December 2011 - the one where we do the Twist and Shout

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these babies are nearly two and a half

That should read, BEFORE I was pregnant, I never got drunk anymore. OBVIOUSLY I never get drunk now!

I've just found out that dSIL is having her hen night tonight. She hasn't invited me, or her sister, or her nieces.
I'm happy about that. Her sister is livid. I'm going to dress up, so is DH, we're going to wear veils and sashes and take pics of us on "S's hen night", and make a secret group on Facebook and invite the sister and nieces.
Such fun!!! Ha ha ha!

Martini-time!
(Sorry Mopsy!)

oi, I have purchased a bottle of pink martini in your honour. It's scary! How do you drink it? Is it an on-ice job?

I'm not keen on Rosato. (Sorry!)
I drink Rosso, straight, with ice and lemon. I know, I'm a tramp. I blame my mother!
For the Rosato, I guess you'd need lots of ice...?
Met up with Hop today for a lovely stomp through the countryside. Boi was a bugger! So naughty. He just kept running off the whole time. Little Oik!
DH had been out to see an apartment, and then spent the day pricing up furniture. If all goes to plan, he'll move out next weekend.
So, do we help him? (Me and the Boi)
Or do we go to the GP's caravan with them as planned? Will Boi be upset that DH isn't there when he gets back?... So then we could go visit him on Sunday afternoon...
Hmmmm.... Tough to know what to do for the best. The book says be open and honest, but I can't imagine that he'll really "get" it if we try to explain.
Maybe tell him this week, explain that DH will have another house, and then go away for the weekend. And visit when we get back. Hmmm.,.

Lovely to see you yesterday, bOi was just being 2, DS was having an unusually well behaved day!

RE DH moving out - I wonder if you and bOi helping him might be good. Only because if my DH leaves for work or a trip away without DS wavint him off, we have epic meltdown. If he can see him leave and give him a kiss, he's fine with it. Maybe helping move daddy's things to his new house will help him understand? Maybe ask in relationships?

Lazy morning here, DH talking DS swimming later then I think I'll take him to ikea for a play and to pick up a few bits.

Poor minimopsy has a vomiting bug. Can't keep anything down since Friday night and is miserable poor little thing :( Luckily is quite breezy so can keep on top of all the washing it generates. Feeling tired after two very broken nights cleaning up vomit and comforting my poor wee child. If I feel like this after only two nights broken sleep, am not looking forward to December and no sleep!

Also she is puking up green bile and keeps saying her tummy hurts and is very upset. Is this normal? What should I be doing apart from giving fluids?

Well yellowish green ...

Well, rang out of hours and they said to bring her in. GP thinks urine infection as her temp is so high and her tummy so sore. Possibility of appendicitis but very rare in a two-year old and although her tummy is obviously sore it wasn't extreme I think. So she has anti-biotics but I need to get her to pee so I can bring a sample to my GP and make sure they are the right ones and that it is a urine infection. The poor child is so miserable and so hot, like a little furnace. Just gave ibuprofen, hopefully will help. She has been crying woefully and saying tummy sore tummy button sore all night/morning :( wish I could make her better.

Oh poor minimopsy.... Has the vomiting stopped now? Because if she keeps vomiting or keeps being distressed, I'd want her to go back to the OOH doc again (or to A&E if the OOh will not see her). Little people can dehydrate very quickly and if you can't get her temp down or she is not settling, or continuing to vomit then she really needs another review later this afternoon. Urine infections can make them pretty grotty but they haven't proven it's that, and if she's getting more unwell with it then the big white building may be needed. Make sure you get her looked at again if things are not improving pdq or you are at all unhappy with how she is.... Hope the ibuprofen helps...

Hope MiniMopsy is soon feeling better. Tyel's DS2 just had a run in with bacterial meningitis (on fb). So am with Aethel on being super vigilant.(what's tyel's name now?! It ain't tyel!)
I have cleaned, tidied, washed, ironed, weeded and played. Am now having 30 mins in the garden with a glass of wine. ...knowing that from next week I won't get these half hour /hour breaks, instead it'll be days. That's going to be tough.
In many ways it'll be great. 2 evenings free to de clutter and clean and get organised, or/and go to a gym. Things we've struggled to do for almost 3 years.
And so it will be great.
Just weird, having Boi down the road... We have said we'll do Skype every day, just before bed. If it's not too disturbing for Boi. We'll see.

Thanks aethel. No more sick for several hours now thank goodness. Still very warm in between calpol/ibuprofen doses and quite miserable but not as bad as earlier today. I am keeping a very close eye on her though. I am worried because she hasn't had anything to drink for several hours. Maybe even an icepop would get some liquid in to her ...

and keeps saying her tummy/tummy button hurts, which is making me a bit anxious I must admit, but if she has a UTI that could be it. Got her an icepop to try and get some liquid in as she hasn't drunk for hours, and she is just holding it and not eating which is worrying as they are her favourite thing. Her tummy seems to be really hurting her. Not sure what to do :(

Have started administering 5ml water in a syringe every 5 minutes. First few times she strongly resisted and had to pin her down/force feed :( :( :( :( but now she is opening her mouth and taking the water happily thank goodness. Also got some ibuprofen in and she is way happier all of a sudden and her temp has gone down. It is obvs helping her tummy, as it was really bothering her before. I am calmer now but still feeling very anxious...

How's she doing now mopsy, still keeping the water down? So scary when they won't even take fluids. Really hope she starts to perk up, but definitely take her to OOH/A&E if she doesn't really improve over the next 12 hours.

And what is it with meningitis at the moment- I've found out that two friends' DC/DGC have had it in the past week. I'm sure it's just unfortunate timing, but three in ten days makes it sound like an outbreak. Thankfully both are doing well: how's Tyel's DC 2 doing Oi?

Think hop's advice is sound Oi, there will be experts in the greater-Mumsnet area as it were on how best to handle these things. There's a specific divorce/separation bit as well as relationships.

We've had a grand day, DS and I built a monster Brio train track this morning totally indulged my inner child and then we went to the Big Park this afternoon, walked round the lake for about 1.5 hours and then took DS on the play equipment. Please let the little sod darling sleep past 5 as a result!

Had a lovely time out for our anniversary on Saturday too, albeit it I had to be at work interviewing for a good chunk of the day. Lovely pub at a village just outside of town, unexpectedly and seriously posh place ('wow, look at that other Lambourghini parked outside that beautiful Elizabethan cottage, third one on this street' ' type village) with wonderful food. Slight screw up with the taxis at the end, as their systems went down, but otherwise such a treat to get out!

mopsy, good that she's happier/more settled but keep a very close eye for any rashes/clamminess/more unwell and if you are still worried or she seems worse in any way have a very low threshold for getting her checked again. Most out of hours docs don't have clinics at night and will advise you to take her straight to A&E if she's poorly in the wee hours as they can't usually visit overnght due to the wide area they cover. it's not ideal but it's the fastest way to get her looked at after a certain hour if she goes downhill or not taking more fluids.. No-one will mind if you need to take her in, she's only two and if you're concerned as mum, they will take you seriously. Lots of hugs.

Oh, poor minimopsy! Ice lollies sound good. (and extra-poor thing, that she's even grateful for syringes of water! ) As for her hurting tummy, could that possibly be soreness from the vomiting? (aethel?)

Has BOi seen pictures on RightMove, Oi? That might be a fun way of introducing the new house? Sometimes they have a floor plan: you could cut out outlines of bed, chairs, tables, etc., so he can position them? Tell him 'BOi is going to play house with Daddy'? Driving by the house and/or talking about it has helped my DS prepare for past moves. Also, if he's going to have his own bedroom, maybe he could do his own "packing" (and you work out what he might need duplicates of)? Mind you, this doesn't address the divorce questions (and mine split up when I was already 15/16, so that's not relevant for a Twonager)...

Glad you had a nice anniversary, NorthernChinchilla! I did smile at the swish car outside the labourer's cottage!

We had a nice day out with DrFunke and Master Funke on Saturday, at a park which has a mini, ride-on train and a playground, which totally camouflaged the rest of the park (rolling lawns, boating lake, paddling area) from the DCs! It didn't rain, but the weather was cool, which makes a nice change!

Any more considerate sleeping from DS, Aethel? Hope you are able to start the week fresh!

P.S. I spent £1,335 last night on John Lewis - lights for the new house (and not even all of them, though I've been sensible with other ones - Ikea!). If DH had got us the John Lewis credit card, as I asked him to, that, plus the oven and fridge that we've already bought, would have been looooads of points already! We've still got to buy a washing machine and dryer...

Cripes Mopsy hope she is better today that sounds horrible DS has only been ill like that once in his life and because it was so unusual for him was really scary. Oi I have no advice sounds like you doing great already. Wow that is some John Lewis expenditure there Plu!!!

Had a great weekend here, PIL brought DS a new 9ft wavy slide it takes up far too much space but he will love it for years, shame we didnt put more grass down when we did the garden years ago. My friend from home, his girlfriend and their 14wo came visiting Sat so out for dinner, DS stayed up until 10 cooing at the baby he was so lovely with her, our cm says he is like that with babies at hers too it would be cruel to deprive him of a sibling wouldnt it?? Yesterday of course he was vile in the morning as over tired, we took them all round Bristol sights, had lunch on the waterfront, watched some of the Wimbledon final on deckchairs at the harbourside while Ds played in the fountains, some shopping DS was disgracing himself he runs off constantly, cant sit still at tables when you eating/drinking dont want to have to put him back on reigns but might have to as he has no boundaries at all when it comes to running.

He fell asleep in the car about 5.45 last night slept all through dinner woke up just in time to say bye to baby before they headed back to their hotel and went straight home to bed without tea, at least the running tires him out. 11 hour drive home ahead of them today........and that is why I always fly!! Feel really bad cant put people up when they visit anymore but our 3rd bedroom is tiny and only has space for a single bed in it (even if we took out the desk that is in there with it) I would love to move been in our house 8 years now but the cheapest 4 beds round here I would live in are 275k+ (and I know that is comparatively cheap against some areas of the country) and just dont have the spare cash to have a bigger mortgage at the moment.

Just had a packet of smarties for breakfast ......oh the shame of it.

Figster DS is still on reins, peace of mindw for me and no constant 'hold my hand and stop flopping on the floor like a fish' for him.

Ugh, bolters! DS did that, too, but did an amazing turnaround at 3. I really couldn't believe the difference: it was as though all the warnings and boundaries suddenly slotted down around him, and he finally became reliable on roads. It was similar to the way language improves in leaps. All you have to do is ensure that they survive till then! (though I must admit Bristol waterfront must be pretty bloody tempting - all those fountains and all that apparently pedestrian space!)

How is minimopsy?

I think we might have to reinforce the out of pushchair rules again as he was manic at weekend, typically have just sent the backpack and reigns to charity shop in last week.....grr.

CM texted earlier to ask if there was a bird poo incident over the weekend as apparently it is all ds is talking about today.....not aware there was one but every patch of dirt is pointed at and called poo at the moment so he doesnt discriminate.

Oops. Maybe call the charity shop and ask them to "reserve" the reins and backpack for you again?

Hi all, haven't had time to catch up but just to say I brought Minimopsy in to A&E shortly after posting those updates as I was very anxious about her. They weren't sure what was wrong but after doing bloods and her vomiting all night decided it was urgent to get a camera in and see what was wrong with her tummy and said they'd operate immediately once they knew what it was. Thought possibly appendix or a serious bowel problem. If the former they could do keyhole, if the latter or something else they'd have to do open surgery. So of course I was frantic when she went into theatre as didn't know what they would be doing or how long it would take. But luckily after 90 minutes (90 horrible minutes) the surgeon told us it was a bad appendix and they took it out with keyhole. It was very septic there and in her tummy so she has to stay in for at least 5 days but I am so relieved it is nothing worse. I have been in tears so much today, except when with Minimopsy of course as I didn't want to upset her. My head is aching. I quickly came home to shower and make a sandwich and pack an overnight bag as been sitting in sick stained clothes for 24 hours or so and thought I would update you but I haven't got my phone fixed yet so won't be able to update from hospital but hopefully all will be fine now and the infection won't spread or anything. At least she is being closely monitored. Thanks for your post aethel, I went with my gut mother instinct and it was right, so I won't question it again.

Thanks for your support all XXX