December 2012: Everyone loves nap time.

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

Hopefully you can find some pretty non-sickly clothes Mama. My mum is driving my sister mental with this. She's having a girl and has decorated her nursery in jungle animals. My mum keeps going on and on about princesses and pink and why would she use jungle animals? I'm the least princessy person going and I can't remember us being that into them.

Wow Hales, don't worry about not keeping up - you've just posted enough to last the month!

Oh poor you Beasty, are you working today?

I'm WFH today and didn't need to be up until 8:30. Been awake for ages!

Wow do we think we may have gremlin on the thread with the doubled posts?

willyou good luck with the house! But If you do end up having to stay with your parents for a bit may not be the end of the world as may take some of the pressure off you and give you some time to find the right house, get finances in order etc plus some help with j. But fingers crossed you'll be moving straight into your new house! Amazed how quickly you're getting on top of everything with all that's happened.

Dd been up since 4am- wide awake. I on the other hang am exhausted and desperate to go to sleep.

I'm not a fan of pink either- amazingly hard to find neutral coloured shoes in dd's size!

I'm no fan of pink. But DD is about as pink, sparkly and princessy as it comes! I'm an engineer ffs.

Yes. I'm main-lining tea at the desk. But could be worse.Trying very hard to ignore the charity snacks behind me- made easier by having tasted the flapjack before!

Roll on home time. At least I'm just making sure stuff is up to date and preparing a hand over for the end of June.

Ds isn't very well and we are out of calpol even though I asked dp to get some he's all snotty and has a temp.

Dd will only wear dresses quite difficult sometimes!

wow apparently i posted alot last night

Beasty i hope you get some sleep tonight.

H has woken up by vomiting across the room again. I have never dealt with as much vomit as these last few days.

Willyou i hope you find your dream house.

Matalan do not overly fussy girls clothes, thats where i get most of H's stuff now.

FX this only posts once so i don't fill an entire feed.

Spotty i hope DS is better soon.

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This looks really easy and has lots of steps because it talks you through everything :)

Afternoon all. I tried reading back, but the thread was so slow to load I couldn't get past hales's gremlin posts.

Hope DS is better soon Spotty, can you get out to get some calpol today?

I've been buying girls clothes second hand for bump (I already have a few things up to 18m!), and picking and choosing from things which come up and aren't too girly. I'm another one that's not a huge fan of pink. I don't mind it, and think there are some lovely pink things out there. I just don't agree with dressing a girl in nothing else!

hales really hope DD is better soon. Do you know what's up with her? Whatever it is it certainly doesn't sound pleasant for either of you.

Willyou I'll add my good luck to others, though I've missed your original post somewhere. It's so important to have a place to live sorted out, you can't feel settled in anything else till you know where you're going to be.

beasty sending sleepy dust your way for tonight.

T keeps waking up early, then spending the day tired. Not really sure if there's anything I can do to break the cycle. I just keep praying for a day of decent nap and a later morning. Anything on the clock starting with 5 is just inhuman (sorry for those of you that have to get up at those times for work!).
He's had a cough for the last 3 weeks, so finally have in and took him to the dr. As you can probably guess, they just said its viral and could take up to 6 weeks to clear. Luckily he doesn't seem too bothered by it on the whole. It's not waking him at night or making him seem ill. Just makes me look like an awful parent when he's coughing away at playgroup.

beasty guess once they get older we'll have no say in what they wear lol!! Hope you get through the day without falling asleep- thought I was tired till I read about your night!! Fingers crossed both our dc will have tired themselves out and sleep tonight :)

wlmum maybe we should try a wisley meet up?

Well if dp had told me he hasn't got any (even though I asked him to and he went to tesco last night) I would have got some this morning when I took dd to nursery but I'm not driving twenty minutes just for calpol. And now it's chucking it down with rain we will all get soaked if I get some when picking dd up.

Ddas I'm up for that

Ds just won't sleep....

DS just moved me out the way - so he could better see the spider under my leg!!!!! I managed to stay calm and collected and say "oh look, a spider" while moving faster than I thought I could move!

It's now safe in a glass where DS is giggling at its predicament. Much like when I put the cat in the cat box. :)

Spotty please start forgetting stuff for him. Or make him go out for it this evening.

For neutral shoes (or at least not pink shoes) try independent shoe shops. There are some amazing brands out there. DD had a lovely pair of purple boots with a sparkly train on them- a nice mix of girly and trains. Now it's bright pink sandals (only ones which fitted according to her ) flowery canvas shoes and camouflage wellies because she didn't realise they were in the boy section of Sainsbury's!

And as for us getting a say.... We'll demand tights go under shorts in mid winter, but get little say otherwise. From before 2yrs she would get changed if she didn't like what we dressed her in. And A was handing me things from his drawer to put him in the other day, putting back the things he disagreed with. Oh joy!

hahaha Stacks that has made me giggle.

Poor hales and H. She seems to be having a bad run atm poor mite.
ddas I was going to suggest wisley!
mama when dd1 was little I tried to go as neural as possible and sometimes dressed her in boys clothes just for a change from girly stuff. From really early she was another who chose her own clothes and would strip off if we put her in something else.
I was not impressed with the very grown up 'caviar' nail polish she got in a party bag on Sunday.

wlmum great minds and all that :)
I wouldn't be happy with nail polish either. Makes me think though at what age I'd feel happy for dd to do certain things ie nail polish, make up, ear piercing- all the things I'm sure she'll ask for. Girls are a bit of a mind field!! Feel more at ease with ds but I'm sure with him I'll be worrying about spending wkends in a&e after he's hurt himself playing rugby or something. Although dh did coach a girls rugby team at uni so maybe it'll be dd instead :)
Ds is pretty relaxed about what he wears and will wear whatever i put out although is currently obsessed with some awful Spider-Man trainers dh got him.
will you did your offer get accepted?

willyou I meant to say you don't hang about do you?! Good for you for showing you mean business but do be sure it's the right thing and not a rush decision. Hope your mum and dad are supportive.

ddas dd1 has asked about getting her ears pierced, I've said when she's 12! I guess that might come down a bit but I hate little girls dressed as adults (and boys for that matter). She has occaisionally had her nails painted by me in a fairly neutral colour, and had a smidge of eye shadow for the school disco. I'm quite a square mum!

Offer accepted! It's not me who doesn't hang about WL - until 2 weeks ago I was under the impression that we were having a trial separation and XP and I would look for separate rentals for a while. Next thing u know he's found a house and will be buying it and is being a twat (subsequently his house fell through).

The thought of living with mum n dad for an extended period of time with their (well meaning) interference in how to raise DS made me step up the house search! It's going shockingly fast now though!

Hope everyone has a good night. Sleep tight all

17 times H has woken so far tonight 17 bastard times. I am so so tired.

Sorry for all the me me me posts recently.

Willyou yay to getting the offer accepted.

WL how old is DD1? I haven't really thought about nail varnish and make up yet for H. But that maybe because i only ever wear nail varnish on my toes and make up on special occasions. I was kind of hoping H would be like me and not really be bothered by it.

Beasty H isn't bothered what she wears although she would be much happier wearing nothing. She absolutely loves being naked or just wearing a nappy.

Congratulations WillYou!

Dd gets nail varnish on her toes but not by me that's my little sister! I was allowed my ears pierced at ten but had to have them done at the drs.

Ds wears whatever I put on him and is also obsessed with shoes and dd's toy handbags...

Oh and hales I hope h has given you a few hours sleep

Hugs and coffee for you hales!

I only do nail varnish on toes and makeup for special occasions too, but remember going through about a year at 14 of wearing it everyday to school. Think my mum just put up with it but then I was a teenager bu then...

Oh I've only recently stopped wearing make up every day. I wouldn't dream of going to work without it though, I look awful!