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?

Oh lordy Egypt, do please keep us posted... and with double salary I reckon you wouldn't need to really worry about lack of opportunities for DD and your baby!! Your DH sounds like he's really doing well for himself. What's his line of work again?

Good for you the present buyers. I am getting tempted by millions of things. Mostly for DD1 though... baby toys seem a bit (whisper)... boring... compared to all the pretendy stuff DD1 can have. A cl eaning set is a likely contender as DD1 is sponge and brush crazy. And she loves scooters. DD2 though... hmmm. I thought in bed last night that she would adore it if I sewed a long line of different buttons and beads onto a bit of leather for her to fondle and chew but I don't seem to have much time for that sort of thing at the moment.
I am madly excited about our kitchen; don't get me started you lot. It has glossy cream units and (swoon) sand coloured corian worktops. Floor is dark pinky red vinyl with flowery pattern made of sand coloured dots. A window is being converted to french doors. God it's gorgeous. Shall post pics for your perusal when it's done.

DD1 has discovered smell at last. Anyone else found it hasn't registered much so far? I now have to blame DD2 for farting

By the way I think it's the slippery fabric that makes character stuff so horrible; remember sweating in a Holly Hobbie shaped patch on my front in gym at primary school.

That kitchen sounds lovely spots. Egypt - don't know what to say about all the coming and going for you - just keep us posted.

And spots it is not the fabric in my case, it is pure snobbery that I won't let them wear character stuff!

DD's dressing table came today. I haven't opened the flat pack mind you. Went shopping to meadowhall after taking DS to school. DD refused to do a wee before we went (having not done one since 7pm). All of a sudden about 10.30, got really desperate, had pushchair, had to find a lift etc, so pants were wet. I didn't have any spares, so just took them off and fastened up her dungarees. She is so stubborn. Then when we got home I was trying to sort out packing these shoe boxes and she was running around wearing black patent shoes, pink socks, no knickers, dungarees with the poppers open so like a dress (IYSWIM), DS's swimming goggles, and a red velvet hat I bought off Dumbledoresgirl. Crazy child.

lol at your dd bozza all dressed up. makes me chuckle when dd wears a bra round her bits with my shoes on. dont they just love it.

dh is in the petrochemicals field. dont ask me anymore cos i dont understand! but the new job (if) wouldnt be, its just the same role in a different field iykwim. bit of a shrewd businessman i think.

right, off to eat some brekkie - still at mums so being waited on. bless.

Hi all, we've just started really trying to do more outside so even if it's freezing we try spend at least an hour in the garden or the park with DS1 who suffers from cabin fever at the weekends normally. If you throw a ball really really high in the air DS1 falls over backwards trying to watch it everytime- made me cry with laughter, though there's a lot of washing now as a consequence
I've bought DS1 christmas stocking stuff but no main present as yet, got some Thomas the tank engine brio trains on eBay (to which I'm addicted) which he'll really like, but nothing "proper" yet. Not sure he'll mind tbh as they're still so young and he's the elder so no big brothers or sisters to tell him anything different!
We're thinking of having our garage converted into a playroom as I'm sinking under a sea of toys already - I almost dread christmas which sounds a bit bah humbug!

Hiya, I am still around...just not as much as usual! It's DD's 5th birthday in a fortnight so I've been busy doing the invitations (magician in church hall so whole class (only 22) can come). Yikes! Have suggested that parents may like to drop off and retire to coffee shop across the road. DS is now potty trained and dry most nights (although blimmin' DD isn't!) but will keep putting nappy on for a good while yet. Bozza is your DD nappy free at nights now? He has been under the weather, very clingy and asking to go home all the time when we are out. Doctor could find nothing wrong but there was blood in his urine (not visible to naked eye -ie. titchy bit). Anyway, hospital couldn't find anything wrong so we are just easing him back into rude health and keeping fingers crossed.
DH and I are going to Copenhagen for a long weekend at the end of the month. Children are going to be utterly ruined in Derby with in-laws Cannot wait!
I don't know what DS will be getting for Christmas yet - DD and I have to have birthdays yet! (I think I am getting a CD off somebody (perhaps of older generation) as DH was on the phone saying "Yes, the Scissor Sisters" very slowly and patiently about four times in a row!) Am thinking of an ELC shop till as ours is very primitive and won't allow debit cards. May also get him a chunky scooter too, but will be looking out for that at the NCT sale next weekend.
Is anybody going on the Mumsnet night out?

I am not going on the night out with being up north - logistics/cost are not in my favour. Very of your weekend away. Hope you have a fantastic time. I have decided that DH and I are going to put £10/month away towards our 10th anniversary celebrations in May 2008. So that will be the huge sum of £180. Due to our WA being the day after DD's birthday the last few have been very low key affairs. LOL at DH and the Scissors sisters.

Pepperrabbit has he got Brio track? That was a huge hit from my nephew's birthday - he was 2 in October. You could set up all the track etc on Christmas Eve and then cover it with some wrapping paper or even a sheet.

DD keeps getting cross because DS is being invited to parties and she wants to go. So I remind her about her nursery party on 9 Dec, and say that she can sit on Santa's knee and tell him what she would like for Christmas. Ha. Fat chance of that!

Is this the big MN Christmas party? No, I'm not. For the same reasons as Bozza, really. Plus, I like meetups but such a big one would be a bit overfacing for me, I think. I'm too shy. Scissor Sisters played in Nottingham this Sunday.

That's lovely, Bozza. Do you think you'll leave the kids and stay overnight somewhere?

I'm having a great time at the moment. My college class displayed our work at the NEC cake decoration show this Sunday so we all went on a coach to see (and to buy!). DH had the boys all day, star that he is. He told me he had a terrible time with them but pretty much everything he described as so awful was pretty standard. They took ages to get dressed (yep, they do), Luke was so wriggly to get dressed (he is), He did a poo just as we were about to leave (he does do that a lot), etc. etc. Next Sunday I'm off to Center Parcs for the evening with my friends from a nearby town. We are all Mums. I live really close to Center Parcs so it's easy. We are going in the spa for 3 hours because there was a buy one get one free offer. Can't wait.

I would actually like a weekend break, maybe getting a cheap flight to a European city. Yes I know we will have to save more money for that but it is a start. We have never left the children for more than one night - DS once for 2 nights but only one day IYSWIM - but they will be 7 and 4 by then.

at your DH's "terrible time". I have to agree with you that none of those things sounded that drastic. I assume it is the Sherwood Forest Centre Parks that you are near.

Hi,
Sorry only now got my internet back on line.
Ive read a few of the messages but not all so apologies to everyone.
A quick update from us.

DD is back in nappies but bizarly wears knickers to nursery. I think I just didnt have the patience with a newborn, to watch her at home for signs of weeing. Ill try in the new year.
Still finding having 2 difficult and I feel guilty about how much I leave DD to play on her own while I tend to DS or tidy etc. The poor thing plays in her bedroom dancing with her teddies etc on her own.

Weve done all the xmas shopping and this is what weve got;
Nurses outfit and medical case
Easal
My little people zoo
ELC keyboard and microphone
some arty stuff
a game
bubble machine
books
dvds
jewlery box
family are buying a girls head(for brushing etc)dora laptop, dressing table top from elc, coupe car and house and scooter.

Poor ds is getting a leapfrog activity table, clothes and a sit in/pushalong/ride on trike thingy.

I think were going to have to have a major clear out before xmas for all the new toys.
Then stocking wise she has, rings, pretend nail varnish, beaded necklace, soap, hair bobbles

Ill catch up again soon.

Good to hear from you kbaby. Having two is definitely a bit tricky. Mine have been driving me mad this weekend - DD is such a little wind-up and DS falls for it every time. She really knows how to push his buttons, but at the same time wants to be exactly like him. She "rang" Father Christmas up on my mobile the other day and the conversation went something like this:

"hello christmas, that you, you bring me comb, bag, belt, toy car, see you, bye"

Bozza!

We are back at home and in our new and glorious kitchen. Still a bit of decorating to do but it is beautiful. So long since we were here before: a month! And lots of outgrown clothes to throw out; DD2 moving into her own room (nominally... most of the night she's actually in our bed); DD1 potty trained so nappies to ship out (an event with cloth). Lots to do. Our upstairs neighbour has had a baby boy and everything feels... different...!

Having such a big new kitchen makes me think we could have 3 children in this house after all! (If we wanted to )

Ponka how is the cake decorating going anyway?

Kbaby donb't feel guilty! It's great for DD to play with her teddies on her own!

ooo spots, i'm so jealous!

been up all night with dd who is now asleep on the sofa. why arent i? she's running a temp. was all day sat too, but absolutely fine yesterday. odd. q concerned esp as i cant get any calpol down her at all. knackered.

cant wait to get to singapore, sick of this cold weather. i hate it. even our house is cold with the heating on. saying that, dh has gone off for an interview with this uk company. i hope its not that great an offer and he can tell them no thanks. i want some sun!

lol at the phone call boz. took dd to the garden centre yest where there was a dancing fullsize santa. she was q scared. played her a video that mil had brought round about a teddy bear's christmas and asked her if fc was going to bring her some presents. she was quite worried about the idea of a man coming into her home in the night. understandable. hmm. trying to tell her his reindeers will bring them instead. i have a daughter with a phobia to chrsitmas.

I have tried to introduce the idea of Father Christmas coming to the nursery party and DD sitting on his knee and getting a present. I could tell she wasn't impressed. And I remember when DS was about this age he wouldn't go into the living room on Christmas morning in case FC was still there. We had to go in first to make sure it was OK.

I can so understand how a 2 year old would find Father Christmas scary. lol at your DD though, Bozza. Hope she gets better soon, Egypt. Sounds like you'll have some news about what you are doing, soon.

No way, Spots! 3! I'm presuming you are thinking long term rather than short? Cake decorating is fine thanks. My course finishes in about 3 weeks and we have such a lot of practical work to finish and a written exam. Also, being the sucker that I am, I've somehow managed to get myself involved in making a cake for a charity ball roughly the same time it all finishes. I feel some annual leave from work coming on..........

Went to Center Parcs to the spa and it was lovely (yes, Sherwood Forest, Bozza). It didn't cost much (special deal) and we had 3 hours of going round all the different saunas/ steam rooms etc. they have there and some cheese and wine at the end of the evening!

Kbaby, it seems Mums always end up feeling guilty about something. I'm the other way around. DS1 seems to demand more of my time whereas DS2 is happy to explore on his own (although things have started to change in that respect these last few days). It sounds like she is perfectly happy playing in her room so I wouldn't beat yourself up about it. You've got so much more to do, now with two.

Hi everyone,

Sorry haven't read last posts as I'm ill- bad ear infection - and dd2 has chicken pox, so we're both off! Have to go to ENT tomorrow as apparently my ear is so bunged up and swollen the GP can't see inside it. Not sure dd2 HAS chickenpox, btw, but GP insists that what it is and I can't actually remember doing six years of medical training myself so we'll go with what she says. She is off her food though (dd2, not the GP, obviously) but not itchy, no temp, nothing on her face or behind her ears.
Hope we're both better by next week as DH and I have booked a sneaky night in Birmingham with DM looking after the girls!
Ponka, I may be in Nottingham next week depending on how much work I can do this week - Tuesday, at Nottingham Uni. Is that anywhere near to/convenient for you?
Will come back and read everyone's posts, honest.

Sorry you are feeling so rough helsy. I have a bit of something myself, very sore throat and painful ear, and just flaked last night, but I had had a busy day and DH is away. Fortunately I am at work and it is not busy and everyone who sits near me is off so I can save my voice for bedtime stories and shouting at DD who has taken to permanently terrorising DS.

And re - the demands of two children. I find it goes in phases and sometimes DD is at the more demanding stage and other times it is DS. DD is quite hard work atm whereas DS has eased off a bit and is happy to get on with things or join in with a joint activity. DD is very stubborn over her clothes etc, very demanding over attention and getting everything DS gets, and also has taken to destroying whatever DS is doing and fighting with him. She destroys his train track, his knights, his playmobil, his lego creations, his puzzles, and in a very deliberate way. He was trying to read his reading book to me last night, and she was insisting on sitting on his knee and putting her head right in front of his face so he couldn't see the book. Then he went for a wee and she was there tormenting him. He gets no peace!

oh dear helsy. dd has ear infection too and perforated ear drum. i feel so guilty for not having taken her to the docs earlier. she had a temp last sun, managed to get through the week then it all started again this weekend. wonder how long she has been feeling bad? anyway, she's bright as a button today. she also slept through, well from 9pm to 615!

GOTTA RUN....

Helsy,

Poor you. Are you sure you'll be up to coming to Nottingham next week? I'm about. DS1 goes to nursery until 1ish. Would it be just you or DD, too? I can do morning (half nine ish until about 11:30 ish with DS2 only or afternoon (1:30 onwards) with both. DS1 can skip his little sleep and be relatively O.K. these days. Lakeside, which is right on campus, is lovely. There's a park, ducks and a nice lake to walk around (oh and a cafe if it rains). We'll see how it goes but it would be nice to say hello. It only takes me about 20 minutes to lakeside.

Bozza - LOL at your LO's. Im sure DD would be the same with an older brother, at the moment she takes toys off DS because apparently he doesnt want them and gives him another toy instead. DS just looks at her very bemused.

Heres a pic of them both
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aww how cute kbaby. how do you keep that furniture clean?! very nice.

how are you feeling today helsy? dd is better. still on antibiotics for a bit but bery bright and has gone to school, which has given me the chance to catch up with some shopping and sorting - and mumsnet

better go and get on x

Hi All, sorry to hear about the general poorliness - at least it should be over by christmas - DS1 always gets conjunctivitus for Christmas which is splendid, he had it on his birthday once as well so perfect timing! We're off to the hospital this afternoon for his check up in the long running "where are DS1's testicles saga" . I think I found them in the bath the other day (so to speak!) so I'm hoping they'll say no op is required - he had a scrotum ultrasound a few months back which was just hideous - took two of us to hold him down but I've got to go alone this afternoon as my mum's looking after DS2.
We've just been away for the weekend! the WHOLE weekend and it was lovely lovely lovely!!!
we had a wedding to go to and tagged the Friday night on before and didn't come home till sunday lunch. My mum and sister looked knackered after having them both for 48 hours but it was so worth it. (It's our wedding anniversary and DH's birthday so we had lots of excuses).
Off to get all the hospital paperwork now, take care all.

weekend away sounds lovely pr. I am interested in the saga of DS1's testicles because I have something similar going on with my DS. Although he passed his tests when he was younger I have only been able to find one in the bath. So I took him to the GP on Monday and he is getting referred. Because he is 5 though, I have to explain it all to him. See what you mothers of girls only are missing out on. I really do think DH should be in charge of this, I mean I know who will be sorting DD out with periods and stuff when the time comes.

kbaby they are lovely pictures. And she has such a lot of hair. I am really trying to persuade DD's hair to grow.

DD's latest issue with DS - he put his dish in the dishwasher where she wanted hers to go. So she had to curl up on the floor and cry. And she woke me up at 3am because she was having a dream where she was saying over and over "give that back to me" - when I went in she was still actually asleep.

Egypt- Lucky its leather so a good wipe down is all it needs, that said though shes scuffed it with her shoe buckles. Even though its cold I don?t think we could have a fabric settee anymore as were so used to leather. Wooden floors however are a nightmare, ours are always dusty although handy when wiping up wee/sick/drinks etc.

Pepperrabbit- Sounds like you had a fab time.

Bozza- Umm.. Am I supposed to check that DS has his then? I assumed they were just there.
DD has got loads of hair and has had it cut numerous times, she wakes up in the morning and I have a plant spray full of water to tame in down.

my dd;s hair is wild too. a mass of curls. and always getting tangled. she hates having it brushes despite me using detangling spray. we're off to mils tonight to have it chopped. alot. dh will kill me. when its wet it reaches half way down her back. too long to control. she is asleep on the beanbag in front of cbeebies at mo and has wet herself but i'm buggered if i'm waking her. this is a rare treat. ! mean mummy.

Well egypt she would hardly thank you would she?

To illustrate what I mean about DD's hair here is a picture. She has had it trimmed but only slightly to tidy it up and not for over 3 months.
DS and DD