November 2012 - Isn't age one a lot of fun?

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1896209-November-2012-The-birthdays-are-coming-thick-and-fast

Oh oh oh. I have an evil sheep. It plays music. Mil got it for DD1 when she was a baby and she inexpicably hated it. Phobia fear. LO likes it but DD1 still whimpers when she sees it. Will have to do a fb penguin vs sheep shoot out :o

Today's crackers (bearing in mind he has been at work and therefore out of the house for 14 hours):

a) I cant listen to my daughter crying the way you can
b) Now you have a real job you can pay for me to have my hair cut every 3-4 weeks. I can get it kind of like how you like it.
c) "I don't owe you a penny" he owes me £80 for something it has been so long I have forgotten what -" because I'm paying the gas bill!!" ..... cut to an hour later: "yeah can you pay the gas and leccy this month? and stop using the dishwasher it's costing me a fortune?!"
d) you aren't taking my car to aberdeen. you can get the train.

Love it. again.

Dishwashers are cheaper to run than washing up! And the crying baby guilt trip? Hmm. At least keep notes. They'll help you with a lawyer AND your bestseller.

Meant to say evil you have your local woman's aid number to hand if needed?

I'd have to start counting higher I think isles

What a prize prick he is currently being! Gosh you're doing well, my lovely!

Those of you who don't do facebook too often please pm me, or have a look on fb, for details of detective's idea for a quiche secret santa :)

Isles you deserve a medal. And a number one bestseller. Fact.

OMG Gone Girl has more twists than a twisty thing! The bear has squeaked for an impromptu feed and I'm all as it's more reading time!

Not caught up but skimmed last 2 pages. H is on some sort of sleep regression and l am shattered!

Sounds like you are sorting things out brilliantly Evil and impressed you are managing to stay calm isles.
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VQ that seems such a poor attitude on nursery‘s part. Remminds me of a childmindet at a toddler group l go to. She leaves a 12 month old baby wwhinging and crying either on floor or in a jumperoo fod over 30 mins always saying its just for attention cos he‘s not crying? So what if it is, l think they dezerve attention without basically having to beg for it!

evil I'll be thinking of you. You go girl.

vq Words fail me (as usual!).

chasing Nice one! Hope he takes you somewhere nice and treats you well. Look forward to the update of course.

We saw the consultant today and he discharged E from his care She's obviously still wee, on 2nd centile but she is now following this centile and very slowly gaining weight. Still under the care of the dietician but all being well no more hospital visits for us. Woop woop.

isles His charming behaviour didn't last long then! What a dick.

Pass I'm ok. Bit
Argued with FH today. He has been up at 4am for last few days for work. Has helped me a lot tbh. But I think we were/are both tiered and pissed each other off.

I feel bad as I am constantly snapping at him, and he is helping so much.

A is feeding every 2hours. But turned into 1hour while H slept and now seems to be cluster feeding again. He should be over the growth spurt now.

For lunch I had beans on toast and then dinner was chicken nuggets and fish fingers.

We have our new push chair. But need converter things for car seat to be attached. So im stuck at home unless FH is home.
He has promised me a walk in the park tomorrow.
Think Ill be happier once I can get out more. Soft play here I come!

Evil I'm glad your a step closer to your freedom. Sending you good vibes.

VQ it's not nice to feel your child is being ignored. Poor dd2. Hope she feels better soon x

Pikz hope lo had a better day today.

McFlounce. Hope your recovering well.

YW I always wonder what u do for a living. Obviously u dont have to announce it to us.

Funny. Actually last night I was saying to FH I want to be a SAHM. Lol. I feel like ill be going to work just when I can do interesting things with the boys. There is a woodland play group near by, where kids can play with mud and sing around a camp fire. But think H may be a tiny bit to young for it. Maybe when he is a confident walker ill try it.

Oh and today's bit of pointless news....my BIL and his DSIS filmed pointless today (early teatime BBC quiz show for those that have never heard of it!). Will be funny seeing them on TV.

Eliza you will have to tell us when is airs!

evil please can i call you evi now? You're so far from evil it's untrue and i always think it in a Dr Eeeeville voice complete with little finger to mouth

GT it's not helping it's parenting. You're doing fab

Isles and evi muchos respect. Look how far chasing has come in such a short time

VQ

I had to do my first ever management of people at work tonight. Youth club has 2 paid staff plus volunteers, I'm paid and there's a leader in charge who is my LM. LIC resigned recently and lovely retired exLIC has been covering but was off ill. One vol is a lazy fucker who sits around playing on his iPad and talking only to his mates. He'd vanished off with my guitar, a yp wanted to borrow it, and was playing pool with his girlfriend. Apparently he'd just that second stopped giving gf's sister a guitar lesson. I was sarcastic, he got pissed off, other vol reckons it's been a long time coming and he needed to be told - which i did later in private. Waaaah I've never had to do that before but i made my point calmly and privately and buggered off back to do little trivial things like cashing up, washing up, packing down drum kits... All the stuff the other staff are meant to help with I've never pulled rank like that before either and I've been there nearly 5 years. Previous LIC and retired LIC have both mentioned that they were going to speak to him about it though

Birthday tomorrow. Wonder if dp will do anything? He's not big on birthdays but does try. I'd love a night off - do bedtime then have someone else in charge till morning with me/us sleeping elsewhere - but a book from the charity shop will do!

Pp I was thinking the same thing after our tiff.

Been watching a show on TLC about nightmare in laws. Hilarious.

Other day I went on FB and made a appoint of looking at pictures of all the current regular posters.
Connecting the two together... Most I knew. But BigPig was my one "hmm not how imaged her". Not sure how I imagined her... But wasn't expecting blonde. Lol

Yes this is what I spend my sofa bound hours doing. Should do something constructive like read a book.

Eliza, I love Pointless! So much so that I have recently filled in an application form for me and my dad to be on the show

Hi there. J woke but self settled. For the moment anyway. Went to check on DD2 as she was wailing a bit. Up to her ears in piss but nappy dry as a bone. How? It has confused my little brain no end.

Evil I too am very very impressed with the dignity with which you are doing this. I am very proud of you. The best is yet to come my dear.

Feeling angry about nursery but I know they adore him. I think the staff are over stretched. A couple of weeks ago I had a bit of a sob as I felt they were saying he was a pain, and two of the girls also had a tear in their eyes and gave me a sandwich hug which was lovely. I think it upsets them to not be able to meet his needs fully so think it is the manager who needs to manage this. They have looked after both his sisters and have been excited to have him at nursery since he was a blue line.

Children in need day today at school and nursery so pjs all round. Girls in matching 1D new ones I had put by for Christmas, and J will be rocking his Tesco Reindeer onesie. He had one last year so I could not resist getting one with his birthday money.

More wakings here but not as long as last night (yet).

Eliza that is brilliant news, well done E and you.

VQ I hope you get things sorted with the nursery. I am glad to hear that the staff rightly adore him, it's one extra thing you really don't need. Sending love as always

Evil I am thinking of you and continue to be impressed with your calmness and determination. You and N deserve your wonderful new life together.

Awful night. Numerous wakings with high temperature and screaming. She is a trooper. There is calpol on my beige sofa. How can I get it out?
Sorry, too tired to think even.

Big hugs Lily. Poor O. No thoughts about the sofa sorry. Try googling.

Rotten night for me as J woke several times but did settle, plus DD2 who has been up since 5. DH very apologetic.

Keeping on top of the washing is a major task. Seems quite trivial but I had to chuck one set of bedding that had been forgotten, and we are getting pretty low on clean clothes. Grr!

lily start a thread in good housekeeping on mn. They love a challing stain.

Happy birthday pidj

vq I hope you can sort it. If you've known them for a while hopefully letting the mgr know how you feel will help her realise and sort out.

I do at least two loads of laundry a day. I hate it. Don't know how I'd cope working.

Oh and (((Lily)))you will need a couple of daysof sleeping when the baby sleeps, like everyone advised us to do with the newborns.

Eliza that's great news, so happy for you and E.

So, unusually, we've been up since 4.40. O has only had 7.5 hours sleep so far, and we have her second nursery settling in this morning where I'm going to leave her alone there for the first time. Really hoping she can get another couple of hours sleep in before we have to leave at 9.20 or she's going to have a complete meltdown. She's never been up this early, ever. Typical!

Is it wrong that I quite fancy Richard from Pointless?

Never even heard of pointless.