Dec 2011: Running around after our Cybermidgets...

[Aethelfleda]

Roll up, roll up, it's the Dec 11 new thread.
Prepare to be upgraded (if you can catch them!)

We've mostly mopped up! Four lots of washing later and at least the V part seems ok hopes DD2 doesn't get it next, or me or DH

mopsy hope you have a loverly evening...

queen that sounds a v cool present for DD1, hope she is speechless when she gets 'em.

Hope octopus and oi are OK and that xiao hasn't commenced FILtricide....

Right, gin o'clock. I have found DH a bottle of posh Fevertree tonic as a treat to go with his Tanqueray, I think we deserve one after the weekend we've had!

Ooh it's gone all quiet...

(not over here, DD2 kept me up overnight with the tidiest vomiting imaginable, and now DH has the lurgy)

Not much going on here, I'm poorly but monkey is running rings around me as usual!

Aethel hope the bug leaves you soon.

I'm taking the girls to Southsea Aquarium today and if not raining a walk down the seafront

DH actually got up in the night to settle Sky so I could actually sleep...good man!

Have a good day all.

Back to work today for me after 13 straight days off DS being a joy and gone back to no drama bed times his head is healing well after his accident Saturday and he's back to cm today so don't have to feed him again until Friday hooray!!

Hi all, had an amazing two days. Yesterday had a day at the Sanctuary spa. Was totally fab. Today back to grey rainy normality. Minimopsy is over her pox and they are fading. Her face looks nearly back to normal but still lots on her body. No longer contagious thank goodness so can go out and see people!

Glad Danny OK figgy.
Hope the vom stops soon aethel. Poor you
How is everyone?

We had a night of pyrovom and splodapoo. My floor was a warzone of sheets, towels and other such things this morning. He's feeling much better now though and has managed a portion of fake cheerios (aldi rules) so all is well in his world.

I think we are over the lurgy....

Oh and octopus, we're big fans of Aldi hoops too (and all their cereal own-brands). aldi rocks....(since we moved it's sadly further away so I go every few weeks for a stock-up)

Hope all of the sick Lo's (and anyone else) are feeling better!!

Where is everyone it has gone very quiet last week or so, is it half term-itis?!? Hope everyone is lurking and not deserting!!

DS now looks like a Klingon with his massive red head scab bang in the middle of his forehead, think he scratched it last night in his sleep as it was bleeding this morning, it makes my knees go wibbly just thinking about it.

for Octopus, hope DS gets better soon.
We've got a Lidl, I luff their own brand choco flakers but DH is a museli snob...bought 3 boxes of Tesco 'Corn Pops' today, got a 4 bowl a day habit atm!

mopsy, so glad you've had a wonderful few days! And Mini is over the worst.

Figgy, hope your Klingon isn't too grumpy about bleeding...and he's happy back in routine at the CM.

Northen, how are the viewings going?

Aethel, glad you're over the lurgy.
DS still hasn't been ill yet so I know he's saving it up for when we have the newborn....

He hasn't sleep regressed but I put him down at 7, he's still awake (and happy in his cot) at 9 most nights so I think it's time to start cutting back his daytime nap, not what pregnant & tired me needs!

I'm lurking

Sorry to hear about all the poorly little ones, hope all now on the mend.

mopsy glad you had a lovely weekend, it sounds fabulous

seven how are you getting on with 3 DC's? (The hideous situation with BIL aside of course). Are you getting any more sleep yet?

northern how are DS's ears now?

DS has been so accident prone since we came home. He's covered in bruises and looks quite the battered child . I had a parenting fail at the weekend when I managed to throw a ball in DD's face and give her a nosebleed. Otherwise all good this end!

Hope poorly babas improving. Where is everyone?

Rain here. But went down town and bought Minimopsy a raincoat this morning and got her wellies at the weekend so we can go out anyway! Might go jump through some puddles when she wakes from her nap...

Oh crap husband had 24 hour vomiting bug, now me. Please please don't let Minimopsy get it. Nursery day tomorrow and missed it last week cos of pox and I reeeaaallly need to finish book proposal plus don't fancy minding baba if I am still vomming only good thing is we didn't get it until after lovely weekend!

D&V still in evidence here. He's not keeping much down, but I'm not too worried as he's a good colour and reasonably cheery if prone to an extra couple of cat naps.

Hope everyone else is on the mend soon.

Aethel Aldi is a fifteen minute walk from school, then a half hour bus ride home, so we go once every couplw of weeks to get those bits we can't do without such as cereal and wash powder:)

Oh Bob, there's really a D&V bug doing the rounds of the country at the moment isn't there?! Can't believe we/the DCs have all had it! Some extra special types have managed chicken pox too... Commiserations to mopsy, figgy, aethel, octopus and janey. So glad that DS is at least back to normal with his bedtimes figgy.
DS had his last bout Monday, but I knew he was on the mend when a few hours later he started eating twiglets, and then had beans on toast at the motorway service station

Thanks for asking, and funnily enough faffin we're taking him to the consultant next week for his follow up. Wasn't too impressed last time, especially when the consultant tried to tell me that the blood we'd seen was dark earwax He seemed to think that as DS's eardrums weren't perforated at that exact moment they had not been before, despite seventy hundred and three GPs looking in his ears and seeing them.

I've had three late nights, travelling back home and then two late ones with work, joy. We've had two viewings already GBR, but the house isn't yet on the market- it'll go on tomorrow, we're just reviewing the brochure now...I'm steeling myself for badly punctuated estate-agentese !

I'm hoping nobody else gets it. Boo doesn't deal well with unexpected bodily emissions. Squidge is ok, but tends toward constipated so D&V hits her hard:(

To make brochure scanning more tolerable, imagine it has been produced using my old iphone. Spelling and cobblers s gogo!

we're not entirely sure what they mean by 'local wall tiling' in the bathroom, but are going to live with it...

I just want them to get it on the market so we can get a few more people round!

Glad to here octoboy's not too bad with it Octopus, hope it doesn't go any further...

And any news at all about Oi, on FB or anything?

Just a quick hello from me - things have been pretty manic here with both DH and I working most evenings after the DC are in bed so not much spare time. Sorry to hear of all the illness once again. Freya and DS have coughs and colds (just for a change) and Freya had a very dodgy nappy this evening, so hope that is not the next thing.

Quick update - we went camping with the in laws the other weekend- was ok actually but hard work with 2 kids and for one night (and it rained Sunday). We were away this weekend too for 4 days at relatives. DS was a bit of a nightmare in terms of behaviour so a bit embarrassing. He is much better behaved with just me but plays up with DH and I as he knows it causes tensions.

Half term this week - not great weather so far. I am working 2 days so GPs are on duty for those. We had the paddling pool out and a BBQ on Sunday and then cold and rain Mon/tues!

Oi has posted a few things on facebook so seems to be around and ok.

northern that all sounds really frustrating. I hope the appointment next week is more productive

Sat on our bed watching a tired but stubborn lo thrash and scream in his bed through the monitor been a few days since we've had such nonsense!!

Supposed to be swimming tomorrow with him is swimming good or bad for Klingon like forehead scabs? I'm going with good as don't want him missing out on another weeks class as with the MC, being away and the pox he's missed 3 weeks in a row now.

Sounds like one for aethel... I'd take him anyway, if it's just a scab it'll be OK, if it's pox related I'd ask someone who knows about these things!

I've just earned my 'good partner' badge by whipping up some brownies for DP to take in for his colleague's leaving do tomorrow. I'll do another batch for work on Monday to say thanks for their help on a recent project. They are soooooooooooo evil though, cost a bomb to buy the ingredients, and as DP says, if you wipe one down a table it'd go see-through

Ta faffin; I'm just hoping they will refer him for grommets, don't want another winter of him yelling in agony and leaving a trail of dried snot/ear gunk round the house...

The scab is his war wound after falling out the back door it's really raised and black but healing well........trying really hard not to pick it am a picker!!

ha figgy I know is totally gross but I was sooooo tempted to pick Minimopsy's chicken pox scabs on her head. I refrained but there's no denying I was tempted. Ugh am disgusted with myself!

Ohh scabs - o always want to pick monkeys too!

He had paed today who tested him for coeliac, hoping its ok fuck knows what I'll feed him on if its not

Glad to hear most are feeling better, hope d&v gets better soon... Off to crawl back to bed!

Hiya girls . go swimming Figgy and don't pick that scab even if it's really tempting

Hope Monkey is OK on the testing janey, if it is coeliac then "all" you have to do is feed him gluten-free (so rice is fine, oats ok, anything labelled "gluten free" or suitable for coeliacs"). Some gluten free products are expensive but if you stick mostly to "normal" food (fruit/veg/rice/rice noodles) you can have, some gluten free products (flour, bread and pizza bases) are actually prescribable (useful if money is tight) Gluten free pasta is pretty good nowadays and my friend who was coeliac used to make her own bread. If he is diagnosed they should refer you to a dietician for advice, and the coeliac society has a good website.

I have cleared the enormous washing basket!