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

[Aethelfleda]

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Cheers iZombie! Very cute, and....I know this is going to sound weird about a 16 month old, but he looks very handsome, or at least I can see the handsome 28 year old in him already, if that makes sense? I promise it's a compliment!

I have a nice little shiner from where DS headbutted me this morning as we were playing rough and tumble on the rug before work- thankfully it's partially covered by my glasses, but it's good enough that my Mum could see it over Skype.
Poor DS has had an awful bum, the drooling from teething is the culprit

Oh, and you are a brave, brave woman aethel, dear Bob...

Seven, I can't believe that four women have already had their babies! Makes you seem like a slow-coach But seriously, are they doing OK, as they must be on the prem side of the 37/38 week cut-off?

We've got quite a nice weekend planned Oi; a wedding on Saturday (hog roast at the person's house) will be the main feature, and then various bits and bobs ie. get some bloody housework done DP for the rest

Off to a wedding tomorrow. Just bleaching my upper lip. Oh the glamour! Honestly, black body hair is such a curse.

Depilated my legs yesterday morning with my lovely epilator. Saves me at least £150 a year on waxing but OUCH!

Do you recommend the epilator? (Auto correct wanted to change that to "roils toe"...????)
How long do you stay lovely and smooth for?
I've never waxed. Always razored.
Jiggle, our office and factory is in Copenhagen, and I've never been anywhere else. This time we're also fitting in a customer visit which is a 4 hr drive, which could be north Jutland, not sure. (I'm driving, and trust GPS way too much, can you tell? - am not the only driver though ) I'm looking forward to hopefully being able to see more of the country.
I do like a hog roast. I had a hog roast at the evening party at my wedding, but I was so busy I didn't even see it, never mind have any! I also missed the canapés after the service.
BOi woke at 6:45 today, DH has taken him up. I suppose I should get a wriggle on and join them. Enjoy your weekends. X

Oi I missed the canapés after the service at my wedding. We didn't have a hog roast tho.

Have a good weekend all x

I would defs recommend if you wax. It works out way cheaper. Costs fifty quid or so and lasts years. But if you've never waxed and just started using it I think it would be AGONY! I have very thick black body hair (attractive much) and stay silky smooth for at least three weeks. One major advantage is that you can then just maintain and you never have to grow back long enough circa wax if you see what I mean. V handy in the summer. It is painful though.

Happy birthday air.

northern they're all doing really well, the first one is now home. He was a spontaneous labour at 27 weeks, there was an EMCS at 31 weeks due to a failing placenta, another at 33 weeks due to pre-eclampsia and latest is an ELCS at 36 weeks due to placenta issues in a previous pregnancy.

mopsy I tried epilating but I'm a wimp, it hurt like hell so I ebayed it .

OMG seven, that's some record for your thread! Delighted to hear they're all doing well, that 27-weeker has done amazingly; must've been a stressful time for all the parents though, blimey. I know we had some pretty scary moments (and FairyBayLeaf had her DC at 27/28 weeks I think) but their experiences 'win'!

This is my first hog roast experience (apols to any veggies on the thread) so will be interested to see what it's like- minor issue that it's going to piss it down though.
And what do you wear?! We'll be in someone's back garden, won't have been to the ceremony, and it'll be very wet, so what on earth should I put on

And happy birthday air

I think snorkelling gear should cover it northern

I am feeling accomplished having just repaired one of our dining chairs (the seat is twine-and-wood and the wood part snapped within all the weaving). Just as well, as have looked at our finances and we are totally skint til the end of the month thanks to my non income and all the house expenses. Can still get the showers done but only by eating a disturbing amount of savings still, that's what savings are for, right? And now we have made all the house related spends for now, anything else has to stay on the fantasy wish list!

Grotty rain here, so gardening will have to wait. More tea!

northern I know what you mean, it must be such a worry when they're that early. It's really sad, the most recent one with previous placenta issues lost her baby girl, she was born December 11 :(

aethel if it helps we don't have savings, never have had nor are ever likely to.

We did however get the final bill for the garage conversion yesterday, amazingly £200 under the quote. It means we can now start looking properly at tiles, we'd been waiting to make sure we could pay the bill before spending anything else, haven't even ordered the cooker yet. And it hopefully means there's enough left to pay someone to change the fence rather than DH having to do it himself.

I'm trapped under a sleeping DD. I need to put the dishwasher on, pus the washing is out and probably nearly dry and it's starting to look rather grey outside.

Ah bloody rain - sick of it. I feel sorry for the couple whose wedding it is northern

Have actually finished my work now and should go down and relieve DH from the kids but as I had them all morning and have them all day tom on my own again I am procastinating a little!

I have an interview in London town on Weds (just for promotion on some exam work I do nothing full time) I am sadly looking forward to it as I have to go up on Tuesday night and spend an evening on the train and in a hotel all on my own! Can you tell it has felt like a loooong Easter holiday! I suspect I will be finished early but am going to have lunch with my sister and go shopping and come back when the kids are in bed! How evil am I. DH will have to cope with getting them both up and dressed and breakfasted and the school and nursery run, and pick up and tea time without me (or his parents to help) and that will be the first time he has ever done it. I waver between being nice and setting it all out for him before I go (eg book bags, lunch, nursery bag etc) and just letting him get on with it. He normally does nothing in the morning except get himself to work so should be interesting!

Happy tile shopping seven!
We still haven't tiled our WC yet with the very silly-ly priced but utterly fabulous tiles. ...their time will come.
The weather is miserable here today. We're going to go to the Trafford centre for some retail therapy. Then I'll be ironing and packing for my week away.

Have a good trip Oi

Enjoy your night away Jiggle

Today we have been shopping for a new kitchen. We had initially written the idea off as Too Bloody Expensive, but my kitchen is hideous, and the patch job we did to hide some of the fugly when we moved in just isn't cutting it long term. Did a bit of investigating and it turns out to not be anywhere near as much as we though, so along with new kitchen, I'm getting a few extra shiny bits I want, possibly new fridge/freezer and lots of clever storage solutions as its not a big kitchen. Husband is busy with the laptop and tape measure, planning away. Have asked my daddy nicely if he will come and install it for us, as he's mega handy like that, and it will save us the cost of someone else doing it.

Had a total baby wearing fail in IKEA today though. Cass threw himself backwards off my back and I had to give up after five minutes and not very delicately dump him backwards onto a bed. Don't know why he was having a strop, normally he's fine. Were off to toddler gymnastics tomorrow! Hope the weather improves for all, its wet here but lovely and warm.

Been an interesting weekend...
The wedding was great fun, but the weather They had gazebos in the garden, but very few people were out in them because of the appalling rain. A few of us huddled in the 'bar' gazebo for an hour or two, and then went into the house when it had quietened down.
But the wind was so bad one of the gazebos collapsed and the pole hit the groom square in the face!

I drank, I danced, and I got asked out by one of the guest Turned him down of course, but made me smile. Got home at half one and have been feeling a bit 'under the weather' cough today.

Have just made my first ever curry from scratch so hoping it will be OK; but getting on with all the washing too, so a busy evening! DP is definitely doing the sandwiches this evening...

We took DS to Chimichanga's as there was one at the Outlet centre where we went to get his new shoes and DP had never been. DS enjoyed a scuttle round the restaurant- I made sure he didn't get in anyone's way, and it wasn't busy- and earned my 'good parent' badge when he turned round and ran straight into the giant plant pot behind him and I didn't laugh one bit. He got a trip to the park too, so what with not sleeping during the day he's spark out!

You do all realise there's a Dec'13 antenatal thread....we're old news!

Northen, glad to hear you had a lovely weekend (and found a plan b man even with shiner). Hope the curry goes well.

Easily, shiny kitchen . We got ours from B&Q and any parts you don't use can be returned, used PIL old people 10% discount & the entire thing (with cheap worktops/floor/tiles/sink/cooker hood) was about £2k (fitted by DH, BIL, FIL).
It's not the best in the world (I yearn for the John Lewis ones!) but it does the job.

Aethel, you always see advice saying have 6 months worth of rent/mortage payment in savings. Would take us ages to get there, we're putting an extra little amount on the mortgage every month & that's enough for us.
Well done on chair repairing!

jiggle, sounds like a lovely childfree day!
I spent most of the weekend at a mates without DH/DS, t'was lovely!

My SIL recommends an epilator, I've tried hers & it's not very painful.
Although I do prefer using a razor.

Belated Happy Birthday air!

Greetings from Copenhagen. (Or a few km outside)
My mum tutted at me yesterday when I told her I was coming here. Tutted. And then said "Poor DH" rather a lot.
I wonder if she'd tut if it was Poor DH having to spend time abroad with his work. It really pissed me off. It's not the first time.
Until BOi, she was very supportive of my career. And she is supportive - they look after BOi 2 days a week. But I could do without the tutting FFS!
DH doesn't mind. He recognises that foreign travel is nec for my job, and that it's a well paid job that allows us to have Ashworth Towers and nice things.
So it doesn't really matter about tutterances from silly mothers! Just pass a haddock over this way please. Had to get it off my chest. ...one last time - Grrrrr!
Could you all just do a collective tut and eye-roll towards glamorous Bolton please? Thanking you.

Dec 13 - we really are old news.
I see newborns and give the parents my recognition-of-new-parenthood smile, and then realise that to first-timers my BOi is a positive grown up compared to their squishy bundle and we have nothing in common.

Ladies

All is quite boring here had nice weekend away with dh, DS loved his sleepover with the cm and her family, he's getting frustrated about communication I think he understands so much but cant talk really yet. DS is also insanely jealous of cm's new mindee who is about 5 months younger than him and so he's no longer the baby, he even pinched her last week

Yes dec 11 is very much old news I found out I was pg 2 years ago today

to your MIL oi

The last time I visited my MIL she pulled the usual "all my children were potty trained and out of day nappies by one" routine (which she has told me when every child of mine has passed their first birthday) and this time followed up with "of course if you can't be bothered...."
Thread, I smiled sweetly and said "oh well, I don't believe in rushing these things". So oi these sort of comments are par for the course...

DS is enjoying baby crack In The Night Garden, he's only just starting to watch any telly (shaddup at the back any behavioural psychologists) but he does like ITNG and Peppa Pig. Given the bottom wiggling with songs/music I'm planning to try him on some Mr Bloom at some point soon too.

Aethel DS loves both intg and peppa pig to utter distraction and protest if u switch it off, he snorts like a pig and does the little hand thing to u at the start of intg sooo cute.

My mum says same thing about me being out of nappies at 1 all I can say is HOW??? I can't get DS to do anything let alone something like that

This weekend BOi started to get out his changing mat and lie down on it... We thought, "err ...ok" and changed him. Then he went to his poo toy room and filled his clean nappy. This happened a few times.

We may start to introduce a potty soon...

Oi how I wish for DS to do that cm says he does at hers all the time yet at home we are still doing nappy changes as a 2 man job as he still stands,screams, hits and generally carries on like we are murdering him so strange

Thanks for the Birthday wishs

I had mail, Thank you xx

I have a mardy Aor because his toy is broke and i cant fix it so lots of screaming and.crying. Hope keeps giveing him kisses :(

Also my major problem is Hope can get on sofa and now runs up and down ot and jumps about like Air and im scared of her falling off. I keep watching her and taking her off it and saying no running on sofa but its her latest new thing. She is going to fall off :(

Air, I put a double duvet on the floor next to the sofa (he likes to lie with me on it), as DS likes to jump up & down on it...could you make a cushion fort or something similar?
Hope Air is feeling less ratty soon, so sweet that Hope is giving him kisses!

Oi, for your mum!
We're going to try toilet training (with a view that he'll probably regress once the next one arrives) soon (have ordered some training cloth pants).
Of course my mum keeps on reminding me that we were all toilet trained by 14months, she did Elimination communication (before it had the snazzy title)....I know when DS is about to wee & he poos like clockwork so I might give it go.

Figgy, I change DS whilst he's standing up so he can't kick off, he hates lying down.

Aethel, we're a Peppa Pig, Pocoyo household and, weirdly, he loves Pointless (gameshow with Alexander Armstrong).

Figgy, up until 3 days ago, it took 2 of us to hold him down to change a nappy. If there was no poop, we cleaned and changed EasyUps on the move.
Aethel - if you can't be bothered - !!!WTF!!! But it was my mum who needs a haddock. My MIL would be oblivious and wouldn't be bothered/interested at all in our arrangements. When it comes to her 5 kids, they probably learnt to change their own nappies before she got off her toosh. mock-o-shock-o-lato!

Watching the footage of the bombings at the Boston marathon. Horrid. No conformation of deaths/injuries yet. Just awful.