Dec 2011: The one where they sit on potatoes. And turn TWO!

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New fred! Roll up roll up, potty adventures and birthdays galore!

My inlaws bought DS a porcelain tea set today. Idiotic gift of the year award goes to them!

Just popping in to wish you all a happy new year. I've not been around but skimmed the last few pages, so glad we're not the only ones suffering from major meltdowns.

And aethel did you say you had 9 bottles of gin?! I'm a gin newbie, bought my first bottle for Christmas and now I think it's wonderful stuff, why on earth have I been drinking vodka for so long?

Just wanted to add hoping you all have a good new year- I've been lurking alot over the last year on the thread and I love reading how your toddlers are all doing! Also just realised that I seem to have missed out using the naughty corner for dd2 and must start to implement it, I kept thinking she was still to young but after reading your posts she better watch her step- no more biting dd1 for her!

Porcelain tea set?!?!?! Ha ha ha ha ha!!

Happy New Year!
I can handle the tantrums from the toddlers. They are, after all, toddlers.
But please, please, let's not be experiencing any more haddock-inducing moments from those who ought to know better.
2013 hasn't been a good year for me and my haddock-conjuror. (DH - dear haddock?) I am completely astounded that we have made it here together. I hope that we are over the worst and that 2014 has better stuff in store.
Love to you all.
Thank you all for your support, understanding, advice and virtual-shoulderage in 2013. I wish the best to you all in 2014. Xxxx

Let me share with you a conversation from earlier today, not NY related:
BOi: me no have any pockets
Me: yes you have, here in your jeans.
BOi: Put Alistair's phone in my pocket
Me: you don't have a phone
BOi: ask Father Christmas for one.
(He absolutely believes my phone is his.)

MIL dancing to aga-do in the living room. Not enough wine in the world for this.

Happy New Year everyone!

Indeed, 2013 seemed to be the year that everyone been's seriously ill or died (found out yesterday a close colleague, who's already had the year from hell, his mother died at Xmas to top it all off....); I can best process work as being a year-long learning experience, the sort of which money can't buy and so 2014 will be better!

Wishing you all a minimal haddock, maximum happiness year, and that all our DCs are adorable and do not, for example, practise Gandhi-like passive resistance in supermarkets....!

Am as ever grateful for the friendship and support this thread offers, the past two-three years would have been much poorer with out it.

V. un-Mumsnet big hug to all.x

DC just Will Not Go To Bed nicely at the moment. If it's not "i want a drink" then it's "I can't sleep" or "it's too hot/cold/quiet/noisy/lonely/dark/light/......" Sigh....
It's going to be SO much fun when we have to get back to early starts next week for school......

Eeep, seems I broke the thread yesterday !

Hope you got the DCs to bed eventually aethel.

Today is DS's first day proper in the nursery bit of nursery, having graduated from the baby unit, so DP and I are taking him. He slept through perfectly once back in his own cot last night.

Boi has completely given up sleeping in his own bed. He has to be in our bed. He seems to have the stamina to scream all night too.
I stayed with him until 9:30 last night. He won. Slept in our bed. I didn't sleep much. 5:45 alarm... I was lying awake waiting for it...
And why, on day 2 of no booze, do I wake up with a screaming headache?
Happy New Year!

At my parents' ... last night didn't arrive til after 11 so let minim sleep with me as she hasn't slept at all. Tonight she didn't want to go in the cot and has been screeching for 1.5 hrs saying 'bed, bed'. I can't let her sleep in the bed with me every night, for one thing, although it is against the wall, if I'm not beside her to block her in she might fall out the open side, and for another we are here for 8 nights. She would never want to go back to her cot. But it is hard work! Mum went into her so I could eat dinner and she calmed down but she's still in there ... I daren't go in in case I set her off again!

Good luck mopsy and Oi in getting your LOs back into their cots! I hope to hear good reports in the morning.... DS slept in his for the first time last night, and went through, so there is hope.

Had a call from the vendors' agents today, apparently all issues are sorted and they want to exchange early next week ! I posted our contracts, etc, back to our solicitors today, so if we exchange next week wibble then we may be moving in a couple of weeks double wibble

Need to start contacting removals!

Ooh, good luck, northern!
(We used F Smith and Son, they are based in Croydon but do all over the South East. Not totally cheapest but they did a fab packing service for not much extra amd were great: they are good at moving pianos too! May be worth gettin a quote)

dS is two!!

Happy Birthday little Aethelboy!
My Boi fell asleep on the way home from the gp's at 6pm, and stayed asleep as I changed him and transferred him to his cot.
...where he woke at 1 and was horrified! So came in with us.
But now it is weekend, the battle lines will be drawn, and the gp'sare on board to say lots of "big boy" bribery.
Tis gonna be tough.

And AF arrived. Not PG. the Boi knew nowt!
Hmmm... Will DH be recovered enough to try again in a week or 2? I think not. Hummph!

Happy birthday to DS aethel.

Oi what's up with DH, did I miss something?

Great news northern. Now where did we put the pom-poms?

I have a thread in weight-loss. I finally worked out yesterday how much I would need to lose to have a BMI of 22.5. 5 and a half stone.
Am. Utterly. Horrified.

Did I break the Fred?

No sorry ds x 2 needing input

Do you have a plan? Have you successfully lost weight before? There is no sugar coating that it will be hard but if you are determined to do it them you will be able to do it. We will be here routing for you.

I'm trying to get rid of half a stone so will be with you in cutting back/ down. You can do this. You are made of stern stuff my dear.

I too am determined to lose 6kg! I'm starting by not drinking in January. And then from Monday I'll be looking at doing something like the 5:2, although I've seen one that is 3 days mean (1 meal a day), 2 days lean (limited cals) and 2 normal... That I'll look into more.
Bennybenbear has started a fb group to lose weight if you're interested.
Seven - DH had a ingroinal (?) hernia op on the 23rd, so he's still feeling very tender. (Tmi - with v swollen dangly bits!)

By the way a bmi of 22.5 - is that the recommended? I think I'm way over that! And doubt that a loss of 6kg would get me that close either. I'll have a wee check...

Apparently I am about 27.2 and OVERWEIGHT on the NHS website. No surprise there, but they didn't need to shout!

Sheesh, did they have bells and sirens too Oi ? Very subtle, not...

The recommended BMI changed about a bit, but basically 20-25 is the right score. I really wouldn't worry much about being slightly over that, but if you want to loose weight anyway then go for it. Bummer about the AF, especially given your DH's delicate bits...

Sorry you're shocked seven, try not to let it get to you! My Aunt found the Slimming World ones has worked really well, she lost more than 5.5 stone.

Thanks for the tip aethel, I will get a quote from them. I've done a few via an on-line service and so will call on Sat to get them to come round and give proper quote on Thurs. Solicitors confirmed that papers arrived and they're contacting the others to get a date agreed for completion for the exchange uber wibble

By the way, how's it going with your DH's sale Oi? And there was someone else on the thread who was moving too, who was it?

And ironically we had a terrible night with DS, one of the worst- woke at half 11, would not go back in cot, and kept on having random wailing fits til half one in bed with DP. We are both knackered....
Are Xiao and little G doing any better? If you're lurking, sending you best wishes for 2014, but if not, can someone pass them on via FB?

Evening waves at thread

xiao posted from Furrin parts on FB to say they're looking good: just before the trip she went dairy-free and it seemed to help DS2 a great deal. Don't know exactly when she's back but I guess pretty soon as the schools go back next week.

My DS was most pleased with his main pressie of a six-pack of Tomy Cheeping Eggs, and my auntie got him a nice wooden Noah's Ark. The DDs and I then made and decorated him a cake which he covered in spit eww as his candle blowing technique needs, shall we say, a little work. I think there's only a few days to go and then misree's F is the last thread baby to turn two, am I right?

Oh yeah. I'll join you in a bit of body-needs-work seven, though no idea how much I need to lose. I've kept off most of the 2 stone I lost (I think!!) last year, but since moving I've plateaued. Still want to get back to pre baby weight, it can be done!!

Do not even want to think about my BMI right now. I started to feel so ill on our last day in Scotland, I kept getting heartburn from all the shite food and constant doyouwantabiscuit/cake/mincepie/glassofwine? So glad to be home.

I am passed my last nerve with DS though. Two weeks away being coddled by well meaning relatives has turned him into such an obnoxious little turd. He's mostly fine but then just flips out and starts hitting/biting/pinching when he's told off or he gets really over excited and giddy and starts doing it and laughing. Previously we have taken him to the step and sat with him for a minute or so until he calms down, and we practice breathing deeply and then we say sorry for whatever was this issue. This no longer works. I have t physically pick him up and pin him down on the step, I'm worried I'm going to hurt him if I try and hold on to him. I am at a loss. He just laughs at me and does it more. I am ashamed to admit it but I totally lost my shit earlier after he kept hitting me etc and really shouted at him and smacked him on the arm. I'm just... this is not who I want to be! We don't smack. That's not us. So, help? Any strategies that are working/have worked? He's given up napping so I think some of the poor behaviour post 4pm is due to tiredness. It's just this physical stuff really brings out my rage, it seems to press every button and makes me so angry. He obviously sees this, thinks it's funny and continues to lash out and try and break things or do things like hit the cat (the cat can stand up for him self though, so I suspect DS wont do that again soon). I need to get back to work and get some head space. That sounds awful. But I've had enough right now. I really have.

Never ever having another baby. Terrible fucking twos INDEED.

OH and have I mentioned recently how I'm going to fucking kill my FIL for teaching him to throw stuff in the house? Got hit in the head with a plastic doll earlier because of his stupidity. Fucking idiot.

Ah. "No throwing" is a constant refrain in our house, from all parties including DS, owing to the fact that they have a ball pool at nursery and so throwing balls is what DS does. So we get Duplo/wooden blocks/everything thrown. It sucks.

Hop, is there a room or a playpen where you can physically put him and leave him for a few minutes safely, just so he gets the message and you get to calm down?

You're doing amazingly well to cope if he's not napping any more, and it will be down to tiredness- DS also gets more hitty/bitey, etc when tired.

And it is not wrong to want to get back to work- sounds like you just need to hang on in there until you're back, and then things will start to get back to normal.

Being pestered to death for balloons, so have to dash, back later.