December 2011: They're one Jim, and highly illogical!

[LittleMissFantabulous]

I went with Gary's suggestion, as it was quite awesome and indeed factual!

:o

Onwards?

I have wet feet. Bleh!

My feet were dry until we got in. Forgot that the snow on the pram would drip onto the floor and great puddles for me to step in socks. Bleh!

Today saw our first visit to Clarkes for a shoe fitting. He was soon stomping up and down the length of the shop delighting the grannies sat in the arcade. Thankfully granny will be paying for proper shoes.

We also have our first egg shaped lump on his forehead thanks to a run in with a dining room chair. And he's now been asleep for 3 hours. I'd be worried but he was full of beans for a good 90 mins between bumping head and falling asleep. Reassurance required please!!!

Oh, and not to be a party pooper but I hope the snow has cleared up by wed. Snow plus secretly pregnant postie is not going to work....

kat hope he's woken up now, let us know what time he's tired enough to go back to bed!

I think we might get DD her first shoes on Thursday. We don't use clarkes, much prefer start-rite anyway, plus we use the factory outletso they're half-price. Just a shame it's 30 miles away rather than 12 to clarkes.

Send any unwanted snow in this direction. 2 degrees and its raining

Octoboy is suffering big time. His bum is encrusted in pox. They're seriously nasty:(

seven it could be a fungal rash. DS had a patch of what I thought was nappy rash and it wouldn't go away. Mentioned it to GP when I was there about something else and he said it was fungal and prescribed Daktarin.

Hope octoboy gets better soon.

Aaargh dS has definitely lost his first shoes (startrite), they were bloody £24 and he only had them two weeks! Have looked everywhere, cosytoes, in bags, under sofas, pockets, all sorts. He's now in his suede softies while I go spare try to find them or eke them out til he's in the next size so it doesnt feel such a waste to get more! What's the betting they turn up on moving day?

Am also a bit about our estate agent: he was on the phone to tell us that there is "some pressure" for us to complete at an inconvenient time (kids still at school, me still working) because someone else in the chain is in rented. I was rather annoyed as his people skills wind me up by their absence, surely taking our needs into account should be part pf the picture? Anyway we're not able to exchange yet til the paperwork is all sorted. I shall step back and take a metaphorical chill pill.

Boo for bumpox LMF! metanium plus piriton maybe to reduce the itch?

Good luck with the sleep Jiggle, CC was so hard to do but he's amazingly good at going down now.

MissRee, well done! I won a cookery book off here today, hurrah, hope some of your luck is rubbing off on meee!

kat, how are you feeling? I've just noticed you're on the Aug'13 board too! Hope DS is awake & better!

LMF, hope he's better soon. I think you're owed a good few months of decent sleep by him. x

No shoes for DS here yet, not walking confidently enough to be outside on the ground...and the way their feet grow I'll hold off until he's old enough to be doing cartwheels

congrats missree

Hope Octoboy is better soon xx

Sooooo WWYD? MIL wants to buy Air a Lightening McQueen cake. Air wants a Batman cake. I told MIL she said he can have two cake! So for his Birthday we will have party at softplay and get batman/avangers cake and get him a batman outfit and batmobile. So wtf is she going to do with a McQueen cake
We called her today and she said she had ordered it today - so call and change it and be helpfull

Well F has just screamed the place down for 15 minutes and thumped and crashed around her cot but hoping she has now given up and sleeping. I wouldnt care but she has had 45 minutes sleep all day and has been whingey and whining all day as she was tired. I do think we would be a happier family all round if she would sleep!! Though DS did tell me this evening that he has special night ears for when F cries and he can switch them so he doesnt here her! Luckily he is just a very heavy sleeper and genuinely does not wake up. Tonight we are going for no going in for the first 2 wake ups at least - might be painful! Keep telling myself it will be worth it - I cannot function on this little sleep and we did it with DS and he is a great sleeper now.

Oh dear she has set off again.

LMF - hope the pox clears up soon. Not had it here yet.

Aethel - it is a rare estate agent indeed that has good people skills! Good luck with it all and finding that shoe. Have you tried local walls and gates - I lost one of DS's once and someone had kindly left it on their wall when we went back to retrace our steps. Why are kids shoes so expensive - it is crazy and Clarks and Start rite have such a monopoly.

Quiet once more. MN is a good distraction as DH has gone to bed feeling ill. we are at least on the same page with the crying it out now - he has finally realised how broken I am with her sleep!

jiggle glad you're finally on the same page with DH, hopefully things will improve all round once the sleep issue gets sorted.

muffin HV thought it could be fungal before Xmas, prescribed Dakarin which she had an awful allergic reaction to. Then had canesten which cleared it up. One day last week I put her in the playpen, put on some washing and loaded dishwasher, came back and she'd had a poo so can't have been in dirty nappy for more than 10 minutes. She was red raw, bleeding and back to square one again :(. Anyway I still have some canesten so guess it might be worth another try.

aethel hope the other shoe turns up much sooner than moving day, and boo to rubbish estate agents!

Well done missree and gary. I'll be off to check out the competitions after Miranda.

Stay strong jiggle, it will be worth it!

The roads out of the village started to look dodgy when I set off to take DD swimming this afternoon, so I called nursery and told them I'd pick DS up early on our way home. Typically, whilst we were swimming, the snow stopped and the sun came out. Still, it was all good, because DH was WFH today and when we got back we got DS to take his fist few unaided wobbly steps between the two of us

LMF - poor Octoboy. No advice but hope it goes really soon.

Jiggle - CC is hard but hopefully it will do the trick & you'll get a good night sleep soon.

Aethel about your estate agent!

Well my girls have been good today and are tucked up in bed.

I've also brought my first Xmas pressies for Darcie for 2013.....go me

seven we have had canestan prescribed for red raw nappy rash and I still use it when it flares up badly again - seems to do the job.

All is still quiet here - off to bed after Miranda.

Ooooh, lovely on the wobbly steps faffin, bet you're both grining!

It sounds like she's having constant teething nappies or something odd seven, don't know if she drools quite a bit anyway? And I apologise for how that sounds! But hope the canesten works out for her, poor thing- and poor you

And that is soooooo annoying aethel; I was going to suggest the cosytoes, or in the pram basket or something, but I'm sure you know a million times better all the odd places that kids' stuff gets. And he's lost both shoes? I can understand one going, but losing two sounds like he's left them at the childminder's, or GPs, or something?

We guessed DS must be teething (waking up, pink cheeks, evol nappies, DROOOOOOOOOOOOL), but the nursery have spotted them- two molars through at once, one on each side at the back. No wonder he's been out of sorts with that and the croup...
So he now has 10 teeth!

DP gets the waking baby tonight, so I'm going to sleep, and Bob I'm going to enjoy it...we're on the edge of the snow, and if we get any it'll be tonight. Totally hit and miss, because although we're on the edge, our area gets hit by snow really badly, so have the laptop and am ready to work at home if needs be crosses fingers

Was told not to use metanium on the rash as it would make him squirm, but it doesn't so I'm using it as it's nasty! Canestan is awesome for bloody rash, Boo needed it several times. It's boys in my house, always with the spotty bloody bums:(

I've just given piriton, and bad mother that I am I'm hoping it knocks him out for a few hours. I'll beat myself up in morning if it does.

Night all, hope it's a quiet one all round:)

He's finally starting to look tired. But is still fighting sleep and wants to play. I'm off to bed and leaving dh to deal.

Hope poorly bums are less sore in the morning. (honestly, who thought this would be an appropriate sign off pre-kids?)

Hi, all.

So sorry to hear of pox and rashes and teeth... basically things erupting everywhere! It's such a period of flux for them, innit? No wonder they're having screaming fits: they're emotionally incontinent at the best of times, and this is severe stress! BTW, I use tea tree oil in DD's bath, which seems to help when her bits are red and raw. However, DH used it for DS's bath the other night, and he (DS) shot out screaming, with his bits on fire (we had to dunk it in his bedside water glass - oops!)! Didn't agree with him at all: salt in the bath is what cleanses and soothes his skin. Hope that helps Octoboy and Eva?

The temp here is oscillating around 0C, so the precipitation keeps flicking between rain and snow, which means ice. Hopefully, it will be warm enough for you on Weds, kat!

Here's hoping sleep goes well, jiggle.

AnAir, nice to see you didn't go after all. Sounds like you are dealing with too much to not have an outlet. . I sympathise about the birthday politics: helpfulness is always so loaded, isn't it?

Northern, thought of you over thr w/end when we went to the zoo and they had chinchillas! All very sensibly hiding aeay, so sadly didn't see them. Saw rather more than I ought to have done of a donkey's dong though! That didn't make me think of you but of a friend of DH's and mine, who loved to tell of the Greek village donkey who enjoyed literally whacking himself off against a fence! Donkeys are evidently well tougher than their human counterparts!

aethel, I can't understand how the timing of the renting people has only just been communicated. They of all chain members are most constrained on their dates! I can only imagine it:s a question of having time to clear and clean the property, which they need to allow time for. If it gets to one of those situations when a little bit of money will greasethe wheels, an offer to pay for an end of tenancy clean might be just the trick? Better, certainly, than new plane tickets, which is another expense I've heard of housing chains' covering!

Sorry if I've missed anyone; phone-posting is so slow, and so prone to typos, that I'm crawling back and forth, a bit like a spider!

Oh, yes, conngrats on the comp MissRee!

Morning report DS has joined some of the other babies with midnight screaming session we had him awake at 10 red faced so gave a powder then 11.30 inconsolable and thrashing so he was calpoled and much happier he still asleep now. It's so unlike him I can't even see another tooth coming through it must be stealthy

Hope all poorly & teething babies feel better soon.

I have my smear booked for this morning - not looking forward to that!

Got to sleep at five. I am not in a good place right now.

oh good lord, I was due a smear just after I fell pg with BOi and have still not made an appointment.
Greek donkey dongs at 8 in the morning, nice!
aethel I don't understand the urgency of people in rented accommodation. When we rented we had a 6 month contract, after which we worked on a month's notice agreement. (Isn't this what anyone would do who was wanting to buy a house?) so if a date slipped, it was just another month to pay (but no new mortgage to pay) - so renters are the most flexible people, and supposedly the most attractive to buy houses as they don't have a chain. The people who bought my last house came from a rented house. They were late providing dates and we didn't get any communication from their solicitors until mid November, when they requested a completion date of 2nd Dec - my due date. We gave them another date of 3rd Jan.
Air I really don't understand your MIL. Offering to buy a cake is lovely, but surely she would buy what Air wanted, and not some random character that she liked. Maybe you can return the favour for her birthday and buy her some Lego.
BOi is with the GPs today. He was really snotty and only wanted cuddles yesterday, so the GPs insisted he should spend the day with them again and not go to nursery.
I threw haddocks at DH yesterday. When BOi went to bed, and we'd had dinner, I said: let's have a 5minute blitz - the house is a state.
he didn't respond, was slow to get up, and we tidied in silence.
Now OK, 5 mins turned into 20 minutes, but I was still tidying and sorting and he went and sat down in front of the TV, and I was left putting his shoes in the cupboard, hanging up his coat, etc etc.. Our New Years Resolution was to be organised. Not MY resolution, Ours.
PITA men. I just need a sperm donor. That's all I need. Nothing more. Anything more is just added liability and more work for me. Arse badgers!

Oh LMF - poor you. Poor Octoboy. (he's probably snoring away quite happily now, isn't he, just to add insult to injury?)
Can't you hand 'em to your mum for the day and get some rest, - have a long soak in the bath, a DVD in front of the fire and a snooze?
If I lived any closer, I'd offer to give you a break, but I don't, and your kids don't know me, but do you have a friend or relative who could give you a break? (If they work, saturday or sunday would still give you a lift.)

oi sympathies dh and I had words last night as I am sick to death of everyday him spending all evening playing games on the iPad. He moans about things not being done without doing them himself and he had said he wanted to watch winterwatch for the last week and then spent the first 10 minutes staring at the iPad until i told him if he didn't put it down we were going to fall out. Haddocks!!!

Humph to men who believe in the housework fairy whom they thought they married