December 2012: Everyone loves nap time.

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Started a new thread for us before we run out of room.

hahahaha Willyou i'm loving your northern with slight scouse twang description I do indeed have a scouse accent sounds like a false one even though both my parents are from Liverpool, that slips into a Wigan accent when i'm around my Wigan friends. Maryland i'm from Skelmersdale which is between Wigan and Ormskirk.

H always wee's in the bath. I have a video of her weeing in the one in Centre Parcs and also weeing besides her paddling pool. Obviously it wasn't my intention to get her weeing. I also have a video of her farting in the bath when she was newborn.

WL i forgot to say that i hope Dd2 has a great birthday q

LOL at all the weeing and farting babies! My husband taught C to make a face when she farts and now she does it if he farts.

She is a nightmare at nappy changes at the moment. Will not keep still. I can't be alone in either having to wrestle her or give her my phone so she can watch videos of herself can I?

We went down to the big fresh market this morning and there was a big load of tourists from (I think) China. Blue eyed curly blond-headed C was a big hit!

Barbeasty how much later would you need to buy the dress? I think trying on now and buying later would be fine. What a stressful time for your dad.

WL good luck for the party! Have plenty of wine to hand.

New food discovery for C the other night - scallops! She was up later than usual while were having dinner with the inlaws, and while she didn't want any of our chinese dumpling soup, she ate about 8 scallops, one after the other. Expensive tastes, this child!

Willyou, you're off to HK? Nice! Is that for work? (Remind me what you do?) I love HK, imagine all the food. I hope the chicken pox stays away...

WL happy birthday to dd2! Dd is four next month scary!

Mama when we went to NZ there were Japanese tourists taking photos of us as a family as my step mum and sister are blonde. We're in their photo album somewhere!

I'm going to stay with my sister this weekend in Kent. Dp is out got his brothers birthday so I thought I'd do something too

Happy birthday WL's DD2. Hope the party goes okay.

Sorry to hear about your dad's fiancé .Beasty.

Yep off to HK a week today for work Mama. I'll be gone 5 days I'm a medical writer. We're delivering training for a pharma company. Looking forward to the business class flight and Wednesday I have a completely free day!

WillYou how did you get into that?

I did a PhD (biochemistry) then a postdoc in the lab. But if you want to stay in the lab (which is so much fun and I loved it) you need to get your own grant money and become a professor, which I didn't want.

So I did a writing test for an agency and started as a trainee writer. They threw me in at the deep end (to say the least) as we were understaffed and I swam so they promoted me after 6 months. It's alright most of the time but the clients can be very demanding as they're under a lot of pressure themselves and are used to getting their own way

Morning everyone, we've had a treat this morning - F slept in til 8am! nothing to do with him only napping for 20 minutes yesterday

It look like a rainy weekend here in Essex, what to do...

Mama we also have a nightmare at nappy changing she is often up and running before i can get a new nappy on her.

Beasty i hope you find something for you both to wear.

Spotty have a nice time at your sisters.

Willyou i have my FX that DS doesn't get chicken pox whilst your away. Although if he does it may make EXDP realise how much you have to do all the time.

Willyou what do you write? Do you wrote up research/ final reports/ papers?
I would LOVE a business class flight anywhere!!!

Beasty I'm a massive fan of buying stuff then returning it.. You will be so mad if you find something you like then can't get the size or it sells out. Sorry to hear about your dad's fiancée.

Happy birthday to little WL :)

R slept in till nearly 10 so I walked him to Lidl to get him tired out for a nap (usually 11:15-11:30 but no way was that going to happen today!)

I just route mapped it - 0.5 miles there, 0.6 miles back AND he walked round the shop!

I popped him down at 12 when we got home and he chatted himself to sleep around 12:30 so I'm also very relieved that our routine isn't too fucked :o

Yes to all of those Maryland also congress materials, videos, posters, slide sets, training manuals etc.

I feel bloody cheated - took DS to soft play for 3.5hours. He's just woken up after 40 mins nap. WTF?

Is it possible that dd has asthma? I know nothing about it but my sister mentioned it as a possibility. Symptoms:

Cough on and off (ie might not appear for a couple of days at a time) since October
Twice almost hospitalised for severe chest infection
Cough worst first thing or if she's been running around

We've just been for a wall probably a mile each way. By the time we were on our way back she was out of breath so much she had to be carried and since we've been back she has not stopped coughing to the point of almost being sick.

She's got a temp so infection definitely back making it the third one in less than six months. Obviously off to the drs Monday (if I can get an appt before work ) but it would be nice to be forearmed with information!

How the hell did you survive soft play for 3 hours Willyou? I work in mental health research- that's why I was interested :)

I have no idea about asthma Spotty, you could repost in children's health.

I quite like softplay Maryland. I'm that dickhead mum stuck halfway down the slide or completely buried in the ball pool! I've been twice in two days now and once to the park. They've just got boundless energy at this age don't they? It normally exhausts DS and he has a huge nap so it's worth it. He's knackered now and is sat down watching Ben and Holly. I'm counting down to bath time and wine and Eurovision time.

Me being a dickhead mum in softplay earlier. Apparently my friend took photos!

In that case willyou, I'm also a dickhead mum-I love getting into soft play with DS!

Get stuck in willyou!
spotty sounds quite likely. They may tell you it's a viral wheeze as they are reluctant to diagnose asthma in the under 5s but treatment is largely the same. Constant non-productive cough is quite a good indicator.
We survived the party. Low light of the day was T making herself sick on a piece of apple, right into the new book I was looking at with dd2! T has hardly eaten or napped today, think it's probably teeth. Just putting her to bed now.

I'm hoping not to get too stuck in at soft play tomorrow. DD has a party to go to and that particular soft play is like potholing to get to the higher levels (about 2-3 stories high!)

The wedding is off now, so glad I didn't get a dress and the one I wanted to try wasn't in store and isn't available online above age 3 now anyway! and I couldn't find anything to fit me that I could afford. My soonish to be step mother now has pneumonia and they've had to sedate her to treat it properly, for up to 6 days. Horrible, but really feel for dad because it must bring all the feelings from his cancer treatment, and mum's death.

We got the DVD today from DD's dance show. Really, really good. And I got a very sweet video of her watching it and trying to copy the dancing. A was watching it in his highchair, and there was leg kicking and arm waving along to the music.

Oh beasty, that's rubbish news. Sending all good wishes yours, hers, your dad's etc way.

Oh Beasty, I hope the treatment goes well. Big kisses to you all.

Yur DD is sweet. I love the dancing at the minute, any music and DS is off.

Beasty

WillYou I know which friend you mean, awesome pics

MiniDet was on good form at first Pidj, had a right cob on . He likes me though so I'm okay. The series of photos makes it funnier as you can see me roll along them through the photos.

He's a pickle that one!

beasty I am so sorry to hear about your almost step mother..

spotty hoping dd's breathing issues get properly addressed by the doctor soon. Also wl happy birthday to dd2.

DS is feeling possessive - if I give dh a hug while we're giving him his bath (ds that is..) he pushes me away and gives dh a big theatrical hug instead! He then gave me one as a consolation prize, but obviously I am not allowed to hug dh. How cheeky.