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?

Thanks guys! Still haven't told DH yet. Think I'll just leave the test lying on the sink and see if he notices when he gets home...if my calculations are right and everything works out ok there will be a 22 month age gap. Now just to hold my breath and cross fingers and toes till 12 weeks rolls around...

Cheung I feel for you - it's so frustrating to have to explain yourself for leaving early or not coming in when you just need to do what's right for your family. Particularly when you're exhausted. I just got a text from my boss telling me I need to send him some notes for a presentation on Tuesday. I asked him yesterday if he needed them and he said next week would be fine. Now he gets my colleague text me to tell me that he needs them tonight (really, at 6.30pm on a Friday night?!) I just texted back saying DS is screaming, I have spag bol in my hair and I'll do it as soon as I get a free minute!

It's the kind of thing that makes me think...maybe after this lovely news tonight I'll just not go back after mat leave.

You know what (one of) my dream(s) is - to someday own and run an independent bookstore on the high street probably with a massive kid's section and a little cafe. Like in You've Got Mail No commute, be my own boss, sink or swim, be responsible for my own business and be surrounded by top quality children's books all day that people don't usually buy online because they want to see and feel before they buy. Preferably go in with a partner so we can switch off between us and both take holiday. Hmmm...

Air, thanks for asking about Darcie. We are really struggling here. We did get a referral and Darcie is being seen by the CAHMs team as they think they can help. There is no obvious reason why she is doing it :(

Hope you feel better soon. Did the doctor give you any advice on Hope's egg allergy?

We have a date for Sky to see the Paeds Consultant, which is March 13th.

In last 7 days of my twenties!

Where do I email my CV?

I have a business degree and im great at accounts and have extersive experiance in admin, training and HR and I love childrens books (im reading to Airs class on Wednesday monkey puzzle :) ) I could also come up with a start up fund as well.

Queen we were given a leaflet with the list of egg and all the hiden egg produces in processed foods. Was told to avoid them and if she does have a reaction to give piratin and call 999 if we think after 30 minutes or more the med is not working or she is getting worse. We were not given eppy pen and told to have mmr at our drs. So nothing different to what we are doing already. We have to go back in a year to get her tested again and hope she grows out of it by 3yo.

Im glad they are helping with Darcie. I have no advice but here to hand hold and offer virtual tea. Just keep at it and im sure she will settle down.

Ooohh yes. I'll send my CV. I am a top marketer person and therefore am very good at colouring in fancy ideas that will attract nice people to the bookshoppe.
At the cm's today for another settling session, the kiddie-winkles came back from the library with a fresh batch of books. I spent ages with a 3-4 yr old and "The ABC of Pirates". It was a BRILLIANT book! Page 1 was A, there was a 4line poem about Anchors and Angry pirates,etc., but the whole page was a big pic of lots of pirates with... An antelope, an anteater, ants, an apple, arrows,... So it was great for Grace (the 3 / 4 yr old) who had tremendous fun working out all the words. Great for building vocabulary.
I definitely qualify to work in your shop. I was almost as good as Grace!
I have a martini. To be honest, it's a big sickly, and I might prefer an orange juice... (Sugar free cordial, and sugar free lemonade - my life of point counting has evidently murdered my taste buds!)
Have a fab weekend, y'all.
I'll be cleaning DH's house and trying to get pg (it's too early after AF but there's no harm practicing!)

Sorry to hear Darcie is still playing up queen.

Huge congrats xiao! 22 months sounds like a lovely gap, close enough that they'll hopefully grow up being close and playing together but not a crazy gap like my 17 month one

air jobsite.co.uk? Don't know if its any good/works though.

Right, must clear off and plan the new kitchen, then knitting if I'm still awake by then!

Sorry I was being stupid air and didnt get your post

Meant to say I've booked a private 4D gender scan for Thursday so we'll definitely know what we're having. Not knowing is killing me!

Congratulations Xiao!!
Somehow your news makes me more broody..I'm 13wks & still not told my mum.

Seven, excited to hear what you're having, do you have an inkling either way?
DH has already said he's happy for me to have a private scan at 36/37 (if I get that far) to check baby doesn't develop the same worrying ectopic heartbeat as DS (although there's no reason they should)...so if we can't see the sex at 20, we'll find out then, although I still have to make it past 12wk scan next week, I know hb is fine (doppler) but just hoping everything else is developing. (sorry for epic post, just worried about baby not developing & losing another one).

Kat, hurrah for your scan!

Figgy, have you got a safe park nearby he can rampage around?

Oi Not sure on the 'laws' of potty training, but my mum trained my sister at 14 months by just plonking her on the loo everytime she looked like she needed it. Although apparently boys are harder to train than girls.
Sorry your martini was a bit of a let down.

Queen, hope everything works out for DD1.

Air, how was Hope post jabs? Hope she's settled nicely for tonight.

Hehe just told DH - he is v v pleased and getting the snip once DC2 is safely here since we clearly are very fertilely compatible

Yayyy xiao, congrats!

Sorry not to update properly. House not going well, we have a deadline of next Friday to exchange or the buyers will pull out :( and there is no resolution of the issue yet: it needs forms signing and lodging by mon/tues. our solicitor thinks we prob will not be ready by Fri :( the girls are aware there is a problem and that is my biggest worry as I want to shield them all from this stress. Can't afford the time, money or stress of needing new buyers/starting again at this stage. Arg.

Aethel. I hope things can get moving for you. What is the hold up? (sorry I'm on my phone and can't see)

congratulations xiao! Very exciting news.

You lot are all making me broody. DP and I had a long chat last night about babies and mostly around the impact it would have on Dss if we had another. we will most likely wait a year and then talk about it.

Sleep was terrible last night, we co sleep if he is unsettled but even with that he was hard to settle last night.

aethel any chance you can reason with your buyers/they might be bluffing? It isn't your fault, and presumably it'd still cost them something to pull out now. Hope it all gets resolved and remember there's no point stressing about things beyond your control.

gary we had the anomaly scan last week, they said they think its a probably girl but its legs were crossed so they couldn't be sure. While it makes no difference to how we feel about the baby with the MD risk if its a boy we'd want a cord blood sample taken at birth for testing so would need to know in advance. I have another scan at 28 weeks anyway but thought if they can't tell at that one we'd be running out of time!

Am on the 2ww now so treating myself to a subway sandwich whilst I wait for DD1 to finish her singing lesson.

Surely the buyers are bluffing, aethel. Once you've set your mind on buying somewhere, you don't walk away rather than wait a few more weeks. Especially as they'll have paid the solicitor's and valuation fees etc.
I didn't enjoy the alcohol last night. I had a martini and then we drank a bottle of red. I didn 't particularly enjoy either, and I didn't enjoy the taste in my mouth this morning, or how I felt. I think it's going to be easy to drink substantially less than I used to. Besides, I went 6 pts over the ww allowance - and that's not good!

DS is having a mega nap, DP is at work. haven't a clue why the nursery can't get Ds to nap, at home he naps so much at the moment I get tempted to wake him up!

Hmmm. Well, they could be bluffing. The main issue is that they claim they are tired of waiting and would rather go into rented and be cash buyers. We don't mind about timings at all as long as it flies!!
(queen, we can't exchange until an error in the title deed is corrected, I can't be specific on here but it needs sorting for us to proceed. Sigh).

Anyway, we've been distracting outselves, took the DCs to see butterflies at Wisley (fun but busy) and tomorrow is mahem pizza home cinema party all afternoon for the DDs. Eight under-eights and large amounts of choc, biscuits and popcorn..... Busy busy...

We spent the day carpet cleaning and kitchen cupboard scrubbing.
If you had asked me yesterday what might work on the carpets, I'd have recommended petrol and some matches, but today I'm actually quite impressed.
DH's house is actually live-in-able. And the estate agent -who saw it before we started cleaning - was optimistic for a decent price.
All good.
Had a headache all afternoon, which makes me definitely not want alcohol tonight. I am a reformed character!

DS has his first ever temperature hes led on me for an hour before bed which he never does we had no nappy change related screaming and he's gone straight to sleep. he's teething and snotty which I'm sure is the cause but am forcing myself very hard to keep these facts to the front of my mind and not rush him to a+e brandishing a meningitis symptom checklist. Overreaction I know but he has cold feet which is 1 sign but then again he has not had his socks on for a few hours. It's horrible isn't it!!

Going to try and watch Prometheus now god knows why the reviews were pants and alien petrifies me.

Channelling my inner plu and attempting a big catch up?

LMF I hope your back is now improving and that the world no longer has fuzzy edges. Has Octoboy?s improved sleep continued?

Air I hope you?re on the mend too, and that Aaron has a great birthday and party

Easily for the career news, but sorry to hear about the biting. I hope it?s a one-off. You can?t worry too much about it at this age, they don?t really know what they?re doing. DD (age 2.9) bit me the other day , I?m not sure if my arm or my feelings hurt more.

Kat lovely scan news

figgy I hope the horribly early start was a blip and that figgyboy woke at a more civilised hour today

Xiao congratulations! That?s such exciting news. And I wish I lived near your high street, the book shop sounds fantastic. I?d love to work or shop somewhere like that

aethel sorry to hear of the house woes. Keeping everything crossed that it all works out for you

I?ve been enjoying the last few days getting out and about with the DC?s. It?s felt like the first time this year that we?ve all been well and that the weather hasn?t been vile. Met the mystery baby at tots group on Thurs, and it turns out it wasn?t quite as we?d first thought. She hadn?t kept quiet for the entire pregnancy?she?d only found out two weeks earlier that she even was pregnant ( I didn?t ask how that was possible ) so was still getting her head around it. She then gave birth in the bath in 8 minutes having had no contractions. Her husband had to deliver the baby whilst speaking to the 999 operator. The paramedics arrived 6 or 7 minutes later. The poor thing is still in a state of shock.

DD has her hernia operation on Monday, so we?ve spent the day doing nice family things together. A build-a-bear voucher arrived in the post for her from my Dad today too, so we?re going to go there tomorrow. The op is minor compared to the three she had as a baby, but she?s much more aware of what?s going on now that she?s older, so I?m not sure how she?ll be. DH took her when she went under the anaesthetic for the three when she was a baby, because I was a total mess. This time she wants me to go with her. Really hoping I can keep it together until she?s asleep

Sounds like your DD is really brave faffin. Hope she enjoys build a bear and the op goes well. I too have never understood how people don't know they're pregnant, I'm currently getting a good kicking while I type this. Though with DD I only felt regular increasingly painful pelvic pressure rather than normal contractions that I had with DS .

figgy sounds like he could be hatching a virus if he's snotty as well as high temp. Hope he's feeling better soon.

aethel help yourself to a for your buyers, they'd be idiots to pull out now and rent rather than wait a couple more weeks!

Well we only had 1 hour long wake up last night better than id expected. he's still hot and snotty and we've had to dig out his dribble bandanas he's streaming drool today.

he's gone to sleep with his pillow pet he absolutely loves it!!! My dad brought it back from America for him so it is a random. American football team 1 and it's lived up there until this week when I actually had case space to bring it back here anyone lo's got a pillow now? Might have to get him a proper one

Faffin your DD is really brave. Sending her be strong vibes tomorrow

Figgy - great you had a better night. Sky hasn't got a pillow yet, purely because she would never actually sleep on it!

Thanks seven and queen. She didn't go to sleep easily last night because she was worrying about tomorrow, not sure what tonight will be like. I then had a bad night with DS who woke in the middle of the night and wouldn't settle. He ended up in bed with me, absolutely clinging to me. Not sure of the problem, probably teeth. He's now having a huge nap and hasn't had lunch yet!

figgy DS doesn't have a pillow, he roams about all over the place and is fine without one. I got one for DD when she was about 2, and it's a very small thin toddler pillow from John Lewis