Evening all, seems i've missed a metric fucktonne! I'll do what I always do and start from where I left off last, been really busy yesterday and today so haven't been on for a change
Pass I am not awesome, but thankyou for thinking so :) I just whittle on here an awful lot and try to keep positive because, well, the quiche needs positive, especially at the minute it seems :(
Hi Stacks course we don't mind a lurker (do post occasionally though if you can, if you can't tell already we love a good natter). Thomas is a lovely name, my dp is a Thomas :) I'm sorry he has reflux/issues but there are some serious fountains of info on here, along with the most supportive bunch of people i've ever come across. I hope you enjoy our freds and some of the more brilliant people who know their stuff can help you :)
Sorry for the shitty night Detective but i'm glad it's not in the region of ultimate crapness! Dungarees are probably a good way to go for O, like others have said they might take a bit more wear and he won't crawl right out of them, plus they are SOOO cute!
Sorry, keep reading your posts izzy but I've nothing helpful to add :( Sounds promising with the formula though, that J is taking to it slowly but surely
hmm stunt perhaps move the pictures if you're not happy about them being there? They might be dangerous too if he could possibly get to them at all?
brockle clever y! E hasn't even attempted that yet, lazy so and so
vq sorry you're not well :( It's so unfair and the last thing you bloody need. I'm also sorry you couldn't get the rest you need :( And please don't take offence but I really think you do need the rest :( I do worry about you and then I feel bad because I don't want you to think I think you need worrying about because you're not coping, but, well, you do need worrying about. You've got so much to deal with and I think you deal with everything brilliantly BUT it's clearly taking its toll on you. You've had so much crap thrown at you and most other people would be in tatters by now so it's a wonder you're still soldiering on. I hope to be like you one day. And by that I don't mean you're old so i hope to grow up like you, just that I hope as a parent I hope to grow into the kind of parent you are. When I first became a mummy it felt like putting on the worst fitting pair of shoes and I didn't feel like I would ever be good enough for the little scrap handed to me. I didn't know my head from my arse and as E gets older it feels a bit like the shoes fit better, but it's been the quiche helping me and helpful advice from you and others that has helped me fill the shoes a bit better. Sure the shoes pinch sometimes and I have a flap and I have come on here and moaned and whined so much and you've always had something nice and helpful to say and I couldn't ever thank you and many others enough. I am digressing largely but what I meant to say was you are a wonderful person, an amazing mummy and I look up to you and do wish you well because it sounds like you're really going through it at the minute and it just isn't fair :(
bplp what on erf did you say wot got deleted?! as for dp, piss in his shoes
Sounds like you had a fab day chasing that's awesome :D Hope O enjoys his walker :) And if I had read anything about a flat i'd be positively beaming for you but since I haven't i'm sat here just blankly staring into space :P
madame e is down to 28-30 oz, he's offered 4 x 8oz, tends to drink it all first thing and last thing but takes 6ish at the other two. I figured if he wanted more milk he'd drain those bottles and wake up in the night. I think your ds is fine, it's recommended they have 20oz minimum and that counts what's in their food too so I wouldn't worry :)
sounds like you had a lovely day evil :) I have in fact had time to myself! Something magical happened, and dp spontaneously took me to see despicable me 2! MIL had e OVERNIGHT! we're going to see bon jovi in london next friday and she has him then so dp sorted it so we could do a trial run :) E went to sleep at 8:15 and didn't peep until 7:45, which is just fab :) I enjoyed the film and gave dp a good seeing to to say thankyou. Poor sod never gets owt, he works nights so we're rarely in bed at the same time, never mind long enough for any funny business to occur!
name changing ? oh noes, i'll get so confused!
just read through the whole name change kerfuffle with a tear in my eye 
, you're all so luffly, I honestly thought I mostly pissed you all off cos I whinge an awful lot and go round in circles with the bloody weaning thing and I am really rubbish with advice because I don't know an awful lot about mummyhood and don't feel confident in giving advice. I do love being part of this quiche though and despite not being a people person, and not having met any of you, I thoroughly enjoy catching up on what you're all up to, and I like to think of us all as a big family sharing good bits and ishoos and helping each other where we can. Another group hug? :)
bry hugs, you're another one who seems to do so much and manage so well, you're inspirational and your babies are very lucky to have you. I hope you get some answers with the allergy testing
gt i've had comments too about putting ds on the potty :S
ooh go on pp put a pic on the facebook group of you haven't yet! sorry i've not checked
Sounds like alot of people are feeling like they're struggling :( detective I understand what you mean about being asked the right questions. It's almost like you manage looking after the kids but things for you are just not doable? No time and energy for yourself etc. You sound so bubbly and outgoing, if you think you might need some help even if just with sleep to make you feel a bit better perhaps you should see the gp? Although like you said it's hard because you can't take anytihng too strongly in case o needs you in the night. I'd suggest dp having him some nights and you taking something to help you sleep but i've no idea how practical that is or if your dp would wake to him? I know he's been a bit crappy waking up in the past. Sorry, am probably suggesting stuff you've thought of already! hugs
lol bplp e would say no to spinach i think but i haven't tried yet. I like your 'pear scale', e likes a little butter in his not-so-nomworthy food
chasing i felt totally out of my depth when i had e too, it looks so natural for other people to be mums i just thought i wasn't cut out for it! I feel much more like i can do it these days :) Glad o liked his pasta! how did you give sausage? I haven't tried e with sausage yet
I'm also pretty rubbish in the mornings! I make bottles up once e has gone to bed though in the evenings. I also shower once he's in bed at night time too and i'm really wank at mornings. I find sorting e and breakfast out difficult never mind actually putting makeup on. I still wear maternity clothes because i don't seem to have time to root for something else. I'm in baggy jeans and crappy tops most of the time! I often wonder how other mums manage to look so 'together' when i look like a total mess. I have no excuse either as my baby sleeps :|
Glad to read you being so optimistic pr sounds like a brilliant plan and it WILL work :D
Wow pass check P out, proper nom-meister! Really chuffed she's doing so well :) E has had a bad weaning day but I think he's having ishoos with teef, and i'm still repeating to myself that it doesn't matter :) Tomorrow might be better anyway :)
Good luck for tomorrow bplp :D
Chasing e loves the butternut squash with pasta stars ak recipe, maybe try that for o since he's had a taste of pasta now?
I don't know how you all manage with work. I have no job to go back to after being let go when they found out I was pregnant. It was only a shitty job for me to do after my zoology degree. I don't even know what to do with my zoology degree. I have a pipe dream of being a midwife but there's no way I could do that, so it'll stay a pipe dream :( I'm not capable of such responsibility and stuffs :( Wish I was. Anyway, with that usual comment about me being rubbish I best finish up this hugely crappy really rediculously long post!