May 2004 babies - new thread

[helsy]

Well, d'you think anyone will bother?
I feel like I'm having a party and waiting for people to turn up. Dorito, anyone?

helsy I do hope you changed her nappy. It would be awful to get off my morning - I know when DD has done them in the night without me realising. And she would probably be sore too.

lol helsy. oh i remember one of those occassions! (the kneeling in it partr!)

funny, but we had exactly the same poo in sleep scenario the night before last and i wish i had left it, but i guess she would have been sore. she went balistic. cried and screamed tearing round the house half asleep totally dangerously, hurtling herself into furniture etc, all because i'd woken her trying to change her nappy. nightmare.

what did you do then?!

DD managed to fall out of bed despite having bed bars and a sleeping bag and duvet folded in two where the bars stop. She was just sort of stood against the bed just past the bed bars whining. Fortunately she had slid out feet first.

Had to come on here to say that we DID change dd2 last night - in fact I can't believe I was contemplating not doing it! - I blame the fact that I had a heavy cold and had had four hours' sleep the night before and was dosed up with herbal sleeping tablets and nurofen. She did take the predicted helluva long time to get back to sleep, though.
She was ill today too and she stayed at home with daddy. Sofa has no covers on - all in the wash - because apparently she wees on things when she's potty training

Oh no helsy it sounds like you are having a hard time of it - what with nursery and DD and DH all being trying. Hope tonight goes better.

Hope things have taken a turn for the better, Helsy.

I'm feeling stupid tonight. I put DS to bed around 7:30 and I caught him still singing to himself at 9:30! I was tempted to go in and check but I thought this probably wouldn't help him fall asleep and he sounded happy so I left him, whilst cringing to myself that I need to try to get him up early tomorrow for nursery. Anyway. It's about 11:15 and I've just heard some restless banging so I went to have a peek. He was asleep but I found out that I left his light on brightly as I left the room at 7:30! No wonder the poor little man couldn't get himself to sleep! He usually has no light on at all. I do feel bad.

aww bless ponka. you mean mummy that is quite funny though. its great that he just accepted it! my dd would have been yelling at me to tell me off. she is so bossy. in fact most aspects of daily life have become a battle. getting dressed/undressed/bathed/teeth/hairbrushed/nappy on/eating/bedtime/car seat.........justaphase jutaphase am hoping that she is a perfectly behaved, helpful ADULT by the time this baby is born!

how's your dh and mil ponka?

Not too bad at the moment, thanks, bit tired.

Went to Monkey Music with dd2 this morning, she loved it! So we're going again next week. She wanted to take the monkey home with her, though .
She's doing really well with the potty training, only one accident a day yesterday and Wednesday and one day that's because they said they didn't hear her when she asked to go to the toilet, and by the time they did she had weed.

Anyone thought about Christmas presents yet? DD1 has everything so we're struggling to find something dd2 needs, really. I try to buy most of my stuff by October and I've just been paid, so I could be online a lot tonight! Has anybody got Aquadraw? I saw the teletubbies one advertised and thought it looked fun.
We asked a shop assistant where the nearest toilets were on Saturday, and when he told us dd2 turned round and waved at him and said "cheers mate"!

DD is getting dressing up stuff if today is anything to go by.

We are fine thanks. MIL has gone on holiday for a few days (to the middle of nowhere, 40 miles from a hospital . She was supposed to get results to see if they've got rid of it all yesterday but the hospital said they weren't ready yet so DH was upset because he had geared himself up for it. I hope they come soon. I really think it will be good news. Then we can turn a corner, I hope.

We have the plain normal Aquadraw, Helsy. It's fab. Well done on the potty training. I think we are going for a garage for DS1 but I don't have a clue for DS2 because he is inheriting DS1s toys. He will be 9 months then.

I have done that with the light before ponka although never for so long. And I think like MissEypyt, DD would shout at me now.

I'm a bit clueless about DD's presents just now. I think DS is getting a football goal and a Liverpool strip with Gerrard on. This is what he wants. And together they will be £60 so that will be his main present.

My friend is getting her DD the Happyland cottage but we have already had that for 18 months. I had half wondered about the pink dressing table in ELC for £25. It would be even worse if they were the same sex.

DD is currently enjoying playing with her (inherited) duplo quite a lot. Other ideas that we have had in the past are: brio track and trains, easel, farm, scooter.

havent a clue about christmas. mil is getting her a elc kitchen - which she could have done with last year really, and my mum has lots of tesco brio style train track and bits for her so far. we havent even though tbh. she has so much and we're going to have to take it all to singapore anyway, so not much i guess.

aquadraw is fab. love it. just dont put it in the washing machine..ahem

just been out for a curry with dh and his work colleague over from the states and his wife. made mistake of taking dd. she got so tired and restless waiting for her meal. it was so stressful. i left at 8 to put her to bed, by which time we were both covered in tomato ketchup - (yes she had chips!). she has finally gone down. nightmare to put to bed at the mo and later ir gets the worse she is. then dh is plannign to bring this couple back for coffee. hooo hum. dont get me wrong they are lovely but i've never met them before and have to impress. have had a quick tidy round which really couldnt be bothered with tonight and got the posh coffee cups out, blew the dust off and found the caffetiere! help!

WHY WOULD ANYONE EVER WANT A DOG AND CHILDREN?!?!?!!?!??!

I have just spent the past hour looking for one of the bloody dogs that just decided to sod off on its own over the fields which go on for miles and miles and miles around our house. ...

thought i'd have a relaxing walk with dd in her wellies and 2 well-behaved labs. well, dd wouldnt walk only wanted to be carried or sit on my shoulders. so most of the time i let the dogs loose. which is what they are very used to. first was the horse scenario. the horse that is scared of dogs that is. so i quickly call them back and put leads on them, all whilst carrying dd. then let them off again. then we have the 'shit here comes a car' scenario. so i try to grab them whilst dd is ON my shoulders and end up overbalancing, dd nearly topples over my head face first onto the concrete - but didnt. all viewed nicely by the passing car which turned out to be our lovely postman. he stops and puts dd's boots on for her (oh yes, she wouldnt wear these either so i had been carrying them!) but she screams and wont be put down, so off i go carrying her again, now with a rip in my nice maternity khaki trousers and a bulging bleeding lump on my knee (am i making this dramatic enough?).

drama over i decide the only way to safely carry dd is to let them off the leads and anyway we are on the home lane now. at which point one spots a pheasant and disappears into the woodland and the other gets bored waiting for him and heads over a field never to return..... the pheasant chaser returns. we look for the other, and look and look. then a neighbour comes by and takes dd off me and takes her back to her house (bless) and off i go , for an hour. nothing. decided to get in the car in the end. this is our neighbours pedigree black labrador. whom he makes a fortune from breeding, who is 10 years old and loved and going deaf! yes i am in tears.

return home......to see him in the garden. I LOVE HIM I LOVE HIM I LOVE HIM. he just came back, which i spose it what he was always going to do, but what stress. i never ever want a dog.

dh is stressful day at university. poor him.

'dh is HAVING a stressful day at uni.....' i mean

need a glass of wine

just a little one

with food of course

Egypt sounds like your day was stressful enough fo r both of you. No I would Never Never have dogs and children, never.

We spent today in Edinburgh, went to the museum and to my mum's... Wew will be staying there for about 3 weks while our kitchen is being done up. I am sort of dreading being away from home thinking the dd's will be so unsettled but at least there's lots to do in Ed and I still have pals there.

DD being funny with some slices of orange which she had squeezed the juice out of. Juice and slices were all in a dish and she was trying to drink the juice out past the slices, but of course the slices kept tipping forwards into the juice whenever she tilted the dish. So she was saying to the slices: 'Hey Guys, it's not for you! Guys, I'm Telling you!'

I was ending myself at the kitchen table, trying not to let it show. Don't know where 'Guys' has come from. not from me...

lol at the oranges spots!

may i say - i have been ON MY OWN since 9am!!! dh took dd to his mums - where i couldnt be bothered to go. they are still not back yet. starting to get a bit annoyed which is not good as i want to be really grateful for a day on my own - but she will prob be asleep in the car now - she lives 45 mins away................

i hear a car.........

Just thought I would pop in here while DD has a nap. I think she has finally nodded off. Shouted at me to turn the light off. I went in and explained that the light was off and it was the sunshine. Five minutes later she is shouting that "not want sunshine, mummy". Really ought to be getting on with the housework.

MIL has had the results of her post - op. tests today. They came back all clear. We are so relieved.
It turns out that she did have a fair bit of invasive cancer so she made the right decision to have a full mastecomy.
So, she just needs to get herself better from the operation, now. Hopefully, DH will start to feel better now, too.

Brilliant news ponka. It must be such a relief. Hope DH comes round to it soon and you can resume normal family life.

DD is going through a rather trying stage atm. She seems to have so much frustration and is also very determined about making her own choices (which cup, pjs, pants etc). She insists on climbing into her car seat herself but quite often messes about. So anyway after nursery yesterday rather than cajoling/ordering etc I said "lets see who can get into their car seats first". But instead of joining in the little race she just stood on DS's clasp (he is in a high back booster so uses the adult belt) so that he couldn't fasten up.

That's great news Ponka. Hope your DH feels a bit happier for hearing that.

We have a close family member seriously ill in the QMC so it looks like we'll be back in Nottingham this weekend Ponka - no shopping trips this time though.

Potty training is going really well - no accidents since Monday!
Anyone's toddlers dry at night yet? Sorry, can't be bothered to read the thread back! She's been asking to go to the toilet at night, waking up upset because she wants a wee or has done one, so she may be like Dd1 who was dry night and day at once - but dd2 is doing it 6 months earlier.
We're going to Monkey Music again tomorrow. I didn't take dd1 to anything when she was little because she was in nursery or being looked after by my mum pretty much full-time, so it's lovely to be able to do this.

Sounds like your Dd has the makings of a criminal mastermind Bozza! Dd2 says "I didn't" whenever she's done something she shouldn't - sort of grasses herself up, really.

I'm sorry to hear that, Helsy. I hope everything turns out O.K. I'll meet you for a drink in town if you are ever shopping here again, if you want. DS is nowhere near being dry at night btw but I'm not in a rush.

Your DD sounds very clever to me, Bozza.

It was my first day back at work today. It was good but I'm having to hit the ground running because it's slap bang right at the beginning of the academic year!

DS had a funny conversation with DH, yesterday. DH is a bit of a biologist and he was asking DS what he thought snakes ate. DS thought for some time and then said, "Food that is very very long, like sausages". It was so cute and really made me chuckle. My friend has started a word document for his kids and he writes down all the funny and cute things they say. I keep meaning to do that before it's too late and I've forgotten.

Remind me Ponka what your job is?

Helsy DD has been dry at night for about a month now. Would have been longer but wanted to wait until we got hols. Surprised me too because DS was over 3 before he was out of nappies. And DD has never needed to get up in the night - good because she still in a sleeping bag.

I'm a University Timetabler, god help me.

that is good news ponka.

dd not dry at night and prob never ever will be with the amount of milk she drinks before going to sleep!

who was it who's lo had chicken pox? kbaby when she was preg i think. its going round dd's preschool and this afternoon she has been so lethargic. (she doesnt sleep in day any more). fell asleep in the car at about 330 which isnt too odd, but after she woke she laid on the settee and fell asleep again. still is. this is very odd. quite warm too. oh dear. dh has just left for america for 10 days.. mum is here tomorrow for the duration so should be ok!

It was us that had it recently, Egypt. DS showed signs of being poorly the day before the spots broke out so I guess you'll know soon. It can incubate for anything up to a month, I think (normally 2 weeks). Have you had it, yourself? That's just what you need right now, eh? I hope it's nothing. Looks like it's travelling west! I heard of it in Lincoln and Newark, then it seemed to come to Nottingham. Now it's near you!