Dec 2011 - Do that again, and you're getting sold on Ebay.....

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And this flight has been delayed until 6.
And the man at the desk greeted me with "You look tired." Yeah, that made me feel better. Grrrr!
Sorry for the me me me-ness of my posts. Hope all are well, and the LOs are well, and no houses are falling down, and all house moves and sale plannings are going well, and I also hope that I win the lottery tonight so I can stop beggaring about in airports!

So after 14 months of cuddling him to sleep DS has finally figured out falling asleep in his cot by himself It's lovely but I feel weirdly redundant.

just had a lovely week away in Cornwall. Back to real world now though.

Hope all are well (or at least getting slightly less snotty! )

Hurrah BJR! There is hope, then?!
But not for me. After two delayed flights, my train has now broken down. Unbelievable!

Just dropping in as it's dh bday today and he's being annoyingly miserable and I'm still full of cold (probably shouldn't have trailed round Glasgow until 3am drinking shots after seeing girls aloud on Saturday revisiting my younger days). Wanted to share this as I'm still amazed by it......

Over the weekend I was sat on sofa, DS next to me with a little book and my mum was there too DS suddenly said ......as clear as a bell........dinosaur dh doesn't believe me and if my mum hadn't heard it too I wouldn't believe it either especially since he's just jibbered since but he so did!!!!!!!!

oi cross post but I feel for you!!

Hope u get home soon

Its not a good travel day for you Oi :(

Dd went to hospital and had her MMR and she was fine.

Ds was late to school as it took thw whole morning and when he went thru the door all this friends came running and it was so nice to see he has loads of friends and has setteled in well.

We are going camping in New Forest and day trip to peppa pig world and Legoland. Im so excicted but a bit shocked at the price of legoland.

Oi- are you home and cracking open the vodka yet?!

We're looking at August onwards seven, as that's when work re-locates. I'll make sure I've still got/want a job with them, and then take the plunge. As I say, barring the horror that is selling and buying houses it's a step up as the town we'd be going to is much nicer.
Then we can crack on with making more babies !

Cheung, check out your local authority's website (if you're in a two-tier area, try both the District and County) and see if they run any 'Fair Trader' schemes or similar. Ours does, and registers people on the grounds that they're decent, etc. We choose from there if we can't do word of mouth...which if you can do is always best!

Yay for your boys figgy and BJR, that's great! Sorry your DH is being such a grump though figgy...

Despite a late one at work, still got piles of washing to do, and a minor argument with DP to sort, 'scuse me...

Oi, I hope you've got home in one piece and gave a Martini in hand!

DD2 had her hospital appt with the Paeds Consultant about her food allergies. Got some really good info and know what to watch out for and too keep an eye on.

6 days left of 2ww and it's driving me crazy already!

Wow figgy! That's great! Three syllables - he's not messing about, is he?! Well done figgyboy!
I reckon we'll all start reporting our own dinosaur moments in the next month.
Glad hope has had her jabs new-name-silver! And that you have good advice for Skye.
Oh yes, I'm home. Arrived at 8:30pm and DH had dinner ready and a glass of wine poured.

Good man Mr Oi!

Figgy you have a very clever Figgyboy.

Glad you made it back Oi, what a ridiculous journey...and what a good DH, it's great when they do that for you after a total transport fail

Clever figgyboy

Queeny did Sky have a skin prick test?

Hope had a really big reaction to the test and food and I have been so stressed with the appointment today and so relived its over and she is fine with it. I think I have given myself a headache with worry so much for the antiworry tablets

Oi enjoy the wine

I nc for the fake thread and I kind of like it so its staying for a bit hehehe or hiss hiss hiss

I'm confused... Did I miss a namechange when I was AWOL last thread? >_<

Today I am tired, I am desperate for sleep. Would anybody care to tell Octoboy that letting me sleep would make the entire house a happier place? Please?

I too need sleep.

The MMR jab is done not Hope having an allergy to egg! Im glad I didnt get chickens now

Im so not AnAirOfHope

SS, no Sky wasn't given a test as he thinks what we are doing with the dairy & soya free is the right way to go. Need to try her on egg tho. Wrt wheat need to keep her on it for now but need to watch her growth and will get tests via dietician.

Hope you all had a good night sleep.

Morning!

we had a skid-to-a-halt school run today for the first time in ages, both DDs dawdling and whinging put me ten minutes out of whack (which proves how exact the normal timings are). I bet Mama Walton never had to put up with this crap!

Ooh and Yay for good MMR experience, SS, and like the namechange, it sssssssuits you :)

oi hope the Boi-cuddles were good now you're back (finally!)

Oi welcome home!

SS so pleased the MMR was uneventful. I live v close to Legoland (apparently the food is terrible) and yes it is exorbitant.

Thanks for all the encouragement and advice re feeding everyone (I must have sounded very pitiful for you all to have been so head-strokingly kind ) I still haven't managed to successfully feed him anything but yoghurt, toast and blueberries so far but DH and the nanny can get him to eat a lot more. Fri/Sat are the days where it's just him and me though and that's when it gets to crunch time...so I'll keep you posted!!

Only three syllable recognisable "words" we've had so far are potato (puh-ta-ta) and blueberry (boo-yuh-ya) - very impressed by dinosaur!!

LMF I must admit that over the past 15 months or so with Octoboy's lack of sleep I am constantly amazed that you are still standing. I realize how much we've lucked out with a good sleeper and do feel for you with the sleep misery No advice at all as it seems to be so much down to luck of the draw!!

So glad the snotty ones among us are improving (looks pointedly at cheung and bjr), DP's are coming round to realise we're always right (northern) and 2ww coming to an end (queen)!

And biggest of all pompoms for mopsy to show off her amazing cleverness, intelligence and academic smarts

Thanks xiao! On the train to cam reading over my notes and trying to be calm but am v v v nervous. This time tomo will be in the middle of it, hopefully sounding very convincing rather than floundering... minimopsy bawled crying when I left her at nursery and I prob e
won't see her until sat morning as she will be asleep tomo when I get back :(

hope you all got some sleep...

PS thanks all for encouragement! it all helps...

thanks Aethel.
Good luck Mopsy, you will shine tomorrow and they will need super strength sunglasses to deal with your academic/intelligent/super brilliance. You show 'em!
BOi welcomed me back by refusing to sleep when he woke at 10:30pm. I stayed and shushed until midnight, but he was wide awake and would not settle. DH then took over and made a bed on BOi's floor so I could sleep. Not ideal.
And of course he bawled his eyes out when I dropped him at the cm this morning.
Xiao - this is special treatment for mummy, just like your LO not eating, as you said, they play up for our reaction.
Not fair! Really really really not fair!

Xiao oi is right about them playing up for us, i took ds to be weighed on Tuesday as was off work in the afternoon of course i had to change his nappy he rolled around screaming and trying to get away the hv couldnt believe the tantrum he threw as soon as i was finished he stood up, turned round and smiled at me then ran off out of the room and down the corridor of the clinic in just his bodysuit and his socks.....the HV's helpful advice was that he is doing it to get my attention and to hope he is ready for potty training earlier rather than later!!

He was 28lbs on Tuesday so between 91st and 98th centile (slightly down from 98th-99th where he has been since around 5 months) and is 91st for height so while he is a chunky chunky lad still he is inproportion!!

Good Luck Mopsy am sure you will smash it!!

I find out about my job next Friday and whether i am staying or the one to go, was told i had a payrise as part of the annual review process yesterday so that has to be a good sign? That is 3 in 12 months wooooo

Cant decide what i want to eat for lunch am still full of cold and have lost appetite for anything other than junk looking forward to DH's spag bol tonight.

Definitely a good sign figgy, can't imagine anyone else has had that many! So it's best wishes to mopsy for this Friday and you for next...do you ever all think we could do with an uneventful period in our lives? No babies, house moves, job crises, DP arsery, serious illnesses, etc?

And you will do brilliantly mopsy, try to keep the attitude that it's all about explaining the fabulousness of your work to an interested audience! I'd always say don't be afraid to admit where you would have done things differently to improve it if you were doing it again, but I know you already know that And will you namechange to Dr Mopsy?

How did the sleep go LMF, did you persuade him? We're all impressed by the way you manage three, but to do it on so little sleep = sainthood.

I am officially knackered. Work 9-6.30 with a 50 minute commute either side, and a run out to the supermarket in my lunchbreak to get us enough shopping to tide us over. Minor crisis involving a Lord (as in the House of Lords) and a serious case during the day, then home, getting DS ready for bed and putting him down with story, making dinner, making sandwiches, doing a clothes wash, unpacking suitcase...think that's it. And it's not like DP doesn't pull his weight, there's just so much to do.
Now a small G&T I lie it's whopping and MN....

How is the settling in going by the way aethel, does it feel like your own home yet?

Hmmm I posted yesterday not sure where it went!

Mopsy good luck for today. You'll be absolutely fine - your cleverness will shine

LMF hope you got some sleep. I was woken up last night at 3am and feel pants now adding to the cold

Aethel, hope your settling in now.

SS love new name glad Hope's MMR went okay.

Oi hope your enjoying cuddles with BOi.

Northern my you sounded rushed off your feet yesterday - well deserved g&t by sounds of it.

We need to watch DD2 growth as she's only put on 1lb in 3months.

DD1 is still being good so happy mummy.

I am coming to end of my 2ww and went to loo at 3:30am so not sure if I can still poas this morning?!