at the moment - in a way ds1 would never dream of... flinging food and banging his cutlery and a million other things to see just how naughty he has to be before he actually moves in to the naughty stair...

ds is v confused with the clocks going forward. Trying to get him into bed last night at 7.15 - he wants the light put out so he can see out into the dark and see the stars. oops - it's still daylight outside and he then doesn't agree that it's bedtime!! Blooming clocks!
Tho he did sleep an hour later this morning - so we were late for nursery/work!

Hello all. DD2 has been diagnosed with possible glue ear. On heavy duty antibiotics to try and shift the cattarrh.
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poor dd YorkieGirl - hope she gets better soon xxx

You need a Forsham Ark Mrs D, the Broughton range is good (i'm talking chicken houses)

ooo YG a cause is as good as a cure somethimes as my mum says - I think I no wot she means..........v tired dolbear house this week- ds had nasty cold breathing thing he was bouncing off walls this morning while we could barely walk in straight line
i know nothig about chickens - sorry have a phobia after being chased by a whole load of them when I was little , we boguht some fish so to teach ds respect i.e not banging the cage etc - I went to a v unusual primary school where we had an avery / pony/goats/ peacocks/ and a croc - i kid u not oo and axelottles

I am feeling very sad because my baby will be 2 on Sunday.
Not sad enough to have another. But DH is muttering about it.... eek!

Glad that you've sussed what was bothering her Yg...

I'm in complete denial about ds2 being 2 in a couple of weeks - I still get a shock when I see the April 2005 thread title which mentions "toddlers" in it - surely they can't be toddlers when they're a year younger than our little babies?!

By contrast, I'd quite like to fast forward ds to about school age!

dd is 2 today. It has just gone soooo quick. She opened up her kitchen this morning and has been playing with it. Her Nana has got her vegetables to chop up they are cool ones with velcro in the middle and a plastic knife and you can cut them in half (ie the velcro rips apart).
She has also got some books too for a little bookworm.
We are going to have a wee party next weekend for all the family and pretty much everybody we know who has kids her age(which isn't many)so it'll be small.
Can't believe ds is 3mths already, not enjoying the 3mth growth spurt as he's not as good at sleeping as dd.

Did my first nappy demo this morning, boy have I come a long way. There is a website www.thenappynetwork.org.nz which has a few demo kits where various WAHM's have sent nappies to a central source to create these kits and then demo's are presented to groups by volunteers who know about nappies. I did my first one to my plunket group which is a bit like the HV but they organised a group who all had babies in Dec and go through various things like sleeping, homeopathy, baby massage and I took the demo kit in full of washable nappies so people could touch and feel. I have another next week for the first session of the Jan mums. To think a year ago I was planning on starting washables.

Glad to hear your dd is on the road to recover YG. How are the chickens MrsD. Hows your patience Dot, luckily we haven't really had too many with dd yet.

Take care all, can't believe they are so grown up already.

YG - glad you have got things sorted, hope dd is better.
So you are a nappy agent now Chuffed?

This our little ones are two now. Can't believe we have been posting here this long. Impressive isn't it?

HMC - I have a house and run, it's not exactly an Ark but it's bigger. I'm going all out. Actually I might start a thread on chickens, ds is asleep.

i rather fancy an Egglu (talking of chickens). but not just at the moment.

yorkiegirl hope dd2 gets better. you've had a lot of illness this winter haven't you?

it's quite exciting seeing dd3 grow up a bit, she's getting much more compatible with her sisters, which is quite sweet, seeing all 3 doing things together.

she's a bit of a handful too. spends lots of time doing things like putting cat biscuits into cat water bowl. hunting out felt tip pens for use in unplannned places. etc.

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"Practical Poultry" magazine MrsD - it's well worth subscribing....

No experience of chickens here... hope dd is getting better YG.

My dd can be a handful too. I'm sure ds hasn't ever destroyed books or drawn on the table.

Did your dd have a nice birthday Chuffed? We have some of those velcro things you can cut up (ours are fruit). I really don't know what to get dd for when she's two.

God Chuffed - I can't believe this baby is sooo different to dd. I'm questionning reflux now, he's so unsettled all the time

MrsD do it, it has made ds a different child now we got treatment.

Symptoms were can't be put down, can't lie flat and still uncomfortable and screaming when on an angle, most comfortable upright. Cries are shrill. Not sicky at all.
Got Gaviscon Infant first of all which was good but a nuisance to administer, then got losec which the pharmacy mixed for me otherwise that is more of a pain than gaviscon apparently.
He is sooooo much better.

dd loved her fruit and veges, found her this morning playing with her kitchen. She'd peeled her plastic orange and then put the bits in the sink like we would with the waste disposal unit.

Not sure of ideas for b'days, those car things, trike, dd and ds are getting a trampoline for christmas.

Hi everyone. Chuffed - I thknk Happy Birthday is in order today for your dd (hope I haven't got it wrong!)
Ds is 2 tomorrow!! Just lugged a cake back from town and I'm getting very excited. We're not bothering with a party which is nice because last year I barely saw him on his birthday!!
I can't believe how quickly 2 years has flown by - and it has been lovely talking to you nice ladies over the last 2 years

happy birthday to the older children on the thread. there's still nearly a month to go til dd3's birthday.

dd3 has shown some interest in knickers! she has taken to wearing dd1's knickers on her head, as a hat. straight out of the washing machine so damp. do you think this means she is Showing Signs of Readiness?

We're off to my parents' tomorrow to have DD2's party. We'll celebrate tomorrow, even tho her bday is on Sunday, that way my mum and dad can be involved and we can come home Sunday lunchtime.
DH wants another baby. OMG. And he means it.