December 2011: Smiles and giggles and coffee and truffles.....

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Voila, a new positive thinking thread for us!

Onward and upward, ladies. Do come on and post if you're a lurker or want to join our merry band, all welcome!!

Oooooh is your username the same as your MN one Mopsy?

OiCongrats on the house and the rolling and the new niece, how exciting! and yes, the dribble bibs are very cute indeed. They arrived today and DS has been rocking a cow print

Bee it?s an electric one. Neuro Trac continence stimulator. I?m pleased to hear things have improved for you

aethel how very careless of you to forget those two full nights of sleep

MissRee I?m pretty sure carrot cake counts as 1 of your 5 a day!

Jomouse welcome back, of course we?ll have you

Hey, congrats on the house!

jomouse, welcome back!

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Evening ladies. Congrats on the house oi - can you share a link? I love house porn!

Welcome bakc jomouse - glad to hear you are getting on well.

Well done to everyone on the weight and exercise front. I tried to go for a jog this evening - sadly my pelvic floor thought otherwise. I am off to google your link kate I think pelvic floor exercises alone are not going to do it for me and I love my exercise. Would like to get back to hockey in the autumn ideally - at the moment that wouldnt be possible.

Had a nice day here with Freya .DS was finally well enough to go back to preschool and was generally a nicer boy for getting back to routine. Was quite producitve today too -washing, hoovering, shopping and putting stuff back into our new kitchen which has been dumped in our dining room till now. took Freya to rhyme time at the library too, but the librarian was a bit useless at the songs to be honest.

Freya is generally going to bed earlier now - 8/830 and for the last 5 nights has slept 11-12 hours. It is great but I can't quite believe it will continue as DS took months to get there. She has also found her thumb, which I think helps.

Welcome back jomouse

Well done alistair! Eva rolls from front to back all the time now, very entertaining when I want to do up the buttons on the back of her dresses!

hawthers glad he is ok, much better to over-react than miss something important.

honey I hate the beach, too many tourists and the sand gets bloody everywhere, including in their nappies somehow . We'd much rather take a football and picnic to the common or park. Though I realise I may appreciate it more if it was more than a mile away!

Can't think what else I was going to say to people!

I normally feed Eva around 11pm then she sleeps through until 6.30. She's been really sleepy when I've gotten her up the last couple of nights so we're leaving it tonight, fingers crossed I'm not up at silly o'clock!

Cheers HLC, not crazy, but unfortunately tea is one of the few things I can't drink- my Dad tried to make me when I was little, and as a result can't have it!
Never had thrush before, but anti-bs and being a bit run down have brought it on- such is life...

If Hope is following the centile air then that's fine- there have to be babies on that centile, it just means she's small. As long as she's not losing weight I wouldn't worry. Have any of the sock bombs exploded though ?!

I shall add sorting out BW to my list MissRee, will get in contact soon, though I'm away next week.

Hello again jomouse, glad things have settled down.

Wow Oi, what a day! That's great on the house (was the delay just down to them dithering over the offer?) and I bet you've already built that nursery in your head . And lovely news on your niece too. Hope she's doing well, and that the delivery went well- it is your sis isn't it, not your SIL?
My DP will not believe that DS rolling from front to back is an achievement- he just thinks it's poor balance, so was delighted to tell him Ali had done it too! Congrats to him.

I've finished off a marvellous day by (as noted earlier by Plu!) detailing our household expenditure, plus nursery costs. The nursery place costs more than our mortgage, and you can't win financially as you either pay the fees or one of you gives up work.
DP is appallingly crap a wee bit head in the sand about this sort of thing, so seeing it in b&w will scare him witless. Frankly, I need a glass of something strong to cope with the , and I knew how much it would be!

Off to bed early in a vain attempt to recharge. DH has conceded in the face of overwhelming evidence (thanks chaps!) that maybe he was wrong and no thank you, he's REALLY not keen on matching me with the wake-ups.....
See you all later...

It was a SIL who had the baby northern... well kind of. My husband's brother's girlfriend. I have met her three times. She's very new on the scene. (Just over a year). It's her 3rd child. They thought things were getting going so set off for the hospital at about 7am, they arrived at 7.45, and Caitlin arrived at 8.01. 8lb 15oz. Mother and baby doing well. Dad doing somersaults (his first).
Here's the house : www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-32364352.html It's not the prettiest house, but the space is amazing. It needs a bit of beautification in the gardens/drive/new front door. 5 beds, 4 toilets, a playroom with patio doors to the lower patio/garden, and a huge balcony from the living room. I can picture a big dining table on the balcony at one side, and some lovely loungey furniture at the other side with a firepit perhaps and some nice wine.
Sorry about the thrush. That's bad luck.
I still haven't quite got rid of the old piles... (sssh!)
Hawthers - definitely agree it's OK to be extra careful. Very releived to hear your LO is OK. You've all been through enough.
Thanks for keeping on about pelvic floors! And Squee-ee-eze, girls!

Gosh, Oi, that's extremely... magnolia. Easy to paint over, though! I found a great decorating tool recently, which allows you to virtually paint rooms. Just in case it's useful, here it is!

Hi oi the house looks fab , really spacious .

Congrats to all the little rollers , holly is rolling from back to front and is thrilled with herself :)

air we are on the fifteenth centile and it doesn't bother me in the least , She is gaining weight and thats all that matters :)

Right off to sleep !

I was also rather shocked at the magnoliati of the house. Tis a blank canvas for me to colour in.
Structurally and facilities-wise, it needs nothing. But it needs major beautification. Lots of wallpaper and lovely fabrics needed. there's so much I could do - when I can save up to do it. The balconies need updating - nicer wood, glass edges, it should have fabulous patio doors rater than bog-standard... I need that Eurosquillions win!
Right, I need to get orf and dream about decorating. :)

Apparently, there was a time when magnolia was cutting edge. It was a 90s thing, and Tracey Emin and her gallery partner were involved (I believe I heard it on a Radio 4 documentary): they were reacting against pure white, which was utilitarian, cold and easily soiled. How things have changed: magnolia is now the buy-to-letter's default, and of course it shows the dirt easily, too!

oi lovely house, and what a great sized kitchen! My kitchen would fit in a corner! Ours used to be the shed but it was converted (not by us!) to turn the then kitchen into a dining room. Our plan is to convert the garage into the kitchen when we win the lottery as if we knocked through its only across the hall from the dining room.

air my DS is on the 9th centile. He's never had much of an appetite, he's healthy though but just small.

Oi your SIL was really quick! Were her other two very fast as well do you know?

jiggle DD2 found her thumb as well, its driving me nuts as I never knew what a thumb sucker was like and I'm finding it quite odd, but it doesn't really help her sleep better.

Also DD2s BCG has gone icky, it was leaking this morning so I think I'll show the HV next week if its still not good, you never expect that it takes 12 weeks for it to get close to the scabby stage.

Argh. Went to bed before 9 to maximise on DS's conck pit and the little
bugger darling wakes at 11.30 fr a top up. Argh.

jiggle keep working on those pelvic floor exs and you'll be back playing hockey in no time. I'm a bit of a fanatic and have played 2 games with the 3rd next sat (can only do home games due to DH being away and so reliant on sideline help to look after the boys!).

Oi house looks fab, loads of space for a growing family! I'm used to magnolia, it's the standard military house colour. When we finally get our own house there will not be a single magnolia wall to be seen!

After this morning's performance scared the living shit out of me, f was on cracking form and was the picture of health when DH came home. Which was fortunate as think DH has ptsd after the meningitis and I'm pretty sure another hospital admission would push him over the edge. F was acting just like he did with the meningitis, not interested in feeding and rather sleepy. Thank bob it resolved and it look like he just needed a good shit.

I have a finger sucker too. F has been at it since day 1. Think it explains why he is so easy to put down to sleep.

Weigh in tm

After this morning's performance scared the living shit out of me, f was on cracking form and was the picture of health when DH came home. Which was fortunate as think DH has ptsd after the meningitis and I'm pretty sure another hospital admission would push him over the edge. F was acting just like he did with the meningitis, not interested in feeding and rather sleepy. Thank bob it resolved and it look like he just needed a good shit.

I have a finger sucker too. F has been at it since day 1. Think it explains why he is so easy to put down to sleep.

Weigh in tomorrow - nervous and knackered. Here's hoping for dome sort of nap tomorrow.

Another freaky 1.44am wake up!