FEB 2010 Three is a magic number, yes it is......

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Come and take shelter from the DC here, folks!

Fine thanks CP. taking vitB, Mg and evening primrose... To see if it helps with moods and PMT.

We took the girls to the evil McD as a treat because I really wanted a minion toy, and felt like a again as I asked for ice tea. I'd completely forgotten that different countries=different orders... DH said I sounded american

Actually I am freezing, MIL seems to think it is normal to sit with the doors opened and in a coat It is F--- 13C here today.
I do air the place everyday anyway so that it on top of it... even more

JF I want my baby back too. She is mostly lovely but stamp her feet a lot, and lost a lot of independence (getting fed up of the numerous toilet trips)

sotu completely understandable.

Waves to all.

As others have said. Survival, lovely to have you pop in but totally understand why you have been incommunicado on here. We are all thinking of you.

Mous your MIL sounds a little unhinged. How is your DH? Are the girls sleeping any better?

Hope everyone is OK

Nice to see you here Survival. Of course dip in and out as you wish. You may be tired of hearing this, but you are doing so well for your boys.

JF good luck with your normal 3yo! Hope she reverts back soon for you! FWIW I would find it very hard not to shout if DD1 tantrummed for an hour (but I am far too shouty most of the time).

Mous 13c?!?!?!? That is like winter. Your poor thing. Hope the supplements work. You are probably very stressed (understatement?!) and so your adrenal glands are probably in overdrive. For this you are supposed to cut out stressors - caffeine and booze!! - but I would find it hard to do that - particularly when stressed....

I had an amazing weekend at my sister's in London; 48 whole hours without the children. I'm not exactly rested as we did rather burn the candle while there, but it was so wonderful to have a break from the relentless childcaring. Straight back into it today, and of course I feel as if I have never been away! Still, both girls behaved well for DH at the weekend (of course) but haven't yet punished me for going away, so FX.

This mumsnet blog of the day a link to the abba song slipping through my fingers making me feel rather emotional putupwithrain.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/slipping-through-my-fingers.html

Another very busy couple of weeks, having to wake up at 6am every morning to go to London for training this week. I don't know how ppl who commute do it....

scones no coffee, nooooo.....
rainbow good luck almost there.

Girls still not sleeping very well. DD1 is scared again, apparently the minotaur moved north and medusa is coming , wonder if I should talk to the school, even if she is dealing with it quite well and put a mirror in her pocket against H&S.

DD2 doesn't want her bed it is "too rectangle". She also talks and sits up while sleeping, and wakes me up for nothing.

DD2 has major tantrums now, and won't be left alone in a room at all. My patience has gone. She is also overly fussy, no banana it's too yellow, no apple it's too red, no bread it's too white (or brown depending).
Then there is the "why?" It don't think she is even listening to the answer she just go on "why?why?why?why?why?"

Sorry that sounds a bit whingey , should get more ...

Mous, your dd2 sounds a little lost and like she is trying to exert some control...

SR I know she is but it doesn't stop it being really annoying. I am hoping she will grow out of toddlerdom this summer like DD1 did (not around 5 or 6 like DD1's friends did)

DD is having issues with bears in her room. She sometimes even wakes up in the night and we have to tell the bears to go home again. Those sneaky bears

CP If you want them to go without your intervention, you could give her a little torch or nightlight to flash in the corner when she wants them to go.

Mous I am sure she will grow out of it soon. She will soon feel like she is in control again.

She's getting pretty good so during normal waking hours he often hear her telling bears and dinosaurs to go home or move out her way (a particular problem on stairs it appears, you can tell we lived in apartments before this place). She does wake up quite out of it though and takes a while for her to switch out of it.

cP DD has both, not that she has anything to flash out.

DD2 is also very firm that she is a big girl and she should do as her sister does even if inappropriate, we often cave in because we had enough. I feel bad to have been so strict with DD1 now. gosh, we need our own place

Mous we have experienced that with DD2 as well. High chairs, bibs, plastic cutlery and crockery all spring to mind as things that went really early, just because she wanted what her sister had (even though she walked and talked much later). What is the chance of you getting your own place?

CP funny how things manifest, isn't it? Who would have thought that moving from an apartment to a house would have such an impact?

It was DH's fault, he tested the fair alarm (not sure if he did it on purpose) just as she was walking up. Really scared as that was the stage that loud noises were particularly troublesome for her. It was in the first week of having moved in. I however didn't want to accompany her for every toilet visit.

Actually that isn't fair, I think the alarm didn't help but it seems her trouble spot is just before the stairs turn so I wonder if it is not being able to see what is at the top.

mous is DH starting to help or job hunt yet?

There is a great picture book called "The bear under the stairs" by Helen Cooper.

Little boy thinks there's a bear living in his under stairs cupboard and throws food in there but turns out it was a rug all along.

I managed to write two presentations in 4 hours and the bloody major review tomorrow has been cancelled, well delayed for two weeks. I was looking forward to showing how much I had achieved in one in the 7 working days it has been running. Won't have the same wow factor in two weeks time.

Annoying when that happens :). Update it with the additional things you will have accomplished with the extra 2 weeks...!

Sympathy and fellow feeling for all those with night-waking dreamers... Is it their age? DD is doing this too - 3 times the other night (plus 3 awakenings from DS....).

She had extra "fairy dust" to help sort out the troublesome dreams (one of them was about Mummy being "bad" - I apologised and pointed out that mostly I am lovely )

DD decides she won't go back to sleep because she doesn't want to have more dreams and refuses to close her eyes. We've had episodes of her being awake for over 2 hours because of this.

Luckily, she's obsessed with growing taller, so I've told her a little poem she has to say if she wakes up in the night after a dream:
"Goodbye Dream - off you go
Rosie needs to sleep to grow"

We've had a couple of quiet nights since, so here's hoping.....

IC that poem is lovely wipe tear away

mine don't need to grow anymore though wondering how to steal he idea

How about making dream catchers with them Mous...?
This is something else I think I might do with DD if the dream thing carries on....

I have to learn how stop waking up when they are making noises dreaming instead of properly waking up...
I might make dream/monster catchers still worried that DD2 understanding is way to low

IC the stage where both mine were waking three times each was the absolute worst. Hope you are doing OK?

We have a 'rock you' song

Unfortunately there is much to do for two weeks now, but it spurred me on to achieve a lot. It appears I am putting together another project proposal next week but this time to work out the idea first.

The local fire station is having an open day tomorrow so take the children there, then swimming, then my work is having an open day (plus my tutoring in the evening). Maybe get to sit down sunday

IC let me know what weekends work for you for a visit

Hey CP, that would be good! Last couple of weekends in July are booked, first two are currently free.
I think the first couple of weekends in August are good - after that it gets busy...

Thankfully, no repeat of the 3 each wakings since that night, phew! DD has slept through since - up until last night, but that was excusable. We were at PILs and DS had his first experience in the travel cot, DD had her first experience on an un-penned bed (little foam mattress on the floor) and they both did well! DD woke up after a bit of coughing and getting tangled up in sheet and blanket (she's a duvet girl!) but luckily, didn't take too much resettling. DS only woke once before 06.00, which is better than he usually manages in his cot at home!! We've got a few more sojourns away from home coming up, so it gives me hope that they won't be too bad when it comes to overnight sleeping....

the second weekend in august would work (first is the other meet up I believe), plus our swimming lessons go until the 21st July.

I think we will be getting DS a bed soon he is getting less happy with his cot and keeps climbing into DDs bed and then shouts 'bed' when we put him down.

We have had an eventful weekend including 2x swimming lessons, mcdonalds few hours at the park, much housework, cake baking, cooking most of the weeks dinner, a family day at work, normal sat tutoring and an open day at the local fire station.