April 2011 - We understand no but we choose to ignore it.

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Welcome Aprilites

Cycle bump! I was thinking about you the other day. When I was putting the bikes back in the shed! Congratulations on the bfp!

Awh congrats cycle. Fab news and lovely to hear from you. Hope all is ok?

Congratulation Cycle and welcome back! Think I've NC since you were last about but I am also currently up the duff and am counting the days down until mat leave number two commences...

Daytime naps are a distant dream here. She still has them at nursery but we haven't attempted one for an age. It does usually mean that we get her in bed a bit closer to 7pm though, so it isn't all bad!

And yes here to the violent outbursts too. Horrible aren't they? They don't come very often but I admit that I cried the first time it happened, which I'm sure was completely the wrong way to deal with it but hey ho!

Hey Cycle, congrats! Sorry things have been stressful, unmumsnetty hugs...

Happy belated new year ladies

I have been chortling over your autocorrects Fizz. My favourite being tarts on the bedding. I guessed it as stars s we have the same!

Lovely to hear from you Cycle and congratulations on the bfp

Ds3 can get very physical. Mostly with ds2 and us, aren't we the lucky ones. I tend to tell him off, take him away from the situation and leave it at that. He doesn't always understand why he behaves like he does, but I do make sure that he knows it isn't acceptable.

I say just go for it with potty training. Expect wet pants, expect puddles on the carpets, expect poo's in the pants, expect regression after you think you've cracked it. All of these scenarios are pretty much inevitable at some point, so just roll with it, it's part of it and character building!

School for both boys tomorrow, and from this week onwards ds3 will be doing 3 sessions at pre school - woohoo!

DYAC! I didn't even notice!

Yes it's stars! Could you imagine the judges pants being hoiked if they were covered in page 3 girls!

I was thinking jam tarts

A question on birthday party etiquette.

B has been invited to neighbours twin boys party next weekend. We are away, so he can't go. Do I still give a gift and card? We hardly know them. In fact I only know the mums name because it's on the invite with her mobile number to RSVP. B doesn't play with them, but has been found on their trampoline after running off when I was yapping to another neighbour distracted.

And if I do hand in a gift, does it need to be two separate things? I have a set of cars that has two launcher things in my "emergency gift box" would that be ok for them to share?

I'm such a chicken when it comes to these things.

Hmmmm, I reckon a card and a token tiny gift is enough. I'd be mortified if everyone thought they had to buy H something (although I think all small child birthday excesses are a bit over the top as I was brought up without birthdays, Christmas etc, so maybe I'm just mean...).

One for each on one between them?

I would say if they are not close friends then no gift required if you can't attend. A card is fine but not obligatory.

I'm with Sarnia. I don't think I'd send a gift either in those circumstances.

Ok, I have cards, will pop them over when I let her know we won't be there. I'll invite her boys to Bs party in April though.

I am stupidly excited about his birthday this year!!

Hello all, and happy new year.

3 million miles from potty training here. Need to do it before August and DH is pushing for me to tackle it, but I don't think H is ready. He doesn't 'get' it. Although he has peed and pooed on the potty in the past.

Having two is lovely, but I'm really very tired. Been teary and grumpy a couple of times this week. Will be night weaning R at the end of February when she's six months as otherwise I'm no longer going to be able to function.

Now it's easier to namechange I'll likely be posting here more :)

Hello! I've been awol for months and months and not even lurking!!! Having two seems to be mega time consuming! How are you all?

Congrats on bfp Cycle!!

Great to hear from you mrsw. How are your two?

Alex has been poorly last few days. Was burning up. That's passed but I'm on pox watch. Seems more himself today tho.

Hello Mrs W!

We've had the lurgy here too. Some sort of virus that caused high temperatures and general crapness. Things seem to be on the mend now though. I'm knackered though. Need to get used to the sleepless nights again though and pronto!

Hello! B has been flick flacking between high temps, crankiness and being 100% fine. It is weird. We too are on pox watch as it's doing the rounds at playgroup.

We aren't actively potty training at the moment, but randomly at CM B pooed in the potty without prompting or asking. He just toddled off during a nappy change. I am very disconcerted by this as all he does here without his nappy on is piddle everywhere but the potty.

Due to crankiness mentioned before, we have left it for this weekend.

After I posted that on Monday, H got up on Tuesday and asked to wear pants!! One accident yesterday, one on Friday and two on Thursday. I'm shocked and stunned.

Even more baffling, he ate potatoes yesterday and even asked for more. I can't remember the last time he did that.

Hope B's feeling better soon, Fizz. H does that too sometimes. I think he's better as he seems completely fine and then his temp shoots up again.

Much tiredness in our house. Baby R is still up through the night and I'm just wrecked. Did a couple of 45 min drives yesterday and on the way back I was feeling pretty unsafe. Going to try to catch some naps today when DH is here and tomorrow when H is at nursery.

Well, B has been up all nigh, therefore so have I! He was sick just as I was going to bed, then insisted on staying in our bed. Dh went to the spare room and I have watched more episodes on Thomas than I scare to remember and despicable me 1&2.

I need sleep,

Oh no, Fizz. Hope you can get DH to be in charge for a bit today so you can nap. What a nightmare.

And round two of the vomathon has just finished. I had a nap and dh fed him! Bloody fed him. Apples and a smoothie! Fucking idiot.

I want to cry. B is sleeping now. Dh knows he did a stupid thing, but why is it me scrubbing the fecking carpet?

Oh no fizz. I'm at home with two poorly boys. S has got A's virus. We are supposed to be at sil for her birthday but I've sent dh on his own.

Hello everyone, I have been AWOL for aaaaaaaaages! How the devil is everyone? Sorry to hear all the vomming going on - hope all is well again.

We're officially starting TTC #2 this week - I just had my coil taken out last week (which I expected to be super painful but was actually fine). The possibility of being PG again soon made me think of you lot and miss you all

Not much new here -trying to keep head above water with work and home, really. I think I could cope with "just" working FT, but my weeks are typically 50hrs and I'm drowning... (and, currently procrastinating on MN which won't be helping..)

Looking forward to going back through the thread and catching up with you all (although I'm going to have to work out all the name changes, aren't I?)

How long to go now Twentieth ?

Nothing much exciting to report here. Definitely not ready for potty training - someone at nursery didn't realise today that the nappies were in the front pocket of her new bag so put M in knickers. DH picked her up to find her with wet socks (wee) and she wet herself again just after getting home. I only noticed becasue of a small puddle on the rug, she was off busy playing with toys - didn't notice or care about being wet . I'm currently wondering if baby A might be potty trained first!

M still shows little interest in the baby - occasional stroking her hair and one incident of a brief hug a couple of weeks ago. It does make life easier as I can leave them in the same room while I grab a nappy or something. I suspect when crawling starts more notice might be taken.