FEB 2010 Proper threenagers now!!

[InmaculadaConcepcion]

Come on in, Chicas!

Dive into the bubbly and home-baking and take advantage of our deluxe creche....

[Bearcrumble]

Scones and CP - sorry to hear sad news about your friends. How awful on all counts.

Oh, CP -try and stay calm but don't let them get away with any crappy comments/stuffing DD with ham.

I've had a couple of better nights too - feel a lot more sane and focussed.

[ClimbingPenguin]

I've come to bed already

[SurvivalOfTheUnfittest]

Awful news for your friends Scones and CP. Thinking of you and them.

[stoofadoof]

you've all been busy! have been away on hols, nice but good to be home and before that I was wiped out with sicky bug for 3 days - really rough! will try and catch up!

[JewelFairies]

Stoof, nice to hear from you

[JewelFairies]

I've just seen the invisible car. Light grey BMW doing 90 on the motorway without lights on, in heavy spray, drizzle and fog and zero visibility. I nearly pulled out in front of the idiot.

[LeMousquetaireAnonyme]

JF DH went on a road safety thingy for work and the guy did say that light grey cars are invisible no matter what they, should always have lights on.

[ScienceRocks]

Just marking my place x

[JewelFairies]

Mous I'm considering getting a neon green car next

I'm ahead of myself today despite getting up late. Have already dropped the girls at their holiday club (trip to the beach today the lucky things) and have a list of things to get done before work. Only to find everything is still shut! Now sitting outside the surgery to collect repeat prescription and they won't open until 8.30. Then have to collect a parcel and the depot also opens at 8.30. Knew it doesn't pay off to be up early and efficient! Should have taken more time over my coffee which I left half drunk on the table.

[InmaculadaConcepcion]

Eek at the invisible car with tosspot driver. JF..

WOMAD was totally ace, DS and DD both loved it and their enjoyment added to ours. They were both reasonably content to let us hang out and listen to music and neither made any fuss when it started raining. At one point, I took DD for a stroll just with me and we had loads of fun together trying on silly glasses, having a go in an old-fashioned swing-boat and clambering into various display hammocks. DD was also great at using the portaloos, which made life easier too.
(I feel like I'm repeating myself...have I said all this already??!)

DS is finally crawling - as some of you have noted on FB! He's enjoying his new freedom of movement and I'm wondering if I should fit a stair gate onto the kitchen door.....

DS is also in his own room as of tonight. I'm working towards him sleeping through by the time we go to an wedding overnight in early October. Given that DH is on holiday, DS is healthy and between sleep regressions, it seems like a good opportunity. I've just started putting him into his cot after his story rather than his feed and so far, so good (night two). A bit of bobbing up and down and minor complaining, but asleep within 20 mins. Here's hoping...

stoof good to hear from you! Sorry you've been ill.

[JewelFairies]

It's been a long week... I panicked earlier because I couldn't find my keys. Then realised they were in the ignition of my car that I was driving! D'oh.

IC Sounds like a great success. Shame about the weather but on the other hand maybe preferable to 30 degrees every day.

I'll have to start packing tomorrow for our trip to my parents. Had my mother on the phone to say its currently 38 degrees, and to take lots of water for the journey...

[ClimbingPenguin]

I think I have found a nursery I am happy with. It also happens to be cheap enough to offset our rent increase which means I will give up tutoring now. Feeling quite relieved on all three fronts.

[JewelFairies]

CP (and Mous) Be sure to let the local council know you have a child starting reception in 2014 so that they can send you the relevant forms. Were I am the forms go out Oct and are due back December. They won't automatically know your child exists and needs a place so it's down to you. Crazy system if you ask me but thought I'd mention it just in case you don't know.

[ClimbingPenguin]

Thanks, That's why we're moving now, before school application starts (schools our way aren't very good). Will make once we're moved in and into nursery to chase them up. We will be due a hv for DS around then as well.

Will try and get some photos up later

[stoofadoof]

(not still avoiding the village hall books, obv!)

[SconesForTea]

Hi everyone, my phone has stopped working more or less so I don't get to read or post much.

Not much to report really, I have been unable to shake my blue mood apart from the weekends when I am really happy. That's why I don't think I'm depressed; I love it when DH is around and we share the housework and the childcare. I just hate doing it all on my own in the week. Most of my friends work PT or FT and aren't around to socialise, or those that are usually around are on holiday. Or busy the days I am free. Or have decided that I'm too much of a whinger to want to socialise with.... Anyway, I seem to be alone much of the time (i.e. alone with the girls, I would love to actually be alone). I am trying to smile but I do feel sad and lonely.

Sending lots of love and get well vibes to SR's dad.

[ScienceRocks]

[InmaculadaConcepcion]

DD has been doing her poos in the toilet the last couple of days.....

[rainbowweaver]

Great news ic

Sorry to hear that scones can your LOs go to a childminder at least for a day during the week to give you time alone?

[stoofadoof]

good news IC

[stoofadoof]

letter from tax credits say they've overpaid by £365 last year? I don't understand how as the details I gave them this time last year turned out (somewhat surprisingly) to be perfectly correct? and [need a smiley for SKINT]

[JewelFairies]

I've rumbled my girls. Turns out they have been back and forth to my dad several times a day, asking nicely for squares of chocolate. He's a big softie. After ten days (!) of secrete chocolate fixes they got careless and I caught them red handed . Not sure who to tell off, the girls or my dad, or to just laugh about how sneaky they have been.

[JewelFairies]

Stoof Ouch.

[ScienceRocks]

JF, reminds me of the time my sister and I babysat for my brother and his then girlfriend (now his wife). Between the two of us grown ups, we had nine children to look after, the youngest being my dd1 (aged just over a year) and my brother's son (aged about eight months). Whenever he cried, one of his siblings would go over and make a bit of a fuss and he would stop. It was several hours before my sister and I realised that they were giving him a chocolate button each time!

The joy of this story was that dd1 decided she didn't like me looking after another baby, and raised hell if I even picked him up. So my sister had to do all his nappies. All 11 of them

[JewelFairies]

SR
Luckily my dad has also handed out dried prunes in between dark chocolate, so there has been no problem with constipation so far with dd2...